skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more expensive now to start a company, not cheaper
Although the cost of computing hardware is lower, the cost of living is so much higher that I don't think it has become cheaper to start a company.

Unless of course you still live with your parents, or are somehow saving on rent expense by living 4 people to an apartment.

Especially for people with families, the cost of living I think more than outweighs the reduction in cost of computer hardware and software.

Do you agree or disagree?
We had this issue in the Midwest (central Illinois). Can’t remember exactly why, but radon would accumulate in the basements. Had to have sensors and ventilation for it.
Regarding prioritizing - I feel Accessibility is in battle with Denial.

- Have you also witnessed your product-business / employer ignoring user pain to chase MVP?
> If Tcl does
become the "standard scripting language", users will curse it for
years--the way people curse Fortran, MSDOS, Unix shell syntax, and
other de facto standards they feel stuck with.

Hear hear. Just Bash left to kill (and TCL in EDA but I won't hold my breath there - hardware people think they aren't software engineers so they don't care about software quality).
Eh, for the amount of work your brain accomplishes, it is insanely hyper optimized at around 20 watts. We don't have human level AI/image processing quite yet, but it would take hundreds of thousands of watts to accomplish the same thing at this time.
I had chat.openai.com saved to my homepage so here's my finding so far:

- snappier

- search through conversation history via title search

- whisper built in for record -> transcribe workflow (does not work "live" unfortunately)

- easier to scroll through history and delete history

- long press prompt or response to copy/select text or perform voting/regeneration actions

- better text resizing support (via the control center's Aa text resize option) (online resizing text made things way too cluttered)

Probably more but all I've found from about 10 minutes of playing around.

Definitely better UX from my perspective!
First: It was probably killed by readers, not by the powers that be at YC.

Second: It was probably killed because, among those attending Bilderberg, Sam Altman is far from the most interesting. And of all the things Sam Altman is doing, attending Bilderberg is far from the most interesting or concerning. So the article seems to be trying to grab the maximum amount of attention, rather than having much substance.

Third: The article is written in a very slanted way. As others said in the other thread, "elites"? Or "successful businesspeople"? You can slant the message by the terms you use, and this article seems to be slanted toward a somewhat conspiracist viewpoint, which is not necessarily objectively warranted.

Fourth: We've got a lot more interesting stuff to discuss here than Sam Altman attending Bilderberg.

So all in all, I don't have a problem with it being killed.
> Yes, but their parents can consent for them.

The point is that there are some things so risky for kids that parents shouldn't be able to "consent for them". One of those things is child labor.

> This argument is weirdly circular.

Circular doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.

Parents have control over their children, but society has put boundaries on what they can do to them because parents are capable of great harm. There's nothing circular about that.
I now want a QR code slider puzzle.
Cargo Cult AI
Sorry it didn't work well for you. In the 6.3 release we tried to pack in too much although we've ironed out most of the issues. The hardest change has been moving away from fork() for background saving which has historically caused a lot of pain for running it in production and makes it difficult to do persistence.

I definitely would have paced things out better if I could go back in time.
Marketing has nothing to do with the success of Zelda game, or any Nintendo games

It's a generational IP, your parents played it and are likely to recomand/buy the game to their child

That's as simple at that

Zelda's "marketing" was full of Nintendo FUD (performance, old console, sequel), yet it sold very well

Marketing from Nintendo? where? they don't brag everyday about it being on Gamepass with bazillions of trailers and articles from the press

It's similar to Disney movies at this point, the name itself doesn't need marketing
> Have other people observed the sentiment the author observes, around hackers being less common?

I think that hackers are still around -- I see them a lot -- but they aren't as publicly visible anymore. They aren't interested in making money, and so they won't be in most mainstream technical fora (including HN), because of the cultural shift that made chasing dollars the main thing.

But they are in more private fora, and they get together in person (at conventions, hackerspaces, etc.).

I don't think the hacker community has grown smaller, but I think most of the web has changed so that it's not as appealing to people who want to talk hacker stuff.

All of which is to say -- like when people ask what happened to the old web, back when it was actually good -- they're still there, but they're harder to see in the increasingly dense forest of commercially-minded places.
Are you outside the US? I got the same results, but then realised it's only available in the US at the moment.
I was excited to try this because I want to be able to use ChatGPT hands-free in certain circumstances. The ideal would be to put it into voice assistant mode, have it listen to me and then answer after a sufficient break in speech.

From what I can see, this app lags behind their web interface a bit, and I wouldn't be surprised if they had some approval trouble at Apple and will be rolling out updates more frequently now that the official app is out the door. As it stands, the voice transcription feature returns an API error and it doesn't seem to have any option to read the response to you with text to speech.

I'm hopeful to see what updates they roll out in the coming weeks
why? the JIT works on bytecode and JVM bytecode has no concept of overloading. Maybe I should have specified that by "compiler" i meant the first compilation step, Java source to bytecode.
Every aspect of a video game is in the service of fun.
The App Store has had a problem with cold starts for a few years now. I remember a few years ago when I worked on App Store search it was a known problem when apps like Disney+ were released and users were searching directly for a new app immediately.
Okay why is this downvoted? wtf
I wouldn't see why it wouldn't use Whisper. I just wish they could have gotten whisper.cpp working for live transcription on device.

But you can also turn on Voice Control and type with your voice without using Open AI - iOS dictation is getting better but not quite on par with Whisper by any stretch.
Of Course , add .docx.

:)
That's probably a good thing. When non-technical users go looking for free apps outside of any official app store, the chances of installing malware go way up.

source: I used to do tech support for my family
(https://store.steampowered.com/app/1817230/HiFi_RUSH/)
Real dark mode is great! I can actually see myself profiting from such a design in order to focus in dimly-lit environments.

https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755808300519426?s=2...
Haptic can be turned off via settings
As the great one said, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take".
Europe, including the UK, is facing a population decline over the coming decades, not unsustainable population growth.

The only way they'll get that sort of population expansion is if they enact very liberal immigration policies, which is not something most nations in Europe are signaling they're willing to do (quite the opposite so far).
Apple's search takes a bit to show new apps. Will likely be very prominent by tomorrow.
I had one of these things and wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy

it kept adjusting the settings I had configured after some period of time

e.g. set up a hole for SSH. I then tested it to ensure that it worked

then a few days later, trying to use it for real... finding out the device had decided to change the DNAT target ip

I replaced it with a mikrotik box that cost 1/6th as much and has functioned perfectly ever since
Fascinating. Hard to know if it's worth it at this stage due to the 1080p per-eye resolution, but the second incarnation of this product ought to be a real game-changer.

Also, I noted this passage:

even with a very odd prescription (one eye is near-sighted, and one far-sighted) the default corrective lenses Sightful had available worked well.

I've never encountered another person with this same eye disorder... It can be a real nuisance in certain cases. Nice to see this specifically addressed :)
Also after taking away the ability to forgive federal student loan debt through bankruptcy, there needs to be a way for students to advocate for their outcomes because there's no remedy if it doesn't go well for them.
> I'm too much of a generalist

But one of the primary traits of hackers is that they tend to be generalists.
> In the US, someone earning $155,000 USD (Equivalent to 125 GBP) will also be paying 6.2% in social security taxes, 1.45% in medicare taxes, and then another 6.2% in social security taxes (employer’s portion), and 1.45% in medicare taxes (employer’s portion).

In the UK, there is also National Insurance tax on top of income tax, which works similarly (but is a bit more complicated.) The employer share is 13.8%, which is a hair below the combined employee + employer share US federal payroll tax.

And there is also a 20% VAT impacting the cost of pretty much anything you might use your after-tax income to buy.

> All-in-all, Americans pay ~26% of their GDP in taxes.

Close: 26.6% (2021, provisional), 25.8% (2020) [0]

> People in the UK pay… ~27% of their GDP in taxes.

Not so close: 33.5% (2021, provisional), 32.1% (2020) [0]

> ‘Americans pay less taxes’ is largely a meme with no basis in reality.

No, the UK has a much higher tax burden; the US is significantly below OECD average, the UK a bit above.

[0] https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-highl...
Read a random paper about LLMs and look at what it cites. Read those papers and look at what those cites. And so on. You'll soon figure out what the academic community consider the seminal papers in that field.
"the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: 'theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron'" - https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312
I had it create a form wizard that creates form wizards.

I'm pretty sure I almost blew up the universe.

It is pretty cool btw. can you modify the look and feel of the forms?
There are some great Siri shortcuts that work with the OpenAI API.

Edit: I am using this one https://github.com/Yue-Yang/ChatGPT-Siri
Interesting, but I wonder if this exception would not allow the same:

> congestion management in exceptional and temporary situations.

I presume the US mobile networks are primarily selling higher priority that applies (since it only needs to be applied) in exceptional and temporary situations.
Hey there. Passage products are in early beta, so some of the details are being worked out. We expect more specifics to be added to the pricing page in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
> Being recorded isn’t labor, isn’t dangerous. Isn’t negative at all.

Tell that to Brooke Shields and many other children who were sexualized on camera with the consent of their parents and still have psychological damage.

There have also been parents who literally tortured their children on YouTube for laughs[1].

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/child-abuse-charges-aga...
Bye bye Google.
For people outside the US: use a second apple account with Region set to US.

I have used this many times for country specific public transport or delivery apps but same thing works here. You do not lose access to other apps, sync features or subscriptions.

Go into the App Store app, not your phone settings, click your profile and scroll all the way down to log out. Then log in with a US account, download the app and switch again.

You can continue using the US only apps after switching back
I picked up that game and put it down an hour later because the detail of the character movement and how tedious it is to climb a ladder or do anything killed the fun.
California's tax rate is much higher than the rest of the country. The bay area's brocoli prices are much higher than anywhere except times square. The vast majority of the country is not facing prices like these.
Too me they were always darker and limited in shades. You could see that on SF2 ports.
>> Maybe somebody has statistical survey of how much of the existing deployed CPU core count is typically used?

My guess is very few cores are used on average. I did some testing with Solvespace to see which build options contributed most to performance:

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/972

Obviously using OpenMP for multi-core was the big win. But what's not shown is that in typical usage (not the test I ran) if you're dragging some geometry around it will use all cores (in my case 4 cores / 8 threads) at about 50 percent utilization. That percentage probably drops as more cores are thrown at it due to Amdahl's Law. In other words, throwing double the cores at it will give a good boost to a lot of code that is already taking less than half the time (wall clock time, not CPU time).

We added OpenMP to a number of functions for significant performance gains. And in fact, any remining single-thread operation that gets the parallel treatment is likely to have a significant impact on overall performance since that is where most of the time is spent now. At this point we're more focused on features and bugs.

Algorithmic improvements are possible and I'd like to do those in the future, but they are much harder to do than sprinkling some #pragmas around critical loops. That will improve the scalability though, where multithreading really did not.
To #3, to users the benefit is absolutely nothing. There are still so many garbage apps.

To Apple, the benefit is enormous. What happens when garbage apps get better ranking? Companies pay for that sponsored position. Once they do, Apple then starts ranking them better and gets to claim they "monitor quality" when it was never about quality on the App Store.
If we, as developers & designers, focus on the sexiness of accessibility, it might popularize those features, internally.
I think the main confusion is that when you override a method in Java, similar to other languages like C++, it considers not only the name but actually the entire function signature. That's in fact why overloading works to begin with, because of the fact that the identity of a method is not just its name but in fact it's signature.
This is assuming you have access behind the research paper paywalls. Not everyone does and sci-hub doesn't always have access to recent papers.
>Wait, so you're blaming the EU for giving you access to a free market after literally begging to join?

Because we learned later that the "free market" might be free as in freedom, but not free as in beer, it's actually "pay to win".

It's a palce that flavors the established players with capital (the rich countries with big conglomerates) to easily buy whatever they want from the places without capital (the poorer countries), while having enough expensive moats that price out the poorer countries from doing the same in the richer ones. Case in point: the common energy market.

The "free market" doesn't benefit the consumers in the poorer countries in the sectors of essentials stuff needed for living: healthcare, food, energy, housing.
The City of London (aka the financial district). I'm not sure if I'd consider that the "centre" of London or not. I guess it would depend on the context.
If security is important to your org, then they should fire for incompetence anyone who says "let's force everyone to switch to Windows for security reasons".

Also, consider that all of those stupid "security" rules generally delay the rollout of updates, which often contain fixes for security vulnerabilities. I wish that companies would say something like "if there's ever a known vulnerability in something in production that a "security" rule doesn't let you immediately deploy the patch for, then said rule is immediately rescinded and may never be reinstated."
I used to worked by FIDI, most the apartments there are old converted office buildings. Visited a lot of friends and coworkers in those buildings, I felt fine inside. But I supposed midtown buildings are a bit different in terms of girth versus old brick and stone buildings.
Imagine how people might feel about the "departed AI train" in any lesser European (or other) country that would not even remotely dream of having an Alan Turing Institute.

It is such self-inflicted misery. The bright future for the UK would have been as a core member the EU, helping shape a large economic space with massive amounts of talent, happily moving around the wonderful cities, taping the endless cultural heritage and building a digital society congruent with the European way of life and values (which in various important ways differs from the US). While the nationalistic reflex is not as strong elsewhere in Europe it is still a hindrance that shows up in countless frictions.

In any case, LLM's are just another stop of the journey. If people stopped digging while in a hole there is always a way out.
Ppl can afford to live there again?
YES. It's extremely clear and easy, in multiple ways, both through the ChatGPT app and through the Subscriptions Tab in settings in iOS. This is one of those things that Apple does reasonable well, compared to some vendors.
I'd love to but many jobs are confined to a few, usually expensive, cities.
AH yeah $1000 for a phone is bonkers. Like $250,000 USD for a car....

$400 is better.

$175 is good.

$50 is great - need subsidies from the carrier for this, IMO.
Online-based tools rarely gain any professional trust as they can just disappear without a trace one day. Some occasional editing - maybe, putting a trade at the mercy of an online-only solution - never.

Another aspect is privacy. Medium- and high-caliber professionals are reluctant to share the innards of their work with anyone.
If San Francisco is in a doom loop right now, what was it in back in the 60s-00s?

An ultra-hyper-mega-doomloop-of-death?

Hell in the 90s the violent crime rate routinely topped 1,800 per 100k. Today it is 1/3rd that.

I remember San Francisco in the 90s. Today's San Francisco is Disneyland compared to then.

My theory is that we are all suffering from collective cultural amnesia and have forgotten that the world existed prior to 2019 and thus have forgotten that while things go up and down year-to-year they have been getting better on the whole for decades.
This sounds like an outlier though, no? The overall averages there are much lower.

Also everyone I know in tech over here is making much more than that still.
Wow! such a twist. But the advice is spot on!
They're busy building stuff without blogging about it. It's tough to assess a change in culture when your heuristics are limited by selection bias favoring loud contributors over productive builders. That's not to say there aren't great hackers who blog; but there are certainly bloggers who are bad hackers, and by definition they're more immediately visible than great hackers who don't blog.

I'm sure there is a term for this phenomenon, but usually you see it within corporate bureaucracies - the skills that take you to the top are not necessarily the skills that make you good at your job. You get promoted by getting noticed. And creating value is one way of getting noticed. But you don't need to get noticed to create value. Same goes for any builder culture.

So take the opinions of the bloggers with a grain of salt. Eschew the RSS feed for the GitHub commit log. Read the source code, not the blogs. There you'll see that hacker culture is alive and well. Indeed, it's thriving.
People at Nintendo have used that turn of phrase to describe their approach.

https://medium.com/@adamagb/nintendo-s-little-known-product-...
Warning: Yet another vectorize-and-prompt-as-a-service website that simply forwards the entirety of your data to OpenAI.
VHS vs. Beta, basically.

Tcl and Perl are about the same age, approximately similar in function, approximately similar in ease-of-use, and really the world could have gone either way.

Just as with VHS and Beta, each had their strengths and weaknesses, but ultimately it came down to an avalanche of the "network effect" - everyone was using VHS so everyone used VHS / everyone was using Perl so everyone used Perl.
Greedflation: Are large firms using crises as cover to push up their profits?
If Mark was a hacker of some kind, he was a growth hacker. That's what Facebook was (in)famous for in its early days - implementing various little psychological tricks that drove adoption. A lot of that came from Mark (initially, pretty much all of it).

I'm not aware of any evidence that he was an exceptional engineer. So what? Why would he even care about being that? As long as you can hire engineers that are better than you, you don't need to be a great one to grow a social network. We're not talking about AI here.
I hope Bob doesnt want to publicize its own finding trough planting bombs
Dragonfly's source available license reverts to Apache on 2028-03-15. I think this "Business Source License" is a wonderful idea: there are business reasons to have proprietary code (yet another indictment of how we've structured our society), but this retains a decent chunk of the long-term benefit-to-the-user that open source provides (namely, reduced vendor lock-in; ability to exercise GDPR data portability rights; ability to keep stuff going after the company goes bankrupt and its assets get bought by a creative-tax-accounting "business").

"Production" doesn't seem well-defined, so in practice this is probably a crayon license; and reverting to Apache gives you all the problems of permissive licenses. But it's a wonderful idea!
I found the single core SPECInt figures for the last couple of decades very interesting. The curve flattens. Apologies for link to the bird site, but I’m mobile and it’s the fastest way I can find it, I think some of your will enjoy the diagram.

https://twitter.com/nickdothutton/status/1194978743250538496...