skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks great and I’m not against charging for tools — I’m not even against subscriptions (even tho they often annoy me personally), but the value prop here doesn’t seem to match $30 a month (or $15 if you do annual).

And it isn’t because I’m cheap — I spend lots of money on lots of stuff — or that I don’t value indie development (same), but this pricing puts this utility in the same class as things like Figma, the Adobe Suite, a lot of CMSes (Webflow, Craft, etc.) for a utility that might be useful, but doesn’t strike me as $360 a year (or even $180 a year) useful.

The value prop just isn’t here for me, even tho I like what this is trying to do. At $5 a month/$50 a year, I think you’d get more traction and much better volume than what you can get at $30 a month/$180 a year prepaid.

And I have to say, when I see prices this high, I’m hesitant to prepay from unknown companies because I don’t have any expectation about how long it will be in business or continue to update the product, because I don’t see how you get sustainable development at this price point. Figma and Adobe can charge what they charge because they’ve earned it and because those are tools where you feel like you get your money’s worth.

$30 a month for something that will improve but not fundamentally change the way I do web dev, I’m sorry but no.
> According to Dr. Mate, unresolved emotional stress and trauma can disrupt the body's natural balance

How does that differ from Germanic New Medicine? (see https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ryke_Geerd_Hamer)
So you think it's better to live under a regime where anything not explicitly sanctioned is forbidden?
While historical precedent is informative, it should not constrain our conceptualization of fundamental rights. The context and needs of society evolve over time, and so should our understanding of what constitutes a fundamental right.

Privacy, has grown in importance with the surge of digital communication and mass surveillance.

Regarding privileged communication, it is impossible to define the boundary between what should be private and what should not. Just because some information might seem mundane doesn't mean it lacks potential misuse by bad actors.

By fostering a culture of respect for privacy in our day-to-day lives, we strengthen protections against more significant intrusions.
I suppose I’m thinking about in the long run, but yes if you could build Manna today - it would be certainly be implemented somewhere at significant cost.
This may actually be simpler than you think:

A) Identify your users, who they are?

B) Find active niche places where they are in high density. These could be specific people on LN you can find searching by role/position, topic-oriented FB groups, industry-specific conferences and events.

C) Share your product hypothesis and ask for their feedback.

Specifically, do not expect a spot-on feedback from people who are not in your target group - indiehackers or HN are nice places full of great people, but are they really your potential clients? Or should you rather look elsewhere.
"people just suck at socializing" is no explanation at all. It is just an observation of a state of affairs. In fact, I don't think people are any worse at socializing than we have been in the past. What has changed is that our entire social lives are mediated by parasitic technologies meant to maximize engagement and our entire economic lives are mediated by a market ideology which only incentivizes maximum flexibility in order to meet our economic needs. Social phenomena do not materialize out of thin air, nor are the cause of evil wizards plotting somewhere. It is, as the saying goes, the economy, stupid.
> Replace "100 years" with whatever timeframe is perfect for you and I'll make the same argument

At any time before we had the information to understand thr mechanism of problems and evaluate mitigations, its very unlikely that we would choose tbe right mitigations. Sure, if we choose thr mitigations that we would choose based on information today before we had that information, that would be great, but its at least as likely that any attempt to mitigate risk of unknown mechanism vefore we had that infornation would have done exactly the wrong thing.

Basically, “Well, I have information today by which I can design a policy which would have been beneficial if implemented before that information was available” is not an argument that people seeking to mitigate a vaguely imagined risk without any understanding of its mechanism would have the means to design a productive intervention.
Head over to the elueuther.ai discord and discuss with some of the folks there. Tons of small experiments with LLMs can use the $10k in compute
Just let ‘em expire.
It is basically a lot of words saying "this is good for us. We do it for us. We can make money on this. Russia/China bad."
Using Midjourney images to remember things
There's nothing pure functional here (perhaps the term "referential transparency", which some FP fans have come to misunderstand and perpetuate its misunderstanding is what may have given you that impression). Referential transparency is very much less expressive than referential opacity, as there are certain statements that simply cannot be expressed if your language is referentially transparent. For example, in programming, a referentially opaque expression can refer to the name of the variable holding some value. In programming, languages like Zig and Java are more referentially transparent than languages like C and Haskell because the latter have macros.
Isn’t that just a matter of setting appropriate target flags, and not letting them by implied? That’s basic build hygiene anyway.
Male babies 'talk' more in the first year than female babies do, finds study
> You make some great points.

I am sad to hear that. I was mocking the crypto attempts to legitimise their business proporisiton. All of them have failed, because fundamentally their product does not solve any real problem and once it interacts with the real world it has the same problems as those industries have.

Essentially crypto is like most libertarian communities, they eventually end up inventing regulations, governance and many of the same systems that we currently have, but only after fucking up themselves.

> Even capturing a fraction of a fraction of those would be a massive.

The risk of fraud outstrips any of the advantages, also the risk of lack of regulation on the financial system has brought us great hits like the 2008 banking crisis.

Giving VC access to anyone based on crypto is gonna be a gold rush of fraud, To the Moon tm slogans and other nonsense that will bankrupt as many people as possible before imploding.
I'm not sure what you mean about not buying hardware, my switch was $200. It's not a rental or lease.

You might be thinking of console companies selling their systems at a loss, which is pretty common. They know they'll make up the loss with accessories, games, etc. Users needing full control over their consoles is a matter of opinion. The manufacturers definitely want you to only use the consoles how they choose. Nintendo owns copywrites for their hardware and software. I don't think any is open-source, so they don't have to provide any info on it.
Ignorant question about the algorithm:

There is a min_frequency threshold for including words

Wouldn’t you want a max_frequency instead?

A lot of times infrequent words are more important than the frequent ones (eg titles vs articles)
The stainless link bands are amazing too. I wondered why the Swiss hadn’t made resizing the band so easy. Then I realized that being forced to go to a jewelers/watch shop is a feature for them.
so if someone merges over into your lane where you are it doesn't activate? I must not understand the point of this feature then.
Yes, especially when you account for shared university supercomputers, and especially when it took a supercomputer to do much of anything.

Generally given there are a much larger number of less powerful computers, more accessible to much scrappier interests, one would expect more innovation to be done on them.
I found this comment from searching "tree of thoughts arxiv github" on Google; so at least, there's that. Thank you for the official link! I'm eager to try out this deliberate problem solving stuff.
They both hallucinate when they dont know the answer and just spit out the first thing that comes to their head. Of course they annound this random "fact" to the world with complete certainty and authority.
When you need to be very careful about memory allocation and use various custom allocators for stuff, and you don't care too much about memory safety. Rust makes working with custom allocators somewhat painful, in exchange for safety, so if you don't need the safety, no point going through that pain.
They will work over the internet. You should use SSH or a VPN like Tailscale because the native protocol is not encrypted.

Bandwidth and latency effects will have some effect on how well it will scale, but on a reasonably high latency and low RTT connection it's probably still faster than purely local compilation. Sending work over the network takes time but not much CPU, so the local CPU is freed up to do other work.
Except people absolutely are concerned with privacy, if you ask the questions the right way.

The problem is that surveillance capitalism shares a lot of properties with pollution: the effects are typically hidden or ephemeral; the cost to individuals is low while the cost to society is high; and people have largely become complacent if not resigned to the status quo.

And so a) most people don't understand the sheer extent of surveillance capitalism, and b) they don't understand how they're affected by it.

I can't count the number of times I've seen shocked faces when I explained how companies like Acxiom and Experian work. And they've been around for decades! But they operate in the shadows, out of view, and so people simply do not understand how much of their private lives are bought and sold to the highest bidder.

If they understood that--and I mean truly understood it--I suspect the conversation around these topics would be very different indeed.

Meanwhile, large portions of the tech community have a financial motive to want to downplay these issues. "Oh pfft, privacy, so antiquated," they say as they draw down a 300k FAANG salary funded by the harvesting and selling of private information.

And so what's the predominant narrative? Well, the people who are in the best position to understand these issues have a financial incentive to protect the status quo, while everyone else doesn't understand them well enough to form an opinion, and thus the former dominates the discourse.
> Where did human intelligence come from?

From ~290-300 million years of mammal, and ~7 million years of hominid evolution, give or take. Which is a natural process and not something an intelligent creator started, is observing, powering or influencing in any way shape or form. Which makes the next statement...

> Self-improving AI brings itself about.

...a bit interesting, because, all the parameters in a comparison with natural systems are different: The system is designed by an intelligent creator, we are observing it, it's development is entirely powered by us, and we completely control it's development.

And so far, the sample size for self-improving AI, in the sense that would be required for the doomsday scenarios to happen, is zero.

> and no humans and no aliens are needed up front to design it.

Last time I checked, matrix multiplication wasn't one of the things observed in the Miller-Urey experiment.

> Who says we can't?

Since so far no one could demonstrate how to even measure the distance, in whatever unit, of AI systems to AGI, I'm not holding my breath.
I've had a car that apparently has "automatically breaks" because the darn thing spent more time in the shop than on the road.
The cash that the US Treasury pays to the Fed as its bonds mature does disappear.

Ditto for agency bonds that are repaid to the Fed.
I think discounting future lives because you can't precisely count them is immoral at best and actively evil at worst.
Two men got jobs at Amazon just to steal copies of Zelda
I don't really get this. I'm a 'wife guy' too, but I have no fear of the idea of having other close relationships. Obviously there are elements of my relationship with my wife that are exclusive to that arrangement, but almost by definition, having strong social ties to more people cannot hurt you.
I got a few upvotes so far, but no comments! Lol

I may put out a few feelers, and put this topic up for a RFC and discussion on GitHub.

It seems like an interesting new little web thing, and is super easy to implement.

I just share the same concerns as others have mentioned with bots and spammers misusing this file.
> Not saying you're wrong, just be very careful assuming you know more than your d

This almost sounds like you are stereotyping me...

I do know more than my doctors. For one, they never even know what receptors most of the medication I was taking affected. But also I have my own genetics and I spent the last 15 years studying genetics and neuro-biology. I often fake out researchers telling them I have a PhD and I talk with them with no problem. And I am currently offering assistance to a research study at Stanford who are looking into the possible genetic roots of a specific neurological disorder.

So when I say I have a mitochondrial disorder that is causing multiple issues for me I know what I am talking about [1]. My mitochondrial haplotype is U [2]. I have rare gene changes in ND4 [3], ND4L, and MT-CYB [4} which are all linked to Mood Disorders and I have been treating them mostly successfully with high dose riboflavin [5] (this lowers glutamate [6] witch seems to be the mechanism that helps me most).

> Testing every fringe theory out there (which may well no longer be fringe in x time) is simply not feasible. Saying this as someone currently heavily medicated for depression.

My point is they are testing NOTHING. And these are not fringe theories. I am fighting for you and for my family who keeps wanting to end their life. By saying these are fringe theories you are playing into some stereotype (again). Take a look at pyridoxine for depression, or zinc or iron. These are not fringe theories, they are neglected theories because they would mean the end of treatment. I am not on zero meds but klonopin as needed. I have tried no less than 12 medications that "worked" but left me numb, over weight, and useless.

Please do not give up and let these doctors tell you what the only truth is. I am now working with a family with TRMPSS6 mutations that leave them all iron deficient and oral iron was not helping. They all have severe depression and fatigue and anemia. The doctors gave up on them. Turns out all they needed was to take their iron with citric acid.

[1] https://ibpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Andreazza-Duong-...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...

[3] https://academic.oup.com/ijnp/article/8/4/515/652752

[4] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1399-5618....

[5]

https://headachejournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4948/b1d517ca7333fe0149f5bd...

https://www.nature.com/articles/pr199327

[6]

https://journals.lww.com/neuroreport/Abstract/2004/10050/Gro...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5517396/
In my experience this is a matter of entropy: if you have a partner at home, you are guaranteed support, so you neglect your friends. Your friends then need to either pick up the slack, or the group fails. So they pick up the slack until they have other options (like a partner at home). Then everyone stops bothering. Then people act surprised. I've seen this happen multiple times now. No one makes an explicit decision to kill the friendship. They just stop maintaining it. Another way to look at this is the tragedy of the commons or "privatising the profit, socialising the losses".

It's the same as a lot of social things, from public transport to pensions, from relationships to workers unions. People often end up with suboptimal outcomes by optimising for themselves blindly. And no one person can stop it.
I didn't end my Rust learning with that. I did a bit of a deep dive into articles about linked lists in Rust out of curiosity before pivoting to more fruitful projects. My favourite "project" being last year's Advent of Code.
AI Is Writing Code Now. For Companies, That Is Good and Bad
privacy is important but the article is strange because all of the things described can be opted-out of. in the case of Telly you are explicitly trading off privacy in order to receive a free product. don't consume if you don't agree.

there are certain situations in which you might be OK with the privacy implication. I, for example, would be OK with receiving a free car ride if I had to watch an advertisement while traveling in the vehicle.

a better example would be something like being fingerprinted at the airport. Where it is not strictly necessary in order to accomplish the goal of security. In general I would say Big Government is more concerning than Big Tech. Is it unfortunate that Meta and Google track you across the internet? Sure, but it's ultimately not necessary for your participation in society, unlike say being tracked in order to get a state identification card, and thus do basic things like get a bank account.
Secretaries spent a lot of time typing, and therefore were considered to be typists. In the 1990s using a keyboard went from a subservient role (typist) to a prestigious role (computers are expensive!) and then achieved ubiquity.

If you look at things through the lens of social status signalling among primates, an awful lot becomes clear. Consider office arrangements. What primates like is having:

- a private space to retreat to, and

- a team/family shared space, and

- a tribal/company shared space that strangers can be invited to visit, often decorated to show off success/wealth.

Control is established by the leaders awarding better territories to themselves and favorite allies, and by removing private spaces for those of low status. The worst insult is to remove space ownership altogether for some low status people, making them "hot desk" or "hotel".
The End of Public APIs
Aside from being wrong, this is also exceedingly pedantic. Even if it was correct (which it's not) everyone understands "Nazi" means "Germany under control of the NSDAP".

"After the NSDAP's rise to power in the 1930s, the use of the term "Nazi" by itself or in terms such as "Nazi Germany", "Nazi regime", and so on was popularised by German exiles outside the country, but not in Germany. From them, the term spread into other languages and it was eventually brought back into Germany after World War II. The NSDAP briefly adopted the designation "Nazi" in an attempt to reappropriate the term, but it soon gave up this effort and generally avoided using the term while it was in power."

Peak usage: 1940s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nazi%2Cnsdap&y...

Letters using "Nazi" in 1933: "I was in Hanover about two years ago, just when the Nazi movement was gaining strength" https://www.theguardian.com/world/1933/apr/01/secondworldwar...
If we’re comparing C to Zig I’m not sure what memory safety even needs to be mentioned for.

For C to Zig there’s plenty of reasons one might prefer Zig. For memory safety obviously you might opt to choose neither.
46% is such a precise number. This is why I can't take "rationalists", the Yudkowskys, and the Silvers seriously. Colossal assumptions turned into confidently stated probabilities.
I don't think it's that simple.

Banks bought up a bunch of US treasuries at close to nothing interest rates during the last two years. This is where a bank typically parks their cash reserves because the audit requirements require them to hold a certain amount of cash and cash basically == treasuries.

Now they're holding a bunch of treasuries that won't mature for a while. If they simply sold them they'd have to book a bunch of losses (because as rates rose the price of treasurys falls). They don't do that and instead hope holding them to maturity will be fine to service their existing commitments (i.e., pay interest on deposits).

The problem is that they bought treasurys that yield close to nothing and they have to make a profit on those and pay out an interest to customers, so they take their cut from the 2% and pay the customers a 0.03% interest on deposits or whatever.

The customer sees that their savings account is yielding 0% and they could just go park their money in a money market account that yields ~5% (thanks to overnight rates being that high) and moves their money from their bank to a brokerage account.

Bank deposits fall resulting in a standard bank run. Sure well run banks maybe have their risk profile in a better place (didn't actually go out and buy a bunch of 30yr treasurys like SVB did and instead got more short duration stuff) but they can't just pivot to instantly increasing the interest rates to match the money market account and so will continue to bleed deposits.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28340101 Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]
Declined makes sense, "lost" doesn't.

"US banks declined $472B in deposits in the Q1 2023" (fdic.gov)

So they turned the money down? No, that doesn't sound right...
This is the problem my company solves. I won’t plug it here, but my email is in my HN profile if you want to reach out
How so? Bank deposits and M2 are correlated quite closely. Usually, bank deposits are equal to 80-90% of M2.
PagerDuty Alternatives
My favorite section is https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This#Text_storag... that is using text instead of char and varchar.

Of course the default of the PostgreSQL driver for several ORMs of several languages is varchar(255).
I find it very interesting how when i search that term, 3 of the top 5 results are obviously SEO'd puff pieces from clinics themselves posted to their website, conspicuously containing multiple uses of the phrase "TMS ruined my life". The actual content of the page reads exactly like one of those $50,000 rehab places that scam vulnerable people out of huge sums of money. Like they're trying to keep those vulnerable people from thinking twice about their personal wellbeing and instead blindly keep their faith in the entity which will quickly, safely, and pleasantly fix all your problems (tm)
Yes; and unfortunately there has yet to be a critical look at this phenomenon with the same skill as Quigley or Toynbee (at the very least, none that I can find).
I think you meant to link here: https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-papers/knuth_mathematic...
Using Adapt and Beam for Effective Data Modeling
Found a good primer on Modern Data Modeling that Im sure a lot of us could benefit from. Helped demystify what a lot of my data engineer coworkers are up to behind the scenes
This was the original approach, although later work added an optional "pump mode" in which headers are distributed: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/distcc-pump...
> > lots of people want to be CEOs

Lots of people want to be CEO (until they become CEO and until they make CEO kind of money)

By the first 3 months reality sets in and the person now in the CEO role understands that they are so far removed from the action that they are essentially relegated to the role of spokeperson and cheerleader, at maximum the role of general moving imaginary troops on a fictional battlefield.

If they can make peace with their role of political spokeperson and cheerleader they'd bail out as soon as they reach 5M net worth no debt. No less than 95% would bail out.

The remaining 5% would bail out once they reach 10M net worth no debt.

CEOs turnover and population is so low because it takes a special kind of monodimensional individual to have the world as your oyster 5-10M in your name and no debt and turn around and say "I'd rather go to work and pretend to be at the helm of an imaginary ship instead"