skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read a lot of startup books. The value is spending time in these books to really internalize them.

Summarization tools have existed for a while. They don’t take off because they can solve the core problem of deep learning. It takes time to reshape how you think. Reading some summaries won’t do that.
Look up the blockchain Space there, both the layer one and layer two space.

Most specifically smart contracts.
There are several open problems in the space especially research around having safe smart contracts.

Check out Move Language, Sway, Vyper, Bamboo(Ethereum), Motoko on ICP
seemed on a brief look that kbin had a bunch of crypto nonsense associated with it, and I noped right out
Anti-competitive reasons hidden with security excuses is Apple's modus operandi.
Although prompting “write a comment replying to the text ‘<snip> in the style of u/landfe“ would yield something I copyrightable…
I have similar inaccuracies from Apple Weather in temperature, but also failure to predicting rain when rain is on the regional forecast checked against the nws and actual rain outcomes. Worse than Dark Sky that Apple acquired.

I’m on the Southern CA area. And today no rain possible on Apple Weather, 40% shower on NWS.
I wasnt talking about spammers... I'm talking about content created by Reddit itself.
As a side note, the difference in quality between the comments from HN and the linked site is from sky to earth. Thank you HN mods and users
Theoretically... But:

- There are no implementations of this, AFAIK

- They would suffer from the same adoption difficulty hardware video encoding suffers from.

- They would suffer from the same quality issues and format limitations compared to software encoders (where intel/nvidia dGPU hardware AV1 maxes out at ~x265 medium last I checked)
If I meet you in person, I'm going to ask your name. You can tell me exactly what's on your birth certificate, or you can tell me what you want me to call you (I assume it won't be balls187 but maybe Jack instead of John, etc). Or you can tell me it's "Assigned By God" and it will become apparent that you are somehow offended by the question itself and think names are a stupid concept all together.

"Preferred pronouns" is a question on a form. If you answer with anything other than pronouns, as defined in the dictionary, you're being an ass. That's the difference.
Cute but terrible UI. I don't want to click a bunch of tiny dots, especially on mobile. I looked at a couple and left because it's so tedious, defeating the purpose of the page. Give me a scrollable list.
It'll be on Windows/Steam too.
That's a fair point, but I still think there's a strong correlation. To address that point specifically, users who started using Reddit early enough that the official one didn't exist, and have stuck around and are still active now, are more likely to be power users just based on account age. Additionally, many years ago those seeking out mobile apps may have been power users as well. Mobile apps are the default now, but unofficial apps have only recently been more mainstream.
That’s fine, but that’s just your opinion. A lot of people use Elm in production and don’t have issues with it. I’m neutral on Elm. I think it’s a cool language but I don’t use it. I’m not convinced that “constant commits” signal the life of a project though.
> As a side note, I created an alternative Reddit API[1] and Reddit didn't like that so much they banned my 13 year old Reddit account.

"I broke Reddit's TOS deliberately and repeatedly and they banned me!" is another way to put it. But it doesn't sound as good and because of the current zeitgeist people will tend to side with you anyway. Perfect timing for you :)
Researcher disguises himself as car seat in study
If that is indeed the case, then is it any better than an existing format like MessagePack?
How do you propose to engage with people who are antagonistic?

Have you ever worked a customer service job?

By thinking that people who deal with the public and their complaints and entitled attitude constantly are the ones who are unreasonable by default, you show a powerful ignorance about how many people act when they want something and can't immediately get it for any reason.
To add to this, the bigger the improvement you offer, the easier it is to sell.

Selling a 10% improvement it hard, selling a 10x improvement is much easier...
I’m kind of curious how this shook out at the time and then evolved to what the experience is today. That’s kind of missing from just the emails.

Also, aren’t these emails normally deleted with very short retention? How are they showing up in court cases a decade later.
> No one credible is saying china intentionally released the virus or built it with the intention of building a weapon.

To add to this, most countries have turned away from infectious biological weapons because they are near impossible to control. The the release of them might harm your enemies, but at a serious cost to yourself. It is like trying to cut off your enemy's leg by cutting off your own arm. It ends up kinda being like MAD except you're also the aggressor. The threat of a infectious weapon is not from other nations, but from a terrorist organization (which of course dramatically reduces risk). Not to say that this can't happen, but it is well known enough that were a contagious disease to get out, it would be more likely accidental. It would also be odd to release the disease into your own community first. I'm not saying it was or wasn't a lab leak or bioweapon, but if we're discussing weapon vs accident, there's good reason to believe a weapon is unlikely. Gain of research has significant value outside weapons and this also shows you why the weapon arguments against GoF aren't of high concern to those that are close to the work. Contagion weapons are the weapons of those with nothing left to lose (which aren't big/rich countries, even in dire circumstances).
If you're "just" a single-member LLC you may have trouble finding a long-term accountant in general, let alone finding one with specific "tech" knowledge outside of the SV area. Accountants want to make money, your tax situation is probably very simple and so you're not worth their time. I have an S Corp, so slightly more complicated than you, but I've been through two accountants so far who ended up simply ghosting me after some amount of time when they realize it's not worth it to have to field an e-mail or two from me over the course of a year. All local accountants have sophisticated tax software now, so they're happy to take you on and charge you a few thousand a year for what amounts to an introductory call + an entry into their system. As soon as you require any amount of upkeep, they walk.
Whenever a large group of people really want something to be true, your Bayesian evidence threshold should increase significantly.

IE cigarettes not causing cancer, glass of red wine a day, unleaded gasoline, caffeine has no negative effects, drugs are not addictive, you can eat as much as you want as long as no carbs.
“Target” is a bit of a confusing word choice here; “monitor” might be better, or “surveil”, I think.
No std::format? Or am I just not searching for the right thing?
Wouldn't that mean it would be down to the individual users who still own each bit of content to issue a DMCA takedown if they objected?

I imagine the number of such requests would be small.
The more different things a tool can be used for, the less context can be assumed from knowing that that tool is being used.
Sure I don’t disagree. My point was that the quote isn’t “proof.”
Reddit of all platforms should know this, having risen to prominence on the heels of Digg v4
A lot of subreddits have begun in the past hour because it's already the 12th in Europe. Formula1 and FormulaE just went dark in the past hour for example.
Can you explain how you use Chat GPT-4 to do this?
You should read some pre-Columbus American history. There were loads of empires from the Mississippi to Columbia.
What would help me is a guide for all the non-core product considerations - legal compliance (gdpr, insurance, etc), and then non-core stuff like how to best implement costings (maybe $99 price tag sells >1% better than $100, etc). I’m not really sure where to look for this kinda stuff, maybe these books?
Same thing happened at Hanksville, Utah, in the 1950s or 60s, except not because of pilot error. They had a strip there that was a designated emergency strip for the LA-Chicago route, and a plane (707, I think?) had to use it. And it landed OK. But, even once they got the plane fixed, taking off was problematic.

They bussed off the passengers (and luggage), took out the seats, put on enough fuel to reach Grand Junction, and managed to get it airborne.

This was a big enough deal in Hanksville that they closed school so that all the kids could come down and see the big plane.

Details are slightly unreliable - my parents told me about it when I was a kid; I have no independent information.
I can't seem to be able to read anything every link seems to lead to a useless PDF.

Anyone have a link to just one document I can read?
Videos, including asymmetrical video interviews where the candidate has to record themselves answering questions, are becoming more common for professional jobs as well. It's probably a great screening tool for identifying candidates with no self respect and no other options that can be treated badly throughout employment. If not illegal, this practice should at least be made socially unacceptable. I'm a capitalist, but this kind of thing is definitely an argument against unrestricted capitalism.
Slightly unrelated but I wonder how much assist does Android OS level code give to users' taps? I always have a feeling that it has to and does a kind of guess what user intended whenever it can but does it really?
Hard to categorize a couple of isolated incidents that were widely criticized and were legally under fire in the US as "US does it too." In the link you linked, it was BART who did it, not the "US."

the USA is 50 countries(with limited foreign diplomacy) masquerading as one, and BART's poor decision to do so hardly makes it commonplace.
Well, dating sites and other sites that needed to bootstrap to critical mass used to do it all the time. YouTube filled their site with copyrighted clips.

With AI, it would be far easier to bootstrap a plausible-looking site full of “active users”, and unscrupulous startups might do that.

It is why we built this, which at least is the most ethical approach we could come up with, as a service for any community to encourage discussion on ghost-town topics, while clearly disclosing its bots:

https://app.engageusers.ai

In about the broader debate about generative AI, this seems to be one of the least harmful (it has responsible disclosures) and most helpful (https://xkcd.com/810/) approaches

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35779455

PS: feel free to use it if you own a Discourse forum, we would love to hear feedback
It's a solid technique. I did the exact same thing for a news site I started with comments on articles and the forum.

No one wants to hang around a 'dead' site, but post enough activity, post enough 'controversial' comments and people will want to join in, and then suddenly you have an actual ecosystem of real people driving traffic.
The Supreme Court is by definition not an executive council.
> I think it is a fair to say that if you use and especially pay for third party tools, whether that be a client or something like RES, you are more than likely a power user.

I've seen this repeated elsewhere but I've seen zero actual evidence of it.

And the counterpoint is quite easy: that people use these apps/extensions for a better viewing experience. Because on the creation side, typing into a text box or pasting a link is just typing into a text box. The apps/extensions are great for consuming.

Quick Google searches reveal that Reddit has something between 0.5 and 1.5 billion monthly users, while the Apollo app has 1.5 million monthly users. That's nothing.

The bigger question seems to be around moderators who use power moderation tools. Will Reddit keep allowing moderation tools? If not, will they improve their own? If they lose moderators, are there other moderators willing to take their place, or will they start investing in more ML-based moderation, etc.?
You're getting downvoted, but you're correct. Twitter was profitable in 2018 and 2019. It then took a bath in 2020 (like almost all advertising-based businesses), and then was projected to recover to profitability in 2022 before Musk announced the takeover, which threw everything into a tailspin.
If you’re steering a platform, you want people to use your APIs and tools. I don’t see how that’s controversial. Otherwise, what are you even doing?
> Do you want to build a profitable business or do you want to theorize how to build one?

I was part of a startup with an inexperienced angel who insisted on bringing in a CEO. The CEO made a good pitch to me that we would adopt the lean startup model, so I went along with it.

Anyway the moment he started, the book went out the door. We didn’t have time to discuss things like strategy and market positioning and hypotheses (though he used the word at every opportunity) but we had plenty of time to have risk assessment meetings and road maps and CRM system integrations (zero customers mind you), monthly 3 hour board meetings and weekly 2 hour “senior executive meetings”. The board and executive was larger than our headcount. I had brought an experienced team into the business with me and they were just flown into the ground with this inanity. (It turns out that despite what I’d been told, CEO had only ever been in corporate settings and had basically no experience with starting a business).

Anyway the outcome was as expected. I’ve been in startups my whole professional life and this was easily the worst experience of career.

The moral of this story is that building a business is hard and none of the books are going to tell you how to do it. So I agree with the parent comment. Pick a couple of books, read them, and get going. If things don’t work out, read a couple more.

But for God’s sake, keep your eye on the prize - have a clear vision, execute an early version of it, find some customers, iterate.
> In Covert Action, you'd spend ten minutes or so of real time in a mission, and by the time you got out of [the mission], you had no idea of what was going on in the world.

But that works perfectly fine in XCOM! But there both elements are build up to the level player will be using it. The combat is main game, but while the "management" certainly wouldn't be enough to make whole game around it, for the few minutes between combat engagements it fits just fine.

Spore problem was that you switched from one game mode to another completely so it was essentially playing next game for few hours.

I think it just needs to be balanced in effort to the time player spends with it. Like players remember Gwent or Triple Triad with fondness.
To me, it was gross when I first learned about it, and it remains gross today. Just because approximately everyone[0] seems to be doing it, doesn't mean it's right.

Now, I would have less of a problem with this, if all the founders and CEOs would openly admit, "this is how business works", "we do what we must", or "we don't call someone a business shark for being nice and friendly to the fish". But they don't. Instead, they go on stage or order press releases and creation of blog posts and other content, talking about changing the world for the better, about excellence, moral virtues, diversity, inclusion, responsibility, sustainability.

It's all bullshit. Why should I believe they mean it, when they have a long history of lying to or bullshitting people, dating all the way to the first days of their companies, and they're 100% fine with it?

--

[0] - At least in the group of companies that would be discussed on HN and similar places.
This isn't true. The competitive weightlifting community has weight loss down pretty cold. It just takes an enormous amount of willpower that the vast majority of people cannot muster.

The problem is that the human body isn't wired for losing weight. It's really that simple. Every single system in humans is set up to make use of scarce calories and hoard them when available.
From the latest WWDC (2023) Apple has actually encouraging web app support. In Safari Version 17:

Added support for web apps on macOS Sonoma. Add any website to the Dock from the File menu or Share Sheet to get to them even faster. Web apps open in their own window, and integrate with system features like Stage Manager, Screen Time, Notifications, and Focus. (68606770) [1]

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-not...
The geologists that died disbelieving in plate tectonics weren’t free of intelligence. The very systems that allow us to find patterns are also liable to get stuck with seeing certain patterns.

Not only is it impossible with current human knowledge to construct an infallible theory that predicts everything we encounter, it is also impossible with current human physiology never to cling to wrong ideas in the face of counter evidence. When examining our rationality, we must not only admit our data are incomplete and our theories flawed, but we ourselves might be thinking foolishly.
Wait a second, I could be totally wrong on this but I thought Twitter nearing bankruptcy was the real reason they sunset Vine?
Microsoft Flight Simulator – Dune Expansion
The developer of RES said they do not know if the changes will hit them and it is up in the air.

> Reddit's public statements have been limited on this method, however we have been told we should see minimal impact via this route. However we are still not 100% sure on potential impact and are being cautious going forwards.[0]

Developers behind third-party clients were also told they should be fine with the new changes so reddit's word isn't worth anything. This is not just about clients but tools and bots as well.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/141hzqj/announ...
Ive read most of these books over my career. There is absolutely a plateau of learning.

I find the value in continuing to read these books is offering a new perspective (or at least new wording) on a topic I’ve lost touch with over time.

For example, I don’t really get much out of re-reading “the lean startup “. I know the core principles by heart. I do however tend to forget them over time. They get lost in the noise of my day to day. However, simply re-reading the same book doesn’t bring them back sharply. I find, instead, that reading a similar book helps bring back the vividness.
>When it does start happening, it'll be obvious in hindsight we should never have let it get that far

Oh I agree. We've already let our civil rights go in the gutter. Although I do think it'll be political suicide for whoever does it, unless you're also holding an iron grip on power at that point.
A classic and well-deserved HN perennial.

Past discussions:

- 9 years ago, 120 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7409611>

- 5 years ago, 20 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17585104>

- 3 years ago, 19 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24728477>

- 7 years ago, 54 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11651406>

- 9 years ago, 15 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7762486>

- 6 years ago, 2 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15535834>
And then there’s 747 Dreamlifter in 2013[1].

[1] https://simpleflying.com/boeing-747-dreamlifter-wrong-airpor...
If the website does not load for you because of HTTP 502 or other timeouts, there is a Twitch stream at https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247 showing the protest live.
SeicoMart is the one exclusive to Hokkaido. It's great!
I've never seen a virus in my life! So how did they make one in Wuhan?

I'm pretty convinced that media departments are real though!
What was that old definition of ideology, an unreal relation to real facts?
miles driven, not market share, is the correct comparison here (and even then you'd want to include many other covariates, such as where the cars are operated, socioeconomic status of drivers, etc, etc) if you really want to compare different vehicles.
To most people the main use of crypto is to make money go up. This is a dubious use case.

To most people the main use of AI is:

Code suggestions

Code analysis

Document summarization

Document creation

Clipart generation

Audio transcription

Audio synthesis

Realistic chat bots

...

These are not dubious use cases.

The number of people who have been defrauded by crypto number in the millions. The number of people who have been defrauded by AI are zero.

Even if AI is wrong 90% of the time, 10% of the time it makes someone's job easier. Making someone's job easier is objectively more valuable than making someone's bank account number go up. One adds wealth to society. The other redistributes existing wealth.

I can go on about the differences but I'll let you tell me about how Ethereum has a really good logging system first.
From the context, I'm guessing they are referring to RAM limiting the dungeon size. Granted, your 8 GB stick would hold many more dungeon maps than a typical floppy.
This might not be a popular view here, but I'm surprised how professional they are in these exchanges. I would expect a much more visceral discussion on how the other party is trying to bypass paying them, how they can get more money the other way, etc.
Published now: https://github.com/belladoreai/llama-tokenizer-js
You might have ideas, but don't write them down because you don't think they're profound enough (yet). In that case, I'd suggest to track those ideas in an app or book. This gives you something to play with and reflect on, find patterns.

If you actually have few ideas. then that is also fine. Why do you think you need ideas? You can think about or work on other people's ideas.
Intel is all-in on backside power delivery
The major things from Scala that I find useful are:

- higher kinded types

- null in types

- for comprehensions

- macros

- opaque types

- implicits/type classes

- persistent immutable collections

- EDIT named & default params
I find these emails exchanges fascinating and a treasure trove when you consider a company as secretive and influential as Apple.

What I don’t understand is how they used an unencrypted form of communication for such important topics.
As a c++ programmer, one of the great things about rust is that I no longer have to keep track of data ownership and management in head.

I can outsource this to the compiler and if I get it wrong the program won’t compile.

In c++ you still need to do all the same tracking and management if you want safe and correct programs, but you don’t get nearly as much help from the compiler if you make a mistake.
> I think the evidence is pretty clear that at least the Chinese government believes that the covid-19 virus came from their lab

What evidence are you referring to?
There are some valid critiques, like dssim being an old and questionable metric, and AVIF using unoptimized settings, and maybe JXL having an "unfair" advantage depending on how the source images (jpegs?) were ingested.

But this is a real world benchmark. If this is an example of how a seasoned backend dev would typically set up AVIF and JPEG XL, its extremely telling.