skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most businesses fail.

My intuition is that rate of failure in software, where its much more winner take all, would be higher than brick and motor businesses, which constantly fail.

So really, this doesn't seem surprising.
Do you seriously think black students would be that inept?
Agreed. They are not looking at the long term, which is disappointing
I read the "M" in "$2,495M" as mega/million (ie. $2,495,000,000 gets you unlimited access!) and though it was a silly joke or interesting rant on AWS.

For clarity it's "per month", ant this is just a plug for some business. The website actually spells it correctly as "$2,495/m".
Perhaps you can change the title to "Cosmos: A Pinterest alternative"
Keep notes and write a diary. Writing solidifies knowledge in your mind. It also helps to clear your mind and organise your thoughts.
Every time you raise a round, the outcome you're shooting for is magnified. If you're raising an A round, you're not getting acquired after your seed; you're rolling the dice on getting a much better outcome. If you're raising a B round, you've got some facsimile of product-market fit, and you've decided to take the company to the point where the only "successful" outcomes are denominated in hundreds of millions of dollars, etc.

So it's not surprising that there's a stat somewhere that says "committing to a 500MM sale decreases your odds of success over satisficing with a 50MM sale", right? Very few software companies of any provenance end up going public, but by the time you're raising a C, that's essentially what you're saying you're going to do.
Yeah, I was wondering if the techniques described in these articles could reduce the size of the .NET libs in the wasm bundle. (I'm not sure what language the runtime itself is implemented in, I think also mostly C# for (formerly known as) .NET Core?)

Thanks for the Godot tip. I haven't checked it out in a while. I found it very counterintuitive (and a 3D engine is definitely overkill for small 2D games... I basically just want Flash... I guess Phaser or Haxe are my best bets).
All theory is overreaching. It's called the Problem of Induction. All you can do is hypothesize, test, and revise. Mathematicians will never be happy about it.

It will always be worse the more complicated something is. One particle is hard. A hydrogen atom is harder. Oxygen is just this side of impossible. Molecules are impossible and you just start throwing away vast numbers of terms. By the time you get to an eyeball, much less a brain, you are basically just guessing and hoping you can cover some of the cases some of the time.
I wonder how that’s going to work with differing pupillary distances?
That’s the only caveat. With operator overloading, the scope for what happens on a given line of code expands dramatically. Now your entire dependency graph is part of the search space. Heck, the operator might not even terminate at all!
Communist theory may not imply those things, but it always comes down to them in practice.

I have a theory that if you jump of a tall building and wave your hands really hard, you can fly. This theory does not imply you falling to your death. And if you do, it just means you weren't really following my method.
In terms of C functions _typically_ being globally defined, mostly unique identifiers are a good thing in terms of code readability.

Of course, C functions can be passed as variables. Or in a wider scope they might be inline, macros, or ifdef'd to different functions. But those cases are _typically_ recognized as undesirable and avoided.

Java's a bit of a different story, which I can't figure out a good way to explain. It's hard to explain problems in large code bases, as a quick example rarely suffices. I've seen more than one bug caused because foo.bar(qux) called a different method of bar than the original programmer intended (both because foo's bar was overwritten and qux was a different type than expected).

Don't get me wrong, I would use operator overloading in a heartbeat if I was writing code for a math-y CS coding assignment. It's fine for code that will have a lifepsan measured in weeks / months with probably only 2 or 3 people ever looking at it.

Saying what you mean, as clearly and directly as possible, has it's perks in certain applications (large code bases, life critical code bases, code bases that will last for decades with dozens of programmers). Otherwise stated, cases where code is going to be read many times more than written.

To answer your question more directly: User definable functions aren't a problem. Re-definable functions are!
From the guidelines:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
Buying the product can't be the product's killer app.
LLMs hallucinate way too much for use in anything serious. And the privacy implications are harrowing

I barely even trust LLMs anymore to help me with orientating research, I keep finding out that half of what it says is a lie
> A vast majority of breaking changes is mechanically fixable, and we all know how it is beneficial. We should embrace a method to reduce perceived breaking changes, not a method to point out possible breaking changes.

These seem like entirely distinct goals that should be pursued separately. Yes, from the perspective of a library consumer, any breaking change is a problem. But from the perspective of a library author, there's a crucial distinction between breaking changes that I intended to make and breaking changes that I didn't intend to make. The tool in the OP is for use by library authors, with the goal of eliminating unintentional breaking changes, and thereby reducing the number of breaking changes that my users are forced to endure. And what you're asking for is a tool to be used by library consumers, in order to mitigate intentional breaking changes. Both these tools can exist, and both benefit (at least marginally) from semver. Semver isn't a panacea, it's just the simplest possible foundation to communicate ideas about versioning. It's entirely welcome to invent concepts beyond semver to perform even more advanced communication.
>it's better to allocate money to build quality, battery life, lower weight or even keyboard feeling.

I'm sure you are coming from something well intentioned, but those are specs as well. Not that I think they are worthwhile paying for, but these are still specs.

>Most of the software guys need "just enough" CPU power and close to zero GPU power on their laptop.

But if that was the case, I have a $100 craigslist laptop that has windows 7 on it from a long time ago. Heck, its good enough my kid can play minecraft on it, I'm sure it can SSH.

Seems like people really do want something nice, or they are okay with barebones. Somehow these low power CPUs are capturing a market that is overpaying or getting lower spec/$.
Large corporations have this sort of structure where you're a node in a graph performing a niche service(s) in a series of steps where there are dependencies and you are also a dependency for later stage services. Working every second of the day and working really hard, doesn't actually do anything since you're just one cell in a slime mold. Rather, you wait for another node to deliver some sort of task, do your part on it, and send it further off in the appropriate direction. The most meaningful parameter here is time. A soul being in the right time and place, filling a spot, communicating and working on the right thing at the right time. Sure you can fill the rest of the time if you wish or for political reasons but the important stuff happens at unpredictable timing and often isn't very abstract, only specific.
If you watch the keynote there’s direct discussion of a power cable for the headset that is meant for constant power.
Because we replaced good faith business people with the root of all societal decadence known as the "Masters of Business Administration".
Better the mall than the office, I’ll give them that much.
Quantum computer can instantly calculate things that take decades for rivals
The HN format encourages this.

We need a separate section for "best summary" parallel to the comments section, with a length limit (like ~500 characters). Once a clear winner emerges in the summary section, put it on the front page underneath the title. Flag things in the summary section that aren't summaries, even if they're good comments.

Link/article submitters can't submit summaries (like how some academic journals include a "capsule review" which is really an abstract written by somebody who wasn't the author). Use the existing voting-ring-detector to enforce this.

Seriously, the "title and link" format breeds clickbait.
Clicked on link, got redirected to /landing, saw a flash of the page, then it disappears and all I see is a loading screen forever... Console says "Error: Unable to auto-detect a suitable renderer.", and something about a NextJS client side exception.
Optimizing SQL Queries with ChatGPT
Few people are pedantic enough to misinterpret “never” slash “always” premises detrimentally.

It is a pervasive rhetorical shortcut.

1. Flatten a proposition to an all or nothing form to simplify communication.

2. The reader steps back into the real multidimensional world with clearer insight into one of its dimensions.

Anyone confused by this has deeper problems than VC or not VC questions.
Not exactly what you are asking, but the thing that immediately jumped into my mind was: post-it notes. A 3M scientist, trying to improve adhesiveness, came across a property that caused stickiness with poor adhesiveness. Not exactly what he was tasked to invent.

Years passed. Until another 3M scientist, who was struggling with the bookmarks he put in the choir hymnals continuously falling out, thought about his colleague's odd sticky non-adhesive thingamajig. And voila! Post-its were born.
Seeing all the interesting and cool projects and products I started wondering how small companies make sure that they are CE compliment as it has always seemed like a great endeavor to me
That statement needs qualifiers. Most companies that need infra to serve customers need money to build that before they can start investing with money they make. Hard to see how Google or Amazon could have come about without VC funding
It is similar. The only difference I get is the scale and how easy it is to detect.
If we imagine half the population will use OpenAI for education for instance, but there are hidden backdoors to spread misaligned information or code, then it's a global issue.
Then detecting it is quite hard, you can't just look at weights and guess if there is a backdoor
I mean how do you get data from mailing and documents data to feed LLM's
> The whole point of white listing variables is to only allow things you are comfortable using todiscimrinate.

The problem is that variables where you can safely discriminate don't exist in the real world because everything is intertwined.

For example, if you see that somebody went to school at {Howard, Bryn Mawr, BYU} you can make some pretty solid inferences about their {race, gender, religion} even if they don't explicitly provide them.
What’s the overlap of people who can’t afford multiple $330 low end iPads and people willing to spend $3500 on a headset?
Best practices for engine contributors – Godot Engine documentation
A perpetual conservation easement or conservation covenant stays with the land even after it changes hands, at least in the US.
Reversion to the mean is vastly overlooked in this Bayesian world.

If I do something dangerous and win, then a roomful of people copying me have lower odds than I did, not better.
I don't think console gamers are a great way to determine demand of computing platforms. Look at the Switch.
I think it is just a weird coincidence, but in this thread price and share-ability seem to be negatively correlated.

Consoles, AppleTV, and iPads are at the lower end of the price range here, right? (Well, you can get an expensive iPad of course).

Laptop are expensive but personal, phones… definitely personal, tend to be a little more expensive maybe?

I dunno, it isn’t a straight line correlation but I don’t think the fact that the Vision Pro is expensive tells us much.

In have a Rift CV1, I enjoyed showing it off to people and got some party-game type things (Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes is great for showing the device off). But I don’t use it much solo, and I’ve shown it off to all my friends already, so I don’t use it much. Don’t get me wrong, it was fun, but it hasn’t integrated into my daily life.

If I were Apple—word of mouth is good, but I’d hope the Vision Pro becomes something that sort of gets embedded in people’s lives to the point where they don’t care to show it off (either because it becomes personal like a laptop, or because it becomes boring like a monitor).
You might indeed have one with a bad ROR. My MOS documentation for the time says ROR would be "available" after "June, 1976." The Rev A here is 30th week 1976 and does not have the bug.
The Fed will charge banks a fee of $0.045 per transaction.[1]

Transactions take a few seconds. They must finish within 20 seconds or they time out, and they're expected to take much less time. Here's a technical overview.[2]

The bank to Fed to bank API uses IBM MQ and ISO 20022. These are a bit dated but widely used in the financial sector. Down at the bottom, it's XML.

[1] https://www.frbservices.org/resources/fees/fednow-2023

[2] https://explore.fednow.org/resources/technical-overview-guid...
Not if the ai is hallucinating. Imagine if your doctor was extremely knowledgeable, but extremely high on acid every day and prone to confidently lying to you
They unfortunately have to balance this with keeping their members employed, and their members salaries high
I am not even applying now. The salary ranges I often see outside of FAANG or from local companies are lower than what I have now. The ideal option would be to find another team given that I'm fairly satisfied with the compensation level.

Life happens, however, so I decided it's never wrong to be ready for a sudden interview. Even though I am not ready to relocate now, there might be a non-FAANG company with a great remote-friendly offer.
I don't know what people expect. VC's obviously aren't giving out money from the goodness of their hearts. It is obviously going to come with strings.

Maybe those strings line up with what you want anyways, which is great. If they don't, don't take the money.
This story is adjacent to some topics I follow fairly closely for various reasons.

I had seen a lot of not super well informed commentary on it when it was talked about here previously and so in that spirit I wanted to offer a short 20 minute chat that was aimed at policy makers between a well respected infosec journalist and someone who previously spent a long time working at the Australian equivalent of NSA about this particular topic.

I’d like to think it helps provide the outlines of how professionals in and around that field tend to think about it while not getting so caught up in a strictly US perspective.

Hopefully some of you find it helpful.

https://overcast.fm/+5Sl8Ai8LA
I've known a lot of folks that smoke pot on the weekends. I don't always mind heavy pot users: Generally better than alcoholics.

I've known a lot of folks that use hallucinogens: You aren't addicted to those, in general.

I've known a lot of folks with a liking to cocaine, but they can't afford to use more than a couple times a year. Or it just isn't something they want to feel every day. This applies to a lot of drug use.

I've met a lot of folks that only use drugs (or alcohol) when they have a sitter for their children.

You probably don't have reliable data to back up your claim either, and have the added mental block of deciding that all of the folks have poor choices. And unfortunately, you aren't using what you know about, say, alcohol and applying that to other druts. Most folks that drink alcohol aren't addicts or alcoholics. Even if they drink more than you, it doesn't mean they are alcoholics.
This reads like a poem, I love it
Right, we're all in this together so some group I don't really care about is just going to have to make sacrifices.
Trial projects.
I've the impression you didn't read or engage with the articles I provided at all.

My comment closer to the top got flagged because some people who work in social "science" don't like it if someone tells them the truth.
> Unless you're aiming for a lifespan measured in decades or would expect to be swapping heavily if you had swap.

This one. My VERTEX3 is running fine, though it's not TLC, of course.

And with auto-leveling all you really need (if you care that much) is to.. increase the swap size, so there would be less evictions from the swap => less writes.

But anyway, even modern TLC drives would be fine for a decade if this is just a machine used for a couple of hours everyday. You need like a constant 3MB/s 24/7 to even be close for their rated TBW.
I appreciate that. Everything is a learning experience.

I'm told that RAM is a common failure on KIMs, though this was the first one I've personally experienced with my own set.
Knowledge Economy Within an Organisation
This is my understanding of the the colloquial term. It specifically implies a malicious intent to deceive.
See, I know you're lying because a pedant is never sorry.
As I wondered last month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36253348

> Maybe Apple doesn't actually want to sell a lot of a first generation product they know will quickly evolve?

It's an impressive tech demo pushed out early to support the stock price, claim trademarks, gauge interest, and allow developers to begin building the ecosystem. Apple isn't going to go in with both feet on a product with dubious market potential.
I don’t have a proposal. I’m skeptical of the entire market for this product. I’m taking a wait-and-see approach and I’m looking forward to reading one-year followups from early adopters.

Heck, I’m even skeptical of the iPad. I own one and I use it so seldomly that I have to charge the thing up from 0 every time I use it. But I recognize that a lot of people love them as consumption devices and a few as creation tools for some niche purposes, such as digital painting.
Exactly!
It's not sufficient but it's at least necessary.
Today we have no proof whatsoever about what code and data were used, even if everything were open sourced, as there are reproducibility issues.

There are ways with secure hardware to have at least traceability, but not transparency. This would help at least to know what was used to create a model, and can be inspected a priori / a posteriori
It sounds like this was a piece of software where you uploaded a PDF of “proof” that you had the authority to track anyone in America, and then it let you. And someone finally bothered to look at the proof and it was a blank page.

This is why I’m against giving the government the power to intercept communications or middle-man encryption. They always pitch it like “This power will be protected by courts and warrants and Fort Knox level security!!” and then it’s a checkbox that any bureaucrat can use to violate civil liberties en masse.
Why would the right to housing stop in san francisco?

Most places can do this. The US can do it. Everything contrary is just excuses.
I suppose that’s a way of learning about what upsets people. But why they’re upset is another question. Maybe it’s not the idea, but its presentation?

Also, what set of ideas are you drawing from? There are a lot of uncontroversial and true ideas. (Or if you negate them, obviously wrong.) Why aren’t they “more likely?” I don’t know how you decide on the set of ideas to test without bias.

And how do you evaluate the results? To tell whether ideas that are “likely to be true” are more likely to make people upset, you need to already know whether they are true. Otherwise you’re just sorting by controversial.

Here’s a fun story about that: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
If we truly are living inside of a simulation, it makes sense that there would be a lootbox
> And you get that salary and learning even if your investors are awful and push you to do terrible things and you agree to do those terrible things and they tank the company. In the worst case, it’s a free education with room and board included.

If you’re learning as much at terrible companies as at good ones, then you’ve had rotten luck. A lot of what I’ve learned at rotten companies is how not to do things, and how important mental health is to physical health. There’s much more negative space than positive space, so you have to learn hundreds of ways not to do something for every handful of ways that actually are sustainable.
As mentioned in the other thread, there’s not currently a consensus on whether copyright applies to the compiled weights in the first place. If not, there would be nothing to license. It’s quite possible the only way to protect the weights is as a trade secret: hidden behind an API, or with a confidentiality clause as part of a service agreement or the like.
There’s no need to hide behind the salary figure. If you and your colleagues r fine with a tool that’s “good enough” and would rather not undertake the mental burden of learning a new thing that’s fine. But don’t toss out all these irrelevant reasons that try to prop excel up as some truth
> People who know how to use C rarely if ever have problems with

I think we call this "No True Scotsman".

In real life lots of people write C because they want to or have to and they generate tons of bugs from bug classes that just aren't present at all in other languages.
Stripe Sync Engine
"Could you explain me why?"

Well for starters bug and vulnerabilities. Hundred of millions/or even billions of devices are hackable without that much effort, why? Because people use outdated versions of their software.

>Monolithic projects like Android prevents it from happening, you have to depend on that huge codebase to run any software,

You could say the same about any decent OS.

If you want no updates and don't care about features, get a Nokia 3310.

>you need to continuously update your hardware

No one is preventing you from using a 10 yo device with hundreds of vulnerabilities and 500mb of ram.
> What actually never happened, to nobody's surprise.

Unless they provide feature parity, it will never happen.

A working WinForms designer for third-party controls (read: any control not provided by the framework itself or NDA-ed vendors) in Visual Studio would be nice, for example.
"We uploaded a thing to a website that let's you upload things and no one stopped us"
One of the founders here
You could also use OIDC so no need to share keys

https://docs.digger.dev/cloud-providers/authenticating-with-...
I have a simple theory of colors. Look at how the color cells are distributed in the retina. Same pattern, but at slightly different scales (spatial frequencies). I speculate color is coded the same as spatial information. Or rather, the brain assumes that spatial frequencies coincident with the cell spacing are most probably because the object is that color, not because the object is weirdly striped as black and white in exactly the same pattern as the retina. But as far as data stream goes, the color and spatial information are the same thing.

This theory comes entirely from observations on (and of people on) LSD. In particular, fine grain spatial information often drifts out of phase and manifests as a rainbow effect. Looking at an image of TV static its possible to see it as the black/white parts swirling or as color glitching outlines depending on how you choose to focus your eyes.
Thanks :) This is a good starting point for me.