skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at medical EMRs (essentially a CRM where patients are customers and salespeople are doctors) there is a similar situation as the CRM market, where a few big players dominate the scene with crappy software and feature creep (i.e. Epic = Salesforce). Based on the clean UI you have so far, you're definitely on the way to building a better user experience for CRMs, but at the end of the day you have to sell this to a salesperson, just like people selling better EMRs have to sell to hospital administrators who don't care how great the code is.

Consider an organization spending $10k/year on HubSpot. They're also spending at least a million a year on salaries/commissions for their sales staff. Optimizing software costs addresses 1% of the total spend, while making sales people more efficient optimizes the other 99%. In general, if your target customer is sales management, I would pitch support/customization contracts to streamline sales organizations when you're picking up initial customers. This would also likely bring you perspective on the wide range of customizations out there.
Skimming the video, 100% of the dialog was plodding, tedious, unfunny and predictable. I don't know South Park very well but I know snappy dialog is somewhat needed. Just as much, endless vacuous paragraphs on the potential and dangers of AI seems unlikely to be what sustains interest in show.
That research fraud cost the public billions and set the field back more than a decade. Sad, huh?

I think being flayed alive would be more appropriate than prison.
Thanks! Updated the title.
I know some companies have tried this. It works at small scale and early on, however, over time, people want to see career progression.

Secondly, without levels, inefficiency creeps in at scale as it's not clear who the decision maker is.

Again, at small scale, this may work, but as companies grow, this becomes much harder.
That's covered a bit in the article, but as a negative - in that to implement markdown you now need HTML parsing too.
>if they can avoid it.

meanwhile, my parent put me in summer school almost every year in some capacity. At least summer hours and classes are relaxed compared to the gauntlet of 6-7 different subjects 8 hours a day.
Tried the Bard again, just now... It is horrible. It is no way near the GPT-4 level, and it is just a little worse then gpt-3.5-turbo (ChatGPT free version). It hallucinates a lot more then gpt-3.5-turbo, it loops in it's own previous wrong and already corrected solutions. Nope. Not my tool ...
"Communicating" is often used to mean "sending" information, but for communication to occur that information must be received.

Yet, sending is easier than receiving, just as generating is easier than parsing.
It's already time again for this week's "san francisco baaaad!" article?
Served via service worker, but still Cloudflare serves it faster than my very minimalistic static blog. Perhaps it uses paid Cloudflare plan?
Are you making the ridiculous implication that systematic racism against Asians hasn't existed prior to recent events?

>For the most part, Asian people haven't been missing out on educational and professional opportunities because of it.

Yes, no thanks to you! Apparently being willing to throw away our childhoods studying to make up for racism's effects means we deserve to face more racism.
I dunno if that what you meant, but it was pretty much designed so that the people that want to complicate everything go there complicating it, while the people that want to write something useful can just take complicators' work, use it, and raise their shoulders at every objection repeating "you are the one that designed it this way".

The original TeX doesn't work this way. That's why people don't collaborate directly in it.
The author's website is designed to look like the OpenBSD manual's web page. This is a blogpost about mandoc/markdown in the form of a man page...for mandoc...very clever.

http://schwarze.bsd.lv/mandoc.7

Also apparently the submission title needs (2017).
I check southwest.com separately. They don't list elsewhere (avoiding commission fees I assume).
They have slots. Coaches have a certain number of slots, but yes there is a minimum academic performance that they have to adhere to. If you're recruited you know it.
The thing that frustrates me with Markdown is that there are about as many different flavors as there are implementations. Once you get beyond bold and _italics_ it is a trip out to some help page to figure out what the special snowflake syntax is this time. How do you make a link? Embed an image? Make billeted lists? Embed pre formatted code? Who knows?
I find looking at component level change detection without giving equal space to the store change detection and the integration between the two insufficient.
We initially though pitching "Segment-native" or "Warehouse-native" as one of our key differentiating feature (we haven't build any of that yet). I agree nailing this would make a big difference
That’s why you base it on SAT and the like, and drop the other stuff. Studying for the SAT doesn’t have a huge impact
False. They do have slots for athletes.
I believe that is what pre-COVID masking in hospital settings has shown, yes. Possibly COVID is different from the flu.

But the difficulty for proving masking helps is:
1. If it only takes ~20 virions to get infected, then masking has to have a basically perfect filtering rate and be worn perfectly 100% of the time, neither of which is obvious.
2. With an endemic virus even if masks slow down spread they aren't going to reduce your likelihood of being infected overall.
> There was at least one year's Tour de France in which all but one participant were later found to have been doping. In other words, you didn't get to that level of that competitive activity, if you didn't cheat, because it wasn't possible to outperform people with such a significant advantage.

This is not true. Even during the 1904 Tour de France where 9 people were disqualifed because of, among other actions, illegal use of cars or trains [1] - 27 riders finished the race.

Tour de France in the modern era has up to 180+ competitors lining up, and there hasn't been a case of 100+ riders being disqualified for doping.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904_Tour_de_France#Disqualifi...
You learn markdown by looking at a half page example for 5 minutes, you learn this abomination by studying a spec document. bad
Rust asyncs design was probably the mostly correct decision for what rust is: A general system programming language which you can use in most situations people today use C,C++ and more.

If rust would only be targeting web server programming the right decision might have been no async and green threads,
it's just much easier to use.

But that rust would likely never have succeeded as most of it's initial success cases where for use-cases where you wouldn't want green threads.

Nicely we might still get no async and green threads: In form of run times which run WASM compiled rust code in a node like fashion. Probably in combination with some serverless/edge-compute providers which hopefully will be nice to use.
Sure, but a system where a task has ceased to execute is in pretty much all circumstances a system where the watchdog (or some other assert) should trigger. (the whole toyota case involved them getting raked over the coals because their system did not in fact detect a failed task and do this).
hysterics.
Remember when he said we should stop training radiologists, that’s aged pretty poorly given there’s actually a need to have more:

https://www.rsna.org/news/2022/may/global-radiologist-shorta...

https://mindmatters.ai/2022/08/turns-out-computers-are-not-v...
Probably. Everyone has also long since forgotten the original purpose of HTML! ;-)
Well, many people getting offended when you take the lords name in vain or swear, but I doubt people actually care on the left that much about being dicks to them. So do you actually care about being a dick to people not like you?

I certainly swear alot and don't care that much.
>... the article is here (but paywalled)...

https://archive.is/0htYW
> the hope that it let's you skip on formal syntaxes, which are mentally taxing

agree completely, but the LLM should be focused, then, strictly on formulating an "execution plan" of sorts and handing that off, not on performing math itself.

In other words, when asked "if i have 349 blueberries and one blueberry turns into a cherry per hour, how many of each fruit will I have in 93478 minutes?" it shouldn't be doing the actual arithmetic, but it should be figuring out what arithmetic would need to be done.
For me, the main use of agent-forwarding is that I need to use a command that expects to use SSH to get between leaf nodes. For example git or rsync CLIs that need to manipulate the local filesystem and tunnel their own protocol over SSH to talk to another remote server.

At times, I've wished for something like uMatrix but for ssh-agent forwarding, so I could have policies for which peer-to-peer authentications should be allowed for which keys and whether these specific uses should require interactive confirmation.
My unicycle is not good, or even half decent at carrying groceries.
Super useful in collaborative teams when you want to jump in and work on someone else's feature... but there are no docs
I like Arabic's diacritic system which makes pronounciation of a word you've only previously read predictable.

I remember once pronouncing "stoic" as "stoyc" instead of "stow-ik" once in English for example. My limited knowledge of Arabic indicates that one diacritic produces "aah"-like vowels, another produces "ooh"-like vowels and another "iih"-like vowels, and even though some other modifiers come into play later, it's still predictiable how a word is pronounced just from reading it. Would be happy to be corrected if I am wrong.
Sure, everything is owned by a human. But does it have to be 8 billion humans? Why not 8 million or even 8 thousand? If humans provide literally zero economic value and their costs are significant, what can our economic systems say about whether they should even exist? It’s Macroeconomic Changes Have Made it Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You [1] but on a global level.

[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/macroeconomic-changes-ha...
HubSpot recently launched something to do this by providing a Lambda runtime to generate components within the CRM dashboard.

https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/cms/data/serverless-func...
Best of luck!

Generally agree with launching early - although this feels very early! We are currently looking for a replacement to our HubSpot account (20 person company for context with c4 people who use HubSpot - so probably a potential customer!), however this appears to be very buggy to start with and misses some basic functions:

* Doesn't seem to be a way to name / describe an opportunity (pretty fundamental)

* Cannot quickly add an opportunity without setting up the company (most other CRM products have a quick-add)

* 'Contact' appears to have a quick-add when adding an opportunity, but it doesn't work.

* All opportunities automatically default to Lost

* Dragging an opportunity into an 'empty' bucket does not always behave as expected (e.g. if you drag it to below the 'new' button)

* No way to add additional pipeline stages

* Users can remove all companies/deals/contacts from the system in two clicks with no limit and no way to reverse (:

* If you invite a user to your workspace, they are immediately admin and can kick you out of your own workspace.

* No way to archive an opportunity - the pipelines will just grow so will be totally unusable after a few months.

* Basic UI issues from a usability perspective - like two icons for people when you go into an opportunity, and not clear that one of them wants you to put an employee count in it, and then other field where you say employees doesn't actually seem to work. If I go to add people to the opportunity, it shows me people I have already deleted and does not show me someone I just recently created and assigned to the company...!

* No way to export data for analysis (e.g. to Excel). Conversely no way to import data (e.g. from Excel) so migration is impossible (companies will have 10's of thousands of contacts)

* Basic audit issues... If someone creates a note I can either delete it, or I can rewrite it and it looks like they said it (it doesn't say it was modified by another user and just lets me edit others notes!).

This is after like 10 minutes of testing so I assume there are lots of other issues too...

Broadly at the moment I don't think it passes the 'Being a better CRM than Trello' test, and definitely does not pass the 'better than a spreadsheet' test, but hopefully with time it will. At the moment though it feels very under-baked, but wish you luck in building this out into a product which is usable.
R/place will be back on July 20 and users are already planning to protest
Yes, I tend to forget about the plight of the commoners when sitting at my enormous hoard of several hundred cents.
Hilarious because Google is taking the exact opposite approach.

They released Bard as a terrible model to begin with, and now you can program and have it interpret images. It's been consistently improving.

OpenAI really got sidetracked when they put out such a good model that freaked everyone out. Google saw this and decided to do the opposite to prevent too much attention. Now Google can improve quietly and nobody will notice.
Looks exactly like what I have built with two notion tables :man shrugging:
That's not an issue particular to university funding, though. Access to - and use of - debt has gone up across the board, for any and all big-ticket items, both for private and public purchases. There's a problem far larger than expansion of credit access, and it has to do with attitudes at the uppermost reaches of the planning of our economy as to how to distribute wealth - not just by geography or interest, but even by temporally. Decisions made 40-50 years ago to put the cost burden on future generations are literally paying interest today.
That's mental, no wonder everyone uses WhatsApp!

EDIT: out of curiosity, which country are you in?
(Edwin from Stripe here.) I think we _may_ have chatted? (Hard to tell with tempaccount name.) Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and link to this thread?
FYI, Google flights displays southwest flights but you have to book through SWA directly.
JavaScript on the back end? HARD pass.
NYC denizens, how is the wait time for getting a spot in your local garden?

Here in SF I signed up for a plot in my local garden a year ago. At the current rate of turnover it'll take 3-5 years total before I get a plot. I was able to sign up for taking care of some of the garden's apple and pear trees right away, though.
Today I learned that salesforce is like SAP
It is both wild to me and totally predictable that a reasonable question like this would get downvoted on HN.

If people are interested in this particular phenomenon, I really recommend Mills's "The Racial Contract". [1] A contractarian philosopher, Mills wrote about how the literal centuries of social contract philosophy somehow never got around to mentioning race. His well-supported conclusion is that there was always a second implicit social contract, which he calls the racial contract. But it has an epistemological dimension where one of the rules is that we avoid discussing, avoid even seeing the racial contract.

This sort of downvoting of even basic questions, let alone answers, is exactly part of that epistemological erasure that he talked about.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Racial-Contract-Charles-W-Mills/dp/08...
Yes good point, going with a multi-tenant infrastructure makes this very challenging as they can't ever leave anyone behind
Aren't ASUS mini PCs manufactured by the GEEKOM?
I got to the bottom and saw that the author thinks TeX is not only a viable alternative to Markdown in the spaces Markdown is heavily used, but is their favorite such "alternative".

And so anyway, despite nodding along with a few arguments above that point, I have concluded that the author and I are looking for extremely different things out of our text markup languages. I want just about as far from TeX as possible - at that point, I may as well just write README.txt's in plain text that resembles Markdown or GemText, but in a less formal manner. At least it'll look the same level of good/bad/whatever in vim as it will when dumped into an HTML file, or a PDF, or whatever. With TeX, I basically have to render the document for it to be readable.
I've never contributed to it before, but will make sure to be a pixel in the Apollo logo.
Never take luggage, never admit you’re skiplagging, never use your rewards info, get a passport card or global entry card as ID (no address).

(Does not excuse AA for their handling of the situation)
I think we could benefit from more directness and bluntness of the right kind. To a large degree, what is considered "polite" is conditioned. I don't say absolutely conditioned (there are absolute limits), but cultural conditioning can either blunt perception to the impolite, or oversensitive us so that we interpret normal things as impolite. Gen Z in the US, for example, seems hypersensitive compared to prior generations, though it didn't begin with them. It is not unexpected that correcting someone's bad behavior, even in normal speech tone, will be seen as "yelling". This is very bad because an inability to receive feedback, let alone survive impropriety, essential to adulthood. Softness suffocates reason and weakens action, and it softens the person who wants to avoid perturbing the softness of another. Hemming and hawing and hedging, too, is an enemy of clear communication.

But more to the point, I find that asking for clarification is the best tactic in the aforementioned circumstances. That way, you avoid having to make accusations. It removes all pretext for getting defensive and focuses the discussion on the substance and merit rather than the character flaws and lack of speaking skills of the other. If the other person starts to get unjustifiably angry, this reflects poorly on them, not you, so there is no need to feel any guilt. Be honest and never lie. Do not pretend to understand someone just because you think asking for clarification will make you look less competent. Maybe you are less competent, in which case pretending to competence you don't actually have is dishonest and unjust. You also close off the doors to learning. And if you are competent, then there's nothing to worry about. Bullshitters feed off pretense, and honest people are dismayed by it.
This exposes your private keys to a potentially less-trusted dev server. It also just doesn’t work with hardware tokens for the same reason.
NYPD to Test Public Announcement Drones During Emergencies
What kind of weak cop out is this? It's the president of the school, not some miscreant child. Pathetic.
How the hell do you build an acting career if the studios can just photgraph you once and then use your likeness forever? It's obviously exploitative. This is why unions exist.
I love how your bold came out in italics. Maybe making your point for you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Well, no. The goal is to maximise profit. One way to do that is to minimise labour costs. But at the extreme, if there are then no consumers who can buy your goods there is no profit...
Markdown doesn't meet the author's needs. OK, that's fine. They shouldn't use it. But others find it useful, regardless of Markdown's limitations. Which is fine, too. The markup language you use (or don't use) doesn't determine or influence the quality of what you're writing.

Use what works for you. That could be Markdown, vanilla HTML, LaTeX, DocBook, (x)roff, whatever. No need to justify your choices.
Why ultra-green Germany turned its back on nuclear energy
Still need to prove scaling.

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On the costs front, in 2022, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced the Enhanced Geothermal Shot, a target to reduce the cost of EGS by 90% to $45 per megawatt hour by 2035. Fervo’s costs for the Nevada project are “significantly higher” than that target, Latimer said, in part because it’s a first-of-a-kind project, but he said he expects next year’s EGS cost forecast to “decline rapidly.”

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Copyparty – Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, ...
16 inch is the perfect size to actually be useful for longer work. I wish they would introduce a docking station as well (thinkpad style) for their next versions
Once you realize async/await is just sugar over the familiar callback hell, a lot of the mystery fades away and it's easier to groc.
Exploring Blockchain Signature Algorithms: Ecdsa, EdDSA, and Schnorr
I use my M1 Air daily and couldn't be happier. The only issue I've had is I couldn't get TFX installed.

https://discuss.tensorflow.org/t/i-want-to-use-the-tfx-1-6-1...
Oh boy! Another thread about what a POS Markdown is! As someone who wrote a similar blog post which someone then posted to HN, I'm just going to sit back with some popcorn and enjoy watching the keyboard jockeys and pedants belittle and dismiss yet another voice of reason. Markdown is a 20+ year old hack which needs to be killed with prejudice. It's continued popularity is not just bewildering, it's just plain sad.

I'll just repeat what I always say in these threads: We're in the second decade of the 21st century, and can send anyone on Earth a custom colored emoji in 8 shades of skin color, but bold, italics, bullets and headings are somehow an impossible technological hurdle. Why? Because all the geeks keep insisting that formatting text using random keyboard symbols is a great idea.
That doesn't sound like gaining machine learning experience. It sounds like you are just doing free infrastructure related work for someone else.
I’m just re-reading Blindsight by Peter Watts, a novel that is amazingly prescient in — amongst other things — its predictions of this coming economic upheaval.

Speaking of… one scene in the book has humans communicating with an alien that appears to have “learned” human speech by training a non-sentient LLM on human ship-to-ship transmissions, and then “fine tuned” it to achieve the desired communication goal without ever actually understanding what the LLM is saying.

This is a book from 2006 accurately using the salient features of LLMs popularised in the 2020s! That’s proper science fiction, right there.

Back to the economic aspect:
Several characters in the book had to “butcher themselves” with implants and enhancements to remain economically relevant in the age of AIs. It’s that… or you’re packed away in storage. Useless.

PS: Imagine training an LLM on cetacean recordings and then fine-tuning on “orca attack imminent”. You could use this to scare whales away from ships without understanding what specifically the LLM was singing to them!
Is there a reason why you favor 500’ below ground level? My naive initial reaction is that seems like tremendous overkill in 99% of applications. Presumably in the vast majority of urban areas, 50’ would be more than enough to avoid any and all obstructions.

I suppose once you decide to do something more than shallow trenching, then the marginal cost of additional vertical feet is fairly minor, but even in, say, NYC it seems like 500’ is way, way more buffer than you’d need in the worst case scenario (I have a vague recollection that the very deepest subway line is around 200’ underground, and that’s primarily due to a specific quirk of geography - a hill surrounded by two valleys).
What to look for in a CRT monitor: Guide for retro gamers
check out florence calcio. it's the original soccer/football
The tip minimum wage does not exist in a couple states. California, Oregon and Washington are three examples. But tips are still expected in those states.