skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Live a simpler life. Optimize for spare time. Then you don't need all these tools to organize your chaos. Periodically, I get an urge to "organize" my life but when I start writing down digital TODO lists and fill in calendars they end up gaping almost empty, so I stop. Today, if I need to do something I write it down on a post-it and put it on my desk (right now there are two post-its with four bullet points). Those few time-sensitive events gets an event in the calender with associated alarm (this week it was two events).

Yes I do things, but those are hobbies and occasional hangouts, not hard to remember! :)
Iterative improvements can definitely be rockets.

Algolia is just a search provider. Supabase is just Firebase with better UX. Figma is just a drag and drop design tool.
The prices you charge are in part caused by input prices, except if you wait until the input prices go up you might not have enough padding to pay for it, so if you think the inputs are going to go up in the future you raise prices now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built-in_inflation
PS2Linux, the way PS3 Linux was a downgrade to PS2Linux, and later removed via firmware update, for example.
Not really, in the sense that the idea of a lot of these apps are "customization and plugins", and I wanted something that had it all, required 0 config and was totally opinionated. I can set up a new environment just by doing docker-compose up, that simplicity was always my goal 0.

Yes, it took time to develop it, but I would be working on another shiny thing anyway as I like to work on side projects, so I see that as a net gain.
Here's a collection of interesting stuff related to this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1727gh7/rspacex_psy... ("r/SpaceX Psyche Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread!")
Didn't we already kind of agree on the dubiousness of the claim about the so-called wisdom of the crowd?
Same. I have Google Calendar that I share with my wife. Anything that requires us to be somewhere or do something goes in the calendar. That's about it.
> there's nothing to break into

Wired headphones are giving off EMI of the signal they're playing, one could sense that signal with the right equipment and know what you're listening to remotely.
no one understands tech debt to mean "0 debt", you're making my point for me.

We have 1 poster abusing it and getting called out for it.
These are all good points. To play Devil's advocate - the argument against this is that when you raise money you can sometimes take money off the table. Meaning you sell of a portion of your ownership for cash to you personally and not the business.

This is not always in the best interests of the company, because it doesn't incentivize the founder to stay as much. But it can be healthy for the founder's psyche to not have to have all of their net worth tied up in illiquid startup stock.

Also, I don't think this is as frequent as the crazy days of 2021. Where you could retire off of a Series A with not much revenue
Will your business be a free entity, or a subsidiary of other non-profits it serves?

If it's independent, you may have "alignment" issues with your clients goals not matching yours (and vice versa); if its a subsidiary that gets even worse. "We don't want to share platform with those people" pops up as soon as they feel some ownership of the platform.

if you try to go all the way to "tax exempt" then you get legal compliance issues too: your clients can threaten the whole business by saying the wrong things.

I tried to do a non profit ISP for advocacy groups that couldn't find hosting elsewhere, there for a while. I was proud of what i did but it burned me out completely.
This may be one of the only known instances where the plane-with-bullet-holes meme is applicable:

Some people see all those (planes) software projects (coming back from war) being live ridden with (bullet holes) technical debt, and the first thing that comes to their mind is ("better reinforce the places with most bullet holes!") "Better make sure to deal with that technical debt!"

Fascinating!
Came here to say this. Activision has been such a poor steward of Blizzard's properties that I find them largely unplayable. It may be unlikely that Microsoft will course correct away from data-drive, engagement-focus mtx games, but I know Activision never will.
All true but no progress can be made with Hamas in power.
Its best for the entire region, especially Gazans, if this organization disappears.
> - Intuitive pairing interface

Yes. They always connect to the exact device I wish them to connect to and not some other device, thus forcing me to play the bluetooth shuffle game.
this account is 100% bad takes, I wonder if it's some sort of chatbot?
I didn't think of that. That's a good idea.
Zero Alloc Pathfinding in Go
Not all problems can be solved by a solo founder bootstrapping a business. If you're driven by the problem you're trying to solve for, you should take the path that most likely will result in you actually solving the problem. For many types of startups, that requires VC.
Tech is one part and you're right that having a manic focus on tech debt will alleviate maintenance. But from my experience the most time consuming stuff is really customer service. Depending on what your product is, it'll likely not be 100% self serve. If it's expensive and not a lot of customers then they'll expect a lot. If it's cheap and a lot of customers then there will be a lot of people to service.

You can outsource some of this stuff depending on how technical the product is. But realistically your time will be spent talking to customers and coding, about 50/50. Even if you get coding down to half it's still a lot of work. And managing customers is a lot more mentally draining.

That's all to say that a 9-5 is not that bad in terms of work life. You can always sign off and kick things up to senior people. You generally do things youre good at, so you won't be expected to do customer service, accounting, marketing, sales or a million other things you gotta take on as an independent business
This is just bog standard capitalist formula.

Doing it yourself puts you in control of the expectations.

Taking money from a firm is really just a camouflaged “employer:employee” relationship and the desire for larger returns, “more”, will always trend toward a disregard and exploitation of the humans doing the actual work.
cyber* confusing* places*

Snyk Learn: https://learn.snyk.io/

National Cybersecurity Curriculum Program: https://clark.center/c/nccp
Mostly markdown files in a private git repository using VSCode (Win) or Spck (Android). I tried Obsidian a while ago, but I can't remember what I disliked about it.
Here we go again with "Inflation is being driven by companies that somehow just discovered monopolistic practices in 2020, coincidentally at the same time of the largest government stimulus in decades"

So dumb and out of touch. Should be self evident especially to the people here who lived the tech boom money explosion that that stimulus lead to.
Governing APIs that have already shipped
Maybe from an artistic perspective, but not from a financial one. It will inevitably mean gamers will spend more money for less game. They might hide it will with their game renting service and microtransactions, but if this was not the case there would be no reason for them to acquire Activision Blizzard in the first place. They see some way to profit by reducing competition.
Instead of planning, do retrospectives. Start journaling. It’s not the answer you are looking for, but it’s the answer you need. Don’t focus hard on what you *will* achieve. Instead, focus on what you have achieved.
> There are apps who use AI well. They don’t call it AI because they are not children. All of Google is AI. But you don’t see them bandying it around like a kid with new light up shoes.

Except of course you do, and well before the recent generative AI hype too (which they've also leaned heavily into on the marketing side fwiw).
The "Absurd, honest comedy delivered twice a weekish through the vulnerable personal essays; type your email...!" popup showed up, coincidentally, superimposed over the second image, the "what are you stuck on" prompt. It took me a bit to figure out it wasn't part of the pic! At least the hypothetical AI page made me click something before asking for personal information.
What kind of grants?
This reads like someone who doesn’t have to keep track of the house and kids. Getting appointments lined up for handymen, doctors, teachers, tutors, taxes, repairs, play dates, date dates with the significant other, etc. and somewhere in between it’s good to do the housework, eg laundry, cooking, cleaning, which means regular grocery runs.
https://www.chartkb.com/

I just wanted a simple, clean interface where I can store my charts & trade setups for future reference without the bells and whistles of say a Tradingview or Thinkorswim etc.

I couldn't find anything that worked the way I wanted it to, and so I built this. Only me and a handful of users so far. I love using it.
Wikimedia commons recommends Ogg Opus over Vorbis these days
This idea is so cute, I hope it goes well for you! Good luck with development <3
The invasion and subsequent occupation must've been pretty annoying as well !

Snarky jokes aside, in my experience GPS works okay in Cyprus, so the jamming must be localised somehow.
Vice versa actually.

The reputation and/or background of a source should not affect the criticism of the content.

If the content of an article or video is good, the reputation of the source is not that relevant.

Vice versa again, a outlet having a good reputation should not prevent you from judging a bad article as bad.
I use a single never-ending text file for this, because I'm tired of dealing with remembering formats or apps. I've written about it here: https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/
The future crystal ball picture with the three fingers really seals the deal.

I feel the same way as the author. Adding “AI,” to an app is a great way of signalling to me that you’re a schlocky salesperson who can’t wait to sell a lemon so you can make your alimony payments this month.

Machine learning is fine and useful. “Stick an LLM on it,” is painfully obtuse. Now that every tech product and service is doing it it’s like the crypto craze all over again.
Even UNIX isn't one platform, hence why POSIX is only good for CLI applications.
There are a number of common disabilities. Everyone starts losing near vision just after 40, which works out to almost half of the people using a computer expected lifespan is around 78, and babies don't use computers). 10% of the population is color blind of some sort. Most people will have a broken arm sometime in their life (the only statistic I can find is 6 million people in the US break their arm every year: this could also be a few clumsy people breaking their arm several times per year and most don't ever. I think most people breaking their arm at some point seems more likely)
Yes, and I’m free to criticize it for being a mediocre article with a clickbait headline.
Oh my god, this is exactly how I feel about AI hype.

I've been in the "AI" space for quite awhile. The hype hurts, and it sets completely unrealistic expectations for both utility of the tools as well as the cost of the tools.
I think this article is more directed towards all Venture Capital funding rather than just Y Comb. Mostly the type that demands an absolutely insane amount of return.

Actually more like why you shouldn't make a startup and instead live a bit longer. Then, if an idea comes to you, it'd be vetted through more experience and time.

And if you still want VC funding, just remember the house is setup to always win.
Instead of a boring article, I wish they used some kind of AI to make a movie with AI voices and AI sound to illustrate that word salad.
I'm sorry, I think it's cool you've setup your own micro-cloud and written all of your own apps but following that up by saying that installing a few plugins in Obsidian is an attention black hole is goofy. I feel like rewriting a bunch of basic apps that are built into basically everything at this point is probably a bigger attention black hole than installing a few plugins.
Extending Isabelle/HOL's Code Generator with Support for Go
A note on the type and number of the texts, from the site:

"Early attempts to open the scrolls unfortunately destroy many of them. A few are painstakingly unrolled by an Italian monk over several decades, and they are found to contain philosophical texts written in Greek. More than six hundred remain unopened and unreadable.

What's more, excavations were never completed, and many historians believe that thousands more scrolls remain underground.

Imagine the secrets of Roman and Greek philosophy, science, literature, mathematics, poetry, and politics, which are locked away in these lumps of ash, waiting to be read!"
I think this is the only correct answer. Work is chaos by design, and requires organising. If your life requires organising at similar levels then that's a second job and another source of stress.
> aim being the next Schenker, Kühne & Nagel, XPO... instead of being the "global trade disruting tech thing"

But that's the entire game. Being "tech-only" is attractive due to the magical thinking that drives its valuations, particularly in stodgy, capital-intensive industries like logistics and real estate (WeWork).

Companies like Schenker have tens of thousands of employees too, some unionized and some not. Startup companies aren't equipped to handle things like organized labour strikes.
The problem is that companies are throwing tons of garbage at the wall to see what sticks. And somehow, investors are rewarding them for this.

Undoubtedly LLMs can be used to create useful features, but first companies will need to realize that

1) It will take more effort than throwing up a LLM front end for your product.

2) It's probably not going to be a flashy, "disruptive" feature. Something that makes user experience just 5% easier/more efficient is huge, but AI influencers won't breathlessly shill your feature if that's "all" that it does.

3) You have to think about problems to solve before thinking about solutions.
You are conflating two separate types of passwords.

Hardcoded password is different from default passwords.
You can't change a hardcoded password, it's always part of the source code/image.

A default password can be changed.

Both can be backdoors if kept secret, but a hardcoded password from the onset is a backdoor.
That is just naive game theory. Humans can actually cooperate if cooperating makes everyone better off even if game theory says they shouldn't cooperate, has been tested and shown to be true over and over.

So the question is if the companies collectively benefits from colluding? If yes then they probably will do so, at least when the number of competitors are small and inhouse alternatives are expensive.
> So go and look out for the real important values in your life. If you need "lists" or "organisation tricks" to reach goals, then, maybe, these goals are not your own goals.

Terrible advice. It's like saying, eat whatever you want. If you find yourself continually eating funnel cakes deep and deep fried turkey legs, just go with it because obviously you must be passionate about being fat. Humans are lazy. Exercise is generally good for us, but most don't have so much passion for running or lifting that we just wake up everyday and magically find ourselves in a squat rack.
The HN hug strikes again! What I saw before it went down was pretty amazing though, and definitely something I will be returning to later when the heat dies down.
Great HN thread! I think it is close to impossible to predict where the market for AI and LLMs in particular will be in two years. The major players are making their best bets. For the value of frontier LLMs, the article by Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Peter Norvig making the case that we might already have AGI: https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-...

I use both OpenAI and Anthropic (I use my own Common Lisp and Racket Scheme client libraries that I implement with similar APIs) and I was amazed last night how well self hosted LLama-based and Mistral LLMs run on a 32G Mac Mini that was delivered to me late yesterday afternoon. This is not expensive hardware. And tools like llama.cpp will keep getting more efficient, etc.

We are going to see unimaginable (at least to me) advances in AI and AGI, at all levels of the tech food chain. And these advances will occur quickly. Place your bets, and remain flexible!
I hate Vassallo’s spam on every single platform. I get it, you have a bootstrapping course.

Anyway, to the YC point about pivoting and digging a hole:
Daniel has 0 experience with YC and this is absolutely not what YC encourages. YC is more than happy to see you pivot. You have the driver seat and you know best.

Do I agree you shouldn’t take VC money so easily? Yes. Do I agree everything applies to YC? Definitely not. Hell, pick your VCs well and you won’t face any of those problems.
Im pretty sure the 500k employee at Google is vastly vastly more free to leave his desk than the small business owner making that much.
Yep, Asianometry puts information out there, of another level.

One more channel i really like, is NightHawkinsLight. He did a video yesterday about multivariate analysis, i was blown away.
If all your competitors match your prices with no delay, lowering prices gives you no competitive advantage but makes your margins worse.
I mean we're talking about an article on lifestyle businesses so going from "I can't bootstrap a lifestyle business on my own" to "I can't bootstrap a billion dollar business on my own" seems to be moving the goal post.
You mean the latest masterpiece of fantasy storytelling from Lucasfilm's™ Brian Moriarty™?

Why, it's an extraordinary adventure with an interface of magic, stunning, high-resolution, 3D landscapes, sophisticated score and musical effects. Not to mention the detailed animation and special effects, elegant point 'n' click control of characters, objects, and magic spells.

Beat the rush! Go out and buy Loom™ today!
yeah just rebaseline it for something big and different.

Ubuntu NT 1.1
tl;dr: The "Small Bets Newsletter" says YC isn't suitable for small bets.

YC isn't designed for small bets! That's not their thing. It would be interesting to see stats on non-huge exits though, some kind of distribution showing the following with a time element, indicating, say, the number of months for various outcomes.

Huge exits 1.25% (define huge),
Exit exceeding YC's investment,
YC investment repaid,
YC investment partially repaid,
YC investment entirely lost
Notes: A notes git repo that contains mostly Markdown files, which I write via Obsidian.md.

Action items: Github issues on that notes repo. I wrote some custom code that lets me snooze actions via Github labels and sets up certain tasks to appear automatically on a recurring schedule (e.g., replace the air filter in my house every 90 days).

This works really well for me, but sadly it is bad for collaborating on projects with less technical folks such as my wife.
ChatGPT starts the war against cybercriminals
Researchers from various universities have evaluated the impact of language models, including ChatGPT and GPT-4, on digital forensics. The rapid development of large language models opens new horizons for AI applications in cybersecurity.

AI capabilities can be utilized for:

▪ Data classification

▪ Network forensics

▪ Malware analysis

▪ Facial Recognition Systems

However, despite the vast potential of these technologies, they can be error-prone, which raises legal and ethical issues, as well as questions about the dependence of researchers on the technology. Technical limitations must also be considered.

Researchers have emphasized the importance of fast scripting with limited resources, which is critical for solving file recovery, working with RAID arrays, cracking passwords, and recovering encryption keys.

Despite all the advantages of using ChatGPT in the field of digital forensics, AI has limitations in functionality. The results of the study are task dependent and may not be fully reproducible due to the non-deterministic nature of ChatGPT's operation.

Despite these limitations, AI continues to make rapid advances in cybersecurity, as evidenced by the emergence of the WormGPT tool, ChatGPT's pentest analog.
It is _possible_ that their rental bundle results in a better deal for a reasonable segment of the market than the aggregate of one-off title purchases would be. Though the lock-in means if they jack up the price it might become a poor deal after the fact. Or if you are the kind of person that would purchase fewer games than the total subscription fees would cost, it also wouldn't be better. But sometimes bundling is indeed a better deal for consumers.
Log into the laptop?

/s
The thinking in Israel is that it won't be able to survive unless it greatly reduces Hamas power (preferably eliminating it altogether) and as a byproduct restores the deterrence against all the other surrounding enemies who are very tempted to join the party.
Sure, there are also political motives, emotional factors (vengeance etc), fear and who knows what more but at the core I think the public and leadership understand things can't go on like this.
For decades there have been articles regularly written in the NYT about the suffering of Palestinians. Obviously you ignored those. It's easier to simply say "apartheid", issue blame, and to feel good about yourself. The suffering of Palestinians helps your mental health.
MAUI is Xamarin.Forms rebooted, and it will be a flop only because Microsoft decided to rewrite it, instead of improving it.
The drugs did work (2006)
Not sure if it's clickbait, but there is good reason to believe in a deep connection between 4d gauge field theories (i.e. of the standard model) and number theory through representation theory. This involves other work than mentioned in this article though it's still inscrutable for most at this point (motivic cohomology/Hilbert–Pólya in RH, supersymmetry in YM mass gap, cosmic galois in renormalization).

From Peter Woit's blog:

> It’s worth noting that while there are many connections to the ideas originating with Langlands, this new work shows that the “Langlands program” has expanded into a striking vision relating different areas of mathematics, with a strong connection to deep ideas about quantization and quantum field theory. The way in which these ideas bring together number theory and quantum field theory provide new evidence for the deep unity of fundamental ideas about mathematics and physics.

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13578
I think the cash got devalued by super low interest rates floated to the privileged class. Almost everything is financed. It's dumb to not take 2% loans and buy back stock or expand your business...and by expand I mean purchasing a competitor. It seems like small/medium businesses are the only ones who organically expand by purchasing equipment, finding new customers, and hiring anymore.
Are you sure about that? Presenting false sales numbers sounds like a regular false statement to me, which may be subject to SEC rules etc if you are listed.

But actually buying your own product ... I can't find any sources yet on the web.
and now it all makes sense.