skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not yet, anyway. It might be possible with an AI that modelled human psychology. I don't think that's an impossible goal. In fact I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen within 10 years (climate change and war permitting.)

The problem is that people like Gates and Zuckerberg are fully paid up members of the "You can't let people use technology without exploiting them" group.

So AI-assisted personalised teaching would come with a cost - a corporate learning and skills profile of the pupils.

Which would inevitably be sold to other corporates.

From a market point of view that kind of information would be immensely valuable for hiring and HR.

But it would be it would be apocalyptically disastrous from the point of view of personal freedom and political accountability.

And no doubt the service would be tiered, so a minimal unsophisticated model would be available to almost everyone, while more sophisticated and effective models would require a paid subscription.

Teaching is one of those professions where you can see what cultures really value. In the US it's clearly not open access to high quality education.

Automated tutoring won't change that unless cultural values change too. Without that, it will just recreate the current situation with added social costs.
> I don’t think they necessarily will be allowed to train on their data unless they get explicit permission. They will try, but the way I see privacy revaluations is that users will have to authorize specific uses of their data and not be surprised by any application.

If there's one company that I don't think cares about user permissions or the law, it'd be Twitter.

The EU officially warned Elon about DSA fines and the response was less than serious.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/10/tech/x-europe-israel-misinfor...
Voice control is about the only way my wife and kids interact with hass (in spite of other options). I (re)wrote an app for interfacing with Alexa[0] while my son was a neonate because it made such a difference to be able to verbally turn off lights while both hands were full carrying him around (or sleeping on my chest and I don't want to move).

For me, voice control is a must.

[0]: https://github.com/n8henrie/fauxmo
I think "cleared" is the key word missing from the HN title, that is in the actual headline.

"Activision cleared to be bought by Microsoft"

But actually that English is still weirdly tortured... "Microsoft's revised proposal to acquire Activision approved by UK regulators" seems to be the minimum viable non-ambiguous sentence AFAICT
Not allowed in EU. Software bugs shouldn't render such devices unusable. See my other comment.

Tho I just read it concerns someone in Denver, Colorado. Who previously worked at Apple.
Does anyone apply formal usability studies anymore? (not just do them - do they apply the results). I was trained in formal UX long ago, and many UIs today outright violate common rules we learned back then. High contrast was considered important for low vision users even if it looked ugly then. Now most UIs are lower contrast and while they look nicer, they are less usable.

Of course I learned long ago and so I'm willing to accept that what was best practices back then might be wrong given new research that I'm not aware of. However this seems unlikely.
>are always, everywhere,

Claims like that are rarely true.
You missed the point. Using the analogy from the article, if you take YC money (or any VC money) you need to dig until you find a massive pile of treasure, if you dig and find a small pile of treasure you have to ignore it and start over because VCs are not looking for small piles of treasure, they only care about massive ones. Ignore the fact that the small pile of treasure could actually result in a very good life for a small group of people in a small company.
If you build a business that makes 500k a year, which can be done with 30-50 customers for saas selling for 10-15k, you can sell the business and retire. Even at 250k a year, you have an asset that could change your financial life for good.

If you raise VC money, the above scenarios are considered a failure. You will have to shutdown/get acquired for nothing. You have to shoot for the moon to get massive ARR, that very very few companies ever hit.

It’s really about the level of success needed to have a financial windfall, and bootstrapping is way lower for that.
Portabellos and button mushrooms are the same damn thing.
Ask HN: How does LinkedIn evade SPAM?
I continuously mark Linkedin emails as SPAM. They start getting caught in the SPAM box (Fastmail) but after a while, I start receiving them again in my inbox. I, then, proceed again to mark them as spam but it takes at least a couple dozen for them to be recognized as such.

I have two questions:

1. What is it that Linkedin does to keep resurfacing to my inbox?

2. How come Linkedin is not penalized for the atrociously enormous quantities of spam it sends? (either by mail processors or by the authorities). I have lost count of how many times I have turned notifications off.
Just take Apple to small claims court. Every single person who runs into a Stupid Apple Problem like this should immediately file in small claims court. Apple can continue this kind of policy because they have no incentive to fix it. Sometimes if someone makes a stink (on HN or other) in an act of Deus Ex Apple, they will descend from the cloud and fix it. Maybe.

But if 20 or 200 people go to small claims court they will have to pay legal fees to represent themself. They may decide fixing the problem is cheaper that lawyers fees

It is relatively easy to go so small claims court.

1. SearchEngine your state and small claims.
- for example "New Hampshire Small Claims" => https://www.courts.nh.gov/our-courts/circuit-court/district-...

2. Follow the directions.

3. Get your ducks/facts in a row. Collect receipts, emails, phone notes. Get the names of people you talk to.

4. Get the procedure in a row. Much of court is about procedure. Forget to notify the other party? You are dead in the water. Miss a deadline, don't follow rule 33.b.7A? you lose. But you just have to be diligent. And if you make a mistake ask the judge if you can fix it.

4. Serve Apple.

5. Show up at Court, bring your documentation, find out what else you need to bring.

6. Be a fair and reasonable person.

Some states like New Hampshire allow you to appeal small claims decisions to the state Supreme Court. Do not accept easy failure. Many judges and lawyers look down on commoners and find them annoying. Don't be annoying and don't accept arbitrary rulings by a judge.

In New Hampshire a coffee shop owner took Instagram to court, lost the case and appealed to the NH Supreme Court who reversed the decision.

Do not be a victim, but do not expect to win. Do expect to make it clear to Apple that you will contest the "oh this is policy" or "oh we can't do this" kind of nonsense.

And do submit your experience to HN.
All the time: I use WSL. The right tool for the right job. Linux userspace for development -- but Windows for the kernel because that's where the drivers are.
I work in IT and that's how my workflow is set up.

Chrome for my work Google/Microsoft accounts and Edge for my personal.

These bad practices are just second nature now, and I dread when the time comes where it becomes another aggravating problem again.
:) SimAnt was the first game I played at home on a SNES, super fond memories of it. I watched a talk by Will Wright a while ago, from 96, on the development of SimAnt! It was super inspiring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsxoZXaYJSk&t=1740s

And yeah, it's a bit of a hodgepodge of ideas. I started with a goal of helping people, not making a video game, but ultimately decided that taking the help to where it's needed made the most sense. So, now I'm trying to find ways to package up mental health help and deliver it to techie/gamer folks :)
The point of the article is that it's not rational for individual startup founders to take rocket fuel at company conception which is what YC provides.
Would you say that they're sort of... holding it wrong?
Windows Phone was visually stunning. Thanks for reminding me of it!

I don't know what you mean about turning the window bar black. Did you set the theme to "high contrast"? I've used dark mode on windows since it became an OS feature and never had that problem.

Microsoft's UX has been poor since Win8, but not for graphical reasons. 10 and 11 look great out of the box - far better than any other OS I've seen, although tbf I haven't done much distro-hopping.
You've Never Had It So Good. Which Is Why You're Stuck
And a trackpoint! I'd buy those sight unseen.
Many of the YC projects I've seen posted on HN don't look like rockets. Or maybe I'm of the false impression that developer tooling, or products that bring iterative improvements cannot be rockets.
I'm building a visual Kubernetes Explorer https://github.com/iximiuz/kexp. Because learning Linux & Containers can be fun.
TIL! I've read through some of the articles on AntWiki but not this one :) Thanks for sharing. Maybe I need my ants to be able to walk on and carry other ants!
Now it's in real time for all products with no work required or delay and they are all going to check prices together, and grabbing coffee afterwards.

How are you missing the subtle shift that makes this not the same?
Putting the Profit in Nonprofit
I notice that this author is focusing on what students prefer, whereas the cited examples were focusing on what is more effective for learning. They may or may not align.
Show HN: Updates to Search Hacker News
We’ve released a new version of the HackerNews search tool available from the bottom of this page.
CHANGELOG:
Backend
- Rewrote the indexing process and web server
- Now running on cloud infrastructure (GCP)
- Improved speed of get object API endpoint
- No more need for a database, so we removed it
- Fixed indexing logic for story types
- Fixed indexing logic for updated items
Frontend
- You can now filter by story type!
- Removed Popularity sort-by on Comments and Jobs
(Score isn’t retrievable so sort-by popular was prioritizing old comments)
- Removed "all" filter type (let us know if you used this)
- Fixed some display issues with stories and comments
- Updated the Algolia logo

To search for this post: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...
While that's true, the AirTag network is much more valuable for stalking.

Most people don't have a specific competitors tracking app on their phone, so the network is much smaller and location updates much rarer.

On the other hand. Every iPhone is by default an airtag location reporter, not only making the network much larger, but also, importantly, making it very likely that the targets phone, if it's an iPhone, will actively be reporting on itself, bring effectively as good as a gps tracker.

While this doesn't rule out the possibility of another tracker being used for stalking, it does make it dramatically more important for Apple to solve this.
That would require someone with physical access to the device. It's not a home network, the person responsible for fixing it could be in another country, and you could have hundreds of devices to fix.
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It’s called the “Dark Web” for a reason. Monitoring tools may exist but they do not and can not cover every avenue, or even a small fraction of them.

There may be scanners etc but I think your best bet is to ask the security provider for recommendations. They identified the issue and notified you - it sounds like they’re a third party worth keeping around.

In the mean time, assume that creds can be stolen and there’s nothing you can do about it: what do you do about that? You have many options: rate limiting, IP checks, detecting unusual activity. I’d start there.
London is the busiest "airport system" in the world and handles a lot of international traffic, so there might be something unique about it that you don't see somewhere like Atlanta.

That being said, it seems like London only has interference recorded today and every other day is green. I would imagine it's more likely to be a quirk of how the data is recorded rather than geniune jamming.
The King and the Stonemason
Can they take the pile and start another company?
Again, you are missing the point. The advice being given, advice for success, is that you will do better in the long run if your focus is broader than just profit.
I mean, don’t buy those. There are enough suitable monitors on the market.
This has already been happening and the result in many states is that the path of least resistance is to increase the decision making power of families.

Everyone voting with their feet is functionally equivalent to removing the disruptive kids from class, even though it might not seem like that if one has ideological blinders on.
Low freq sound isolation by metasurface of Helmholtz ping-pong ball resonators
Show HN: Kexp – Visual Kubernetes Explorer
Capitalism leads to monopolies. They are competing. They have deeper pockets than Sony or Nintendo. Now they own CoD, WoW, and Candy Crush.
It looks better in the showroom under retail lighting. Take a look through all the settings.
Aren’t most yc or funded founders broke asf? Meanwhile the solopreneur scene is printing cash money. Daniel makes good points here.
The largest map of the human brain ever made
What are you using for OCR?
Consumers used to shop online to leverage competition and save money. Seems it has totally flipped.
> So the best way to find good ideas is to have many ideas, try them out, take what works, and throw away the rest. But this is not what YC wants you to do. YC wants you to pick an idea that has market pull (or the potential for it), and to then dig a hole in the same spot until you reach the boiling magma. Because what if you stop digging just before you strike gold?

This is the hardest question of starting a startup (or trying to do anything novel), as far as I can tell, but this was not at all my experience with YC’s advice.

The overwhelming feeling is: be humble in the face of reality, try something and try to try it in a way that you can assess whether it’s working — quickly/cheaply — then try something new.

YC seemed perfectly fine with us either pivoting or staying the course so long as it seemed like we were trying to be intellectually honest with ourselves, and what more could you hope for? It’s not like they have the answer either — nor do they act like it.

Edit: Also YC explicitly advises against using VC feedback as signal on your idea. Ideally you’re pivoting well before you run up against “VCs won’t fund my next round,” because clearly things already weren’t working prior to that. You were trying new things and being honest about whether they were working, weren’t you?
"Too bright" depends entirely on the context. I control-tab and alt-tab like a maniac these days (might reduce that by getting a fourth display, used to think that would be excessive but the Overton window has shifted and I'm coming around on the idea).

The default UI here on HN features your username in #828282 on a background of #F6F6EF [1], a contrast ratio of 3.54:1. The up and downvote arrows are #999999 on #F6F6EF [2], a ratio of 2.62:1. On a high-brightness screen, these less-intense contrasts look great. And this is far from the only place with 'nice calm greys' that are intentionally used by designers to reduce eye strain.

I run Visual Studio in dark mode, and Windows Explorer in dark mode, and Notepad++ in dark mode, and Omron Sysmac Studio in dark mode, and Autocad Electrical in dark mode, and Alibre CAD at the default (light gray) theme, and they look great. I'm in a nice, bright office, with (4) daylight 4' T8 LED bulbs directly overhead, and a whiteboard as the backdrop to my monitors, so it's not like I'm a recluse in a dark cave. The monitor brightness is not wrong.

At least, it's not wrong until I win-right or alt-tab over an Excel document or an old version of Studio 5000, where the color profile is stuck at black text on a white background. Then I'm instantly blinded. I can't set half the monitor (just the part over the Excel spreadsheet) to the right contrast and brightness to make Excel acceptable, because then I can't see better-designed apps.

And don't get me started on opening up a movie or game after work's done. "Set your brightness so the logo is barely visible." Yeah, no. "Game of Thrones is a cinematic show and therefore you have to watch it like you’re at a cinema: in a darkened room." Wagner and Snyder are watching their productions on studio-grade OLEDs. I won't put a show on the integrated screen of my old Thinkpad or Precision laptops, I know those displays are trash (and they're small, I only put stuff that's easy to see on them), but no brightness setting on my relatively nice IPS LCDs can comfortably handle the diversity of content they're used to display.

[1] https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=828282&...

[2] https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=999999&...
There may be an application in which that works, but having tried several, I'm yet to find it.
I have not found the radio frequency of the broadcasting, not the parameters of the beep signal.
Yes, it was concession caused by CMA's stance.
I'm a business owner currently doing what the parent says to do, and the parent is exactly correct.

I want a business that can support my wife and me; 500k is my target, and it would be a great situation for us because I would have a great work/life balance (based on how much time I spend right now).

But if I took money, the investors would clamor for more, and the stress would probably kill me.
Very compelling arguments against being someone's longshot bet.

But then he says that pivoting doesn't work either. Wasn't pivoting, in his analogy, deciding to dig for treasure in a new place?
I see this said here all the time, but why are obligated to do so? If VCs don’t own a majority stake what authority do they have to make you chase such huge returns at the cost of a stable and profitable business?
Modified Newtonian Dynamics as an Alternative to the Planet Nine Hypothesis
Microsoft should just buy Everything off Voidtools because they have perfected Windows search and it boggles my mind that Microsoft can't recreate that.
I agree with you, but I also agree with Daniel. Content like this is IMO oriented to two audiences:

- Those who think of VC funding for a startup as the "default mode" and haven't considered a "slow burn"/lifestyle business/bootstrap/whatever alternative buzzword approach.

- Those who already agree with the indie hacker/no-VC style approach and Daniel's writing appeals to their confirmation bias. It's a feel-good piece for them.
Brands Are Still Going Down with NFT's Sinking Ship
No, the VC will want a big exit, the founders will be forced to raise more money and grow the business to be unsustainable and then it will either be shuttered or acquired.
Automated Discovery of DNS Resolver Vulnerabilities with Query-Response Fuzzing
Are you confusing Show HN projects with companies accepted into the Y Combinator startup incubator? They're two very separate classifications
Scrollbars were never meant to jump instantly anywhere. They are intended for progressive movement in either direction.

It's a much more recent feature implemented as "minimap" in several IDEs. The difference is that minimap actually renders preview of the content to jump to, so you don't jump blind.

Add: autohide is there because oftentimes it is obvious content can be scrolled by observing it does not fit entirely in the viewbox.
Of course it's a political problem. There are people who have been scheming how to dismantle public education. The short term goal is to funnel tax payer money to private schooling. The longer term goal is to make sure the lower classes simply don't ever get an education.

So, yeah, it is a political problem.
Rocket fuel is very often highly refined kerosene. You could use it to run a jet engine or a diesel truck with small modifications.

* I will be entering this reply into "most HN comment" contest running at the end of this year
I'd reword your French example a bit. I had the proverbial four years of high school French which I cared about and performed at probably about a median level (which is to say fairly well) of my high school subjects in general.

Especially in a pre-Web world though, absent pestering my parents to arrange some sort of exchange student situation--which would have gone well beyond my level of caring for any other subject and may or may not have been practical--I was probably never going to get to a high level of French proficiency without some sort of immersion.
Better GAN Disentanglement Could Facilitate Better Synthetic Data
While fun to tune into it with an SDR. Did you know we were spending a huge amount of money to keep this operating. For basically no purpose?
I personally manage a lab of Macs running LabView at a university, in a department that uses at least 75% Macs overall.
VCs won’t invest if they know this is your plan? If you lie to them and keep going for 500k, they can sue you for scamming (or whatever legal term is).
Interesting you don't reach full usage - I'm deep in swap most of the time. But, I don't have any performance issues until something has a memory leak or I've got too many IDE windows open.

I think a lot of us techies have also become too used to just having as many programs open at once as possible, and that of course can be quite demanding in terms of resources when you have a lot of day-to-day as well as work tools open.
Leading Through Pain
But then your core product is the routers, and you outsource their firmware, you also outsource a very good chunk of hardware they are made of, and this is where what you're saying kind of falls apart.

Because from the looks of it, if I assume what you're saying is 100% true, the product is sales contracts for the routers and not the routers themselves.
Don't really get it, there is no should or shouldn't. If you think your idea has multi billion dollar market then go for it, if it doesn't then YC probably don't want you anyway, there is no conflict.