skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the abstract, "This requires an implicit agreement which can be coordinated by sector-wide cost shocks and supply bottlenecks"

Can you help me distinguish between this and the 'stale dogma?'
What stands out to me though is how clear and straightforward to use the control panels were for e.g. mouse, keyboard, timezone and display. Their current counterparts are a bit of a mess and I find very difficult to navigate.

Although they did lead to the infuriating click "Apply" then click Ok behaviour that people got into the habit of.

And yes, that Desktop area of 640 by 480 pixels was what we started off with, and we liked it!
Once I got a monitor that supported 1024 by 768 then it was just luxury.
While I'm sure a lot of this is tech folks, I think part of the problem here is that it enabled any rando sleezeball off the street to be like "Hey I made an AI product. Look!"

I've personally known a few of these folks at this point and yeah they don't actually even understand what they're doing half the time they're just watching youtube tutorials and setting things up not caring/realizing/whatever that what they're calling an "AI Product" is actually just a bot they connected to some API that they fed a really brittle system prompt into. But everyone should be impressed by them because they managed to ~follow a youtube tutorial~ set it up! (Sorry, kind of PTSD from one in particular)
Would you recommend any specific model for such “bargain routers”?
The proposed solution uses security policies to block/allow APIs. However, the problem is accurately figuring out such policies, not to forget the painstakingly time consuming process behind it.
The speed with which AI has become the new hot thing everyone must have is dizzying to me. It seems like it happened over a span of weeks after ChatGPT went live.

I wonder how much faster we can go. Can we have an entire tech hype bubble in one 24 hour period?
I run a business similarly to what the parent advised to do and I wouldn't have it any other way. I am independent, I don't have to pursue GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH at all costs, I don't have to worry about running out of funding, I don't have to "scale", I don't have to hire people just because investors want me to.

The numbers are different for every business, and I'd argue that SaaS customers at $10k-$15k are not easy, because you need high-touch sales for that, but you can make various approaches work.

The main point is that VC-funded (or YC->VC funded) startups are not the only way to achieve success as defined by financial sufficiency. Arguably (and I would really argue) they aren't even the best way, if you take quality of life factors into account. Or if you care about your customers/users.
Hype trains exist in tech the same way they exist in the seedy world of multi-level-marketing (which unfortunately due to some past clients I have a lot of experience with).

It doesn't matter _what_ you're selling. All that matters is that the hype train passes enough people that you can cash out your "investment".

Each investment round is the cash out for previous ones, and the last round is the IPO, where ignorant (no negative connotation, just unknowing) public is left holding the bag of air.

And like the MLM pyramid schemes, sometimes the product or service does have some value to some people. But it gets sold to anyone and everyone, most of whom have no use for it.

Most products or services don't need AI. But for sure, you needed to say BLOCKCHAIN somewhere in your business plan a few years ago, and now you need AI.

Eventually maybe we should just embrace hype trains and accept that people like to get excited about things they don't understand, or things that are imaginary. Just go ahead and sell them a dream. Put AI in your widget and make more money. It's ok. But don't believe your own hype.
The Human Brain Has a Dizzying Array of Mystery Cells
Where did you find a replacement standby battery? I’ve found those hard to come by.
Many governments do have laws like this, called "sunshine laws". Enforcing them can be difficult though, and often enough they fail to achieve the transparency that is their goal while also substantially hindering process.
I need to train AI to automatically click the "continue reading" link.
Cityliner: City Through Public Transport Routes
Yeah, there's no problem with that. I mean, being able to throw a bunch of garbage at the wall to see what sticks is arguably the reason why capitalism tends to economically outperform feudal and planned economies.

But that creates a sort of "caveat emptor" situation. A lot of everyday consumers benefit from being constantly reminded that this is how things work, because humans are very susceptible to some bad heuristics. A very, very common line of reasoning that one sees in discussions about tech, even on HN, is effectively, "A is a piece of garbage that someone threw at the wall, and it stuck. B is also a piece of garbage. Therefore, when we throw B at the wall it will stick."
[...] provide new evidence for the deep unity of fundamental ideas about mathematics and physics.

This makes no sense to me at all. Mathematics is a modeling language and when we use it to model fundamental aspects of the real world, then we call that physics. So there is obviously some relation between mathematics and physics but I do not understand why you would expect some kind of unity, mathematics is much richer than physics.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/us/bitcoin-mines-china-un...
>All of Google is AI. But you don’t see them bandying it around like a kid with new light up shoes.

Google Calendar has that stupid icon on a feature for auto-selecting where you'll attend a meeting based on your office schedule. They're just as capable of bandying about their bullshit applications for AI as everyone else.
A Uniquely Terrible New DEI Policy
> but the GitHub CLI is really well thought

How do you get to that conclusion?

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
What if they didn’t though? That’s what the software offers. They maintain high profits with very little effort.
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> The core of the problem is outsourcing your core product to people who are neither competent nor interested in the quality of the product.

I'm afraid the core of the problem is customers focusing on price more than on the quality of the product.
> the designers at Apple who chose to hide those scroll bars probably thought more about scrolling more than every one of these commenters combined, and that was before they did formal usability studies.

This blind appeal to authority shouldn't convince anyone.
Brain Finds It Easy to Size Up Four Objects but Not Five–Here's Why
There are benefits to charging hourly, if the customer doesn't want to listen, drags their feel or are simply indecisive who cares you just bill another hour, it doesn't matter if the project takes 6 weeks or 6 years as long as the check clears. On the other had I really dislike T&M gigs because I am really good at what I do and I bust my ass when I am engaged, working hourly is great for the customer and not so great for me. I am constantly asked how long it will take me to do this project or that project and if I give them a real number it's not worth our time to engage -we spend more time getting the sale than the actual service. That said the number only works for me, another consultant might take up to 5 times as long to do the same project due to lack of experience and the fact that they like to work slower. Fixed bid is great if you are allowed to knock things out but if it's a highly regulated site where everything requires a meeting or two go with th T&M.
It so reminds me of Douglas Adam's Electric Monk from Dirk Gently:

"The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. It had never heard of Salt Lake City, of course. Nor had it ever heard of a quingigillion, which was roughly the number of miles between this valley and the Great Salt Lake of Utah."
I believe this is precisely why Apple avoids calling its own large language model features or other neural network-related things "AI". It's a very loaded term, very overhyped, carries a certain stigma, and it's not like that bubble didn't burst in the early 1990s or so.
This with Bing so it searches for articles and reads and summarizes them has been great! I mean, admittedly it'd probably be better if it used a better search engine but at least with this workflow you know it's less likely to regurgitate garbage.
I hope we get bootcamp on Apple silicon, so we can see if it's the hardware or the OS that's causing most of the trouble :D
How is the EV of 1% of change at $1B and 100% chance at $1M the same? The EV is respectively $10M and $1M. I actually think, that if it was the same, they would have different approach towards being a VC.
Because client-side scanning is not going to work, and no one wants to government issued black box binary to send their conversations and photos to unnamed police person randomly, the non-compliance is the only way.

People just start to use chat programs in the EU that do not comply. This would be Signal, Telegram, others. The EU can fine and fight with Meta/WhatsApp, Apple, others, but that’s about it. The EU bureaucrats do not have power to magically insert spyware in our devices as long as we can install our own software.

… which of course means we know what’s going to come next.
GLONASS supports time setting too.
And they are both currently, wide spread exceptions. Food safety bodies do not require them to be cook, their raw use is widespread, some mushroom experts still say it is ok, etc. The status quo has not yet changed.
You misspelled your own URL....
Yes, we should absolutely make everything less accessible in the name of aesthetics. That's made computer interfaces so much better in the past 20 years.
We are a small startup, 12 strong.

Our reason for going all in with GCP was the k8s. We've been using GCP for 2+ years.
The trouble we have is with stability and so many of the features being constantly rolled out.

Our experience was that K8s cost more on GCP than AWS.

Just on LoadBalancers alone, you have tons of tricks that are specific to GCP implementation. And we needed a few extra because you couldn't run all the features we wanted on 1-2 per cluster.
For example, we have a 3rd party that required all our requests to always originate and respond back from a fixed IP address. We could only pick one not a range, not a list. This was a hard requirement. The service was important so we had to do it.

It took our team several days to find how to do it using online documentation and support. Tech support was useless. We had one guy in our team that spent 2 days on the phone with a paid, local GCP implementation partner trying to get this problem sorted. Nothing came out of it other than being pitched on our dime a lot of services and architecture we didn't need. Eventually we figure it out on our own. I don't even remember speaking about this when we transitioned to AWS.
The Highway code states that those waiting to cross also have right of way

> At a junction you should give way to pedestrians crossing or waiting to cross a road into which or from which you are turning

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/introduction#ru...
I use nextdns.io on my iphone for adblocking and it works well. Give it a go?
Join YC, maybe your startup is a success and you retire early. There’s a slim chance of that. However, YC on your resume opens the door for that comfy fang career slinging Java at 300k total comp.
Any computational method that relies on a function that converts m bits (an image) to n bits (a fingerprint) where m > n will always be vulnerable to such an attack. The smaller n is compared to m, the easier it is to counterfeit something with that signature. It is not new knowledge. The only way to be certain, unfortunately, is for a human to look at it.

When the allegation is as serious as CSAM, I would rather be very very certain before accusing someone, rather than taking a shotgun approach and just randomly searching phones. But what do I know.
I understand where you're coming from, and I like the idea for a certain kind of people: those who are very good at handling abstractions. Software engineers do have this skill, but the majority of statistics users do not. Trying to explain the similarities between these linear methods and how all is one [1] to a social scientist who doesn't like numbers nor formulas to begin with would only lead to more confusion.

But if you ever do a randomized test with a suitable linear model to estimate the efficacy of these two methods, do let us know, that would be 10/10 :)

[1]: https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/#41_one_sample_t...
But you don't need a huge one for that.
Hospital saturation is lightly correlated with vaccination rates. In fact, it’s probably reverse correlated. Rural areas which have a high degree of social isolation due to low population density didn’t run out if capacity to the same extent hospitals in large urban areas did. I’m very, very sorry for your loss, but maybe you are holding on to anger that is misplaced. Population density (lack of social isolation) was what drive hospital saturation. I was in a very low vaccination rate area, and we never get to even quarter capacity in the local hospitals.
> only about 50 companies met that expectation out of the 4,000 or so that went through their program. That’s 1.25% ... All those 4,000 kids who went into YC also thought they were visionaries, and where are they now? They’re all in the startup cemetery, except for a dozen or so who despite the low odds managed to flip 10 heads in a row.

This is a bit nitpicky, but:

* Some of those 4,000 may end up super successful but haven't yet; this isn't considering lag.

* Ten heads in a row is 0.1%; this is closest to six heads in a row.

I agree that your odds are low, and you should consider how much you care about a small chance of a massive success. But the odds do matter!
Happy to see them with an owner that has more time for them! Do you have more info on how the spraying works? I might be interested for some of my other old Thinkpads.
If we're talking about the abuse of language: "one person disagreeing" (in this case, the subject themself) is not the equivalent of "getting called out".
https://fatscript.org/

Been developing FatScript for about two years now. It's a lightweight interpreted language designed for console-based apps. It emphasizes simplicity and leans into functional programming concepts. Feedback or thoughts ar most welcome!
Watching Psyche launch visiting a metallic asteroid
I love this. Thank you for sharing.
> Are you seriously thinking Ha'aretz editors don't blame Hamas for what happened?

No, I’m seriously arguing that they are mature adults that don't subscribe to childish ideas like exclusivity of blame, and that—to quote the post you are responding to but clearly didn't read: “The Israeli government can rightfully be blamed for the reasonably forseeable consequences of its policies, whether or not those consequences involve unjustified actions by other parties for which those parties also bear blame. Blame is not exclusive.”

There is certainly reason to condemn those who do not blame Hamas, but that does not make it correct to condemn those who do blame Israel. In fact, those who do not blame Israel should be condemned for it, as well, since the promotion of Hamas despite their recurrent terrorism has been a long-time Israeli strategy to weaken the Palestinian Authority, provide an excuse against peace because their is nonviable single interlocutor on the other side, and justify continued oppression and violence.
In 2022, Kroger made $2.2B on $34.8B sales. That’s more than 6% _profit_, never mind margins. These companies are making way more margin than you are saying they are.

Edit: looks like that was just the quarter — still 1% profit which means margins must be far higher. Margins in retail, by the way, are mark-up over wholesale cost.

Source: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2023/03/02/how-much-d...
The only correction I'd make is that a lot of them ask you to create an account, or at least give them your email address, before you get to experience the magic.
> Phone and tablet usage has outpaced regular computer usage for quite some time, and that informs users interaction style.

"Informs"?!? Deforms!

WTF does phone usage have to do with sabotaging the UI on a computer???
I don't find it as annoying--and sometimes even like it--but I don't routinely put music on as background especially if I'm reading/writing/etc.
You will have more financial independence at faang, most starts up fail.
Thoughts on framework after daily driving it for 2 years [video]
I was doing groceries the other day and ended up looking at a new CocaCola flavor said to be generated by AI.

Looks to me like AI is just the new buzzword that replaced crypto and NFT and we will just see more of it for a few months until it calms down.
I've done a lot of different things over the years. What I've finally been settling on (though I might change this up a bit because another app I've really liked in the past just updated and might have finally filled a gap I needed):

- Google Drive for file backup/sync. I used to use Dropbox, but how they handle photos is awful. Drive's desktop client is way worse than Dropbox in almost every possible metric, but...

- Google Photos for photos. I pay for more storage in Drive which gives me the room I need in photos for everything. Very convenient not only for cloud access to photos anywhere, but also really good search, and being able to share albums with people.

- Evernote for all my notes. Also for going paperless. (I've been doing a TON of cleaning of my office and being able to get rid of old documents by scanning them to Evernote is great) Nothing else fully replicates all the features Evernote has: OCR of images/PDFs/etc., email to new note, literally the best web clipper, connect to calendar and create/link notes to events, go to note/tag/notebook, etc. It's not the fastest app out there, but generally pretty consistent no matter how much I throw at it. I tried importing my notes to Apple Notes or Bear and they tend to start choking a bit. The best part and one of the reasons I can't leave for anything else: The search is too darn convenient. I can just throw things in and it's easy to find later even if I don't go crazy with notebook/tag organization.

- Apple Reminders for TODOs. Very fast to add things via Siri or text, has just enough smarts to do some natural language setting of dates, just generally convenient to use via my phone or laptop. I don't do anything complicated here, mostly just to keep track of what I need to do in a day or anything I need to do on a schedule like laundry. I might migrate to TeuxDeux at some point now that they've added better repeating TODOs (they were very primitive previously and didn't do what I needed). Or I might migrate to Evernote tasks which I used in the past but had enough bugs at the time I decided to stop and wait for reliability updates.

- Fantastical for calendar, synced to Google. This might change since apparently Hey is working on a calendar? We'll see how that ends up working out.

It might sound like a lot, but it actually is pretty simple and I keep my usage of things simple. Things like basic notebooks in Evernote or just throwing things in an inbox. I don't stuff my calendar full of things, I just use it to keep track of stuff that is happening at certain times (vet appointments, job interviews, etc.) or something I might want to link to a note in Evernote. I've ended up here because of the simplicity of how it ends up working. I don't want to spend tons of time managing anything, so I just want things I can quickly throw stuff into and stop worrying about it.
Solo bootstrapped SaaS founder here. I accrue a lot of tech debt, because (as others have pointed out) I can pay it back whenever I want.

That said, I often spend a lot of time and effort building generalized solutions, because these act as leverage down the road. So, while I might cut corners on many things initially, I will often invest a ton of effort into polishing a thing, if that thing can be reused all over the app and make everything work much better.

If that's unclear, here's an example: users need to configure columns in a table in my app. I could provide preferences for configuring that table (quick), or spend a month writing a general-purpose table configuration system that will allow all tables to be configurable. I will choose the latter.
My goto for a while was the BT HomeHub 5A (not B variant). Just checked and these are available for £10 on eBay if you're based in the UK. I'm sure there are bargains to be had all over the world. The place to start is to look at OpenWRT's supported devices page and look for ISP branded models. These are often flogged on eBay super cheap when people move because they're basically scrap to most people. I'm sure even more just go in the bin (sadly).
Never roll your own crypto, but maybe sometimes ...
I’m not sure I agree. I hear from lots of people wanting to buy my business IF it’s making at least $5 million/year (it’s not). $500K/year might get you a 2X exit, and $1M is nothing to sneeze at, but it’s not early retirement money.
Also do not miss the recent good article about the US software development companies who are behind the lobbying of client-side scanning, how is this madness is being funded and by whom.

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...
They’re an exception because VCs pressure funded not to do what Sahil did. All investors wanted him to shut it down and do something else.
My pretentiousness detector went off when I saw a completely wrong definition of "ergodicity" at the start of the article.
Yeah, you're right. I'm not sure how I butchered that so badly. The thought of ground beef being 80-95% fat even sounded absurd to me as I was writing it.
Can I write that down?
You probably know this, but to be clear for anyone else reading - the AGC's code was written in a mix of interpreted code and native code. Writing in native AGC assembly was necessary for the most performance-sensitive parts of the flight, such as during the LM's landing.
High profit doesn't necessarily mean the players aren't at rock bottom. Some industries need high profits to justify the effort. If all you can eek out is a small profit, you can do just about anything else.

But, assuming there is room to go lower, then the market isn't yet competitive and has room for someone to swoop in and take the spoils. If there is some regulatory barrier that is preventing that, then there was no illusions of it being competitive in the first place.
Sorry I should've added an /s or something. I was mostly just making a joke about what you said vs what you were responding to about the Obsidian plugin detail where the parent mentioned that being the problem with Obsidian right after mentioned rewriting all basic utilities themselves for some reason lol