skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop. This is not a valid startup and a waste of your time.

I say this with a heavy heart as I know you're passionate, but numerous failed startups of my own tought me to be critical in thinking.

What is you're "secret sauce"? How hard is it to replicate/exceed your efforts?
I'm afraid the answers are "we put a lot of engineering work into it" and "not much, as we're just two guys and the army/google/fb have hundreds of engineers", and you're limited by physics. It's not like you invented new super-light batteries, did you?

I'm afraid this will likely be a waste of your time. You'll have fun, learn a lot, and that can be a goal on its own,
But don't take a mortage....

sorry..
It’s a humble-bragging cesspit.
No no, you see, all bureaucracy is evil, and thus organized collections of workers-- necessitating an organizational bureau --is evil.

If you read my magnum opus, Chronos Shuffled, you would see that individual negotiation by an enlightened majority will reach the same common goal if... um... everyone individually pursues the exact same agreed upon goals...

...shit.
I found the "Unix signals" section of the 2010 LWN article "Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs" by Neil Brown https://lwn.net/Articles/414618/ very interesting, though I don't know enough to recommend it firmly. (Previous HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27183784 on part 3, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941189 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1971106 on the whole series.)
> For example, by pairing an architecture astronaut with a hacker, one may get something sensible, if both survive the encounter.

This sounds a lot like my workplace, where we have a shop foreman and fabrication team who tends to just want to build to print and get it shipped on time and at a profit, an engineering team who tends to hyper-optimize and inspect every parameter of the design, and an administration team that prioritizes process following. Left to their own devices, build would throw together something unreplicable and in desperate need of a redesign, engineering would be perpetually making ever more complicated prototypes and never ship anything, and admin would be holding so many meetings to go over so many forms that there would be no time remaining to make any mistakes (or to make anything at all), but together, it's a pretty successful team.

Sure, we poke fun at each other in the lunchroom, but it's all good-natured. Perhaps that's a better example of adversarial collaboration than a highly-polarizing gender studies paper...
Following any kind of philosophy requires some level of autonomy and ability to recognize one's right to self-determination, which I don't think translates well to pets. Does imposing one's own philosophy-based diet on another autonomous, but controlled organism imply some kind of cruelty? We also apparently neuter pets "for their safety". The whole idea of pets is inconsistent with veganism anyways, so I am unsurprised that there is more dissonance in the conversation.
Sure, quick google searches… there’s definitely more but this gives you enough info.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-denies-its-pl...

https://kotaku.com/spotify-music-streaming-fake-artist-ai-ap...

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/fake-artists-have-...

https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/dispute-resolution/dispute...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/9/15767986/taylor-swift-appl...

And honestly, for some of this stuff, I understand Spotify’s position. At the same time, their willingness to promote fake artists with copy cat songs to circumvent paying royalties to BMG or such is why musicians are eating ramen and only a handful of musicians are eating steak.
> You appear to think that there is One Way to write applications and that anyone who disagrees with you doesn't know what they are talking about or has never had any experience with them.

You are wrong in your perception
> Used to be

It still is isn't it?
The author's article generally focuses on C (and possibly descendant languages), but the phrase I am critical of, does not. Furthermore, I explicitly consider a very broad selection of programming languages (many not C-derived) in my opinion. The author's phrasing, I'd argue, paints the entire concept of parallel programming as not hard.

There's some irony to the fact that you re-interpret my opinion as being very specific to C and (indirectly) posit that - in that specific case - parallel programming is hard, and then yourself go on to select a very specific case where parallel programming is not hard, because some matrix operations are independent.

I agree that there are languages that are explicitly built to make parallel programming easy. But in general, and not just related to c or c descendant languages, parallel programming is hard.
Might want, yes, but there is probably more top talent in the world than available housing in those high COL locations.
I’ve admittedly aged into a stereotype out of an Hard Times article and so haven’t bought an album in years…

What did they do exactly? My music is there I bought years back.
> Why do you add China to that list when it is widely considered by many diverse institutions to be state capitalist?

This is a very interesting point. The Chinese State itself (and presumably 1.5 billion Chinese people) consider China a Socialist Country. No doubts about it. They call their economy a Socialist Market Economy. You could think of it as capitalist underlying economic structure and total social control of the Socialist State above it. From social perspective it's still totalitarian, which is exactly what socialism is.

It seems to be working for China and, possibly, that's what the majority of the Chinese people want. I am certainly not in business of telling other countries how to live. My only point is that it's not freedom from the liberal democracy perspective.
Somebody nice with a realistic business plan (skip the suborbital "rocket to nowhere") would have accomplished more than Branson and Bezos ever did. I don't know about Branson, but nobody ever accused Bezos of being a nice guy.
Post-Quantum Cryptography (2017)
I can also attest as a moderator that there is some set of people out there who use LLMs, knowingly use LLMs, and will lie to your face that they aren't and aggressively argue about it.

The only really new aspect about that is the LLM part. The people who will truly bizarrely lie about total irrelevancies to people on the Internet even when they are fooling absolutely no one has always been small but non-zero.
I don't understand the distinction? Just that it isn't physical?

(Also, affordance isn't mentioned in the article anyway?)
The fact that a community-run fork is causing them to sweat so much shows that HashiCorp themselves may not be as essential to the Terraform ecosystem as they thought.
I'm also an overall satisfied Alliant customer. Definitely the lack of contactless chip is annoying, and I will echo that their UX could use refinement, but otherwise it's a pretty reliable card and the points are simple and easy. Fraud detection is a little hair-trigger I've found, but I have a few backup travel cards so when something unusual gets declined I can use an alternative.
He has the third highest annualized salary in the league, at $47.6 million. Curry is the highest paid at $52. Durant is second at $47.65.

He's definitely been underpaid in the past, but I'm not seeing it in his current contract.
I think manuals should be written, but not required for simple usage of an OS UI.

"Tutorial" style introductions to the OS make sense.

I remember when Ubuntu first came out with Unity, and had really powerful window tiling features bound to variations of "Super" key + arrow key, as well as some other hotkeys.

The great thing about it was that you could hold down "Super" for 1 second, and a reference would show up explaining all the different keybinds.
Can we expect folks impacted by these layoffs to post to linkedin about how great the experience of a layoff is?
But where to migrate to?
1. People did not accept this "erosion of privacy". They just don't understand. Mastercard is not going to the every customer and telling them, what exactly they do, what it means and so on. Sure, they ask for "explicit consent", they have contract and agreements and tons of legal documents describing every step. But that does not help people understanding what they do. That is the big misunderstanding of legal requirements like GDPR: It does not prevent erosion of privacy.

2. In general, this is not an erosion of privacy. Honestly? I really do not care what a company does with my transaction data. Why? Because I work in the field of data analytics, big data and I got a little idea of what happen: I'm just a small dot in a very huge picture. Sure, at some point in the very beginning of this process the company tracks my data. But this single data point is not of value. Only the aggregation of an massive amount of data point has a value. Saying "your data" is just framing the opinion into a direction "data collection hurts your privacy". Really no one cares about Mr A from B in C, born in 1900, having n kids and m wifes.

3. You may reply that my data is in danger, if a company is collecting it. That is right. And that's probably the main goal of legal stuff like the GDPR. Data breach can only happen to existing data. No data, no breach. Too easy. But if this is the argument, then you may stop using the internet or any other service.

So, to sum it up:
Let's blame the companies for 1 (misleading) and 3 (no security)... but 2? Yeah well. I think it's fine to collect data. I mean... it's a human thing! Information advantage is an evolutional advantage and information comes from data.
> Several years from now

You are greatly underestimating the ability of software to "utilize" available hardware gains.
- Make the softdep mount(8) option a no-op. Softdep was a significant impediment to improving the vfs layer.

"Correctly recognize umass(4) floppy disk devices as floppy disks. " :)
did you just respond to yourself as if a different person?
There is actually a great Youtube channel on this very topic! Colorado used to be a very nice place. When I visited in 2008 it was idyllic. Then it flipped blue and with it came all the blue problems. Homelessness, Drug addiction, depression, high cost of living, and a general sense of malaise. When I visited Colorado again in 2021 it was unrecognizable.

So yes. You will flip the whole country.

https://youtu.be/U-nKgfbCXHo?si=XCXROzd8JLwWZ0kv
Or lied about crafting an exploit for a potential bug bounty payout
goodbye LinkedInians, hello LinkedIndians!
Just a single data point: I am subscribing to new releases for a good number of projects but it's usually binaries and not libraries. Because I use them actively and I am interested in the changes and whether they are useful or harmful for me.

Libraries... yeah, too much work to monitor those, especially having in mind that the chances of a change affecting you negatively are likely in the fractions of a percent.
This response is thoughtful, but I'm not sure why you're bothering. The other guy is playing the lazy "just asking questions" game.
Chat Control is really about Thought Control. Today a customs and border agent in France freaks out if he cannot see what's in your phone or laptop, but what he's really after is inspecting your thoughts and memories. When neuralink succeeds in its effort to make a brain reading device, it will be used frivolously in EU and US airports, and hiding your thoughts, or obscuring them with encryption-like methods, will be grounds for throwing you in jail. The idea that the strong must control the weak is rapidly spreading in Europe.
The metaphor to intellectual property is not totally clear, but it’s interesting to think about the fact that an apple pie is one hundred percent effective DRM for an apple.

Edit: is “sufficiently transformative use” the metaphor? Is an LLM an apple pie baked out of the internet’s apple?
I have worked for companies with tech unions. You can only negotiate the terms ahead of time because as a union you don't get a heads up before a mass layoff. The terms I saw were usually not that good. Usually they only had severance pay linked to years of service with a cap at 5. In some places that's barely more than the local law requires.

On my own I have been able to negotiate stock as well. Unions won't touch that.
For last 1.5 months I've been doing this. Can paste entire functions ~ 30-40 lines, and it can analyze, point out problem, and provide fix, then I can copy that and it works.

There are some times it goes off the rails. But pretty amazing when it does work.
Completely agree. Ads make everything worse. Ads in public spaces are bad enough, but I absolutely will not have ads in my own home.
Agriculture is one of CA's largest economic outputs.
Text Classification via Large Language Models
Seems to be missing the important metric of how long the trip took.
I'm not dismissing that, but most artists sell out given the chance.

The thing is that the gap between "breaking even" and "life changing money" is huge for most artists. You wouldn't sell out for 50K per year, but 1M? Sell out for 2 years and you're set for life, then you can go back to making the music you love.

But very few artists can pull 1M per year, so it doesn't happen as often.
> I just assume they have the goal of killing the language

Sadly, that's my conclusion too. I really wish there was a good "portable assembly language", and maybe that'll be something that targets WASM.
Have you tried cash?
I don't know if it's "street legal" to drive without windows but I want to see a car that covers the windows in solar panels and projects the road on a monitor inside using external cameras. Would also help with heat buildup in the cabin and skin cancer rates for long distance haulers.
Absolutely this!

It's a fascinating and disturbing phenomenon. FWIW, here's a
discussion/interview I had with a psychologist [0] about why, for
exmaple, some people will say "Privacy is dead. Give up hope. There's
nothing you can do..." yada yada...

And the less they know about the subject technically, the more
insistent and outspoken they are on the matter. It's bugged me for
ages what's behind this, because there's more than Dunning-Kruger
going on.

She names a possible root as "conflict avoidance".

The most vocal denouncers are in fact the most frightened. What they
don't want to face is that they might have to do something, because
that could be dangerous in their minds.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/ogg/ownership-technology...
No, it's positing that valid pollution control measures don't reduce human caused wildfires. These specific valid pollution control measures are just restrictions on industrial emissions, not "all conceivable pollution controls".
thanks, that's an interesting idea and I didn't realize those markets might be easier.
A motivating example is that the product of manifolds is a manifold in a fairly natural way, and the dimension of the result is the sum of the dimensions of the factors. The factors come in one of two flavors, compact and not compact, with compact roughly meaning finite volume, with the caveat that the topological analog to volume is a little strange and only gives two answers, infinite and finite.

The coordinates of a product of a compact and a non compact manifold are then either constrained in a compact space or not.

Not every manifold is a product in this way though, for an easy example, theres the mobius band (with the boundary removed). This is a "twisted product" of a compact manifold and a non compact manifold, so we have some notion of one small and one large dimension here. even though we dont have explicit projections onto each factor.
Doesn't seem right. I used Google Meet for a few hours the other day and it was still at 93%. This is a MacBook Pro M2
At least there was a timeline. Last layoff at my company said invitations would be sent later today. No timeline on when. So people were sitting around all day wondering if they still had a job.
Babylons was really basic and what they effectively mostly seemed to do was really basic.

Obvious shunt the really urgent stuff off to A&E without talking to a doctor first, and nudge less serious things to an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, who would be cheaper for them.

But I imagine there's a tricky tradeoff there where every ANP consultation that leads to a referral back to a doctor because the ANP couldn't address the issue ends up costing them their savings from multiple ANP referrals.
Took me a while to figure out from the toot thread and comment history, but it appears that the curl 8.4.0 release notes (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/10/11/curl-8-4-0/) referred to the fact that it included a fix for an undisclosed CVE (CVE-2023-38545); the reporter ‘searched in Bard’ for information about that CVE and was given hallucinated details utterly unrelated to the actual curl issue.

The reporter is complaining that they thought this constituted a premature leak of a predisclosure CVE, and was reporting this as a security issue to curl via HackerOne.
I've been in this rut for a while.

For me? the solution was getting GPT-4 to start all my code, it's solved my "slow/cold start" problem.

Once I have the initial code generated for my problem, editing it has proven to be far more effective for me to continue being productive.
On point 5, bandcamp doesn’t own any rights to the music on the site. The artist agreement is limited to the service of selling music, if that changes the artists can revoke their agreement.
Good for you. Given the article links I see here, I think most HN users prefer the "old media" that abide by a set of ethic rules, have rigorous fact checking and have professional editing. I would rather see factually correct info that can be corroborated than "better info".
I propose using delirium/delirious to describe the software.
As always with Linux it depends on which distribution you're on but that hasn't been my experience at all with distributions like Ubuntu and Mint. I used Ubuntu back when the close, maximise and minimise buttons were on the top right and they moved them right from under me. I've tried to adjust to using flat packs but struggled with their very serious limitations while programs I rely on are no longer available in other package types. I have seen them see-saw between the horrible global menu and window menus, make wholesale changes to areas of the settings screen like display settings and mouse and trackpad settings. And I don't even know how many wildly different iterations of that horrible main menu application selector UI I have had to suffer through.
There's an old Simpsons quote that pops into my head fairly often. The hippie parents of a young Ned Flanders can't figure out how to get his behavior under control and tell a therapist, "We've tried nothin', and we're all out of ideas".

It's actually a pretty common pattern to observe, where someone is really upset about an issue, but doesn't try anything to improve it. I think everyone falls into this trap at times, to varying degrees. Doing something about a problem, even if you aren't sure the best path, usually helps you feel better immediately and can often lead to a good solution sooner or later.
It usually comes with an option: those that don't like AGPL can still get a non-AGPL licensed version for a fee. You would be still better off than with totally closed source.
Would still take a 7800x3d over anything Intel currently. Only if they can cut the power usage in half with the same performance would i consider them kicking ass.
Utilitarianism has very real utility monsters, and some people seem like they want to make AI into another one...
Super excited to see longer-lived context showing up for LLM models. The current chatbots aren't really useful to me as long-term AI... "companions" ;) because they forget anything personal every 15 minutes
Is there some reason all of these layoffs are happening today?
> all bureaucracy is evil, and thus organized collections of workers-- necessitating an organizational bureau --is evil

This is the distraction I'm talking about. Unions, in this century, have been effective at one thing: dividing voters from organizing around labor reforms in law.
cool, the scientific name for studying gaslighting!
I had high hopes for SoundCloud but in the end, VC’s always win.
Also Stars and Stripes: https://www.stripes.com
Nvidia’s Grace-Hopper arch is probably the future here — a dedicated high-performance offload “GP” chip for big calculations with a small chip doing switching and routing and access control
Please use TLP if you are using linux on thinkpads. You will have to set some options, but you will get a huge boost in battery life.

Even on my old T440s, for several years, I could eek out over 12 hours of work on a single charge.
Love the duplicates that link to questions that have two answers, neither of which solves the question.
Yes, you can get that for cheaper, but then you're not the customer you're the product.

If you tried rolling your own solution you'd be paying more than 20$ per month.
Maybe if China had labor unions their software engineers wouldn’t be working 996.
Kicking ass by relabelling last year's CPU with a new label and a small overclock?
I can relate sometimes. Doing what you're doing, but harder doesn't seem to help.

Some things that help / helped me:

1. Some serious self-reflection about what the problem is: What are the things you do vs don't enjoy about your job? Do you really like what you're doing or are you doing it because of money, goals you set for yourself / you think this is the most prestigious type of company / problem / etc? Is the problem with yourself or the people you work with? Have you ever been happy at work before (at any job you had) and what was different about that? Or perhaps are you not sure about what you actually enjoy? Or are you just tired?

2. More self-reflection about what work means to you as a person and why: Is your job also your passion? Are you proud of your technical achievements? Do you have daily work hours or do the boundaries blur? Do you put in more work / care more about things than others (e.g. code quality, arguing for the right technical decision)? Do you feel especially good when people tell you you did a great job or somehow acknowledge that you're smart? Do you feel disappointed, unappreciated or like there's something wrong with you if you fail to get this kind of feedback? Not saying this is always the case, but for me they're warning signs for a type of relationship with work that's prone to burnout sooner or later. Maybe talk to a therapist about this kind of thing to help you sort out your stance on this, or just generally about a downward spiral in mood.

3. A big break - unfortunately not everyone can afford this but I'm assuming an engineer with a decade of work experience like you probably can. Go do something else for a while. Definitely a month. Maybe a year: e.g. take a job that's not the most technically or personally challenging but will give you other things: more work-life balance, meet interesting people you wouldn't, will expose you to different subjects you like, give you more freedom with your approach, let you play more. For example, I worked at an academic research center for a few years and it was not without its own challenges but overall broadened my horizons a lot. This isn't going to fix your problems in the long term but maybe you'll realize truly how things can be different - the benefit of perspective.

4. Some small "daily life" changes (obviously huge caveats here about lots of people not being able to afford / allowed to do this stuff but again software engineers usually have this kind of nice privilege, so why not take advantage): Some example ideas: Try to do less things at once, maybe work on one thing at a time even. Work on something with someone you like. Take 5-6 Fridays or Wednesday afternoons off in a row: just see how lessening the load a bit or breaking up the work helps. Enforce a hard-cutoff deadline in the evening. etc.

Now, to actually follow my own advice ...