skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, good luck. As a tech cofounder, I attempted to do just this and I have extensive development and management experience. It was a nightmare, EVERY SINGLE offshoring company tried to play us as a group that didn't know their stuff, and when put to the iron they couldn't produce anything that would stand up--technically--against a mild sneeze.

If I hadn't been there, my other founders would have gotten up to their eyeballs in offshore dev debt and would have a giant hairball that even the most experienced tech people would be unable or unwilling to make additional progress against once the offshore team stops delivering.

So, good luck trying to lead an offshore team that's only interested in absorbing as much money from you as possible before moving onto the next sucker. If you don't think a tech cofounder is worth their ask, then you deserve to get exactly what you pay for.
Evernote was a tool that I loved, and has slowly gotten worse and worse. Especially the apps. They seem set on destroying themselves with this one.

Unfortunately, the story of too many companies who seek to be everything and lose sight of their core product and customers.
I've been using Yabai for 2+ years now, super happy that it exists!
Those that are complaining about the lack of resemblance, may have missed the text explaining how this works: "We'll analyse your photo, describe it in words, and generate a new image from scratch."

Mine was also way off, but if I think about how an AI would describe the photo and then regenerate it, then it's probably pretty close to that.
that is a very "level-headed" and "reasonable" reaction.

all quotes are sarcasm quotes.

what the hell is it with people automatically reacting in the extreme whenever they see a thing they don't like?
Only if your blog is big enough to have bargaining power with news sites. Not that this makes the law just, but it is specifically targeted at large traffic sources.
No, the person I constructed is only deaf. They attempt to touch a button and do not realize that button did not register their attempt.

I agree that not all disabilities can be accounted for. However the more we account for the better - where accounting is all aspects of getting around. I don't know how to make it safe for a blind and deaf person to navigate streets safely - but I wish it was possible and as soon as I learn of something that works I'll support it.
> I think the project missed an opportunity by tying itself so tightly to x86 assembly.

What sort of "opportunity" did authors miss? They're not a business.

Or is writing ARM assembler necessarily more fun than writing x86?
It seems to be a manifestation of tonic immobility [0] triggered as a defense mechanism in response to a perceived threat. As far as why drawing a line is perceived as a threat is anybody's guess. Maybe it's the chicken's simple brain using a flawed heuristic for recognizing snakes? It brings to mind cats freaking out about cucumbers. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_death#Tonic_immobilit...

[1] https://youtu.be/RBrZsgy4-SQ?si=OXD65pDCd9hqaNuY
Time to check your rings! You are behind by 300 thrusts for this time of day compared to your average this week.
> If you assume that "the eyes are the window to the soul", you notice some interesting properties.

And people say LLM output is nonsense.

I'm blind with glass eyeballs. Does this mean my soul is easier to access than yours? Or is it harder because there's something specific about the eyeball that makes it the window?
The medical care is top notch. Its the billing and insurance racket that's the problem.

>and it’s seemingly impossible to do anything about it

Just in the past few years, we've had transparent pricing laws that drove down prices quite a bit. Something tells me that outlawing lobbyists would go a long way.
> ...but I can't understand why there's so much focus on AGI.

Lots of software engineers have spent their lives reading sci-fi that features AGI, and they're excited by/lost in that fantasy.

It's interesting to see that in people who often view themselves as hyper-rational.
Completely agree, I'm waiting for the article on "Why you need a business-oriented co-founder and how technical founders can recruit one"...
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It was reproducible at the time they found it, and trivially so: install Grammarly, drag this GIF into Chrome, and it crashes. I understood everything up to the point where they just changed the GIF and moved on without ever telling the Chrome or Grammarly folks about it.
Windows (especially v3.1, Windows 95 and Windows XP) was leaps and bounds better than its contemporaries when it came to normal desktop use. You can have the most technologically advanced OS in the world but if it is too difficult to use for 99% of potential users then it it not a good product. Microsoft was one of the first few companies to really get this right.
Is that really the recovery rate on medical debt? Seems like you should never pay it, since it wouldn't really be worth them collecting on it? Do hospital accountants recognize the value as basically zero?

I would imagine there is a rating system so that whether your debt is worth 99%, 50%, or 1% actually depends on some personal information like what your job is, employer, age, and so on.

Thus the very low value debt is basically valued correctly, the win is simply a kind of nominal/value confusion much like the nominal value of an option is not the same thing as what you pay to buy it.
to get from zero to one, which i think is what you're referring to with your 'once you've got to 1' line at the end, you need to first find a market that's at zero; a product/service that doesn't exist. but that isn't enough; then you have to take it to one, a product that does exist. there are three piles here:

1. product categories that are technically feasible and profitable and where products already exist;

2. product categories that are technically feasible and profitable and where no products already exist;

3. product categories that are not technically feasible, so no products already exist.

anyone can tell the difference between pile 1 and piles 2 and 3. but you need a technical cofounder to be able to distinguish between pile 2, which is very small, and pile 3, which is enormous. and that's not something you do once; it's an ongoing process that happens at many levels of detail in your product, and even at the largest scale it's a gradual process of reduction of uncertainty, because you don't really know that something is technically possible until it's been done

then, you need to actually build the first product in that category, which involves identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating the risks that could destroy it. probably in banking a lot of this is things like regulators, market moves, and bank runs, but in companies built on software, a lot of those risks are software risks, and you need technical acumen to do this

as a nontechnical cofounder, what value are you bringing to the table? your family's money? invest in a vc fund, or start one, though without technical cofounders you'll waste all your money on companies in pile 3. your business knowledge? that's worthwhile in some cases. your leadership and management skills? likewise. but you're going to have to offer convincing evidence of something like this to be a good option for anyone to invest their money in
This looks really interesting (ad to click over to homepage to see what it is) - and now I wonder, how are people using stuff like this?

Is this like, people who use vsCode and write React?

Wondering what the common tech stacks / tooling people would be using for such things these days.
There are plenty of models that use introspection and check answers, that’s the idea behind let’s think about it step by step.
I ended switching to Inkdrop for my personal use from Evernote. So far pretty happy.
When I was without health insurance in the US and broke a bone, I asked the hospital if they'd give me a discount for a cash payment. It turns out not having to hassle with insurance companies and/or debt collection was worth 50% to them, as they immediately dropped my bill by half.
They probably have a huge cashflow problem, for some reason. No idea why that would be, their app is simple, and they're not exactly putting out any groundbreaking features.

They also have a metric ton of data to sell to LLM inc. et al, which, you'd think that'd make it cheaper, but, they might really be in a hole and that alone can't dig them out.
Crosspass is a mobile app for sending passwords and text notes
> Why in classical contemporary music do so many people equate challenging with intimidating—or even infuriating?

I assume the wording "classical contemporary" is deliberate, but it sounds all wrong. Shouldn't it be "contemporary classical" aka "modern classical"?

They also use it once in the article. Is this a widely used naming convention for this type of music?
Everyone was trying to get their hands on A100s right until the H100 was released. If Amazon can replace A100s that’s a big win.
> Since you're comfortable asking pedestrians to jaywalk across the street if it looks clear,

According to the rest of his comment, most of them are jaywalking:

> Most of the time they then cross immediately and the traffic light will go red some time after they have already crossed

I.e., they come to the intersection, hit the crosswalk button, and then jaywalk across instead of waiting for the signal to change. The signal then actually changes after they are across.
Midday and midnight should be based only on the sun. Midday is when the sun is at the highest and midnight is half way between middays. Whether midday corresponds with 12ish on the clock or any other time doesn't really matter. The point of your parent comment is people would just get used to midday being around 18ish or work starting at 03:00 etc.
I’ve successfully judged the ripeness of those avocados by squeezing all my life
Exporting to web from any major engine is an unavoidably complex mess, but developing for web first doesn't make a ton of sense. Who's playing games in their browser these days, just kids with Chromebooks?

Web games are really convenient when browsing game jam entries or otherwise poking around on itch.io, but mobile/console/PC is where the money is.
you, sir, have a broken avocado
Only some Chinese distros support it. For a lot of serious things, you will need to have binary support - commercial software, docker etc.
There’s a lot of space between “lavish villa” and “literally lock people up.” SRO hotels, for instance.
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>gigantic innovators of music in 20th century

I still hold out hope that someday Harry Partch will get the recognition he deserves. If traditional Western harmony is played out, surely the obvious solution is adding more notes? It makes more sense to me than trying to wring out the last few drops of novelty using Schoenberg's ideas. Partch demonstrated that microtonal works can sound both pleasant and novel, but musicians are strangely resistant to the idea.

One exception is Sevish, who produces some of the most interesting electronic dance and ambient music I've heard. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-JZhCWsk3M

I wish more musicians would compose stuff like this.
The fundamental core engineering -- the motors, the inverters, the control systems, battery management in their cars are pretty damn fantastic and they were consistently ahead of most others. And the Model S, while a dubious luxury car in terms of fit and finish, was a piece of amazing engineering when it came out.

The Model 3 and its variants I think are meh from a UX POV (stupid centre iPad distracto-slab etc) and I won't pay for them because of who is behind them... and the lies about full self driving, and the crap support etc... suck.... but I think it's disingenuous to call Tesla product crap.
I wonder what's the current "funding" status of Evernote. It is one of those services that has existed for quite some time. I remember when it had just started 20+ years ago. It was supposedly revolutionary, part of the new "web 2" wave. I am surprised it is still going as a company.
Was just about to post this!

I'm so excited for a free ecosystem again. But I'm wondering about this "android compatible" thing. I would like to be able to install any extension, marked compatible or not. Who decides whether or not an extension is compatible? The developer?

It's surprising that only 400 of the countless add ons on the repository will be available.
> ...then there was the stupid angry computer that thought 2 + 2 = 7... Lem predicted Facebook and Twitter and QAnon!

I like how Chat GPT makes simple errors in math :)
This is like saying you can go hire the top graduate of your local bootcamp and they can be a decent tech lead. Experience matters for legal and business roles just as much for engineering, much as we devs like to pretend otherwise.
I do often wonder what Evernote would be today if they hadn't taken all that VC money.
I think I did read about there having been extensive succession plans and efforts established already
A totally generic and unthinking generalization.

There is a place for religion. Something that pushes you to be better than you are. Along with the happiness and fulfillment that comes from that effort. Selflessness, love, compassion, truth.

Plenty of bad religions telling you that you are perfect the way that you are. Just give me money, fame, or influence and I will flatter you and pump your ego.

Another form of this is flattery in exchange for hating something. Many doomsday cults fit this category. All your life problems are because of 'insert target X'. But I, I have the answers you need.

Religion is more attuned with purpose, where your heart is, than the belief in God. Though the two are often paired.

And yes, we crave purpose.
I don't understand the reasoning. if you merged two of the most specialized models together and simply doubled the size/parameter count, there is no reason the smaller one can generalize better than the larger one.

It would simply have two different submodels inside its ubermodel.
The Snopes page doesn't really seem to debunk it, but merely points out that the legend's been retold with many variations and contradictory explanations. Suspicious, definitely, but it doesn't seem clear that none of the variations could ever have happened?
I've even seen articles about how Amazon chews through so many people that they're having trouble finding "virgin" hires. Everyone in their pool is already fed up with them or were PIP'd.
> Basically time stuff is arguably one of the big Chesterton's Fences that comes up on HN a lot. We didn't end up where we are for no reason or because people in the past were stupid.

We should all pretend to be robots and use UTC for everything. Problem solved!
The drag race while towing was amusing
i'm interested to hear what kinds of things they did and what you did in response. there are probably a lot of good stories there
I'm still using Slate, with a .dmg that was built nearly a decade ago and by some miracle continues to work. I pray that each new OS update won't be the one to break it, because I really don't want to migrate the config for ten years of muscle memory to something new...
It would be easy to point to their recent acquisition by Bending Spoons and say that they're squeezing the stone for blood.
You know that Hass is German for “hate”?

I always find it funny that I didn’t bother to change the name here.
You become a business guy the same way you became a technical guy!

Don't waste time selling soap though (unless you really love soap) - my best advice is to try to sell something you've made. It could be your time (as a consultant), or it could be a product.

I would suggest waiting to develop these skills until you know what product you want to bring to market as an entrepreneur. No sense in learning B2C growth hacking when you end up in enterprise sales (or vice-versa).
They were sold to Bending Spoons, and they've been trying to squeeze as much as they can from it before it dies
cost-constrained solution for homelessness would look a lot more similar to a prison than to a lavish suburb

Why wouldn't this just devolve into a slum? I went to a military academy boarding school, and the largest barricks building on campus took on some of the qualities of a slum on the weekends, to the point where some adults would have some trepidation entering it.

The problem with institutional solutions like this, is that they concentrate the problematic and traumatic elements. What if homeless people were dispersed in normalized environments that could absorb and dilute the problematic or traumatic elements in their lives? (With some additional professional supervision and help, of course.)
Really?
Perhaps you should checkout https://www.timeanddate.com/ to see when the sun rises/sets in the summer in various places.
I.e. June 21st Stockholm - 03:30 and 22:08 with DST.
The vast majority of people simply prefer evening sun to "useless" night sun.
I think a lot it comes down to pride. Nobody wants to be the country that works 23-7. We all want the "nice" numbers the UK picked for itself.
I worked with someone who really needed it, but we had the usual "keep sales users as far from the actual product as possible" organizational isolation so it worked out in practice. (For engineering, it was on the "don't install this in particular" list.)
Tesla to begin Cybertruck deliveries after Musk tempers expectations
It isn't still going as a company. It was bought a little while ago by a company called Bending Spoons.
I feel the "let's think about it step by step" is a bit of a hack. To circumvent the fact that there's no external loop you use the fact that it gets re-run on every token so you can store a bit of state in the tokens that it's already generated.

Or am I misunderstanding something about that technique?
I know what you mean, but this caused me a second of "wait, what?"

> all pages in a single-page-web-app
Huh, turns out I still have 80 random notes from 2010-2015 with Evernote. Guess it's time to export them and delete the account.
Local workstation is much cheaper in the long run.

Even ignoring that, most of the development is running experiments. You're gonna be hesitant to run lots of experiments if they each cost money whereas when you pay upfront for the hardware, you're gonna have the incentive to fully utilize it with lots of experiments.

I'd go with rtx 4090 and deal with memory limitation through software tricks. It's an underrated card that's as performant as cards that are magnitude pricier. It's great way to get started with that budget.
You really want to change an entire company’s mandated browser every time a bug causes a problem with an extension?
I understand the article is clickbaiting about male genitalia, but does Apple submit vague patent applications because the legal SOP is to cover as many usecases as possible? If so, is it primarily to preclude competition or is it to keep the roadmap open?
> while treating you like an idiot savant they can easily take advantage of.

I considered it a bit, and you know what, I'd wager that four-fifths of tech business dynamics flow from this statement. Technical expertise is the money printer onto which all manners of value extraction anchor themselves, like barnacles. If not at the creation, then, for a time, it is good. And then it happens anyway 5-10 years down the line.

That said, there are different failure modes for purely technical people not understanding business. But the market doesn't seem to reward them the same way. Root cause is outside the scope of this comment...
Is this really the venue for this?

Is this what you want to use your time for?
It’s just reduction gears, not the motor, so hopefully it can be made light enough. Shame that their promo didn’t say a word about the mass.

Quad-motor all-wheel torque vectoring sounds awesome tho.
I feel the exact same way about car modifications. I know you spent a fortune on those rims and you love them but I don't. Now it's a liability to have to replace them.
Oh, thanks! I will check it.
Slightly off-topic, but I've been learning a bit of Japanese in preparation for a trip to Tokyo, and I'm seeing the differences in how they treat written language vs. English speakers. Japanese has three alphabets: Hiragana ("regular" Japanese), Katakana (generalized phonetics for foreign words) and Kanji (Chinese-origin characters).

Kanji can be thought of as a precursor to Emoji, and the name similarity is no coincidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji.

Kanji's purpose is instead of conveying phonetic syllables (similar to what English and other European languages do), Kanji characters convey meaning, which greatly increases information density with the tradeoff that you already have to know what it means instead of being able to just sound it out.

I've noticed that frequently they will interweave Kanji characters in mostly-Hiragana words. This works because Japanese speakers have already learned these characters and are comfortable doing so.

While Emoji isn't exactly like Kanji, learning about this has given me a much better appreciation for why Emoji has found so much use, and I expect that future generations will be able to include it in their language as a first-class citizen, essentially adopting the Japanese attitude towards written language.
> And rumors said, military support for Russia from North Korea is larger, than support for Ukraine from US.

Certainly China is funding NK support. So they use NK to covertly provide military support to Russia while they front as the "good guys" that support "peace" and only provide economical support to Russia.
I believe this post is a joke or a creative writing exercise
*She – the author’s name is Amy
LLMs nevertheless contain rudimentary theories, don't they? Like the Othello example demonstrating a spatial model that is emergent.

LLMs are fast like calculators but it seems the optimization process that generates the parameter weights still produces "fuzzy semantics" and the Othello emergence is just one example.
No way RoI and Northern Ireland will be okay having separate time zones.

On the other hand, I'm glad to have Central European TZ.
Elon is literally exercising his “f*ck you money” position:

https://youtu.be/XamC7-Pt8N0?si=NlT0ZRjgLbwtZcSG

How can a true source of truth free speech platform be anything other than a non profit model like Wikipedia? Free speech requires speaking the truth, and the truth makes most people, including companies / advertisers uncomfortable.
When and where did I call you stupid?
Do you really think there’s no skills or archetypes that are valuable on a founding team that doesn’t involve writing code?
There are plenty of things that deliver the above without the dogmatic slaughter of hundreds of millions of humans throughout history and at this very moment.
What are you talking about?

I can't change jobs now due to home life responsibilities and having specialized in dead tech.

I have picked up responsibilities. In the past I've filled the role of a senior dev for a year and a tech lead for another. I volunteered to be an ASC. I volunteered for all sorts of other responsibilities.

Perhaps the world doesn't work in the way that you think. It's not possible for everyone to successfully job hop, especially with a disability and home responsibilities. Just picking up responsibilities doesn't mean you'll get rewarded.
I mean, the whole purpose of the I, Robot story was to show you that the 3 laws didn't work. We had the first story on prompt injection decades ago and we just didn't realize it.
To protect domestic shipbuilding. As a result commercial shipbuilding also non-existent in USA.
If you consider Cage, Stockhausen and Glass part of the western classical music tradition, then I think we should consider composers like Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Richard Skelton and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith part of that continuum. There are people making interesting, innovative music that isn't academic or needlessly avant garde, that I think can appeal to everyone.