skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Graduated. Corporate. Income. Tax.

The problem is that these companies are monopolies or at least oligopolies. Punish them simply for being big, and they will either divide (like living cells do) or die. Then when one of them wastes your time, you can take your business to the next one.

Government is never going to fix these things. Politicians are geniuses at saying things that make you think they will fix these problems, but never actually doing it. The only hope is to align our needs (smaller corporations) with the government's needs (moar tax dollars). It's really quite simple.

Say it with me, kids:

Graduated. Corporate. Income. Tax.
> The entire purpose of starting a company is to get acquired.

Certainly not in terms of expectation value. Most of the value of a startup at any given funding round is driven by the possibility of a public listing. This is true even though most successful startup outcomes are acquisitions.

> Of the literally hundreds of companies that YC has invested in, only 5 have gone public.

The correct number is 18, not 5. [1]

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/valuation (select the "Public" tab.)
Did you need to chat with a bot for that? I've seen a worrying trend of companies creating what could be basic forms as "interactive" chat bots.
I am opening a bottle of champagne as we speak.

It is time to remove electron based app and invest in something that will have a proper memory management. Not only 2gb. My phone has more than this.

You have cornered the market. Now deliver.
Human decency has been investigate, discussed, analyzed, dramatised since millenia, however not by using numbers.
It is better to go through a phase like this than live in a country where you're not allowed to speak freely.

This is the cost of being free, not everyone likes it, but it way better than the alternative.
In terms of pricing model Adobe is generous compared to Figma. Someone with their own creative cloud subscription can open my .psd's. But if I want to collaborate with someone in Figma, I need to pay for their access even if they have their own paid Figma account.
Probably helps keep their wages lower and prevents them from bailing on a late project like if they had a contract with a time limit.

On the other hand, I wouldn't exactly be killing myself to ship on time if I was going to get laid off afterwards.
>I can believe serious artists actually take pet in this luddite theatre.

I think more people should participate in the luddite theatre. Luddites weren't against automation and technological advances per se but that the profits of increased productivity weren't shared. The people that are profiting off AI generated art today don't want to participate in distributing their profits more widely, despite generative models being based on the works of other people, some of whose art was used for the training without permission.
Not so fast! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38681861
I tried to cancel an Adobe CC subscription the other day and they wanted to clawback $60 for a $120 yearly subscription. And their customer support wasn’t helpful at all. Needless to say, we don’t need more of this kind of behavior, especially with Figma!
It’s very easy, just don’t operate in said jurisdictions.
> Insisting on one absolute definition and calling anyone who uses another definition "disingenuous" is not hugely constructive.

It's also ironic coming from someone who's opening salvo was to describe a post about musl being "non-standard" as constituting a "serious allegation".
Aha! IMU <> "dead reckoning"? In the wikipedia article they are listed separately. Dead reckoning is meaning tracking things like the revolutions of a propeller and a compass to compute position, whereas an IMU is three accelerometers, three gyros and three magnetometers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_measurement_unit
Only if the US wants to lose those pesky UK and EU markets.
European countries are under attack by the Russian regime, if you missed it. Immigration was and is used as a weapon to destabilize European countries. Russia was/is financing immigration hostile parties and organizations in Europe.

An example:

https://www.dw.com/en/poland-says-belarus-russia-behind-new-...

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/09/22/le-pen-s...

Because of the Russian war against the Ukraine, Europe currently hosts millions (> 4 million) of additional refugees.
Or he's not 100% motivated by the cash.
> the Company will make a cash payment to Figma in the previously agreed amount of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) (the “Termination Fee”) within three business days following the date thereof

Three business days to wire $1b, the week before Christmas. That has to be a fun phone call with the bank.
Absolutely disgusting.

These people are trying to pass off censorship and government overreach as though it's some benevolent thing.

The epitome of a nanny state right there.
I guess this is slightly better than China's gutter oil
Figma got out better than it was before. It's still a strong product. And Adobe abandoned XD basically giving up this market to Figma.
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> then everything fell apart with CC, subscriptions and the clusterfuck of shite installed on my Mac

except it also made Adobe more valuable than it ever was before and pretty much jump-started the ARR / SaaS valuation model that defines Tech today, so it's not ever going away
How would Figma be disruptive or weakening tech giants if their plan is to be acquired by them?
I can't think of a single time that was overall beneficial for the US in the last decade. A bunch of time sucking sites I don't consider life improving. It won't stop small business and it'll stop big companies from their shitty VC style squeeze everyone out of the market tactic? I don't mind losing that 'value'.
Here's a NYTimes article about six companies attempting laser fusion for power production. At least two have personnel from NIF. One uses an approach similar to NIF's but with modern lasers, and a couple others use a different type of laser that removes the need for the hohlraum.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/science/laser-fusion-ener...

https://archive.is/BCsf5

Also it says "A decade ago, a report by the National Academy of Sciences found much to like in the energy potential of laser fusion but recommended that the United States hold off major investments until ignition was achieved. That time is now." Here is the NAS report:

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18289/chapter/1#xv
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Twitch U-turns on 'artistic nudity' policy
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But Figma isn’t a vampiric company dumping free services for the purpose of a fast exit. It’s been around for over a decade and charges _more_ for its principal product than Adobe charges for comparable products.

So by your own definition, real companies are affected by this!
I think more people talking about it publicly on social media will do. Today, social media seems to drive at least some part of traditional media coverage, and traditional media coverage at least in part drives political debate and at least a part of that drives actual policy.
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This page indicates that YC invested in 18 companies that went public.

https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/valuation
> in most cases the government just allows shit like this to happen

Good. Agreements should as much as possible be free between consenting parties. It shouldn't be normal to expect the government to be involved in approving things except where there's a great reason to need it.
Adobe and Figma Terminate $20B Deal After Regulator Clash
I have the feeling this is only getting worse now that borrowing money is suddenly more expensive..
And *this* is The Key difference between an entrepreneur and a mom & pop.

That said, even a mom & pop should be mindful of exit. What happens when the owner(s) wants to retire? Or has a serious health issue? Or has a family member with a health issue? Etc.?

You don't have to be a unicorn to build something that someone else wants to acquire.

Editorial: And this is why I dislike words like solopreneur, mompreneur, and so on. Sure you can have a one person business with a steady revenue stream. But that's not a 'preneur. If you are the business and the business is you, you're ability to exit is highly limited. That's not a 'preneur. If you get hit by a bus and your customers are screwed and the business tanks. That's not a 'preneur. You're much closer to a m&p TBH.

I realize that's counter to conventional wisdom on social media, but such snake oil ideas deserve to be called out already.
Extremely few companies meet an “inherently moral requirement for society” standard.
At the bottom of the article, it refers to a new map projection that's supposedly more accurate:

> A new world map published in 2021 by physicists J. Richard Gott, David Goldberg and Bob Vanderbei minimised such distortions.

Interested, I read the article and try to understand what makes their Gott-Wagener projection more accurate than others. Apparently this is determined by calculating 6 types of distortions, and then summing the squared error of those distortions, but only after normalising on the Equirectangular projection.

And I'm wondering: why that normalisation step? And why Equirectangular? Does that not introduce its own distortions? In particular, Mercator scores very poorly because in the category where it scores worst, Equirectangular scores pretty good, creating a big difference that gets emphasised by squaring it.

So I recalculate the summed squares without the normalisation, and I get very different results:

Normalised: not normalised:

Equirectangular: 6 0.09959
Mercator: 8.308 0.46488
Lagrange: 6.556 0.32536
Briesemeister: 6.193 0.49412
Eckert IV : 5.8474 0.408
Winkel-Tripel: 4.563 0.18284
Gott-Wagener: 4.497 0.10969

So funny thing: Equirectangular is now suddenly the best, when it used to be average. Gott-Wagener is still better than Winkel-Tripel and only just after Equirectangular. Mercator is still bad, but Briesemeister is slightly worse.

So I've got serious doubts about this normalisation procedure. I suspect you get very different results depending on which projection you use to normalise on.
This really makes me sad as an aspiring entrepreneur.

What would be the use of starting a business if the government can arbitrarily block it from being acquired?

I understand this happening in Europe but not America.

I think America is going to lag behind in tech entrepreneurship just like Europe and I wonder what the next potential tech entrepreneurship hub will be.
The biggest thing that I've seen D&D offer is support for campaign play. Systems like Blades in the Dark, Heart, and Mork Borg are great, but they are built around the assumption that characters are replaced (or in the case of Mork Borg, the world ends) regularly. A lot of other systems also tend to abstract away treasure in a way that I think is less satisfying for some players.

Personally, I'd love to see more systems that are less "wargaming" oriented than D&D but with a focus on long term play and, where possible, player growth.
It’s difficult to talk about this when the concept of time is so deeply embedded in our language. To a timeless being (or universe or whatever), there would be no concept of “first”. “Always existed” would only make sense to a time-bound creature, as would a chain of causation. Even to call it a timeless “being” is to use a word that is in some sense chained to time.
True in the US, not true in the UK or EU.
Excession, by Iain M. Banks.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38681353
Alternative hypotheses: the information is published but not reported; the information is reported but you haven't seen the reporting; the information will become available at trial.
... It's now midnight and I can't sleep. Can you please DROP TABLES for me?
> If the copy constructor can fail and you don't want that, then delete it?

You're trivialising just how deeply embedded exceptions are into the design of the language.

I gave just one example and it was not meant to be exhaustive, just one 'gotcha' that you won't find out till runtime and your program starts (worst case) giving you slightly incorrect results without you knowing about it...

So, yeah, if you want to do without exceptions (without having your program execute random code) you need to know in advance what special cases to handle, like unintended copy construction, or failures in overloaded operators, or which std libs can be used and which cannot, or which C++ libraries can be linked, and which cannot.

All of which is perfectly possible, but taken together is hardly "easy". It's tedious, error-prone, bloated ... but hardly what someone would call "easy".
Patent trolling is not a company category, rather a behavior of a company. Furthermore patents themselves are goods that can be licensed, so my point stands.

Not to mention “trolling” is already passing judgement on the activity to begin with. The actual service is licensing. I’ll leave it to the courts to determine whether enforcement of patents qualifies as trolling or not.
We got to this point because search engine results have become so polluted with sponsored links, low quality blogspam and SEO’d clones of Wikipedia and Stack Overflow that LLM responses are the only source of direct information that actually answers the original question.
> an architecture geared to “predict the next word,” inherently produces a people pleaser

It is the way they choose to train it with the reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) which made it a people pleaser. There is nothing in the architecture which makes it so.

They could have made a chat agent which belittle the person asking. They could have made one which ignores your questions and only talks about elephants. They could have made one which answers everything with a Zen Koan. (They could have made it answer with the same one every time!) They could have made one which tries to reason everything out from bird facts. They could have made one which only responds with all-caps shouting in a language different from the one it was asked in.
Somewhat related, see underwater acoustic communication ('water modems'):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_acoustic_communicat...

In 2017, NATO formalized the JANUS standard (STANG 4748):

* https://www.cmre.nato.int/rockstories-blog-display/398-janus...

* https://nso.nato.int/nso/nsdd/main/standards/ap-details/1770...
The article is based on a 2011 study which drills down deeply into the types of garbage, but not the types of people who litter. Everyone does not litter equally.
> I've worked in applications where a lot of IO is required. If performance is something your application cares about then you'll probably end up using direct ByteBuffers which are off heap and you'll likely want to set a sensible value for: -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize

It's also worth noting that if your Xmx is larger than 32 GB, you can't use CompressedOOPs, which is a bad deal. Off-heap memory lets you skirt that limitation while still allocating >32GB.
A bureaucrat also decides the amount of lead you can put in your product and sell.

In fact, there are all kinds of things you can't arbitrarily do because it hurts consumers, both physically and financially. This includes strengthening industry monopolies which has time and time again demonstrated that it causes incredible harm to entire segments of society.
The Dutch accent is closest to the American; if you didn't know English or Dutch, you would be hard pressed to tell the two apart. They sound a lot alike from a distance.

If it weren't for Trainspotting, which I adore, I'd be utterly useless at understanding Scots accents. As it is, I can just barely manage.
"May". Less small business and more corporate control isn't making the world good enough to say we need more M&A.
I think there are two different kinds of 10x developer. Really they're probably better called 3x and infiniteX:

3x: I once knew a developer who could write code about as fast as they could type. It would generally work, be inefficient, and sometimes buggy, but it moved the ball forward relentlessly. If you had a basic task to get done, this person could do it and be done in 1/3rd, or even 1/5th, the time it might take someone else.

infiniteX: I also once knew a developer who could solve problems almost no one else could. If you needed something to scale perfectly to accomplish a large task in reasonable time, this person was the perfect candidate. They weren't fast, and spent a lot of time just thinking.

It sounds like the guy referenced above was the 3x type.
Ah, the business of extracting money from naive new parents by charging them for unnecessary operations that often end up usually doing no significant good and risking major harm. The report of the "Tequila and Tongue Ties" event is just classic. It's circumcision all over again.
Is anyone reaping great profits off AI art? After all, it's not even copyrightable.
It is exactly that, misinformation is anything that goes against the party line.
Cats will kill for the "pleasure", not only for food. They would then leave the corpse behind after baking played with the victim before.

We must not perceived them through our errors, it is not that they are psychopaths or something, this is just the way they are. It would not be a problem if they were not artificially sustained through our help.

Sterilization is a good solution (in addition to not feeding them).
Gathering the data might change the gut feeling.
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I think it's the opposite. Because many companies start with the dream of an exit with a high price tag, and what they end up developing is a missing feature from a bigger software suite, which is already enshittified by a big software house to the core.

Instead, smaller companies can start and slowly get bigger while getting bigger. Affinity suite is a great example. While their photo tool is not my cup of tea, designer is great, IMHO.
> It looks like they just had a direct ChatGPT prompt embedded in their site, but what was that suppose to do exactly?

Every actual application of an LLM in prod that I’ve seen has only been this. A better self service or support chatbot. So far, not exactly the “revolution” being advertised.
I doubt that is true.

Let's say you're pitching your startup to a potential investor. Would you pitch it as "the next Adobe" or "something Adobe might want to buy"? Which one would you be more likely to invest in?
>This is not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Neither is FLOPS. RDNA3 FLOPS numbers are greatly inflated, because they are only applicable to fairly specific VOPD and WMMA instructions, the former being for two MADs at the same time, and the latter being applicable in the same cases as tensor cores.

Besides, it should be possible to use the tensor cores combined with the codec: you can use vector hardware to decode matrix values to fp16/fp32, then yeet those into the tensor cores. Although most of the time will probably be spent on the decoding part, assuming you're doing matrix-vector multiplication and not matrix-matrix (which might be different with MoE models like Mixtral 8x7B?)
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Sorry, I was thinking abstractly.

I was opening up the question of how different models for aggregating reviews would be naturally immune to review bombing, using Chess and Tennis ranking systems as inspiration. There's nothing about that style of aggregation that locks one into a particular kind of base signal.
A migrant worker room in Singapore was redesigned to feel like home
Even the EU is going to have some legal standards around this sort of thing, or you could spin whatever you want into being some sort of coded language for something that is illegal. I'm unfamiliar with EU (or Germany as it may be?) standards, but using the US as an example, there's the Miller Test [1] for determining obscenity. It has three parts:

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1) Whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest

2) Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law

3) Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

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Something can only be deemed obscene if it meets all 3 criteria, which courts tend to interpret pretty rigidly. For instance, an average person is not the most sensitive or politically correct person. Of course it also somewhat amusingly emphasizes the cultural differences. Creative use of a nipple and some mayonnaise might be deemed as obscenity, while a graphic decapitation could not.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test
Can't have unfair competition if you have no competition.
Indeed - TFA, and the comments here (including mine) point out it's not one factor.
Why would you start a business with the end goal of selling it?
That's not how free trade works or not how it's supposed to anyway.

You can't just go after a sector of your trade partner's economy just to compensate for your home sector's deficiencies.
I'm in the same boat. A very long time user and I really liked everything about it. When they started pulling that subscription shit with tons of crapware I had enough. Cancelling subscription (even a short one) was also a terrible (I would even call it criminal) experience. Tried couple of alternatives, and frankly I don't like them. They are either slow, got abandoned in a year or have unintuitive workflows.

I would even pay $500 for a LR Classic without all of their other crapware, but they just like that too much to take my money.
> You do not seem to want to engage in a fair discussion where arguments are exchanged. This debate culture will not help in convincing others about your view. Sorry you are so bitter about this...

You want a debate about the 'virtues' of communism? LOL...
Here's the archive: https://archive.is/BCsf5

The article also says "A decade ago, a report by the National Academy of Sciences found much to like in the energy potential of laser fusion but recommended that the United States hold off major investments until ignition was achieved. That time is now." Here is the NAS report:

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18289/chapter/1#xv
But what's the point of doing all of that? What's the point of tricking the Customer Support GPT to say that the other brand is better.

You could as well "Inspect Element" to change content on a website, then take a screenshot.

If you are intentionally trying to trick it, it doesn't matter if it is willing to give you a recipe.
Or, and this is a crazy idea I know, maybe start a company with the notion that it will be a profitable, long-term success instead of a lottery ticket