skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To say what you're saying responsibly you need to establish that their religious conviction is the reason why. Given that we see it elsewhere and across religions it seems much more likely to me that simply being invaded by a more powerful state is a strong enough source of this conviction.

Aside from that the "they're happy to die because their religion says they get virgins" is something I remember my second most racist uncle saying after sept 11. It's not even really true? It's a very narrow reading of a particular passage, that, yes, extremists have gotten a lot of mileage out of. But from my lay understanding of islam does not feature heavily in the personal religious experience of most muslims.

Again unless you have some particularly insight or expertise about the role of islam in motivating individuals in conflict I think you should reflect on where you got this idea and what you were trying to communicate by using it here.
Try reloading that usually works. BTW, we identified the issue that was affecting the subset of users on the first load. We are pushing out a fix as we speak.
I’m in the same boat as the OP, I’ve launched 3 projects in 2023.

I spent 10 months on the first project. It was a very clever project, complicated to explain, hard to build, and ultimately did crap. It scratched my own itch - or so I thought, I don’t even use it myself at all. No emotions, pure logic marketing. 1000+ users only. $0 made.

My second project I built in 1 day, and launched in 1 week. It was basic, but people wanted this functionality. It was an emotion based marketing, people empowerment tool, and I wanted it and I use it myself. It immediately went viral and I managed to sell it for a decent bump to my income. 5 figures.

My third project I built in 3 days, it was the top post of the month on the subreddit for the niche, and gained about 1500 users in 1 day. Again, an emotional marketing spin and this time worker empowerment. I’m planning on selling it this year for 4 figures.

I’m now working on a roughly 2-3 month project from start to launch. It’s something I need. It will be my first non-freemium project.

Lessons learned? Build FAST, and market an mvp as soon as you can. Be clever, but not too clever because you only alienate a potential audience. I really
agree with the OP regarding impressions and emotions. I will only pursue ideas I can build and fully launch in a 3 month window.

How can I improve? Get the landing page up earlier, don’t be too clever with ideas, and try paid advertisements
surreptiously loses the copyright guid for the work, slipping stuff to the public domain
Just trying to identify what's the Mint/Ubuntu/Zorin/elementary OS equivalent of BSD in terms of ease of use.
It's fascinating that the advent of web3 falls together with the advent of AI.

I have a stronger feeling of upcoming change than I had in the late 90s.
> Unstructured document parsing

If I had to invest in any one area of LLM usage, it would be this. There is so much unstructured data in the world, and converting things like legal contracts or chatlogs into structured, queryable data is absurdly powerful. Nobody wants to talk about this usage for LLMs because they're too busy making TikToks about how GPT4 actually has a soul or whatever, but this will be the lasting legacy of LLMs after the hype around generative AI dies out.

> A decent engineer will likely be able to write a slack-like application, definitely good enough to cancel the 500k/year contract, in a couple of months.

And this is why generative AI is massively overhyped: the people hyping it don't understand the true value of the products they allegedly replace. Very similar to the crypto/blockchain hype where people who understood nothing about banking or logistics insisted that blockchain would solve all the problems there. If you think a corp is paying Slack $500k/year because it's hard to write a piece of software that can send messages between people in an organization, you're completely off base. (IRC exists, can do this and is free by the way.)
Indeed a tricky point, but like I said - move these objects to another garbage collection thread and call close() there.

(You probably want to do this regardless, because close() is not actually always an instanteneous syscall and can take a long time.)
there have been bags of astronaut poop on the moon since the Apollo era.
> American cities and suburbs are so low density that they end up losing money because infrastructure is spread out over such a large area that taxes collected per square mile aren't enough to keep things working.

This is very much false. I don’t know why this misinformation is so widespread, but even a glance look at the municipal budgets is enough to see the facts contradict it. The typical suburb only spends around 10% of its budget on infrastructure, and this spend is dwarfed by educational spending by a lot.
Please. George joined the company when it was damn near a decade old, and already a publicly-traded company. It's embarrassing to ascribe anywhere near the agency to someone like that than to a founder.
If harboring pirates gets your village bombed, villages will stop harboring pirates.
That assumes the US won't fight back. US contributes ~6% of Yemen GDP in foreign aid. Yemen is a big food importer. US could shut off foreign aid and blockade Yemen and collapse their economy - they wouldn't be able to afford food, let alone 20k drones.

The Houthi strategy isn't an economic strategy, it's a "hope the US isn't willing to kill us" strategy.
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If files are overwritten or removed in a lower layer, there can be size savings from that.
There is no level of compensation you can give someone to compensate for the risk of sudden execution because they tried, but didn't succeed.
(not making a argument for either side) I believe the Google Books decision is probably the strongest precedent for this in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
There are many large, stable, profitable companies that are hiring software engineers. They are not software houses, but they pay well for a comfortable life (outside of NYC and Bay Area) and offer good work-life balance. For some examples you can look at medical devices, utilities, manufacturing, IBMs and Walmarts and R&D departments of virtually any large non-software company.

But there are frictions, too. Unless you go into management, comp tops out around $200k in most metros. HR -- instead of write-your-own-rules in a startup you have to take corporate training and get approval for things folks at the startups take for granted. Limited tools, externally managed corporate OS and software, Outlook instead of Slack. Office time requirements -- fully remote is very rare. And so on.

Not saying this is the wrong choice, just that there are tradeoffs.
This needs its own post. I love that a country's president mentioned UNIX in an official address, as well as that #anime IRC channel.

EDIT: posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917307
Either you are prompting it wrong, or you got unlucky, or you are stuck on GPT3.5 still and it’s less capable compared to GPT4 than I remember.

Me:

> Give me a short list of five top things that OpenBSD is superior over Linux for

ChatGPT:

> OpenBSD is known for its strong emphasis on security, simplicity, and code correctness. Here's a brief list of five aspects where OpenBSD is often considered superior to Linux:

> 1. Security by Default: OpenBSD is renowned for its security-oriented design. The system is configured with secure defaults, and security features are integrated directly into the core system, not as add-ons.

> 2. Code Quality and Audit: The OpenBSD project places a high priority on clean, readable, and well-documented code. Regular code audits are conducted to identify and fix security vulnerabilities and bugs.

> 3. Integrated Cryptography: OpenBSD includes various cryptographic tools and libraries as part of its base system, making it easier to implement secure applications.

> 4. Pf (Packet Filter): OpenBSD's native firewall, pf, is highly regarded for its flexibility and efficiency. It's often considered more straightforward and powerful than iptables, commonly used in Linux.

> 5. Documentation and Man Pages: OpenBSD’s documentation, especially its man pages, is extensive and well-maintained. It provides detailed and up-to-date information on system commands, configurations, and daemons.

> It's important to note that while OpenBSD excels in these areas, the choice between OpenBSD and Linux depends on specific use cases and personal preferences.

And then for the cons, flip the question around and ask ChatGPT for a list of five ways in which Linux is superior over OpenBSD. (Left as an exercise for the reader.)
For in-app purchases of PWAs in app Stores, you can use the Digital Goods API[0]. It works for Google Play and Microsoft Store.

For non-free apps, one thing I've seen is app Stores launch the PWA with some flags indicating it was launched from the Store. If these flags are not present, the app is being launched via direct URL, in which case the app server can give a not authorized response.

[0]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/trusted-web-activi...
Progress: An Exploration of Growth
> Or less drastically, an IDE for APL beginners: symbols have human language helpers or UI overlays

Dyalog, which maintains a commercial APL, provides a free development environment which does exactly what you want[0]. You can hover over all of the available glyphs for documentation.

It’s a really fun development environment in that it does something that I’ve never really experienced in any another: you can modify prior inputs to experiment with new ideas.

Playing with APL (it often does feel like play, or even sculpting with clay) is really fun. Be careful, you might get attached!

0: https://www.dyalog.com/
Not the point - these are just peak HN arrogance credentials ;)
Can you talk a little bit about the crawler or what information are you feeding the agent about the repostory? My main concern is that this is just hallucinating the documentation and that with the more well known repos like React it can pull the data from training data like blogs etc.

I think the concept is really great would just like to understand especially for enterprise use cases.
It's out of reach for the vast majority of the human race, sure, and perhaps it's a "bad idea" for even a majority of HN, but there are quite a few people who can and will drop the coin on it, for one reason or another.

As mentioned elsewhere, the people who went to the Vision Labs are buying them on release day, so there must be something there.
Apologies, I didn't mean breaking TLS itself but breaking the trust that said protocol is providing.

Thanks for explaining.
Sadly, the field is still mostly dominated by commercial solvers. There are a few open source ones but their performance is nowhere near the commercial ones which is kind of expected given the number of people working on them and the little funding they have. It is really a pity that the OR world hasn't embraced open source as much as ML world.
In the current American system, most voters only research the top two candidates, if that. (i.e. they don’t vote in the primaries.)

Alaska seems to have got voters to consider the top four, that seems like an approach worth rolling out more widely.
Plenty of the examples given in NYT's lawsuit would qualify as "trivially easy".
> I predict non-smartphone AI devices will fail. The AI device of the future is likely an iPhone or android phone with a dedicated GPU chip for AI.

I go back and forth on this. While I see this being the case for data collection wearables like humane or tab, it makes sense to have a personal AI computer like bedrock [0], tinybox [1], or a mac studio for running background tasks on personal data. If you're running agents that do more than chat, you need something that's going to be able to handle doing inference for extended periods of time without worrying about heat or battery life. You likely also want something capable of doing fine-tune level training on your personal inputs. A lot of the more interesting use-cases are on data you probably don't want to expose to a cloud provider. That said, probably Apple is eventually going to crush here as well, but maybe there's room for a challenger to develop as this niche opens up.

[0]: https://www.bedrock.computer/gal
[1]: https://tinygrad.org
How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD? (2012)
Yeah, this is a point a lot of people simply don't understand. Having billions of dollars in GDP generated by the service industry (like financial services or informational technologies) does not map one to one to generating a functioning arms industry to produce artillery ammunition for example. You need manufacturing facilities, a large pool of candidates with potential expertise in technical hardware skills to run these factories and logistical lines to keep them running. These prerequisites existed in the West during the earlier part of the 20th century which was why the transition to the war economy was relatively painless but no longer exists now. It is simply irrelevant to talk about multibillion dollar GDP economies specialized in unrelated industries if you don't have the actual physical resource and staffing requirements.
sigh... Well, my days of being pissed off about some damn detail of TLS or other certainly are coming to a middle.
I would be shocked if most companies are not maintaining long duration archives of employee emails, Slack, Teams, whatever medium.

Chat logs are tiny.
I had assumed it was satire so you’re absolutely right if it was not!
There's a tool from google called container-diff that's also really useful!

I use it to see what random scripts one is encouraged to pipe into bash would do to a system.
Excited to see how this develops! I'm hoping that they share more examples of how this works in the near future.
> is that the web is a free market

Controlled by Google with Chromium, right?

> The second reason is the resources available.

I guess that's the excuse, yes. But in my experience the native way is not necessarily more expensive. It's just faster to make a prototype in web, I suppose. And most apps end up being prototypes thrown into production nowadays.

So yeah: it's cheaper, not better, but that's enough to win.
It’s difficult to blame Riyadh exclusively without taking into account Iran’s role in the Houthis’ takeover of Yemen [1]. Saudi Arabia regionalised and intensified the conflict, but they didn’t start it. (To your credit, I don’t think the Houthis would have long-range precision weapons were Riyadh out of the picture.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen
Until the withdrawal, the United States went over a year—from March 2020 to July 2021–without anyone killed in action. The thirteen Marines killed in action in August 2021 were among the troops sent back into Afghanistan when the withdrawal took a turn for the worse. The level of troops and support for the Afghan government during 2020 and early 2021 was minimal yet still sufficient to stop the Taliban from overrunning the country.

> And without massive foreign interference, Vietnam was going to be communist, which it now is.

This is like saying without massive foreign interference, Ukraine would be part of Russia again already. Vietnam went communist as a direct result of massive foreign interference from the Soviet Union and China.
Ouch. Why is nvidia always so far behind on this stuff? "Gamers don't care" I guess, but come on.
We've Made Some Metascience Progress Since 1910, but Not Enough
Indeed!

But that's a tall order, but finding a reliable source of successor tasteful dictators is even more unlikely.

Better to go with finding a set of people with good taste, then use sortition to select the leader.
I'd say on average programmers know less about writing optimal code now, but certainly the best in the field know a lot more.
Personalsit.es
If any Norwegians are reading, which are shipping nerds by virtue of geography, speculating in this market is essentially why John Fredriksen, the Warren Buffett of shipping, is rich.

Shifts in ship availability causes waves of bankruptcy, and either gluts or shortages (whatever happens to be most inconvenient at the time).
Right, so maybe you can help me understand. Literally the only thing I've seen anywhere, both in TFA and in all the responses (including yours) is "CGI isn't really that slow."

So that's a reason not to not use it; but are there any reasons to use it?

Even in TFA, he demonstrates using a simple Golang CGI binary; but writing a simple Golang server that you pass through as a reverse proxy is just as simple.
Am I the only one who does not immediately see a quality difference between the two photos in the embedded tweet?
Thank you for the nice words, it is appreciated and it makes a difference whenever I am having a bad day. :)
The only thing I see that this adds over existing docs-to-HTML tooling is that it uses a wikipedia-inspired theme.

Meanwhile on the negative side, it adds hallucinations. You say you "cut back" on them but as teraflop's comment shows, it still has plenty.

BTW: even the Mastodon link from your OP says "wiki not found" for me.
Unveil looks like a hack or a patch. Why do applications have access to whole filesystem by default?
Yes, and talks between air traffic control and pilots are recorded.

Would you be okay with a recorder being beside your desk at all times? Catching every conversation, even personal ones?

Currently it's your choice to participate in sending memes over email. You also have the choice to walk over and have a private conversation.
Do you just say things without even verifying them with a quick search?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3799025/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abs...
The idea of using circluar array and copying tail item into hand and moving all pointers left to make room at the head for new item sounds great.

I wonder how messing of the order of items between hand and tail influences the benchmarks.
Franz Beckenbauer, 'Der Kaiser' of World Soccer, Dies at 78
Thanks, this is helpful.

Say, if I have a part like [1], what's the best way to get it done? I'm now leaning towards laser cutting the flat bottom (the geometry allows for that) and then welding the top "clutch" after getting it lathed. Is there a better/cleaner/cheaper way to do it? The part should be metal.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/1oqjQ7r.png
> you can modify prior inputs to experiment with new ideas

having trouble understanding what is meant. like, changing things like in excel?
Thanks urda, good feedback! There are similar tools, but since it's free, I don't see them as "competition" but rather "more options".
> Why would anyone invest in btc when govt. wants to destroy it or regulate it out of existence.

They have been trying to 'destroy' all of them for 15 years and yet again Bitcoin, Ethereum and the others still exist.

> No need to have to worry about SEC when investing in big tech.

Then you should worry about anti-trust lawsuits threatening to break them up instead. I also hope the SEC scares off the crypto market so I can buy in even lower.

> Just stick with tech stocks. way better risk vs return.

Tech stocks are already overplayed and the stock prices are absolutely inflated unless you are options gambling with zero days to expiry (0DTE) trades on earnings season.

Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple, etc already topped their all time highs which make no sense to buy their stock at. Would rather have a particular stock correct or have the entire market correct / crash and everyone buying at the top to lose money and sell before I'd jump in much lower like I did with $META at $89 and $GOOGL at $93.
> harboring pirates gets your village bombed, villages will stop harboring pirates

The history of area bombardment is it strengthens civilian resolve. Think: the Battle of Britain, Vietnam and America’s wars in the Middle East.
Why should I use this over pg_basebackup ?
I’m not sure what’s more embarrassing, the article claiming the halving is causing the ETF frenzy or posting this on HN as a meaningful new article.
I can't follow the logic of how a recording is not stressful in the two hours it is stored, but then suddenly becomes stressful when it has been stored for 2+ hours?
To give a little preview of the content of the (very short) paper:

> In statistics, the standard error has a clear technical definition: it is the estimated standard devi- ation of a parameter estimate. In practice, though, challenges arise when we go beyond the simple balls-in-urn model to consider generalizations beyond the population from which the data were sampled. This is important because generalization is nearly always the goal of quantitative studies. In this brief paper we consider three examples:

> What is the standard error when the bias is unknown and changing (my bathroom scale)?

>How do you interpret standard errors from a regression fit to the entire population (all 50 states)?

> How should we account for nonsampling error when reporting uncertainties (election polls)?
Yes but it's also really cool that it's not a modern day counterfeit but rather a counterfeit from that time period.
Windows Dev Kit - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-dev-kit-2023/94K0P...
Powered by an ARM chip. The form factor is the same as a Mac Mini. Ideal for light-mid workload.
> I personally regularly use the “voice” version of chatGPT to brainstorm with it while I walk my dog. We sped past the Turing test so fast that no one even beat an eyelash about it

I don't think that just because the author has a pseudo-conversation with ChatGPT using voice as the interface means we've passed the Turing test.

They don't seem to be actively interrogating ChatGPT to determine whether it's a human or not - something that I'd expect would still be quite easy to do. And, as I understand it, the Turing test could be administered over text.
Is it arrogant to wish to survive a common civilian airplane flight?
Indeed, what bqmjjx0kac proposes, is orthogonal to fuzzing (which is an algorithmic technique to drive test-coverage), and an instance of defining, and dynamically checking a property.

Apropos: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1687
I do find this interesting...

> Trained Humans are surprisingly good at these problems

Surprising why, and by what metric? (speed? Or quality of solution?)
Maxwell: Nvidia's Silver 28nm Hammer
If the purpose of keeping emissions low is humanitarian, then there is a much bigger humanitarian concern at the center of all this.
>there have been bags of astronaut poop on the moon since the Apollo era.

And those bags of poop are part of a collective human heritage, paid for by public funding and driven by a desire to conquer space and explore the unknown.

Peregrine was a vanity stunt for ultra rich people. They deserve to get what they paid for.
The crew makes a lot of decisions on safety matters, that's basically the most important part of the job :-)

But joking aside, in most places there are checks and balances between privacy impact and benefit. We all accept that some government agencies know some of our data, because the net benefit to society is bigger than the loss of privacy. And you would normally try to do such things in the least invasive way possible while achieving the benefit.

Where you go wrong in your passenger rant, is in assuming there is a big safety benefit in more recording of pilots. There were a total of 2 fatalities on US airlines in the last 10 years [1], while billions of passengers were transported. The safety record of airline transport is stellar, without more recording. So yes, I believe it is very reasonable to consider what is and isn't acceptable to the crew being recorded.

[1] https://www.airlines.org/dataset/safety-record-of-u-s-air-ca...
MySQL isolation levels and how they work
Audio generation using Language Models
Like saying Christians are hard to beat because everyone will donate all life savings to a religious war effort because of the one camel/needle line.