skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite the social media and self-promotion hype, successful startup founders don't necessarily match the 20-something crushing it on the latest disruption. In the US, the average age of a successful startup founder is 45[1].

That implies founders with considerable experience in both technical and business domains. They have done a lot of trial and error already, and have better instincts around risk and reward and setting priorities. Someone with little or no experience who wants to call themselves founder of something, but doesn't really know what or how, may have the drive and energy but a lot of that will get dissipated as heat and avoidable mistakes.

Also consider survivorship bias when you read startup stories. We don't hear much from the people who tried and failed, but every Ivy League dropout who gets lucky with their startup gets turned into an icon (or a guest of the penal system).

A successful founder, like a successful person in most scenarios, knows how to recognize a critical decision, has a sense of the knowns and unknowns, can leverage the strengths of their team, avoids wasting time on inconsequential matters, and has a plan to cut losses and try something else before they fall too deep into a hole. Most of that comes from experience. I don't think you can create or "access" any of that, you learn it and fill the gaps with people who have complementary skills and experience.

[1] https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...
How long until ‘this app only works on browser X’ on mobile that is only available via a third party store? Not impossible. We’ve been spared that so far but happens frequently on desktop Safari even today.
Heavy elements, a lack of radiation, and liquid water ... I often wonder if we define life too narrowly. Working from only one example is always dangerous.
I'm not a businessman, but I don't think so. Case in point: Beeminder. Their web app has a bit of an "unfinished" feel to it – definitely not a "modern SPA", rather a traditional Rails web app (not that it's something bad, quite the opposite!), but it solves a real problem and has stayed afloat for over 10 years now.
Install "Redirect Twitter To Nitter" userscript.
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>> Hamas was located in a significant want under Al-shifa. Israel released video of our commando unit raiding it. You can find that video online. Hard to watch.

I can't find that video online. I can find a video that shows a tunnel, allegedly under Al Shifa, and ending in a blast door.

IDF publishes footage of what it says is Hamas tunnel at al-Shifa hospital

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/19/idf-israel-arm...

I cannot find any "hard to watch" video of "commando units raiding" the tunnel. Do you have a direct link to such a video?

Note that the claim was not that there was a "significant [ward?]" under the Al-Shifa hospital. The claim was that Hamas had its headquarters under Al-Shifa.

For example, this claim was made by Isaac Herzog, the President of Israel, in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg of the BBC, where Isaac Herzog claimed IDF is not actually attacking Al-Shifa:

[my transcript]: Undrerneath Shifa there is a huge huge terror base, actually the headquarters, the headquarters of Hamas Isis operations is right there under Shifa.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67397963?at_med...

So far, no such "yuge yuge terror base" has been found under Al-Shifa, or under any of the other hospitals targeted by the IDF.
This always felt like a tired retrospective to me. Sure maybe they do in some absolute sense. But they aren't existing in that time period, so the only real yardstick to use is he current time/dynamics, arguments that shift scales to distort a viewpoint are not helpful.
If everyone starts using Argon2 with good parameters, not much!
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Yes, another valid case is passing heap-allocated pointers between WASM guest and host. I have an example here if anyone is interested: https://github.com/fatihpense/zig-wasm-string-and-struct

As a newbie in low-level programming, being able to return "heap-allocated pointer" instead of "stack-allocated pointer to a struct in heap" was a challenge at first :) But I love how everything is explicit in Zig.
Compressing neon gas won't do much, aside storing energy as compressed fluid.

My point was the traditional fuels (incl. the edible ones) use more material/weight than their own. So it is very likely they'll be more efficient. The batteries require a reversible action by just applying current - this is quite the climb compared to most chemical reactions.

We have not done much since the li-ion inception, using FePO4 instead of cobalt is more sensible from an economic point of view but the energy density is even lower.
Because concerning myself with security in this case is absurd.

The ubiquitous concern with security is absurd.
I learnt the word beeves while reading the Doctrine (the PHP ORM) codebase. I assume it was in case someone had an entity called beef... So the collection would be beeves :) I wonder if anyone ever used Doctrine and had an entity called beef.
I would recommend UnoCalc. It is a demo App for the capabilities of the Uno Framework and it is free.
We should stop linking this at every non-opportunity. In fact ban the number 927 just to be safe.
I think you would like the modern default Gnome desktop. Your needs in regard to search are built-in, except for the GPT stuff. In Gnome you can almost always just type away to navigate by search, without memorizing shortcuts. It's really great! There may be extensions for your "AI" needs, but I don't know for sure. However, Gnome is still sometimes limited by the development status of basic apps and services like mail, calendar and online accounts. Ironically, mostly affecting free standards like CalDAV, while Google Mail and Exchange integration is there. Also some common UI tweaks like having a dock, are hidden away as extensions.

Apple made it quite painful to share with iOS devices and access iCloud services outside the Apple ecosystem. So if you got an iPhone, that's gonna be mildly annoying.

I'd say try Fedora in a virtual machine and see for yourself!
Wish I could work for an employer like this.
Hopefully the end result is a large concerted effort to regulate Apple as a monopoly.

At this point I would be fine with EU and US legislators going overboard on them.
> When a company is granted a utility patent on a type of seed, it doesn’t just own the seed. It also owns its traits (color, texture, ...

> So, if a plant breeder like Morton develops his own variety of lettuce and the lettuce matches any of the traits of a patented variety – whether it be color, the curliness of the leaf or a trait that makes it conducive to a particular climate – the breeder is technically in violation of patent law and risks getting sued by the patent owner.

> "They are essentially just doing obsessive-compulsive descriptions of plants and laying claims to those traits, so if anyone else has those traits, they are in violation"
Modern KDF algorithms are designed to guard against offline attacks by massively increasing the cost per hash. Online or offline, brute forcing shouldn't be an issue nowadays.

Saying "there's no limit besides your resources" is basically saying "there's no limit besides the very real and insurmountable limit there is".
> Are you really going to try to tell me that a 2-year-old who was brought to the US by their parents and then stayed here into adulthood was "in violation of the law"?

Yes. You can blame their parents for giving them an upbringing unsuited to their citizenship, but that doesn't make their position any more legitimate. It's no different from a child raised in a mafia family, who was brought up to break the law before they even knew they were doing so, for whom criminality is the only way they know to live - we don't hold them responsible for their crimes from back when they were too young to know what they were doing, but we do expect them to stop.

> I think you underestimate the quantity of political persecution outside the US. Remember that this isn't just prominent public figures who have tried to stand up against an oppressive regime and failed. Any average citizen in a situation like that could end up in a precarious situation like that. And political persecution is just one reason someone might fear for their lives to the point where they believe they need to leave their country.

I don't see how any of that changes what I wrote? Yes, there may be any number of reasons someone might end up in legitimate fear for their lives. But either they are genuinely fleeing for their lives (for whatever reason) or they are not refugees.
they've tried. I saw this youtube video awhile back about a man from gaza who built an inland fish farm to raise food to feed people because the fishermen were forbidden by isreal fro boing to the areas where the fish were.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxEqXkdJUWY&ab_channel=Insid...
We noticed this pattern as well and actively decided against a flashy landing page (you know the one: dark background, large text on the left and interact-able glitzy Rubik’s cube/sphere/graph on the right, the one that spins/asjusts on command…)

Instead we put the product front and center — and people seem to like it. After some tweaks, our conversion from unique user to “Loop Creation” is now at 40%(!)

It lacks polish, but we don’t put up a facade: https://magicloops.dev
Reminds me of how Egypt was THE breadbasket for centuries by means of it's strong administative system. But when the bureuacracy came apart, the system collapsed more completely than expected, because farmers had been totally dependent on the the administration for all decisions, let alone logistics.

Of course I may be misremembering, anyone have a citation?
I love growing (and eating) Frank Morton’s lettuces. If I recall correctly, a lettuce variety he bred was grown in space. Here’s a good podcast interviewing him, also touching on Open Source Seeds and patents: https://osseeds.org/free-the-seed-podcast-03-hyper-red-rumpl... there’s another good episode on the Seed Grower podcast too.
Refract Technologies unveils its VR controller, the AXIS Lite
Do you know how Intel Gaudi [1] could be purchased. I see a "Contact us" in their place but any inside or public information about prices and the budget required for bulk purchases would be great.

Also, how Gaudi3 compares to Google TPUs? Thanks! I know that Gaudi3 is not readily available yet.

[1] https://habana.ai/products/gaudi/
because having Beeper might turn some parents who use to be jailed by Apple to buy an Android snoop-phone to their kids instead of more of iThings.
Intel Gaudi2 Looked to Be a Credible Alternative to Nvidia. Until
So you're telling me they have an easy way to bait Hamas into exposing themselves by using humanitarian aid as a honey pot?

If the humanitarian aid organisations themselves are Hamas, then you could just arrest them.
Another one that was made recently by a user: https://news.ycombinato.com/
https://archive.is/EtZIy
It's a full removal of LLVM code being linked into the compiler. Currently Zig calls LLVM's API to build with it. Instead the compiler will gain the ability to emit LLVM IR into files. Those files can be passed to a separate install of LLVM to produce final machine code.

As for the new backend vs LLVM, the new can be used for everything if it meets your needs. Initially LLVM is going to produce more optimized builds than Zig by itself can, but that is likely to change over time. LLVM isn't some magical blessing from the heavens, it's just software made by people. There's nothing besides effort and competence preventing another compiler matching its optimization performance. Plus, while a lot of research effort has been put into finding LLVM's optimizations, they've been found and can be copied.
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Just checking: PDF summarization is not yet implemented, right?
FYI hot-tubs are basically bathtubs but better.
Sounds like cheaper DNA testing would be stopgap. But even so, this seems like an unreasonable legal burden.
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View the source of the pdf, find the trailer dictionary (ctrl-f "/Encrypt"), and note the object number of the encryption dictionary. An example trailer below, here the encryption dictionary happens to be object ID 94,0

% Trailer dictionary
trailer
<<
/Size 95 % number of objects in the file
/Root 93 0 R % the page tree is object ID (93,0)
/Encrypt 94 0 R % the encryption dict is object ID (94,0)
/ID [<1cf5...>] % an arbitrary file identifier
>>

Use the object id to find the encryption dictionary:

% Encryption dictionary
94 0 obj
<<
/Filter /Standard % use the standard security handler
/V 1 % algorithm 1
/R 2 % revision 2
/U (xxx...xxx) % hashed user password (32 bytes)
/O (xxx...xxx) % hashed owner password (32 bytes)
/P 65472 % flags specifying the allowed operations
>>
endobj

Generally, if /V and /R are both 4 or less, you can find tools to crack it yourself on a normal PC.

More info on the values of /V and /R here: https://qpdf.readthedocs.io/en/stable/encryption.html
Very impressed by zig ambitions, but i found it very peculiar that their focus seems to be going "down" the stack ( aka, compiler infrastructure rewriting) rather than "up" (stdlib and lib ecosystem).

Am i wrong to feel a bit worried by this direction ? Is the team large enough do both at the same time ?
> for me the cognitive load is no different whether i use a frontend framework or not

A framework, as opposed to a library, requires you to understand its way of thinking, so there is a big difference in whether you must understand one framework or two frameworks in order to make any change. If you have a single project that intermingles two frameworks then your cognitive load is necessarily higher than if you are dealing with only one framework and in future you (or your client) have to hire someone who knows both, and knows them well.

The cognitive load is lower if you know both frameworks now in their current state, but we all know frameworks evolve and go in/out of fashion.

In addition to the above, depending on a framework is a big thing. Due to inversion of control, it’s much more difficult to refactor something that’s written in a framework, rather than just using some library. Going with two frameworks multiplies that problem by two. It’s like constructing a building on shoulders of two giants that can go their own separate ways. If something happens to either one of them (changes license, changes core team & direction, gets abandoned & no longer receives security fixes, etc.) you’d have to redo a lot of things.

Going with vanilla means you don’t need to grasp another framework, even if you need to write a bit more code today. Going with cleanly separated projects means your cognitive load is limited to one framework at a time (plus the connecting layer). It’s more easy hire someone who’s great at back-end & Django and someone else who’s great at front-end & Alpine, instead of finding one person who happens to be great at both.

> it would allow me to build all my sites using the same specific frontend and backend code, which actually reduces the cognitive load because i can build my new site just like the last one

Sure, adopting a framework whenever you want to save on boilerplate code and cognitive load today would work (thanks to the same inversion of control), but I find is likely to cause maintainability issues and more cognitive load tomorrow.

> obviously, if you want your site to work without javascript at least as a fallback then that's not a good idea, which just goes to show that maybe using cognitive load as a metric itself is not a good idea.

I think making the site work without JavaScript is a different problem, you can do it regardless of whether you use a front-end framework (unless the particular framework you use makes it difficult).
thanks. do you understand what inlang is by looking at the site?
Well, in the 6.0 system, however subjective and imperfect, the judges assessed the overall skater's level. One judge might have preferred complex jumps, while others might be more inclined toward edge control and skating skills. And there were no clearly defined metric to measure, which makes it more subjective, but also prone to Goodhart's effects.

In a way it was similar to how classical music contests are judged. No one could claim that they can measure the performance, so they rely on the subjective and imperfect judgments of the humans who are considered experts in music. One judge might be consistently high-scoring, another might be consistently low-scoring, and they might look at the different aspects (technicality, musicality, etc.). They just try to capture their ranking (voting) distribution.

In a way, the old system was more like voting. Even if the judge can't formally explain why s/he thinks skater A has better skating skills than B, the system would capture their preference. (And of course, this comes with all sort of biases – sequential bias, national bias, etc). But an important distinction is that in this system there is no proxy variable to optimize for.

In the IJS it's very clear what to optimize for. So everyone is doing it. Also, one of the major changes, of course, was eliminating compulsory figures from competitions. Modern skaters don't even know they existed as a thing. Nowadays, everyone knows that you win a figure skating competition not by having Patrick Chan level skating, but by rotating your body in the air quickly – that is what gives points. So in modern clubs all over the world people start learning jumps in the first half of a year of practice. Which, ironically, leads to the lower probability of them actually mastering the jumps, because you still need insanely good edge control for take-offs and landings.
The ethno-religious conflict in Northern Ireland dates back to the seventeenth century and the question of Irish sovereignty dates all the way back to the twelfth century!
Portals, cells, predicated rendering and their mirrors
By far the best summary I've seen. Most of this is just summarizing Apple's plan (there's a lot to summarize) but Gruber is incise as ever for the bits of commentary sprinkled about.

My favorite example is the last paragraph:

> The delicious irony in Apple’s not knowing if these massive, complicated proposals will be deemed DMA-compliant is that their dealings with the European Commission sound exactly like App Store developers’ dealings with Apple. Do all the work to build it first, and only then find out if it passes muster with largely inscrutable rules interpreted by faceless bureaucrats.
Oxford has a super strong set of people today: https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/faculty-members
Tbf I'm pretty sure the main reason people are gonna be buying omnichords is because they want specifically omnichords- the layout + sound of the thing has a pretty strong romanticism/pop culture significance to it.

I can play piano and I'm still kinda tempted.
I miss it.

I think the smarmy British bot character (Wheatley) won some kind of award.
This is not grounded in reality. Look at popcon or something like it. It is a nearly perfect "long tail" distribution. Most software is niche, and it's packaged anyway. It's helped by the fact that the vast majority of software follows a model where it is really easy to build. There are a lot more decisions to take with something like Chromium, which perhaps ironically is also the type of software which tends to package its own dependencies.
All the 32 bits weren't necessarily used, and it's the whole network itself that has to be useful. It's a tradeoff. We started with very good precision to test the new method, now we can optimize some parts of it
So sad that a big tech company stole the dot dev thanks to the ICANN greediness...
Pretty much this, end of thread.
The Eagles are a notorious bunch of copyright bastards. Let's see how they deal with nation states...
To add to the anecdata of programmer impressions: Haskell can be extremely performant compared to Python. In terms of developer experience, it almost causes me physical pain to use some of the poorly designed Python libraries out there.
Yes, those are the voltages that I use on newer Arduino clones, provided the sensors I need support 3.3v.

I had no idea that the NiMH batteries can provide higher current. That might be useful for e.g. servos. I'll pick up some, thank you.
Hopefully it makes users more curious about alternative, more secure ROMs as LineageOS or GrapheneOS.
And I want a pony, and a suitcase of cash :-)
Or simply what integrates well with an existing framework. The "lightweight" examples given allow for non-JS templating on the backend (in this case Python, but the article looks at other non-JS languages), whereas other frameworks require build steps/"SSR" and effectively require a REST or other API framework.
Insiders say that NSA had quantum computers for decades.

And there is also Space Force. They can crack EVERYTHING.

Of course I cannot prove this, but I trust my sources. Will not tell here.
I think eventually this problem will be solved mostly by reducing transportation distances as solar will be wider distributed so on average power will travel a shorter distance.

It's not some terribly fantastic amounts of power we are talking about. Full decarbonisation of EU will need only about 5x more renewable electricity than today.

In any case, 2050 plan does not call for any drastic increase in transmission capacity. Don't forget that power output from hydro can be greatly increased if needed - total amount of energy produced can't because water in dams is finite - but peak power can be increased rather cheaply.
What is the definition of a submarine comment? Google fails and ChatGPT says:

> A "submarine comment" on social media refers to a comment that is made on an old post or thread, long after the conversation has died down. This term derives from the idea of a submarine which remains submerged and out of sight for long periods before suddenly surfacing. In the context of social media, it's when someone delves deep into someone else's posts or timeline, finds an old post, and leaves a comment, bringing the old post back to attention. This can sometimes surprise the original poster and other participants, as the conversation was thought to have been concluded.

Which doesn’t make sense in this context
It would be nice to see this paired with more widespread support for the Name Constraints TLS extension, which would in theory allow internal CAs to be restricted to issuing certificates for .internal domains. That would open up a lot of very interesting applications in terms of streamlining HTTPS on local networks, for example, ACME on openWRT routers.
I am the cheapest bastard in indie games (2019)
EU Directive*

(that the UK has been free to ignore since Feb 2020 and legislate however they wish)
Haven't used it but there's https://github.com/bionic-gpt/bionic-gpt which is presumably k8s provider agnostic and supports ollama.
I can run 4bit on a beat up 1070 ti. GP talks about higher precision models
Why Is Game Writing So Terrible? (2021)
MV3 doesn't prevent adblockers from existing.
Comparatively

> Incremental rebuilds cause a lot of compilation problems, bugs, and errors. Incremental rebuilds are also slow due to the amount of in between files generated between builds. Jai will contain no incremental rebuild steps. All will be compiled in one fresh compilation. This means that the compiler will need to run fast with high performance. The eventual goal is to compile a 1 million lines of code in 1 second, but as of right now, the compiler can only do 250,000 lines in 1 second.

https://github.com/Jai-Community/Jai-Community-Library/wiki/...