skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if ebooks would help with length of books. There are short stories, to novellas, to novels on Amazon for fiction. Novels are definitely more popular partly people complain about the value of shorter fiction.

Self-help books could try having shorter ebooks. They would have to forgo printed copies since pamphlets don't work in the store.
I heard the best cobblestone is directly under the peaceful NPC villages and sacred ocean temples.
When evaluating use-cases where blockchain technology is leveraged to disintermediate, I came to your same conclusions. Technically novel? Yes, sure. But, for what?
I think you'd want the spectre to avoid needing reflections.
Speaking of hard skills: how does one just hang out on a Discord server in any useful fashion? I lost the ability to deal with group chats when I started working full-time - there's no way I can focus on the job and keep track of conversations happening on some IRC or Discord. I wonder what the trick is to use those things as source of information, other than "be a teenager, student, or a sysadmin or otherwise someone with lots of spare time at work", which is what I realized communities I used to be part of consist of.
> Involuntarily, my eyes welled up a little — I had experienced something beautiful. And that it was made possible by technology and a computer. For that one brief moment, I felt not the power of technology, but its joy.

How much $AAPL you think he owns?
Hot take: Why is there even a Croatian, a Serbian, a Bosnian, a Montenegrin and a Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia? It's the same thing, why split the knowledge base into five? Not like there's a UK, US and an Australian Wikipedia.
I had the same thought.

Some of the surprising discoveries I made with word2vec embeddings:

human + robot ~= cyborg

silicon + electricity ~= solar cells

virtual reality + reality ~= augmented reality

As reported here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160806040004if_/http://blog.yh...
Basically you can get normal Windows already without paying from Microsoft itself. But on this site they also publish Windows LTSC ISOs which you can not get directly from Microsoft unless you are an Enterprise.

Plus, the scripts allow you to activate all of these Windows version and I think also Microsoft Office.

The script is abusing bugs that are long known but not fixed. And Microsoft does not seem to care, as the script is hosted on GitHub (which is owned by Microsoft) since a long time.

The repository also has ~60k stars, so it isn't "secret" that this exists.
That job could have gone to someone who like actually knew what they were doing and was honest lol not sure why you want to defend professional and intellectual dishonesty?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35264965

I think I remember some others but didn't dig for them. Sorry.
From OP's comment history, I'm going to assume this is about https://www.fretboardhacking.com/fretpro-app/

As a guitarist myself there is incredible saturation in the market right now for learning guitar, whether it be apps, courses, or other content out there on YouTube/Ticktoc/etc. My first question is why to you is why you think "the path to something like ~$1M/yr seems very clear to me."? My second question is what does your app do to distinguish it from any other of the readily available guitar learning/fretboard apps (from quick google https://guitar.com/guides/buyers-guide/best-guitar-learning-... and https://americansongwriter.com/best-guitar-learning-app/)?

If you're looking to potentially quit your fulltime employment or potentially take some extended time off, that it feels like you should have some pretty solid answers to those questions before doing so.

At $600/mo, there's about a 10X gap between where you're at and revenues you could actually sustain yourself on, and ideally you'd like to hit 5 figures recurring revenue a month before you start seriously thinking what this would mean becoming a "real business". Assuming you have ideas on how to grow that revenue, I'd suggest focusing on some of those strategies. I'd also start making strides in marketing that can start to grow market share and get some exposure.

While I don't want to discourage you, it's also okay if a side project stays a side project. You can continue to invest the side time you have and grow your passive income to supplement your 9 to 5.
Altman said that GPT-4 training was over $100 million. And you need significant additional resources beside just the training run cost.
I've never used a stand-alone one.

I've got Arduino sketches I can quickly flash onto an Uno (or my 2016 HiFive1 320 MHz RISC-V board, which is usually closer to hand) to do all manner of things including UART, flashing a bare AVR chip e.g. ATTiny85 (now supplanted by CH32V003) and so forth.

Same principle as using a Pico.
Neon is cloud-native Postgres with a storage system written in Rust and a persistence layer stored in AWS S3. Because the cloud storage layer is decoupled from the rest of the architecture, you can bring your own S3.
Pilot to co-pilot, "What's that goat doing up here in this cloud bank?"
Both parents can work and still
be involved…this repeated excuse sounds lame
This is a terrible narrative, essentially grease on the path of destroying the permissionless Internet in favor of an environment where every communication is tracked and "accountable". The basic reality is that Internet traffic should be considered hostile noise and Internet nodes need to be resistant to that. That's the crux of the seminal end to end principle and cross-jurisdiction operation (the whole "Inter" part).

Furthermore, taking it at face value, why shouldn't this condemnation apply to the FBI first ? They've got compromised devices with the out of life software that's causing a bigger problem. So by applying that standard, they should be taken offline first. Which I'd say highlights a deep problematic assumption in reaching for the blame game, whereby some nodes start to be considered "more equal" than others.
His "idea" would be wonderful as a setup for a dystopian sci-fi novel, or a Cyberpunk 2077 DLC, or a movie with Kurt Russell.

Not as a "serious suggestion".
I am not a customer, but I do like the fly.io "voice."
If you don't know what a 10G network in a given context could be, are you likely to understand the difference between what a 5g and a supposed 10g mobile network would be? Are you a candidate for a person that is likely to care about the difference between 200Mbps and 1Gbps? Perhaps it's naive, but I've heard the words "rack that 10G switch" so many times that it's hard for me to say that Comcast intended on being misleading.
I'm not sure why people find studying fundamentals in school useless. And I don't think ChatGPT is the answer to in-depth learning. My experience is that it is the fundamentals that are the most valuable that a college can give to its students. A smart person can learn anything on her own, but for an ordinary student like me, what school teaches is invaluable as it is so hard to learn such fundamentals on my own. A few examples in my line of work:

- Systems. Yes, you can read papers and case studies and what not. But it will not be easy for one to even tell which part of a paper is the essence, which paragraph needs deep dive, or which claim needs close examination. In a seminar, a professor will work with students to critique papers, to cross examine multiple systems on related ideas, to deeply understand the theoretical bounds and the practical implications, and etc. That kind of experience is just not easily available in other places. Besides, it's just miles easier for someone to tech Lynch's book on distributed algorithms, for instance, with properly designed hand-outs and homework than reading the tomb by oneself. Similarly, it's not that easy to grasp the idea of program analysis if one wants to get in the trench of writing a compiler backend. I got seriously confused in an introduction course on program analysis for all the concepts about lattices, partial orders, abstract interpretations and etc. It's hard to imagine that I'd have the same access or even energy to study such stuff out of school.

- High-dimensional stats and probabilities. Again, I'm sure a brilliant student can teach herself, but man, even finding the right accessible material can be hard, let alone digest the fundamental ideas and concepts in such readings without the help of my professors and classmates.

- Math, all kinds of math. I'm not sure about you, but math matters in software development. Understanding temporal logic and mathematical logic in general makes doing formal verification much easier. Understanding probability and queuing theory enables me to test and diagnose my systems at a whole new level. Understanding combinatorics makes it really easy to learn data structures and algorithms rigorously. Understanding formal reasoning in general makes it easy to follow the books and papers on distributed algorithms. Linear algebra and numerical optimization and calculus are also important but hard to learn by oneself if a person wants to tap into ML sys.

The bottom line is, fundamentals expand one's conceptual depth and breadth, as well as the ability to abstract and to dive deep, which in turn gives a person more choices. I didn't start as a system engineer, nor did I know that I would work on internals of ML algorithms. But when opportunities called, I could jump on it. And in the meantime, I regretted that I didn't learn more fundamentals when I could, which made it hard for me to dive to the desired levels.

Besides, even the fun of studying STEM topics is hard to get outside of school. I'm sure one can read about physics and chemistry and what not, but man, having labs and professors who can give you guidance... That makes a whole world of difference.
There is already an app from Nvidia that simulates constant eye contact with the camera
Drat, I have been check mated! By simply declining to address the issue of what happens to a body after it clears the wind shield you have proven that this issue is theoretical and not practical

Only a wise genius can simply gaze serenely at the moon when asked “does your right to murder people with your corpse rocket impinge on the rights of your human targets?” for only the enlightened know that answering it is a violation of the non aggression policy
Two peaks on a downward trend are still a downward trend. That trend is more obvious if you look at population-corrected rates. https://www.statista.com/statistics/281416/birth-rate-in-the...

73mil/yr is the world number. https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-world...
Rofl - Rainforest + Dragon == Amazon (like an Amazon box)
5nm is good yield at the moment. It's even fully automotive qualified, which is a testament to its yield. But performance advantage vs cost doesn't justify to move from 7nm for a lot of designs. So tech adoption is getting stickier.
For hogh performance designs like Apple CPUs going to the cutting edge is a given. So since 3nm is available 5nm lost its appeal. This is a new territory for TSMC but I think they handled it well. Just last year they were gearing up a lot of 5nm capacity in anticipation of people moving from 12 and 7nm to 5nm. It quickly became clear that this isn't happening. So they moved some of this to 3nm and some is going back to 7nm and 6nm (shrunk 7nm) I think. They are also cautious about buying the newest equipment from ASML unlike Intel and Samsung. This seems to play well for TSMC.

I think TSMC learned from Intel's downfall more than Intel. I don't see any industry traction from IFS. They can research any new technology they want. Without wafer orders it's a recipe for a quick cash burn..
This is really cool. The annotation-to-testing-to-annotation-etc. feedback loop makes a ton of sense, and I'd encourage others who may be confused on this post to look at the Automotus case study https://encord.com/customers/automotus-customer-story/ which has a great diagram.

For those of us with similar needs for annotation and "unit testing," but on text corpuses, I'm aware of https://prodi.gy/ for the annotation side, but my understanding is the relationship between model outputs and annotation steering is out of scope for that project - do you know of tooling (open source or paid) that integrates an "Active" component similarly to what you do? Or is text a direction you want to go as well?

[I'm a fan of Vellum (YC W23) for evaluation and testing of multiple prompts https://www.vellum.ai/blog/introducing-vellum-test-suites - but I don't believe they feed annotation workflows in an automated and full-circle way.]
They are moving straight to 12G?
I miss Flash and all the cool capabilities it had. At a previous company, we built a tool that would allow a teacher to record a video review of a student's animation work, while showing, scrubbing and annotating that work simultaneously. On playback, the annotations would be synced with the video. Good luck pulling that off with Javascript.
The way to do this is clear? If you release new version for 170usd every 18 months it's about 10usd/m subscription - so you are 6times cheaper?.

The funny thing is that i think the pro market doesn't trust them because of the low price. It's possible Affinity found so much friction with pro market which doesn't want to change their processes that they figured out they have to go after the prosumer/hobby market.

But as tools Affinity is not some kind of budget tool. The software is in many ways a lot better and doesn't have baggage ancient Adobe stuff has. The only thing they are missing for pro market is scripting/plugins. I think if they did that this would allow third parties to fill in lots of the functionality they don't have (same what InDesign and After Effects does). That could really really start to bite. The way i see it Affinity is one major update away from starting to eat away masses of Adobe customers. Everybody has been pissed at Adobe for years and once few bigger names start to do it because of costs it will fuel the confidence of everyone.
What's interesting is this wouldn't necessarily imply cheating. That doesn't sound like an issue I'd necessarily draw attention to under normal circumstances, but if I knew interviewers were likely to be paying close attention to my eye movements I certainly would.
> True P2P networks don't scale, because every node has to store an (accurate if partial) representation of the whole network

Former LimeWire dev here... which P2P networks use a fully meshed topology? LimeWire and other Gnutella clients just have a random mesh with a fixed number of (ultra)peers. If the network gets too large, then your constrained broadcast queries hit their hop count before reaching the edge of the network, but that seems fine.

Last I checked, Freenet used a variation on a random mesh.

Kademlia's routing tables take O(log(N)) space and traffic per-peer to maintain (so O(N log(N)) for global total network space and traffic). Same for Chord (though, twice as much traffic due to not using a symmetric distance metric like XOR).

There are plenty of "True" (non-centralized) P2P networks that aren't fully meshed.
that's funny, because some comedian stole the idea, and had all the dogs saying "Fuck you! Fuck you!"

I still always think of that when I hear dogs barking.
I thought it would be about 10x employees and compensation
I use namecheap mostly for domains they don’t offer a few other registrars like name.com

However STAY AWAY from godaddy!
The fact is the 10G offering is only available in a very small number of very specific locations.
Amazing!
The funniest stuff it came up with for me were Pengwoman, Sushi Bird, Jezus (Jesus + Zeus).
Oh certainly, didn't mean to imply it's great for a freaking date.

But I've seen the mutating pattern in other cases causing the weird state bug which could have avoided using a builder.
As a society we've settled on collective security (army/navy/police) to address outside physical threats. I believe that as our institutions mature we will take analogous steps towards addressing internet/computer security. It seems more obvious to me than making unsophisticated users responsible for their own individual security against highly sophisticated and well-resourced adversaries.
i agree and tell candidates this. “you can use google, chatgpt, and any tool available to you as you would during the job”

if your questions can be answered by chatgpt (or google), you are asking the wrong questions
Once you get to the Trump and Trump-related emojis ... that's when it gets properly weird.
I’m CEO of Neon. Happy to answer questions here
I bootstrapped my small software business with savings. I had about a year of runway. IMHO this is definitely the way to do it if you can. Don't even think about using your credit card. Obviously that doesn't help OP much. Sorry.
> Genesis (MD), Sega (Mega) CD, Saturn, Dreamcast. The Master System was kind of a bust in North America so I don't carry very much nostalgia for it.

Back before retro consoles were really collectible, I snapped up a giant pile of SMS stuff at a thrift shop for 35 USD.

I believe it was almost my whole collection:

- SMS 1st gen
- 2 controllers
- Light gun
- A few card games in their original boxes
- ~25 cart games, most of them in original boxes, some with manuals

When I was living with a friend post-college, we would actually play it a bunch. Dreamcast and PS2 as well.
I was in the same situation(wife, small children, no real savings) about three years ago. Long story short freelance for a high enough rate that you can pay subcontractors to do the work and free you up to work on the side project. Eventually, you can start paying the freelancers as subcontractors to work on your project as well and this is the hardest part and I don’t know any way around it. I happen to know people that were in sales and know the business side of the industry I target. Eventually, one of them said, I’m ready to be entrepreneur and I sold a piece of the pie in exchange for him and his clients. Within the first two months our profits soared. It’s a wild ride and we are just getting started. Build a solid product that customers love and lightning will eventually strike.
A bank account to which money can only be added is not a very useful one.
There are games like this, just look for pixel art games. E.g. Terraria, Stardew Valley, Enter the Gungeon, etc
Well what I mean is that eventually one forgets most of what was in a book, and all you remember was whether the book was particularly good. I’m thinking more about literature. So who is better read, the professor who read all of Shakespeare, but thirty years ago, or the student who has only read a couple of plays, but recently, and in depth, and can talk about them fluently and connect the to other works they recently read in depth?
>Love + Fire = Passion

I'm impressed that it's able to understand figurative combinations like this. On
the other hand, some of them are confusing:

>Steampunk Pirate Queen + Romance = Steam And Sorcery

What? Is this a reference?
> Having children also involves sacrifice, improvisation, unpredictability, suffering... and lots of people are apparently allergic to all of those things.

Rightfully so. There is no extra credit for unnecessarily burdening yourself.
Where do you interview for? I'm sure people who don't want to compete with GPT script kiddies would love to know steer clear, while this is a strong positive signal that there's a jobs program for GPT meat copiers.
> intellectual dishonesty

This suggestion that a person who can adequately perform job duties could have even possibly cheated in their job interview is intellectually dishonest. If they had to cheat to get the job we should be looking at the interviewer. Why did the qualified candidate have to cheat? Why is whatever-they-did even considered cheating?
If physics allows it... a considerable assumption. In my view physics (or mathematics, or whatever) doesn't even allow an LLM to "reason", let alone manufacture novel bioweapons. The probability of Jesus returning is considerable too if we assume the bible is true.
Empty retail stores in major tier 1 cities wasn't unusual even in good times. Nor were empty apartments in tier 1/2/3 cities as well as small crowds at malls. Actually, I would be hard pressed to use these signs as good or bad news, since they are so normal.
I got Atlantis + Spongebob = Atlantis Squarepantis :D
Your software cannot be more decentralized than your hardware.

For example, true p2p can only happen if you meet with someone and use a cable, bluetooth or local wifi. Anything over the internet needs to pass through routers and *poof* decentralization's gone and you now need to trust servers to a varying level of degrees
That's a fairly big challenge since the game gets less coherent the longer it goes on. The early matches generally make sense, but after about 3 levels you start getting loops, and after 5 levels you start getting nonsense or outright failures from queries.

If you figure each of the things is an input parameter to a LLM this makes a lot of sense. They tend to have short memories and struggle with higher level introspection. Great for demos, but fraught with problems when using them to do real work.
> It gives the whole incubator, startup scene, etc, a bad name.

And that scene already has a bad name. And let's not forget that he's also an EA acolyte. Every time I think that the image of SV couldn't get much worse, it does.
It literally does? The name Tesla occurs in the piece no less than 13 times.
This. Focusing your hiring on open source contributions biases the process and misses huge slices of the software engineering population.

I made the best work of my life (by a long long shot) to private companies closed source.
"Can" or "can't"?
>Last fall, engineers at Nebraska’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on the facility’s testing ground on the edge of the local municipal airport. The nearly 4-ton (3.6 metric ton) 2022 Rivian R1T tore through the metal guardrail and hardly slowed until hitting a concrete barrier yards away on the other side.

>“We knew it was going to be an extremely demanding test of the roadside safety system,” said Cody Stolle with the facility. “The system was not made to handle vehicles greater than 5,000 pounds.”

Looks like they were designed for "normal" weight cars. Looking it up, a "huge" car like a 60s/70s Chevelle SS only weighs 3200 pounds with an enormous V8 in it.
I don't know why, but I was convinced that Gary Larson died like 15 years ago.
For incentive alignment, consensus, trustless, etc
ACLU Sues Ronald McDonald House for Refusing to House Assault Convicts
or maybe the ai superintelligence has calculated a trajectory for an asteroid on a collision course for earth guaranteed to eliminate a vast majority of life on the planet, but has a feasible disaster recovery plan for itself. and we would have a fighting chance if we could repurpose those damn nvidia GPUs currently churning through tokens to do more monte carlo experiments specific to calculating how best to deflect the immanent asteroid.
I’ve only known one person who did drink daily in moderation. My grandfather had exactly one can of Miller highlife per day with lunch for a very long time. He occasionally had a second if he was dining out at a family dinner.

He greatly disapproved of drinking enough to impair judgement or reduce your ability to drive. Basically if you can feel it, you’re drinking too much.

Just to paint a more complete picture of him. I’d say he was a good man. A bit stubborn and stern, but always supportive and never treated people poorly. He never understood racism or sexism and hated it. :)
Most likely hearing, but that’s strongly related to cognition.
If there's a single shareholder that wants profit instead of clean air from their share, they have grounds to sue (and win). LLCs aren't dictatorships of the majority, and definitely not of the CEO.

If every single shareholder agrees, then yes.