skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok let me tell you a secret here. A secret which books, youtube channels, startup accelerators won't tell you.

The stories that you hear with hard work, finding a niche, product market fit, build a great product are all lies.

The true secret is what I think of as "dirty business".

Think: spam, sex, gambling, money making, scraping data, connections (which are not dirty per se but often not mentioned in stories).

Examples:

LinkedIn: spam
Snapchat: sex
Google: money making
Facebook: sex, spam
Slack: connections
Uber: connections, money making
Airbnb: spam

I can go on and on and almost any large scale success (over $10 million ARR) have had these things.

The only time these can be broken is when a new paradigm starts:

Examples:

PC
Internet
Mobile
LLM

These usually happen every decade or so and you have ~2 years to make it (Dirty business also helps here to go really fast).

The other key insight is the way the capitalism system works, if you achieve the initial growth, you almost always will succeed. To go from $10 million ARR to $100 million ARR is easy as pie.

So, the bottom line is if you are a normal, moral person, who is righteous and thinking I will make something to help others and disrupt the world, you will fail.

The alternative is small tech businesses which at the most you can sell for a few million dollars. That is still achievable and easy. You must hyper focus on a location and a niche and just sell to them. But I don't think of them as a startup. They are more like your local salons and restaurants. A mom and pop shop which is instead dealing in software.

For B2B software you need to have at least 3 - 5 customers willing to sign $10,000 and above contracts before you write a single line of code. This is still possible but you need the connections and the deep insight of the industry to make something meaningful.

I do not know why so much of the literature and teaching stuff discounts that initial spark which causes startups to grow. They are all lies. Focus on connections with local politicians (donate $10,000 to the up and coming politician?), movers and shakers, buying large amount of scraped data etc. Think dirty business and then maybe you will have a chance of succeeding.

Would love any counter arguments and comments. This is from a very long, over a decade research into why some businesses succeed and others fail.
online bubble: 1

sanity: 0

The question you have to ask yourself is if this was all true 20 years ago and the answer is yes.
Back when Facebook was fun i paid 5 dollars to write a cross text extension. Back then i was doing a lot of those jokes where you get a popular saying, strike one word and write another one to make it funny.

What was funny to me is the fact the Facebook started to revert my posts when using this. I remember recording a video about it, don't know if i still have it though.
You seem deadset on proving original commenter right
It's not Reality, so yes.
Elsewhere you said, "Piracy is a moral imperative", so I'm presuming it's OK to take whatever you are selling and not pay for it.
On anti-bot biometric protections
Me&family spent like €5k on Apple devices (incl. smart speakers), then another €20+/mo on various subscriptions such as Apple Music. So I play through AirPods from a Mac using Music.app and from Apple's catalogue... the library metadata is a mess, there's entire (well-known) bands whose many albums are not available, Siri keeps mis-interpreting my requests (plays a song that's similarly named by an artist I never heard of even though I used the exact name of an album I listened to dozens of times last year alone), the "smart" playlist seems to play the same 50 songs on shuffle+repeat...

...and now also the playback in Music.app occasionally stutters, on an M1 Mac, with an otherwise idle system. So let's raise the subscription prices.

In my opinions, all of these companies got waaay too comfortable taking our subscription money.

Don't worry, I'll figure out a different way to get these €16.99/mo into the starving artists' hands, plenty of buskers around here.
> JB knows better than to open files sent to him.

That's not how these NSO spyware attacks work, or used to work – the ones that are now known were zero-click exploits in WhatsApp / iMessage that required no interaction with the message.

https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage...

Of course I'm only guessing that's what was potentially used in this case, but doesn't seem too far fetched.
> And, the photo looks like it has single pane windows with snow outside? They might not have had functional multi pane windows when the home was built?

That's water outside. After a storm. That's a waterproof house in a coastal area of Germany that tends to flood during storms.

Needless to say those windows are designed with another problem than just insulation in mind. I can't tell you whether they're multi pane. All I know is that they open towards the outside rather than the inside for obvious reasons.
I don't always have physical defects, but when I do, I fix them with non-physical software updates.
I can imagine it being received differently today, but I read it twice in the 80s. It blew my mind. Now you can’t swing a stick without hitting some referent or concept in its pages, but that’s the internet age, efficiently routing the arcane to hypernerds worldwide. It’s made the whole world boring.
You're not talking about a sandbox then?

A native app won't prevent Google or Facebook (or Apple) from tracking you. In my experience, native apps typically always require login, and then fingerprinting is unnecessary.

Avoiding their services, and using an open source and privacy respecting browser with uBlock Origin installed will protect you however.

The latter can be done on all OSes I've used -- except iOS.
>"The universities will continue to lack the courage to teach hard science, they will continue to misguide the students, and each next stage of infantilization of the curriculum will be hailed as educational progress."

He was complaining of the watering down of curricula in Netherlander unis...

He moved to TX in '84 due to the infantilization of students (by the Dutch). We now have some high school teachers who say they will not issue Ds and Fs and instead will give incompletes only... I'm afraid we have eclipsed the Dutch.
Gaming. Maybe.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/30/24055445/microsoft-q2-202...
You can buy a reusable metal straw if you want to.
Contrastive Learning and Mixture of Experts Enables Precise Vector Embeddings
Vector embeddings are key in tech and science. Our research shows that Mixture of Experts (MoE) transformers beat traditional sentence similarity methods. A huge result. Why?

LLMs often misread nuances in scientific texts. Our scalable solution upgrades pre-trained language models to MoE versions, with expert groups matching multiple model performances across various benchmarks.

Focusing on the cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease subfields, we generated training datasets using co-citations (publications citing each other) as a similarity metric.

These scalable datasets required no manual labeling, yet took advantage of the expert collective intelligence of the scientific community (in terms of citation networks), allowing our models to outperform all other tested models.

We believe this new approach marks significant and timely advancements in scientific text classification approaches and holds promise for enhancing vector database tasks, which is an active area of research (and teaching) in our lab.

Congratulations to co-authors Rohan Kapur, Logan Hallee, and Arjun Patel for innovating with this tour-de-force framework in the post-GPT era we all live in today. We hope you may find our work useful in the context of your own AI/machine learning research.
> and you can have autism and low IQ

In fact, various studies have shown that most people with ASD have a below average IQ.
Condensing a year of growth into January – 2024
I think it makes sense. The parts of the system that need to respond within certain time windows because of physics run in the R1 (presumably, “realtime 1”). Everything else is just an iPad, which currently runs on the M2.
Music rights management is independant of production and distribution. This means that Spotify, Apple Music and any other music services are able to negotiate rights to large libraries of music quite easily.
Jpeg xl team at Google has opensourced a new JPEG encoder, too. It is called jpegli. It compresses very well.
- "Fedora Optimized Binaries for the AMD64 Architecture" currently says Targeted Release: Fedora 40 but rejected: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Optimized_Binaries_fo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38825503
I work at a movie company and when we say "you'll laugh and you'll cry.." during a movie you absolutely will laugh and cry. I guarantee it.
As a native dutch speaker here's how I would translate it:

"We shouldn't add errors to software out of negligence. They should be added systematically and carefully."
YES. So, so true. And Hegel in turn was just adapting Kant, despite calling him a “blockhead” in the preface (hilarious, can’t even imagine what 1800s German for “blockhead” is). It’s absolutely Hegelian. To make it more explicit for the HN audience:

Hegel wrote a very famous book called the “The Experience of Mind” (or, in obnoxious philosophy language, “The phenomenology of Spirit”). In it, he details how he thinks the mind is made up of successive levels of distinct programs, each of which builds on what came for it in a very specific way he calls “dialectic synthesis”. In this way he goes through all the perceived capabilities of the mind (the big four in order roughly being sensation, understanding, awareness, and reason) and ties them to specific steps in this synthetic chain.

I hope it’s obvious from that how this argument mimics GEB (which I understand as roughly “the human mind is a collection of looping programs with these characteristics”).
If you really want to get rid of plastics, stop recycling them and start burying them.
iPhone Safari.

Judging by the comments, they set the text via viewport units only on smaller viewports.
authors received monetary support from the American Chemistry Council, a trade group representing the interests of plastic bag manufacturers.

> Are these references good enough?

Well, what do you think?
I’m very much exploring this idea. Hopf algebras provide a really nice wrapper around this. I have a discord to discuss this

https://discord.cofunctional.ai
sure, a lawyer can argue anything they want, the issue is that our court system has precedent going back 100+ years.

One of the reasons for this precedent is to prevent exactly what you're attempting to do here, which is to curb someone's freedom of expression using the law.
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@li...

The "building infrastructure" of Arch is just Package Maintainers building and publishing packages they maintain. There was some resistance from PMs against supporting another architecture.
it’s a good thing there was a hospital maintained by non hermit people that other non hermit people paid for that was able to help him after his fall
Can't we do better with records for the root zone (`.`) instead of `a.io`?
Isn't online streaming profitable? Does it absolutely need ads and granular channel subscriptions to be profitable?
You misunderstood my comment, if you think I was asking for a reference for 1 euro/km.

The question is whether 20 euros per liter is obviously looney tunes to any HN passers-by. Or if "everyone" knows it is in fact what gasoline should cost.

[Edited for clarity]
Browsers REALLY have to fix the "read all your data" problem. Even with domain limitations, if you use an extension for a site, that means you use that site a lot, so you probably even have an account on it.

I think extensions should declare a bunch of CSS selectors that they need data access to, and if an element doesn't match those selectors, then all attributes and .innerText/.innerHTML should return undefined.

I don't care if normal people can't understand what CSS selectors are. Just hide it in "view technical details" box or something.
Well, part of the plot is about humanity’s slow and inexorable evolution through the passage of space and time, so the meditative slowness sets the pace quite appropriately.

GED (in my humble opinion etc), doesn’t really need some of the fluff. It’s a large book that’s easy to spot on the shelf, and it’s hard to avoid thinking that the publisher (and some readers) like it that way.
Kick.com is banned in Greece as of June. It has some betting streams, not sure if someone bets on the platform, but it got banned anyway for illegal gambling. I don't care personally, just to put it out there.

P2P download of files did fall a lot in the last decade, i think a second wave is coming.
I think their idea is that the boss would be the one to introduce it ("Bosses might even enjoy the grandeur of showing off their status with an insignia-device.") and because of the culture it wouldn't be difficult for employees to adapt and go along with those new rules.
yep, as someone who stopped pirating when netflix started streaming, I'm back to pirating and I won't apologize for it.

there are shows for which I cannot even purchase them, which I would be willing to do. You want to lock me into a subscription? jokes on you.
A new Lean formalization project for the Prime Number Theorem
I'd guess that approximately 0% of moderately senior level jobs involve ever speaking at a conference or other fairly public and recorded venue. Company-internal training videos or recorded meetings are more common, but that's a far narrower attack surface.
> At 23, Nabatanzi already had 25 children and said she begged doctors to help her stop from having any more

Poor woman. Would it have been so difficult to tie her tubes?

> Doctors reportedly advised Nabatanzi to stop having children after she had her last child three years ago. She said a doctor informed her he “cut my uterus from inside.”

Jesus. It is not even clear whether she consented this time around.
Plastic straws perform better than your average paper straw, no argument there. I think the talking point is a lot of people do not care that much and paper straws are good enough.

Wax would help way more for most use cases, but the added material would help for thicker mediums.

Waxed paper straws are a thing and are almost as good as plastic straws. I am not sure why they are not more common. Pretty rare actually.
Your response to somebody appearing to be intellectually superior because they bring up GEB is to act even more intellectually superior? It sounds like you feel you're so far beyond them, you won't even engage in a discussion about it.
Can you be more specific about which proofs you want to see?

Self-encryption patent? Or the functioning of the network in general?

Im new here so unsure of the policy on links, but please search for safenetform.
Folks there will be delighted to answer your queries. This project is very different from most and it can take a little effort to grasp it. That effort is very much worth it.
You wouldn't steal a policeman's helmet and go to the toilet in it.
You can also use smenu (https://github.com/p-gen/smenu) to make these and many other selections.
> on what does all that metal (bullets) land?

The Phalanx CIWS uses explosive incendiary tracer rounds on land. They self destruct after missing the target to avoid collateral damage
I don't see how the static typing of the bound languages enters into it. Python has type hints which can be enforced by some compilers, if you are so committed to type safety in your config scripts. If you have Pkl output YAML or XML then where is your type safety?

Since "popular" does mean that very many people are using it, I think it would be wise to try to serve the Python community.
oh I see, thanks for the feedback, I fixed it.
Steam's Gabe Newell said it best: Piracy is an issue of service, not price. I went from full pirate (we didn't even pay for cable, it 'just worked' -- the beauty of analog) to nearly full streamer. The stuff I kept pirating wasn't available on stream. Then Disney started to take off their stuff from Netflix. HBO suddenly quit in The Netherlands, or I had to combine it with KPN or was it Ziggo (what if you can't have DSL or cable? And, what if you got better; fiber?). I'm still paying for like 6 services, but not forever. Because my children do not know or remember on which service they saw something. Heck, often they can't even remember the name. Or they know the name in our own language and the search doesn't work. And as cherry on top, Dutch public broadcasting organisation (NPO) updated their app which was a step back as it removed a lot of features, such as children profiles, and the navigation of the new UI is atrocious. Series paid for with public money suddenly got removed. I am done with this shit. I am. What I will do is download all my children's favorite series, and put them in Jellyfin. Then every month we pick a different service, and they can watch that, too. I will tell them it is beyond my control (a white lie).

Also the quality of the streams is laughable. Only Apple bring something which deserves the mention 4k (and Apple are part of the problem).

And a piracy setup is very easy. I will get fiber soon. I have a VPN with a container to run BitTorrent on. I have Usenet servers. I have a couple of lifetime ???znab accounts. All cheap.

I wrote this post angrily in less than 10 min, I probably forgot to mention other reasons on top of this all. Yeah, the fuzzy feelings I got for not pirating. I admit, I will miss those.
Oh, I see. But it uses OpenGL, and I would have to guess it is being replaced by WebGPU / wgpug, correct?
If Netflix had seen themselves strictly as a distribution service, they might have taken an open-to-all, low-margin, high-volume approach, which had a chance to become ubiquitous and unassailable. Basically, they could have been the Cable-over-IP provider for everyone. But it's a lot harder to get there, from here.
But they don’t have the show or movie you want, then you have to sign up somewhere else.
I hear he's got a weird thing to show us
lol in this thread full of dozens of paragraph-long attacks on this book, yours is by far the most damning. And funny. For those that are unaware like me:

Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book GEB…:

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

**History**

In 1979, Hofstadter introduced the law in connection with a discussion of chess-playing computers, which at the time were continually being beaten by top-level human players, despite outpacing humans in depth of analysis. Hofstadter wrote:

In the early days of computer chess, people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law.
It only takes one Ronan Point to outweigh a great many people who never had a safety problem with a gas installation. The UK imposed a strict inspection and regulation regime (to the point that a common "life pro tip" is: if you're living in rented accommodation with gas and haven't received a gas safety certificate, never mention it to your landlord until you move out, that way you're always entitled to 100% of your deposit back and can avoid having to argue over wear and tear etc.) which has its own costs.
Do fewer things! If you have your days so full that you finish all your stuff at bedtime, you have too many things happening. Find a way to categorise into important/somewhat-important/not-important, and just give yourself permission to just say no to the not-important.
"We should not introduce errors into a program out of carelessness. We must do this systematically and with care."

That's pretty funny, too bad.
Crucially the French translation was significantly rewritten, with contributions from Hofstadter. In doing so, the French version becomes a separate projection of the author’s original ideas, along a different vector than the original English version. The approach therefore illustrates the main point of the book, similarly to its cover. Very meta. :)
Honestly companies got too greedy, I hope piracy teaches them to not go too far
Wow, you're right. Every link I follow on the posted article leads me into a fascinating wasteland of other articles from the site, each better than the last. This is some extremely high quality content.
Netflix has a problem that the front page is now filled with "B-rated" rather than "A-rated" content for more money than before. The amount of content that they spent money on in the past is hardly discoverable, genre search is barely exposed in the interface. You have to rely on 3rd party sites to find links to category selections, say Epic movies based on true events... good luck finding what they have in this category in the AppleTV or Roku apps. They also don't allow to exclude content that one is not interested in, I want no superheroes, no animated stuff, no dei, etc - and yet every time I launch the app it is there front and center and I just hate this. And if I watched 2 WW2 movies it doesn't mean that's the only thing I'm interested in in the recommended section. I want to exclude producing studios as well, like Vox, let me tell Netflix what I don't like.

So if you start looking outside of their interface - why then not just finish and get the movie elsewhere?

Finally, pricing is not flexible, what if I want infrequent 4k UHD streaming on a single device - why do I pay for 4 streams as if I'm streaming 24/7? At this point, I'm better off with Netflix Pay Per View (if this was offered). I keep paying for this service just because I can and just because I might watch something - but I find it more and more frustrating to watch something...
I found it interesting that in the arxiv paper you linked they are talking about an attack, ethics and responsible disclosure.

But when it comes to scraping the entirety of the internet to train such models that's never referred to as an attack.
Agree - and not simply the presence of ads, but the scammy, fraudulent type. I just saw the tiniest “X” to close an ad I’ve ever seen. And clicking it just opened the advertisers site anyway.

That’s not a sustainable strategy, that’s just fraud.
2. You will quickly end with two programs with different features, or maybe a single program that only offers a fraction of features depending on input/output capabilities :

Screen size is just one aspect of this, consider how different programs might be optimized for a vertical screen layout, or the use of smartphone's accelerometers, or working best with precise mouse movement, or relying on the user learning to use keyboard shortcuts (ideally with an easy on-ramp phase) for effectiveness, or relying a lot on hovering your mouse over features for popups (which is very poorly translated as a press and hold on touchscreens - consider how rare hover text for pictures has become).

(More extreme examples would be also being able to use the software from, for instance, a monochrome, low refresh rate watch with only a few buttons, at which point you get the option to use vibration feedback notifications that you can't expect to have on a desktop.)
Not all defense contractors use cost-plus contracts
If the website uses viewport units Firefox can’t do it either, IIRC. My guess is that the website uses vw only on “mobile”
> Did it make a meaningful improvement to the environment?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-07/most-plastic-bags-gon...

It's not completely clear from this article if the measurement includes the thicker bags, but my guess is yes.