skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an odd view as a bootstrapped founder because i simply never needed funding apart from a small amount for business registration and initial hardware purchases but that's 1000's. I was working another job while bootstrapping so wasn't going to starve no matter what. We ended up with a product clients were knocking on the door for (remote telemetry for railways/mines/environmental monitoring). The business has huge recurring revenue to this day and we decided to talk to VCs after making it. They had nothing to offer us and the amount they were willing to give made no sense and was in the realm of giving them money (imagine valueing a company at half of its annual earnings).

I'm very very negative on VC to this day except if you have a capital+time intensive barrier to break (most companies don't have this). 'You can't do it without our guidance' they'll say but the honest truth is they don't have much to offer apart from the money. VCs are not altruistic. They do the maths and figure out how to get returns regardless of how it will impact your stake. You'd be an absolute fool to take VC money without asking if it's actually a long term positive for you. There's always a better deal and giving them a significant share of your company on extremely generous terms for the promise of 'guidance' is going to be foolish IMHO. Bootstrapping is not some desperate scramble for money. The whole idea is to run the first phase off a shoestring so it has no real risks (apart from your own time and effort).
My process

1 utilize commute time. If you drive: podcasts about things you want to get better at. If you are on a commuter rail (where it’s normal to laptop) mooc or side projects.

2 temptation bundle: you get to do a fun thing if you do the learning etc thing first

3 micro learning: make it easy to pick up your phone and read a few pages vs wherever else you spend your time. Load the book into your reader, download the class for offline etc
bookmarking extension, not much traction though
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/autolicious/jbmpoml...
Very cool! in README.md is that an extra 'p' in Webp2pdf ?
However I would guess most wrongful convictions are done against people that can't afford "good defense lawyers"
>When you're booking a plane ticket, you don't have much information about the legroom amount

Google flights shows it eg. "Below average legroom (29 in)"
Normally, if you have generics, Rust makes copies of the function (/struct/enum/etc.) (aka "monomorphization"), one for each type that you use with it. The idea is to have a generic function but only one copy of the function, presumably because none of the code actually relies on the details of T.
10-06-2011 was different
This is very cool and the concept is something I've been wishing on for a while. Unfortunately I work in an enterprise type of design team. I'm a software developer but our hardware team has standardized on Cadence tools and are pretty dug in on how they work, which is kind of opaque to us software guys.
UUIDs are globally unique (unique with such a high probability that in practise there are no collisions, if you follow the spec). But they are not cryptographically safe. So the time part is not a "leak" in this sense. If you need something cryptographically safe, then you would need to encrypt the UUID.
Oh right, yes i misread that. Not like they have any budget anyway
I was tired of the need to scroll through dozens of blogs and RSS feeds to learn about technologies and industry news, so I’ve built a service that helps you learn and stay updated about any topic by sending a single fully personalized weekly email digest, making relevant information come to you, instead of you chasing it (push vs pull):

https://peekly.ai

It’s basically an LLM-based RAG that works over the best blogs and websites covering any topic you provided during onboarding.
Yup, VCs are desperate for founders to create VC-backable businesses.

This video argues that if you want to be a trillion dollar company, you need VC funding. But they don't emphasize aiming to be a trillion dollar company has a tiny (<1%) chance of succeeding, requiring certain lifestyles (investment chasing). It's not for people looking to build fun products, live a relatively wealthy (but not outrageous) lifestyle, etc.

It is literally for founders who want to go the biggest or go home. Think carefully if that is you.
PCIe 6.0 over optical cables demonstrated in custom data center solution
Yep. Open source means you can build and modify it. If not, it’s not open source.

You know it’s a bad timeline when releasing the equivalent of a binary is considered “open”.
Not really. Try to buy different, I dare you. Used to be possible. Now we just accept it. You young folks, no idea how it used to be.
That would depend on the size of the person, and water loss. Over hydration is taxing on the kidney as well, not to mention the fact that the patient in that study was drinking tea.

I'm surprised that the doctor didn't mention drinking plain water, or perhaps it was rejected by the patient, and it's customary to exclude that from these kind of report?
I found OpenSCAD's 3d model representation to be very challenging for anything complicated. I used FreeCAD, which is scriptable, but also uses a brep representation instead of CSG, which IME works a jillion times better.
You might be right, dont think we will be tackling perf boards any time soon :D
I've had it happen on both Apple Music and Spotify. Given my 40h+ master playlist, I tend to notice it. I always have a few gray holes.

As for replacements, my understanding is that they are often due to the better royalties on original artist re-recordings. I always try to switch back to the originals, and AM, my current service, only sometimes still them. Frustrating to build a collection on shifting sand.
That was a really cool story, too sad it didn't work out. Thanks.
Microsoft owns 2404:f800::/30.

I just did the tutorial and I noticed that in the Azure portal it shows a public IPv6 address and a private IPv6 address. From my machine I connect to the public one and magically end up on the private one.

Curling what is my ip6 from the machine yield the public IPv6 address.

I suppose all of this is needed to ensure LB can be done? And it's easier to do with a range like this than a ULA which by default isn't routable.
A gallon of water. Not a gallon of Earl Grey tea…

(I do agree that the parent's Arizona might not be quite comparable, given the sugar content in those drinks.)
Bin Laden hadn't lived in Saudi Arabia since 1991?

If you're referring to the fact that the relatively newly declassified parts of the 9/11 commission report suggest that several powerful members of the Saudi government and royal family were involved in the attacks, then I agree with you that we should have (and still should) insist that the Saudis extradite those involved and take strong military action against the Saudis if they don't. But I don't see how this makes our attack on Afghanistan for refusing to extradite Bin Laden unjustified, it just makes us inconsistent.
Seen on Breach Forums onion site as well ...
Responses to caffeine vary wildly, but personally I experience acute anxiety a couple of hours after even one cup. It took me many years as a regular coke / tea / coffee drinker to figure out that was causing daily anxiety. I do wonder what proportion of people never make the link, although it seems prevalence of high sensitivity to caffeine is rare in the general population [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242593/
Norway is the wise drug (oil) dealer that refused to get high on its own supply...kudos I guess
I don't recall which program it was, but likely something on Netflix like "making a murderer" or similar. There was interrogation video of cops berating a mentally challenged teenager into admitting guilt. It was truly disgusting. Watch a couple minutes of that, and it'd be hard to not form an opinion on cops lying.
Yeah we did run into a similar issue. Someone designed a power supply and it wasn't immediately obvious how the elements of the circuit were hooked up in ato.

I think a viewer would be nice ultimately. But we haven't exactly figured out how the solution might look like. ideally something that allows you to create datasheet-like snapshots of part of your design?
> I don't think that anyone thinks it's more moral or good or right to start a VC backed company or a non-VC backed company. I don't think this is an actual debate.

Show of hands HN, who here thinks it's more moral or good or right to start a non-VC backed company?
I would highly suggest you conduct the same experiment at home, as you said it's quite easy to put together the test environment. Though you can also just google "photonic barrier" and read about it without the experiment. Again, maybe I'm not using proper word choices for things, so someone with a stronger physics background looking at my words through a pedantic lens might find issues with them, which is fair. But basically, if someone shines a light at you, and you shine a light back at them, you are blinded if they hold a significantly stronger light source. You are not blinded if you are holding a significantly stronger light source. And there's an array of in-between states depending on the exact light output of each. This phenomena is referred to as a "photonic barrier." Please show a scientific study or anything that refutes this, because looking around, I find nothing. A large group of people with actual experience running these experiments all had the same observation about photonic barriers, and you just saying "do the experiment at home" doesn't negate them or their observations at all. But perhaps you're on the verge of a break through if you know something we all don't. And I'll go so far as to say that it's possible that you do, but so far my observations have been the same as theirs. In my opinion, that puts the onus on you, not me, to make your case.
If these countries are "armed to the teeth", Russia will invade some of these countries. Both sides will point fingers at each other while some Eastern European homes burn. Eventually the prospect of horrible death while grasping the Western-provided arms will dissuade these countries from being armed to the teeth. I sincerely believe the preferred lifestyle of Eastern Europeans is sitting on a porch of their nice tiny house, not dying from a mortal wound in a ditch.

Arms do not win wars without people holding them, and even then, fighting off an agressor does not mean your country isn't ruined.

Ukraine was in the process of ditching its buffer state status by choosing a side. They bragged for a decade how they are going to do that. Needless to say it didn't go so well for them, and only them so far. Other countries in thir position turned out to be smarter as not to win the first Russian invasion target prize.

Please note that I'm not asking for a moral judgement because everybody else who may pass it has worse skeletons in their own closet than Russian Ukraine affair.
+1 for this. I think of it as momentum. Whatever I start my day with sets the tone for my day as a whole. Changing my personal growth time to the morning is probably the best change I ever made for myself.
I'd love to know this as well!
Thanks! So it is/was indeed UB.
I'm just writing hobbyist software, but I'm not too worried. My backup plan is to put my Deno app in a Docker file and deploy it somewhere.

(It's a bit trickier than that since the SQLite database holding the KV store would need to be backed up, but it seems doable with Litestream?)
Yout vs. RIAA 2nd circut oral arguments [audio]
Polymorphic type erasure is the technique where the type is only used during type checking but has no impact on the generated code, namely the compiler doesn't emit specialized code for each instance of the type.
Yes, sadly for many of their families, whole companies are left in the lurch for extended periods of time, often stuck on the front and meant to stay there. There are some heartbreaking pleas from companies like that, who know they are screwed. I've seen russian POWs claim they are more afraid of their superiors than the AFU. Huge numbers of foreign fighters are there for the $2500 too. So much tragedy.
Thats really nice. What did you talk about?
Reminds me of chifir, which is still popular in Russian and easter-euro prisons

"Ultimately, making chifir involves brewing a great deal of black tea and for a long time. It may be left to brew overnight and drunk either hot or cold."

They use it as some sort of substate for alcohol but I'm not sure of exact effect. I know it causes extremely bad teeth rot after multi year consumption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifir
That’s why god created “~” character.
Anyone considering buying this phone in the US should probably not do so because it has no support for UTMS aka 3G (still common in rural areas), does not support any of the 4G "long range" bands, and no 5G support (an increasing number of rural cell towers are long-range 5G)

It does support the majority of non-extended-range Tmobile bands. I did not check other carriers, but this thing is much worse than a Nexus 6 in terms of LTE band support - a phone that came out about 8-9 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39266008
They're literally picking out the next PM to replace yakunovich and it turned out exactly as they said.
Is there a professional analysis about XLSTM? It seems they are secret/stealth [1]? With a quick analysis I cannot differentiate if it is a Theranos or another OpenAI.

[1] https://github.com/AI-Guru/xlstm-resources
That could actually be a universal ad-whacker for similarily stubborn sites (reddit)
It's not just per-object. When you consider things like `restrict` pointers in C, and the aliasing model in Rust (e.g. Stacked Borrows), you have provenance distinctions even within a single allocated object.
>"Well, geez this is such a small mistake I'm going to ignore it"

There are "mistakes" you ignore when you're building an aircraft but you don't call them mistakes, because they aren't. You have tolerances for everything. To be "correct" a dimension is specified, must be no bigger than this, no smaller than that. And that's it. You're either in the spec or not. If you're not there's no ignoring, parts were delivered out of spec. There isn't some secondary "out of spec but only a little".

Subcontractors (like Spirit), the prime contractor (Boeing), and everyone responsible for verifying (FAA, perhaps others) all share culpability for things going quite wrong. Hopefully the NTSB still has it's head on straight and the coming scathing reports will attract attention in Congress to light a fire under the FAA's ass to do its job, preferably with some direct legislation for things the FAA must do. (i.e. no more manufacturers doing self-verifications)
Sure but the tradeoff is that either you accidentally order more things than you need (based on retailer recommendation), or you have to do a new order because you forgot (when there are no retailer recommendations). Some retailers allow you to modify an existing order, which can partially solve the problem as well. Overall, I think its not a good idea for a retailer to be so pushy at checkout especially when I want to checkout quickly and get back to doing whatever I was doing.
Forgot to reply to the support aspect:

Best way to support us right now is to try the project and give feedback on where you'd like to see this going. The project is open source so feel free to raise issues or contribute as well :)
SparkyLinux harbors a flamboyant array of desktops
The concept of limited liability is the source of many of America's societal ills.

If people were liable forever for the actions and could not contract it away, especially when concerning actions that can harm the public, you would see executives and boards of directors behave very differently do today.

Limited by ability socializes risk and harms and prioritizes profits. They both should be privatized.
> Defense is a costly vast landscape compared to attacking

Yes. But.

There are many defensive tactics that are not free but are cheap.

Keeping system software updated is one

https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/111880313720252008
Well, what about the SC landlords?
I've been using it to build a dynamic blog/newsletter. Local DX with https://github.com/kitsonk/kview has been nice.
And lots of people who drink 4L of wine a day are dysfunctional alcoholics who die early of liver or heart failure or various other causes.

Neither a glass of tea nor a glass of wine will kill you, but excessive consumption of just about anything can.
That's one way to write software that can seamlessly adapt to any future architecture changes. And Windows on ARM is already a thing.
I'm retired now. I spent most of the last 10 years of my career working for web-shops, mainly making Drupal-based websites using custom modules. This is the kind of work that the majority of developers do; it's not unusual, it's the norm.

[Edit] Just noticed that the commenters above that seem to agree that I'm unusual, are all different commenters. I'm puzzled that people think I'm unusual, even to the point of asking about the work I do/did. But the sub-conversation is about Github; I presume that most of these commenters is a Github user, who works in Githubby environments, and so is exposed to a lot of Github users.

I'm really not very unusual; I'm just an opinionated graybeard old-fart software geek, like a lot of us. We all have strong opinions about what software we're prepared to try to cooperate with.

I found git over-complicated, and Github quickly became like a cross between LinkedIn and a sort of Facebook for coders. I never trusted it at all.
What was the website source?
i moved to 4 day work week with a small pay reduction.
I spend Fridays and some evening on learning and side projects. might earn a bit less now, but then i can be sure that my skills and knowledge will stay relevant
Outside your expertise, I know, but curious for further thoughts on: if large quantities of tea being better than small quantities of alcohol obviates the observation that large quantities of tea aren't likely to be healthy
Ask HN: GitHub Requires 2FA – What For?
Alright this is not specific to GitHub. But given their recent change I'm noticing I cannot use their site anymore.

Why is it a good thing to couple your smart device like this? I specifically fear the day I cannot access any website with 2FA because I cannot restore from backup my device that has the original 2FA.
counterpoint: i bought a "fancy" pack of thick-cut churro seasoned bacon at HEB here in Houston for $8.49. their basic stuff was, like, $5. i think these prices are regional.
The federal government stopped using the SSAN as an identifier for their own employees years ago.

It's probably well past time for legislation prohibiting anyone else for using it for that purpose, preferably with some teeth.

As you say, most people's SSAN has been compromised many, many times.
I have two main projects that are public ATM with LLMs.

The more notable one was experimenting with LLMs as high level task planners for robots (https://hlfshell.ai/posts/llm-task-planner/).

The other is a golang based AI assistant, like everyone else is building. Worked over text, had some neat memory features. This was more of a "first pass" learning about LLM applications. (https://github.com/hlfshell/coppermind).

I plan to revisit LLMs as context enriched planners for robot task planning soon.
Not true at all. If it's a required field it should be valid. If it's not required, then null is the correct value.
Think we are arguing about a reaction to imperfect information, verus actual safety.

Yes, today, with increased inspections, planes are 'safer' than they were. If we take a baseline a few months ago, they are 'safer' now.

But

In the past, we had imperfect information about how worried we should have been. So a few months ago 'before knowing about defects' we weren't worried enough.

We didn't know how worried we should have been.
Now that we know about defects, we are more worried. Even thought over-all safety is probably better.

EDIT: And, now that we see how much 'cost pressure' has lead to safety cuts, I think we can be more worried now, because we can see how much cost trumps safety. Those cost pressures will remain once the current crisis is past.
Research universities don’t pay most of their faculty’s paychecks, research grants do. Research funding agencies are more to blame for this than universities, and it also reflects more STEM demand in the job market, why encourage creating a bunch of graduates who can’t get jobs?
When I was 24 I would spend almost the entire weekend in the local bookstore or library, as far from any distractions as possible, and work through programming and CS books (and a few others) on my reading list. I would also sometimes stay after work and do the problem sets on my work computer.

The only other alternative is to go back to graduate school and be a full-time student again.
Perhaps a follow on question, as I presume a lot of people reading the comments are looking for inspiration to build things (and those building might not want to reveal yet) what would you like to see built with the capabilities provided by LLMs?
Ha! plpgsql's seemingly sole purpose is to inject imperative code into a set-based environment. Probably does it more smoothly than most pl languages, but that's at the cost of imperative clarity.

But you're right. Postgres does allow for-loops like this. (They're also slower than the equivalent set-oriented approach.)
You can get it looked over by a mechanic before you buy. You can take it on a test drive - I thought this was standard practice. And I'll mention that your likelihood of major horribleness is much less if you are buying a newer car rather than an older one.

And yes, you might have to pay taxes, but you get that with the dealership as well. Dealerships aren't immune to taxes.
You don't know what an email looks like
I don't have any hobbies, I used to play games online but thats it. Maybe my problem, I don't know how to strike up a conversation with others (and maybe extend it beyond the the hellos).
> I don't think we can ever really "fix computer security"

But we can do much better
Demoing is hard because of the vision prescription (if needed) and the face scan required to get the light seals right. These things aren’t really designed for sharing.

But you can buy one and if it isn’t what you hoped for, you can return it within 14 days. In my experience, returns at Apple are quick and easy.
I do wonder why this use case - using wasm as cross-platform, cross-architecture portable binaries with performance profile "close enough" to optimized native code - is not more common. One can easily imagine an OS directly supporting such binaries even, JIT-compiling and caching them as needed.
The situation is not any different for std::sort, which also requires that the supplied comparison operator be well-behaved and can also fail in the same way otherwise.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41448
Not me, the universities who do engage in "holistic reviews".

See article: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/the-fa...

Excerpts from the story: From colleges’ perspective, “holistic” is just shorthand for, we make the decisions we make, and would rather not be asked to spell out each one. It’s a way for schools to discreetly take various sensitive factors—“overrepresented” minorities, or students whose families might donate a gym—into account.