skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that gpt4 is better at this than 3.5 and it seems to get it pretty reliably. One thing that's interesting to do is to imply the answer is incorrect and see if you can get it to change its answer. If you let it stop answering when it's correct, you get the Clever Hans effect.
Not yet. Check back in about ten years.
Whether to boostrap or raise VC for SaaS businesses?
I was looking at few of the growing bootstrapped SaaS businesses and saw that some of them are growing about 30% YoY and profitable.

Given that AI is making builders more productive, for building a SaaS, is VC funding even required?

Edit: source of the data https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/the-fastest-growing-bootstrapped
https://archive.is/6sBCx
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It is insane how hard it has become to create new or anonymous google account or to log in to old one that is not associated with your identity, it is practically impossible.
I have an workaround for that: in nova launcher i can add folders from the appdrawer to the homescreen and move the pwa icon there. Now i have the pwa in the folder of the appdrawer.
Do you believe that wealth is an innate right no matter the societal cost -- that people should be able to own such things or amounts of things that it is to the detriment of those around them?
PWAs seems like can do a whole lot. What is it that they can't do these days?

I am pretty confused as to why someone would even make a native app for 99% of applications these days when you can make a PWA/Capacitor app that runs on web/android/ios all in one codebase.

Even mobile games can be run on your browser on mobile, so I am not convinced the native performance is an issue at all.
I use google's call screening and it works wonders. https://youtu.be/V2IyttWHJfs?si=AW6fZQMl85w4srBM&t=48
What have the Jews in the Netherlands done wrong?

Anyway, just to paint maybe some more realistic threat models: Swatting. People suing rich people to get "go-away" money. Targeted robberies or abductions.

Privacy is a right, also for rich people. For any information that is private, I can find a good reason for it to not be private.
I ordered "Modern Fortran Explained: Incorporating Fortran 2023 6th. Edition" and will read it when it arrives. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/modern-fortran-expla...
> 4-way stop signs are stupid, there are better alternatives like roundabouts. UK and Europe have hardly any stop signs.

wholeheartedly agree, and just in general there are too many stop signs in the US;

but what's needed for cars going at 40-50 Mph is different than what's needed for cyclists who have the time to look both ways without necessarily having to come to a full stop (just like pedestrians crossing the road at places other than a crosswalk).
Spammers will spoof local numbers. I had my pharmacy call me only to find out it was a scam call that used spoofing.
Exactly what I came to comment. Same thing here, they seemed to hyperfixate on the extension pack which most VBox users would need. We had to get everyone off that as soon as possible.

Of course this isn't limited to VBox, but their database as well. Just avoid.
The "poor political campaigns" already exempted themselves from needing to adhere to the "do not call" list. So were they to make robocall's illegal, the politicians would likely again exempt themselves from the "robocalls are illegal" law.

With the result that (assuming the existing robocallers all quit) the only robocalls one would get would be politician robocalls.

In any case, most all of the current robocalls are already "illegal" under one or more existing laws/regulations, yet they still occur because the ones making the robocalls face few (if any) penalties for violations.
What the tour guide said was it’s because “he created jobs in Sicily” and “treated Sicily like it was a part of Italy.”
> What approach do you think would work better?

There is no approach that will give meaningful data on HN. There are multiple reasons.

1. Most users won't be interested in completing the poll even if they see it.

2. Stories have short periods of high visibility unless they are highly upvoted, so your poll was visible for likely just a few minutes before getting buried. This means your results are highly dependent on time zones.

> If that trend sticks, I think it's meaningful.

It's not for the above reasons. Your sample size is absolutely tiny, limited to a brief (and time-sensitive) window, and based on flawed questioning. I suspect a large percentage of HN users are of Asian descent, with varying degrees of Asian culture lingering in their lives, but live in North America and associate themselves with it. I am one of those people, for example.

> What approach do you think would work better?

You're asking about culture using geography. I have a devout Muslim friend who would identify most closely with North America, where he was born and raised. His response would tell you nothing about cultural biases on HN.

If you want to know about cultural biases, ask about them directly. A poll titled something like, "What are your biases?" might be provocative enough to hit the front page.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=lasspass&c=apps&fpr=f... shows that Parvati Patel didn't even have the forethought to submit to multiple stores, for maximum phishing. Or, from Apple's perspective, worse may be that they did submit it and Google either caught it or its review cycle is so hopelessly borked it didn't outrun the news coverage. Hard to tell who is the most facepalm of all these actors
> LastPass is warning that a fake copy of its app is being distributed on the Apple App Store

Fake news. LastPass's warning does not claim the other app is a fake copy.
I am waiting for fix in Safari PWA only bug for over a year now. (Bug is not present in browser Safari).

In webkit bugtracker I can see that bug is fixed but it is waiting for Safari teams approval for a year now. @apple.com developers are saying just report feedback assistant and it might get fixed...
> Alternate different people at random to run the standup

I feel like having to resort to tricks to keep people engaged in a meeting is a good sign that the meeting isn't a good use of time.
Incredible. Gpt4 spots that the door is transparent and that changes things but has this great line

> When you initially pick a door (in this case, door number 1 where you already see the car), you have a 1/3 chance of having picked the car

(Asking it to explain this it correctly solves the problem but it's a wonderfully silly sentence)

Edit - in a new chat it gets it right the first time
>corporate entomologies

Now there's a ready-made Far Side concept.
Yea, that's a limitation of UAC at this point, and probably not one we can avoid. The "Show details" dropdown on the dialog does however show the commandline you requested, so at least that's one way of making sure it's the thing you ran
And if the brand took off, I imagine you could “Bard” something as a verb but not “Gemini” it.
I have different rules that take effect when I'm expecting an incoming call. Such as, I take my phone out of airplane mode.
If you wanted to build a cargo connection, the Himalayas would be a problem.

If you only want to siphon off construction funds, the Himalayas provide an excellent excuse for any lack of progress.
Do you really think that society is so just that only those people who do wrong need fear things?
San Francisco is considered small? Its a top 20 city in terms of population.
My biggest help was switching to gray scale. A lot of the entertainment value of scrolling videos and photos goes away.
I think a relatively substantial issue with swapping ISA is the software library, which is what's kept Intel in business all these years. Older/retro games is a large part of gaming, and being able to play 15+ year old PC games easily with a single download and no kajoogling is a major 1-up for the Steam Deck, especially when some games have better compatibility under Wine than Windows 11.

The Xbox Series consoles are capable of playing a select portion OG Xbox and Xbox 360 games almost natively, while presumably playing Xbox 360 games via an emulator, but they stopped adding new games to their backwards compatibility program for some god unknown reason despite the fact they were some of the best selling on the platform, but to me it seems like Microsoft wants to shift literally everything to the cloud, starting from Xbox and eventually getting to Windows somewhere down the line, which scares me honestly. Sun said the network is the computer, but I'm sure they meant a network you controlled, not goddamn Microsoft.
Biggest ones for me:

- Password Manager APIs

- Notification channels

- Share Targets (Android supports this, kind of)

- Widgets
I don't understand how a couple of naive emails translates to the disrespect of an entire class of people.
How else to prevent misinformation?
A search filter would be helpful
All I really need is my app process and a relational database. SQLite would be fine, but being filesystem based doesn't work with with Heroku or Fly.io.

Heroku's cheapest Postgres server is $5. I don't have the advanced math degree needed to understand Fly's pricing on relational dbs. The cheapest RDS instance came in around $12 a month.

At this point I think my cheapest option is either Heroku Eco dyno + Mini Postgres at $10 or a single ec2 instance running both my app and db. A nano instance is $3 a month, but it's unclear how the nano will fare with a db and app running concurrently.

edit: I wasn't familiar with Render. I'm trying it now.
No- the bike would still be expected to yield to the automobile that arrived at the intersection first (provided that’s what happened.)
I don't think that will stop scammers!
Why does category 5 hurricane not also constitute a category 2 hurricane. Seems silly to differentiate by what level they end up at when a cat 5 has also, by definition, made it to cat 2 at some point.

Other than that, this is fun.
It is. Unless you own a pre-2005 subaru.
A great goal for Firefox would be "the archiveable, downloadable internet". Make it easy to download stuff off a page, even if the site is adversarial. I should be able to right-click and download an Instagram photo or a YouTube video. Integrate something like archive-it (the Internet Archive tool) for full-page downloads.

It fits with the goal of an open internet, is easy to sell to users, and it's unlikely that Chrome will add the feature, since Google owns YouTube. And there's an obvious route for monetization: sell cloud storage for archived pages.
Ask HN: Are wuxia and xianxia novels getting increasingly popular?
I've noticed that sites hosting English translations of wuxia and xianxia novels have significantly increased their daily site views from sources like similarweb and google trends. It seems like the spike in popularity has been on the rise since 2015.

I'm curious, have people heard of this genre? Who is the primary audience?
I navel-gaze that if we redesigned communications from the ground up we could handle this better. When you greet someone physically you can add each other as known trusted contacts immediately. And when you sign up to some service online and have to put in your contact info, which likewise prompts you to add them as contact. And you can't share along a contact you know to someone else without that contact ID uniquely identifying you.

That way, everyone who should contact you can do so and if someone else gets their hand on your contact info you can figure out who leaked it.
And the entire "Hang up, look up, call back" is just a trapdoor firewall. From a 10,000-foot perspective, humans and computers are the same, they're just nodes that communicate information.
I love that high-profile people like you are taking risks and innovating with hiring. Thank you. I'm hoping to see some change in the industry. There are probably a lot of high-performing people who have little motivation to go through the normal interview process.
> Hope that was interesting!

It's definitely interesting. I'm happy to hear that you'll definitely be supporting what we can currently do with less rigid languages and their FFI, but that we'll have to adapt to the bounds of the system and its rules to some extent.

Do you have any idea how you'd support `LoadLibrary`/`dlopen` in order to load/reload function pointers live? At some point I imagine a lot of this has to have a "trust me" kind of escape hatch.
In an area around nearby, years ago (in the sticks...) someone went up the power lines through the woods and clipped all the bare grounding wire from miles of poles from about 8 feet up to the ground.

Seems like a lot of work for low money.
>> close examination of the posted screenshots reveal misspellings and other indicators the app is fraudulent

Misspellings indicate fraud?? Good grief.
But sometimes the person calling you is calling 300 people for something not important to him, but super important to you. Like power utility payments. If he can't reach you, and decides to leave no message, he himself personally is not much inconvenienced, but your account affects you.
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The promise sounded good, but the reviews for Gemini Advanced are not very positive.

Google have thrown it in as part of Google one, but this means it's the same price as ChatGPT+ which for sure seems better despite Google's promises.
It’s way better than the Index resolution wise, and there is no screen door effect. Then again even the Quest 3 is better now since the Index is so ancient. There are two main issues with the visuals though:

1. Poor vertical FOV
2. Motion blurring whenever you move which is likely due to the OLED screens

You can’t use this on Steam until we get Virtual desktop on the Vision Pro. Not sure how well it would work though since the blur is not great unless you mostly play sim games.
Would the country with a no first use happen to be the country with a prime minister and governors that encourage killing of their own country men with a different religion. Color me skeptical
Also, I somehow got the impression that one needed to provide Apple with live credentials to exercise any cloud service that the app fronts; so that makes me wonder if the malicious actor bought a LastPass subscription just to allow Apple to phish themselves?
Well, by definition everything that cannot be disproved, is theoretical possible. (Just like god)

But I see no reason to assume such a scenario to begin with. Are there any indications at all, it is a simulation? Then I would see a reason to figure out complicated experiments, that might hint at something. But I don't. And I see no convincing experiments or any solid theory at all, by those who propose that theory.
This is what happens when one lets bureaucrats make technology decisions for end users.
Are the belts that zero motorbikes come with sup bar? I've owned a BMW F800S and its final drive kevlar belt lasts as long, if not longer, than a chain.
Shopping is entertainment for many people. Therefore product discovery can also be entertainment.
those TPS reports aren’t going to generate themselves,
I got a tidbit of amusing that a person named "boring" commented on a gravity mine article.
"Gemini" must refer to its inherently multimodal origins?

It's not a text-based LLM that was later adapted to include other modalities. It was designed from the start to seamlessly understand and work with audio, images, video and text simultaneously. Theoretically, this should give it a more integrated and versatile understanding of the world.

The promise is that multimodality baked in from the start, instead of bolting image recognition on to a primarily text-based LLM, should give it superior reasoning and problem-solving capabilities. It should excel at complex reasoning tasks to draw inferences, create plans, and solve problems in areas like math and programming.

I don't know if that promise has been achieved yet.

In my testing so far, Gemini Advanced seems equivalent to ChatGPT 4 in most of my use cases. I tested it on the last few of days worth of programming tasks that I'd solved with ChatGPT 4, and in most cases it returns exactly what I wanted on the first response, compared with the a lengthy back-and-forth required with ChatGPT 4 arrive at the same result.

But when analyzing images Gemini Advanced seems overly sensitive and constantly gives false rejections. For example, I asked it to analyze a Chinese watercolor and ink painting of a pagoda-style building amidst a flurry of cherry blossoms, with figures ascending a set of stairs towards the building. ChatGPT 4 gave a detailed response about its style, history, techniques, similar artists, etc. Gemini refused to answer and deleted the image because it detected people in the image, even though they were very small, viewed from the back, no faces, no detail whatsoever.

In my (limited) testing so far, I'd say Gemini Advanced is better at analyzing recent events than ChatGPT 4 with Bing. This morning I asked each of them to describe the current situation with South Korea possibly acquiring a nuclear deterrent. Gemini's response was very current and cited specific statements by President Yoon Suk-yeol. Even after triggering a Bing search to get the latest facts, the ChatGPT 4 response was muddy and overly general, with empty and obvious sentences like "pursuing a nuclear weapons program would confront significant technical, diplomatic, and strategic challenges".
I have AirPods Pro but ended up prefering the Samsung Galaxy Buds (had many different iterations of them from Samsung). Samsung products compatibility is overall better with non-Apple products and it works ok with Apple products too.

If you have to use Windows computers for work and use Microsoft Teams and all that, Samsung line works. If you want to connect with a Linux computer, Apple AirPods get terrible audio quality (and had same issue on Windows 11), but the Samsung Galaxy Buds (all of them) seem to work fine.
Did you scan your computer for malware ? Have you applied all the updates ? /s

This is Microsoft's response to bug reports.
The best introductory resource I have found in my career was: "Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit" by Mixu. It's about 50 pages long, and is broken down quite well.

https://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html
Since we're paying for it I'd call it more of "depending on the competence of service providers." AWS Lambda experience has been great for us in that sense, so I'd be looking forward to more general availability of this for Lambdas.
I tried this for over a year back in 2011. The hardest things for me were maps, I had become reliant on mobile mapping... and of course friends and family complaining I dont have imessage or facetime.
> The popular vote is evidence that Trump is a crass, unstable, unlikable person

OK, that's a very defensible claim. Let's see how he does (on both metrics) in November?
Vegas has them as well. I notice them when TSA gets backed up and i look around to see what the wait time on other lines are.
I have felt the same way about it a bit, and I do think they need to change a few things if they plan to get anywhere with it. I do hope though that they're able to succeed, they aren't stuck with that design forever and what they learned could be applied to a successor model. They should really consider partnering or merging with Raptor Computing, the last thing the scarce POWER market needs is more fragmentation.
> Share Targets (Android supports this, kind of)

* Chrome on Android supports that.
Interesting! The article says windows XP and 7, which are pretty old and unsupported now. But it is a very interesting approach.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39299007

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39236862
You did not enable automatic updates. /s
Related:

Days Since Incident – tracker of natural disasters on Earth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018771 - Sept 2022 (38 comments)
I think the key is blocking feeds.
It’s totally ok to actively look for stuff online with a question or problem in mind.
For me it becomes addictive when I am prompted by a feed.
I would say with work from home and AI helping you build stuff quickly, bootstrapping is a great way to validate the market needs and reach to 10k MRR

I did the same with my bootstrapped data intelligence startup
This test seems to control your trajectory in Korean society to a very high degree, which seems like overkill in my view, because a test can only be so reflective of real-life skills. I have a family member who did very well on the test and got into Seoul National University, which is reputed to be the best university in Korea. According to them, their IQ is "only" 120-130, but they have very good memory, and are able to study endlessly without tiring. Are those useful skills? Yes, for many things, but not for everything.
Wonder why my husband is 20 minutes late to drop my kid off for the weekend. Let me call up my lawyer and he'll get a date on the judge's docket next month to find out what's up.
I do exactly this but take it even one step further. My actual (primary) phone number is only ever given out to humans. I have a second Google Voice phone number that I give out to machines (e.g. online shopping that "requires" a phone number that will eventually be leaked).
My Russian isn't very fluent, but I do know that "блин!" (pancake, bliny if you are familiar with Russian food) is used as an interjection that's less offensive than блядь. Kind of like saying darn instead of damn, or shoot instead of shit. Perhaps Google Translate was mixing those up.

Edit: And perhaps it's assuming your k is a kh and that you want суха instead of suka.
The real question is what's nearby each name's vector embedding in terms of whatever similarity metric Gemini will use to talk about the world. That's their new canonical ontology, after all.
I guess the Smithsonian site is not updated regularly.
Just like spam calls are illegal! Very confident people globally will follow our laws :)
I think iOS supports it, too:

navigator.share({ title, text, url: url })
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> Putin and all his apparatus have spoken at length about their motivations and their goals, in English

I'm sure they have, in the past. But this is today. Unless you have an interview with a better host that Putin will be attending right beforehand, though, I'm afraid this is what people will be watching. Personally I think it can be fascinating to listen to the enemy speak, even when we're aware they'll be mostly telling lies.
Which is ironically the same way as they got "used" by Garibaldi to "unify" Italy in 1860-1861.

Only a fool can actually believe to defeat mafia with plain violence.
Perhaps the Store found no threat?

Do note that this article fails to actually identify any threat here.
One thing we're struggling with is how to show the value of the platform in a generalized way that still shows the flexibility/power of it all.

All the examples we put out are pretty surface level and approachable because we don't want to alienate with something crazy complex or specific. The real value is in the fact that automations can get extremely complex and it's totally flexible. Our power users have at time 60+ nodes on a canvas with several automations nested in their builds layers deep.

Not sure how to convey that value without people seeing their hyper specific use case and wondering how it's at all relevant to them. If you had any thoughts on how to approach marketing that aspect we'd actually love external input.
OpenAI compatibility
http://archive.today/TcyqX
A couple of past discussions:

A mathematical formalization of dimensional analysis (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37517118 - Sept 2023 (54 comments)

A mathematical formalisation of dimensional analysis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5018357 - Jan 2013 (19 comments)
They decided kernel-mode graphics isn't a terrible idea, though.
> and most of the EU.

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