skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Realistically, the best buyer would be someone who has deep connections in a market that the current owner hasn’t penetrated that could 5x the volume almost instantly.

This is a nice theory. And it could be true, and it does happen, but it's more than likely not.

You must be using better M&A brokerages/bankers than I ever have. None of them do actual diligence, they are selling the business...They are actively making the business look different to what it is. They certainly don't take on any risk (they are not a party to the agreement in any way) and they certainly don't obviate the need to use and pay a lawyer (and most small deals are each person pays their own costs).

With respect, are you actually buying businesses? Or just doing contracted technical DD? It feels like you are missing a good chunk of the picture here. The default take on the value of this business by a lot of folks buying businesses is going to be "close to zero". I mean, to be fair, I have not ever bought a hardware business so I'm a little out of my depth here... but.. not miles out.
Agreed. You should not include rewards as revenue. That is incorrect and misleading. I get lot of credit card rewards for our business but it is definitely not revenue. If anything, some accountants will argue that it is actually an income for yourself if you redeem them.
In two posts, you went from ~"it's a travesty that only 5000 people have access to the technology that will soon own the world", to ~"it takes at least three years for the state of the art to run on a box owned by myself in my bedroom".

This is a reason for optimism.
Do they need to be backed by evidence to be correct? What if they are just right? Do other companies not running Erlang mean its wrong? Because that's a bold argument that could be restated to disprove many things -- X technology claims to do Y well and has a track record of doing it really well, but Z companies don't use X technology, therefore...[insert whatever].

I don't believe in blindly believing things without evidence either, especially if I have never encountered them before, but I also don't believe in blindly dismissing experience of world renowned experts in their field because they didn't provide me a point by point prooftext of every claim they made (Again we aren't sitting here discussing a dissertation or mathematical proof). Their experience and what they've provided to the world is the evidence. We took this 19th century german ultra-materialist philosophy too far here in the west, and that's what gave us post modernism/poststructuralism with its disastrous consequences, but it still seems like we haven't learned anything from that.

The ancients had it right that theres different types of knowledge, and different ways of knowing things (and knowing them to be true, at least as far as it mattered). We here in the modern era with the most unfettered access to information have quite possibly the narrowest definition, ironically.
Remember WW1? WW2?
Thanks for posting this. I was also misinformed, thinking 7/15x was reasonable, but for small businesses valued primarily on cashflow, looks like 3x is more accurate (of course, growth affects that number a lot).

I thought this had a lot of good data: https://www.bizbuysell.com/learning-center/industry-valuatio.... For "Software and App Companies", the multiple was 3.17.
... and AoT-compiled at installation time! We didn't get this in mainstream software until Android Runtime started AoT-compiling Dalvik bytecode. As I've mentioned elsewhere, Android Runtime shows that AoT compilation doesn't prevent you from dynamically re-optimizing your binaries based on profiling feedback.
wait, you're telling me I could just run that in my basement?
Anyone who has spent some time with vintage or otherwise older software (and even some new stuff) should have experienced a "don't do this, it explodes" - often the cause is something akin to what Raymond is pointing out. The software asks for something, gets back an answer it can't handle, explodes.
For what it's worth, I just checked isitdownrightnow.com for archive.ph and it says it's down for everyone. Yet when I clicked on the archive.ph link I added to my post — https://archive.ph/Ppj5j — it worked fine.

From my reading of HN comments about this sort of thing over the years (I'm not a techie), the one thing that recurs is having ad blockers/VPNs etc. that seem to make archive.ph not work.
The EU. France and Germany used to be deadly enemies. No one sane is expecting a war between them any time soon.

Same with US states. Texas etc keep muttering about secession, but the economic complications make it an insane idea.

It's not inherently a bad strategy, but it tends to fail when you're dealing with huge would-be hegemons - which certainly applies to China and Russia.
The MIT license doesn’t mention source code, just “Software”. I don’t see any reason you couldn’t release a binary under MIT and not release the source code. It seems basically equivalent to CC-BY.
Pretty cool, but notice how he still uses touchpad to move through the source code.

Any ideas on how to automate that? I guess I can page up/down with a keyboard, but then how do I move cursor to a specific part of the code?
How do you use ChatGPT to write CRUD apps? Do you mean Github Copilot?
Indeed. Understanding something doesn't imply endorsing it
He did pay himself a salary in 2023. See the P&L included in TFA.
Introducing hardened mode into clang's libc++
Here is a starting point for you: borrow $100M for the training ...
The one I have seen are all young women and kids. They will cause not even a fraction of the health care costs a 70 or 80 year old German generates. I can't find this stat but basically it's exponential, one generates more health care costs in the last ten years of its life than during its entire previous life, on average.
Wow that was harsh. Imagine working for one of the most admired animation creators of all time and having him tell you your work is an "insult to life itself." No wonder the guy cried.
But will it let you print on Tuesday[1]?

1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
OpenAI is the Manhattan Project of machine intelligence. Private-sector.
Im in the middle of something but that doesn’t look that hard
This is the problem that most JavaScript frontend frameworks are trying to solve. Most of them just connect JS and renderer event loops, but some are approaching data fetching and background jobs as well (like React with the experimental `use` hook, or Svelte Query).

They do however come with significant complexity for new users, and if you write React code without understanding the underlying event loops, you'll write code with weird edge cases (eg. overreliance on useEffect). But I do think that they solve the problem pretty well once you got past that initial burden of learning them.
My experience is that macOS especially really REALLY absolutely hates when the Internet goes sideways - not actually down, but really bad packet loss; DNS starts being slow and failing sometimes but not completely ... then you enter hell.

Next time it happens try turning network connections all the way off.
Yes and I'm dead set against it. When that blows up in our face we deserve it for allowing it to happen. The best we can hope for is China ruins their own economy rendering them impotent.
Yeah the site has morphed over time to more tech news/articles that Hackers comment on (with some level of what feels like promotion) than strictly news about Hackers/startups.
> If there was a central lesson of the twentieth century, it's that the chasm between the haves and have-nots cannot be closed without doing more damage than simply allowing it to exist.

I don’t think there is evidence supporting this conclusion.

> People are not created equal, no matter how tightly you shut your eyes and how loudly you chant.

And yet they have equal rights, including the same right to influence political decisions, which is clearly not being respected.

> the same voting rights is maladaptive to civilized society.

Democracy requires an informed electorate. That’s why public schools exist and why they should be well (and equally well) funded, without some schools being privileged by donations that’ll only exacerbate unequal rights to education.
>With Word you can't even guarantee that reopening the file on the same computer & version won't change its formatting.

Source? This seems utterly bizarre.
I don't think many worlds is strong enough, since it still doesn't say anything about why anything exists to begin with. You need something like the principle of plenitude.
In practice there are limits, it would be very rude to let random websites fill your entire disk until you manually clear the storage. This page tests how much you can store in practice, the current versions of Chrome and Firefox both seem to barf after storing just 10MB: https://arty.name/localstorage.html . What I meant by a persistent data permission is adding an explicit permission prompt which allows an app to bypass that limit and store any amount of data, if the user allows it, which you can't currently do.
It's not uncommon, ime. They only put it up for people related to our "domain".
Tbf, GPT-3 was made before the Chinchilla paper and was only trained on 0.3T tokens which is basically nothing for its size or for any current model (Mistral 7B, a 25x smaller model was trained on 8T). Doing it properly would require much more power.
>When there are multiple useless mailing lists, notifications sent in email

Never understood why people don't use filters to move these email into their own folders (or label them) and get them out of the inbox. It's really not that hard.

Sure, it's a bit of pain to set up (initially), but not handling it at all is just a sign you're part of the problem.
Even if you where right, all of this doesn't matter if sovereign nations decide they don't want to deal with russian threats, oligarchy/corruption and oppression anymore by joining NATO. I am happy they did and I think Europe's future is brighter if we stand together against the darkness that is russia.
Nope, I don't think so? I'm going through my settings now, and I have Safe Search and Image Safe Search both enabled. Which makes it even more surprising that it was returning hacked government sites mentioning porn in the search snippet.

(Just found what you meant by Verbatim search - nope, I would have always had Personalized turned on instead. Seeing those results would be the first time I even encountered those domains, so I didn't know to block the domain until then. Since the domain is still in my blocklist, I can confirm it was a government website in Mumbai. I don't have any reason to be visiting Indian government sites.)

I'm not saying every Kagi search is infected with hacked results, it's only common at times when I'm really researching something and need to get to a second page of results.

I also note that some Warez sites rank highly in Kagi too. Knowing that Kagi's customer base is largely from HN, that's less surprising to me, and I'm thankful that I can block those domains from my own personal results.
We're in a new trend cycle.

Whenever some tech becomes trendy and people think they can make money off of it, it becomes a stupid buzzword that gets used just about everywhere unnecessarily.

Think back to the "cloud". When "cloud" became a reality, every single dopey company was using it as a buzzword term everywhere and it started feeling cringe.

Crypto hasn't yet quite reached those absolute heights, but think back a couple years ago where you started seeing "blockchain" in many dumb startups' marketing just because.

We're at the stage with AI right now where idiots are trying to shoehorn it everywhere in dopey ways just because, and it feels annoying.

I bet in a few years, after a lot of the bad companies who use AI in dumb ways die off and some new technology is the trendy new thing, I bet AI is going to start to feel a lot more technical than a stupid trend.
I predict the word "disrupt" will see an exponential curve [1].

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=disrupt&...
TIL. Thanks a lot for your comment. This meta analysis just opened another dimension for engaging with art.

> the mere fact that a certain image or certain parts of a given image enjoyed that much of an investment to look like it does, somewhat guarantees that it had been worth the effort to someone, that it was meant to convey something

For reasons very similar to yours, I enjoy going to 2nd hand record stores: if someone has bought the record a 1st time, then someone else though it was worth buying and putting it on a shelf, it's more likely to bring enjoyment than a random new purchase

> Moreover, by the very definition, art will now be dogmatic, even where it's asked for aberrations and exceptions, and redundant, since it's just a product of weighted averages based on an existing library of expressions.

I don't know much about visual media except music videos, but if you want to discover non dogmatic art, I'd recommend you try out what's popular in any random country.

I love music and I've found russian rap and french pop to be extraordinary, maybe because they follow their own dogma, a dogma that feels very foreign to someone more used to north american music: whatever the russian (or french) weighted average may be, it's very far from the norm of what I'm used to, so it stands out.
Most people on HN probably disabled "usage report" in all places they can. Otherwise it is possible to produce a report on "which option is more popular".
this is incorrect
I tried out Lem a couple times, and I was impressed, but couldn't see myself moving to it. What was impressive is how starting it up just.. worked... with LSP type stuff... I was editing Rust and that all functioned. Not as featureful as my Emacs setup, but further along than I expected. And the keybindings were mostly familiar.

But so many of the things I now rely on -- company mode, treemacs, vertico, etc. are not there. The value in Emacs is the huge community of things.

Also I had some instability each time I tried it -- buffers filling up with Common Lisp backtraces, etc.

Still I really want to see some advancement in this arena, because the actual implementation of GNU emacs leaves a lot to be desired in 2024. The packages overtop of it are nice, but the core editor blocks and pauses too much.
That's it. And still they don't bother to take care of their properties on Google Maps. Most won't even bother to submit their stuff to Apple Maps.

The thing is: Submitting your info costs nothing in money and almost none of your time, but brings enormous benefits in bringing in customers. So if the business owner is too lazy to do it, why should anybody else do it?

If you submit correct info for your favourite local business to a map service, that might bring them thousands of new customers and the revenue from them. Then go to them and tell them you'd like a coffee since you put their info neatly into the maps. They'd probably spit in your face. Then turn around and pay thousands for Google Ads or for a local social media influencer to bring in 50 new customers.

Business owners being dumb about their internet presence is why for example Booking.com is a hundred billion dollar company.
To be fair the English did teach the world categorization which made everything standardized and reusable.
Why bother Congress has pretty much gutted the ability of federal agencies to do anything.
coool, when can it teach me how to play if I know nothing D:
it seems to me elevated trains are a lot quieter running on concrete structures than on steel, as in NYC and Chicago.

It's not apples to apples (light rail + heavy), but from experience the elevated parts of LA's Expo Line are a lot quieter than the Chicago L.
"But each time I become more convinced religious arguments are simply wish fulfillment."

Funny, I feel exactly the opposite, but of course everybody, whether religious or not, sees what he wants to see :-)

"For instance, the "Five Proofs" are basically a variation of the statement: I insist X has to exist, and X=God."

This is false. Or please tell me what work you've read that gives you that impression. It perhaps works as a parody of the ontological argument (which is not one of the 'five proofs'), but no more than that.

The book Five Proofs is not the same set of five that Aquinas very briefly summarises (though there is some overlap). The ontological argument, which I think fails, is not one of either sets.

Anyway, I've pointed you in what I hope is a profitable direction. I recommended the Five Proofs book in particular because one chapter (IMO) successfully rebuts every atheist argument that I've encountered online or in print. These books' arguments are not what you will find in typical pro-religion discourse, much of which I agree is risible. I wish you well!
I wish I understood what this paper was saying.
> My point is CC licenses don't even require the original author to release the source code, you can technically release software using that license as binaries.

The same applies to MIT and BSD licenses. That was my point.

> It would be rather pointless

Agreed, but nothing in the license text prohibits it in any way. Even if it did, as the sole author of some code you are not bound by whatever license you pick, even if it was a copyleft license that would require other people to share their modifications.
>the same DVI file.

Which is used by approximately no one. Good luck uploading your resume in DVI.
"I really want to know how they're getting to 10M context, though."

My $5 says it's a RAG or a similar technique (hierarchical RAG comes to mind), just like all other large context LLMs.
It has LSP, but not the other things, really, from what I saw. You'd miss a lot. No idea about the modal editing, not my thing.

Of course, it could be a foundation to build on, I dunno.

EDIT: yes after watching the presentation, it has a modal/vi type mode
>The strategy of economic integration as a way to reduce military tension has worked very well in many other instances.

It mostly worked within in the EU because you needed meaningfully adopt certain standards to join the market.

Russia didn't have to do any of that and by the time more people started to understand the problem developing they already had leverage.
Because it's done by inspecting the content, not the name of the file.
*Trevor Noah

My wife and I can't stand him.
Yeah. It uses VP9.
That guy was forced to co-operate with the regime and to abandon his SO, arrested together with him.
The article says:

> I don’t draw a salary, so the total amount I earned from TinyPilot in 2023 was $236k

I assume the salary line is for other people's salary.
> I had savings in index funds from years working in big tech, and those investments generated enough dividend income to sustain me.

How big would that savings account need to be for these dividends to amount to something substantial to live off of?
The problem with Trump is the same as with your post: you don't even know what you're talking about. The 2 percent was agreed on only in 2014 as a response to Russian annexation of Crimea, and the goal was to reach it in 10 years, which we now have collectively as NATO. 18 members spend 2% or more, and the pressure is on for the rest.

Do they have some explaining to do? Of course. But this is not a reason to threaten military allies of more than 70 years by saying Russia can invade them with impunity. Its like I'm a week late on a payment and the landlord promises to send a pack of mobsters to kick me out if I don't pony up the next day. Let's not talk about the emissions that is absolutely insane coming from the worst offender by far.

Now the GOP is going to block the 'slight' spend of 60 billion in aid because it is using Ukraine as a bargaining chip for its anti-immigrant policies.

This is about Trump, but beyond him the US might become a very unreliable and chaotic partner. I'm worried this will backfire. If it does, on the long term, China will start to look a lot more interesting to some European countries as a force of stability.
Navalty had some pretty scary things to say about Ukraine as well. To summarize: He thought there are no differences between Ukranian people and Russian people, he thinks that Crimea is rightfully Russia's (finder's keepers!), and he thinks it would be nice for Belarus and Ukraine to just be absorbed by Russia and become part of Russia again.

He was only against the war in Ukraine when it became obvious it was not going to be a three day one and done operation.
That sentence doesn't suggest what you were suggesting, that UBI alone must address all of one's basic needs. The single sentence is also part of a larger article full of even more context.

And this is also how UBI is commonly understood in general.

Search google, search twitter. Look up Andrew Yang's "freedom dividend" platform. You'll see that it's not my definition that's in question.
MS being okay with the user clicking somewhere and never getting any reaction out of it explains many of my interactions with Windows 10.
All the big tech companies have offices and staff in and/or from all over the world.
Not the parent commenter, but IIRC in that document Putin expresses an ideological belief that Ukraine is inherently a part of Russia and must be returned.
In particular, all game streaming services (Geforce Now, Xbox Game Pass etc.) have until very recently needed to exist as PWAs since Apple would not let them into the App Store.

The crucial PWA feature here is being able to display them in full screen, without Safari's navigation bar.
And they must fight because?
"InfiRay Tiny1-C" sais the text.

https://www.infiray.com/products/tiny1-c-micro-uncooled-ir-c...
Assistive Access in iOS 17
BCL6 controls skeletal muscle proteostasis
And that is why I stick to windows and excel. You can use the keyboard far more powerfully.
I havr to disagree on the "poorly written telenovellas" bit.

Indian telenovellas (also dubbed Turkish telenovellas for some reason) are big business in South Africa in part because we have a pretty large "indian" population and the stories are culturally relatable to Africans unsurprisingly: evil Mother-in-law and sister-in-law battle with resilient wife, clever wife managing a falling household, struggles with pregnancy, etc...theres a market there that locally priduced content cannot fill due to the local industry being thoroughly underfunded.
1994 had the web. That's what is was actually like in 1984.
As it happens, we just had this discussion regarding a Word document from 1990: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39357709
> Europe will lose some territory but gain it's own military security after decades of living from the US strategy alignment.

Why would that be the outcome? Why wouldn't it result in European countries wanting more US involvement? Who wouldn't want the most powerful country in the world on their side, as their ally?

Also, I strongly disagree with the idea that separately, the US and Europe are somehow stronger. Separately, countries end up in conflict - Europe's own history shows it especially, and that's one of the primary, intentional reasons for NATO and the EU. Together they are far more powerful - NATO is far more powerful than any country alone, including the US.

The EU - which for all its flaws is, if you step back and look from an historical perspective, arguably the greatest international organization in history - still lacks effective, unified international relations. Decisions require unanimity, which is hard for a small organization, and now they have dozens of members. Kissinger famously said (iirc), 'if I have to call Europe, who do I call?' They don't yet have the political structure and institutions to conduct international relations as whole.

Finally, power in international relations ultimately flows from wealth and population. If China continues to grow, it could have an economy twice the size of the EU's (or US's) within decades, and India has potential for similar growth. Together, the US and EU offer a much stronger balance.