skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been through both Techstars and YC, this article is painfully accurate.

Being part of both networks has been an interesting experience in culture.

YC culture fosters an extremely strong network of founders, even outside the bay area. In London we're constantly pinging each other for advice - it really helps.

Techstars does not have this and makes little effort to do this. I remember speaking to some Techstars people in London trying to see if they might Foster more of the community here, but they had no interest in it unfortunately.

It's a real shame because some Techstars programs with the right MDs had YC quality (Shoutout to Connor), it's just the quality wasn't distributed or cultivated uniformly. It's heavily dependent on the MD of the program.
That's cool and I imagine it supports a lot of the situations async users would need. Thanks for your great explanation. Having a more clean, declarative state is a great differentiation from Nicegui. This is a great contribution, I wish you the best of luck to you!
I don't see Kafka in this list.
Same thing in Australia since 2001.

Most cars in are stolen here using key thefts or wireless relay.
Oh boy, gambling as an OS feature.
> This sounds like the old desktop mentality you mentioned. You can’t just reflash things to bypass a secure boot process – the entire point is to prevent things like that!

The actual real problem I failed to explain is manufacturers don't want to deal with networked authentication, broken physical keys, or day-to-day repair shop operations, so they keep most of the processes offline and send out re-pairing tools that leaks. Very few cars require breaking chain of trust to swap out parts which makes "If they need to create a custom engine controller, ..." part unrealistic as of now. It takes few more years before Apple starts delivering cars.
Linux is “correct” enough. It generally does what it says on the tin.

The sad truth is that users don’t care how simple software is to write. They do care about performance and battery life on their devices. The market chooses complex and fast over simple but slow. Every time - so long as any unnecessary complexity is hidden from users.

Simplicity buys you velocity, and velocity matters. But that’s a secondary effect.
The sad thing is that with humans momentum matters more than anything, especially logic. We are stuck with assumptions and structures from decades ago, due to the inability of most people to adapt and judge things on their merit. They subconsciously make decisions based on surface level indicators like popularity.

This is one reason that I feel that within a century or two, human-like beings will not be in control of this planet. Intelligent life will continue to evolve.
Product Hunt is not the same anymore. I have earned my first $$$ because of the PH launch and scaled up to 50K total Revenue because of PH.

I am listing down 3 things with proofs which is making a PH launch not impactful anymore.

1. So, I launched my fifth app today on PH.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/recaster-ai

But it didn't appear on the home page and when I reached out to my community they responded beautifully but my votes instead of increasing stay the same or sometimes decrease and those are not bots, they are real people, I already know them.

The support didn't respond at all. I see this happening to other founders as well.

2. Too many bots:

Instead of getting users' feedback or some potential clients, I have been getting lots of queries since yesterday to buy a package to become a product of the day. I mean WTF!

3. Today's newsletter of Tibo Maker relates to my latest launch experience.
Bukmark.club collects sites that have curated lists of bookmarks to other sites
I wonder, if you put asterisks like 'f***' it would translate that appropriately. Like, as a figleaf.
Yes - Jon was the person I alluded to in my comment from above as well. Great guy and very knowledgeable.
You still need to rinse off the phone in fresh water after submerging in any water with salts or you can get corrosion.
Welcome your monopolistic, plutocratic overlords.
Mixtral 8x7B has 32k context.

Mistral 7b instruct 0.2 is just an instruct fine tune of Mistral 7b and stays with a 8k context.
Did you sleep in cars in the car park or on the car park concrete?
Rocher Color: making a variable color font
I'm a hiring manager in the Netherlands. I would be happy that you ran away, because you would not have passed the bar.

The hiring process I like to have in place is:

1. HR Interview: see if there is a fit with the company
2. Skill check. Do you have the problem solving, hard skills and communication skills needed for the job.
3. Team fit. Do you like to drink a beer (or non alcoholic) with us and we with you. Can you hold a conversation about something else than work.

6 people are involved. 2 per step. Everyone has a veto. I as a manager do not have special power. I've had people fail most of the time on #3. E.g. a guy that did not talk the woman of the team. She veto-ed. We were really looking for his skills, but he was a jerk.

I don't think you would have passed #3 either. You can have l33t coding skills, but if you cannot make it work in a team it is basically useless for anything of size.
Replacing Dash.el with Built-In Emacs APIs
It was not just about C# editing. There were other things being used in Visual Studio at that time. Also being inexperienced in VB.NET (my first job) surrounded by 10 other seasoned devs, they discouraged anything outside of Visual Studio. I understand why when looking back.

This was also the Visual SourceSafe days. How I do not miss that!

C# wiggled its way in eventually.

Back in 2008, I was pretty much using Emacs for most programming languages. The only exception was C# and Javascript.

As the years pass to now, I rarely use a programming language outside of emacs. I have enough years in my career to not tell me what I can and cannot do to get things done.
> Latinised

probably Greekicized
I don't understand what it does in an inversion of control article, because it's just the opposite of IoC. Further more, instead of trying to actually manage your dependencies by giving components the signatures that document the exact things they need, you just gonna give them a "locator" that depends on everything under the sun? How is that dependency "management" or any sort of "pattern"?
As a user, I want to talk to LLMs to answer my random day to day questions. I tried the Retell demo and asked it questions that I had earlier asked Alexa and Google Assistant. The Retell experience was a million times better. I wish I could set it as my phone's (Android) default assistant. If you built that, I would pay good money for it!

However, I agree with others. What I don't want to do is talk to LLMs for customer support. For that, I always want to talk to a real person. It would be infuriating for an LLM to pick up when calling a business.
It is extremely hard to unseat good enough and replace it with better.
Pitchforks for Rdseed
What’s the exact algorithm you would write for that?

Let’s say you have a bool, $is_match then whenever two chars of the string don’t match you write false to it.

It takes slightly longer to write false than do nothing. You’re still leaking the total number of matching characters.

I think speculative execution on the CPU would amplify this effect. For example:

aaaaaaaaa != ccccccccc will be much faster than ababababa != aaaaaaaaa because in the first example the cpu will correctly guess and speculatively execute that the two characters are different. They were different last time. They’ll probably be different again.
I honestly thought “That sounds really dangerous for the hardware”.
I woke up this morning to my cell service cutting in and out and no data connection.
OK, yeah, I meant "I'm not sure why you need to assume that it will be linked back to your real identity by Signal ?"
Ibis: The portable Python dataframe library
Philosophically, compression and intelligence are the same thing.

The decompression (which is the more important thing) involves a combination of original data of a certain size, paired with an algorithm, that can produce data of much bigger size and correct arrangement so it can be input into another system.

Much in a way that there will probably be some algorithm along with a base set of training data that will result in something like reinforcement learning being run (which could include loops of simulating some systems and learning the outcome of experiments) that will eventually result in something that resembles a human intelligence, which is the vocal/visual dataset arranged correctly that we humans need to believe something that is intelligent.

The question is how much you can compress something, which is measuring the intelligence of the algorithm. An hypothetical all powerful AGI == an algorithm that decompresses some initial data in to an accurate representation of reality in its sphere of influence including all the microscopic chaotic effects, into perpetuity, faster than reality happens (which means the decompressed data size for a time slice has more data than reality in that time slice)

LLMs may seem like a good amount of compression, but in reality they aren't that extraordinary. GPT4 is probably to the tune of about ~1TB in size. If you look at Wikipedia compressed without media, its like 33TB -> 24 GB. So with about the same compression ratio, its not farfetched to see that GPT4 is pretty much human text compressed, with just an VERY efficient search algorithm built in. And, if you look at its architecture, you can see that is just a fancy map lookup with some form of interpolation.
Can we have this kind of postmortem on our 2024 presidential candidates when they do this? I’ve seen both of them exhibit similar failure modes.
Did you move here three years ago? 2020-2021 was the heart of COVID deflation. I remember paying 110yen per litre for gasoline at Costco. Nic Hotels were 1万 a night for our family of three.

Any anchoring off late 2020 is super misleading. Milk at 130yen is not a reasonable price before COVID. Wheat to consumers at gyomu super or Costco has not moved in price, which is reasonable consider it has always cost several multiples over wholesale.

Worst has perhaps been sushi. The selection of 110yen sushi had gotten slightly smaller.

Overall, Japan has a lot less inflation than you'd expect considering the exchange rate.
Ask HN: Does Amazon AWS Console Have Issues with Password Managers?
Every time I go to the Amazon AWS portal using my password manager (Dashlane), which auto-fills the email and password fields in a fraction of a second, I get stuck in an infinite captcha loop. I answer more than 20 captchas and still can't log in.

So, I had the idea to edit the fields, remove a character, add it back, and continue with the login, and magically, I'm logged in without having to answer any captchas.

What kind of nonsensical security do they have? I don't have issues with any other site, and it works perfectly on Amazon itself.
... but on the contrary, all the public services are programmed to bullshit you.

Every time I ask a question, the answer could be 3x smaller. Even if it's right and not a hallucination.
It's always chilling to read a Wikipedia article that essentially ends in saying that the problem was solved by assassinating the head honcho.
I’m sure most of the world’s population has no idea what the boiling temperature of water is in Fahrenheit.
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Most complains in this article about webhooks sound like they can easily be resolved with some lambda function and a cloudfront (or any alternative to AWS) without much complication.
Am I seeing something wrong or not?
... also (continued)

I like how people think I am purposely being different or difficult because I do C# development in emacs. Many have never heard of it. If they have its from forums or youtube videos.

Think of their mindset -- Its not like I have moved away from Visual Studio to Visual Studio Code. I am using Emacs. They must think I am trying to be difficult or special.

I have also swapped my L-CTRL key with CAPS specially for improving my emacs experience.

Regardless, when we do pair programming (or something) on my screen and they watch me use Emacs on a C# project, they soon understand. :-)
Is there a version of Hoeffding's D for binary variables? For example, for Pearson correlation, the formula reduces to the Phi coefficient when using two binary variables (two events):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_coefficient

I'm asking this because association measures for binary variables are often easier to analyze.
Google to pause Gemini AI model's image generation of people due to inaccuracies
Okay... we were talking about inflation. When and how exactly has the BLS chosen an inflation metric that suits "the narrative" of today?
If you see a comment complaining about a paywall, it's usually a request for someone to archive it for everyone's benefit, and it's usually a request that gets fulfilled.
I wonder how gemini 1.5 compares to its open source variant (that also has video input) released about the same time as gemini: https://largeworldmodel.github.io/
Threads like these often feel like reading a lot of "Does anyone else feel like your Phillips screwdriver just isn't very good at hammering in nails? It kind of works, but I'd rather not use it for that."

I really have zero desire to ever be programming without Copilot again, and have been writing software for over a decade.

It just saves so much time on doing all the boring stuff I wanted to tear my hair out on wondering why I even bother doing this line of work at all.

Yeah, you're right, it's not as good as I am at the complex more abstracted things I actually enjoy solving.

So it does the grunt work like writing the I/O calls, logging statements, and the plethora of "nearly copy/paste but just different enough you need to write things out" parts of the code. And then I do the review of what it wrote and the key parts that I'm not going to entrust to a confabulation engine.

My favorite use is writing unit tests, where if my code is in another tab (and ideally a reference test file from the same package) it gets about 50% there with a full unit test and suddenly my work is no longer writing the boilerplate but just narrowing in the tailored scaffolding to what I actually want it to test.

It's not there to do your job, it's there to make it easier in very specific ways. Asking your screwdriver to be the entire toolbox is always going to be a bad time.
I used to think that Hitler was a terrible human being, but now I understand that there are levels above and beyond Hitler.
Completely agree. And as someone who didn't fit culturally as often as I did fit, this is a two way street (ignoring the very extreme ends of the spectrum).

Having a brilliant misfit at the wrong position can tank a team.
One of my favorites. The nearby Virgin River was also possibly named after a Thomas Virgin rather than any wild or unmodified qualities of the river.
Spanish and English usually merge in fun, unpredictable ways. In certain parts of Andalusia people refer to electrical drills as "el guarrito" (the little pig). Turns out it's because there was a drill brand called "Warrington", hence the mix.
$20/year or $99/lifetime.

I bought Prompt 1 and 2, I have a really hard time convincing myself to get 3. If I did, I’d buy the yearly version since with Panic you’re only going to get 1-3 years worth of updates, if that.

I love Panic. I love Transmit, I used their Usenet client eons ago, I used Coda early in my career, I’ve played Firewatch, and I think the Playmate is neat. I applaud them for the level of polish in their Mac apps.

That said, their iOS apps have a rocky history. Prompt 1 and 2 were both abandoned fairly quickly. Maybe this being subscription-based will change that, and I hope it does.
> The market chooses complex and fast over simple but slow.

No it doesn't. Developers and their employers choose slow and complex that saves them time in development, and customers choose things that exist over things that don't. They don't normally have much of choice between simple and complex.
Especially when “better” is expensive, but “good enough” is free.
Damage to cell membranes causes cell aging, finds new study
Ask HN: Will you use my app "KOOOS"?
Hello!

I am a founder of KOOOS and this is a demo video for my app KOOOS that allows users to follow their exercise and meal plans which are
generated by AI.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4RrOniFo8w&ab_channel=MarcelPayns

Register your interest:
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Any feedback or questions are appreciated!
No, of course not, it's just me parodying Stephen Wolfram every time he speaks/writes. He wrote a book called 'A New Kind of Science' claiming all this stuff in about 2002 which was widely criticised by scientists as overstating it's claims and much less important than he thinks it is, but he's been talking like that ever since pretty much.
> Like what? There are only three subtypes. ADHD-C, ADHD-PI, ADHD-PH (Combined, Primarily Inattentive, Primarily Hyperactive). There are no "intensive versions."

They certainly meant more intense representation of symptoms, of which there is a broad range.

> I won't gatekeep you or declare you do or do not have ADHD. I do not even think it matters at the end of the day. Hell, there is no definitive way to determine if someone has ADHD anyway. No blood biomarkers, no genes, fMRI scans, etc.. One has ADHD only if a medical professional says so. Nothing more and nothing less. One doctor says you have ADHD, and another doesn't. Which one is right? How can it be proven?

I’m not going to nitpick on whatever standard of “proof” you need here but you’re wrong in that there aren’t any tests for it. There have been CPT’s around for over 20 years now such as the IVA-2 test that tests a broad swath of things like reaction times, fidgetiness, and attention span that can differentiate with very reasonable accuracy ADHD groups vs non ADHD groups, and differentiate between ADHD sub-types (which you mentioned). I know this because I didn’t have any relief in symptoms until I took a few types of these and learned that my symptoms are far more of inattentative type than hyperactive and I had been completely mistreated for a long time. We also targeted different therapies that have been far more effective for me now that I would not have even been able to try before I took them - so I know there is something to it.

There are many types of these that have been around and used for a while, it isn’t necessarily a doctor just saying “yup you’re adhd” after a 7 question survey (although overdiagnosis in this way is for sure common).

I suggest you brush up a little on the subject before speaking so condescendingly about it. We know way more about ADHD now than we did 15 years ago which sounds like where maybe your opinions are sort of coming from.

These tests and studies are extraordinarily expensive and not covered by insurance typically which is why I think people think they just don’t exist.
The Xylophone Maze: Screen-free coding for children
It is like a joke saying. Saying something rhymes with something that doesn't actually rhyme is saying that the two things go together and when one hears the first they think the second also
It's pretty amazing how much of the boring parts of programming can be abstracted away with intelligent temporary comments and enough neighboring context using Copilot.

Maybe they need to do a better job at teaching users how to be productive with the tool.
>It's undefined behaviour, so a C compiler can do random other things with your code, and both GCC and Clang do.

Give me an example of a null pointer dereference in a program that one compiles -with -fdelete-null-pointer-checks that doesn't crash when its run on any smartphone, x64 cpu in modern laptops/desktops/servers or Apple Silicon.
Hacker News on the Sad Clown Paradox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38198417
The idea is a lot older than Al-Khwarizmi: positional base-60 fractions were already used by the Babylonians in *2000 BC*.
Unfortunately, based on my experience, GPT-3.5 is simply not up to snuff in phone conversations in terms of style and reasoning. And GPT-4T latency is far too large for real-time conversation with straightforward STT-TextGen-TTS pipeline.
That is super true, and not super common knowledge in Japan. The gasoline subsidy was aging out late last year and news started covering the mysterious persistent increase in gasoline prices.

You'd think kishida-san would want more credit for his vote buying haha.
> surface level indicators like popularity

Popularity is a great heuristic for the individual - it means you'll find more examples, more tutorials, more help, more support, and others will beta test it before you get bitten. As a society, it's a prisoner's dilemma that we all keep defecting.
Scientists discover underlying cause of "brain fog" linked with Long Covid
What languages are you supporting?
While that is true, there's also no guarantee that we do not see a stagnation of the world stock markets for decades. World indices are also highly concentrated to a few countries, e.g. US is more than 60%.
This was impressive have you integrated this with something like Amazon Connect, or Twilio? Ultimately looking how I could bring it to my customers via what they use for their call centers.
They just want to reinforce their own bias that OpenAI BAD and DUMB, rationalism GOOD! When it’s their own fault for not understanding enough theory to know what happens if there were to be a loss of precision in the predicted embedding vector that maps to a token. If enough decimal places are lopped off or nudged then that moves the predicted vector slightly away from where it should be and you get a nearby token instead. Instant aphasia. The report said it was a GPU configuration problem so my guess is the wrong precision was used in some number of GPUs but I have no idea how they configure their cluster so take that with a giant grain of salt.
> Old TV is now either 24 hour garbage news, reality shows, or similar nonesense

Take a look at YouTube's trending page.
There's clearly a reason for that content on TV.
All your money are belong to us!
Never done it myself, but I imagine understanding how the components all fit together is more valuable/fun than dealing with the minutiae of every function.
Because screenshots are in pixels, not inches.
Restaurant food is cheap in Japan because there are many high-quality restaurants. The competition drives the price down. Furthermore it may be in the best interest of Japan for their monetary policy to weaken the yen because it induces demand in tourism.
Yes, that's exactly what's happening here, minus the sending it off to a third-party.

I didn't see the benefit when the OCR content is fully searchable, in addition to not wanting to pay OpenAI to spy on me.
The fusion example is extreme. That sort of thing needs government funding.

But say you want to make a new gadget, yeah you would find it hard to bootstrap
unless you are already a multimillion dollar company.
DAX made new all-time highs while Germany's economy is not doing great at all.
Wakanda isn't an ideal utopia for Africa
Issue appears to be that the uncensored model too closely reflects reality with all its troubling details such as history.
For context: There was an outcry in social media after Gemini refused to generate images of white people, leading deeply inaccurate in historic sense images being generated.

Though the issue might be more nuanced than the mainstream narrative, it had some hilarious examples. Of course the politically sensitive people are waging war over it.

Here are some popular examples: https://dropover.cloud/7fd7ba