skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Techstars should have bought Indiehackers or built a community like HN. I realize Indiehackers might not be a perfect fit (bootstrap vs VC). The fact that I’m on HN just about every. Single. Day. Keeps YC top of mind way more than I could imagine it would otherwise.
Handling aspect ratio changes in CSS view transitions
It has happened before: https://archive.is/Yu4Ff

Racism, sexism, and other nonsense.
If I can only hide them and not remove them on a permanent basis, that is the very definition of being forced into my face.

"Oh wow, I can not eat the poop whilst I catch my breath. This will be an enjoyable break before I am forced to start eating the poop again"
I don't think Google allows it and AFAIK, Google has its own tool to sync all bash histories.
That’s idiotic because nobody actually deals in gold. It just means gold appreciates some amount.

The way this is handled is standard inflation adjustment based on things people actually use.
Didn't Apple contract with them for parts of Siri, using Wolfram Alpha?
Make and CMake are not examples of what I was talking about!

In Bazel (and, I assume, other similar systems), you can just "bazel run target" and it always works. Doesn't matter what languages the thing is written in.

Make and CMake are certainly not like what. (Yes, you can have a "run" target, but that's not the same thing).

So my minor gripe is that 'runtime run source' does not need to be a per-runtime thing.
No it didn’t. The fed doesn’t buy stocks
To be clear, when I was talking about custom implementations of clone being `unsafe` I was referring to Ante. Ruat currently doesn't have the equivalent of Ante's `Clone` (but it could)
Asml does this, learning how to scale the cutting edge of two years ago. This is what scaling cutting edge physics looks like. Academic groups sometimes take the better part of a decade (or more) to replicate a setup by another group. There are few components you can buy off the shelf in this space: you'll have to understand, design and make them all yourself. Market's way too small to suppory competing suppliers. Takes longer than two years to farm all of that out and create a market of sufficient size. Plus, buyers tend to not want (or pay) for one or two decade old stuff, so that market (for part suppliers) may never quite materialise.

And then, these machine are indeed more like physics experiments than a device. If you compare it with that, ASML is actually quite fast.

And the market knows all of this, hence their valuation.
It was a joke (there was a smiley). Wolfram the element was named in the 16. century.
There’s a huge difference between filling in gaps with diversity and refusing to make innocuous pictures a user explicitly asked for—except only when “white” is involved while making any picture with black people in it even when ahistorical.
Many large companies suffer from the concept of shadow IT. The use of software and services that aren’t blessed by the company to accomplish tasks that are blessed. As someone in security at a large company, I expect this is a matter of not every company has people who follows rules. I know I’ve seen and know, even within security orgs, plenty of people who don’t follow the rules because a few bad rules makes them feel that other important rules are also bad. It’s pretty simple to bypass the software companies use to “enforce” the rules
Crazy list
Look up what revenue is, it isn't the same as profits.
It hasn’t. Adjust for inflation and include the risk free rate of return and it’s an ugly picture.
I'm not related to the project, but I think they mean that it stores the audio locally, and can transcribe locally. They (plan to) use GPT for summarization. They said you should be able to access the recording locally too.

The rest of the company has info on their other free/paid offerings and the split is pretty closely "what do we need to pay for an API to do vs do locally".

Again, I'm not associated with them, but that was my expectation after looking at it.
Apple launching quantum computer protection for iMessage with iOS 17.4
Nice eulogy.

A comment caught my eye mentioning that it was the "backup plan to the more ambitious Grand Tour mission"...

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

> The Grand Tour is a NASA program that would have sent two groups of robotic probes to all the planets of the outer Solar System. It called for four spacecraft, two of which would visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto, while the other two would visit Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. The enormous cost of the project, around $1 billion, led to its cancellation and replacement with Mariner Jupiter-Saturn, which became the Voyager program.
none of your business what i want, honestly

whether or not it makes sense to you
It's tough for everyone when they find out they aint the main character.
You can just spontaneously call people you haven't met in years
Continuing with the trend, the Polish word for outhouse is sławojka, named after Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, a prime minister who is responsible for making them mandatory in the countryside in the 1920s, and apparently touring the country to check how sanitary they are. https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awojka
I dropped Sublime after they pushed upgrade to 4 without asking and without (at least initially) allowing for cheap upgrade. So suddenly from having paid version I became user of trial without easy way of going back to 3. The fun part is that I would probably move to 4 at some point in time but I was forced and I didn't liked it.
Snow Canyon was named after Lorenzo and Erastus Snow. Incidentally, Erastus Snow is also one of the namesakes of Snowflake Arizona, which is on this list.
> It's nuts.

Is this an industry saying?
Haha yah, it's always felt sardonic.
I find shorts quite helpful if you’re intentionally looking for a quick explainer.

There are unfortunately lot of how to videos on YouTube that are 10 seconds of content in 13 minutes of filler.

The trick is just to never scroll through shorts, but instead navigate back to search afterwards.
How is the visa, biometrics, surveillance situation there these days? Was just telling someone yesterday that I’ll probably never make it there.
Cluttered definitely seems like an unusual complaint. It is a professional tool, not a mobile app driven by hamburger menus.
> Without syncing, this is a better ctrl+r, which I won't disagree is nice, but not the real point of this software.

Why not? I use it without syncing just for the search functionality which is really useful to me and saves me quite a bit of time. I'm sure the syncing is useful but I don't care about my shell commands enough to want them synced across all the machines I use.
> people who carjack usually..

No idea, but my point stand on how they achieve this in the first place..

> towing cars is neither difficult nor suspicious in many places

because it's not a recognised method of theft. Also, buying a registered tow truck to commit a car theft doesn't sound easy to me.
[dupe]

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453660
Google "Massgrave Microsoft Activation Scripts"; no need to wait on governments for decades.
ADHD may have evolved to help foragers know when to cut their losses
What in practice causes the most pain for mé are the various module formats in combination with TS. Just getting my test runner (Mocha) and Node and the bundler and... to work with TS and the chosen module format is always _not_ fun. Combined with package updates that break the current working solution because they now natively support es modules. I hope these problems will all disappear in the future, but I'm somewhat sceptical.
And TS is slow - not C++, Haskell and Rust slow, but still. But I never used TS/Node for anything big (backendy), but just small frontends and VS Code extensions, where the time of getting everything set-up to work takes a relatively larger part of the "actual" work.
dude, i am 100% all for free-range-children.

but, somehow, i manage to ensure that none of them are stealing cars at 11

"it is not a supervision problem"

hmm. maybe i should have said "parenting issue"...

look, i am blessed to have had good kids. but i have had friends with struggles. if i had a kid that somehow stole a car (at 11) and i had to pay for repairs and meet with CPS and deal with courts and fines and maybe even juve and a lost year of school, we'd get through it.
No way. The others are a decade out. That eulv machine is crazy, you should learn about it.

There are several companies in this space that are truly irreplaceable. Zeiss is definitely one.
Pascal programming language is named after Blaise Pascal.

I think places shouldn't be on the list since there are tens of thousands of places named after people.
Don't be simple. You obviously know that's not what I said, it's like a quarter of a page above where you're posting! What I said:

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"Imagine telling something at the turn of the 20th century that soon a weapon the size of a small table would have a kill radius of multiple miles. I mean you can obviously imagine it, but it seems kind of silly to think about being actually real, until it turns out it is."

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So yes, give somebody from an era an absolute ton of information on things they had 0 knowledge of and 0 reason to think existed, and sure - they can begin to understand how a nuclear weapon might actually be viable. And that's the point. And the same will undoubtedly be true for countless other discoveries as we continue to advance our understanding of the universe. Something like e.g. faster than light travel is obviously easy to imagine today, but we still have 0 knowledge of anything* that might enable it, let alone how such things might work, and so it remains strictly in the domain of fantasy. Yet 50 years from now, it might simply be something everybody takes for granted. Because we don't know what we don't know.

* - not strictly true, but you probably think it is - and this is outside the context of this post in either case.
I don't remember seeing any racists commenting on HN. YMMV, but it doesn't seem to be a problem.

Maybe we could run all the comments through Gemini and get them cleaned up, so to speak, like we're chatting on a TV programme made for children, would that help?
Incidentally, 'kuk' is a Norwegian word, a somewhat pejorative synonym for 'penis', but almost as versatile as the four-letter word - it can be used as an adjective, a verb, an adverb, a noun etc.

Saying that 'something is kuka/kuket' means it is messed up beyond repair.

Even as I approach my fifties, I have to stifle a chuckle every time I see a KUKA robot. Kids never really grow up, I guess.

As for things named after people, the probably most prominent example in Norwegian today is the so-called 'Brustadbu', named after former minister of children and families, Sylvia Brustad.

The government she was in introduced a new law governing opening hours for convenience stores, effectively barring stores above 100sqm (1,100 sqft) from being open on Sundays.

Predictably, this gave rise to a lot of stores measuring 99.9sqm, colloquially referred to as 'Brustadbu'/'Brustad sheds'.
I would probably not consider using it, and it's likely due to these factors:

1. I use a limited set of tools (Slack, GitHub, Linear, email), each providing good search capabilities.

2. I can remember things people said, and I said, in a fairly detailed way, and accessing my memory is faster than using a UI.

Other minor factors include: I take screenshots judiciously (around 2500-3000 per year) and bookmark URLs (13K URLs on Pinboard). Rewind did not convince me that it was doing all of this twice as well.
Critical response: https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
Charlemagne: word for 'king' in many European countries derive from his name (german 'Karl', polish 'Krol', Lithuanian, ...)
All current LLMs are based on the premise that magic is real and you can wish intelligence into existence; it's called "scaling laws" and "emergent capabilities".

Recursive self-improvement isn't "maybe magic is real", it's "maybe the magic we already know about stays magical as we cast our spells with more mana."
The map shows Ohio as having unilaterally adopted an iteration of the NEC, and this is not the case in reality.

I'm not going to review the other 49 points that your map may presume to present, for it does not refute anything about my initial claim at all even as-presented: Instead, it shows that the National Electrical Code is, in fact, not national.
[dupe]

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39457999
I don't a the problem with this communication, except they just shouldn't call it a "postmortem".

In a medical setting this is equivalent to saying "the patient was coughing up blood, and now they're dead". It's relaying some potentially useful info, and I guess it's _technically_ a post-mortem analysis but it doesn't fit expectations for the phrase!
Rudolf let his greatest opportunity slide when he named his company Puma instead of Rudidas.
Robots and AI are saving American economy with boom in productivity
This is why I have

atuin init fish --disable-up-arrow | source

in my fish.config. C-r with Atuin is great. It taking up the whole screen when I want to run the previous command again? Not grat.
https://glyphtech.com/products/atom-pro?variant=321211999191...

Shipped to the UK for me added a bit to the overall price with shipping and import duty but it was still better value for money and hugely reliable brand than anything I could have bought domestically.
Booking a flight with a voice interface is 10 steps backwards from web UIs where I can see different options, prices, calendars....
Title trimmed. Full title is "Robots and AI are saving the American economy with a boom in productivity, the 'magic beanstalk beans' that allow higher wages without inflation"
Surely Fahrenheit, so as to not be above the boiling temperature of water.
They seem entirely expected, or at least not unexpected. Reading them doesn't lead you to assume some alternate obvious but wrong explanation. Imagine learning (made up example) that the musical triangle was named for it's inventor, "Stuart Triangle".
Not just in the USA. YouTube is my only vvideo source. And to add insult to injury, local legislation has it that I have to pay 60E/month for the local, basically state-controlled TV/radio/news station, although I dont consume its content. YouTube, which is what I use daily, only costs about 1/6th of that. Oh, and there is only one democratic party against this practice. The far-right. All the others seem to love this practice. Thank you democracy, you're useless.
An Easy Button for AI
Half of College Grads Are Working Jobs That Don't Use Their Degrees
The immediate threat offers the opponent 5/6 losing moves, whereas yours offers only 2/6 losing moves. The rationale is quite similar to your choice of the initial corner move rather than center: there are 7/8 losing responses to turn 1 corner, and only 4/8 losing responses to turn 1 center. But you'll probably get more humans to pick a losing side response to center than pick a losing non-center response to corner.
What's bad about it? What if a real warhead gave bad data to the computer?
[dupe]

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39454924
> You can actually own and control your email

Email isn't easier to recover at all unless you own and control it which nobody does.
My apologies, that should read "there are only 6 Dune novels" to be pedantic.
Why make it sound as if either of those things mean anything?

PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to 5.2 million households in the northern two-thirds of California.

That's 2% of one country...

Even worse, this news affects 3% of that 2%.

Try looking outside your bubble every now and then!
New Glenn, their new launch vehicle, doesn't look unusually much like a penis.
New Shepard, the previous one, really does. It's only four times longer than it is wide and has a distinct glans on the end. This resemblance is noted on the talk page of its Wikipedia article, and I'm sure published sources could be found, but I guess it wouldn't be sufficiently encyclopedic in tone.
The funny thing is Apple even have a support article on how to do this (and actually say in it "may improve your performance") I literally followed it step by step and it was very easy and had no issues.
funny thing is the part where this article is about a canadian car theft epidemic...
Yeah, very obviously a highly intelligent man but it's immediately obvious that he was very carefully crafting how he wanted to be perceived by others in several of his self aggrandizing memoirs.
Flexport (no longer employed there) adopted it in a 1M+ loc ruby app, and achieved relatively high type coverage surprisingly fast. Can't remember the exact numbers but it felt most code I touched was strongly typed.

I would say it was immensely worth it. It caught bugs for me before runtime on a daily basis, and enabled refactors that would have been so much more difficult without it.

It was far from painless, and there were plenty of outstanding issues even when I left. But I consider it an invaluable and essential tool for any large ruby codebase.

I was particularly impressed at how fast sorbet was. Way faster than typescript on a comparably sized codebase.
It gets better, his brother Rudolf (whom he had a previous company with) also formed a shoe company after their falling out. It was originally named Ruda, but later renamed to Puma.
Reminds of the thermal lance made of bacon, a compressed bacon slug, a coaxial feed of oxygen, all ignited with oxy-acetylene . The lance is one of the favourite tools I've ever gotten to use, it's simplicity is amazing, and capability surprising.
The crappification of YouTube has already begon with Shorts and the inability to disable this completely useless content.
Now use your function to give you a list of all find commands that took over 10 seconds to run.

Atuin stores _everything_ it can about each command run, what you see when you press C-r is only a tiny subset. And even it gives you the duration and success/failure information immediately.

If you want to, try pressing C-r, select a command from history and press C-o. Normal shell history doesn't store any of that.
You couldn't sell a package as a cat toy.
Hollywood streaming services are in trouble as the world gets hooked/accustom to free, user generated(those documentaries on every little random thing users create are great.. low budget TLC/Discovery like shows) and short form content.

In 2023 I canceled all hollywood streaming services and watch 2 to 6 hours of youtube (in the background while working) a day. As well through a Mac Mini connected to a LCD TV use wireless mouse as remote (provides everything the Internet offers on a big screen).

Hollywood if they were smart would start putting all their shows on youtube and split them up .. if it's 20 minutes show .. split it into two. I bet they will!
The returns of the investment are not the index price, these companies have been paying dividends for 30 years.

If you look at the actual returns they recovered years ago (tho not so long).
It just goes to show that the big corporations can't be trusted to develop this technology. Their incentives are too skewed. We need open/public organizations working on this stuff.
I can only repeat myself: the syncing is advertised as the main feature, it's the USP. There are plenty of other tools that improve ctrl+r.
I think the point is that "indexes are overall superior to stock picking, and always go up over long periods of time" is disproved by the history of Nikkei.

Sure, at a given time and place, an index may be better. At other times one or two stocks may be better. But I think the "time in the market beats timing the market, always" is kind of negated by Japan's lost decades.
I would not say I love it, but it is free, and does what is needed out of the box.

The real selling point is the plugins, notably the Remote Development extension. This lets you locally run the IDE while the code runs/lives on a remote (SSH/Docker) host which could be beefier or specific hardware. Complete game changer that I now find impossible to do without.

If you want, I could give a list of inexcusable grievances that are maintained to this day. My favorite would be this: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/40233 . From the outside, would only take a handful of lines to read two configuration files instead of one. Open for six years.
Having a simple clear focus is hard to undervalue. Since doing YC 6 years ago there has never been a second of doubt about the priorities (imo).

YC is there to make money for its investors. And the way to do that is to invest in the best startups and make them huge.

The only source of conflict then comes from YC vs. the startups. For example, do you enforce strict legal structures on all companies. And here the dominant priority is of course YC itself. But this is expected, and given the rationality also easy to work with.
> Securing even one internship during college significantly improves the odds of landing a college-level job upon graduation, according to the study.

Does landing an internship improve the odds of getting a college-level job, or is it the case that students who are qualified enough to land internships end up being the students who are also qualified enough to scoop up good jobs after college?
Can't you just hash the keys before comparing them?
Terrible nitpick on a delightful list: I disagree that Unilever deserves to be in the list. It’s the merger of Lever Brothers and Boterunie and the combo is a typical corporate word soup. Might as well add PriceWaterhouseCooper otherwise.
That is only the base OS, then proceed to install one of the Visual Age products, and other productivity software. :)

Hence why I duplicated all my floppies and would only install from those copies.
That last paragraph is wild! Chaz went into full Samuel Beckett mode.

Slightly off-topic, but one thing I’ve found consistently sends ChatGPT into a tailspin is asking it to analyse and solve a cryptic crossword clue. You get pages of musings, which is just a long way of saying “I don’t know”.
It is an industry standard word by now.
I think this cheeky habit of biologists also deserves a mention: naming newly discovered organisms after friends or foes, depending on how they feel about those people at the time. Here is the first of four separate wikipedia pages dedicated to those names:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_...
Panettone, "Tony's bread." Or at least that's what my Italian acct. prof. insisted. Interestingly the Italian wiki entry is a lot longer than the English one and references this apparent urban legend.
Fun fact: `go run .` was retrofitted on after `go run main.go` because go run was initially designed to only accept explicit filenames as an argument [1]. I can't imagine how people used to use `go run` without the ability to specify whole packages (globs don't work well because it includes test files as well).

> Potential design based on discussion with proposal review:

> go run [go flags] [single-package-or-*.go-list] [subprocess flags]

before that it was just

> go run [go flags] [*.go-list] [subprocess flags]

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/22726
I think you use the word "unexpected" differently than I do.
A good brand name.
The federal reserve buys bonds in order to increase the money supply, as happened during 2020. It isn't allowed to buy stock. In 2020, the fed bought treasury securities, mortgage bonds and also corporate bonds for the first time (which might be what you are thinking of).