skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't comment on the TechStars aspect but your high level review of San Diego startup scene is 100% on point.
Maybe it was copper clad steel instead of solid copper.
Tatar's book doesn't cover or mention CLOS.
Yes, it does. Family member in the medical field is experiencing issues.
"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
No one will ever be satisfied-- let's just let people create what they want. They can describe it in the prompt.
Quite a few people have access to Gemini's 1M context length and it does seem to work very well.

E.g. can produce accurate scene-by-scene descriptions of hour long movies, can answer questions about very large codebases, etc.
Featuring Supercat: Have any song feature Supercat
I thought that a Yale speaker giving a public talk disparaging white people where they say they fantasize about shooting white people in the head was pretty extreme[1]. Even more so since it didn’t seem to bother the attendees there, and there was no push back until someone leaked the audio a few months later. If the audio hadn’t leaked, it seems like Yale and the attendees would have just considered that a normal lecture.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/yale-says-lecture-fanta...
Why not run the safety check on the training data?
Also, SF Mono is beautiful font as well, IMHO.
Computers and drafters had their work taken by machines. IBM did not pay off the computers and drafters. In this case you could make a steady decent wage. My grandfather was trained in a classic drawing style (yes it was his main job).

He did not get into the profession to make money. He did it out of passion and died poor. Artists are not being tricked by the promise of wealth. You will get a cloned style if you can't afford the real artist making it and if the commission goes to a computer how is that not the same as plagerism by a human? Artists were not being paid well before. The anime industry has proven the endpoint of what happens to artists as a profession despite their skills. Chess still exists despite better play by machines. Art as a commercial medium has always been tainted by outside influences such as government, religion and pedophilia.

In the end, drawing wasn't going to survive in the age of vector art and computers. They are mainly forgettable jpgs you scroll past in a vast array like DeviantArt.
"we have taken and continue to take reasonable steps to prevent the misuse of Stable Diffusion 3 by bad actors"

It's kind of a testament to our times that the person who chooses to look at synthetic porn instead of supporting a real-life human trafficking industry is the bad actor.
Thank you!

Yes, there are several options for user authentication (Basic Auth, Google OAuth, OIDC, SAML).

Currently the RBAC is managed via the Danswer and this controls who has access to which documents (it's done at the connector level as it would be untenable to assign access to documents individually).

We're also working on automatically sync-ing permissions from the sources. Basically seeing which emails have access to each doc and mapping it to the Danswer users.
FWIW I remember literally making a physical map of CA elevation like this in primary school. Only went to a middle of the pack school in CA too.
Nesting is a general problem beyond let, so it deserves a general solution. A solution in Lisp is the nest macro.

https://fare.livejournal.com/189741.html
I've been tethering with T-Mobile as my primary internet connection and that's been working just fine. Voice also works for me with both TMo and Google Fi.
This isn't a valid concern in my opinion. Photo manipulation has been around for decades. People have been drawing other people for centuries.

Also, where do we draw the line? Should Photoshop stop you from manipulating human body because it could be used for porn? Why stop there, should text editors stop you from writing about sex or describing human body because it could be used for "abuse". Should your comment be removed because it make me imagine Taylor Swift without clothes for a brief moment?
You have to watch the whole video to get it…
Ahh yes, there is no circle tool, right? It is still select a circle and stroke it?
It depends what problem you're solving. If it's a high frequency request, like a chat response, it's far too inefficient. Most web APIs would consider it bad practice to read 2MB of data on every request, even worse when you consider all the LLM computation. Instead, use RAG and pull targeted info out of some sort of low-latency database.

However, caching might be a sweet spot for these multi-modal and large context LLMs. Take a bunch of documents and perform reasoning tasks to distill the knowledge down into something like a knowledge graph, to be used in RAG.
Yeah, I've been watching; his video's implementation supposedly just requires an annual lubrication of the bearings taking about an hour. That said, the guy's trying to sell (for health reasons not related to the house) at the time, so I'd want... independent confirmation.
I have used Ansible for my Windows desktop setup for several years now, and I haven't fought those things in it. It has been pretty straightforward as I'm mostly just installing software and pulling some configs and scripts down.
> Trolling for the sake of trolling

Co-prosperity sphere + the CCP theme, I would bet that the leaders have at least fascist aesthetics, or are maybe what I want to call neo-proto-fascism. Because let's be honest, neo fascists aren't really fascists, their affect and aesthetics are the same, but they are way too intellectually deficient to be fascists or nazis.
>even direct confirmation from the model builders themselves

Linking papers that you clearly haven't read and can't contextually apply -- as with the ViT or your misunderstanding of image tiling -- is not the sound strategy you hope it is. It doesn't confirm your claims.

I'm not asking anyone to "Trust me bro". So...have you called the Gemini Pro 1.5 API and tokenized an image or a video yet?

There is a certain element of this that is just spectacularly obvious to anyone who spent even a moment of critical thought -- if they're so capable -- on it. Your claim is that a high resolution image is tiled to a 16x16 array...and the magic model can at some later point magically on demand extract any and all details, such as OCR, from that 16x16. This betrays a fundamental ignorance of even the most basic of information theory.

Again, I would love to just block you and avoid the defensive insults you keep hurling, but this site lacks the ability. Stop replying to me, however many more contextually nonsensical citations you think will save face. Thanks.
FDB predicted this: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/why-the-fuck-do-you-tru...

> You can’t make college admissions fair by getting rid of the SAT because colleges admissions can’t be “fair.” College admissions exist to serve the schools. Period. End of story. They always have, they always will.

Elite colleges exist to get donations from graduates. If said graduates are stupid because of lack of meritocracy in the admissions process, they will be poor donors (because they're poor post-graduation).
Here is one more https://thehftguy.com/2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-p...

it would be interesting to compare them
No, it's that you cannot argue your point from any remotely rational basis. It's just whining because you think a political group might benefit if they do the right thing. It's purely cutting the nose to spite the face.
If by design elements you include vector images, you could try https://www.recraft.ai/ or Adobe Firefly 2 - there's not a lot of vector work right now, so your choices are either the handful of vector generators, or just bite the bullet and use eg DALL-E 3 to generate raster images you convert to SVG/recreate by hand.

(The second is what we did for https://gwern.net/dropcap because the PNG->SVG filesizes & quality were just barely acceptable for our web pages.)
I feel I can get a quite detailed understanding of DOS, Windows 3.11, even Windows 95 from printed books and reference materials of the time.

But I feel much of the documentation/reference around things from 2010 is both late enough that it wasn't printed, and old enough that what was online has failed or faded away.
Not true, usb and pci passthrough is a thing.
If you don't live in the path of totality, then how do you propose doing it?
Yeah I agree, and without any sort of censorship/limitation.
It's not some passing fad. Companies and institutes have been very open and self-declaring about viewing "whiteness" as a bad thing and explicit about wanting to have fewer white people in desirable positions or depicted
I disagree techies are socially progressive as a whole; there is very minimal, almost no push for labor rights or labor protection even though our group is disproportionately hit with abusing employees under the visa program.
Do you have starlink on your boat?

--

Update:

hmm...

HEY! Lemme get this amazing satalitte internet thingy for our boat - sail to the middle of the ocean and then turn it off for a ~~murder~~ DETOX! Yay.
Why some people can't imagine
Good point re: non-proliferation. Hot fuel is definitely dangerous in more than one way. Even if the hot fuel could not be refined for weapons, it still wouldn't be something you could just buy or get though eh?

The issue is chemicals tend to be less dense and energy intense. And instill a lot less fear (usually). Many are heavily regulated too though, and some are getting more and more so.

For instance, can you name a chemical that will be any MORE expensive to clean off something you want to keep than a mixed radionucleotide soup? Even HF or FOOF should be way easier. Maybe methyl mercury?

Especially since (as Castle Bravo demonstrated), some of this stuff is essentially impossible to remove due to how chemically reactive it is. Some of the soup is going to want to bond like glue to everything, and is also pretty hot too - but not hot enough to be gone in a year or two.

To your point, there are definitely chemicals that can cause more actual immediate physical harm (probably), like phosgene. Or methyl mercury. Or a number of easily synthesizable chemical explosives.

But I'm not sure they would cause less fear than exploding a bunch of mixed 'hot' radionuclides in a crowded area. Probably because it wouldn't be predictable or immediately obvious who and how many would die. And there would be some pretty nasty looking video/photos of those who did.

To my original point - none of these are Sharks with Lasers on their head improbable, either way. And if someone wanted to instill as much fear and uncertainty as possible (like a terrorist), using the scariest method to the public as possible is going to be on their list.

So, worth making sure there are decent security precautions that actually get monitored/enforced, so someone doesn't just walk off with some hot rods at some point and cause a huge mess.

You won't find me arguing about propaganda and ideology though. Near as I can tell, that's killed more humans than anything else - and will continue to do so.

Also worth burning various media offices to the ground probably, but good luck getting any group of people to agree on whose eh?
If you look in the source code for this software which is provided for everyone to see you will realize that Kevin Goslar is entirely innocent of this heinous crime.
He merely added the copyright headers to each file.

You misunderstand the purpose of the SQA telemetry.

There are some reasons for SQA telemetry listed in the doc you posted:
- Be able to say how many production deployments exist.
- Understand which features are used and how.
- Understand how much throughput deployments handle.
- Evaluate how frequently specific features are used.
- Detect issues introduced by new features (such as a buggy releases).
- Identify problems at scale (such as slow endpoints).
- Understand which versions are deployed.

If you have concerns about privacy as you rightly noted you can turn it off with a simple flag (--sqa-opt-out) and if you don't like the version ping you can block in your network. Hundreds of users are running Ory Kratos without any telemetry sent without any extra work.

So if this is a plot to produce open source spyware it's not the best.
Doesn't seem like a stupid question to me. Would love to know their terms on this, eg. partial refunds? Voucher for next eclipse in a few years?
Ask HN: Should I grow a profit-generating SaaS or work on a promising new one?
I'm in a bit of conundrum and any help or guidance is highly appreciated!

I've built a SaaS app (rosterbird) that has grown organically to $1600/MRR without any marketing from my side. This was over a period of over 3(!) years and has been a sideproject all that time.

This obviously exhibits (very early) signs of a Product Market Fit and the gut feel is telling me to focus on the business which seems to have found a footing on its own. But, the few times I’ve tried to focus on it in the past, I’ve been turned off by my own inability to understand the product exactly and the target audience I should focus on, and learn what exactly the next step I should take with it.

So, everytime I’d think of and plan multiple possible things (marketing, sales, pivoting, positioning, etc) and ultimately end up in a deadlock and will abandon the pursuit altogether. During one such abandonment I started building a new SaaS product (keenly.so).

I built a small MVP of keenly and showed it to people who I thought would benefit from this and the feedback was very positive with some willing to pay for it after it's released.

Now, I'm confused as to which one I should proceed with.

On one hand, I have a product which is growing but it's in a niche market and I fear I don't quite understand how exactly I should take the next step or who/how to even market it. On the other hand, the new product is in an established (a bit crowded) market but something I understand well. And also, I believe I have a reliable marketing plan for it as well (ofcourse, no guarantee it'll work, but there's a plan atleast).

I've went full-time on this, so it is imperative for me to choose a right path and proceed, therefore here I am.

Once again, any help or guidance highly appreciated! I'm happy to answer any questions that would help.

Thanks in advance!
Yes, and fortunately that banning was the end of hateful printed content. Since that ban, the only way to print objectionable material has been to do it by hand with pen and ink.

(For clarity, I'm joking, and I know you're also not implying any such thing. I appreciate your comment/link)
Absolutely. 100% is the way to go.

In fact, I have a relative whose rural house was in the path of totality for 2017, but it was not centered on the path. That relative and I went to her friend's rural house on the centerline.

It was by a field too, and yes, the animals went weird.

If you're going to do it, go whole hog.
99% totality is 1% of the experience.
Probably Huawei related
Government investment probably due to its strategic position during WW2.
That's not really the point. The point is that Google are so far down the DEI rabbit hole that facts are seen as much less important than satisfying their narrow yet extremist criteria of what reality ought to be even if that means producing something that bears almost no resemblance to what actually was or is.

In other words, having diversity everywhere is the prime objective, and if that means you claim that there were Native American Nazis, then that is perfectly fine with these people, because it is more important that your Nazis are diverse than accurately representing what Nazis actually were. In some ways this is the political left's version of "post-truth".
I don't think this is likely
At least they’re in SOS mode. When Rogers in Canada had a total blackout (cellular, home internet, MPLS, corp circuits, their radio stations , everything), phones showed zero bars, but the towers were still powered on and doing some minimum level of handshake so phones didn’t go into SOS mode.

If you tried to make a 9-1-1 call, it would just fail. It wouldn’t fail over to another network because the towers were still powered up but unable to do anything, and Rogers couldn’t power them down because their internal stuff was all down.

Like a day later they said you could remove your SIM card to do a 9-1-1 call. Thanks guys.

Of course, no real info from the provider during the outage. Turns out they did an enterprise-risking upgrade on a Friday morning and nobody at the org seemed to have a “what if this fails plan”. CTO was on vacation and roaming phones were black too and he thought it was just an issue for him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_o...
Related from last June, discussed heavily a few weeks ago:

‘I have not seen one cent’: billions stolen in wage theft from US workers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344770
I think these developer platforms like LlamaIndex and Langchain are super great for prototyping and understanding the crowdsourced best approaches in solving these new LLM related challenges.

Depending on how custom the pipelines need to be, you'll either find that you've saved a huge amount of time using these libraries, or you'll find that you have no option but to switch off and build from scratch.
They use the database's replication API. In theory, it should avoid situations where the cache doesn't understand query syntax.

But, what I'd worry about are situations where an application needs to cache an object that's expensive to build. (And perhaps expensive to build because the programmer doesn't understand how to optimize SQL.)
I've never seen blurring in my images. Is that something that they add when you do API access? I'm running SD 1.5 and SDXL 1.0 models locally. Maybe I'm just not prompting for things they deem naughty. Can you share an example prompt where the result gets blurred?
Last prompt I tried was "Matte portrait of Yennefer" returned 8/9 blurred images [1]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/nIx8GBR
You conveniently left out the part of licensing the time. You can license with the BLM for access to government control land. Ranchers do it all the time. Special events like Burning Man also do it. You just have to contact the correct agency to do it. But of course, it so much easier to make a know it all sarcastic filled internet rant than do anything approaching useful information to a conversation.
GIMP is known to be a term for something or someone that has less abilities. Whether you go with "it makes it sound like bad software," or the more recent and reasonable "it's an ableist slur;" outside of this circle, yes there is much balking.

And while I also do bristle a little bit at the general thing of "lets change the name because someones offended," I also understand that it's always a weighing test.

And here, given Adobe's traditionally damn near absolute chokehold on this space, I absolutely believe that, had they changed it a long time ago -- we could all be in a better place here.

Again, hope it was worth it.
Thanks for the great reply, I didn’t know about lateral join.
If basic radio worked for talking between suits and the landing craft in '69, it surely shouldn't be a surprise that modern frequency-hopping, error corrected, wireless comms, with much more sensitive equipment would work well?
Study shows background checks don't always check out
I have no earthly idea, but WSL2 is known[1] for its snail-like cross-platform file transfers. Some of my colleagues install MSYS2 in parallel with WSL2 so they can sync our nightly much faster but still not have to jump through all the hoops of getting our proxy, certificates, network shares, etc working in MSYS2.

I use the extra time waiting for WSL2 to get a coffee.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197
With the free version, can I constrain the emails to be from one domain? i.e. the company domain
You are awesome! Thanks for all the links and info, to an open-ended question.

The process of bootstrapping to Earth-space-parity is fascinating to me.

One thing in the 1960s, when there was no GPS and terrestrial net assumption, but now you're going from everything we've built here to... if you don't bring it, you don't have it.

The accretion of Mars support satellites has also been fascinating.
https://www.techstars.com/newsroom/techstars-2-0-superchargi... might be worth reading for the TechStar's org perspective.
> I noticed this looking at a satellite photo of Nebraska recently — the towns lit up following a major East/West interstate across the state.

At least for the midwest - specifically west of Chicago, the way I always heard it was that the towns are fairly equally spaced (look at a night-time light map of the US) because there needed to be a rewatering / refueling place for steam engines, so towns popped up at the range of steam engine service intervals.

I bet the towns existed on a nice line (the rail line) first, and then it made sense to put the interstate parallel to the existing towns.
Interesting, the experience is very different for me. What language are you working with? I find it to be pretty strong in my Python and JS projects.
One reason to not allow this is that it breaks the equivalence that (for example)

(progn <form>)

is equivalent to

<form>
I know the other carriers are saying they aren't affected, but one look at DownDetector shows that nearly every carrier was affected, and all at the same time.
Is Google Getting Worse? (Update) – Freakonomics Radio [video]
Growing up in NJ during my day you spent the first 12 years learning about how amazing pilgrims and Christopher Colombus were, over and over again, until suddenly you hit highschool and the teachers go "lol jk".
The impact of cars on rural living goes both ways.

It definitely makes rural areas more comfortable and productive, perhaps making them more attractive to live in.

But without cars we might need more people in the countryside too.

Somebody needs to do the farming, and if the vets/doctors/teachers/mechanics that support them are less productive having to operate in a smaller area we might need more of them to support all the farmland.

At a macro level, most countries with low car usage have high amounts of rural living but there’s an awful lot of confounding stuff going on.
Good point, there is probably a path toward consumer acceptance of reliability, but commercial and personal car markets are different and that can’t be overlooked. Taxis get regular maintenance and only last a few years. Personal vehicles get spotty maintenance and are kept for more than a decade. This stresses the reliability of the car in different ways. For one thing taxi companies don’t just drive 10k miles with a messed up timing belt. For another the manufacturer is almost guaranteed to sell parts for 5 years after production. But 15 years is a different question. That gets into yard trip territory.
I am sure there is a path forward for BYD, but it will take more than a decade for that to establish itself in the market.
As they always say in investing, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

It wasn't that long ago that Intel was dominating and it looked like nobody would ever dislodge them. Once the top management that drove a company to success retire, they are almost guaranteed to be replaced by people whose main skill set was political navigating in a large bureaucracy and then the decline begins.
It is a big deal!

While just landing on the moon is definitely much simpler than a Mars mission, this lander is a part of the Artemis program; it's one of the first steps towards developing the Artemis base camp on the moon.
From @jeffbee in another comment chain:

https://twitter.com/tomaspueyo/status/1641853715354091532
A lot of people are very bullish on AI, it's very interesting to hear the opposite side. My opinion is that LLMs are very powerful at digesting and distilling knowledge which is why we built this project. I also think that LLMs are terrible reasoning engines and so agent-flows are not quite ready for primetime.

Would love to hear your perspective on the space!