skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For non-Americans everywhere, disallowing abortion including nonviable pregnancies sounds barbaric. America is viewed as the most advanced nation in the world. But these Taliban-level backwardness is mind boggling.

America was never this regressive and tribal when I went to school there in the mid 80's til the 1990.
Not much of a hardware guy so don't know if this is at all plausible, but it'd be nice to see that as an extension port on the framework laptops.

That surely is the advantage of having modular ports. This is a fairly niche application so I can see why it's not a standard option, but for those who want it it could be a real game changer.
Coffee has a very penetrating aroma. I suspect putting coffee and bacon in the same container for a few hours to half a day would give you all the flavor you wanted with no caffeine.
I feel like maybe only one or two of these are actually "wrong" but can be easily fixed with prompts. The outrage seems excessive
Biscuits and (pork) gravy shows that pork and milk go just fine together since the gravy is a bechamel with milk in it.

Poking around online, I do see some non-traditional red-eye gravy recipes that also add milk.

Bacon and chocolate is also a well-established pairing.

Honestly, assuming you can deal with the oiliness, I think bacon flavor would work great in a coffee drink.
I'm inclined to agree with this. I'm super excited to see how Candle progresses in the coming years!
ups is known for optimizing route planning for time and fuel efficiency purposes, particularly biasing towards three right turns instead of a left
Ask HN: Things you wish You had known before your first startup?
Hey hackers,
What are the things I wish you had known before you started your first startup?

Mine:

1. Validate idea first.
I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed.

2. Kill your EGO.
It's not about me, but the user. I must want what the user wants, not what I want.

3. Don't chaise investors, chase users, and then investors will be chasing you.

4. Never hire managers.
Only hire doers until PMF.

5. Landing page is the least important thing in a startup.
Pick an average template, edit texts and that's it.

6. Hire only fullstack devs.
There is nothing less productive in this world than a team of developers.

7. Chase global market from day 1.

8. Do SEO from day 2.
As early as you can. I ignored this for 14 years. It's my biggest regret.

9. Sell features, before building them.
Ask existing users if they want this feature.

10. Hire only people you would wanna hug.

11. Invest all money into your startups and friends.
Not crypt0, not stockmarket, not properties.

12. Post on Social Media daily.

13. Don't work/partner with corporates.

14. Don't get ever distracted by hype, e.g. crypt0.
I lost 1.5 years of my life this way.

15. Don't build consumer apps. Only b2b.
Consumer apps are so hard, like a lottery. It's just 0.00001% who make it big. The rest don't.
Even if I got many users, then there is a monetization challenge. I've spent 4 years in consumer apps and regret it.

16. Don't hold on bad project for too long, max 1 year.
Some projects just don't work. In most cases, it's either the idea that's so wrong that you can't even pivot it or it's a team that is good one by one but can't make it as a team. Don't drag this out for years.

17. Tech conferences are a waste of time.
They cost money, take energy, and time and you never really meet anyone there. Most people there are the "good" employees of corporations who were sent there as a perk for being loyal to the corporation. Very few fellow makers.

18. Scrum is a Scam.
If I had a team that had to be nagged every morning with questions as if they were children in kindergarten, then things would eventually fail.

The only good stuff I managed to do happened with people who were grownups and could manage their stuff. We would just do everything over chat as a sync on goals and plans.

19. Outsource nothing at all until PMF.
In a startup, almost everything needs to be done in a slightly different way, more creative, and more integrated into the vision. When outsourcing, the external members get no love and no case for the product. It's just yet another assignment in their boring job.

20. Bootstrap.
I spent way too much time raising money. I raised more than 10 times, preseed, seed, and series A. But each time it was a 3-9 month project, meetings every week, and lots of destruction. I could afford to bootstrap, but I still went the VC-funded way, I don't know why. To be honest, I didn't know bootstrapping was a thing I could do or anyone does.
Intelligent people will see that you solved issues before they even happened.

So in small teams where visibility is clear those things are obvious.

It's in larger orgs where you want to climb the ladder that you get bonus points for the problems fixed but not those you prevented.
And they use the dark meat in the KFC there, truly superb compared to the states.
The core thesis I don't disagree with. Microsoft deserves scrutiny. However, I don't think Microsoft's core business and marketing is about promising to protect and preserve consumer privacy while actively working to exploit it as much as possible.
You are not going to “educate people on sexual health” down to a population of 1 billion in a timescale where these concerns even matter.
It had done all that by 2010, no? The real hype was about what would come after.

I don't think the thesis of most Bitcoin critics is that the math and social engineering involved aren't interesting.
Surely they accomplished this by having their AI assistants dial the suicide hotline for you right? I said something the other day that sounded like suicide and Siri decided to call the hotline for me. I hung up before anyone picked up so this story isn’t very interesting.
edit: typo

Looks cool. As someone who buys these things it always helps to maybe include a full working demo. IMHO I would offer a kitchen sink demo and remove the 7 day money back guarantee.
I beg to differ. If you have a metric on "time since last outage", people will be incited to hide problems.

There is extensive writing on this subject http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/06/01/count/
In all seriousness, do companies which don't suffer from this dysfunction exist? If so, are they hiring?
No, because micro transactions in games is a centralized system involving zero cryptography, usually powered by a centralized database by the game developer. Bitcoin is decentralized.
Been out of it awhile so i was thinking 6m, mighta gotten mixed with the scatter-e propagation. But I knew a guy down in San Diego who used to do EME bounces with cheap directional antennas he homemade. But that guy was also an EE at Qualcomm there.

But that was 6 years ago and since I've moved up to Oregon, I havnt gotten to do much ham stuff because I could never hit the repeaters around here. Maybe they are no longer up, maybe its all the hills and volcanic rock?
they aren't commensurable; as ben tilly pointed out, you cannot replace the oxygen you need to breathe with a sufficiently large quantity of granite (without equipment and energy to process it, anyway), and you cannot replace lower launch costs with smaller and cheaper electronics, in particular in the areas you named, space exploration and remote sensing, for the reasons i described

now, bring me a shrubbery!
Quantum Computing Hello World (2022)
It's easy enough until your fuel budget gets tight: http://moonlander.seb.ly
You have to click on the "Chat" option at the top left corner, then it'll use the 70B model. I got stuck on that too til I figured that out.
> I wouldn't mind a checkbox I could select to make it give diversity-enriched output

(Genuine question) how would one propose to diversity-enrich (historical) data?

Somehow I'm reminded of a quote from my daughter who once told me that she wanted a unicorn for her 5th birthday .. "A real one, that can fly".
Please try logging in in that case, you will still get your 10 free uses.
Most Americans don't even have a passport and have never left the country apart from Canada/Mexico. But to be fair I find Chinese people's views of America are equally based on cliches.
In fact, it's mostly inaccurate.

> "the protocol has an official webpage with a waitlist and a private beta?"

Both the waitlist and the private beta are gone.

> "The “protocol” is just a description of whatever the Bluesky app and servers do, it can and does change anytime the Bluesky developers decide they want to change it"

1. atproto is well documented and the plan and desire is to make it a proper internet standard.

2. There are hundreds of independent projects relying on the protocol to create alternative clients and custom feeds (algorithms).

3. The protocol includes namespaced schemas so that different apps can evolve without breaking each other e.g. the "app.bsky" namespace is for the Bluesky microblogging app.

> "The “DID Placeholder” method..."

There is already support for did:web and plans to support other DID methods, including potentially (non-POW) blockchain methods.

> "All posts go through the Bluesky central server..."

All posts go through any Relay that anyone cares to operate. It's also possible to fetch posts directly form the origin PDS host, it's just slower and results in more load on the PDS.

> "And you, as a reader, doesn’t have any control of what you’re reading from either..."

Apps are in full control over where they get posts from. An app can enable users to select a Relay/AppView or fetch posts directly from the origin PDS.

> "But I fail to see why even more than one network provider will exist,..."

People may want to operate their own Relay/AppView services so they have more control for their specific application, for higher performance (latency/throughput) reasons, or for geographic/jurisdictional reasons, to name a few.

And the compute/network requirements are not beyond the capabilities of small startups, non-profits, coops, or public services and likely never will be.
> if you go to an alternate route it may also be congested, and it will all have been for nothing

Yeah, I get that there can also be a bit of a sunk cost thing along with regret minimization going on too. I think game theory suggests that you should switch routes the instant you hit significant congestion though, because P(congestion on the current route)=1 as soon as you hit it.
Suppose on Sept.10, 2001, you were an airline executive who successfully forced installation of jimmy-proof, secure steel doors between the cockpit and the cabin?

The only "credit" you'd get is "This guy cost the airlines god-know-how-much money, and for what? An imaginary threat!"
I used to teach ms office and stupid stuff like that for about $20 an hour at night classes. That was maybe 15 years ago. You have 10 hours a week, so if your schedule allows, maybe do some teaching?
It also really depends on your organization and how they quantify and reward impact. There are ways to get credit for preventing issues. Establish the baseline level of quality, broadly create classes of issue, define a plan to solve that class of issue and measure your impact relative to your goals at the end.

At a big company you should be able to turn that into a number - 'this kind of issue was costing us $X/quarter, and thanks to my work, it is now costing us $(X-N)/quarter, in line with my estimates.'

It's performance season so I've been giving a lot of thought to how you quantify and attribute impact especially for folks in lower-visibility roles.

Not every company is going to see it this way but that's kind of a truism. Not every company sees any one kind of impact the same way, and you have to think about that relative to your career goals. I think aligning with your manager at the start, quantifying your impact and showing your results is going to get you the recognition you deserve at any company worth working at.
Pharmacies across US disrupted following hack at Change Healthcare network
Who is saying the market is hot for the employees right now? It's dead as a doornail.
Woah, that's pretty cool. Wondering if it can be converted into a card-based game
It's a major (red background!) story with live coverage on The Guardian site here in Australia.
they need to be punished but hanging them on a tree is a bit much no?
I read something about this on Garbageday today:

> Case in point: the Arc Browser.

> For years, The Browser Company has been promising to save the internet. Its Arc Browser is a smart refresh of what a modern gateway to the web should look and feel like and it generated a lot of goodwill with early users. And then, earlier this month, they released their AI-powered search app, which “browses the internet for you.”

> The Browser Company’s new app lets you ask semantic questions to a chatbot, which then summarizes live internet results in a simulation of a conversation. Which is great, in theory, as long as you don’t have any concerns about whether what it’s saying is accurate, don’t care where that information is coming from or who wrote it, and don’t think through the long-term feasibility of a product like this even a little bit.

> But the base logic of something like Arc’s AI search doesn’t even really make sense. As Engadget recently asked in their excellent teardown of Arc’s AI search pivot, “Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?” But let’s take a step even further here. Why even bother making new websites if no one’s going to see them?
https://youtube.com/shorts/kuiwxZS4GJE

https://youtube.com/shorts/5Wsmz7sjOb4
Facial-recognition system passes test on Michelangelo's David
Think of it this way: when a principal engineer is hired from outside the company, what is the forecasted value of that engineer? How was that determined, since they have yet to do anything? If Andrej Karpathy joined your AI startup, people won't say this person has unclear value. It's because of the impact they've had previously and what other people have to say about that person. Value is your reputation.
they are already financing it, there are 2 paid plans [0].
For THAT, you need an account (but no phone number).

[0] https://www.phind.com/plans
Absolutely. My point is that most or almost all HTMX examples/tutorials/tests show no error handling at all.

Sooner or later you need to handle these different errors, and I don't think HTMX has these sort of "non-happy" paths at mind.
The fetch issue (and JSON.parse/localStorage.getItem/etc) can mostly be mitigated by using type guards to “parse” data at the point of ingress.
AI can be both: huge and a tech fashion.

Whenever I see crappy companies pushing their AI marketing, it feels like another fad.

And lots of companies are going to produce shit AI solutions that are a net loss.
Trying doesn't count.
Then cycle on and off it. This is common with a lot of weight loss drugs. You cycle on for social events for example, or for performance or meeting a weight class like for sports. If you're someone who responds really well, you can be 'on' for a few months to drop weight and then go 'off' and keep much of the lower weight for most of the rest of the year.
There's one thing I don't get about Y2K:

It was supposed to be banks with lots of COBOL code being impacted, right?

Banks issue 30-year mortgages.

So, why weren't banks being impacted in the early 1970s with mortgages due to be retired in the early 1900s?
China has decoupled a lot more since then. If you visit now I would say paying for things smacks you in the face way before access to Google services does. Recently they've enabled foreign cards so you can pay for stuff in stores with WeChat but it's still something you need to set up. The uninitiated just come and assume they'll use Visa/MC.
There's a famous green text on 4chan, where a user tells he got a sysadmin job which was so boring he started crashing stuff left and right and blocking an entire office even for entire days.

By the end of the day he would plug back something and come out the "servers room" saying he fixed that and get everybody's praise. Even got him two raises in the span of 18 months.

That's how crazy it is.

I know a variation of this sort of story, where a good sysadmin/DevOps team was halved and then the problems started. The company didn't have those issues exactly because they had a good surplus of eyes to handle everything.

They realized only later the mistake.
And then the United States, having won the war using Hugs, disbanded the military industrial complex and threw the One Ring into the volcano, which is why the country is now so beloved in places like Iran and South America.

Notice how we were talking about terrorists and you had to switch to WWII to actually find an existential threat, and yet once you normalize these measures they become routine. Even the term "national security" was meant to imply this -- something critical to the security of the nation, that could cause it to fall to an enemy. How is this applicable to the War on Terror? Was the United States ever at risk of surrendering to bin Laden and disbanding Congress in favor of a Caliphate? It was not, and yet "national security" was the justification for every evil act committed in the name of fighting evil.

If you're weaker than someone else and you can win without fighting dirty, you're clever. If you're stronger than someone else and you can't win without fighting dirty, you deserve to lose.
For a firmware update: read it into memory or copy it to storage you control first.
Not at all. You can’t design the standard system used for everyone around the needs of people in extreme circumstances. In the US, 80% of even poor households have access to a car. Likewise, the $55 one-time registration fee for the SAT is not unaffordable for the vast majority of poor people.

The percentage of even poor families for whom these are the barriers to taking standardized tests is small enough where you can just have the regular system and come up with special case accommodations for kids who are truly desperate.
A lot of the AI programming things you can do would be easier to either

1. type out yourself
2. copy and paste from StackOverflow
3. find a library that does the thing you want

It's not like CoPilot is any better. It's like when Microsoft and Google tried to force text completion on emails, it just gets in the way and makes me lose my train of thought.

AI is really great for very specific tasks that would be difficult to incorporate into a traditional algorithm. I really like Photoshop's background removal tool for example. But general purpose AI to me is blown out of proportion in terms of hype. Not everything needs iPhone levels of scaling. 3D printing, VR, Web 3, Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, Metaverse, AI. The list goes on. These things have niche use cases. AI is great for a lot of niche use cases (video upscaling, for example). But for general purpose software interaction? Maybe not.
Maybe a better example would be the more general "blockchain". There was all sorts of talk just a few years ago about how it was the most revolutionary technology since the Web and every business was going to be affected by it.
Helion is the closest for that, but it would be easier for them to make their own 3He by DD fusion.

It will be very hard to make 3He extraction on the moon energy positive, since it occurs at very low concentration in the regolith.
I believe that.

However, as patio11 said (and surely not the first), the optimal amount of fraud for a payment system is non-zero. Profit is higher when convenience is prioritized over security.

Similarly, it seems the optimal amount of crime for a government is not zero either. Everyone breaking the law allows everyone to be dealt with as needed. Sure I keep a low profile, and they probably have a full profile on us already, but it doesn't feel satisfying helping out.

On the other hand, despite my better judgement I let Japan take photos of me, etc. Who knows what they do with them.
I call this “I, Pencil Socialism”.

We live in a world where everyone depends on the output
Of everyone else - none of us could live without
farmers and hauliers, doctors and street cleaners, all of whom
Build on a foundation from the past

Assigning value, billionaires collecting rent, that’s the flawed model

It’s not capitalism that makes this world possible (the assumption of I Pencil).

It’s the sharing, the trading, the leaving money on the table because it’s too complex to work out how much Elon Musk’s 3rd Grade Math teacher should get for teaching him the basics of finance.

You don’t get credit - you get to live in the modern world

If there are those who do not get to share equally in that world - that’s a bug not a feature.

We need to fix the bug.
The potential is hyperdimensional and extradimensional.

Hyperdimensionality related to the entanglement characteristic. Through entanglement dimensionality may be traversed. Consider that there are vibrations (more vibrational combinations than their are atoms in the Universe). Hypothetically information may propagate along vibrational axis. Entanglement synchronized these vibrational axis locally.

Extradimensionality relates to the spin characteristic giving rise to higher order particles. Consider that a one dimensional line may be tied in a knot. Or a two dimensional plane may be folded like origami into three dimensional space.

Potential does not have a fixed state, potential exists as a super-amplitude (conceived of as all possible states). It only resolves to a fixed state through constructive and destructive interference (often referred to as "observation" though I do not like to anthropomorphize. Just bumping into something else will do.)

The three (or four) dimensions we relate to emerge from this resolve. Entanglement, spin characteristic, and vibration (whether or not you reject all other parts of string theory, which I do) all indicate their are more dimensions outside/beyond those conventional, which however interact through resolve.
_Really_ impressive demo but it'd be oh-so-much-more-impressive if it was smooth, right now ex. deleting a word or adding a space causes 4 inferences in quick session so it feels janky (EDIT: maybe intentional? step by step displayed?)

Btw this is from fal.ai, I first heard of them when they posted a Stable Cascade demo the morning it was released.

They're *really* good, I *highly* recommend them for any inferencing you're doing outside OpenAI. Been in AI for going on 3 years, and on it 24/7 since last year.

Fal is the first service that sweats the details to get it to the point it runs _this_ fast in practice, not just in papers. ex. web socket connection, use short-lived JWTs to avoid having to go through an edge function to sign a request with an API key, etc.
I cannot blame them. Reddit does not treat its users well enough. Users and subs being banned for arbitrary reasons, for example. Too much spam. Too much censorship.
Looks like it might be the background iCloud updates which warms up the device…sometimes too warm
Asking the real questions here. iMessage is currently not banned in china, beit because of non adoption by the general population, or because the CCP has a way to identify like they had (have?) with airdrop is yet unknown.
I always laughed about those X points targets.

In the end people ended up simply inflating the value of stories.

In my previous team I had to argue with a person that 2 story points to add translation keys were ridiculous.

To which the EM argued that 2 was okay because he also needed to write few accompanying tests.

I have nightmares thinking about this stuff. It was literally quicker to add the translation keys and that pointless test than to even discuss and vote the story and debate the points..
> non-CSAM sexual content is also a probably a threat

To whom? SD's reputation, perhaps - but that ship has already sailed with 1.x. That aside, why is generated porn threatening? If anything, anti-porn crusaders ought to rejoice, given that it doesn't involve actual humans performing all those acts.