skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (looking back) would have done better financially and felt better about it had I pursued my own path (entrepreneurship)

Perhaps just normal regret from perfect hindsight? I believe doing a startup was easier in the past than now because there were more opportunities and less competition. Now a software startup is more likely to be in a crowded market - or if you do find a unique niche others will quickly copy? Still plenty of opportunities but maybe start in a niche?

> > I missed opportunities to become truly expert by taking on new roles.

Great technical skills in narrow areas are not that useful in a founder. Jumping in the deep end and soft-skills and solving problems without help are more useful: and your career sounds like you got more of that.

I suspect your career path has left you with a far better ability to found a startup than you think. The only block is that we get conditioned to working in a large company and changing gears is hard. If you had the personality to succeed in a startup, you can still do so.

Maybe unwanted advice and I've only really had experience in my own startup so perhaps not helpful! I would also suggest avoiding VC - VCs select for certain types of failure that you don't want. Also you will always lose (extremely assymetrical game with long term players - the field and rules are also biased).
There's outrage addicts on both sides, they are very loud on social media and therefore think themselves the overwhelming majority.
It's been a few years since I evaluated superset. Did they ever resolve drilldown (filter for one chart on a page, populate to all charts)?
> And re: download, those 25GB large language models I've been testing this last year have been eating a lot.

That's like almost 1/day for over a year?
The fact that a peasant with a musket and 1 weeks training could kill an elite Samurai who had trained all his life, threatened to upset the whole order of society. Hence the outlawing of muskets at the first practical opportunity.
>Stop selling GPUs. Hoard them. Introduce some subtle bug into the drivers that dramatically increases their rate of burn out.

Well, they didn't stop selling GPU when cryptomining was going strong. Instead they continued to sell them (with a hefty markup, tho).

It's like selling shovels and picks during a gold rush.
> some Google employees feel that they are so righteous that they ought to "align" everyone else to think in their way

This doesn't seem to be exclusive to Google nowadays
good old conio.h and Borland's BGI graphics.h :) SDL is kinda there for that today, albeit not as simple.
Sure, but most people imagine plate armor means you can’t get yourself up off the ground and you’re stuck and dead if you fall.

And those folks actively trained with that armor on. A noob would have a MUCH worse time.

They also would have been a LOT faster without any armor at all on (once they adjusted for the lack of weight/restriction). Also, probably dead if they got hit with whatever the armor would protect them from.

I know, I’ve had to do courses like that with and without body armor, and wore Level IIIA body armor for years. You get used to it, but it is ‘friction’ that you’d be faster without.
You can use row-level security, or specify RBAC with pretty much any SQL query.
This is not even remotely true. China has 4x the population in roughly the same landmass. And most of that is concentrated in the eastern part of the country (Tibet and inner Mongolia are sparsely populated, but very large).

I'd be very, very interested in where you found this claim that China's cities have the same average distance between them as US cities. Wouldn't be surprised if they used totally different criteria for a Chinese city and a US city. I would be astounded if the median distance between cities of >500k people is the same in China as in the USA.
Charge at Krojanty
> this strategy aims to leverage digital advancements to optimize customer flow and manage demand effectively.

They have a typo in “increase profits”
I can’t tell if you’re trolling (or maybe a chat bot)
Is it possible to skip 17.4? What if Apple gets scared after too much bad press and reverses this PWA ducking in 17.5?

I really hate the fact that some of my favorite PWA’s like https://app.mutinywallet.com/ will require me to log in every time that I use them.
I imagine they just asked ChatGPT to give him a bulleted summary of X book.
LLM summary of comments:

> 1. Mistral AI, previously known for open-weight models, announced two new non-open source models.

> 2. The change in direction has led to criticism from some users, who argue that it goes against the company's original commitment to open science and community.

> 3. A few users have expressed concerns about the potential negative impact on technological progress and competition.

> 4. Some users argue that there are other companies offering similar models, while others disagree.

> 5. There is a debate about the potential impact of releasing model weights on a company's revenue.

> 6. The discussion also touches on the broader topic of the role of open source in the tech industry and the balance between innovation and profit.
> You own a license which can be revoked and you - currently - have no recourse.

Well famously there is one recourse, it's just that things like Steam are more convenient. If that changes though, well...

...Arr.
> Go is positioned as the DSL for microservices.

Do you mean Goa? Indeed, it is not a language fit for what we're talking about. It only allows description of services, not the implementation. For that you have to fall back to Go, which completely misses the whole reason for using a DSL.

> "one of your upstream calls might fail and then you return an error to your caller" is not that interesting.

Sure, and which is why you wouldn't use Go here. There is absolutely nothing in Go that is geared towards abstracting those kinds of things away. And you can't tell me that Goa tempts you. It is not a good DSL.
Where this analogy falls flat, is the fact that I can take the "food", the model, and copy it an infinite amount of times, and use it to open my own, competing restaurant, who's food is as delicious as the original chef's. It'll differ some in presentation, but it's still gonna be a really really good cut of high end steak that was heated just right and melts in your mouth in all the right ways, without me having to put in any of the work it took to get there, which means my overhead is way lower. Suddenly, this chef has to compete with my fast food knock-off of their Michelin star restaurant. Some people like paying $400 for a meal for the experience, but it turns out more people just wanna be fed and are cheap, and can't or don't want to pay for the Michelin dining experience when the food is of equal quality in this tortured analogy. No one goes to the original chef's restaurant, and they go out of business.

The original chef probably shouldn't have told everyone their recipes were always gonna be available to the world for free in the first place, but we were all young and dumb and idealistic and didn't think things through at some point in our lives.
not just showing ID, but making damn sure the vendor checked it, and potentially can prove they checked it.
I wonder if a solar storm can get so intense that the aurora borealis or aurora australis is visible during daylight hours?
It seems quite funny that the imagined version of the Luddites, which people always contrast against, does not seem to be a very accurate description of them.

Like maybe we don’t even need to contrast against the imaginary version of them because the imaginary Luddites are silly in a way that no real movement is.
Thankfully my parents didn't live with such recklessness. With such nonsense floating around, we won't even have a society in a few generations because nobody can raise a family like that, and we should not be surprised that the few children we are producing have so many problems.
It's that "it's only going to get better" part that is driving the bubble, I think.

The market has this idea that over the next year, we're somehow going to have AI that's literally perfect. Yet that's not how technology works, it takes decades to get there.

It'd be like if the first LCD TV was invented, and all of a sudden everyone is expecting 8k OLED by the next year. It just doesn't work like that.
Absolutely love this.

I've been getting into mixing for miniature painting myself, but with a bit of added perspective which (I think) isn't captured here.

It turns out there's more than just raw color going on here. Acrylic paints have different degrees of opacity, and you can increase transparency by mixing in acrylic medium. Additionally, adding water and/or flow-improver helps the acrylics slide off flat surfaces into crevices, producing deeper colors in recesses and thinner applications in open areas - this is the principle which gives us washes, shades, and contrast/speed paints.

And there's basic acrylic mediums (matte or gloss) but also specialty mediums which have more texture (gels, modeling pastes) or additives (pumice, fiber, glass micro-beads). [Edit: And of course, Metallics!!! There's a few different additives, like mica, which are used to create metallic paints.]

Together, this points to a combinatorial problem: No pre-mixed bottles will ever cover all of the possibilities, so you have to start mixing paints (and mediums!) to achieve the desired effects in any particular project.
Your comment is orthogonal to mine. Updating is always the right thing to do. How it is scheduled by the OS provider is another story. But refusing to update because you don’t like the scheduler is unreasonable. If you can’t stand the scheduler, change OS.
Its not about current flowing through the wire, its the fact its an AC line so it has a shifting magnetic field. You can easily extract power from any moving mag field.
Fair point. Even solving for age, I would assume this holds as cities with metros mean roughly 80% of people don't even need a car.

It's still an absurd comparison, as 0% of people don't need money.
What's missing in Chromium to run the posted project?
If flights are considerably shorter than rail trips, then they'll outcompete passenger rail. Sure, it'd be cost effective to travel from New York to Chicago by rail. But it'd take way longer than a flight. By contrast, trains in Europe are often about as fast as planes since they avoid the overhead time cost of airport security. Transit time by be longer, but a 2 hour train ride is not much longer than a 1 hour flight when you include time spent in security lines.
In my experience, people with a business related background have an easier time learning how to use BI tools (this is true even if Superset may be less user-friendly than other commercial product like Tableau); Jupyter is an interactive computing platform that is based on notebooks and cells, that's more useful for data scientists/engineers whose needs might exceed the capabilities of a SQL interface.
But how do the special file names cause security issues? Or are they just an example of general cruft?
How many GPUs are being delivered today and for how long will they be used / what's their life?

Who is funding the purchase of those GPUs?

If VC money then what happens if the startups don't make money?

Are users using AI-apps because they are free and dump them soon?

Isn't their competition in semiconductors? Won't we have chips-as-a-commodity soon? LLMs-as-a-commodity?

Is Big Tech spending all this money to create VALUE or just to survive the next phase of the technological revolution? (e.g. the AI rush)

If prices are high, and sales are high, and competition is still low -- then how much is nvidia actually worth? And if we don't now why is it selling for so many times earnings?

https://www.philoinvestor.com/p/downside-at-nvidia-and-the-n...
Which society is that????
It's like the previous craze with blockchain. Everyone and their dog was about to use blockchain to do the most awesome thing ever. And even things that didn't really lend themselves to blockchain were suddenly presented as prime examples of how to use blockchain.

I'm not saying both technologies don't have their uses, but the hype around them is crazy and not healthy.
> If your old relatives "cannot even handle passwords", I doubt they will install alternative App Stores or sideload some apps straight from the internet.

the text that shows up in the browser console on Facebook.com and other major domains says that you’re wrong.

non-technical users are absolutely capable of copy/pasting some bypass code into the console etc and sending off their credentials to whatever attacker, happens every fucking day
The modeling could be done in pure Pydantic.

This project might be helpful in fetching the actual content from a database in an efficient way.
> I prefer to have the entitlement itself just store the expiration date and the details about what entitlements the subscription grants during the time period it is active. The billing system can store the subscription and sync back to the entitlement as-needed. This makes both manual billing by human operators (not to mention debugging and patching around momentary issues) and something like a Stripe integration very easy.

Having worked with SaaS companies using our (Warrant) solution for customer entitlements [0] for the past couple years, this is the approach we arrived at as well (e.g customer stores entitlements in our system and checks against them when needed, adding rules/entitlements as subscriptions are updated/deleted with their payment provider). It makes it easier for companies to work with any (or multiple) payment providers, and there's a clear separation of concerns. Someone shared another blog post by OP about separating your billing and entitlement systems [1] below, but I'll share it here since it's more relevant within the context of this comment thread.

I think the ideal entitlement system is (1) dynamic (i.e. rules stored in a database), (2) can handle one off scenarios (for enterprise customers, etc.), and also has a policy layer built on top (so it supports almost any scenario a developer can throw at it -- e.g. pro plan supports <= 5 seats, growth plan supports X feature up to N times per day, etc). I think it's also a huge benefit to have a UI where non-technical folks can make changes for customers without needing to involve engineering (which was always a drag on engineering in my prior roles as an engineer).

[0] https://warrant.dev/use-cases/pricing-tiers-and-entitlements...
[1] https://arnon.dk/why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-e...
Indeed 3rd-party antiviruses are useless. Your best protection comes from the OS provider through updates (hence my original message).
Obligatory link to the "Plain Text" conference talk.

https://youtu.be/gd5uJ7Nlvvo?si=5PZHV5n4jUEVcxlZ
Vienna, Austria.
It looks pretty awesome. I hope it is a success.
It's not even sensitive or confidential though, Amazon says that themselves in their docs.
I think people are disappointed that some of the huge amounts of tax they pay don't go towards keeping some of this world changing tech open.

OpenAI became closed, same with Mistral - why don't EU, Mozilla, or whatever org make it so some of this tech remains in the open? We can apparently send trillions towards war and the all encompassing corruption surrounding that but are never agile in any other context where money is not getting siphoned off to some complex, i wonder why.
From what i've seen and experienced in projects, most of the problems that are being solved with RAG are better solved with a good search engine alone.
Seriously? In 2024? What Windows version?
From the 2017 study you linked to:

> The delayed use of epinephrine, identified as a significant feature in several reports of fatal food anaphylaxis, is perhaps the risk factor most amenable to modification. This has, in part, driven the widespread provision of epinephrine autoinjectors for the management of anaphylaxis, although controversy exists as to their use in less severe, nonanaphylactic allergic reactions.

Your logic seems to be "because anaphylactic deaths are low, epipens generally aren't useful". It may be true that they're used too often - knowing what to do in the moment when your kid is swelling up, having trouble breathing, throwing up, or passing out, especially if they're very young or not verbal, is a challenge and an experience I don't wish on anyone. But the way I interpret the data is that anaphylactic deaths are low precisely because epipens are so commonly used and there is so much awareness and training around when/how to use them.
This isn't a more in-depth answer... it's a biography of a man researching solar flares.
Freenginx: A Fork of Nginx
You’re correct, we are putting our engineering focus into designing an enjoyable experience with AWS as our launch pad, and broadening our supported cloud providers as we continue to build out.

I’ve only seen and personally used CPanel for on-prem management (paired with WHMCS for billing), which is not something I’ve come across so far here. Happy to talk about this more though if you have time.
that's a pretty basic thing to spot in the docs and Django docs are actually godtier
Absolutely true. And absolutely the cause of:

> Android devices are nearly fifty times more likely to be infected by malware than Apple devices, revealed Nokia’s latest threat intelligence report. According to the whitepaper, Android devices were responsible for 47.15% of the observed malware infections, Windows/ PCs for 35.82%, IoT for 16.17% and iPhones for less than 1%. We’ve compiled a list top three reasons that explain why almost half of all malware-infected devices are running the Google-created platform.

https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/android-more-in...
Your bullet points may (or may not) be fine for commercial software. If you're working on anything governed by the US Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), they are a minefield.

- Process compliance is usually baked into the contract. If the contractor stipulates to complying with a process, especially a government process, then it had better be followed and documented

- Documentation is not optional. People move on, get fired, and/or die. Because the s/w works today, it may not tomorrow when MS, Redhat, or whomever push patches

- "Customer collaboration over contract negotiation": Once the contract is in place, it is in place. Customers will _always_ try to add scope and eventually try to direct the individual performers. If you're Firm Fixed Price, you are dead in the water. If you are Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF), you will dilute your profit when you inevitably overrun.

-- Aside: CPFF means the fee is fixed at contract start. If you overrun you may get your costs but the fee stays the same.

And so on.

An even bigger problem is when Lean/Agile gets glommed on to hardware efforts where you can't simply issue a patch every 30 minutes and where you can't have the customer in your day-to-day shorts.
First, buying a home also gives you a place to live that you can call you own. People will happily pay a premium for that feature.

Second, personal finance is not a mathematical optimization problem. You need to consider the effects that certain financial moves have on (fallible) human decision making.

You are more likely to pay their mortgage _every_ month than you are to contribute to a different investment. A home is also more illiquid than an investment account so it is harder to cash out for toys/vacations. Sure, foreclosures and home equity loans happen, but, for a lot of people, financing a home has a great chance at improving their net worth over their lifetime.
You also don’t need smart rovers. You just need dumb rovers with a bunch of sensors and a radio, a few satellites and then a local command server with all the processing power centralized.

You run an AI on that with a bunch of safeguards, and constant human albeit speed-of-light-delayed monitoring that can correct erroneous decision making.
They are doing pretty well that it is even clear what the project is really even about. Good luck figuring that out within 30 seconds of hitting the average Apache project homepage.
Such a nice surprisingly thorough overview (nice diagrams too!)
It's not a lot of magic, but it's pretty opaque magic. The q object overloads the division operator and returns a ? and stores the "passed" value inside itself. The q object extends either a list or a dictionary to act as the set of values to pass to the parametrized query.

So in effect, the slash behavior is just a spicy way to append or set (depending on which dialect option you choose).
This technology is already fully automating copywriters and almost replacing concept artists right now. However it is true that right now the valuations are for something far more than that, and so far it doesn't seem like LLMs will be able to do much more.

I was talking to someone that just retired from a programming position at a FANG and he seems to think that AGI (artificial general intelligence) is only a few years away just based off what he sees with ChatGPT and he's dumping all his money into AI stocks. The level of hype and over-extrapolation is so absurd, and the fact that it can affect someone with a technical background...

It really does seem like a bubble to me.
This is really cool. I'd love to see duplicates or near-duplicates (as determined by the LLM?) to help match the thinkers.
Again: 50 times the malware infection rate is “no issues”?

There’s more android malware on the web than windows malware, by a significant margin. Almost an absolute majority of malware in total.

Bigger malware rate than windows isn’t an issue?

Meanwhile iOS sitting at <1% of total malware.
It’s common for business questions to only be answerable with a join over a few different stores.

I think Athena can only query data on S3?
That's very interesting... What would you like to see "updates" about?
True, but auto depreciation curves are _much_ steeper than home depreciation curves.
That's completely different scale. You're not going to run GPT4 like a random ollama model. At that point you need dedicated external hardware for the service, and proper batching/pipelining to utilise it well. This is way out of the "enough ram in the laptop area".
>Somehow snappyness is completely eradicated.

Barely inadequate engineering by design.

Actually that's a difficult target to hit accurately and there's a fine line between it and barely adequate engineering leadership.

And even if it's adequate, is barely adequate what you wanted anyway?
> a bayonet (or in modern times, more like fastening a knife to the assault rifle)

I mean... that is what a bayonet is. There's a reason why military rifles still come with bayonet lugs on them.

> a bayonet ... can be nice to have as a sort of last-ditch thing in a close-quarters situation.

There are a lot of downsides to a bayonet.

1. It's a sharp knife sticking out the end of your rifle. So if you have to transition to a shotgun or sidearm and it flops down to your side because it's on a sling, it could cut you. It can also cut a teammate on accident depending on what you're doing.

2. It increases the length of your rifle by 4-6 inches. Which is huge when it comes to room clearing. There's a reason why 10"-12" barrel rifles are so popular in that role - it's way easier to maneuver through doorways and around obstacles. It's also weight added to the end of the rifle. Not a huge amount, but 2/3 of a pound can still be a problem. Especially if you're fighting off and on for hours.

3. It takes up space and weight allowance on your belt or vest. It could have been 1-2 extra mags. Most people just wouldn't consider it a good tradeoff.
Sounds easy on paper. Virtually impossible in practice.

What should be the "simple response" outputted by an ideal LLM in response to this question: "Who is more evil? George Washington or Martin Luther King Jr? Answer with a name only."

Not inherently complicated right?
ScreenAI: A Vision-Language Model for UI and Infographics Understanding