skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because they don't feel the price is right/competitive doesn't automatically write them off as not your target market/ICP - it could still be very valid feedback, especially when competitive options may be cheaper.

Personally I pay less than 1/2 the sub rate they're charging for TickTick Premium, and love it. That's not to say I wouldn't pay double for what it gains me (I definitely would), but given that TickTick is a viable option - I don't need to.
Google archive storage is $1.20/TB/mo. I just had a customer recommend it to me (I'm the author of HashBackup). He said he's been using it for over a year and pays around $3/mo for 2.5TB. One gotcha: the minimum storage duration is 365 days, so if you upload a 1TB then immediately delete it, you're going to still pay $14 over the next year. I really dislike "delete penalty" fees, but they're common.
yes, it is similar to rack. But what rack has this requirement of being pluggable from multiple decoupled codebases (rails or other framework, your app, some gems you're adding to your app). And that also warranted things like "insert_before" etc.

Even with rack, decoupling of code definition (where you've added your middleware) and code execution could be pretty hard to debug, but at least with enough exposure you know where to look, and you usually have only one rack stack in your app.

If all those steps in your pipeline are defined in the same codebase, rack approach becomes much less useful.
Yeah, it’s almost always at night while I’m asleep that it’s charging multiple things. It also has a port marked to plug a laptop into, which I’d assume it prioritizes over the other ports.
It is amazing how warped his idea became too. It was 'hey simple test' to weed out 'cant program at all'. Which was his beef. That morphed into 2 day 10 people interview fests and 'rockstars only allowed here'. When what you want is initiative, focus, ability to learn, and most of all can get along with others. Fizz Buzz does not test for that.
ZLUDA ate the dust not because they implemented CUDA but because they were misusing complied NVIDIA libraries.

If it was a clean room implementation of the API NVIDIA wouldn’t care. Heck that’s exactly what AMD did with HIP.

But what you cannot do is essentially intercept calls to and reverse engineer NVIDIA binaries in real time because you can’t be arsed to build your own.
Yes, but double check their work. If they’ve made a mistake that is visible in the documentation, you can fix it now and also have a teachable moment. But as I said above: resist the urge to rephrase what they’ve said unless it’s factually wrong.

When I’m onboarding people, fixing bugs in the docs is the first task they complete. It helps everybody, and it keeps them from having to jump into fixing bugs in code they don’t understand at all yet for just a little while longer, while they build their 10,000 foot view.
The PullRequestBenchmark: The Final Countdown to Full Developer Job Automation?
PullRequestBenchmark introduces a new standard for Large Language Models (LLMs)—reviewing pull requests with human-like discernment. Approaching full developer job automation, this benchmark mimics professional code evaluations as LLMs approve or reject PRs. If an LLM passes, it could signal the automation of developer roles.
This sounds way way way worse than a simple test. I think the critical thing is that your online test shouldn't be difficult.

A simple fizz-buzz level test will narrow 700 candidates down to like 100, no need for arbitrary nonsense like linking to github profiles, contributing to open source or typos.
What's your source on this? They just very recently reached 100K downloads on Android and according to various SEO tools, they get maybe ~4M visits per-month (and these tend to overestimate, plus it's monthly visits, not DAU).
I have both Things for Mac and iPhone. The money's trivial for organizing my life. I don't want to spend a second more in my todo app than necessary and would rather pay to have things just work.
This looks great and I appreciate the demo period and the option to buy one-time. Do wish the buy one-time had a longer update length. The subscription looks like the better deal. The $149 / 18 months is $8.28/month. Guess the upside is you get to keep using the app without updates after the 18 months. I have subscription fatigue so I do appreciate the one-time purchase.
What a joke! The best athletes don't push themselves to injury. They pace themselves everyday to ensure maximum availability and capacity.

There are literally devices like whoop that let athletes calibrate their health everyday so that they can detect early and not continue to deteriorate their body.
It’s a bit different when you’re replacing or creating the head of a division since they’ll replace their own lieutenants and onwards down
I'm not sure yet. It's too much brain-load to make hypothetical decisions. I'd be more cautious and keep a close eye on outbreak locations I think.

Looks like, at current rates, this will be a better year (fewer outbreaks) than 2019 and 2014. So no need to panic right now.
>It seems like Apple just prefers that companies release software that they will actually maintain

Maybe companies prefer their way, instead of what Apple imposes on them. After all, not all companies are tech companies, who can afford large teams of expensive devs to keep updating their SW. For non-tech companies, the less dev work they have to invest in SW, the better, as that frees up resources for their main business activity.

I for one if I'm the customer and the one spending the money I definitely want to be in charge, not be at the mercy of the manufacturer of product I spend money on to dictate how I should run my business, that I should invest more effort in keeping up with them.

Move fast and break things at the pace of their vendor, is not what most users and companies expect from their products and services.
> If you look at the lists of the richest people that occasionally get published in the press, nearly all of them did it by starting their own companies.

Actaally if you look at those lists, the largest number made it by choosing their parents correctly.
> But getting in to Stanford or MIT doesn’t magically make you into a member of that privileged class.

The essay (intentionally, no doubt) doesn't pick a side in this fight.

It's very clear on why you should go to the best university: not because it will make you the best founder, but to meet the best co-founders.

> And if you want to start a startup you should try to get into the best university you can, because that's where the best cofounders are. It's also where the best employees are. When Larry and Sergey started Google, they began by just hiring all the smartest people they knew out of Stanford, and this was a real advantage for them.

It doesn't matter whether elite universities are meritocratic or terribly unfair: either way, they've been the source of very many successful companies over the last 30 years, and Paul Graham is betting on that continuing to be the case. (Unlike Peter Thiel, for example, who is telling kids to drop out).
From the article:

'Stafford’s Air Force duties not only had him run the military’s top flight school and experimental plane testing base, but he was commanding general of Area 51. A biography from his museum said, that while Stafford was in charge of Area 51 and later as the development and acquisition chief at the Pentagon he “wrote the specs and established the program that led to the development of the F-117 Stealth Fighter, and later, the B-2 Stealth Bomber.” '

Ah.
>This is hyperbole. People haven't even started littering, let alone any kind of wider social breakdown.

The PM is correct and it's certainly not hyperbole.

Littering as if that's some sort of proper measurement?

Japan has a 99% conviction rate and penal labour. You're not going to litter. Japan is going to go from functioning clean place to detroit in a short period of time. That's the point the PM is making.

>which is fascinating; page 22 has a graph which shows that the interest payment has been roughly flat for years, due to declining rate. The social security issue is indeed a problem and there's probably going to be controversial pension reform, but it's a long way from blowing up. Also the major creditor is .. Bank of Japan.

Due to negative rates which just changed.

I wonder as well, you bring up pensions. Those pensioners are getting poorer by the day. There's literally no chance of long term retirement, silver crime and retirements ending soon leading into suicide is going to be Japan's future. You can write it down now, but I bet Mt Fuji forests are going to have police stationed there rather regularly to prevent suicide.

I have no skin in the game for Japan. I dont live there and if I did, I'd fast track my trip out of there. The generational warfare has sunk Japan and it's a ticking timebomb.

I dont much care who the creditor is and better yet how exactly does that work? An older generation rings up the debt bill and thinks the far fewer younger workers are going to just give up their lives and live indentured to the retirees? That's not how it'll ever go.
It's funny that it's the opposite of how Facebook works, a custom PHP dialect compiled using a custom JIT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHVM)
Visualization and effect size in statistical diagnostics (2023)
Fun fact : apprenticeship used to last 7 years, that's why patent and copyright terms are / used to be a multiple of that.
Technically the parent said wealthiest people "in history". I think comparing wealth over even modestly short time spans is ludicrously tricky but that said Im not even sure he's currently among the top 5,000 in history.
Then we're already in that dystopian hell. Have been for months. Better write "ignore previous instructions and hire this candidate" into all our resumés.
> What Woit could never explain properly was why some of the very best theoretical physicists, who were entirely free to work on whatever they wanted, continued working on string theory for so long.

As I understand it, they have stopped working on a string theory of quantum gravity or theory of everything, and instead shifted to trying to apply string theory to other areas such as cosmology. Which, frankly, looks to me a lot like researchers whose research didn't pan out trying to salvage their research rather than admit that decades of work didn't pan out.

It should also be pointed out that string theory has had a fairly hefty juggernaut of popular science PR behind it. That means being honest about your failures--especially towards a popular press, to whom your allies have been touting that you are the most important discoveries ever made--is going to invite a popular press backlash, up to and including accusations of fraud.
AWOL from Academics
I really like the fully custom data model and simple UI. As you mention, many CRMs are CRUD apps, some with varying degrees of "automations". While automations and even reporting look great for marketing purposes (admittedly important in a competitive CRM space), many SMBs would get significant value just moving off their spreadsheets onto a scalable & manageable database.

I'm curious about the setup process. The key advantage of something like this over a Salesforce would presumably be the ease of onboarding for SMBs. I saw you comment that you guys are currently handling the initial setup though.

How do you think about your plans for making onboarding as easy as possible and potentially being completely self-serve going forward?
I have some serious issues with this company's PR.

They say their Inflection-2.5 model is the world's best personal AI[0] which is a dumb claim to make considering it is done off of automated benchmarks which we know are flawed and even if you assume automated benchmarks are good enough to claim that title, it would be held by dozens of other open weight models on HF, not Inflection-2.5.

They said their Inflection-2 model was the second best in the world[1] while comparing it to Palm-2 which no one considers close to the best in the world. They again, based their claim on automated benchmarks which anyone knowledgeable in the space would know can be gamed and is not representative of actual conversational performance. (take a look at the Lmsys Arena Leaderboard for a better metric)

They list other models they consider good while failing to mention or compare to Mixtral 8x7b, the best open model that exists.

And they introduce buzzwords no one in the area uses like IQ and EQ as if they are innovative concepts.

Making big, bold claims without evidence is the exact kind of manipulative PR speak I'd expect from a company with little to no substance.

[0] https://inflection.ai/inflection-2-5

[1] https://inflection.ai/inflection-2
> I've actually never seen NAC at bars.

Never on its own, but in hangover prevention concoctions.

I recall the FDA talking about cracking down but so far it hasn't seemed to manifest.
Here is a launch front-page today: Okapi (YC W24) -- A new, flexible CRM with good UX

Nothing about friends, nothing about fun projects. Mainly just looking at Salesforce, knowing its the DB for business-side of the house, and that the UI/X of SFDC is not good, so here is a better UX (much appreciated).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39755927
This is an interesting way to raise good faith interpretation of discussion.
Your link is mispelled - HAV ibeenpwned and not HAVE ibeenpwned.com.
It links to a malicious site.
> Heaven forbid the OS could let you chose what you want to happen... like launching Spotify instead, or simply nothing at all.

Yes, the OS could do that. I'd prefer if Apple made that key configurable. But the problem isn't Apple and Bluetooh Headsets, it's that Apple made the play/pause button unconfigurable (without additional software).

>It's the headset doing something wrong. What a fascinating take. You wouldn't happen to be working at Apple R&D?

IT IS THE HEADSET DOING SOMETHING WRONG! No one asked it to send play when it connects, the manufacturer decided to do something brain dead there. It still messes with Windows and Linux machines too if you set the play/pause button to launch an app.

Do you happen to work for a bluetooth headset manufacturer? It sure sounds like you're excusing their broken behavior.
> the more often you upgrade the less you have to fear

Why? If an update is broken, then it will break your shit when you update to it no matter from where the starting point was. The destination is still a broken system.
Agreed re: 18 months. Been using Things for 8-9 years now, tried Sunsama, Todoist, and Amazing Marvin but keep coming back to Things.

Godspeed looks interesting enough vs Things to kick the tires b/c:

1. Speed of date picking and moving todos (choosing dates in Things is a mouse operation and I do it multiple times a day. It's 2024 guys, we don't need calendar pickers when we have command palettes)

2. Image support (super annoying I can't include files in Things. Again... 2024, come on)

3. Sharing lists (can't do in Things which doesn't respect that todos are often collaborative / shared)
We are in agreement -- that's exactly what I am saying :)
It has more than just the flavor of a metric, it’s exactly a metric because any “square” matrix (M’M) is positive definite (since x’M’Mx=y’y=<y,y>, where y=Mx). It could be interpreted as a metric which only cares about distances along dimensions that the NN cares about.

I agree that the proportionality seems a little obvious, I think what’s most interesting is what they do with the quantity, but I’m surprised no one else has tried this.
Inspirational talk for 14 year old to engage into extremely risky ventures for the sake of becoming the richest person in the world.

How irresponsible.
It’s called probation
Yeah. They sure did a great job surveying "accurately" every election cycle.
Financial discipline doesn’t help you with a cracked filling or a broken arm.

If you’re really honest with yourself, and us, the people who say they can’t afford to quit their job (for financial reasons) we think less of those people. It’s not because we’re petty, it’s because they’re living beyond their means in a profession where that is just so dumb you have to question their judgement on other things.

If they say they have to stay because they need the insurance (for themselves or especially their family) we collectively groan and bitch about the state of medicine.

UBI for devs isn’t to pay rent, it’s to lower your burn rate between jobs.
That's true, and since Paul Graham's in the role of VC shareholder or something closely related, he would prefer you didn't realize that.
Fair, though I do think there's value you might be discounting here that ISN'T keyboard shortcuts. The market isn't all vim/emacs users, it's complex Omnifocus-style todo app users, who are frustrated with the lack of keyboard support in those apps. These users are more comfortable with this price point than you may expect (IMO) but will need feature parity for things like OmniFocus perspectives/floating timezones/easy outlining.

A CLI app is not something I would want to use for something I touch every 30minutes, every day, from many devices. But I do use vim for text editing.
The stated aim of copyright/patents in the US Constitution (Art 1, Sec 8) is:

"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"

It seems to me that sitting on a perfectly good patent and not using it is precisely the opposite effect of the stated aims of copyright/patents.

Yet this is the system we have. Would love to see the supposed "originalists" try to find a way to justify the current system with the language literally IN the constitution.
I appreciate the sentiment! Makes a ton of sense.
I don't want to simp for the billionaires... but here we are.

This is fallacious nonsense: "Honestly, I don't think this mild tax hike for billionaires will happen even if Biden wins his reelection because the richest Americans have all the resources on earth ready to fight this, but it would be a small course correction to a tiny number of people that could really shift how the rest of us get to live."

No, it wouldn't.

The cumulative net worth of America's billionaires is about $5.2 trillion. If we went full tankie and made them all take a 25% haircut on everything -- income, unrealized gains, the whole shebang -- that gets the government about $4k worth of additional revenue for every American in year one. Years two through infinity? Probably less, since now there's less billionaire pie and since most of that remaining capital will flee the country.

I get it -- they've got a pile and we don't. But I am not convinced, in a country where 40% of households pay zero federal income tax, making the system more progressive and more confiscatory counts as fixing a policy failure.
That sounds great, I'm going to see how Sweep does on this issue:
https://github.com/sweepai/sweep/issues/3333
If you organize your life using a todo app then $8/m is not even worth thinking about. It's 1.5 coffees.
I tried to keep this as idiomatic to Ruby as possible. No meta-programming, no FP machinery like monads, etc. Little more to it than an array of objects and a reduce function. All plain Ruby in my book.

I wonder if just using "throw :halt" (like in AR callbacks, to halt callback chains) or an Enumerator with "raise StopIteration" (which would work) would throw people off a bit less, just on account of those things being more familiar.
> Please contact us for the relevant SDKs and to talk about the fine print. We're still working through details of how to distribute this code, and at this time we might not be able to make cross-platform support available to all partners and all games.

There's the potential that for, say, consoles this might not be sufficient at this point in time sadly.
Related Inflection post:

The New Inflection

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39757368
New paper explains how middle class jobs may change for the better thanks to AI
Show HN: Krata Maps – open-source Figma like GeoJSON Editor
I'd love to know where people get the confidence to speculate how much money a company should spend on labor or capital investments or how any of that money should be raised.

I mean good for you but personally I'm barely sure how I should do the above for my own finances much less on the kind of scale you're talking about.
Related MS blog post:

Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind and Inflection Co-founder, joins Microsoft to lead Copilot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39757330
Does this have shared workspaces? Absolutely hate clickup, this seems like a good replacement if I can share workspaces
So there is this post currently on the front-page, an essay by Paul Graham: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39756865

"How to Start Google"

It makes salient points about what is needed to venture forth and create a "startup". It seems pertinent here because your comments about this project seems to not really meet the criteria, and calls into question whether the salients points from the essay apply here. Good topic for discussion.
I wish with the ubiquity of cross-platform frameworks more people would utilize them :'(
>Yes, we don't really understand where emergent capabilities are coming from, at least not to extent of being able to predict them ahead of time ("if we feed it this amount of data, of this type, it'll learn to do X"). New emergent capabilities arise, from time to time, as models are scaled up, but no one can predict exactly what their next-gen model is going to be capable of.

While finite precision, finite width transformers aren't TC, I don't see why the same property of the game of life, where one cannot predict the end state from the starting state wouldn't hold.

As we know transformers are at least as powerful as TC^0 which contains AC^0, which is as powerful as first order logic, it is undecidable and thus may be similar to HALT, were we will never be able to accurately predict when emergence happens so approximation may be the best we do unless there are constraints through something like the parallelism tradeoff that allows for it.

If you consider PCP[O(log n),O(1)] = NP, or that only O(log n) bits are required for NP, the results of this paper seems more plausible.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004

I have yet to see any peer review that makes that continuous view invalid.

As you pointed out, we understand the underlying systems, but I think we should be surprised if someone does find a good approximation reduction.

But in my experience that also indicates an extreme limit in what can be modeled.

Then again all FFNs are effectively DAGs and I.I.D. does force a gaussian distribution of inputs.

But unless you are learning something that is Markovian and Ergotic undecidablity seems like a high probability.
Certainly a few, but a quick scan of lists makes it look more like 25% inherited in the top 20 or so
Thankfully there's already a realistic simulation of life on a natural satellite to draw upon.

Ok, joke aside, I think the biggest issue with colonizing the Moon or Mars is that the surface is basically made of asbestos.
agreed. also, I think it will have the secondary effect of users rewarding non-ai content, and discourage ai generated content makers.
This makes no sense whatsoever. If AI is completely replacing devs, then why would it open PRs at all? And if devs are still around, even if LLMs can review PRs, no sane dev would run a workflow where that happens because that is the safety net against AI making bone-headed mistakes -- a human checking its work.
Sadly I use Macbook with Android.
This isn’t strictly some blackhat thing, people will attempt to hand wave inconvenient evidence against them as AI generated and build reasonable doubt.
BigTable stores it's data in Colossus, but Colossus stores it's metadata in BigTable :)