skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from an OmniFocus user:

How do I script it? OF's automation is a must-have, as that's how I integrate it with my other apps. Extensive Shortcuts support (ala Things) is a minimum. AppleScript or JavaScript is better.

I won't use a to-do app without a start date. Don't remind me to renew my driver's license 3 years in advance. I don't even want to see that. Everything that's due far in the future that I couldn't be working on today even if I wanted to is just a distraction.

I can't deep link directly to an item. That means I can't use it with things like Hookmark, or have a note in another app that links back to its related project.

I can't legally use it without end-to-end encryption. That's a deal breaker for anyone in a regulated industry, and I don't want to have one to-do app for work and another for personal stuff.

This looks really cool! Each one of the above items would keep it out of the running for me, though.
Who to go "all-in" with on a new startup
Questions when choosing cofounders
i'd argue that's entirely up to the child to dream how they see fit, and up to the parent to support them, build them up and keep a pulse on what the thing is they're focusing on
So, a retrospective estimate, based on a community maintained model, constructed from historical satellite data, that relies on too many other parameters to be taken seriously in this (or any other) context.

Meanwhile, an actual control experiment could easily be conducted anywhere on earth, and is never even approached by these "model only scientists."
You just admitted that in no case whether you succeeded or failed were you in any danger of being homeless and hungry because you were being supported by people who were willing to “grind it out” in corporate America.

You were never not “safe”
From observations and interactions, it's actually over 90% who care.
Here is a link to the full brief: https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/I...
A descentralized would help for sure
You can say just spend a couple hours on it but, unless it's really trivial, if the candidate wants the job, they'll spend the weekend on it--because they know other candidates will.
s/requires to/requires creators to/
I agree that TPUs are a huge competitive edge. That and huggingface integration is going to let google do very well serving open models until other competitive hardware comes online. The problem is that I think the window to capitalize on TPUs isn't going to be long enough to cement any sort of dominance, and they're fumbling so badly now that I don't have faith in the leadership.
I guess luck plays a big role in one's success. That said, pg's points still hold, as he is telling us how to maximize our chance of success despite of what we are born with.
Update: subscribed to premium already, this is great. Shame they don't offer family or team plans.
Cool app. It would be really nice to have a pdf somewhere of all shortcuts that I could have open next to the app/print out.
10 years ago, a lot of FSD was still manually written code. Manually written code gets harder and harder to improve, the larger the codebase.

Now it is all NNs and therefore will scale with more data and more compute. Which is increasing exponentially. So far it seems like they are not hitting diminishing returns.
I'd guess that in this forum a number of people will have had some experience both raising equity and being in positions of significant ownership and control, but still you're right.

Like most opinions, they're an often unknowable mixture of genuine aptitude and naive bravado and it's good to try to stay humble.
> Reserve memory in a vector, put data in

You've already proven that you don't know what I am talking about and now you are doubling down. There is no way to put data into a std::vector without copying it. Vector can't adopt memory that already exists. So your plan doesn't suit the use case I am discussing: zero-copy RPC servers.
I'm interested but I have recently learned that making lists is easy, playing with lists is fun, but actually scheduling work on my calendar is the only thing that gets it done.
Phone calls are simpler than email, more secure, and urgency is built-in. You don't email 911 in an emergency.
Probably not as developed as microtype, but they have overhang, kerning and ligatures: https://typst.app/docs/reference/text/text
Looks nice, then I saw the price… wow - that’s a lot of money for a subscription for a single tool.
So much of the odd almost cultish community around LLMs seems to just be people who really want to be at the ground floor of the Next Big Thing who are so wildly biased into this being that next big thing that they will spend all their time, all their energy, not just on other people but on themselves, convincing themselves over and over that their LLM girlfriend really does love them, that their LLM assistant is going to be the next DaVinci, that their generated art is so much better than anything else.

More than anything it makes me sad. ANY amount of critical thinking would tell you all of this is not true, which isn't to say there's NO USE AT ALL for this technology, it certainly exists and has it's applications, and I also do more or less believe someday we'll create digital intelligence, but at the same time... ChatGPT is not that. DALL-E is not that. These systems are interesting and they have uses but they are not emergent intelligence, they don't know anything, they just assemble words from massive probability matrices and then the people who read those words ascribe meaning to them that is far, far beyond what originated them.

In this way it's not so dissimilar from any garden variety religion, it's just religion for people who think they're too smart to fall into the trap of motivated reasoning and magical thinking.
Even with these in place, the output of the LLM is not trustworthy. In the sense that it doesn't care what it true, only what is plausible.
Meanwhile, a large portion of qualified candidates say Dell won't be eligible to employ them.
> If you're concerned about that and want to pin, why have a chain of trust at all? Couldn't you just embed self-signed certs in the binary at that point?

Not if you need to serve https traffic to clients and browsers from the same servers / same hostnames.

> If you mean preventing users from clicking through the SSL warnings in a browser if they're being MITM'd, that makes sense to me.

That comes from HSTS, not from cert pinning. Cert pinning in browsers is only available if you can convince the browser to include it in their static lists, which means you've got to be big... so that is what it is.
No not at all. Polars is not dependent on DuckDB.

DuckDB is a heavy dependency in terms of size. It's written in C++, so you can't work with it like a native rust dep.
Google can now say its an malware and blacklist the extension id.
You do realize this was 8 years ago, and no Go engine came even close to what Alpha Go was able to do right? Afaik, there weren't even any competitive engines period. It basically came out of nowhere.
What dysfunctional products. I use atleast 7 Google products during my day and they all work really well and for free.
Yeah, I still remember when I started massively using the cellular Web : at the time it cost 1024€/Go, which I found to be cheap !
> It's interesting, how an expert in a field can be unaware of how AI is taking over.

I think the interesting thing is how an expert in a field is wholly unprepared for predicting how the future will develop.

You mention what Musk has said about FSD and how it will completely take over in just ten years, but I feel compelled to point out that Musk has said that it's just right around the corner with only small challenges left, for many years.

I wouldn't place any faith in anything Musk says.
I moved from m1 MacBook pro to m2 recently.

Just like that my monitor's built in KVM stopped working in a reasonable manner. Can use it to drive the web camera which sometimes works normally and sometimes with shitty frame rate. Microphone now appears and then gets evicted (rode USB mic), my headphone preamp will crackle like mad so it is useless...

I got this monitor specifically to be able to work with the stupid m1 limitation of 1 external screen and to be able to switch seamlessly to my secondary rig. And it could be connected using one cable as it does power delivery.

Now I have an expensive montor that is useless for the purpose I got it for. Not sure whether to blame dell or apple but do not remember many instances of issues like this in my life. Being a PC guy forever and now got forced to use apple for work.

Really don't understand why it's being pushed so much in corporate env. lately? Maybe I am just weird.
Good podcast on the creation of recaptcha:
https://pca.st/zze1abc4
The soundtrack actually goes so hard. Love it.
The entirety of Apache ecosystem pretty much mandates using Java or you are being left out with no or at best second-citizen experience. It's not a fault of every other language, but of that particular ecosystem itself.

There are exceptions in the form of well-written community-maintained libraries, but these exist for minority of Apache projects and vary a lot between languages.

Luckily, there are often (but not always) plenty of alternatives to whatever it is that you seek from Apache.
I don't know about Inflection, but their new CEO is a great leader who I've worked with in the past. Just having him on board raises their status significantly in my mind.
Google and Facebook had 2 decades. Even the most successful of YC companies had a little over a decade. Not a valid comparison. And $100+ billion for Coinbase, Stripe, Dropbox is still huge.
Building a Developer Community in Five Steps
IIRC, it should create an alias on your Desktop called Relocated Items or something similar to them after the upgrade that pointed at it.
How would it improve it, though? Dynamically-typed languages tend to introduce gradual typing after a while to increase reliability and predictability, and the end game of that (static typing) is the antithesis of late binding. Message passing only improves security by adding a validation layer, but managed languages (JVM, CLR, etc.) effectively do the same.

> The internet scales well. So imagine building entire computing systems this way.

That’s very similar to microservices, and look how messy these tend to get. The internet scales well because it’s a network with flexible capacity and attached processing power, and because its clients are either human users who can deal with failure modes, or software with stable and well-specified point-to-point protocols.
It makes sense that big companies are going to be slower and dumber at stuff like this, but the crazy thing is that now, even tiny startups think they should follow the same procedures as FAANGs. They're all doing three rounds of interviews, followed by a full day of coding/system design/behavioral BS, and they're all rejecting people that could potentially help their business a lot. And they're wasting a huge amount of energy and time in the process.
I'm curious: What's the defense mechanism for a dodgy CA not publishing a CT log entry for the misused domain?
Speeding fine issued as result of daylight savings time calculation glitch
Trucker fined $11,820 as time change resulted in his average speed recorded an hour faster than expected
It's increasingly common. This particular one is a bit of a headscratcher since typically pay-once-for-an-update period is presented as a de facto subscription, but this also has a subscription.

In this case, you'd pay $150 for an 18-month window of updates, or $144 for two years of updates (or, if you like, $72*1.5 for the same 18-month window, assuming you're going to pay another $150 at month 19 for something interesting.)

Contrast that with Agenda, which is $35 to buy with 12 month of updates, or about $100 for a life-time of updates. The tradeoff is more straightforward as you're just deciding whether to bet on more than three years of features.

Or contrast with OmniFocus which is $150 for the major version, which typically is on a 4-5 year cicle, or $5/mo. In that case you're just betting that you'll use the current major version more than 2.5 years.

(I'm ignoring cashflow discount; you get the idea.)

(The app itself is fun and fast to use, and I'm not complaining or demanding special treatment. I'm just interested in how these things are priced.)
That sounds a lot like Top-level Statements in the .Net world. Personally I don’t use that feature because I’m old and get confused if things are magic but can certainly see the benefit for the newer devs.
I think Waymo does better than a vast percentage of human drivers. It’s here already.
Good. We now have legal cryptocurrencies to play financial games with. There should be no reason to keep anonymous cryptocurrencies alive, because their only remaining use case is illegal things.
I'm not saying the market isn't there, I'm just saying don't act surprised when you get very valid criticisms expressing sticker shock.

Emacs users have Org Mode and MobileOrg and can store the sync data somewhere they have full control over.
Maybe not cheer for them, but I’m having trouble getting mad about it tbh
Google DeepMind's new AI assistant helps elite soccer coaches get even better
The odds are actually pretty reasonable if you go to a school like MIT or Harvard. I know its hard for outsiders to grasp, but this is the reality. PG even explicitly calls it out.
> I truly can't imagine a life where my father/mother would only hammer in the fact that I am just an average joe and should stick to climbing the corporate ladder. Such an uninspiring take, this one. Depressing.

That is depressing! But also not what the parent comment said -- you seem to have accidentally taken a much more severe meaning from that comment (than I did, at least).

The top-level comment is just talking about being pragmatic. It's hard to walk the line between having idealistic visions and knowing that most of them won't pan out, and probably harder still to teach walking that line to your kids. I think that's what the comment was talking about -- not advocating for falling entirely on the latter side of that line -- which, as you say, would be super depressing!
I think this post is cherry-picking history. Jobs also had some disastrous projects chasing ideas outside of Apple's core competency. Newton, Macintosh TV, etc. He also had some grand slam moments that could have been described as trying to do everything. The iPod? Apple had nothing to do with the music industry. iPhone? where did THAT fit in with personal computers?

Rather than poking at the Apple Car project as an example of a company reaching too far, we should be paying attention to whether any actual lessons were learned.
I hate the reductive nature of the concept of "latent spaces".

A good enough formula for a task isn't a solution for every task. Yes Newtonian mechanics work, but Einstein is a better reflection of reality.
My first Java programming course went over in detail about that piece of code and in a couple of hours taught me a lot of important Java concepts right away. Consider me not enthused about it.
What “regulatory approvals” are needed to improve and maintain _existing_ railroads such that trains don’t fly off the rails daily?
If PageRank had been available to all US companies who wanted to build a search engine around it at the time of publication, then we might have a half-dozen major search engine-based companies right now, which would be a competitive situation that would drive innovation (and solution of the SEO problem), which is how free market capitalism theory works IIRC.

Since universities are publicly funded by taxpayers, their inventions should be thrown to the capitalist wolves who will compete to provide the best implementation of the idea to the consumers. If the corporations want to instead finance their own research centers, then they'd own all the patents outright - but it's cheaper to steal from the public.
If universities were run more like businesses, the problem would be solved by laying off professors in the departments with little demand and hiring in the ones that have demand.
what is life if not a series of doing tasks? I don't see a problem with paying 150$ for me to better do tasks I care about, not forget important stuff etc. And I come from low-income country, not US or western europe
I know there are Go channels in Korea for watching professional matches... are there any for watching AIs face off against each other?
That looks to be the case since I'm not an AT&T wireless customer, but am a user of their fiber services.
They have a desktop app. But is it just a wrapper for their web app that doesn't work at all without connectivity?
I see we'd enjoy working together. ;)

Out of curiosity, how do you parallelize incident response? I am fairly picky about only changing one thing at once but I'm not sure I'm always right about that.
The thinking that we can simply Tax The Rich and get out of this fiscal mess we've spent the better part of 40 years making is just (mainly liberal) propaganda. It sounds good and its a great excuse to keep spending more money and ignore the deeper problem. This is no different than The Right insisting we can fix the deficit via tax reductions on the wealthy. Both are merely convenient arguments to justify what either group wants to do in the first place.

The fact is we spend too much money as a government and we could liquidate all the billionaires right now for $5.2T. The 2023 budget deficit was $1.7T and 2024 is coming in about $1.6T. At that rate we'd gain about 3 years of a balanced budget by liquidating every US billionaire at todays market value. POOF! Then we're all out of billionaires 3 years later and we now have to invent some new taxation scheme and saddle some other relatively well to do segment of the population to pay for our overspending habits.

Bagging on the billionaires is fun and I get it but its not a solution. Its a fun distraction like "Look over here at these rich guys - THEY'RE NOT PAYING ANY TAXES". Its as if our elected officials and policy makers seem to be saying "Don't look at me spending all this money - LOOK AT THOSE PEOPLE NOT PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE".

Its a fact that a significant portion of US citizens get more money back on tax "refunds" than they paid in - this in the form of various tax credits. Yes some people at the top are paying a relatively low tax bill by the percentage of their income. Its also true that a big portion of the lower end of things pays zero tax percentage on their much smaller income.

Yes tax the billionaires - what do they really care anyhow - but tax the entire population too. In order to have a valid stake in a society I think its helpful that everyone have a real horse in the race. Pay some taxes - NOW you have a reason to vote.
Erlang(and more modernly elixir/Gleam) are an example of this in practice, and were created to make it easier to ensure the working and manage the complexity of large systems.
That's what I meant.

That's how it usually goes with technological progress.

In any field.

Progress is minimal for a few years and then suddenly jumps up very suddenly.

So to predict what's coming, you can't just extrapolate the progress of recent years. You have to account for it being exponential with a very uneven distribution of sudden jumps.
Is there a particular reason you’re not putting .zshrc in the user’s home folder ~/.zshrc?

In any case, / root and /etc (to an extend) are part of the system volume (or rather the system volume snapshot if we want to be pedantic). With some exceptions Apple considers that fair game.

There’s a bunch of symlinking and firmlinking done to make it look like one coherent whole but only the stuff on the data volume is safe.

That said, if for whatever reason you need to put something in root you can create your own synthetic firmlink[0] with /etc/synthetic.conf.

I believe some also reported success by simply making a subdirectory under /etc and use that instead but YMMV.

hoakly goes into extensive detail with what changed with volumes on macOS (back in 2019 I believe): https://eclecticlight.co/2021/01/13/big-sur-boot-volume-layo...

0: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2020/01/18/creating-root-l...
Java continues to evolve to a bad Groovy.
That’s how it begins. They aren’t doing a study just to do a study. They’re doing a study to justify what is undoubtedly tens of billions of dollars in funding.
So you can use it as a bottle opener. (Try it, it works.)
Is there an ELI5 for this? How could something so small possibly be an 8080 emulator?
* [X] Viable ideas

* [X] Skills to build those ideas

* [ ] Runway to develop those ideas

* [ ] Someone to help find money to provide runway
Startups are high-risk high-reward. That doesn't necessarily mean they're a bad idea. Expected value can be positive even when probability is low. Moreover, a lot of young people can afford to take a chance on something. If you spend a few years living with your parents and attempting to create something, and you fail, you still have several decades of your life to go punch a clock at Big Corp.

And even if you fail to become Google, you might still make a living. Some people would gladly make a modest income doing something they love, with the possibility of making more, rather than working for someone else making three times as much but doing something they hate.

As for what good comes of it, just think about it. Where do new companies come from? Should we have no more of them? What would happen then?
I think he wasn't responsible in the sense that he was simply present for a naturally emergent phenomenon; but at the same time, he was responsible for actively participating in and promoting that phenomenon.

Responsibility is relative to authority, and Spolsky ended up with a very significant amount of authority. Whether or not his behavior was good or bad, it's pretty clear that he had more responsibility than any one person really should. I wouldn't consider that his fault: he didn't really seek it out, or intentionally abuse it. I would, however, consider it what happened.

If we tack a step back, and look at this scenario as a system, we can see that it's the structure of the system itself that lead to these problems, not the intentions of any of its participants.

Now that we have the power of hindsight and objectivity, we can use that to design a better system. The big question is, will we ever get around to implementing it?
Do they own their GPU clusters?
See https://archive.ph/2024.03.19-180009/https://www.theatlantic... if that link doesn’t work for you.
Thanks!
I've read a lot of both and still like 3BP)
> Does anything good come from encouraging kids to think that they will manage to sail through life as a successful business founder rather than an employee?

Yes, VCs flourish by it.
I see a lot of people here are missing his "big deal" which he talks about in the end where he references the "Spaceship Earth" problem.

What I believe he is getting at is people are going to use LLMs to build systems at scale to further strip mine society.

The "Spaceship Earth" problem is a reference to Limits to Growth. For those who haven't read "Limits to Growth", and the more recent Re-calibration of Limits to Growth, I implore you to do so.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.13442
It's sad that for such high price you have this "weird buzzing sensation" (which is because it is not grounded properly), and that you can hear the buzzing sound too if you put your ear very close.
a different conclusion:

Feasibility of time-restricted eating and impacts on cardiometabolic health in 24-h shift workers: The Healthy Heroes randomized control trial
Cell Metabolism 34, 1442–1456.e1–e7, October 4, 2022 e7
DOI10.1016/j.cmet.2022.08.018

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/time-restricted-eating-imp...