skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This episode of A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail has a bit about this subject (from the same person): https://pca.st/episode/1afa018f-a8ba-47de-a00b-e5f105a11f8d
I wonder how many times people have unknowingly come across fossils of unknown species and use them as paper weights, book-ends, or skipping stones.
I think anyone who's spent any amount of time interacting with LLMs would easily tell the human response apart because LLMs have a distinguishable style of writing that's mostly consistent across interactions. Gemini, for example, loves bullet points and splits its responses into multiple distinct sections with subheadings.

Furthermore, you'd have to limit the scope of questioning to topics that the human on the other side is familiar with, otherwise they won't be able to come up with an answer to questions that aren't common knowledge, while an LLM will always happily generate pages of plausible-sounding (even if incorrect) text.

I think a more appropriate benchmark would be subject matter experts interviewing an LLM and another subject matter expert, with clear guidelines regarding the style of writing they're expected to match.
This is all a just-so story. Rejection is the air you breathe. One of the better things YC does is offer quick, no-nonsense rejections, which is a stark difference from the institutional VC market which will happily string you along, offering feedback and meetings for months with no intention of ever taking anything but an option on joining your round if a real buyer shows up.

Meanwhile: if you're so busy talking to leads that the time to apply to YC is damaging, you know why you're not bothering to apply. Fair enough! But nobody's selling you a bill of goods.

I totally get the whole jaded bootstrapper angle on this. You're on HN, and HN+YC can sometimes make entrepreneurship feel like college application season, rather than something that happens in the real world. And there are many good reasons (ie: circumstances to be in) not to apply!

But notice how people generally aren't calmly laying out what those circumstances are, and laying out the alternate paths. They're people venting about how YC is overhyped. It's emotional and I don't think it's very helpful.
Congrats on your success.

Why would you even want to join YC? They give the same deal to everyone. So you're lumped into a batch that basically has 30% of people in it with just an idea. It's pretty offensive if you actually proved yourself and your business idea. But don't worry, you prob still won't get in
Good luck with that suppressor in New Jersey [1].

Regarding the cartridge, while I generally prefer high velocity projectiles for whitetails without the silencer, when hunting suppressed I'm on board with subsonic, but IMO the best cartridge for that is big-bore (I personally use .44 magnum, bolt action like you suggest, 300 grain hollow-point at around 1050 fps). At that low velocity, you don't get much hydrostatic shockwave, so might as well make the biggest hole possible for an ethical kill. That lumbering freight train won't stop for anything, smashes right through bones. But even subsonic, it's a lot louder than a bow -- movie pew-pew just won't consistently put down something as big as a whitetail. Also note that at those low velocities, it's difficult to get bullets to consistently expand, so I do lots of terminal ballistics testing to find the optimal projectile and load.

For grandparent comment, too bad you have those hunting restrictions -- where I hunt, while this year's regs aren't out yet, for the last couple of years, anyone who wants to can shoot 12 deer per year (of which at most 2 can be bucks). They're trying to put a dent in the population, for various reasons including CWD, although I frankly think it's excessive.

[1]: https://www.silencershop.com/blog/post/suppressor-laws-by-st...
It might just be a discoverability thing then? It's been a bit but I don't remember being able to just grab them all from a storefront last time I set up a phone.
TLDR: I agree

For me that is part of seeking feedback. I try to do evaluation with the customer, especially when I am the only developer. I always feel a little bit anxious, but it’s always worth the talk.
We tried a lot of things. What eventually worked was ending grades. You mastered the material or you did not; perhaps a couple of students mastered it with high marks.

Obvs this takes an administration that is OK with that, which most aren't.
That's simply because there isn't as much demand, so supply is down. If demand goes up, supply goes up eventually, but price goes up until an equilibrium is reached.

Eco 101.
> crackpots talking about a uniparty, deep state vs the people, etc

It’s not controversial to suggest that the interests of the political class, the special interests that fund their campaigns, and Washington bureaucrats differ from the interests of the public at large. You don’t need to evoke deep state conspiracies to explain nefarious coordination because when career and monetary incentives align then bills like this one get passed.
I do (I'm a mathematican). We are usually between 4 and 10 people marking an exam with anywhere between 50 and 600 participants.
Mind you, neither the numeric indices for navigation, nor the lack of pictures, is really a stumbling block for the two user-types who most heavily contributed to / constrained the design — that being 1. blind people using screen readers who wanted to access a BBS-like service providing news, weather, etc., that would consider their access needs; and 2. deaf people who were accessing a given company’s teletext system under the expectation of it serving as the visual equivalent of said company’s IVR phone tree.

(In fact, consider how well teletext UX works as an efficient, navigable information-dense directory system for both blind and deaf and motor-impaired users, all inherently such that you just design once for the constraints of the system, and you get “the right thing.” There’s a reason governments latched onto it: it really works for everybody!)

The Web in theory is a successor to teletext in serving these needs… but it was really only the Gopher / HTML1 Web that was an inherent improvement. As soon as we started nudging content around with semantically-meaningless tables and divs to look better, the Web started to not work so good for users with these interaction difficulties.
> what I might have done differently if I could go back 25 years to when I was 18.

I would have written WB-DOS, a DOS-compatible DOS.

In retrospect, there just wasn't that much to it.
You are missing the point. You may not need multiple availability zones when you are starting out and majority of cases never reach that point anyway. We are over optimizing too much because of "cloud" and dumbing us down further.
It's kinda true if you're just using the system primitives directly (kqueue, epoll, whatever) but people tend to build abstractions over those and then offer callback scheduling libraries for their users, and away we go.

IMO, we haven't really seen a natively compiled and manually memory-managed language "get it right" yet. There are pretty good third-party abstractions for it though.
I don't think it's just a dice roll, no, but it's a helpful metaphor for communicating the 'what have you got to lose' sentiment.

But I don't think I understand your question fully - do you want to explain?
In Sweden it's normal to leave children outside a shop in a stroller, unattended, when you go shopping... And at 15 they can drive A-Traktor, i.e. any commercial car with an ODB speed limiting dongle and a sign showing it run in A-Traktor mode...
I remember seeing the video 8 years ago but I never heard about it again.

I was wondering if the project was stuck or just a PoC.

I wonder if it evolved and how useful it has been since.
Hey everyone! I'm the CEO of the company that built this SDK.

We're a company called E2B [0]. We're building and open-source [1] secure environments for running untrusted AI-generated code and AI agents. We call these environments sandboxes and they are built on top of micro VM called Firecracker [2]. We specifically decided to use Firecrackers instead of containers because of their security and ability to do snapshots.

You can think of us as giving small cloud computers to LLMs.

We recently created a dedicated SDK for building custom code interpreters in Python or JS/TS. We saw this need after a lot of our users have been adding code execution capabilities to their AI apps with our core SDK [3]. These use cases were often centered around AI data analysis so code interpreter-like behavior made sense

The way our code interpret SDK works is by spawning an E2B sandbox with Jupyter Server. We then communicate with this Jupyter server through Jupyter Kernel messaging protocol [4]. Here's how we added code interpreter to the new Llama-3 models [5].

We don't do any wrapping around LLM, any prompting, or any agent-like framework. We leave all of that to our users. We're really just a boring code execution layer that sits at the bottom. We're building for the future software that will be building another software.

Our long-term plan is to build an automated AWS for AI apps and agents where AI can build and deploy its own software while giving developers powerful observability into what's happening inside our sandboxes. With everything being open-source.

Happy to answer any questions and hear feedback!

[0] https://e2b.dev/

[1] https://github.com/e2b-dev

[2] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

[3] https://e2b.dev/docs

[4] https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/messaging.ht...

[5] https://github.com/e2b-dev/e2b-cookbook/blob/main/examples/l...
The vast majority of traffic accidents does not result in jailtime for anyone involved.

Since algorithms cannot have malice, the only offense left is negligence which for companies usually means a heavy fine and/or legal restraints, maybe prosecution.
"The reason many start with cloud is that most businesses quickly grow, or at least hope to quickly grow, to the point where they'll need it"

And most don't. That's the point of the article.
Can confirm Tesla FSD is more stressful than driving yourself. I’ve been using it for a few weeks since they offered everyone free trial.

Seems to be improved from the previous version, but still requires a ton of interventions every single drive. It’s cool to experience for people who are tech savvy, but nowhere near the realm of being useful and replacing your driving needs.
It's quite hard to learn something completely new by taking 1 or 2 week courses once a year.

I had a 55+ year old dentist who wanted to pull out my tooth and replace it with a bridge. The tooth was cracked and 1/3 of the tooth had fallen off. Luckily he worked only half time and was on vacation a lot so difficult to get an appointment so I got to see a young dentist who could fix the tooth by repairing it (building up the missing part). She said it could last a month or forever, but if not lasting then the next option would be a titanium implanted tooth. Making a bridge would have been considered malpractice nowadays she said. The old dentist was probably a master at putting in bridges, but if that method is bad and he never practiced the other technique, which you probably cannot learn in a 1 week yearly course, then tough luck.

Not the perfect example maybe, but imagine you have learnt assembler and C in school and programmed in that for 30 years doing say embedded applications. You maybe update yourself regularly in that very field of assembler and C. Then one day you are asked to program a web app using HTML, javascript and CSS and complete it in the same time and with the same quality result as someone who has learnt it in university and with a few years work experience. Quite hard.
That’s fine so long as you don’t need a nearly 100% up time, require disaster recovery along with other checkboxes for high availability. Things which might not be required for your industry but to broad stroke all startups is naive of the author.
> how to exaggerate in ways that you can plausibly defend later, how to figure out what someone wants to hear and tell it back to them in a way that makes you look good, how to take something you did and explain it in a way that makes you look like a much bigger contributor than you were.

How do I learn this? Some people seem to have this gift naturally.
Guess what's a central thesis that's not immediately obvious in the biblical account? Leviathan. In Isaiah 27:1, Leviathan is destroyed, and the adjectives used to describe this creature are the same cognates from the Ugaritic that describe Litanu/Tiamat.

There's no accident in my mind that in Revelation, the beast that rises up from the sea has 7 heads, because that's how Leviathan/Litanu was traditionally pictured in the Semitic cultures of the day (7 heads). Psalm 74 uses the plural for "heads" when speaking on Yahweh crushing them, though it never numbers them. Likely the imagery was a common cultural motif, so the numbering wasn't necessary for the readers to understand.

Leviathan likely represents a northwest Semitic chaos deity in opposition to Yahweh and is more or less the embodiment of evil that is destroyed in the eschaton, but this is probably speculative. I think there are strong arguments in favor of it, however.
Human biology doesn't change in 30-40 years.

90% of what doctors do is completely routine and they all know and keep up with what the "standard of care" is for common conditions and in many cases it's the same today as was the standard of care in 1984.

Sure, if you have something unusual you might want to go to a younger specialist or a specialty clinic where they focus on leading-edge care for that condition.

A 60-year old GP will do fine for your annual physical.
Outdated in features? It just got a brand new, top performing scheduler.

AI doesn‘t do anything for me in spaced repetition, though.
Was everything hunky dory after the reformation? Protestant missionaries cleared the ground for British and Dutch colonialism.

There’s no one Islam, so it depends on which Muslims you’re talking to.
I've been working with Ruby + AI for the last year and couldn't agree more with this post. It feels like there are so many brand new ways to build software with LLMs that have yet to be discovered and I find Ruby's flexibility makes it easy to try out new ideas almost as quickly as you can think of them.

Obie also mentions my company's product Blueprints. Blueprints allows you to capture existing, known-good patterns in your code base, and then use them as a base for an LLM to generate variations from. We've got editor plugins for the major editors and we're also starting to roll out downloadable packages like this DaisyUI-styled Phlex component one: https://blueprints.sublayer.com/packages/phlex-daisyui

Happy to answer any questions about it!
My 2009 has rear drum brakes, actuated by the handbrake. The front are disc.

It sound like folks are adamant that the brake pedal actuates all 4 of my brakes. I didn't know that. Sounds plausible, I never really thought too much about it. I'll take their word for it.
I thought all those were bait and switch. That's cool!
I have the same question in my mind... seems like there is one of these reported every month or two and it's just asking for a more serious mistake to be made.
Depending of the kind of bio-gas injected in the public place they might call NBC special operations and classify you as a public threat :D
Can AI help solve Japan's labour shortages?
Yeah, agreed cloud is bad. I have one question though.
Who is going to keep updating bloody ubuntu or any other linux distro along with all the packages that may break?
Who is going to enable automatic database backups or do backups with 1 click?
I've done these things countless times and they are still time consuming and involve guesswork every single time.
Litmax/Bigmin Computation
What is the point of a dual license if you can't pay for the commercial rights which guarantee that you're not infringing on the copyleft license?

Whoever I spoke to at Artifex [0] several years ago told me the terms of the commercial license were that if any output of muPDF were visible to the public, my company would owe $10k/mo plus some share of the revenue of the company. Unlimited internal use fell under the AGPL and was therefore free.

Btw, the software is incredible, it was a shame I couldn't use it!

[0] https://mupdf.com/licensing/index.html#commercial
holy moly, if you setup a kickstarter for this, a bajillion desis would support it. curious though, are they going to be frozen samosas?
Linus Torvalds is the author of the best Brother embroidery file software
A year ago, I had a call with Digital Reality on a Friday. I was looking for 5-10mw that they had available. They called me back on Monday to let me know that it was gone. Mind you, this was also $0.35/kwh, which is like residential rates!

CoreWeave is in the process of opening 25 more data centers, concurrently.

Eco 101 on steroids.
Grouping Waymo with anyone else including Cruise and Tesla is insane. You don’t know what you’re talking about frankly.

Waymo is better than anyone else out there by a mile. Source: I take one daily.
Serious unintended consequences of ordering…
Reminds me of the hungry judge effect [1] - judges tend to be more harsh before a break and more lenient after.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_judge_effect
Why did a startup need to manage K8s? Why does using the cloud preclude a monolith?

My app is a stateless monolith hosted with Fargate and RDS. I don't have to think about K8s, or look at it, or know how it works.

The pricing is relatively garbage, but it doesn't matter: now I don't have to think about devops as a concept.

I don't get how people are screwing up this cloud thing: it's as simple as you make it. Being pennywise and pound foolish trying to engineer complex solutions on the "cheaper" parts of cloud providers makes absolutely zero sense to me.

9 times out of 10 you hear X startup paying stupidly expensive bills it's because they tried to build out something that the cloud provider would have provided with a 50% markup but with an architecture you can't screw up.
We used to price out an AWS transition every year at an old job. As well as managed hosting providers. 6-7 years in Hetzner reached parity with our colo setup and we started using them (our colos were near London, with London real estate prices). AWS however never got within a factor of 2.

Which is fine for many businesses where a 2x on hosting does little to your margins, or you e.g. serve customers whose infra is in AWS, but for my employer at the time, moving to AWS would have meant bankruptcy.
The number of humans is going to plateau and start gradually declining by the turn of the century; that should put an end to the endless growth assumed in whatever model assumes that ludicrous use-of-entire-Milky-Way-luminosity prediction.
It’s the people that empower and enable. They are given guns, tanks, military aircrafts, missiles. They are manufacturing the weapons.

It doesn’t look like any of these get accidentally launched onto Kremlin. Or turned against conscription. Or used in any kind of resistance.

There are people there that are sacrificing their lives. Only for some reason, they are sacrificing these lives on the wrong side. On the side of supporting the dictatorship.
Disagree. Sounds like you acknowledge other recalls get reported, but those other recalls aren’t going to hit hacker news, Reddit, and other more mainstream places. Like I bet this will be on most social media platforms.
In asymmetric high risk/reward environments, what YC does is not unusual. When a trade has 99% of failing but 1% will pay for all the bets and then some, you simply cannot take large positional bets that results in equal power dynamics.

They've built something heavily coveted and exclusive that people participating cannot see that they are gambling with their time and life.

It's very comforting to founders to feel safety in numbers when operating in an illiquid market (the goal is to sell your shares to a buyer whether its secondary market or IPO) but know this:

Illiquid markets are rife with manipulation and false positives.
Scrum – use the good parts too
I agree with most of the article's sentiment. Cloud provider costs can pile up quickly.

But the most undersold value of the cloud, and where I see so far unbeatable value, is automation (single, unified API) and the ecosystem of tools it allows to flourish from it.

Yes, Ansible could replace some Terraform, CloudFormation or ARM/Bicep but it doesn't manage out of the box a component's lifecycle. That is, knowing how and when should a resource be created, storing that last applied state somewhere and, when there's a new change, knowing if a resource should be recreated or just updated.

But when there's a demand there's (eventually) tools.
Why do you see this as a negative? I quit being a software manager after 8 years and I couldn't be happier with my decision to do so.

Being an individual contributor now has more upside. I am senior enough as an IC to influence decision makers, but I don't have to deal with stupid management bureaucracy, attend endless meetings, nor deal with people (reports).

I like knowing and doing it myself as an IC, than faking and pretending as a manager.
Video title is clickbait. Stuff like this happens every day, you just never hear about it. The amount of traffic at these large airports is insane. Professional pilots handled it...professionally.

When was the last time you saw someone run a red light on the road? Mine was ... yesterday.

The bigger discussion here is why we will continue to see humans in charge of aircraft (vs AI).
> Those who wrote the characters of Noah and Manu probably had same ancestors or the story travelled between Levant and Indus region.

They can't have the same ancestors because one is of aryan lineage and the other is of semitic lineage.

It's more likely these cultures and peoples borrowed from the same story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth
I needed to implement rich text editing at my job. So I looked at many options, quill was among the first one I looked at, but I ended going with ProseMirror. The reason I picked ProseMirror was how low level it was, and the extensive documentation that goes with it (kind of reminds me of D3 really). Since picking it I’ve written a few custom nodes, custom commands, a custom tool bar, integrated with markown + custom markdown plugins, and it all integrates rather neatly with Vue (though with some glue code).

So far I’m very pleased with my choice of ProseMirror.
For deep technical info on DSN, I highly recommend the DESCANSO book series:

https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/monograph/mono.html

Thirteen volumes about everything from deep-space tracking and navigation to cryogenic low-noise amplifiers, all available for free online. It's an amazing resource.
Cloud is the a better proposition than EJBs and look how long it took that to die off.

The bright shiny object / resume building in software decisions is in some ways fascinating