skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the startup I co-founders applied to Techstars, we had to fill in the lean canvas diagram and it makes you think and write down a whole bunch of stuff that we were lacking. channels in, user-acquisition strategies etc.

That process was super worth it. Ultimately we got rejected, but going forward I'll use that (well I try) to do that when joining/founding any startups.

Worst case scenario is they say no, best case scenario... :-)
How does that "prove" it's gamed? If anything it proves that the system does exactly what it's supposed to do: correct itself over time using more and more samples from users.
Me too, 3 months ago in California.
Love is a transcendent force that knows no borders, uniting hearts across cultures and continents. In this extraordinary linguistic odyssey, we present a collection of "I Love You" in 247 languages, a harmonious symphony celebrating the universal power of love.
Current rate of increase is 2.55 ppm/yr

We will be at 2000 in 640 years.

Previously those rates of change were over the course of millions of years.

It is crazy how much things have changed over millions of years, perhaps crazier to see those same changes 3 orders of magnitude faster.
Thank you, great feedback. I need to do this soon!
Thanks for this, I misread your comment. Sorry about that.

It's still tricky to believe a claim made by one person on the Internet, but in this case, I think one should look at who said it, when they said it, whether it's credible (this "board secret plan" claim is not), and what people directly involved have and have not said. I've said my peace now.
This week in KDE: sprints, enhancements, and kebabs
Did you visit tiktok and watch the video?
Cloudflare disabled DNS can't transfer out domain
Woke up this morning to an urgent call from a client that their website was down. Did the checks and discovered that there were zero DNS records. Wait, what?

The domain is paid for and active and, unfortunately, Cloudflare is the registrar.

After submitting a support ticket, we finally got an email from Cloudflare saying that we had violated terms of service, no details, however it promised that our existing services would remain in tact (ha).

I submitted a new support ticket to a different category asking what was up, and finally some bot responded to the ticket saying it was because of section 2.8, the following text:

"The interstitial page on your website was automatically triggered because you are serving video or a disproportionate amount of images without paying for such services, in violation of Section 2.8 of our Terms of Service."

I looked over everything and the website is hardly using data, but I disabled Cloudflare entirely.

The DNS is entirely down, and most alarming, we can't transfer out the domain, that page gives a 403.

I'd already removed everything that was mine from Cloudflare over poor registrar support in the past, but it seems like they're going the way of Google and being a terrible company.

See this post from two years ago about preventing transfering out domains.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31576353
As Mike Judge's historical documents show, this enhanced aggression will seem normal in a few years or even months.
I bet the UI latency was lower than current infotainment systems.
YC is a good platform for founders who want to build a high-growth startup (which is basically the original pg/YC definition of what a startup is). So your question reduces to whether selling samosas on the internet can be a high-growth business or not, and whether you would want to optimize for that.
This seems like a great construction robotics application since you have such an empty / controllable site. Did you ever consider teleoperations as well?
> how does the origin and all routers along the way

It's just the origin that needs to know what address(es) it should be using as the destination at layer 3.

The big problems with this is that it depends upon things that weren't really feasible in the early 80's -- bigger packet headers, a bit more state on each side of the connection, potential need for cryptographic authentication.
This announcement is for version 2, which I think was released a few days ago.
> How would routing be done without source/destination?

There is still a source/destination address. Routing still works. But those addresses are allowed to change without disrupting the connection because the connection isn't based on the values of these addresses.

> When the device changes networks, how does the origin and all routers along the way know

The routers don't need to "know" these things.

MPQUIC does this. To the network it's just UDP packets moving around. Connection state is dealt with at higher levels and doesn't rely on IP addresses.
In that case maybe you can not give it an internet connection and copy the files you want to work to a folder shared with the vm.
Apple Pulls WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Threads from App Store in China
A frequentist approach to probability (2013)
These are the cheapest cars you can buy new in the US as of this comment. None are sub $15k. Average new car price is ~$48k. I'm sure that is dragged up by ~$100k vehicles, but this idea you're going to get a new car for under $15k is not grounded in reality based on current market conditions. That market will solely be served by the used car market.

2023 Mitsubishi Mirage ES: $17,650 |
2023 Kia Rio LX: $17,875 |
2023 Nissan Versa S: $18,595 |
2023 Kia Forte LX: $20,815 |
2023 Hyundai Venue SE: $20,985 |
2023 Nissan Sentra S: $21,145 |
2023 Kia Soul LX: $21,215 |
2024 Chevrolet Trax LS: $21,495 |
2023 Hyundai Elantra SE: $22,065 |
2023 Subaru Impreza: $22,115
> There's at least one company that infiltrate various large companies just to observe, record, and compile lists of these ideologues doing activism in the workplace. I hear they're doing well selling the evidence to other companies that want nothing to do with these people.

I want to believe. But do you have any evidence?
Like, who cares. My argument was about potatoes, rice, bread, ... Sure if you eat full chocolate every day and are nor teenager or weightlifter you probably eat too much of it.

And still, that doew not mean you nmed to cut complex carbohydrates and go keto ... especially if argument is how people 300 years ago eate. It was not keto.
Google's not removing the internals for webRequest, as far as we can tell they have internal and "enterprise" needs.
There are many things I have not tried, ranging from Rust to heroin. "You don't know because you haven't tried it" is really bad epistemology.

It's also totally impractical. Rust isn't the only language I haven't tried; there are more than a thousand of them. I'm not using JOVIAL for scripting, or Fortran, or a bunch of others. No, I haven't tried any of those either. No, I'm not going to.

Turning specifically to Rust, I don't use it for scripting because it's not what I look for in a scripting language. It's compiled; I look for a language that doesn't have that extra step. It has the borrow checker; I don't write scripting code that needs that level of discipline and care.

In fact, most of my scripting is of the form "pick some bits out of a text file". For that, Perl is my tool of choice. Sure, other languages have regexes. None of them do it as cleanly and simply as Perl. (Note well: "clean" does not apply to the Perl syntax...)
I personally would rather type "ThisIsSomeOtherProject" than "this-is-some-other-project" as advocated on the page. Approximately the same number of keypresses but fewer characters to read.
I kind of have grown to like Rust, not for the language itself (I mean, I've got Common Lisp, so using another language is like chopping down a tree by biting off chunks with my teeth instead of using a chainsaw), but because various tools made with it, like Ripgrep, are very pleasant to use.

It's a shame, though, that people who want to 'rewrite it in Rust' always talk about rewriting things written in C or C++, when I really want them to rewrite stuff written in languages like Python or Ruby. Imagine if emerge was rewritten from Python to Rust, you could probably install Gentoo in 5 minutes, rather than the weekend it takes now. I wouldn't be surprised if rewriting all Python code in your average GNU/Linux system to Rust would make your computer run between 10^6 and 10^9 times faster.
That's why there is no single party to control communication, and even for money there is US vs EU systems.

"Actually decentralized" has a lot of problems, especially with things like spam and scams (see also: usenet). Federation makes sure no single party has too much power, and yet allows one to have usable systems.
This is very cool! One comment - I don’t love the on-hover effect on the images, at least for mobile. It keeps triggering as I scroll the page. Might be worth rethinking. I imagine on desktop it would be great though.
It's clear from the framing what side you're on :)

I find them tremendously useful but the bullshitting, prudishness, bland mainstream views on everything, etc. can be quite irritating.
That's the spirit :)

But I can't count the number of times I've heard about YC saying 'we don't think it's a great idea, but we like the founders'. YC funds founders, that's the whole deal. It's hard for many people to believe this because it sounds too simple and it's counterintuitive in all kinds of ways.
Llama 3 is now up on WebLLM
Apple stocks are already in the dumps due to them losing market share in China.

If Apple cannot innovate themselves into growth they will further slide down to #3 spot behind Google.

Apple has saturated its iPhone market and it shows.
How quickly can you break a long string into lines?
What method do you use for using oIlama with RAG like this? I
I’ve always been intrigued by YC, but the commitment to relocate is hard to justify. I have three kids (with the oldest finishing up her junior year next month). So I’m not in a place where being in SF for the summer works very well for the family.

I remember during COVID that there was a remote option, but I don’t believe that’s available now. So for someone more established (erm, no longer 20) that lives in the middle of the country, I’m not sure it’s a great fit.

But man am I interested… I can never quite tell myself “no” and move on either… I’d love to be wrong. Because I’ve got a great one cooking right now!…
I never agreed to apologize, so never reneged. Don't believe everything you read, especially this "secret plan" that would have violated CA Labor Law. The board was not going to do that.
Absolutely fantastic. I was a big fan of iGoogle and this looks amazing. Going to give it a whirl definitely.
> Okay, it is clear you've never done sales in your life.

What was your first clue? The fact that I consider salesmen to be parasites?

>If you don't like the game, don't play it, but don't think you're somehow above the game.

Oh, I am totally above the game, because I will not talk to you or your fellow salesmen. I will not call you. Ever. If you cold-call me, I'll hang up and block your number. If you show up in person, you'll be asked to leave and informed that any future visits will be considered trespass and result in a call to the towing company to have your car removed and a call to the police to have you removed.

I thought that was made clear.

Is this what you call "negotiation"? Because you suck at it, dude. srsly.

You are in the business of conning people into paying a higher price for goods and services for which they would otherwise have paid less. Every penny of your commission is ripped right out of the customer's pocket, for zero value added.
Its a great book, you might not agree that it 'explains' consciousness but it will give you a lot of new ways to think about it and it references a lot of interesting research.
Hmm, can you explain?

Every book on our website is chosen by a reader who loved it.

Here is an example: https://shepherd.com/best-books/mystery-and-suspensewith-a-b...

The only books within our website are those that a reader loves and picked as part of their book rec list, or fav 3 reads of the year.
not gonna lie this sounds like a borderline cultish view on things (only OSI-approved open source projects should get recognition, rest should be damned to obscurity and ridicule)

having the source available is a huge benefit compared to proprietary software as you can view, introspect and patch your tool - having a permissive licence is a "nice-to-have", not an entitlement.
Do you need an MVP or an idea? US or international?
That’s pretty neat. I can see a bunch of those from my balcony. I always wondered where squirrels lived!
Yay, I am quite safe, all my projects are nested inside "~/Work"!!
The Norse colonization doesn't line up well with the Native American disease die-off, though. The Norse colonization didn't seem to have a major impact on major agricultural populations in North America, perhaps because they landed in remote regions of Greenland and Canada with low population densities. The Aztec empire didn't get started until 1372, for example, and peaked entirely during this time of dropping temperatures. Smallpox wasn't introduced until 1519.

I found some independent validation of the drop in CO2 that you cite [1], but the authors have no idea what the root cause was. Possibly the Native American hypothesis could fit as cause for a secondary climate trend from 1600-1800, but it seems like a stretch. Also should not discount the possibility of plant growth feedback loops: it's known that higher CO2 concentrations cause rapid plant growth, and possible that lower solar irradiation might encourage plants to grow more rapidly to capture more of the available solar energy, and both of those lead to the observed drops in CO2 and increased vegetation. Perhaps the causality was that lower solar output -> increased plant growth -> CO2 drop as well as lower solar output -> it's cold and CO2 drop -> it's cold.

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...
Great, this definitely needed.

On the domestic side we need go make rooftop solar more efficient to install for countries like the UK, there aren't enough people to do it there either.
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If it's even commoner than "common enough" then anyone could at least try to help their gullible friends and family by sending them a deepfake video of them doing/saying something they've never said. A lot of people will suddenly wise up when a problem affects them directly.
The LinkedIn page for a lot of these companies showing you "Where they studied" can be a bit intimidating. Chockablock with Stanford and Ivy League.

I was filling out the Co-Founder matching service application and it has a required text area for education. The placeholder text examples? Standford MS in Comp Sci, NYU BS in Physics.

As a college dropout with "some college" but a 14+ year career in systems/software engineering roles, that was quite discouraging.
The Norse had no major impact on North America, certainly nothing even remotely close to causing major worldwide temperature changes. They had like a few seasonal outposts, plus Greenland.
It doesn't have an inherent negative moral connotation when used amongst gamblers. It's been reclaimed, so to speak. But I suppose we're not amongst gamblers here, so, fair enough.
So ... 30 years ago when we were starting Amazon (I was employee #2 there), I had an idea for a feature I wanted in the initial store that is related to what you're trying to do here, but quite different.

While I value human curation, and it probably has to come first, what I wanted to do was to take the LoC classification for a book (typically a triple that has 3 levels of specificity) and build a multidimensional search "space" where you could find books close to the one you were looking at.

In 1994, alas, the LoC data was only available via an insanely slow modem-based download, which made it unusable. The main data source we were using back then (Baker & Taylor / Books in Print) sadly fucked up their record of the LoC classification to that it was impossible to infer where the gaps between the triple's parts were.

The crux of the idea was to leave book classification to librarians, who've been studying this for years and likely doing a much better job than anything us silly software types could come up with.

So to use an example from your list above, in my mental image of the interface I wanted: you'd pick "Sapiens" and see it surrounded by a cloud of other books sharing the same LoC triple (could use other library classification methods too). You could zoom out, and now see even more books sharing only the first two elements of the triple, or even further and end up in "History". Think of it as a "word cloud" made of books, rather than words. You could meander over to another book, and from that book zoom in (and out) of other aspects of the LoC's classification space.

I still wish I had been able to build this, since it mirrored the best part of my experience in large physical bookstores. But it was not to be.

Not sure if the dataset(s) you're using would permit this either, just wanted to mention it.
The “funny” thing is that http3 really really looks like a transport protocol encapsulated into… uso. Exactly because many middle boxes block anything that’s not a very well known protocol
My phone screen pixels often occupy a larger angle of my vision than my 4k TV on account of being less than a foot from my face instead of 10 feet away.
How did this become about immigration? A lot of americans would also do it for $20 an hour.
> YC not even responding

The only way that would happen is a bug. YC always responds to applicants. Rejections usually aren't personalized because that can't scale - but not hearing back at all should never happen.

If you want me to look into what might have happened there, I'd be willing to try if you email hn@ycombinator.com.
It's certainly close enough for me!
This could be a great additional commuter car if you already have an ICE (or longer range EV) for those longer trips (or are willing to rent one if such trips are infrequent enough).

The perks of a smaller battery are that it should take less time to get to a full charge and the car should be lighter overall (meaning potentially more energy efficient and less tire wear).
I've long had a bet that these posts contain lurking single founders looking for potential co-founders. So, if you are on the prowl for a jack-of-all engineering founder, shoot me a note. I'd love to see if you might be all-in on what I've got going on or vice versa. Here's building awesome stuff with awesome teams.
Whether Dennett was right or wrong about a deity, he's meeting his maker ;-)
Google’s play is not really in AI imo, it’s in the the fact that their custom silicon allows them to run models cheaply.

Models are pretty much fungible at this point if you’re not trying to do any LoRAs or fine tunes.
I've been looking to make my new tab page more useful, so this seems a good excuse :)

I've immediately noted a white flicker when opening a new tab though. This is unfortunately a big issue for me.
30+ years sounds excessive for managed installations (anything thats not just sitting inaccessibly on a roof with prohibitively expensive access costs), would think max 10-20 years, if you have the option to upgrade some higher efficiency panels for maintaining best ROI given current trends continue and land being a cost factor in most regions.
Everything Is Dominance Hierarchies
What books would people recommend starting with by this guy?
My father showed me a simple program in Sinclair BASIC (on a Russian Speccy clone) that draws a snowman when I was 5 years old, but he couldn't teach me anything more about programming sadly. Then when I was ~12 years old, I joined my middle school's programming club to learn Turbo Pascal 7.0, ahead of my classmates who waited until high school.
For better or worse, the relocation requirement is probably a good proxy for "can commit to their startup 24x7 without any other responsibilities standing in the way".
"<Name> has died" is something of an HN convention:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22has+died%22>
Where were you in 1999 when all I had was a crap snake on my TI-89?
What do you think gambling-addicted "old folks" who live in areas where gambling is illegal do today? They either hop a short flight to a place where it is legal OR head to Fast Freddy's. People absolutely do participate in illegal gambling when legal gambling is off the table, whether they are elderly or not.
Rufo, the guy who invented the Critical Race Theory conspiracy theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rufo , posted a video clip of her and wildly misinterpreted it for clicks. There have been a bunch of submissions and I think all of them have been flagged dead. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40080036
> To show off the model, Microsoft created a VASA-1 research page featuring many sample videos of the tool in action

With AI stuff, I have learned to be very skeptical until and unless a relatively publicly accessible demo with user specified inputs is available.

It is way too easy for humans to cherry pick the nice outputs, or to take advantage of biases in the training data to generate nice outputs, and is not at all reflective of how it holds up in the real world.

Part of the reason why ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, Dall-E had such an impact is the people could try and see for themselves without being told how awesome it was by the people making it.
I'm with you and wish that we were more careful with this sort of signaling risk. However, there are tons of college dropouts and uncredentialed software people who make it in to YC.

What I'm basically trying to tell everyone, and hoping to convince a few, is: don't listen to any of this, just do it.
And then you have the look and "you can touch if you give away all rights for what you contribute". Contributor License Agreements where basically you contribute to a "GPL" project, but you sign away the rights to your contribution to the company, so they can still close source it any time they please while including your code.
Impactful indeed. I remember a lot of games for being fun, having impressive graphics, etc. But the MI series instilled in me a sense of nostalgia and longing for a time and a place that I’ve never been and that never really existed, and it’s a feeling that I still get when I think about the games or hear the music from them.
Once again, the criteria was "intimidating and threatening". You and others keep dancing around that seemingly baseless statement.
Bubble to Bust: A History of the Junk Wax Era 1986-1993
"It’s possible to install as much as 1 megawatt of solar power in a day, and a project could use multiple systems at once."

pretty cool.
These displays made your car look like a proper fighter plane. Today we get a tablet slapped onto the dashboard :(
I've read (parts of) Critique of Pure Reason. Does that count?
I do firmware work as well. There is something nice about building a 65C02 based cellphone, or a fermentation system controller using a 68010 and a CPLD based MPU. A Z80 fits nicely into this.

It's not practical, but it can be an interesting application of art.
In the 2000s I had a SaaS firm making software for underground utility locating companies so I learned a lot about the industry. In most parts of the country as built drawings are unusual for residential property anyway. Locating staff mostly shows up, looks at whatever drawings are available, and then has to figure out what was actually done from the clues and by using locating equipment. Many of these folks end up with a very subtle understanding of what common practice was by different utility companies in various specific areas in specific eras.
My understanding is that photons don't have a life the way we do. They move at the speed of light and thus time does not advance for them. They cannot change between emission and absorption, no matter the distance. Always bends my mind to think about it.
Most valuable information is hidden behind walls :)
good point. why did all these countries become democracies in the first place? we should revert to autocracy /s