skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I became interested in computers around age 9 (I'm old -- this was before microcomputers) when I was first introduced to a computer. I can still clearly remember the awe and wonder that I experienced when I first laid my hands on the terminal, as if it were yesterday. At that time, all I was doing was making little banners punched out onto paper tape.

I wrote my first lines of code about 3 years after that, in Pascal on a PDP/11. It was through a school program meant to help smart kids who didn't do well in school.

Interestingly, my interest was in electronics, not programming. However, I was from a very poor family and couldn't afford to buy parts -- but I could use a computer for free -- all I had to do was be willing to take a 90 minute round-trip bus ride -- so I shifted to programming.

I guess you could say I'm a dev because of economics, just not in the way that implies.
It's something I used to do internally at my previous employer, and I know it's very useful. In this case I would have to convince a doc to let me follow them around and that's an immense ask. It's also going to miss systemic, intangible issues that are not task related. It's a great thing to do for an already-established product.
What kind of work are you imagining where there's no brainwork involved and no danger to the project or other employees if a tired worker makes mistakes?

I think you're operating on too many hypotheticals and not quite enough personal experience.
people are losing their jobs at a rapid rate now due to AI. People who can’t see the trends and think AI will simply stop improving, or that humans have some intractable capacity that no machine could ever replicate is very wishful thinking.

My opinion is also shared by a lot of intelligent researchers (like Hinton). Is he deluded, as you put it?
Sounds like this article is trying to "manufacture division". Lots of allegations but no proof.
> Iran (who is thought to have planned the Oct 7 massacre)

There is no credible evidence of this.
Streak (YC S11) is hiring a staff UI engineer
Many drugs have some toxic properties for the patient which have almost always been considered undesirable.

Maybe there is already a vast resource when it comes to unexpected toxicity to micro-organisms.

Any time people figure out more of what medications do, that's got to be admirable progress.
You mean "not chrome?"
Key passages:

> In its analysis of different zero-­emissions rail technologies, Caltrans found that hydrogen trains, powered by onboard fuel cells that convert hydrogen into electricity, had better range and shorter refueling times than battery-electric trains, which function much like electric cars. Hydrogen was also a cheaper power source than overhead wire (or simply “electrification,” in industry parlance), which would cost an estimated $6.8 billion to install on the state’s three main intercity routes.

> Electrifying all 144,000 miles of the nation’s freight rail tracks would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a report by the Association of American Railroads (AAR), ..

> Caltrans has a long-term plan to dramatically increase rail service and speeds, which might eventually require electrification by overhead wire, also known as a catenary system. But at least for the next couple of decades, the agency believes, hydrogen is the most feasible way to meet the state’s ambitious climate goals. The money, the political will, and the stomach for a fight with the freight railroads and utility companies just aren’t there yet.
Citations please?

From a cursory look, any such events look like they were part of mass extinctions. I'm curious what exact data you are looking at so I may better understand your statement.
Nvidia Stock Plummets in Broad Market Sell-Off
What features do you find most useful? What could be improved? Any additional functionality you wish to see? Please try it out, share your thoughts!
What does "privileged" mean in this setting? Do unprivileged people not have the option to maximize their productivity? How so?
LOL this fake persona is named Calendar! The global warming charade is a schedule for other plans or events. You have been warned.
Another (is this bogus?) reason for not applying is I am not in the US and would prefer not to migrate there due to family. Can a founder do YC with minimal time in USA or even do it remotely.
This is in line for me with the moment of "creation." For most of the history of science as a thing, the scientific view held that the universe was infinitely old cosmos without a beginning or end. The greek model. It was only in 1900s that big bang was theorized (by a catholic priest) that science now views that there was a moment before which the universe didn't exist and after which it did.

The fact that someone reading Genesis would have had a more accurate conception of the origin of the universe, prior to big bang becoming popularized very recently in the grand scheme of things is noteworthy.
No, you are saying that :)

If for example we start harvesting asteroids we may be able to provide everyone with a gold throne at low cost. But, providing everyone with with a platinum encrusted gold throne doesn't make hardwood grow any faster.

Unless of course you think the great oxygen catastrophe was a mistake.
The ball of leaves in your tree isn't a bird's nest
I didn't know there was that much money in writing a rich text editor ...
What I argue is that there is no approach to guidance that will substitute for own hard work.

I do not argue that guidance is not needed, it also is, but there is no shortcut that lets people skip own hard work by telling someone incantation of words or sentences in special order that will make things click.
It's not a tangential thing, it was mentioned explicitly as a point in the text by the author.
It would be nice to be told roughly what the process is before having to 'sign up'.
Simulation framework for accelerating research in Private Federated Learning
The TI-84+ battery life was bananas. I used it constantly during university and almost never had to change them.
#2 actually undercuts your argument about "IQ gating". Pay for software engineers is the product of supply and demand, and the absurd salaries clearly have much more to do with the demand side of the equation because of explosive growth in tech; if it really had to do with supply due to "IQ gating", then research scientists, professors, etc would make more.

In any event there is more recent data (1992-4) that confirms that the differential is still present. This is maybe unpleasant to confront because it's self-congratulatory and has obvious class implications, but it's also pretty obviously true.

See page 89 / figure 12:

https://users.ssc.wisc.edu/~hauser/merit_01_081502_complete....
I do not argue that guidance is not needed, it also is, but there is no shortcut that let's people skip own hard work by telling someone incantation of words or sentences in special order that will make things click - without even trying to grasp the subject.
You mean if you don't have a doet that is artificially high in fructose and sucrose?
Did I say that?

No, I was referring to the fact that Israel is bombing every place where Palestinians live, and Google is helping them do it.
Makes sense to apply just with less than a MVP?
The pannels really are roofs. We are building roofs without homes under them.
Just updated to min Python version 3.8. We didn't actually intend for folks to use it just yet but it's simple enough.
> re: things being produced as their exclusive property, what is the issue with this? They did the work to make the thing, therefore it's their property (unless they choose to release it otherwise).

the issue is that they also want the benefit of not being ignored, so they claim to be less proprietary than they actually are while trying to build mindshare
If the strength of population growth, hard work attitude and morals ever come back from the 50s we'll be ok. Since the internet seems to want the opposite, I guess we're just going to burn.
catch clauses in try/catch are also matching something being thrown.

People don't have problem reading try/catch, are used to it, it's already there, semantics match - why complicate things?

Case is better read as "captures ... [when ...]" and "case catch" simply means capturing an exception - the same way as try/catch does it.

If you flip it around - if somebody would do an experiment where they'd ask 100 developers to imagine that java supports catching exceptions in switch statements my bet is that almost all, if not all would write it as "case catch ...".

And there is really nothing fundamentally wrong with that. You can't catch catch handler, you can only catch an exception.
Ask HN: Apple M-series GoFetch Vulnerability – any action to remediate?
It's been 4 weeks since the GoFetch vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips has been disclosed. It appears a simple workaround for the problem is to pin execution of Crypto libraries to the Icestorm (aka 'efficiency') cores.

I have not seen nor heard of any attempts to go in this direction, so I'm asking my community, are you all hearing anything about this? Thanks.
Except the selections of what you get to look at are made by an algorithm, not people. Yes, an algorithm that mixes and matches ratings made by (a particular category of) people. But at the end of the day - an algorithm.

So in this very fundamental sense, it's nothing like your local bookstore at all.
Startup in W09, worked on it for 4 years, started saying no to pg about moderating HN, ran out of money, needed a job, said yes to pg about moderating HN.
I stopped using DDG right after they forced "Explore our features" to be enabled all the time.
The god was obsessed with making different beetles.

But then he was talking about the "pinnical" of life and evolution. Ponder thought he meant humans, capable of mastering their world.

Then he looked down and saw the leg twitch...
> so that civilians and soldiers could be clearly recognized.

Didn't seem to help the WCK crew who got a bomb dropped right through the logo on top of their car.
how did you find your assistant and how do you manage to trust him and what are the first or most important tasks you handed off?
Looks interesting, but I would say a limited free demo is going to be key for any chance of adoption here.
It depends a bit how fussy you are about micro scratches on the paintwork. All car washing causes some scratching due to grit on the car and the amount varies depending on how you do it. It's why new cars look shinier than older ones.

Most cars use a similar tech with a clear coat over the paint. For a bit of money you can have it polished smooth again.
> On one axis, the license used is either Open Source (as defined by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), which I would summarize as coming with all freedoms necessary to enable the permissionless innovation I mentioned earlier) or it’s not. On the other axis is the development model: it’s either developed as a commons, by a community working in open collaboration, or it’s developed (and ultimately owned) by a single entity.

Is SQLite "the new proprietary"? It seems to fit the description perfectly: very permissive license, very closed development process.
For the last couple of years, I've only had these directories: dev, test and prod.

Whatever I am working on or learning goes in dev, whatever is ready for testing or experimentation goes in test. Everything else goes in prod.

But I have been thinking of expanding on this.

Thanks for sharing the article. I might gain some inspiration.
That seems correct to me!
An Interesting Problem Solved in Both Python and Elixir
> This to me seems like a cargo cult justification, where you've heard the argument ...

Well, no, I've been a professional programmer since 1982, and a hobbyist one both before then and to this day.

I might be wrong, but these are the lessons I've learnt over the decades working on a variety of projects of different size and durations ...

Of course consise code is nice, and while you're in the heat of development it's easy to pretty much memorize an entire codebase, even a large one, but it's when you have to come back to it years later, and barely even recognize the code as your own, that you'll be happy it's self-documenting. Now, on a large team that "future self" may just be the new hire, or the guy who replaces you when you quit ...
Yep. ANI is what we have now (narrow), AGI is what is next (general, humanlike) and there are theories that when we have that, ASI (super) is just around the corner.

At that point we will either blip out of existence or transcend to a higher plane of existence and become a possible Fermi paradox explanation.
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052 - Aug 2019 (777 comments)
I covered all those bases. I'm not 100% sure what happened but when I initially tried to start the vehicle I had it connected to a solar battery maintainer in full sunlight. It should've had bazillions of photons sacrificing part of themselves to be stored electrons but instead I got nothing. After disconnecting that from the battery and testing all the fuses I made another attempt to start it up and it worked fine. It's possible that the voltage output of the panel swamped the voltage expected by the ECU and it refused to energize to save the system from electrical damage by overvoltage.

Or maybe that single electron hadn't quite made it to my battery on my first attempt. That's one busy e.
No, because it's a name that was made up then to try to rebrand something that had already existed for decades, but which has a name that those guys didn't like.
Yes, I'm super interested in reaching people for whom YC would be a great fit, but who don't apply because they doubt themselves. Partly because that's been such a big part of my own experience.
When they include the copyright for their data sources I'll include theirs.
As I understand it, supabase is open source. So the hosted supabase is

(user) -> s3 protocol -> (Supabase) -> (AWS S3)

you could fork (or contribute) a database driver for any s3 compatible backend of choice.

(user) -> s3 protocl -> (pbronez-base) -> (GCP Cloud Storage)
The share of first-time homebuyers speaks to the issue a bit more clearly than the factors you've been looking at above.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/208072/share-of-first-ti...

People who are already positioned in real estate aren't as affected by rapid price increases when they're looking to sell one home and buy another because the home they're selling was along for the ride. They're impacted, but much less so than first-time homebuyers who are either short on assets altogether (most working individuals/families trying to take the next step on the default treadmill) or have assets that haven't been performing as well as real estate.

Those first-time buyers need to directly relate the purchase price of the home to their savings and income and it gotten very hard for them to that. The worse it gets and the longer it sustains, the more it looks like a failure to attend an entire generation of workers and their families.
Not all cryptocurrencies are scams, not all traffic on Tor is CSAM, and not matrix messages are spam. Some of us use all of these decentralized systems daily for their actual intended use cases of sovereignty and privacy.

Things like money and messaging are too important to a functioning society to allow any single party to control.

We need -actually- decentralized money and -actually- decentralized communication.

MobileCoin and Signal are neither and the results are predictable.
When is Mixtral 8x22b coming?
I still would argue that weeder courses are fine. If you start as a major whatever the field is - you should be interested in the field enough to plow through.

Otherwise at the end you get people dissatisfied they cannot get job but they have a degree.
Looks cool, but I wish it would let me use the search engine I configured (Kagi) instead of shoving Google down my throat.
I find pouring electrons into a funnel usually helps by avoiding an electron spill all over your battery. Glad it works tho!
You're already signed up, because you can use your HN account to log in. (All YC accounts are HN accounts and vice versa.)

The process is that you fill out a form and make a 1 minute video* and click 'submit'.

(* I know...I hated the video thing too... but it gives a sense of what someone is like that doesn't come through in text, and you just talk for a minute about what you care about. nothing fancy.)

(edit: also, if you're the type of founder that my post is trying to reach - the video is very much in your interest. Other people can see potential in you that you don't see in yourself, even after just a minute. Especially because the people reviewing applications have massive amounts of experience with this.)
I wanted to sell samosa on the internet. Would YC be a good place to seek funding for such a business?

Samosa because they are versatile across many dimensions: ingredients, taste, shelf-life, and can be easily made in a combinatorics space of these dimensions. They are kind of like how Bubba describes shrimp to Gump.

I once wondered if YC is a good platform for such a business?
Thank you. YES on a lot of your bullet points. But I'm very open-minded about it and would work on any issue if enough people raise it.

I've been thinking of reaching out to nurses and other pros that work around docs.

I like the professional org idea.
everyone stops trusting everything

Why would you expect this to happen? Lots of people are gullible, if it were otherwise a lot of well-known politicians would be out of a job or would never have been elected to begin with.
"POI" expands to what, Place of Interest?
NASA Veteran's Propellantless Propulsion Drive Produced Enough Thrust
It was a conscious decision. Typically you are not required to collect sales tax until crossing a certain threshold of number of customers or sales volume. When we started two years ago we had no idea if paid search will take off, and we decided to postpone this integration (which is incredibly complex and resource intensive) in favor or building the product. Since we made it we have to start collecting it as per tax laws.
Sure, it was very ambitious to run something like a 16-bit version of Composer on such a low spec machine, but I still gave it a go :D

This was around 1995. I didn’t suffer too long with Composer on my 386, I got sick of the swapping pretty quickly and stuck with Notepad for a long time afterwards.

I didn’t upgrade my 386 PC until 1998 (couldn’t afford to), when I got a Cyrus 6x86, which is another story altogether. If you know about Quake and FPU performance with the 6x86, then you already know the story.
If 'all cryptocurrencies are scams' then those that staff their boards are scammers.
Facebook Sybil suite open source GitHub project
Is it replay to someone or just statement?
China orders Apple to remove apps after "inflammatory" posts about president
It's also quite interesting window to thoughts of other people. I find it extremely mind-boggling that we live in times of detecting gravity waves, building particle accelerators etc. and some people live in reality where we don't know how much energy we're getting from the sun or co2 from volcanoes.
Well that's a rather horrifying thought...
What continent contains Iran, Syria and (as the other comment pointed out) North Korea?
I don’t think that’s the expert consensus at all, unless you’re using a much more expansive definition of CD and UC (vague “IBS-like symptoms”). People have studied this question very carefully, and the strong consensus is that these diseases, which are very often deadly if left untreated (and sometimes even if treated), occur at vastly lower rates in the developing world. It’s not mere measurement error.
hmmmm maybe i should make a video game with yall? its enticing meow idk
How would routing be done without source/destination? When the device changes networks, how does the origin and all routers along the way know that this device is on a new network?
> The interesting discussion is in whether commercial software should be closed source or source available with restrictions.

Thank you!

The author carefully uses the term "proprietary software", drawing no distinction between whether it is closed source or source available, as if that distinction is totally beside the point. But for me, as someone who makes software, there is a huge distinction between those two things!

I really hate using tools that I can't read the source of. Just recently I traced some documentation on how python garbage collection works into the implementation for that particular thing in the particular version of the language that I'm using. If python were a single-vendor source-available tool, that would be a bummer and I'd be less likely to use it, but it wouldn't actually affect my work much. But if it were closed source, that would absolutely be a deal breaker for me. I need to be able to go look and see how my tools work, otherwise I'm blind.

I do agree with the author that community-driven open source is better, and I consider projects like the Linux Foundation, BSD, GNU, Apache, CNCF, etc. to be wonderful miraculous gifts. But I also worry that a distressing proportion of the most important software I use has been built on the backs of a series of absurdly under-compensated and eventually burnt-out passionate nerds, and I can't stand that. So I'm sympathetic to a model that has a more obvious (to me) path to creating software tooling that I can use without flying blind, while compensating people adequately for their work.
This is the organization that wouldn't moderate facebook during Myanmarr yeah? The one with all the mental health research they ignore?

Zuckerberg states during the interview that once the ai reaches a certain level of capability they will stop releasing weights - i.e. they are going the "OpenAI" route: this is just trying to get ahead of the competition, it's a sound strategy when you're behind to leverage open source.

I see no reason to be optimistic about this organization, the open source community should use this an abandon them ASAP.
Mozilla finally relenting that arm64 isn't just a fad? Or did they just enable this with some CI infrastructure they couldn't get working with qemu?
Vouched after double checking that this is, in fact, plainly indicated in the article.

(For those unaware, if you have "showdead" on in your profile, then click on a particular comment's timestamp, you can vouch to undo flags. Outside of threads like this, most flags are valid so showdead is annoying.)
not sure. I searched comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

Most recent are a reasonably mundane culture wars stuff but (more interesting to HN) it seems earlier Signal related ones appear to suggesting a degree of alignment with the USA government. The words "spook" and "compromised" are used in different comments.

Edits. From the Signal page:

"She is an appointed member of the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, where she advises the Secretary of State on technology policy"
He announced his stepping down as CEO of Signal way back in January of 2022.
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