skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it is a purely visual processing issue because, when I get a migraine aura, I can think and reason and communicate as normal. I walk normally too, I don't feel dizzy. It's only that parts of my visual field are missing. The missing parts seem to shift like blobs in a lava lamp so I can't just turn my eyes to 'look around them'. Also because visual info is missing (not blacked out or blurred out), it makes it impossible to figure out how much I should turn my eyes to look around 'it'... It's like a spacial distortion in my field of view. I wonder if this is a similar experience to dyslexia? Though for me it's only temporary and affects everything I see including faces... But who knows maybe dyslexics also have this issue but don't realize it because they don't know better?

I can still recognize people even though I can't see their face fully. It's like my subconscious is still seeing the full face.
Heck, even in 2005 Snake was all I had on my TI-84 Plus. (Not the CE, just the plain old 1-bit display version.)

And it was a version of Snake that I’d written myself, in TI-BASIC and I used some kind of matrix to store the segments of the snake and when the snake grew in length the operations to move the snake around took more and more time. Until eventually it crashed.

It was, admittedly not the greatest Snake game ever. It may even have been one of the worst ever. But it my Snake and that made it okay
Curse of Monkey Island ported to WebAssembly
It benefits me for people to think this way.

I mean, it's not like they restrict who can have an account here...
Nietzche is Lisp. Thus Spoke Zarathustra it's basically what a REPL does and means. Read, eval, print, loop. Learn, apply, teach, repeat. Data is code, a list it's both data and a function to evaluate if you wish.
>Wow. huge quantity.

That's still a retarded argument and way below any scientific standard. Now that climate change has become the dominant worldview we witness the bigotisation of this cause, where so called "truth" becomes the target of activism as it as it morphs into a form of belief. Not because what it points to is wrong, but because, as in any politically motivated crusade, any mean, path to reach that truth is deemed worthwhile. This noble cause has turned into a matter of adolescent rebellion that is dealt with absolutism and a way to jump into battle that totally disregards strategic considerations. What if the phenomenon is overblown by the political movement that tries to fight its consequences ? What if the proposed solutions are more painful than the problem ? To hell with these considerations ! You're either with us or against us in our fight against apocalypse itself !
It's not surprising that as the hysteria grows and gains more and more minds, and as the climate skeptics crowd thins out, the figure of the "climate change denier" grows in importance. It's important for communities to have a malevolent figure against which hateful unanimity takes shapes. It allows them to endure the test of time, and survive even when the core beliefs are shaken, should the "deniers" turn into tomorrow's saints. May the crowd turn to them as it even forgets it is changing opinion so as to atone its own sins. Isn't it what this all about ? Recognizing climate urgency as a way to pay for the sins of modern life ? What was the point in abandoning religion if it was to repeat exactly the same structure then ?
The biggest mistake Redis Labs made was doing a rebrand at the exact same time as a license change. Usually you want rebrands to be loud and well known and license changes to be silent and ignored until it's too late and people have adopted the new license. In this case, they loudly announced that they're making an unpopular change and it gave everyone the will to switch.
I have a #3 - I don't have a marketable idea.
I guess any number of piped commands are “just one line” if you never type a carriage return…
It's not even close to a mammal. It might have 1bn artificial neurons, while a cat has 700m biological neurons. But

a) individual mammal neurons are far more computationally complex than any existing artificial neuron, even in SNNs.

b) a cat has 10 trillion synapses compared to the 100 billion artificial synapses in Intel's computer. So even ignoring how simple artificial neurons are, mammal brains have far more topological complexity.
Funny seeing iGoogle mentioned. I have a friend that used to work on iGoogle, but he wasn't very good at JS. He asked me to assist with some code he was working on and I added a little signature comment to indicate that I worked on the code. They put the code into production wholesale and never removed my signature comment. It remained there until they shut it down.
i stands for index. j and k because we can't use i anymore, and maybe because they are close together on the keyboard
TinyMCE just changed their licensing from MIT to GPL, which may impact your decision. Fun fact - TinyMCE and CKEditor are both owned by the same holding company (Tiugo Technologies).
> Replace your docs

> Developers don't like writing docs. Now, they don't have to!

Well that’s a terrible premise. AI can’t get at design decisions or anything that’s not explicitly encoded in code, but still connected. The “why” is extremely valuable.
Yeah, we usually just say vector embeddings are the numerical representation of that piece of unstructured data. This glossary page put it together quite nicely. https://zilliz.com/glossary/vector-embeddings
Related: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/micro...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088826, but we merged that thread hither)
Did Kaczynski have an argument against comparative advantage?
Protesting in favor/ against sensitive subjects and causing a ruckus that results in _law enforcement getting involved_ can be “intimidating and threatening” when it _happens at your workplace_.

I feel you’re being deliberately obtuse on this.
That's some misleading context since the article you linked says:

> Only 260 BZ4Xs had been delivered to customers before the recall was announced

If they had sold 4000 like the truck, they would have recalled 4000. Both recalls affected all the cars sold for the model.
This analogy falls flat because it makes it sound like the community is locked out of the improvements they made to your space. But there's no scarcity here: once HashiCorp locked the doors all of the improvements that the community made were still there, and the community could and did organize a new space for continued improvements.
Ask HN: Best Elasticsearch alternative for in-app search
It has been sometime since I set up Elasticsearch inside my app. When I did, it was very much painful. Modern UX is to set up a CMD + K search inside the app that can access information very fast. I see that there are alternatives that came to market. Wondering your experiences as to which one to use now. My criteria is

1) Developer experience
2) Speed
3) Accuracy

Here are the alternatives I saw:
- Meilisearch
- Typesense
- Vespa
- Manticore
- more...

Looking for opinionated views
Maybe, but that’d be playing into a tired stereotype.
YC is leaning into in-person heavily.

But e.g. there was a great team in our batch (W24) with very young kids who flew to SF for in-person events. Some people were unable to come to the US (visa issues) that took part remotely.

No requirement to intend to stay in the US – many foreign teams heading back, but many more haven chosen to stay in SF on O1 and other visas (YC helps with this).

I think YC admissions see the intention to be based in SF as a net positive, because SF is in most situations the very best place to start a startup (regardless of YC).
I’d be very curious to see what you’d choose to work on if you were forced to pick something with the highest probability of growing at 5% per week minimum.

I suspect you have a few ideas, but it becomes a different sort of question when you imagine yourself committing to one for the next 10 years. Which idea could you see yourself throwing all of your effort into growing each week till you’re today+10 years old?
"Rapidly", so most people don't even know the story about Redis changes and I would say 99.99 never heard about Valkey.
It's more common to refer to embeddings as low-dimensional.
> and started writing more code. The code did not compile. I was shocked. It’s quite an amazing feat, that, to have a recommended learning material that can make your very first program not compile.

Yah I had similar problems and `cargo` didn't just work for me. I've had a tough time getting rust going.

I just don't see the appeal. Memory safe sure, but I rather draw on the wealth of C/C++ knowledge if I am going to be writing code where Rust is a good fit.
That doesn't really contradict the post you're responding to, does it? (they say it is not that useful for bespoke medicine, you say that people are using it for research purposes, both can be true?)
Are they just using ad block? That should work with any search engine as well as it does on DDG.
Anybody care to attempt a TL;DR of this?
It's not sexist to acknowledge reality, and back in the 90s male-dominated media very much did have a tendency to portray women badly. The further back you go, the worse the problem gets.

In general, society has moved to be less and less tolerant of bigotry over time. Given that, you should expect that older media will be more bigoted than we currently tolerate.
Multistage RAG with LlamaIndex and Cohere Reranking
Individuals may, but the market doesn't.

So if you want companies to have any form of morality, you need to enforce it. Because otherwise all the ones that do care are just going to be outcompeted and die out, and you'll be left with specifically the worst of the bunch. Organizations and individuals act to their incentives, and if they don't, then they stop existing.

If ethics were self-enforcing, then we wouldn't need to be talking about it. We have laws against killing and stealing because without those laws, killing and stealing are a shockingly effective way to get ahead.
I can‘t imagine doing (clearly harmful) medical experiments without consent.

And nothing that would harm a group I belong to or support.

I generally wouldn‘t find pleasure in working on things that make people I have nothing against more miserable.

It‘s a very broad question. Really depends on a case by case basis.

I think I just really don‘t care about ethics at all, just my personal feelings.
Why bleak? What effects other than milder winters and sea level rising a few mm a decade?
I disable on YouTube, because the site is essentially unusable without it. YouTube ads are generally not horribly intrusive for the fairly small amount of time I spend using the site. There are a few other small sites I disable the ad blocker for, even if the ads are intrusive; the fact that the vast majority of sites I visit have their ads blocked make up for the few I allow in.
I know the fallacy, but I'm confused! Whose is the fallacious reasoning then, in your opinion?

Is it the OP who interprets pollution to be co2, or mine as you interpret me to be narrowing the scope somehow?
Why do the actions of HashiCorp and company have any bearing whatsoever on your decision to release and use unrelated open source software?
The Digital Market Act isn't a request, it's a law. Apple knows they aren't acting in the spirit of the law because they issued a press release about how bad it was for them and then re-tailored their transaction policy so it could continue to hamstring small businesses and open distribution. They are in conscious, open rebellion against the explicit demands of Europe's regulators; nobody would have invented a Core Technology Fee if this weren't true.

From yet another perspective, all censorship is bad whether it's implicit or explicit. If Apple spends money fighting and lobbying against market protections while caving into surveillance demands abroad, it says a lot about the "spirit" in which they interpret legislation.
As far as I read, law enforcement was there just to remove the people from the premises, not to stop violent behavior. You do realize many protests involve just sitting in place until police drags you away, and that that's intentional?
He's in a better place now.
I have seen him on television and Youtube, reading these comments it seems his books are interesting as well.

I very much enjoyed him in the documentary series "A Glorious Accident", the show featuring him was - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_bv7rDB5e8

and the show in the series featuring a round table of him, Stephen Jay Gould, Freeman Dyson, Oliver Sacks and him is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrnn7QW6Jg
Lindows Operating System
Hmmm sounds like something Paul Graham would say.
I would have thought this headline was peak HN clickbait
> the highest probability of growing at 5% per week minimum

I don't think this is a helpful frame, because you can't know this in advance, and I'd hate for anybody to read something like this, feel "I have no idea what could grow 5% per week minimum", and close the page on getting started. No one knows this in advance.

What YC teaches is to start by making something a few people actually want, no matter how small it is or seems, and then iterate. It's much more important, for example, to work on something you're personally interested in than something you've persuaded yourself has a chance at growing "5% per week minimum".
From the perspective of a photon, there is no such thing as time. It's emitted, and might exist for hundreds of trillions of years, but for the photon, there's zero time elapsed between when it's emitted and when it's absorbed again. It doesn't experience distance either.
A large part of how DHH stays relevant is by getting outraged about things on the Internet.
Apparently he elaborated his position a little later:

> Given a free choice of having an early abortion or deliberately bringing a Down child into the world, I think the moral and sensible choice would be to abort.

> For what it’s worth, my own choice would be to abort the Down fetus and, assuming you want a baby at all, try again.

> Given a free choice of having an early abortion or deliberately bringing a Down child into the world, I think the moral and sensible choice would be to abort.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/richard-dawkins-i-regret-...

This honestly seems like a reasonable statement to me, although I can understand why some would be upset by it.
A photon is indivisible that’s the quantum nature of light. You aren’t reflecting a part of it. To do so is a classical wave interpretation of light. The photon after reflection is not the same photon.
Blaming corporations for operating under the crappy rent-seeking laws our politicians create is de rigueur now.
Nothing, I would rather not use a site than turn it off. Even a good site isn't usually able to guarantee safe ad delivery, but if the site is worth it and offers a subscription or donation, I'll use that.

The ad blocker stays on though, much like a condom.
"then YC has a serious messaging problem"

People have been signaling this for quite some time.

Throughout this thread you attempt to dispel this perception, but I can't help but wonder why this isn't being addressed on a higher level at YC. Whether misperception or not, this view is certainly not contained to just HN, and is even shared by those who have no idea that this forum exists.
Stick a fork in it. It’s done.
More that in the 1950s other countries were recovering from bombing each other into rubble for the second time that century...
Legislation only impairs the good guys.
Httpfs: Create filesystems using your favorite HTTP framework
Kona Blue Unclassified [pdf]
Dynamic Typography: Bringing Text to Life via Video Diffusion Prior
One could even fit their own "widgets" into their homepage to extend functionality, eg show the weather or tide.
It's not really the old device anymore when you have to upgrade memory, CPU and GPU.
Going full wacky-pirate-adventure and changing the graphical style is arguably better, though, than trying more closely to imitate Gilbert and inevitably coming up short.
Just finished W24 batch with no Ivy/FAANG background.

Everyone I met in our batch was very friendly, curious, and razor-sharp. Many people have credentialed backgrounds, many people do not.

I generally buy YC’s justification that many of the smartest people happen to go to Stanford/Ivy which is why they are over-represented.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083409
> Many types of manufacturing. If you're making e.g. textiles, and being tired means you occasionally produce something that gets tossed out by quality control, this is not obviously a danger to anyone so it's just a cost trade off in wasted material vs. benefits of operating the factory for longer hours.

Do you have any idea how much those machines cost, how easy it is to destroy them, or how quickly they'll remove the skin from your body? If some exhausted bonehead crashes a line how long will it take for repairs? Do you have spare parts on hand? Do they still make spares?

> Many types of emergency response or on-call work. You just got off an 8 hour shift when an emergency happens.

That's not a 12 hour shift, that's an 8 hour shift moving into triple overtime. Everyone involved in your scenario is fully aware that they're rolling the dice on people's lives due to an emergency.

> But also, the point is that different people have different levels of endurance. Some people will be making more mistakes after 6 hours than someone else would be making after 12.

I'm assuming everyone has the same level of endurance because I'm not willing to gamble my livelihood on the self-awareness of some random asshole off the street. It doesn't matter how much they want to work if their output isn't making us money.
> Long Reviled as 'Ugly,' Sea Lampreys Get Some Respect (2023) (yale.edu)

Wait, does this mean there are also land lampreys??
You don't need a marketable idea. YC cares about founders and that's it. Everything else can be taught.

But you're absolutely right that that is on the short list of bogus reasons not to apply.
Not cheating, the reference (a tree carving IIRC) would be in the tree before the events of the first game of the series, so before guybrush would have met Elaine. It’s understandable that she would have lovers before guybrush, but the implication that one could have been the big bad LeChuck, makes guybrush fume, even if it’s just an initial.
It’s a true statement that they don’t know what the electron is. In the standard model the electron is a point particle with no volume.
It can certainly answer it, but whether it can answer it accurately is another matter.

To make it even trickier: it isn't only religious people who are affected by faith, though clever word play, cultural norms, etc can make it appear otherwise.
Well then you'll be relieved to know that that aspect of GOPATH was made optional in 2018 and hasn't been the default since 2021.
Cursor is an AI first fork of VS Code
Yeah, tyres on heavy vehicles are a real extra cost!
(author here) Thanks for pointing this out, you're right that Loan would most likely be a POJO with other surrounding helper abstractions. Might rework this code example a bit so it's a fairer comparison.

The point I was trying to convey is not that OOP is bad, it's just a tool after all and some codebases can be great, but rather there are multiple ways to structure and write code that come with different trade-offs (FP is another obvious example). Many developers don't bother to understand these tradeoffs and go deeper and deeper down the abstraction rabbit hole to the point it becomes harmful, without questioning what value they are actually getting from it, think FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition.

Stripe realized most devs were writing code to be executed in a "lambda style" way and optimized the experience for that via Commands, which I thought was cool. I phrased it as "The OOP Myth" since I've only seen large companies follow OOP so it _was_ pretty shocking to me to see this in action.
My memory from the time was that the OSI was mostly about trying to characterise the various licenses that were floating around, and about legitimising the use of freeish software in industry.

Today the majority of free software that I use seems to be Apache/BSD/MIT - and GPL for Linux - but back in the 90s everyone seemed to make up their own “free” license, and there was a lot of confusion around GPL. My recollection is that OSI was trying to create some clarity around which licenses really were “free”, and which weren’t.

I was just a passive observer, I was not involved in any way, I wasn’t a fan of some of the players, and I even thought calling it OSI was pretentious - but nevertheless they made a dent in the universe by popularising the term “open source”. OSI was far more than a rebranding because it enabled us to speak about GPL - which imposes conditions on use - and free licenses like BSD in the same breath, while excluding what we now call “source available” licenses.

So despite my misgivings, I think the OSI deserves credit. They stood up and did something meaningful, and helped move the entire software industry forward.

Because of this, I think calling it a rebranding is totally unjustified and unfair.
Any amount of carriage returns would still amount to one line. A newline character is needed.
Is there any reason I don’t just stick with redis 7.2.4 instead of trusting redict/valkey to not inject some backdoor trash? I can avoid the corporate pivot and the random fork at the same time.
So often I see the word robot used, when machine would be more appropriate.
While I disagree with this on its own merit, its important to point out this does not address the question/topic.

Asked above was:
(a) What steps of reasoning do you think are unsound?
(b) What reasons do you believe that China has to agitate a conflict with the US?

You answered (c) here is how China could avoid a conflict with the US

I'm sure you have questions about why this is disagreeable. But could we first resolve the open questions (a) and (b)?
LLaMA 3 70B Llamafiles
It would be nice to have something like this except for Metal. I'm unsure why Apple made Metal an Objective-C API when C + Core Foundation would suffice. One big advantage of a C API is it's easy to interop with other programming languages.
So, your shocked? Seceded from Mexico, then the USA.
How does sctp work with NAT that your typical home box uses?
I did… the core of any discussion about per capita gun ownership numbers in the country starts there.
There are almost two hundred thousand employees at Google. No matter what environment Google fosters, there are always going to be 0.01% who think it’s OK to stage a protest in the office.
"And I worry about the comments I see on HN interpreting YC as just for credentialed-elite applicants".

Eh, I feel like it's partly true but not by design. The people who are smart enough or connected/rich enough to get into ivy league schools are more likely to be able to dedicate resources to an idea or creating a better sales pitch. I would guess that post-grads and ivy league grads are over-represented compared to the population in general or the population of college grads.

Of course a good idea can come from anywhere, but I'd imagine the data supports the idea that the odds are better for some groups vs others.
I remember watching a conference video featuring Moxie - he was the golden child, and there was an older guy saying "We've been doing cryptography for so long... how do we get paid?"

Sounded very much like a inner circle backroom deal kind of moment.

Guess they figured it out!