skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My wife and I have a profitable business here in SF that would be perfect as a startup

Keep doing what you're doing.

Being VC funded shouldn't be the holy grail - the holy grail is having a business you enjoy doing, that's making you the life you want.

For some the life you want is pitching, raising, getting the kudos of the big numbers, onto the next raise etc.

For some the life you want is the complete opposite and bootstrapping it.

For some it's just all about the technical aspect, coding the next crazy thing.

There's no wrong or right answer in how you get to the 'happy place'.

You know in your heart of hearts what drives you, and what you'll be happy doing.

Me :
I'd been with the money men for a period of years and it's super stressful, board reporting, projections, market analysis etc.

Now I've got my little B2B SaaS startup that's blended a life long passion with my software chops, and our clients love us, we get to work with the absolutely best people in our industry, we're making a difference in their lives, and they in turn pay us money.

It's hard, rewarding, graft. At the end of the week when the money lands in stripe (for me..) there's nothing artificial, there's no projections, there's no-one to pay back, it's a 100% value exchange of 'heres my(our) hardwork, here's a product and you're giving me money for it'.

Sure - could I potentially have gone the VC route (maybe!). Would it be different, hell yes. Would I (probably) earn more ultimately 5 years down the line (sure?). That 5 years would be very, very different...
Traders Are Cashing Out of Markets En Masse
I run 8b on my Macbook air m2 with 16gb's of vram at decent speed of 12 t/s (mlx can probably get 15 t/s).

I use the Q5_K_M GGUF, which is >99% the same as the original.

I've seen tests that there is close to no divergence with these quantisations, but it rises steeply going lower:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1816h1x/how_muc...
Never heard of exoscummvm but https://www.scummvm.org/ is the original site. I spent a lot of time playing Monkey Island the ds version of scummvm.
Generating random numbers into a refillable buffer is the standard for high-performance RNG, whether you're doing CSPRNG or not (it's how V8 uses xorshift, for example). "stop the world" is not a problem when the time to refill the buffer is still measured in nanoseconds.

There's nothing stopping you from having multiple CSPRNG instances, with deterministic seeds, if that's a design requirement.
“Hi and welcome to whattimeisitnow.com, you are greenlit!”
Single-vendor is not proprietary because I can fork VSCode and I can't fork Microsoft Word.

Single-vendor open source is the balance some companies have found between sharing their software with the community and capturing the value of their employees' labor. It's less free than openly developed FOSS and more free than proprietary software. It's unrealistic to expect all software to be openly developed FOSS with today's economics; the hundreds of thousands of contributors to single-vendor open source projects all need rent money, and you can't build a business on providing the open-source backend for AWS managed services.

Companies will move up and down the freedom gradient depending on their needs at any given time. Sometimes they do it well, and sometimes they handle it in a kludgy and myopic way (I'm looking at you, HashiCorp). LinkedIn open-sourced Kafka, and Elastic restricted their license for ElasticSearch. Software doesn't always go from "more free" to "less free."
I find Objective C more pleasant to use than C++. Maybe I'm crazy.
Again, sugar is a shorthand for fructose. Whenever this comes up someone muddies the water by saying that glucose is a sugar too but that isn't what is being talked about.
You don't need to migrate to the US.

But I believe you do need to be there with your co-founders for 3 months.

And if you can't manage that then running a VC backed startup isn't what you should do.

Because you will need to visit customers and it's often not feasible to just fly to/from constantly.
Source paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I don't think MoE is the way forward. The bottleneck is memory, and MoE trades MORE memory consumption for lower inference times at a given performance level.

Before too long we're going to see architectures where a model decomposes a prompt into a DAG of LLM calls based on expertise, fans out sub-prompts then reconstitutes the answer from the embeddings they return.
I sent an unsolicited 25 page paper about memes that I wrote, as just some (fairly pretentious!) guy without a college degree, to Professor Dennett, in the early oughts. And he just went ahead and read the thing and gave me very kind feedback on it.

I'm sure he was a busy person, and didn't have any obligation to respond to me, at all. It touched me deeply. What a generous and gracious soul he was.

I mean these words in a non-supernatural way, of course. :-D A toast to Mr. Dennett's wonderful memory.
I would encourage you to watch any recent YouTube video produced by any Cybertruck owner. Middle America, who is generally anti-EV, disagrees with you. That is why Tesla is doing this.
TBH I've only dipped my toe into Unison, but I don't believe it would let you re-bind the same identifier in the same scope in the same compilation unit. It's more that `foo(3)` becomes a call to the hashed version `#e0ca5f(3)` forevermore. Once a function has been compiled, it doesn't care what the names of any functions it uses are afterward, until you explicitly recompile them to use the new names. So it really has more to do with preventing versioning conflicts ... others can explain it much better than me, sorry.
OK. I finally gave it a shot. But https://apply.ycombinator.com/bio/edit is broken. So I can't submit my application.

Not interested now. You guys need to fix your website.
@mbforbes: perhaps be more careful with your acronyms. NLP to me could be
Non-Linear-Programming (operations research) or Neuro-linguistic Programming (psychology) instead of Natural Language Processing (from later context).

Writing speech recognition instead of ASR would be clearer to anyone without a similar background.

Your audience is HN so my guess is that you assume we all know the industry/academic terms here. I’m unsure how correct that assumption is - I’m just suggesting take care when using your acronyms in other places.
Oh, there's plenty of cobbled together stuff. But we were talking about strain relief. That's boring compared to some of the dumb stuff that I've seen come out of that factory. :-)
Vector storage of choice + Langchain
If it looks like a canary, and sounds like a canary, it might be a canary.
You can still be rich. Tech culture, or rather modern capitalism, tells us that businesses need to raise a bunch of money, capture a bunch of users, and then squeeze them for all they'll take.

It fails us in two very distinct ways. It encourages us to think that is the only viable option and it's unethical. Primarily because it requires the perception of customers (and often employees) as a means to an end (not humans).

However, the possibility for ethical, sustainable business models is still very real. I tend to believe we're going to see another wave of those soon as people figure out that it's actually easier to make a living that way.
The problem is that the TCP/IP model stops at level 4, and if we consider TCP a protocol of transport, it shouldn't do that.

In the OSI model what you talk about is level 5, that is session, but in TCP/IP there is no such level, thus it must be handled by the application (e.g. trough a session cookie, in HTTP).
If you haven't yet, you should definitely read the famous little scifi story Light of Other Days.

Full text: https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~jharlow/slowglass.htm
CLion seems to support it through a mixture of clangd and its own parser: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/c-support.html#cpp-stan...
Proactive, in this case, means “before they are legally required to.”

If they waited until NHTSA performed their investigation and made a recall request (which is how the heavy majority of the recalls in the US are performed), that would be reactive.
The car washes here pull you by the front tire. The other wheels need to roll, which would not be possible with the car turned off - either a gear would be engaged, or the parking brake applied automatically.
https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/how-long-do-ev-batter...

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/how-long-do-ev-ba...
You can't forkvscode...
Tools exist that can reassemble 8080 assembly language code to run on the 8086 or later x86 CPUs. The opcodes aren't quite the same, but they're close enough feature wise. Indeed it was one of the original design criteria for the 8086 to be source compatible with 8080 code.
I wonder if Curse of Monkey Island would translate well to the iPad?
> I would expect that people who dismiss philosophy do so from a position of relative ignorance.

That's entirely possible. It's even possible that my assessment is based on ignorance. I am certainly not an expert in the philosophical literature, and even more certainly not an expert in it recently. The last time I looked seriously at the philosophical literature at all was decades ago and maybe things have changed. But I am an expert in science, and computer science in particular (I have a Ph.D.) and so I can say with some authority that the philosophy literature that I looked at back in the day exhibited a profound ignorance of basic results in CS and math, and also a pretty profound lack of common sense. I found a lot of papers that were tackling non-problems that were based on false assumptions, the moral equivalent of fake proofs that 1=0 where the object of the game is to spot the flaw in the reasoning. And spotting the flaw in the reasoning wasn't even challenging. It was just obvious.

It also seems to me that a lot of what is nowadays called philosophy is just pretty transparent cover for religious apologetics.

Now, as you say, I could be wrong. I'm not an expert. If I'm wrong, I welcome being enlightened. But if you want to take that on I think you will find that I am not completely clueless. I suggest you start with citing an example other than Dennett or Maudlin of someone you think is doing good work in philosophy nowadays.
We can’t be afraid of technology because of movies.

Do you not know of all the technology that we enjoy today that had movies and books decrying the dangers?
MABC: MultiAgent Blockchain Collab for RC analysis in microservices architecture
Money is money. In theory they could dilute the shareholders by issuing new shares into the market and use the money to pay employees more. But this fails to identify what magic is to be used to cause them to want to do that.

Employers (and employees) generally have a pretty good idea what the market price is for a particular job. If they have to fill 100 positions and offering $25/hour causes them to get 100 qualified applicants who accept the position, they could offer $35/hour, but this is like saying that the employees could accept $15/hour when another employer is offering $25. Some explanation is required for why they would.
Nvidia dragged to worst day since March 2020 after Super Micro plunge
pretty meaningless. the past doesn't repeat and you never bothered to prove the implication anyway
The Mind's I made the biggest impression on me. I don't know if that generalizes, you not being a 1980s teen now.
No idea how many people applied but I'm sure there's no lack - I just felt bad for forgetting to put the usual footer at the bottom a month ago. And I worry about the comments I see on HN interpreting YC as just for credentialed-elite applicants. It's deeply not true and I have a personal feeling about the question - being one of the uncredentialed-unelite-self-doubting types who could have been dissuaded from applying if I had been reading comments like that instead of pg's essays at the time.
Fascinating! My initial thought is that this is going to be very soil dependent. Is this the system you were using? Was it ballasted? https://www.aerocompact.com/en-us/products/ground-mount
He's name-dropped CopperSpice in some of his speeches, so he's certainly aware that it's not universally adored.
9. Parents got me an Apple //c for practicing chess (Sargon III), as my coach quit. The guy who sold the computer liked the questions I was asking him and threw in some programming books and magazines for free. I enjoyed programming a lot more than playing chess competitively, and I've been programming ever since.
> In order to explain the massive anomaly, our criminal government unleashed COVID on the world
> Meta

> Each of these fines would be drastically increased with further non-compliance

Meta has a history of non-compliance, bad faith and obvious incentive to breach EU regulations given they are in direct opposition to their business model. It has been in breach of the GDPR since it went into effect in 2018 (after a 2-year grace period designed to give businesses time to get into compliance) and is in breach of it to this day. Is it even possible to be more non-compliant than that?

At this point Meta has made so much profit from breaching the GDPR that even actually being hit with the max fine would still not offset what they earned breaching the regulation over the last 6 years since the max fine only considers revenue over the last year.

The EU has repeatedly demonstrated it is incapable or unwilling to stand up to these companies and the companies know it, that's why Meta is still around doing business as usual, and Apple is messing around with malicious compliance and will keep doing so for the foreseeable future. That's why Microsoft is now back at anticompetitive shenanigans despite getting burnt previously - they (correctly) determined that whatever EU enforcement capability burned them before no longer exists.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/forks

27,000 people seem to have done so.
The practice of rephrasing to get your word count up really irks me.

"Today, wolves, foxes, and snakes inhabit the cave, but it was once a popular spot for human pastoralists and their domesticated animals."

"Rather, they think it was a convenient spot for herders to stop and provide their flocks with shade and water."

"Even though humans didn’t have a permanent presence in the lava tube, the natural structure provided shelter for people and their herds for thousands of years"
Interview with Fei-Fei Li
Good job saving the kid. That's a genuinely heroic story.
VoodooX 3Dfx Project
That's a whole lot of "AI"...
Drone startup Zipline hits 1M deliveries, looks to restaurants as it cont
Sentry has acknowledged that they are having issues, it appears to be more than just their Dashboard that is having issues. [1]

[1] https://status.sentry.io/
Can’t it clone without fetching LFS files? Since the binaries won’t be analyzed anyway, they don’t need to fetch them from LFS.

(If you have large binaries that are not in LFS you should consider converting them)
Places with lower infant mortality tend to have lower birthrates. Population growth declines in places where fewer children need to be born to ensure some of them survive. Health care and education tend to slow population growth. Cutting child mortality is a good thing, even from a population growth perspective. It's not like we need more babies to die to prevent overpopulation or something...
From yet another perspective, one human lifetime of 100 years would see as much climate change as would normally be seen in 100,000 years.*

Humans only started farming 12,000 years ago (which I still find shockingly recent), and humans used to farm all over the middle east (thinking if Iraq specifically, it used to be largely arable).

All in all, it's getting really spicy for next couple centuries.

* except, the earth climate system can't change that fast relative to an impulse difference of Co2 levels. It us akin to putting 10 blankets on your bed. It takes time for heat to build up (the system experiences a latent effect)
Ultimately irrelevant things are added to headlines all the time, like all the stories about the Lincoln recall in this comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40089379

See how they don't just say it's a recall and remove context like it's done with Tesla?

Why are the media and some people so against including similar context for an OTA software when it comes to Tesla?
How much are you paid for this job? Is this your only source of income?
Alibaba claims to launch a server grade RISC-V processor this year
You both have a point. Hacker culture was well established by the 70s, so still a decade before Dennett's earlier works.

I do think its true that some of his work has resonated with many people who also resonate with "hacker culture".
I was thinking of features like an audio equalizer, introduced on a screen around 1989. Or very specific settings like audible warnings, tire pressure sensor setup, interior lighting... if everything was a physical button your car would look like a 747 cockpit (not that it would be such a bad thing!).

And yes, the backup camera. Essential safety feature in a world where 2-ton SUVs and children share spaces.
Let’s say I have an idea but it’s a niche, I know it won’t be more than ~1M in yearly revenue at its best. What is interesting for YC and what not when it comes to potential size?
> people on Macs

> pollute

gah, reminds me of my pet peeve.

Insert a drive, it gets .Trashes ._Trashes .DS_Store .fseventsd .Spotlight-V100 and other nonsense everywhere.

And if you are ever trying to recover a failing drive, do not mount it on a mac.
Coding Tutorials vs. Documentation: Which Is Better for Learning?
Too Many Models
Some are, though heavily deprecated: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/objectivec/nxhasht...
loci!
This person did not bring up the lack of proof for the claim unprompted, they responded to somebody asking about the truth of the statement:

> So is this a lie?

They were responding to this, and my interpretation of what they said is: "It doesn't appear to be a lie, but we do not know if is true, as somebody can be incorrect without lying".
I think one thing that people don't realize is that the YC application process is really one of the best tools for "sharpening" your idea/business.

The written applications forces you to articulate your ideas in a concise yet easy to understand way.

And as much as YC doesn't recommend this, the mock YC interviews we did with alums was one of those most beneficial things that happened to us. Because so rarely will you get the opportunity to ask dozens of other YC founders to grill your business, and have 80%+ of them say yes.

We did about 30 at the time, which is a lot of time to be taken off product/building, hence probably why they don't recommend it, but looking back it *really helped us understand our own business. Given how young/naive/early we were.
YC is totally a non starter for non US aspirants and it's not YC's fault.

Best case scenario - you end up having a company that's registered in US, would be paying taxes in US when it comes to that but you yourself wouldn't be allowed to set foot on the US soil, and even if that, would be shuttling for visa renewals every now and then.
Nice - I normally use [bash-readline](https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/bashreadlin...) when coworking/co-inhabiting a server or training someone.
I’ve heard both views from experts. If you look at the methodology used to collect data, and consider how different health system would what was available for review, it’s easy to question the validity of these studies.

Ex: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1...

“To model IBD mortality, we used the causes of death database, which includes data from vital registration and verbal autopsy data.”

“To estimate the non-fatal burden of IBD, we used two separate databases, one for Crohn's disease and another for ulcerative colitis. Both included data from literature, hospital discharges, and claims data (the latter available only from the USA in 2000, 2010, and 2012; further information on IBD data is provided in the appendix, p 21). ”
Honestly I'm surprised most of them were even available for download to begin with. Signal and telegram have been blocked on a network level for years so even if you could download them they were mostly useless.
They do something similar by sequencing the sewers for viral dna: https://www.nyc.gov/site/dep/whats-new/covid-19-wastewater-t...
It's more like I don't think cold calling ( tweeting) VCs yields results.

It's the equivalent of singing with a guitar outside of Columbia records. It's not like Paul McCartney is going to just tell you to step into his office and record a demo.

I do plan on taking some time off to work on my side projects though. Maybe I'll try again...
Porting Games for the Web with Emscripten
I have one right in front of my house. I thought it was a wasp nest until I happened on this article today.
It seems pretty clear cut to me. I've seen no argument against it that doesn't involve some logical fallacy. If you think you know of one please enlighten me.
Yes, I feel fortunate to have never wanted children; it's something that's actually brought me a lot of peace as I've gotten older. It's taken me a long time to come to some acceptance of the likely future of humanity and the Earth, and I can understand why it's so hard for those with children to do so themselves.
Exceptions are great! Some years ago I wrote a whole essay defending them from this sort of argument:

https://blog.plan99.net/what-s-wrong-with-exceptions-nothing...
There are easier "facts" to disprove AGW that don't rely on innumeracy. I mean you don't really care, you just want to have a "gotcha" and not think past that, but AGW was considered disproved for a few decades and you could get some "stumpers" that aren't quite as silly as playing number games.

The oceans can absorb a practically infinite amount of CO2, so there's no way for it to build up in the atmosphere in the long run. Also, the atmosphere is already saturated with CO2 to the point where adding more will have no effect. Also, water vapor's absorption spectrum overlaps that of CO2 so there is no way for CO2 to have any additional effect. All of these facts were known more than a century ago, and consequently AGW was considered disproved.

"Skeptics" should not read past this point, because it turns out all of those things are misleading. The oceans don't mix fast enough to prevent CO2 buildup, and the action of CO2 is felt not in the lower atmosphere but at the radiative top-of-atmosphere, the point where outgoing infrared radiation is more likely to escape to space than strike another molecule. Adding CO2 makes the CO2-dense region greater in extent, thus the outgoing heat takes longer to leave Earth, thus raising the total atmosphere temperature and causing a nasty feedback mechanism with H2O. Because this changes which elevation energy gets radiated at, we can directly measure it. Checkmate skeptics.

To tie this back in to the main point, Callendar was one of the prime movers in rehabilitating the AGW theory (one of his papers amusingly refers to the theory's "checkered past"), but it took until Keeling's work in the late 1950s to conclusively demonstrate the year-over-year increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
> They move at the speed of light and thus time does not advance for them.

Isn't it more accurate to say that photons move at the speed of causality, when the medium is a pure vacuum? Because in some other medium like glass, the speed of light is slower than the speed of causality.

So my follow-up question is: do slower photons (such as those propagating through a fiber-optic strand, or water) then experience the advancement of time?
Yeah, we used the g20 south-facing ground mount, no ballast, about 40 18” ground screws for a 48 panel array (relatively small 108 cell panels). Soil is clay, for reference, not very rocky, so might be unusually well suited for the screws. Easy to drive with a socket wrench or impact wrench, 1” heads.