skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There must be some barrier to entry in the market that prevents that, and that's what I would target.

Training to be a vet is a long process. The patients are nice (mostly), but don't communicate well, and some of the customers are terrible. In my area, there's a shortage of small animal vets because they can make a lot more money in the big city. There's an even worse shortage of large animal vets because the job is worse, and they can make a lot more money working with small animals in the big city. Our large animal vet won't do callouts for emergency/urgent services anymore unless you're on contract for annual checkups; routine visits are good for vet morale and help the budget.
There is a rumour of an OpenAi event apparently next week, so likely what this is.

Some creators also seem to suggest they know what is going on, youtube mattvidpro hinted at it when talking about the gpt2-chatbot, he mentioned he knew something but couldn't talk about it or get sued.
I'm confused and the term vaccine. My understanding was that a vaccine contains a deactivated virus. Is mRNA not a form of gene therapy? I understand not wanting to spook people away getting the shot during an actual pandemic and altering terminology, but isn't this something other than a "vaccine"?
That belies that fact that the play is usually to finance a bunch of debt to prop it up, pay themselves PHAT bonuses, and then let it burn to the ground. Honestly, it's gotten way past tiring that the government continues to let this same scenario play out over and over and over again.
Real-time AI using scalable non-expert crowdsourcing in colorectal surgery
I think we need to simplify for broad audiences (I realized this post is aimed at technical people). The beginning and end of the list should be "use a password manager". Other things are also great, but this first step is huge and I wouldn't even try mentioning the later steps to most people.
I disagree (that unscrupulous capitalists are people, they are monsters)
Any one have issues with the Desktop App loading to a blank white screen?
Why would you label the Rust-eze car "C++"?
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This objectively makes the world a worse place. I challenge you to come up with any ethical angle that supports your work on this product.
Profoundly obnoxious of course. It'll take some time, but hopefully a mix of manual flagging and automated countermeasures will be sufficient to quash this onslaught.

Meanwhile, as to the visionary genius behind this thing:

Experimental urbanist Scott Fitsimones shares how these mission-driven, blockchain-governed, collectively owned organizations could increase the speed and efficiency of building cities (among many other applications) -- all while pooling decision-making power in a radically collaborative way. Hear about how he started a "crypto co-op" that bought 40 acres of land in Wyoming and learn more about the potential for DAOs to get things done in the future.

https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_fitsimones_could_a_dao_build...

https://theresanaiforthat.com/u/scottfitsimones/

And the carefully chosen product name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_guy
Are they entirely to blame? No. Everyone who capitalizes on the deal shares some blame. The consumer and the economy do get hurt. Late stage capitalism is starting to destroy what was good about capitalism and we need regulations to keep things sane.

There is a finite amount of capital in the world (with a little more printed each year of course). But they're not printing 20% more every year, so companies can't keep expecting to grow by 20% every year forever. It's just not possible and once a company reaches certain thresholds, we need regulations that prevent them from destroying the good parts of capitalism for simply more money than they had last year.
Beyond a certain point that ceases to be interpolation and just becomes simulation. An image only has so much information in it, and AI isn't magic.
Thanks buddy i agree with every word you said and will check this link out as well, thanks again! /s
Additional datapoint: I saw two people get married at a 5.11 retail store.
If you've been on Reddit for a long time, IMHO, it was obvious that the front page was effectively taken over at least a decade ago by shilling and rigging (not counting recreational karma gaming that was going on forever before that).

And surely in recent years people have been doing things like this ReplyGuy, especially with LLMs and with lesser hacks before that, and more secretly.

What ReplyGuy gives us, with their apt roofie predator logo, is a face we can put to one of them.
Middle school's battle against cellphones yielded surprising results
On one hand I agree that this should be flagged and taken off homepage (as it is right now), but. Otoh more people need to be aware of such scams and simply not trust reddit, hn, etc as good source of information anymore.
Everything I've ever seen written by LLMs reads like they're a high school kid trying to pad an essay. I'm not surprised at all this does the same.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230812
TBH this has nothing to do with hacking, well mental hacking maybe.

The original hacker did sell stuffs too but they mostly follow the path of introducing computing and products of computing to the mass market.

This one? It's just an ads grab.
It's interesting to see the author answer with "yes." As I understand, two of the underlying principles presupposed by science as an endeavor are methodological naturalism and the principle of the uniformity of nature. The second only really needs to be locally true, i.e. maybe fundamental physical laws or constants don't necessarily hold across all time and space, but they hold at least enough to be able to infer them from data, make predictions, and confirm or disconfirm those predictions. Methodological naturalism seems to be more necessary, though.

There are at least two forms of supernaturalism I can think of. First is the unmoved mover that lays down fundamental laws and constants, creates the basic ontology of physical substrate, and sets everything in motion, but from that point on, never actively intervenes. This is the God of Deism and the clockwork universe of the early Englightenment. Second is one or more personal forces that are not constrained by the physics of our universe, who actively watch and care what happens, can potentially be pleaded with, and may intervene to cause events that have no physical explanation. This is the more common God or gods of theistic traditions, or spirits of animistic traditions.

Each of these would be impossible to investigate scientifically because their actions would need to formulated purely in terms of internal state, or intent and teleological goals. They could not be predicted. These supernatural beings could potentially act in any manner they please, making them impossible to understand purely by observation. Instead, you could at best hope they might explain to you their actions and motivations and that these would not change over time. This is why religion relies upon prophesy and received knowledge or revelation, not observation.

On the other hand, it seems the author is here using "supernatural" not to necessarily refer to things that are actually supernatural, but to encompass things like ghosts and remote viewing that may be postulated as supernatural, but assuming they were real, could also have naturalistic explanations we just don't currently have the means to figure out. Science can and even currently tries to investigate things like this. It might be niche, but it happens. Even T1 research universities have departments dedicated to paranomal research, Duke most prominently that I'm aware of among US schools.
Whataburger :(
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I'm not sure how much the high end of households whose assets have appreciated with inflation are feeling the suck. I think there are a fair number of households at the top that are feeling better off as reflected in their spending increases in spending in sectors such as travel which can be attributed to a wealth effect[1], as older and wealthier households see their assets increase in value and their confidence increase.

Increases in asset prices spurn consumer spending in wealthier households relative to their proportion of assets owned - the top 10% of households own 62% of the assets.[2]

[1]https://apnews.com/article/inflation-economy-wealth-rates-fe...

[2]https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
> Most applications that use C++ are latency and efficiency critical.

I'll take the under on this. There are plenty of C++ applications that are "latency and efficiency critical" but I'd guess it's well under 50% of all the C++ software out there.
Since the advent of bootable ISOs on disc and then large USB flash drives, I haven't bothered with any kind of recovery options on my computer, and now actively remove them. See recovery partitions, recovery kernel (on fedora) etc, etc.

Feels redundant, and I enjoy having the disk space back. An external flash boot drive has saved me countless times, and is useful for other stuff.
On it I now use Ventoy, which I heartily recommend. So much better than imaging the whole drive.
you wrap those properly. believe me waking up in the middle of the night because someone abused panic to throw state around, end up being called from a new goroutine, just enough to crash the entire pod, sucks even more.
Eh, PE also takes over businesses where the owners just want to cash out. Plenty of businesses too small to IPO but plenty of revenue to sell to PE.
Not really, one quarter doesn't mean that much.

When we had stagflation both inflation and unemployment was far higher. Please learn from history.
As an ADHD stoner that's never had any cognitive benefits from weed, I'd be very interested in reading about the exact conditions where that occurred in others. Please do share those studies if you can find them.
We use https://kite.video for our demos and it works great for that style of video
He's not born in America so he certainly cannot run for president.

Your criteria for accusing someone of treason is ridiculous and I am thankful you are not in charge of our government.
I have. Many many people have.
This conversation is literally about not paying for cable.
Consumer behavior is fine. Consumer sentiment isn't but improved a bunch since last year.

It's irrational malaise
At the expense of making everyone else's life slightly worse through bogus product recommendations and slowly degrading the quality of the medium you advertise in? Guys, have you considered taking from the commons? There's all free stuff there, it's benefited me personally.
Out of the links in the footer:

- Painkiller Ideas and Replyguy both use Azure DNS and Microsoft hosting which means the footer probably contains the creators' other projects

- while stealth.marketing is hosted very differently, it uses partially the same and partially very similar CSS

- stealth.marketing says it's "powered by reddit" with the reddit logo which I'm sure the Reddit PR department will absolutely hate when finding out, given they ruin the platform (probably not even using the API)

Looks like there's an easy way to make this all collapse
I sent a bunch of a Feature Request feedbacks for what seemed like obvious and easy improvements that maybe only a new user would notice.

There are hundreds if not thousands of to do list and productivity apps on the web, but something I've noticed is that many of the smaller ones have very devoted users. So my unsolicited advice is to try to make a niche happy, rather than trying to make the general population like it. Target feature improvements at the people who already want what you're making, ignore the folks who make feature creep suggestions because they're looking for something else.
They don't really prevent new competition, rather than target markets that specifically have a larger barrier to entry such that new competition is rare to form.

i.e. these vet clinics - a PE firm can buy up 40 disparate vet clinics in a large city then raise fees and cut staff. You may be lucky if a few new clinics appear over the next couple years once customers are fed up with the increased price and reduced quality.

It's still a win for the PE firm and a loss for most of the consumers.
Working on Honcho[0] a platform for personalizing LLM based applications to individual end users.

It was inspired when working on a tutoring service and realizing that the key problem of AI tutors was that they didn't know the student well enough. As we started tackling the problem other builders around us mentioned similar concerns. It's been pretty hard to explain the value to those not experiencing the same problems, but it's slowly catching on.

[0] https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho
That's an assumption, as they could easily develop a search engine and incorporate the same advertising model used by Microsoft Bing.

I've noticed an interesting pattern: before releasing LLaMA 3, OpenAI provided access to ChatGPT 3.5 without requiring registration.

Meta might also follow this path with its own search engine. Did you know that you can now ask questions directly on Instagram and receive answers from Meta AI using LLaMA 3?

Why go elsewhere for information when you can easily find it in the app you use every day?
I actually had to ask myself whether this was written by a real person or by a bot like ReplyGuy. I've never felt the need to ask that before. I hate this.
The Reddit thread is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1cgrz46/local_g...
Changes to iOS App Distribution Fees in the EU
> They were fired for blocking a senior executives private office.

That must be it. That must be why the media, congress, colleges, etc are all cracking down on protests. Where were they a few years ago when 'peaceful protests' were 'peacefully' burning down cities? It says something when both MSNBC and Fox News agree on cracking down on protests.
Radix trees are not O(1), they're O(log n). Data structures that support constant-time predecessor lookup do not exist, there is a super-constant lower bound, even in the RAM model [1].

Often I hear people say "well pointer size is constant, so log(64) = O(1)", but that is misleading: if you assume constant pointer size, any function of that is O(1) as well, so any bounded algorithm is O(1). The notation just becomes meaningless.

Asymptotic bounds must be presented and understood in context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predecessor_problem#Mathematic...
I want my investments to pay back over 30 years to me. I don't care about quarter to quarter returns. I don't need to invest for my grandkids for any of this.
Oh, absolutely. Never heard of the LinkedIn scraping lawsuit before? They are totally willing to throw their lawyers at you for using the platform in a way it's not intended to be used in
Well, in these cases it would be pretty easy to test for the presence of asbestos in these cancers. If it works like mesothelioma, it would still be present in the tissue.

However, it doesn't sound like anyone has actually done any testing like this.
> because the user could use a chroot to replace /usr/lib with something different

You need to be root in the first place to be able to do that
To be fair, Musk sometimes comes off as disinterested in the company.
Seriously, take this picture[1] label the Dinoco car "C++", Rust-eze "Rust", and Hostile Takeover Bank "Go". Done!

[1] https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s90b...
Yet nominal GDP growth and real GDI were high and positive (respectively). GDI should equal GDP so it was a unique situation, not really indicative of any additional non-energy financial strain.
Making money off restaurants is incredibly hard. It's just a lousy business. Even well-run, well-liked, well-attended restaurants are often running on incredibly thin profit margins.

Which seems crazy, since the costs of inputs are so low at most restaurants. They pay workers embarrassingly little money, and the ingredients have massive externalities. (Those "endless shrimp" are possible because of literal slave labor and environmental destruction in southeast Asia.)

And yet restaurants bleed money. There are so many invisible costs -- replacing bent silverware, repairing the walk-in fridge, shady suppliers whose produce you have to toss, etc etc etc etc. It's just a crappy business.

A private equity firm may not know how to turn a profit. Or they could run it with a tiny profit that just isn't worth their time and effort, and it's easier to just shutter it. It's a much bigger hardship to the employees than it is to them -- even the potential gains are too small.
Tiffany Cianci is at the dead center of a battle with private equity trying to monopolize young child development centers. Her horrific personal story will open your eyes as to just how depraved and soulless private equity can really be in their attempt to take over the world. (TL;DR: they literally forced her give a deposition while she was having a miscarriage.) The government should be writing laws to curtail these kinds of bloodsucking parasites.

https://www.tiktok.com/@tiffanycianci
For the same reason that large tech firms lay off thousands and shutter successful, or yet to be released projects.

Short term gains over a long, steady market is the current driving mentality of Western capital.
The problem is that a lot of the details requires macOS accessibility permissions (identifying active window, measuring cursor movements), so there's non-trivial platform specific code.

For product demos specifically, best bet might be a Chrome-extension-based product like Arcade!
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Gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food
The gist of this blog post seems to simply be that C++ has a lot of momentum.
Not to mention that the demonstration I've seen of a sub microsecond trading platform was written in Java. and talking to my manager who used to be a developer in high-frequency trading - he tells me that's a pretty common language in that space. Which, I'll be honest, kind of blew my mind.
Computer Guy explaining the international sex entertainment economy to a stripper has got to be pretty close to peak Computer Guy.
Also:

“unique per product” means unique for each individual product
of a given product class or type.

Overall, why not just require random passwords of a certain length? Compared to generating a hash, generating a random password is easier (no data input, such as the serial number, is needed) and no less user-friendly.

Or, define it in terms of entropy? Maybe that kind of technicality is too hard to understand.
Was this made in partnership with MKBHD?
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What user defrost said. Also $1M is quite hard to do, that would indicate a salary(single not married in my example) of a principle engineer at FANG* or Sr. Director and there are very few of those around. Or you could be a Staff engineer and join a company with a parabolic stock price like NVDA or something similar.
This sounds like something out of Idiocracy
Webb telescope probably didn't find life on an exoplanet – yet
The author of the font made it also Glyph Drawing Club "compatible", which is a modular shape builder I've built that works with font files. You can just drag and drop an otf or ttf file on the app window and it'll load the glyphs as svg shapes to draw with. The neat thing is that it works in two dimensions, and you can also rotate (with r hotkey) or invert (with i hotkey) the glyphs, and output the drawing as SVG or PNG.

https://glyphdrawing.club
It doesn't force it, but it is much more fun to use once you understand the fundamentals, since you can still write code where it makes a difference.
We had a recession 4 years ago. Growth is good, consumers are spending, and unemployment is at a ~50 year low.
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> Overall book sale stats apply to all books from throughout history that are still in publication. A bestseller from 1924 or 1824 might sell only 10 copies in calendar year 2024, but it might have reached 1 million in lifetime sales.

I don't really get this criticism. How are "overall sales" over a period of a century or two relevant to anyone in a business context or assessing the health of the industry?