skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Option a, you stay small, don't chase trends, and you bring in decent profits year after year. Eventually maybe you close but not after paying back the investments plus more.

Option b, you grow super fast, you have a lot locations, each one barely profitable, but you make it up on scale. You scale quickly enough that you make a lot of money before trends change. They key is that you accept that you're chasing a trend and move as quickly as possible to extract as much as you can.

Option c, you come up with the core concept, and you create a franchise program. You make your money off franchise fees & shadier stuff like making the franchisers use suppliers that you own. The franchises die when trends change but some made a profit, and your capital outlays were never very high, so you make a lot of profit.
Shhh and don't tell anyone about mainland Greece yet to be disturbed by tourism even though it has always been very easily accessible
Sure, but I'm not sure why we have to invent excuses for companies. They create them themselves just fine.
Bedside manner, you say? Get back to us with it's clinical success rates.
I think to certain extent it comes down to panic and chaos in the HR department. A chunk of people are fired, others quit or move to new positions. Projects are cancelled.

That has consequences for supervision of interns and would probably incur significant rescheduling and organizational overhead. So I see why something not considered "primary business, contributing to the bottom line" is simply cancelled.

Not great, though.
It would be nice if they could work out what this "medicinal" tree is and start mass-producing this paste because that looks like some serious healing going on there! ... or perhaps orangutans are just way better at this sort of thing that human are? I recently tripped up running and had a much smaller cut (compared to the apparent missing-chunk-of-flesh this orangutan had) on my knee that took several weeks to fully heal.

I'd pay for this paste!
I know you’re kinda joking but, The problem with socialism isn’t the voluntary organizations that people can join or leave at will, it’s the forced involuntary labor that is always brought about. Capitalism is about voluntary mutually beneficial partnerships which this is.
The really sad thing is that both of those used to be not so bad. Not good, mind you, but at least palatable. Now they're just nasty.
That’s a very cool project and I wish something like this would exist for all websites.

A few years ago I did a university project where we looked into (internet) research and how information discovery and gathering could be improved. (https://www.kaimagnus.de/projects/halo)

There we had the concept of a similar looking tree. Users could then come back to their exploration and take notes, prioritize and sort.

It was only a concept back then, so it’s nice to see it in action.
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Old building decay over time. A lot of COBOL still runs fine decades later.

Anyone involved in a major refactor knows it is a minefield. It should only be done as part of a strategic upgrade, not because Rust is "better" than C++.
Unwind Considered Harmful?
>Are they actually distinct?

I mean, I don't have data, so I don't know. My intuition and anecdotal experience says yes, they would be.

To start with an example: when I used to go out on the town with some buddies, we might end up at strip club at the end of the night after the bars close. OnlyFans wasn't out at the time, but I can guarantee that we wouldn't cap our night off by group-watching OnlyFans.

I have also had some rowdier nights with account managers trying to win over my business who would take me out to a higher end strip club. Again, I cannot imagine them taking me back to a hotel for a cozy OnlyFans viewing.

But I think it boils down to the completely different experiences. One is delivered through a monitor, one is physically there in front of you.
You are thinking about distraction wrong. Owning real estate isn't so difficult/time consuming that the managers lose much time/energy deal with it instead of running the business.

However it is an accounting distraction. If you own real estate you need to figure out which share of your profits comes from rent of real estate and which from the restaurant. If you cannot make both business profitable that means you should get rid of one. (sometimes that means sell the real estate and rent, sometimes it means close the business and rent the real estate to someone else). If both work out profitable, then keep going as is. (don't forget about intangibles, if real estate is a small loser it might be worth it just because you don't have to move and so can get loyal customers - but you should be intentionalable about accepting this loss)
MRSA is fairly common especially in hospital settings. After all, you have a setting where people are coming in sick with a disease that is hard to kill and resistant to antibiotics.
CEO at Kite (YC S23) here, thanks for the mentions!

Like Screen Studio, Kite lets you record your screen and automatically zoom in on the action.

But with some key upgrades:

- Combine multiple recordings

- Add text scenes with animations

- Place your recordings on a 3D device like a phone or laptop

- Add music and AI voiceovers

With lots more in the works.

It's still early, but we have lots of startups using Kite regularly for feature-launch videos. We're live on Mac OS and have a waitlist for Windows.

Get in touch if you have pain points in this space. Happy to chat any time!

https://kite.video
It's also trivially easy to culture MRSA. A lot of university micro-bio classes induce anti-biotic resistance in e-coli as an experiment for under graduates.
Something AI people have known forever is to not use an AI solution where the cost of a misprediction is large.
I did HS sprinting as cross training for fencing. Fencing is extremely asymmetric, to the point where my right (front) leg could lift twice the weight of my back (left) leg. It was freakish, and probably not healthy lol. It made my sprinting coach really uncomfortable, because my stride looked weird on the straights.

The curves felt great for me though, I really liked the 200m better than the 100m. Can't imagine how shitty it'd have been for a left handed fencer to run track, because the big muscles would be on the inside leg.
LLMs can be a component in a system. See them as better language handlers than existing algos for looking at what doctors write to see if there are mistakes or omissions. Flag things for review rather than make decisions. In the audit trail, there is less concern about what model you used to flag something for human review. If you can catch mistakes, you can save lives, and the hospital money
Supplying twelve fish pasties / moving fancy lances. Interesting that these are logistical type services. I wonder if logistics of sorts was a bigger concern then than we have now.
To me this is not even slightly surprising. Red Lobster used to be at the top of our list of restaurants. Then in recent years the quality of both the food and service deteriorated. One visit the food was so bad I couldn't even eat it. That was compounded by not having a server to talk to. Took our order and never returned - even had someone else bring out the order.

The thing about a restaurant is that you'll always have business if the food and service are good. You can talk about how the market changed or whatever, but no restaurant can survive at that price point while offering so little.

We had a chain BBQ restaurant in town that had a booming business for more than a decade. Then the quality of the food went downhill and they shut down, citing lack of a market. They had a market for years but there's no market for crap. Red Lobster's situation is no different.
If a company invented a drug that kills people, I don't think "extreme politicization" would be necessary for that company to have eyes and scrutiny on it. That would happen naturally.

But in this case weren't the makers actually indemnified? Here's a CNBC article from 2020 called "You can’t sue Pfizer or Moderna if you have severe Covid vaccine side effects. The government likely won’t compensate you for damages." https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-c...

Side note you mentioned you took "all" the vaccines but if you haven't gotten a dose since at least mid-Sept 2023, you are recommended to get another one: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-t...
That's a good point, you'd absolutely want to get away from adding another burden to the human.

Seeing relevant bookmarks when I'm viewing a specific note in my database could be useful though. And finding pull requests related to a subject might also be useful.

So the idea would be to reduce the number of searches performed by the human. Automate and enhance rather than dump and forget.
I would love to see some sort of PAKE integrated into browsers and regular form input fields. Browsers would very strongly encourage randomly generating passwords on signup and not allow the site access to them. Users would also be discouraged from exporting the generated password from the browser (but if needed to to log into a different computer or back them up could see the password). Seems to give 99% of something like WebAuthn but way more understandable to the average user.
To be honest that's not a bad way to go out. Better than years and years of treatment for something and a slow death. But yeah, the detection aspect would be interesting assuming these mRna viruses could cure cancer.
I follow this rule, or the variant where you wait for the first point release of a new major version, wherever possible. My desktop ran Debian bullseye until maybe about a month ago, when I updated to bookworm on its 5th point release. My browser of choice on that machine is firefox-esr, which is still on the 115.x branch.
I don't know if they changed it after you posted, but the page's title (&h1) is much less obscure: Intel Takes Next Step Toward Building Scalable Silicon-Based Quantum Processors
Interesting. I take Trazadone to reduce the number of nightly awakenings. I still get up 3-4 times a night but at least that gives me the opportunity to make it through a sleep cycle without waking up.
You are right. It looks more pixelated, but better quality at the same time somehow?
When 100% of liability for malpractice is placed upon the senior execs and major shareholders of the companies pushing medical AI my skepticism will abate slightly. Until that happens you've got perverse incentives and no downsides to provide meaningful guardrails.
It is already known -

> The team then saw Rakus chewing the stem and leaves of plant called Akar Kuning - an anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial plant that is also used locally to treat malaria and diabetes.
> The code looked simple and clean

I feel the same way, but after watching a couple of the videos Rich has put out I thought the main driver for the change were the “gotchas”. I have not done production Svelte development so I never really dealt with any of that. Given you’re background, are the caveats/pitfalls he mentions not common to your projects or do you just view the critique as newby problems?
Can't take the Razorback
The Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT – and Helped Set the Course for AI
Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland
Probing single electrons across 300-mm spin qubit wafers
Good point. Another famous example are the "entails" that many inherited estates in Britain had at one time (and a major plot point in the show Downton Abbey).
Pretty sure the cause of death "seeming very plausible" is highly valued.
Media outlets reporting on disinformation, as if they were neutral observers rather active propagators, is another method on how disinformation really works.
There's been no "surge" in immigration, except in the very short term where migration caught up with the backlog due to the pandemic. There was a steady increase of the foreign-born population fraction between 1970 and ~2010, and it's been essentially flat since then. This site has a great graph about half way down: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested...

You keep doing this thing where you cite headlines that cover half of your idea and then claiming that they support the whole, and they just don't. Yes, US birth rates are dropping (among both native-born and immigrant populations). No, that doesn't have anything to do with immigration per se, nor is it response to the (correct) point that the population is growing.
People who don't know how to tip bad for bad service (most of us!) are why tipping is bad. When you get a bill you should have a discussion about service quality with everyone and then decide what to tip (if you are solo is can be just you but still think). If you don't do that then you failed to use your tipping power.
It’s very interesting that you seem to be making a dichotomy between Chinese and American people instead of one between rich and poor mindsets.
This is 100% true in my experience.

Founders are good at founding, which is generally a very shortsighted and aggressive activity.

At some point, the business needs stability. Founders that stick around too long often cannot make that transition and end up making long term success untenable.

I’ve heard it called “Founder’s Syndrome” when a founder can’t bring themselves to step away and hand their creation off to a better caretaker.
Not sure if it is only me but the date is not visible after I select it. I am using Brave at the moment.
More than half close within a year and it's closer to 80% after five years, but the ones that make it past that point are a lot more likely to thrive. Kinda like turtles going out to sea.

> Tons of capital investment

I mean it's not that much capital, compared to most businesses. You need way more money to start a software shop than a restaurant.
Right. My local non-chain Mexican restaurant charges far less than Olive Garden, or any other nearby chain for that matter, and manages to put out large quantities of very tasty food. Not surprising, the place is usually very busy.
Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring a Chief of Staff in SF
You're quite literally making stuff up.
> the majority of the profits don't go to the people working them

False. A well run restaurant might make 10% profit. But they pay double or triple that to the staff and managers.
I agree with @cityofdelusion's comment.

You can absolutely set limit orders, but depending on the limit, other people may or may not be willing to trade with you. Your order can sit all day and never be accepted.

If I want to sell AAPL, and set the limit oder to $1/share, buyers would take that trade instantly. But if I set the limit order to $10k/share, nobody would buy from me.

The exact same thing happens with the buy side.

It's like haggling with the vendor on the street corner or negotiating with your car dealer.

Think of it like a liquidity tax. Jane Street and other market makers(Citadel, etc) compete over that liquidity tax. The more often a fund, ETF or stock is traded, the lower the liquidity tax.

If XYZ Corp is very illiquid and only trades a few shares a month, then Jane Street will charge you a lot of tax to allow you to trade it instantly, because they have a harder time knowing what they can get for it a month from now when someone actually wants the trade.

You can see the wide range of bid/ask spreads for ETF's here: https://www.etf.com/sections/news/etfs-highest-lowest-tradin...

Notice something like SPY(S&P 500 fund) is basically free to trade, but something like EEH costs you a very pretty penny to instantly trade. For EEH, you might be better off re-issuing limit orders and just hoping someone comes along that wants that fund. If you let Jane Street or other market makers handle the trade, they will charge you more than it's worth to trade.
HN discussion[0] (226 points, 2 days ago, 96 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40213292
Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News
Hi HN!

I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search (https://hackersearch.net), a semantic search engine for Hacker News. Type a keyword or a description of what you're interested in, and you'll get top links from HN surfaced to you along with brief summaries.

Unlike HN's otherwise very valuable search feature, Hacker Search doesn't require you to get your keywords exactly right. That's achieved by leveraging OpenAI's latest embedding models alongside more traditional indexes extracted from the scraped and cleaned up contents of the links.

I think there are many more interesting things one could build atop the HN dataset in the age of LLMs (e.g. more explicitly searching for technical opinions, recommending stories to you based on your interests, and making the core search feature more useful). If any of those sound interesting to you, head over to https://hackersearch.net/signup to get notified when I launch them!

Note: at least one person has built something similar before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36391655). Funnily enough, I only found out about this through my own implementation, and I based on my testing, I think Hacker Search generally performs better when doing keyword/sentence searches (vs. whole document similarity lookup), thanks to the way the data is indexed.
Yeah looking back I don't know why I qualified it - it was bad before then too.
>My impression was that these epics came about via oral tradition, with centuries of recitation by bards.

This is the current scholarly consensus.

>Instead, Jaynes claims, these poems originated in the unconscious right hemisphere and were blindly recited by those who could not ignore the metered, schizophrenic prose forced upon them by their bicameral mind.

This is absolutely nuts. It could only be the result of someone reading Sperry and Gazzaniga's split brain experiments and deeply over-interpreting them.
The US military used to have a stockpile of Q-fever bioweapons, that they claim to have destroyed. Q-fever can cause pneumonia.
They taught us a couple weeks worth of C++ in college, but this was way back in the early 1990's. So I started my career as a C developer, gradually learning how/why to use C++ as better tools and libraries evolved.

Various DOS-era libraries for UI, database, and communication encouraged me to use C++ more. And then learning Windows programming (MFC) also very much got me into C++.

I eventually jumped to C#, which was probably made much easier by being comfy with C++ first.
Just go tell your CEO you are going to rewrite all the C++ at your company into Rust, taking months of Engineering effort, and deliver the exact same functionality at the end of it.

A refactor needs to be part of a strategic initiative. If security is paramount to an organisation, a refactor to Rust can be worth it. Doing new projects in Rust can also be a valid decision.
The reporter does not want his wife, children or other family members to commit suicide or fall ill and die.
A quick glance at crash statistics for the US suggests that no meaningful advances have been made in automobile safety in the last 20 years give or take. This assumes you accept fatalities per driver hour as a valid metric.
I believe there were 7

Edit0: Nope - 32 whistleblower complaints in the last three years, but I imagine some of those could be from the same person - so up to 32.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/4/19/boeing-subject-o...
Okay, but those aren't made of people, right?

...

They're not made of people, right?
That’s basically what you get if you don’t properly teach history. Idk how it is in France, but in the US I’d advise people to read Howard Zinn’s “The People’s history of the United States” to undo government brainwashing even partially, for just US history. I’m not sure what I’d recommend for history of the world, I have not yet seen a text that’d fit the bill.
The issue is not about disinformation as such. Who controls the flow of disinformation? Media, of course. When media moans about the rise of disinformation, it says that they can't control the disinformation the way the-powers-that-be want to.
SHOW HN: I created an extension to pin your fave ChatGPT chats
they couple it with surgery despite how the vaccines are supposed to remove the tumors themselves?

it seems odd but i guess its meant to aid the process?
They already own most of the pet food brands, so this move actually makes sense.

I still hate it though.
Speculators hoping to catch the next Chipotle. Tons of activity in this space right now. I got burned trying to short one of them. These are, many times, low-float or institutionally owned and prone to heavy manipulation as well.

$CAVA, $WING, $SG, $SHAK, $TXRH... lots of names that will either be the next $CMG or crash back to earth when the next trendy restaurant catches the attention of social media.

I think a lot of young people are abandoning older brands like McDonalds in favor of these trendier options, so there's a lot of business there if a new brand can capture it. But like you say, nothing lasts long in that industry.
Less smart people are employed by the financial sector than in the past and less will be in the future.
The ousting of Gavin Andressen signaled the death of the project for me. I divested and stopped caring as it was clear the dev's behind the coup were no longer interested in the original aspirations for the project.
> How often does the average programmer need to care about the underlying mechanism a map? How often do they need to care about struct alignment? Etc.

It is important to know the big O performance of an underlying data structure if it is being used for a non-trivial number of elements.

And struct alignment I've had to worry about many times in my career, especially when passing structs between platforms or languages.

So for most of my career, these have been important issues.

(Though I'll admit between starting my career in compilers and then doing embedded, the first half of my career was fairly biased towards the low level details!)
> $100k buy in at the hedgefund I know. Its a big figure for most but starting salaries, friends & family, and personal loans will get you there.

Surely this is a HN culture bubble? Very few people can borrow tens of thousands of dollars from family and friends to lend to a hedge fund. Not only would I be refused, I'd damage friendships by exposing the moral vacuum at my core.
Does anyone know if this problem affects all Windows SKUs? Pro, Enterprise, LTSC?

A second-hand computer that I got had Windows 10 Pro and the difference between it and Home was significant.
That'd defeat the point of it?
Given that he died of MRSA in a hospital two weeks after falling ill, yes.
Can you show me a single situation in which this has happened at scale? Has any communist country not had major productivity problems? The explanation is simple, really. Social groups were never meant to be larger than a town, and human empathy breaks down when considering millions people.
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