skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't use it to build a lot of "features" but it really is great for eliminating a lot of tedium: stuff like boilerplate, building up a hash using values already in my code, etc. That's the stuff that is soul-draining.

A couple of days ago I was building up a Dockerfile for a new Rails project and I literally just let Copilot build it for me instead of look it up. It was probably 95% correct.
The difference between scalable wins and one-offs is knowing why it worked and being able to repeat it. Can you be a human being and connect with other human beings and their needs, and help them move forward?

The author is right; you want clear signals, not noisey ones. If you're looking for the light but keep seeing shadows you need to turn around.

The same is true for people who launch on product hunt, and get 50 signups. Success? If you're selling $1K deals, yes. But if it's just for $4, or free... do you have PMF?

but to be fair, if you can get a small group of people engaged, and you can tease out why/how, it usually stands that others will respond too. But not everyone will need it, and those that may need it may not be in market for it.
> But the history of the Signal protocol and implementation traces back 20 years

Are you sure about that? TextSecure was created more 10 years ago than 20. 20 years ago, we did not have smartphones.

As I remember, TextSecure started with SMS (but that was not the Signal protocol) and added "internet" messages right after WhatsApp got bought (which was about when Telegram was started).

I love the Signal protocol, but I would say it's more 10 years old (like Telegram). Or am I missing something?
The fact that we worked it out before sending out those satellites is a minor miracle in of itself
It also doesn't respect `:prefers-reduced-motion` or `:prefers-color-scheme`.
I'm actually about to buy a car (having thoroughly examined various models by renting on Turo) so this is very timely!

For EVs, it seems the largest question is with the EV battery. Is there any way that anyone knows how to determine the health of the EV battery consistently across make/models?
I always wanna know who’s pushing these deals through because there’s like a handful of five or 10 people who are making this happen because they see some kind of “strategy” somewhere

Fundamentally these are the people who are fucking everybody over and it’s really literally just a handful of managers at these massive private equity funds
That will show up as a prevented attack in some dashboard
Although, Yeltsin was already a liberalizing reformer. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was playing it up a bit.
Our best effort so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
I thought about that too, but realized that it is double counting the returns. If you look at the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method for valuing the company, the current value of the company is already the sum of the discounted cash flows from the future. i.e. the next 3-5 year returns are already priced into the pre 30% hike value.
Piracy is stealing. So is adblock and circumventing paywalls. You are not stealing the content literally persay, but you are violating a contract and stealing bandwidth that can be for an honest user.

The same goes for all the whiners on HN when YouTube fights back against uBlock Origin. They just want to have their cake and eat it too and won't admit that they are stealing from Google and Content Creators. Privacy is a non-issue.
indeed you are right, I did read the opposite for some reason.
Racism isn't outlawed, at least in the US.
It's not forcibly; a company is a group of people that sign a special type on contract (often called memorandum of association and bye-laws but other terms exist.)

That contract can govern all manner of different circumstances including the circumstances in which the allocation of shares are transferred.

Sometimes only a motion of the board is required, sometimes additionally a motion by a general meeting with various options for requiring super majorities across and within the different classes can be required too.

Fiduciary duties often require the Board to act in the objective best interest of the members.

In my opinion it is better model to think of a company as a club (hence shareholders often being called a Member) rather than something that you own.
This is exactly how I use it. It's interesting to see what the "expected" thing would be. Even if I don't use the generated code, the time spent reviewing it is not lost. I might learn about a new library, or convention, or way of expressing something syntactically which I wouldn't have thought of. Even when it gets things wrong, it can get things wrong in a way which lets me know that I've made an incorrect assumption elsewhere.
Your comment made me wonder if this is the reason a lot of software is a nigthmare. As in, workers will put up with something if they are mandated to but individuals will not.

The analogy in my head is the most excellent little bespoke bun shop I go to every week with my wife which is awesome. Compared to buns made for the masses in the supermarket.

Maybe there is a market for craft software as in craft beer :-)
https://archive.is/Khc0i
i find that opinion somewhat gatekeepy and i disagree with it
Far better
We can. It's just uncomfortable to admit. For example, making housing an investment steals from the poor to give to the rich.
How to Handle Events in React
> An obvious winner, something sure to blow Franklin's mind is “yeah, we've sent people to the Moon to see what it was like, they left scientific instruments there and then they came back with rocks and stuff.” But that's no everyday thing, it blew everyone's mind when it happened and it still does. Some things I tell Franklin make him goggle and say “We did what?” and I shrug modestly and say yeah, it's pretty impressive, isn't it.

I hate this sort of writing - 'WE did this or that', 'shrugging modestly'. It has this arrogance about it. Pride for being part of something that the individual had nothing to do with. It reminds me of the kid at school that joins the winning team to get a medal, but can't even play the game and only gets in the way.
And sometimes you sacrifice solvency as well?

Gambling on exponential growth and then having the growth fall short (say, because people moved their personal web sites to facebook instead of squarespace) is a risk in any time you go big or go home. Sometimes (often!) you ... go home.
Why big founders compete with small makers?
i find some founders of big startups try to follow the indie maker way by building small products like job boards, link in bio, or voice notes app like what buymeacoffee founder did (launched a voicenote app)
If the web progresses in a bad enough direction, it will happen.
It's true that PE firms cannot be trusted with a SaaS product. It is also true that most SaaS companies are not profitable for the service they provide at the revenue they derive. This reset, which we will see a lot of since the entire SaaS category has to be re-priced, is the scalable way to clean up companies (why are SaaS employees paid so much?, why are customers paying so little etc..) and put them on a sustainable path. This trend will continue to grow.
If you look at the past 10 years (or more) this has been the case with nearly every single poster child of successful US tech company.

Look at YCombinator's top/most darling startups. Hardly any of them are profitable or sustainably profitable
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (Peter Watts and Dan Brooks Convo)
You can tell that to all the ancient human history archaeologists that use the Bible to find ancient cities.
My problem with it is that not only are we paying the environmental cost to have berries all year round in the grocery store, it's that they're also just shit quality. Like not just passable, but are bitter and sour and not worth it at all. And it's sort of at the expense of really good, local berries when the real season hits. For example, I live in Brooklyn and the grocery stores last summer barely had any local blueberries from New Jersey. Everything was Driscolls branded berries, and they're always bad. They look like berries, but they taste awful, or at best like nothing, 95% of the time. I don't know much about the market, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had a year long contract and the local producers get shut out during the real season. Luckily there are farmers markets and CSAs near me.
AI upscaling, nope. Medical images aren't even allowed to be stored in lossy compressed formats because of the danger of creating artifacts.
Don't fall in the messy middle.

There's a book for that https://www.themessymiddle.com
Bah. Thank you. You are right. It's too late to edit.
Why not? Bulk shipping is really efficient, local farmers markets can easily be worse for the environment than going to a supermarket. A Semi moving 35 tons at 7 MPG is 25 times more fuel efficient vs a ford F-150 moving 1/2 ton at 20 MPG and trains or boats are even better.

In the end fuel costs money so more efficient logistics is often good for the environment. Buying local makes a lot more sense if you live in a farming community than a port city.
So the idea that there are skills that can be learned to improve relationships is fundamentally nonsense to you, without any curiosity or knowledge on your part about what specifically they might even be?

Calling someone delusional and narcissistic because they have a different viewpoint from you is a pretty tiring modern trend on the internet… it certainly lowers the quality, friendliness, and usefulness of a conversation. Ironically, that is itself a narcissistic conversation tactic, where you aren’t trying to understand or communicate but to make it appear that anyone who disagrees with you has an egregious personality flaw.

I have met plenty of people with actual narcissistic personality disorder, and the most common theme is an underlying inability to admit fault or work towards improving things like relationships- an inability to do what I am claiming here to be working on myself to improve my own relationships, and an aggressive dismissal of the idea that such things are possible when it is mentioned by other people. It requires admitting fault and being vulnerable and human enough to take responsibility and work to improve things.
The timing of this is borderline malicious. My domain was just transferred to Squarespace from Google on April 24th, which means that I cannot transfer it for 60 days. This news means I want to transfer it -- I'm sure I'm not the only one -- so it's awfully shitty of them to wait until just after domains were transferred to announce this.

While I was previously on the fence about keeping my domains with Squarespace, mainly because of laziness, this announcement and the timing of it means that I will be transferring my domains the minute I'm allowed to.
Pretty cool video, uses the UART headers to talk to the board, then is able to dump the config partition out and use `strings` to find the superadmin password which can be used for SSH or the web admin tool.
You can play it online at: https://www.file-hunter.com/MSX/?id=elite
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1cqn3qa/whats_the...

> The whole thing is about 10k APIs that all share the same cluster of 10 databases on the backend, which was never designed to scale like this. This company did 500 million revenue 2010 and now 15 billion this year, all running on this fking sql back end. They have a team of 500 devs writing for these apps, the complexity is unbelievable. No one knows how to untangle it and scale out to micro services.
Today, the AI can do it for you.
Thanks, I assumed all holdings would have been reported on Form 3 and 4 under the beneficially owned section.
The unsaid thing is that the customer signed up to squarespace is going to get less value for their dollars. Profit has to come from somewhere, and it aint innovation as you said.
To follow on, it turned out not only did that stunningly milquetoast comment I made get flagged, but after I made it someone tried to DDoS everything associated with me.

I mean, do these people not know their Shakespeare?
That's a function of technology. It would absolutely be possible to integrate something like Nextcloud into operating systems or devices. It will never happen, because every party in a position to do such an integration is also in a position to become a middleman and extract money, which is much more profitable.
> Durov was forced out of the country and had to cell vk.com for peanuts because of his refusal to cooperate with the government.

It wouldn't be the first time a cover story was ever used.

> Well, maybe Signal has hired an NSA agent and doesn't know about it either? How does that sound?

You should presume they're trying. I, frankly, presume they've succeeded, either in placing an agent or by compromising something, in virtually every prominent messaging platform.
> Before Minecraft came out, you'd be complaining about "Procedurally-generated slop"

Before Minecraft came out, I played Nethack. No, I was never principally opposed to procgen games. However, there is such a thing as procedurally-generated slop. Good procgen games use a very fine-tuned algorithm to create engaging environments. Minecraft caves aren't fun to explore by accident; the algorithm was designed and tuned to consistently produce novel and fun layouts. Items and mobs were designed to specifically interact with those environments to lead to fun gameplay.

You're missing the insight that games featuring procedural generation are still designed. Bad design will lead to a bad game where the algorithm produces unfun gameplay. LLMs are not independently capable of good design. Games where LLMs are given agency over the player's experience won't be fun.

> maybe you screw someone over and they dedicate their lives to destroying you

And maybe it's really annoying and unpleasant, because the game is doing a bad job of telling that story. You're assuming it'll be good, but LLMs aren't smart enough to tell stories well or to understand what kind of gameplay will be enjoyable.
buyers and sellers have a range of values where they are OK transacting, and historically those ranges has tended to overlap at the 30% point more than at, say, the 15% point

because of those precedents, taking anything below a "standard" premium opens the door for shareholders suing the board for a breach of their fiduciary duty, arguing they should have waited for a better offer. it's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. pay more than 30% and the buyers' shareholders will argue the same

which is not to say there aren't 10% or 80% premium transactions, but there's a higher bar to be met before everyone is willing to go outside of the 25-40% premium range (my own numbers)
Yes it can. End-to-end encryption is enforced by your app, not by the protocol you use. This is a key part of how end-to-end encryption works.
AI energy consumption may be solved by the market. The sources I've been able to find indicate that AI along with crypto are driving much of the growth in data center power consumption. [0] AI expansion in turn is funded by huge investments whose ultimate value is very unclear. Investments like the US broadband buildout in the late 1990s/early 2000s also came to an end in due time.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/24/24049047/data-center-ai-c...
Were they Asian by any chance? I’m Asian American and it’s a cultural norm. We have a saying for the money we give to our parents (“family usage” in direct translation). It’s quite a financial burden for some of my friends. Some parents expect their kids to buy them a house and you can imagine how brutal it is in the current housing market.
Scientists could make fast 6G using curving light rays
I like your interpretation, and GP could be rewritten to mean that.

As it stands now:

GP responded to someone with presumably bad parents by reminding them that their parents contributed to their existence. This sets the stage for their followup advice.

Their followup statement about unconditional gratitude is either directed at this person or uses a universal 'you'. This advice cannot be applied universally, especially in cases of abuse.

The final sentence also implies that GP has found something universal: "It also takes some people way too long to realize this".

---

A lot of people say to themselves - "Of course there are exceptions!" A person's understanding of what counts as an exception is based entirely on their personal experience. Humans also tend to presume that other humans are "normal" unless given evidence otherwise: evidence also based on their personal experience.

We don't know the history of the majority of the people we meet, nor are we entitled to it. How do you determine who is an exception and who is not? It isn't feasible. GP's final sentence implies that it is.

All of these things underpin GP's comment - it's a common pattern of thinking.
And that's good, that's their strength. I use it to read information from all sides of the conflict and decide for myself what's "disinformation" and what's not. A grown person doesn't need a gatekeeper that pushes their own interests and shuts up anyone daring to contradict them.
There is a video where it literally blows the mind of an immigrant from Cuba:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBA41QgIty8
The goal is to boostrap the compiler. So we need two things: the source code, and the compiler which understands it.

If the compiler which understands it is in some widely used language, things are easier because we likely already have it. If we don't have it, it's likely nicely packaged.

We also likely have it on a platform where that language we are trying to build has not been ported. That gives us a big head start in porting.
Nope. Totally different company and founded about 5 years earlier than Square.
EV Motor Used by Lamborghini, McLaren, & Ferrari – Mass-Produced by Mercedes
it has to be high enough to give the board enough cover that they're doing their fiduciary duty to existing shareholders
Robot Bees
Why can't we see the far side of the moon?
Soldered? It's not soldered. It's part of the actual SoC. Could we please update our research to more recent than 20 years ago?
Market cap is now close to ~$11B, for a company that over the last 12 months burned ~$240M in cash. Revenues declined by ~11%. Net cash on hand is ~$600M. It's hard to justify purchasing the shares at the current price based on the company's recent results. Its future prospects don't seem particularly promising either.

A stock's price is set by the marginal buyer and seller. For example, a single share that trades at 50% less than the last price instantly brings market cap down by 50%. Once all the retail investors loading up on the stock have purchased as much as they can hold, very little marginal trading volume can bring the stock price back down.
> was

Special military denazification operation.

Let's not go crazy and call it a war.
I use it all the time?
My old fashioned view is, and notwithstanding periods of debt for grow investment, if you don't make a profit, you don't have a business.
The Amiga was dead before a Wolfenstein 3D came out on the PC. A lot of Amiga users failed to recognize it at the time but commodore surely and truly killed that thing off by his horrible mismanagement. When Wolfenstein 3D came around it was really just shifted from keeping it on life support hoping it would awake from its coma to palliative care.
Yeah what an annoying one two punch. I was going to transfer everything to cloudflare but apparently cloudflare can't handle .dev domains.
Getting 500 GitHub stars in 3 months
DCF and other tools to value companies make sense when the valuation is somewhat stable, but the real world often isn't. MSFT was worth $1T a few years ago because the world presumably expected $1T in profits over the lifetime of the company. But OpenAI came around and suddenly they're worth $2T. It wasn't because their lifetime doubled, it was because most people perceive AI as a major advancement. I believe this is the primary thrust behind the S&P500's 7-10% annualised returns in the last 20 years because most of the gains have come from the top.
Yes if you earn an income comparable to a corporate job, yeah that’s a big win. “Mediocre success” unfortunately isn’t well defined here, but I assumed the author wasn’t suggesting a corporate salary. It seemed like he was talking about a few early sales but not enough to sustain the business. Imagine starting a company with two other people and grossing $12k the first year and $22k the second year, and then running low on funding. Should you keep going? Should you seek investment, assuming you can even get it? What if the growth remains linear, and it will take at least 10 years to reach sustainability?
It simply intrigued me. I've spotted several CCP troll accounts over the past year but I guess the Russians have also moved into our site.
You’re mistaken, the “go brrr” format comes from the money printer meme in 2020.
Nanoplastics and Neurodegeneration in ALS
If there is $300M revenue and no profit, lay off the half of the staff and you get $150M profit in a SaaS company. The Musk recipe.
I'm a dude with an ASN under ARIN, they actually just link to the RIPE best current practices on the matter rather whenever it comes up as having an article just to put the ARIN name on something saying the same thing isn't worth it. E.g. they do it when talking about it here https://www.arin.net/vault/blog/2017/06/19/12-steps-enable-i.... When registering my first IPv6 block with ARIN they actually denied the request and said "Denied, but request again with a (16x in my case) larger block and it will be approved" to make sure I wasn't ever worried about being stingy on downstream allocations. At the my previous employer we got a /32 assignment from ARIN (enough for 4 billion /64s or 16 million /56s) without hassle and they weren't even an ISP. All that is to say, it's really more work to go out and not have enough space and not just use a standard DHCP-PD config than it is to get it right. Some ISPs still mess that up somehow... but they are thankfully a minority of those actually supporting (real, not tunneled) IPv6 in the first place.

It's important to note your router must explicitly ask for more than a /64. Just because the ISP will give you up to a /56 (or /60 sometimes) does not mean every router is just going to receive a flat /56 out of the box. If you don't send the hint then you don't get the delegations and it'll look like the ISP is only giving you one /64 because that's all you asked for.
Too late to edit but 1 in 3.5 should have been 1 in 7 which is double 1 in 14, thanks adammarples.
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I'm curious what an integration would look like. Are you thinking Google Play Services but Nextcloud Services instead?
Yeah, SEC filings are complicated. It's taken me years of experience to understand them.
Musk's SpaceX Is Quick to Build in Texas, Slow to Pay Its Bills
Doesn’t look like anything. A person with strong opinions and that’s all.
Communicate like a Senior: Use clear deltas
This is not the case because these deals are done privately to the board. Once an investor cross the 5% mark they have to file and companies may adopt a poison bill without the boards blessing.
> C is a quintessential engineer’s language. Haskell is a pure mathematician’s.

> A good engineer’s and a good mathematician’s aptitudes don’t always overlap.

This. The people who like Haskell think differently from the people who like C. Some find that Haskell fits the way they think; some don't. And that's fine.

The problem comes when the Haskell types (pun intended) think that everyone else just needs to use/study Haskell more, and then they'll have their enlightenment moment. No, a bunch of people won't. Haskell won't fit their minds no matter how much effort they put in, and it's not because they're stupid or lazy. It's because they don't think that way.

And that's fine. Computer languages are tools, not masters. You don't have to use a language that doesn't fit you.