skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Breaking games with shitty mods can be fun in the sense of dicking around but it quickly gets boring and frankly seems completely unrelated to trying to make actual good experiences with an LLM.

BotW’s appeal is not the story. It’s definitely not the dialogue. It’s about exploring a carefully planned world full of goodies. Not a shitty LLM procedurally generated one that goes forever. And DEFINITELY not a run time generated one.
Your comment got me wondering if it's possible to stay in earth's shadow continuously without constant fuel expenditure, but apparently that's not possible: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/55271/are-any-eart...
good point, but replace neuron with perceptron and human brain with neural net

here's the catch: neurons work with over 100 types of neurotransmitters [1], they're quite complex compared to a perceptron

which brings me on a tangent: I feel there's a breakthrough just around the corner, at the intersection of the 'dumb' on/off perceptron and a biologically-accurate simulated neuron. hardware will catch up too

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotransmitter
There...is... It's even in the bill of rights, it's just not very pleasant.
Guess we’ll see. But I’m pretty sure you’re hugely incorrect.
Algorithmic feeds are a twiddler's playground
The quote is correct. It does not say they're not using a KDF or salting, which you seem to read into it? The keyfile is the "something you have" and the password "something you know", so two-factor checks out, even if it's not a time-based token that people expect nowadays (though TOTP is essentially the same but on another device, extracting time-based short codes from the long key to make it convenient to type over). No matter how good your KDF, a weak or reused password can still be crackable, so a key file can make sense even if you use a salted KDF
Wondering what's the most successful YC-rejected company. Datadog?
...the Sun

(also wouldn't the appropriate word be "goddess"? Interestingly in ancient German tradition the sun is female and the moon is male)
SQLite3 seems like overkill for a K/V store, and in particular it seems like a pessimization for a K/V store.

Besides, if you're going to layer a network service on top of SQLite3 then things like rqlite and similar start to look very good, though, admittedly a K/V store is much simpler.
This is a very interesting concept

Is there a way to sync the monitor’s refresh rate to a different phase/offset?

It would be cool to play with that setting and see the effects on our perception of the screen
I'm a little confused, I thought Thread was exclusively based on open standards, like 6LowPAN, that already existed before Thread. How can a licence be required for those? I understand the application layer Matter is new (although also using open standards like CoAP) and might not be that open.
I'm an AI pessimist, but even I see the value in the current large language models. If we can do it for the price of a few cracked atoms, that would be better.
Why does setting build flags constitute a fork?
This isn't true though. Control + arrow keys for example navigate desktops on MacOS.
On Linux I can at least restrict my desktop environment's shortcuts to super, leaving the other mods open for applications. MacOS uses every single modifier, sometimes together.
What's the decibel output? I'd imagine a few of these in my neighborhood would put the cicadapocalypse to shame.
Be kind. Don't be snarky.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fractal Experiments
>Arguments about morality and preservation of culture aside...

Let's just put aside the actually pertinent arguments and deal with the preferred strawman...
> This is only true recently

Recently, as in within the last year, as I said.

> Prior to that, groceries were a huge component of inflation.

Years ago, sure. That whole war in Ukraine thing, coupled with the EU shutting down fertilizer plants in 2021, along with some devastating weather in the US breadbasket and an ounce of COVID-19 sent the food industry into a complete tizzy, indeed. As a Canadian farmer, the price I was being paid for food had doubled by 2022 as compared to 2019. But it was short-lived. Things are pretty much back to normal now and have been for a while. The farm gate price has returned to 2019 levels (in nominal dollars). There isn't any remaining pressure on groceries. "Currently" is what was specified in the original comment.
Ask HN: Talk me through the acquihire process
I need your advice, guys.

My seed stage startup isn't going to make it to its series A, and we have 1.5 months of cash left. I am exploring an acquihire to see if I can find a soft landing for our team. I’ve got a meeting scheduled with a fairly senior Corp Dev person at a FAANG for Monday. I’ve never worked for a BigCo before nor have I been through an acquihire process, so I would love any advice on how I should navigate this.

(In hindsight I am very aware that this was a lousy situation to have put myself in, but here we are anyway.)

Specific questions:

1) What can I do to maximize my chances of getting my team acquihired?

2) Are acquihire packages substantially better than just trying to interview at these companies?

3) How long does this process take from start to finish?

4) What can I expect post acquihire? Will my team get absorbed into the org or will we have a chance to continue working together?

I know there are a lot of variables here so I'm providing some context below.

TL;DR we have decent traction on our product but not enough to justify a Series A and I don't want to keep treading water by taking on any extension capital from our existing investors. Therefore I am exploring an acquihire for our team. We are a 4 person team consisting of 2 founders (CEO and CTO) and 2 amazing engineers who have worked together for 4 years. We work really well together, work insanely hard and have built products together that we are proud of, but sadly didn’t find PMF.

On a personal note: I’ve been in the startup game for the last 10 years and I’m 36 years old. Expecting my first child this year. I need some stability in my life. Therefore I think it is time to go work for a BigCo for some time and figure out my life.
We made this (www.crosscare.net) to visualize what disease+demographic information are in LLM pre-training data, and how they propagate to downstream bias! (https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05506)

Things we found that are kinda interesting:
1. Models have no idea about the true prevalence (fair they are not fact-check/retrieval machines anyway)
2. models fit to pre-training data's co-occurances
3. Alignment methods deepen these biases
4. Base models SFT/DPO on certain language datasets (usually English only) will only impact their understanding of these concepts in English
Can someone explain the rational for a cofounder, if you are a technical founder?
Not sure if there are numbers on this, but it would guess there is an inherent risk associated with conflicts between two founders.
Why did they have to go and ruin the piano tho?
Original comment I was responding too 'Probably as a stop gap solution until they make a true AI-centric chip.'

They are using M2 Ultra on the servers because that has enough power / memory, the issue is there baseline machines don't and only have 8gb, hence needing to offload to a server and it's going to be a stop gap until they put more ram in the standard machines.
Considering advertisers had pull over potentially objectionable content in other types of media, would you consider advertisers also potentially having a pull over the game's content as well?
The volume of water flow should/would also vary at different times of the year, based on how much the water table is loaded.

Not sure how much of this would be complimentary to the acoustic effect of temperature. Either way, it’s not a simple single-solution explanation.
Should I spend the weekend verifying my backups or finding a place with low light pollution for some aurora viewing?
The “perhaps intellectually” comment might be a clue that there’s a specific reason here behind the scenes. Or maybe not, who knows… Having gone through a lot of pitching, I think a lot of VCs really do like to see 2 founders, one technical and one business. They often don’t love having both roles in one, and the reasons can range from legitimate to cynical, but either way it’s their money to invest I guess.

I will say that having success exiting doesn’t mean people can either afford to start a new one, nor that they should spend their own money doing it even if they can afford it. I spent too much of my own money on a startup, had a successful exit, and I definitely won’t do that again.
It's difficult to tell if a Linux kernel bug is a security issue
An Umbrella Can Teach a Thing or Two About Product Longevity
It's a tutorial, the fact it contains some code doesn't change this - many tutorials do. The other link is a signup page. These aren't valid Show HNs.
Bootstrapping and selling four small SaaS products is awesome! It's also relatively unrelated to running a YC-type startup and certainly not a qualification that should have made them drop the rule that they don't usually fund solo founders.

It sounds to me like Richie just wants to keeping doing what he's done, which is great, but it's unsurprising that YC isn't interested in that. They don't want reliable small successes, they want occasional unicorns.
Sure biological NN are much more complicated, but basically action propagation can travel in both directions, and evolution should optimize for that.

In contrast, current ANNs are focused on unidirectional propagation, and are much worse at training from single samples - to reach abilities of biological, maybe it is worth to start thinking about multidirectional?

Neurons containing joint distribution model can do propagate conditional distributions in various direction, and it is not that difficult to represent - maybe something like that could be hidden in biological (?)
Abort, Retry, Ignore?
You want to guide the kids to explore the world and creativity while having fun.. Not put them through a college maker club.
Why do you have a negative view of fedora? It's been the best distro for almost a decade.
>I have such negative associations with fedora

May I ask why?

My only gripes with Fedora are it's lack of out of the box proprietary codecs, non-FOSS SW and repos, and lacking the creature comforts and user friendly tweaks that ship with the likes of Mint, but that' mostly because it's aimed at corporate workstations rather than home users.

But other than that, it's probably one of the most solid Linux choices you can make right now give the abomination Ubuntu has become.
They could. They probably just didn't because they didn't foresee it being a problem.
Guess YC has a standard recipe they like to use for startups. They probably seek people who fit their recipe.
For me its rofi and a tiny bar on top of (ne of my hyprland windows for basic information (clock,calendar,widgets for network/volume/screenbrightness) its awesome
Investors dont want to invest in a single point of failure. Its also harder to control when one person has all the power
Apologies, I totally misread. I’ll leave my mistake here to self-flaggelate and take the downvotes, but I thought there was a delete button somewhere and I can’t find it now…

There is a big list right on the front page. https://www.ycombinator.com/ Stripe, AirBnB, DropBox, etc..
Fedora Asahi Install with disk encryption
Making an Emulator: Space Invaders on the Intel 8080 (2022) [video]
My landline internet was down basically the entire time the sun was up yesterday. Funny coincidence, I think.
Sounds a bit like Eiffel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language...
I haven't found an umbrella that has the desired quality. The problem is, I'm also skeptical about expensive ones.
Yea meal prepping has been huge for me. It can even turn cooking into a more communal experience if you get a few friends together on Sundays and spend a few hours in the kitchen. Cooking was very lonely for me before I made a day of it every other week. Better than fast food, cheaper than fast food, faster than fast food.
Discussed a few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37914958
> It seems that memory bugs carry a higher risk of being completely invisible except in deliberately contrived situations.

Do they really carry a higher risk of being invisible though? You don’t need to “contrive” situations either. My company just spent 6+ months trying to solve a JavaScript undefined symbol bug stemming from a library. When we finally tracked it down, it was because we were using import instead of require, which the documentation didn’t clarify was important. The fix we implemented was nowhere near where we expected the bug, and the only reason we finally solved it was because we had exhausted all other options. Sounds the same, if not worse, as a difficult to track memory bug to me.
7zip 24 supports Zstd
Contingency planning/bus factor.

My conspiracy theory is at least one of the co-founders needs to be "aligned" with investors. Every startup I've worked with has had one Judas founder that became the bad guy (for employees) and steered the company, kicking and screaming, towards wherever the VCs wanted the company to go.
I encourage you to read the HN guidelines and then read the comments that I've replied to, because many of them could with considerable justification be regarded as unkind, snarky, and smug.

I would also encourage you not to make and take things personally, and instead stick to the substance. Every one of my comments has been about the technological approach under consideration. If they're terse, it's because I don't want to waste people's time. If they're "not educational or persuasive" to you then you're free to disregard them, or say why exactly they fail. Plenty of the comments here, in my view, are "not educational or persuasive", so I said so and gave my reasons for having that view. I would encourage you to do the same.
Yeah, I see some good points in what you just said. I see certain ideologies like patriotism, seem to isolate us into camps, and then people that desire power through these ideals, use those constructs to control populations in each of the countries of the world.
Saving Asia's fishing cat means protecting threatened wetland habitat
They said _rejected_, though.
Georgia Tech seems to be the new MIT, as MIT degrades into a cesspool of fraud and corruption. It's like the MIT in its heyday.

I'll also mention: As the above comment implies, schools change over time. Reputations follow decades later.
Yet whatsapp and matrix seem to be able to do that just fine, impossible they said
These are YC funded companies, not YC-rejected
We do have a way of redirecting an asteroid.

The problem is that we won't learn about it early enough for our current level of technology to do anything about it.

We'd need 2 fully-operational Starship launches or 4 SLS launches or 10 Delta IV Heavy launches with 25 years notice to redirect an asteroid like Bennu.

Now obviously 2 is better than 4 is better than 10. But the 25 years notice is a big problem. The momentum change you need to deliver the later it gets is so much larger.
Why even have the first tunnel? You could do the entire thing out of hand over a web interface or other mechanism. If the public address of the WG server (or the authn server) is known and available, then there’s no real difference in setting up the connection over a persistent WG channel vs an HTTPS service.

Both solutions are custom for that VPN, so I’d just have one WG tunnel that’s controlled through a secured (web)service. The bonus is that you wouldn’t need a hard coded initial key. (You’d still need some authentication mechanism, but it could be more than fixed public/private key pairs).
Mac users aren’t beholden to the App Store the way iOS users are. There’s some things people get from there but the bulk of useful third party Mac software is distributed outside the App Store.
Makes sense to me. Many countries impose tariffs on importing cars. Especially when they expect a mass influx of those vehicles to flood the market. Within china, they are incentivizing ppl to buy electric by imposing high registration fees for non EVs. They have stated clearly that they want to dominate the EVa market, so makes sense we will impose tariffs to try and protect domestic car manufacturers
Can confirm the animated drawings. I built a company (dibulo.com) which does that (Age 3-8 mostly, but also adults and seniors seem to like it). We love that kids spend more time coloring than looking at the screen (although it is always a magic moment). We also do not have a lot of interaction with the screen itself and soon gonna add more and more educational elements to it.
I guess I agree with calling PBKDF2 fine, but it may be good to know the caveats:

- Just because it says it uses PBKDF2 doesn't mean it is strong. The strength fully depends on the number of rounds it uses, and especially in legacy (>10 years old) software I see it a lot that some amount of rounds are hardcoded which can now be computed in a few milliseconds on a CPU

- PBKDF2 gives the attacker a ~1000x speedup. If your CPU spends 2 seconds on computing the hash every time, an attacker with a run-of-the-mill GPU spends 2 milliseconds per guess (500 guesses per second). Using something like Bcrypt or Argon2, that speedup gets to iirc "only" 12x (so if you spend 2 seconds, the attacker spends ~170 milliseconds or 6 guesses per second). Iirc this speedup is due to GPU RAM being faster than the main RAM. So while PBKDF2 isn't great, it's also not like it's broken: this has been a known property since forever and it's still orders of magnitude better than a plain hash
I think there's two groups being discussed in this thread.

The ones walking out of the grocery store with $200 in groceries that fit in two bags. And families with low wages. The former is more likely to benefit from growing herbs and leafy vegetables as they are more likely to use them. Dried herbs can be pretty expensive as well.

But yeah, I only had one sentence about gardening in my original comment. Didn't mean to emphasize that as a groundbreaking differentiator in saving money on food.
https://archive.is/mNmMJ
Off topic maybe but Europe is so beautiful. I wish I get to travel across Europe with leisure.
When I sometimes used to go into an office I’d have a soup or something for lunch and ate breakfast at home. Never really used the cafeteria beyond the soup. Of course this wasn’t some fancy free lunch, much less dinner, thing.
> the bulk of useful third party Mac software is distributed outside the App Store

A mistake Apple made sure to not allow to happen again on their other platforms.
> Uber recently charged me $75 for a single medium pizza

For that price, you could purchase multiple frozen pizzas from any grocery store.

For that timeframe, you could also have cooked all of them.

DoorDash and UberEats and crap like that are absolutely not where you should spend your money.

> The delivery services have become outright fraud operated at scale

Welcome to "big business" and "modern economy"
I'm also not familiar with this legalese stuff, however in the case of Bluetooth, it has been "illegally" implemented in many (mostly imported from far east) devices that use it but don't show its complete name. If you encounter a Bluetooth device that claims "BT version x" compatibility and not Bluetooth version X, then it might be one of them.

This makes me think that should Thread gain some traction among users, cheap clones implementing it under a similar name, yet without any licensing, would appear shortly on sale at the usual vendors.
I see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath but it required a device driver.
Tonight's aurora may be brighter than last night
It’s not lying if that’s the info you provided. You need intent to lie. AI doesn’t lie, just like it isn’t racist- it just displays the bias that is on the web
> and at worst the Wayland devs decided

Those goddamn Wayland devs and their individual free will. How dare they not continue to maintain this miserable, crusty old spec and continue to make their marketable skills less valuable.

> Wayland could be nice, but its compositors require 10x the code that a WM would (which is why there aren't that many Wayland "WMs"

Nah, this is an ecosystem maturity problem that is improving rapidly.
There will always be a few hold outs for the old way, but people will and are moving on.
It’s silly to compare the number of anything with a project that had a 30 year head start.

> Wayland did the minimum to replace X's jank and make the thing maintainable

That’s called Xorg. It still exists and you are free to do whatever you wish, even invest in its development,
Wayland didn’t “uproot” anything.

One of the biggest pieces of “jank” replaced is the nonexistent security model. You can research why the proposed SECURITY extension was unworkable and smarter people decided it was better to start from scratch. This benefit alone is better enough for most people with a stake to justify a rewrite.

In pure economic terms there is certainly a price where Xorg can continue to remain viable - this isn’t some ancient artifact lost forever. In this lens it’s hard not to see these comments as anything but unproductive bitterness at not being able to provide or raise these funds. It doesn’t help that part of this price is a direct result of the qualities of the thing you’re trying to save.
I wouldn’t say there’s a single rationale; it depends on the founders and depends on the VCs. That said, the inherent risk of conflict between founders is actually a reason to want 2 founders, because you have some of the same conflicts with 1 founder and sometimes it can’t be resolved.

One reason to want a business co-founder to pair with a technical founder is that the business side of a growing startup is a full time job, and sometimes too much for a technical founder, and/or sometimes too far outside their comfort zone. VCs also (in my experience) tend to like the CEO to have a certain mentalities about how to do business that some technical founders may lack, especially first-time technical founders. Things like willingness to pivot, views on taking responsibility, how good at pitching and sales they are in the broad sense of selling the company and the vision, and lots more stuff like that.
> Services: 19.33% Hardware: 80.67%

Candidate for future Apple CEO is the current head of hardware engineering, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40328699
I heard you. I understand you think that’s the most important art of the message. Did you hear me that I believe the author is trying to use strong wording to evoke emotion but that they are not intending it to be taken literally/technically?

Basically: I validate your point of view (without agreeing). Can you validate that you understand that I feel the way that I do (can also be done without agreeing).
Oh Jesus. I misread. Sorry.
The old adage that most money spent on advertising is wasted is still as true as it always was.
There is one downside, though it's not inherent to garbage collection, it just happens to correlate in current languages. Gc'd languages don't have raii, and for that reason they actually make you do more work when managing non-memory resources. The have been some attempts to work around this with e.g. pythons with, but In my opinion it's less ergonomic due to forcing indentation.
s/mistake/precedent/

Macs pre-date app stores.