skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> designed to collapse under such a weight.

Even if this wasn't fake news, the weight of two people is not something you can design for. If you collapse at 140kg that will still support two light athletes, while not supporting a single very heavy athlete.
The terminal is such a wonderful environment. It makes many tasks joyful.

I think it stems from its simplicity and logic.

You have a simple grid of characters. You type the name of a program, hit enter, and the computer executes it. The output of the program is written below your prompt. Below the output, you can execute the next program. You can chain output and input of programs, allowing all kinds of data flows. The programs can also take over the whole grid and thereby allow all kinds of interfaces.

I can't think of a way to describe a window manager or a browser in similar, simple terms, which would explain the basis of all the usefulness they bring.
VC Internships are intense, and not every Stanford student can land one. While some advice might be a bit meh, a lot of it is information that has value.

And, no offense, but there is a massive difference in calibre between a Stanford/Cal/MIT/T10 CS program (they tend to have 2-4% acceptance rates to either the college or the CS department) and other programs. This doesn't mean that there aren't high calibre candidates at non-T10 programs (I've known plenty of successful SJSU, CUNY, UMinn, etc founders, EMs, SWEs, PMs, and yes even a couple angels and VCs), but it seems that you have a chip on your back.

> Like what do these kids with literally no experience running or starting anything know about companies

A lot HAVE tried starting something or are in the process of starting a company. Most VC Analysts are hired explicitly so when those Analysts hit the 2 year mark, they can start their own startup.
In many places that would be the homeowner’s responsibility to clean up. Even if not, it’s often in the homeowner’s best interest to not have a huge pile of rotting leaves clogging the gutter.
You can probably see some variation of the logic in your comment on here on a daily basis.

I argue that it's management's job to know what's going on well enough that "invisible heros" don't exist. If they can't, what exactly are they managing?

I've been in the situation you describe and I just find another job, what may be invisible to your current manager may be obvious to your future one.

*Bonus content: I suspect most of the time the reason people don't "see things" is for political/human reasons more so than they are blind. You probably didn't seem as interested in your bosses new Tesla as he would've liked or something.
Fashion-driven development is obviously much more pervasive than we'd like to admit. And if I don't understand the previous tech better than the new one I might just as well use what's hot and all the rage now.
https://archive.ph/bYszD
I agree if you can handle ambiguity. If you cannot and need/want hand holding/marching orders you will not make it at a true early-stage startup.
> There's no female loneliness epidemic because some men have multiple female partners (unlikely)

Some men definitely have multiple female partners, but it's only not at the same time. This isn't just wordplay. A few men date many women, so many men are single while fewer women are.
If it's right 90% of the time, with those other assumptions, then you either:

1) spend 10 hours doing all of them by hand

2) spend 3h 20 waiting for the machine, 3h 20 checking the machine, and 1h replacing the machine's mistake with a hand-written version, for a total of 7h 40

(I never trust marketing claims, so I doubt 90% accuracy; but also it generally takes LLMs a few seconds rather than tens of minutes to produce an output to be checked).
I’m sure they have all the equipment on hand to provide proper first aid for the vast multitude of chemicals they stock. They would never sell anything unsafe, right?
those small indie stores basically don’t exist anymore, if you run a cash only business 9/10 people are just turning around at the front door and going somewhere else.
I mean, you can just make a copy and name it whatever? You can even have it generate a new name every time you run it if you'd like. Imo this is a rather pointless cat and mouse game with developers, because either they can't do their work properly or there will be ways to work around stuff like this.
Promoted.ai (YC W21) Is Hiring a Apache Flink Expert Staff Engineer
To me at least, the most difficult part of verifying rust code has been the lack of any pre/post conditions on the standard library, I quite often have ended up rewriting chunks of the std library, pulling them directly into my program to verify them.

I personally think it would be interesting if we had a nightly-only/unstable pre/post conditions in the std library. Then one could take the commit of the compiler that corresponds to a stable release and verify against that. That is the overhead I seem to be bumping my head against whenever I try to verify some rust code at least.
Retro-plug: here's a Teletype ASR33 simulator with sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd5oomwEBb0
Sigma is building a suite of collaborative data analytics tools
https://docs.datomic.com/overview/storage.html at least (Linked from "Cassandra and DynamoDB" in the article)
Sigma Raises $200M in Series D Funding
I was the engineer that added that string. Since adding that string...
I joined the photoshop team officially.
Spent maybe 5 years there.
I have left adobe.
I Had a year and a half sabbatical.
Now writing this comment. It's been a while.
FOMO is the number 1 VC trait to exploit.
Big thank you for clarifying -- I missed that. This approach is far less unsavory that some other attempts that I've seen.
Sure. So if you say can I call you about X/Y/Z, you're asking them to stop what they are doing and listen to your monologue in real time. With the walkie talkie, you hit talk and send them your monologue. They can listen in real time (one-way) if they are available or can listen to your audio + read the transcription (later). This puts them in control of when and how they consume and respond. The added benefit is they can relisten or re-read before responding. I find it puts me in control of context switching
When you become a part of their portfolio, you are becoming part of the institution. They need to trust that you’re not going to rock their boat. Taking investment means taking on a grown up attitude towards the operations of your company In many ways. So I think this is kind of intended.
Well, what we normally expect in the States is a right wing shooter going after a left wing target. But here the target was a right wing politician, and the shooter was a right wing shooter.

So it's actually kind of a funny change in scenery, in a way! But maybe a little baffling, yes!
If everyone on earth took a high dose of lithium carbonate of 1000mg a day, that would be 7000 tonnes a day. It's 14/74 lithium by weight, so around 1300 tonnes of lithium metal per day. Total lithium mine extraction is 180,000 tonnes a year, so 500 tonnes a day.

So assuming everyone on earth was fully dosed up, and you could collect all the waste, it's actually a lot!

The actual figure of 2 million people in the US on lithium carbonate, probably on smaller doses, is much less interesting: under 2000kg of pills, "only" a few hundred kilos of pure lithium per day. Though I think still interesting scale illustration that one pill each for 0.5% of people in the country weighs about the same as a car.
Wait until you find out the work experience of people consultancies send out to clients. It's often one experienced person with a bunch of grunts pumping out "work."

In a previous life I worked for a health insurance company that paid a million dollars to the Boston Consultancy Group on if we should use agile or not for development. The best part was seeing the half dozen or so people in our offices working so diligently to argue for something we were already doing, even better when speaking to these consultants they had zero experience programming or developing software.

I often wonder what it takes to win these contracts over McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte; because it sure feels like it's not aptitude that's the defining quality but more quasi-legal corruption.
Yes, any tool can be used in foolish ways.

I use mine to blow debris from the driveway onto the lawn so it doesn’t get tracked into the garage, or to clean the leaves, sticks, and pollen from our many trees that accumulate on the back deck. The times I’ve had landscapers come they used tarps to collect the bulk of the debris they gathered with the blowers and hauled it away.
> (a Kobalt 80V blower). What baffles me

I don't understand. You opted to buy the inexpensive store brand tools (Kobalt is Lowe's house brand) and now you're complaining that shortcuts were taken and it didn't exceed requirements or your expectations?

I don't walk into Harbor Freight and expect Snap-On tools.
Re: "The fact that it appears to be healthier is just a nice bonus."

Key word here, appears to be.

Upon deeper study, from what I have read, people who transition to vegan on average start having health problems related to the diet at an average of 5 years into the diet.

Note, a vegan diet is very different than a person who at least will still consume eggs or drink milk, etc.

Self-reporting may also be a major issue here as well, as it's possible that someone who is doing something for ethical reasons may put their cause above the ethics of being honest or lying; and metrics for health for the vast majority of people, especially if simply observational studies, aren't adequately or thoroughly gathered in the vast majority of cases; and especially long-term and qualitative comparisons on quality of life haven't been done yet - so the "appears" to be healthier could simply be a person feeling better because of feeling good for the ethics of it, no?

Re: "Therefore, claims that plant-based diets are just healthier because they don't ever burn their burger or put sauce on their bun, feels incorrect to me."

That's a straw man argument, I didn't make that claim.

There are proteins in meat that turn into carcinogens when burnt - I don't know if that's the case with whatever the plant-based "burgers" / patties consist of, if they turn into carcinogens from being burnt.

There are more counter-arguments to other things you state but I don't have time at the moment, e.g. your food examples of what vegans may it, they may also eat far less food than the average meat eater - which provides less food-energy for potential cancers, where it's known that lower calorie intake over a lifetime appears to also be a factor for life expectancy.

E.g. "The researchers found that people who cut their calories slowed the pace of their aging by 2% to 3%, compared to people who were on a normal diet. That translates, Belsky said, to a 10% to 15% reduction in the likelihood of dying early." - first google result for me, https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/calorie-restricte....

It's one of these complex topics that no one has yet organized into a proper-complete distribution of arguments and counter-arguments, to lead towards designing adequate clinical trials to get definitive-scientifically derived answers - and that aren't perverted by influences of industrial complexes.
For the best performance you'd probably want to use something other than CLIP's text encoder, but yeah you already have the text and could index it.

If enough people asked for it, I would consider adding a different embeddings models.
Show HN: Bebop – an iOS app for capturing notes as iCloud-synced txt/md files
Hello HN! I built my first iOS app, Bebop. I made it as a companion to file-based desktop apps like Obsidian and NVAlt, and also as a way to learn iOS development and try out GPT/Copilot.

Notes are saved as plain-text files in the iCloud/Dropbox folder of your choice. I felt that most notes apps out there had too many organizational features (better suited for larger screens) that got in the way of capture (my prime mobile use case).

So I wanted this app to be obsessive about capturing ideas quick. For instance, the “Flashback” button lets you cycle through recent notes with a single tap, without having to navigate away from the compose interface.

The app’s free and unlimited for everyone. No accounts, logins, tracking, or subscriptions. A one-time in app “Pro” purchase will get you color themes and some nice-to-have features, but is basically just a tip to say thanks and support future development.

Would love to hear your thoughts, and figure out how I can make Bebop better fit your individual workflows so it’s useful to others besides myself.

You can also read more about my dev/design process here: https://www.jackcheng.com/bebop-design-dev-process/
You print more money, devaluing everyone's savings, and you use the wealth transferred to pay back Macquarie.
> It seems we as an industry just can not help ourselves with constantly nitpicking things that could just be left alone. Gnome has been the default for ages now. Anyone who uses Fedora regularly is aware of the spins, is aware of KDE, and could, or would, use an alternate desktop environment, should they be so inclined to do so.

On the contrary - anyone already used to Fedora is of course probably used to the spins and can pick whatever they want. But for new users coming from Windows, the defaults are everything, and the default of GNOME is needlessly confusing.
Elician here!

Accuracy and supportedness of the claims made in Elicit are two of the most central things we focus on—it's a shame it didn't work as well as we'd like in this case.

I'd appreciate knowing more about the specifics so we can understand and improve
https://archive.is/6HAaa
It's probably just not a market anyone really cares.

The person who does it a few times a year just buys something cheap.

The professional needs to have it running the whole day. No cable and just noise means that the boss saves money and the worker can just use ear protection.
Well, if we're nitpicking here, it is not 86,000s/day (24 hours * 3600s/hour) and 7.27x10^-5 radians/s, but 86,164.091s and 7.29x10^-5 radians/s.

24 hours is the time it takes the sun to return to the same spot in the sky due to earth having to rotate for another 3m56s to make up for angle gained by revolving around the sun in the same direction as the rotation of the Earth. This applies for the other planets that also rotate and revolve in the same direction - Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. A sidereal day is 23h 56m 4.091s for distant stars to return to the same spot in the sky.

Damn, I knew that is why I botched my 6-stop exposure at my daughter's graduation! She can't blame me now! Thank you HN!
That seems unfair to say, covid-19 is causing way less deaths now than then, and the population is more resistant to it now
I think I am allowed to state my opinion and then ask other people to comment on my opinion.

I said "unlikely" because that's my personal experience. Unfortunately no official statistics exist on these topics.

If you have relevant data, please do share them!
> I would intuitively say very much

Potential knowledge is probably infinite. How much is a finite fraction of infinite? Likely not much.

To be fair, when we say "we know much" we don't compare with all that potential knowledge, but with the knowledge of the generations that preceded us, or compared to the uneducated goat herder on some steppe, or some such thing. But this is also tricky, because they knew/know thing that we don't and so we find ourselves in a muddy morass, even when guessing how much we know (compared to someone else), let alone trying to accurately assess this. Unless we are very specific of course, like narrowing it down to maths or nuclear science.

Come to think of it, that's probably what you meant.

OK, scratch this.
616, the "other" number of the beast, was officially registered to SCO. Maybe also fitting in hindsight.
I generally agree with your take at first, but the following statements are funny to me:

“ I am probably weak on the subject material myself. eg writing quirky love poems to my wife in different styles.”

“ For domains where high rational quality doesn’t matter like love poetry, it is amazing.”

So, self-described weak at love poetry, but confident that it is a domain that LLMs excel at. That is an interesting take. Perhaps the LLM is just as weak at liberal arts as it is hard science, but it is just more difficult to measure since you aren’t in the domain. Most poetry I’ve seen from LLMs has been pretty rote and boring although as you say, not a “rational quality” I suppose.
Facebook and Instagram suspected to be 'too addictive'
Nearly a quarter of UK five-to-seven-year-olds now have their own smartphone
I really dislike that they re-used the TERM value from xterm instead of getting their own merged into terminfo. And then not documenting which sequences are actually supported and which aren't.
It might seem weird, but most VCs are fairly low-margin businesses day to day, then they either get a big payday or not (mostly not), once the fund starts to wind down. The odds of making it big as a general partner in a VC fund are not great.

A VC has to live of management fees for the fund, which are a tiny fraction, typically half a percent, and that needs to cover both the initial investment process and all management of the portfolio, and it's not a lot.

You can't afford to spend a lot of time scrutinizing every pitch deck, because you'll be inundated by them, so you look for quick filters. Many of which will be bad, because they're wild guesses. Yes, that means they'll miss amazing opportunities. But they're gambling what will be left will at least not be worse.

Upside is, VC's wildly disagree on which things make decent quick filters, so what will get you binned one place will often interest another, or at least not annoy them.
Air mattress sales will hit new records…
Pretty much exactly what is needed.

Helix shows the way IMO but the Neovim guys are clearly not conservative.

Exciting to see the tree sitter and lsp improvements.
A link to your comment would be helpful to those of us who missed that post previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355876
The “3.5% rule”: How a small minority can change the world
Why not also include the IANA link:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...
American GOVERNMENT. 99% of Americans have never tortured anyone at all and don't ever want to, so I'd hardly call it an obsession. I guarantee if Europeans were pulling their own weight in "world defense of democracy" there would be lots of Gitmo and Faluja incidents as well, toxic masculinity is alive and well in ALL militaries and this is what happens when they aren't supervised 24/7 against it, especially when it's mixed with war fatigue.
> You would expect teams to game the system and use longer splitters if photo finishes happen often enough. Tried taking a look at the regulations and it seems that they're not publicly available.

NASCAR cars are standardized and measured before and after every race. Failing a race inspection severely penalizes the team (loss of points, driver or crew chief suspensions, fines). Failing a pre-race inspection means the car doesn't race until it passes inspection. Teams aren't allowed to install splitters with different lengths than their competitors.

NASCAR, however, will mandate different splitter measurements for different racetracks. Still, all cars at each racetrack must use splitters that match NASCAR's requirements.
ethics are for broke hippies, we are here to print USD
> in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous

These aren't specifics. It sounds like "here're the conclusions you should memorise; if you can be bothered to read the article that'd be fine."
"Geared for the general public" is an interesting and revealing observation.

You might not have given the "right test" in terms of the actual userbase, but it is absolutely the right test in terms of Elicit's marketing claims. Elicit might be implicitly geared for the general public, but they are explicitly marketing to scientists.

I suspect a lot of Elicit's target users want to use scientific knowledge in their personal/professional lives, but without doing the hard work of gaining scientific understanding. However, they're not going to spend money on a product that says "we use AI to create sciencey bullshit that sounds plausible in conversation." They want a product that Real Scientists would use. (Similar to how purely decorative Damascus steel Bowie knives are gussied up by an outdoorsman pretending to use the knife to gut a fish or whatever.)
This is brilliant, thanks for posting. Things like this make me miss my deceased father. I would love to discuss this with him. He was the only person I knew of that genuinely loved thoroughbred horse racing for the beauty of the animals and for the sport. We would camp out right on the finish line at Belmont park (and often on random weekends when the place was mostly empty) and stay put for hours waiting for the Belmont Stakes. He was an amateur photographer and once got a press pass to photograph from the trench along the outside of the track. I noticed the tall narrow mirror mounted to the finish line pole, and he said it was for the photo finish camera but, not much elaboration beyond that.
>Is this really a sensible factor to consider?

Sensible or cognitive bias that is in play regardless if it is sensible? I've seen a little research on jobs that discriminate against people not currently employed, with longer periods of unemployment leading to greater discrimination. I haven't seen anything about if this is actually justified or not.

I've also heard of this in other areas, like with date, but I haven't been able to find any research and the topic borders some controversial areas that research has struggle handling.

My guess is that it does happen as a bias, related to peer pressure and following a crowd, but like with other biases, even if it makes sense in some cases historically it will lead to illogical behavior in our current society.
Research shows that 'softer' proteins can cross into the nucleus quicker
1) Yes the purchase includes upgrades. After you install those happen automatically.

2) This doesn't support NAS yet, but it's on the roadmap. If enough people are interested in that I'd bump it up in priority.
there is no gutter, just the curb. The couple times I looked into this, to do maintenance on the street I'd need to have some form of insurance.
This can be adjusted by moderation. Why not have the chatbot be compliant at first, and then increase the moderation level as the relationship grows and the lock-in effect occurs?
Upgrades are included in the purchase! Once you install Desktop Docs you'll get the new versions automatically.
Joe Biden Has Continued Donald Trump's Policy of Strangling Cuba
The Straight Dope was also a long-running newspaper column.
That _is_ a much better link.