skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>After the NorthStream was blown up by the US (they even announced it), which constitutes as the biggest act of industrial terrorism EVER, I do not know if I believe you that Russia is "more evil".

While the US must be considered a suspect in the Nordstream demolition, it is by no means clear that they did it, and they certainly did not 'announce it'. There are several other plausible suspects, along with various bits of circumstantial evidence pointing in other directions, but no conclusive evidence of any party's involvement.

Do you really think Europe would've sat by meekly if they had solid evidence that the US did it?

>Not saying that they are uniquely terrible, I'm saying that they constantly want to remind everone that "rules based order" is so important, but when it comes to MKUltra or Gitmo they have no rules for themselves at all. It about the standard they set themselves and then only apply it to other countries.

Superpowers are going to do superpower things. For those on the receiving end, the US comes closest to actually respecting the rules-based order most of the time, which is as a result of it not being run as a dictatorship and having a relatively free, open, and transparent society with a free press. It's obviously far from perfect, and things like the invasion of Iraq were a blatant abuse of power, but it's often the best chance of a win-win for populations rather than just leadership.

Ask Russia and China's neighbours how much they appreciate those countries' 'might makes right' approach to international conflict, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's takeover of territorial waters belonging to the Phillipines and other countries.
> If startup employees truly believe in their company they would also take no salary at all and just live on ramen noodles.

Not if you have no capital -- You still have to eat and be housed and that costs a lot if you don't have family wealth or other income streams, even with a good salary.

People also naturally have different levels of risk aversion. Not everyone can/should be putting it all on red every day.

> This really makes me question which VC firm you work at as you don't seem to understand how they work. If VC firms had no alpha then they wouldn't be able to raise a second fund at all. And you'd never see VC funds stick around.

You're looking at it at the 'fund' level not the individual businesses that make up the fund. To use the roulette example, if I bet specific numbers or splits, I will expect any one of those to certainly lose, but I just need one to hit to cover the rest. Since the individual bets here are human beings and companies and not chips on a table, there's definitely an element of what the top commenter said IMO.
Elegantly written presumption.
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This to me seems like one of those things that makes me think why is this considered such a problem that it needs a "proper" solution like this.

If I have a function written in TS which takes a string type parameter called a hash... isn't it already obvious what the function wants?

Furthermore when the function in question is a hash checking function, it is working exactly as intended when it returns something like "invalid hash" when there is a problem with the hash. You either supply it a valid well formed hash and the function returns success, or you supply it any kind of non-valid hash and the function returns a failure. What is the problem?

In case the function is not a hash checking function per se, but e.g. a function which uses the hash for someyhing, you will still need to perform some checks on the hash before using it. Or it could be a valid hash, but there is nothing to be found with that hash, in which case once again everything already works exactly as it should and you get nothing back.

It's like having a function checkBallColor which wants you to supply a "ball" to it. Why would you need to explicitly define that you need to give it a ball with a color property in which the color is specified in a certain way? If someone calls that function with a ball that has a malformed color property, then the function simply returns that the ball's color property is malformed. You will, in most cases probably, have to check the color property in runtime anyway.

I've used TS based graphics libraries and they often come with something like setColorHex, setColorRGB, etc. functions so that you know how the color should be given. If you supply the color in a wrong way, nothing happens and I think that is just fine.

Sorry for the rant, but I just don't get some of these problems. Like... you either supply a valid hash and all is fine, or you don't and then you simply figure out why isn't it valid, which you will have to do with this branding system as well.
The fact that you have a Betriebsrat along with strong unions is why that sort of thing doesn't happen. Many European countries have works councils with a similar union-adjacent role. I'm not aware of an equivalent in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council
He's a great writer.

> you will at all times want to be suited up like you're going to going to spay a velociraptor

Wins teh Internets.
SBF was able to fit the image of the boy genius that the partners at the VCs (who mostly were probably not boomers) were looking for, while still coming off as "one of them."

They thought that the crazy hair and the video game stuff was an act meant to project an image to the world, and the real SBF was Stanford and Jane Street.
The competent ones can.
I guess it just reduces confidence in the people in charge. If they mess up something simple like the timing on a release then how well are they handling their fiddling with the economy which is complicated. Everyone makes mistakes, but some of theirs can have big consequences for everyone in the whole country.
We have no idea how consciousness works. Just because you dont see a way forward doesnt mean its not there
deno does type checking.
https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/tools/check
It is impossible to regulate any tech that has military value.
You're talking about old things. Its not common anymore for voting rights and dividends to be as intertwined as you say, and you keep ignoring all I said about fiscal differences while telling me to read. Anyway have a nice day was still good to type down our thoughts.
It’s ok.

Only about 2 of them will record anything resembling a usable image - the rest are either broken, potato quality, pointing at nothing, or recording to media that’s so fucked that it’s highly unlikely to capture anything useful.

Not to mention the vast majority of them are privately owned and require a shit tonne of paperwork for the cops to access them, so they don’t bother unless it’s a murder case.
Except those aren't projects proposed or initiated by the artist.

And property and grocery goods aren't even the same category as IP - You can't consume the same cabbage repeatedly.

> That's the contact.

I think you mean contract, but you are ignoring the social contract here. A "worker" isn't going around advocating their own project(s).
Fortunately the accelerometer is a very low-power service. There shouldn't be much magic required, simply a threshold for accelerometer activation similar to drop detection. This sort of protection can false-positive fairly safely - it is minimal extra burden to unlock your device if you accidentally drop it, for example.
oh wow, I made a sweeping generalization - apologies. In single cell, bulk RNA-seq, ATAC, ChIP, I'd say that there are more R packages for the analysis of these omics than Python packages.
I guess you could always get the Agon Light, but that’s 50€!

The ESP32-C3 can be had for under 2€.

…and a killer app for such a nano computer would source ports of people’s favorite retro games ;)
> Maintainers reneged on a promise[0] to provide an autopsy of the hack, a decision that has limited the public’s understanding of the incident.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/who-r...

This bit makes it sound like 3 letter agencies were involved?
Nobody said work for free.

Raise money for the fund's operations with a separate investment product, and take no 2% management fee. Instead take 40% of the upside: this is _efficient_ if you think the upside will be huge.

In fact if you were certain of the huge upside, people would borrow the operating costs for the VC rather than selling equity in the fund. Most VCs in practice live off the 2% quite nicely, and pray for a big hit, but _the big hit is a bonus not the point of the fund_

The point of the fund is the 2%. The once-in-a-blue moon hit is just that.

And let me point out. The YC "big hit rate" is about 1 per 200 investments. Ballpark; you'd need to ask them the current stat.

So a fund that makes 100 investments, on those numbers, has a 50/50 chance of a big hit. 50 investments, a 25% chance.

To reliably get a big hit you either need to massively alter the odds of success for your portfolio companies, or kiss an awful lot of frogs hoping to hit the occasional prince.

VC is _extremely hard_ because it bakes in tech risk and projections about future society into a financial product called startup equity. The big hits are staggering - the best investments ever made by human beings at any point in history I would guess - but reliable prediction of those big hits is impossible.

Nearly every unicorn has a stack of 70 rejection emails. The special factor is intangible and invisible.

If it even exists.

I think Paul Graham explained all of this quite clearly in Black Swan Farming. It's slightly "between the lines" but he knows exactly what business he is in: spread betting and tipping the table as far as possible in his favour!

A good VC approach.
I like handwritten notes too but it's hard to keep up with and still has the 'wall of awful' effect on me if there's something too tough in there.

You might like this little bookmarklet I built for quick notes in your browser when you can't be bothered to find/write in your notebook - I use it for quick work tasks a lot.

https://github.com/pwillia7/Text_Bookmarklet
I'm hopeful for this silicon valley downturn because while I think you're right that most software business plans are capital-light and could be bootstrapped, the problem with the boom times is that if you try to bootstrap and validate any market you will have a VC-funded competitor come along and blitzscale right over the top of you.
> they still do owe users bug fixes or reviewing bug fixes made by community

or allowing community members the power to do these things, without having to fork.
I'd add Your Personal Daily Digest tagline into the page title - because if someone bookmarks your page they'd find it helpful.
I noticed because my tool (farosapp.com) is made for these cases haha
Those Gaulish, Germanic and Celtic elements were becoming Romans as a result of them starting speaking Latin/the Vulgata, the same goes for all the peoples living at the periphery of the Empire. If you were still speaking Celt/German or whatever you were not a Roman, you were a barbarian.

In the Italian peninsula the only part where Greek might have still been a thing is of course Magna Grecia, but that’s a special case. Curious of how many Greek graffitis have been discovered in Pompeii.
Every few months they announce a new lithium mine. I don’t think this matters at all.
> b) the recipient was not their first choice (ouch, you can hear the ego taking a glancing hit)

We can be as cynical about this part as we want, but I think what is meant here is that startups should try to raise investment from VC's or investors who are a good match. If I'm down to the 20th VC on my list - that list is sorted a way for a reason by the startup founders.

It's easy to assign this to ego but I think being a rational actor, it is also a signal like the pitch deck date.
Thank you! I will check it out
Going Critical: diffusion models, disease, and knowledge
The Stuff of (A Well Lived) Life
On the other hand, that should be awesome for astrophotography.
A golden layer unlocks sharper imaging and faster scanning with X-rays
With the exception of the Brits (whose deconstruction from its Empire days keeps fucking stuff up to this day, just look at Israel/Palestine or Pakistan/India), we have learned from our mistakes.

I'm not foolish enough to claim we're perfect - far from it, especially when it comes to restitution towards former colonies and looted art from there - but at least we recognized how and where we fucked up, and we're teaching our children about that in school. We don't skip over the horrors of WW1, we don't skip over WW2 and what led up to it, we don't skip over the various genocides committed on European soil. We acknowledge and own the stuff that our ancestors did.

In contrast, as I mentioned, more and more American schools outright ban books and teaching about its problematic past, or (like MKULTRA) it isn't taught about at all.
They should have said they're working on AI. All copyright infringement would be allowed in that case.
> Even with hindsight, funding Tesla was a bad decision for investors return wise.

He invented the brushless motor and types of transformers that were instrumental to building Westinghouse's empire. When Westinghouse was running low on money Tesla tore up the patents he'd sold to him to save the company.

Tesla was definitely not a "bad decision for investors", the ROI for his inventions is some significant fraction of the economic value of the global electrical system.

But yeah, a couple of his projects failed at some point. Surely a terrible investment!
This is an incredible post for me. You need to have a marketable CV, you need to have a few growth metrics and you need to be in on the joke.
Ask HN: Creating SDKs for Multiple Languages?
Over the last week I was looking at nango.dev, and I think they have a great approach to integrations because there's not only a single API to all integrations but it's still highly customisable.

This felt perfect for our current use-case. So I wanted to use them right away. However, I couldn’t. They only support a Node SDK, and our entire backend is in Python.

This means working with REST APIs instead, which requires more effort such as doing REST calls, mapping the payload to the schema etc. It’s frustrating, because there seems to be this perfect solution that we just can’t use.

Is translating SDKs into a different language is a common challenge others face? And if so, how have you approached to solve this? Transpilation, LLMs, or manual rewrite?

For companies that provide SDKs in different languages, do you have an automated process for this, or is it still done manually?
A bit different take on the situation:

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/georgia-ngos-eu-membership-democ...
I can only speak for myself and I'm not in the US but having been raised on a diet of "end of history" era Hollywood stories about the world coming together to defeat a common threat, I expected something closer to a war economy than just a bunch of temporary subsidies, conflicting mandates and half-assed lockdowns that ultimatel fizzled out before even the lower bound of vaccination for what the scientists said would be required for herd immunity was met.

Instead we saw countries stepping over each other to buy last minute supplies from China because they had eliminated their stockpiles for "efficiency", politicians opportunistically demonstrating defiance in order to make a name for themselves and subsidies being tailored to the specific niche interests of major industries while public services were told to exercise "individual responsibility" instead of receiving additional funds. We clapped for the nurses and then went back to cutting the public health budget because the economy was tanking while a few lucky businesses redistributed societal wealth into their pockets.

Nobody demonstrated leadership. Anyone who did was kneecapped by opportunists. Even the EU couldn't commit to a joint plan without having individual member states decide they're special and allowed to do backroom deals to break the same rules they just agreed to. The only thing any politician could agree on was that the economy had to "keep running" at any cost.

What did I expect? I don't know, to be honest. But I expected something more coherent and closer to the lies we were told about the state and what it is good for. But what shocked me more is how after the mask came off and revealed that it's all always been false advertising, we simply went back to normal. But this already happened before, e.g. after the Wikileaks and Snowden revelations. I shouldn't be surprised that people prefer to forget.
As someone who has worked on LLMs somewhat extensively, the idea that we are going to accidentally make a superintelligence by that path is literally laughable.
How do I know an SSD is reliable or not? How do I know it's a consumer SSD or a real SSD? I'm particularly interested in drives which contain firmware that doesn't lie to the operating system about whether crucial operations have completed or whether errors were found. Is there a way to know?

I want to buy equipment that will last at least 10 years. It won't be heavily written but it will be heavily read. To me it feels like SSDs should last a long time for write-once read-many use cases.
Paul Graham, Black Swan Farming: https://paulgraham.com/swan.html

> "The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners, and (2) that the best ideas look initially like bad ideas."

_initially look like bad ideas_ meaning "we can't pick them out of the crowd of other bad ideas"

> "there is probably at most one company in each YC batch that will have a significant effect on our returns, and the rest are just a cost of doing business"

> "For that reason one of my most valuable memories is how lame Facebook sounded to me when I first heard about it."

> "We'll probably never be able to bring ourselves to take risks proportionate to the returns in this business."

So it's not like this model is alien to Our Kind Hosts at YC. They understand that this is a crap shoot with a slightly tilted table, but they're optimising for staying out of the zones where everybody else is betting and not that much more.

To be remembered: if you're having a hard time getting funded, the VCs are also having a hard time funding you, because the huge returns go to things that look odd, lame, and weird.

For the most part.
If you have to ask, I think you already know the answer
Meta slapped with child safety probe under sweeping EU tech law
Are you implying that you’re the same person I was commenting to or are you just throwing your opinion into the mix?

Regardless, we’ve seen accuracy of ~98% with simple context-based prompting across every category of generation task. Don’t take my word for it, a simple search would show the effectiveness of “n-shot” prompting. Framing it as “it _can_ reduce” hallucinations is disingenuous at best, there really is no debate about how well it works. We can disagree on whether 98% accuracy is a solution but again I’d assert that for >50% of all possible real world uses for an LLM 98% is acceptable and thus the problem can be colloquially referred to as solved.

If you’re placing the bar at 100% hallucination-free accuracy then I’ve got some bad news to tell you about the accuracy of the floating point operations we run the world on
The title is just weird framing in general. In a large company, the CEO's role generally shouldn't be having ideas, except perhaps in companies that are still founder-led (though even then I'd be skeptical).

Instead, their role should be to cultivate many people having ideas, and a healthy process for filtering for the best ones.

A single person is simply inferior in terms of brain power compared to a collective.
Nobody who writes a comment like that wants to know why they’re wrong. “Money people bad” is their mantra. You’ll never change it, they’ve swallowed too much propaganda.
There was some controversy over the details, but it was a terrible way to go.

Most people are trained from day 1 that PPE is never perfect.
Many of those prospects you read about opening have since been closed again. eg: (Dec 2023) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-22/core-lithium-share-pr...

Shares in Core Lithium have crashed by more than 20 per cent this morning after the company announced it was reviewing its operations near Darwin because of "the deterioration in lithium market conditions".

Anticipated demand drove the opening of known prospects, uptake slower than expected has seen the boosted price fall and the fresh mines shuttered again.
Are you "gpu poor" by choice? I would have thought you, of all people, would be "gpu wealthy" like few can imagine.
EU Policy. Meta's platforms hit with two more DSA investigations
I wasn’t suggesting anyone do anything, I was mostly trying to point out that large acts can make a lot of money on touring. Most make very little, if any at all.
App stores are hugely lucrative–and under attack
The default limits of MacOS is not really web server benchmark friendly.

ulimit -a
Maximum size of core files created (kB, -c) 0
Maximum size of a process’s data segment (kB, -d) unlimited
Maximum size of files created by the shell (kB, -f) unlimited
Maximum size that may be locked into memory (kB, -l) unlimited
Maximum resident set size (kB, -m) unlimited
Maximum number of open file descriptors (-n) 256
Maximum stack size (kB, -s) 8176
Maximum amount of CPU time in seconds (seconds, -t) unlimited
Maximum number of processes available to current user (-u) 5333
Maximum amount of virtual memory available to each process (kB, -v) unlimited

Debian's limits are better:

~> ulimit -a
Maximum size of core files created (kB, -c) 0
Maximum size of a process’s data segment (kB, -d) unlimited
Control of maximum nice priority (-e) 0
Maximum size of files created by the shell (kB, -f) unlimited
Maximum number of pending signals (-i) 30744
Maximum size that may be locked into memory (kB, -l) 993336
Maximum resident set size (kB, -m) unlimited
Maximum number of open file descriptors (-n) 64000
Maximum bytes in POSIX message queues (kB, -q) 800
Maximum realtime scheduling priority (-r) 0
Maximum stack size (kB, -s) 8192
Maximum amount of CPU time in seconds (seconds, -t) unlimited
Maximum number of processes available to current user (-u) 30744
Maximum amount of virtual memory available to each process (kB, -v) unlimited
Maximum contiguous realtime CPU time (-y) unlimited

For testing I always create an instance somewhere (mostly AWS) and configure the OS to have much higher performance limits to enable better performance outcomes.
Those remote companies deal with customer and supplier meetings presumably without using their living room.

I imagine there are people who want a remote position who don’t want to travel but at that point <shrug>.
If you look outside the 99th percentile, you won’t find anyone living off their music career.
Let’s be real, NSA is a vacuum. Data goes in, but nothing comes out. The NSA isn’t somehow re-releasing your old photos back to Apple
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I'll have to agree with this. In particular, there always seems to be some stage where you'll have to think carefully about how the simplifier works exactly, about different types of equality (syntactic vs. definitional vs. provable), etc. And changing internal representations of objects will also mean that old proofs might not compile anymore. And tactics are often rather opaque blackboxes.

I say this as a non-expert who has been enjoying writing some Lean recently and has previously also written some Coq and Idris.