skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to Reduce Appointment/ Demo No Shows
I’m looking to help SaaS / B2B Companies reduce their appointment/demo no show rates, improve lead engagement and sales qualified leads.

Great for businesses where brand awareness is important or where the lead needs a little encouragement to hear you out.

For example SaaS companies where their ideal audience isn’t aware their solution exists (therefore not looking for it) or for Financial Advisors offering policy / pension reviews.

Some features include:

- Incentive based appointment booking system with minimum qualification criteria (No freebie seekers / time wasters).
- Integrates with booking tools such as Calendly.
- Integrates with video meeting tools such as Google Meet, Ms Teams & Zoom.
- Approval workflow + tracking of user engagement during the appointment (Attended)
- Designed to work with inbound and outbound traffic sources (Outreach & Paid Ads).

Let me know if you have any questions.

Looking at a ‘pay per show’ pricing model too.

If you’d like to join the waiting list to get beta access drop a comment below.
People keep saying that Apple is doomed because AI is taking over and Apple has historically been incompetent in this area. After just watching Google IO and seeing the new AI features exclusive to Android, nothing that was shown tells that a single Apple user is jumping ship.
> So how do you know that any idea built on top of OpenAI is future-proof and actually adds value

one idea is to not build in a way that you depend on OpenAI. You should build on top of their offering in a way that it is interchangeable with other providers, especially offline local solutions which is something OpenAI being an API first company will not have a strong offering for and where you can demonstrate your value.
I specifically said I wasn't sure it's a barrier.

Why would it be?

That is, you can't scale just by buying more of the same hardware.

What did the other super computers get wrong that made them slower?
Relevant Old New Thing: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=10...

Compare to Connectix's RAM Doubler for Mac which was not only legit but is so good that it's often worth installing even with compression disabled:

https://macintoshgarden.org/search/node/connectix%20ram%20do...

https://tidbits.com/1996/10/28/ram-doubler-2/
It crossed my mind, because it is strongly suspected that China does that to low-level political prisoners and members of despised minority groups.

2018: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5250

2019: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/china-is-harve...
Smart to rename. Pico editor is ubiquitous.
Personal experiences with relatives plagued by mental illness tend to dissipate the blindly cheerful view that one can find humanity in the broken pieces.

But at the same time, our own humanity is found in taking care of those that cannot take care of themselves.
> As long as your files are in iCloud ...

That's a pretty significant downside. :(
For anyone wondering if the speed of light is a concern, a good mnemonic is that a foot is roughly equal to a nanosecond. So a millisecond is long enough (by a factor of ~50000) that camera placement doesn’t matter.
It's introduced early on (and not what the book is really about): distribution of a video that is so entertaining that any viewer is compelled to watch it until they die
> Why didn't you answer my question?

Settle down, champ.

> Why is disinterest an ideal to you?

It isn't, because I don't think it's possible. Because of that, I think it's relevant to know what an author's preexisting opinions and beliefs were when writing the article. If, for instance, the author had been strongly pro-nuclear, then their conclusion that SMRs are a dead end would carry more weight, as they would have had to overcome their own biases. Articles that confirm an author's beliefs, on the other hand, are much easier to write.
The page is now fixed. Even for a "test kitchen," that's a shocking error for a company like Google to make.
From the parent's description it sounds like it just parses log files, doesn't seem like it would augment the behavior of the app generating the logs at all. Curious to know more about why something like that isn't possible on ipadOS though.
Google is overhauling search results with AI overviews and Gemini organization
In Dubai right now, one of the things I really like about this place is the optimism they have for the future. It's exhausting working in tech and being in places that don't believe engineering will usher in a better future (but somehow think legal policy will). I'm visiting the museum of the future tomorrow, can't wait.
Will 21st century software companies ever achieve the profit margin of big copr?
Will 21st century software companies ever achieve the profit margins of Microsoft,Oracle, Apple and SAP?
It's absolutely unconscionable that Gemini Ultra got memory-holed. I can't trust anything that Google says about benchmarks.

It seemingly existed only so in December 2023, Gemini ~= GPT-4. (April 2023 version) (on paper) ("32-shot CoT" vs. 5-shot GPT-4)
I don’t really know what pro means I guess, but generally I’d expect professional apps to provide some sort of plugin API to integrate with them in an officially supported manner.

Hacking around these sort of barriers is more of a gamer thing I think.
Comparing two children is a good one. My girlfriend has taken to pointing out when I’m engaging in “punditry”. They're an engineer like I am and we talk about tech all the time, but sometimes I talk about which company is beating which company like it’s a football game, and they call me out for it.

Video models are interesting, and to some extent trying to imagine which company is gonna eat the other’s lunch is kind of interesting, but sometimes that’s all people are interested in and I can see my girlfriend's reasoning for being disinterested in such discussion.
If you reread it was plural. Indicating it was not ceo vs ceo but rather employees vs employees.
Reminds me of the story from a few years ago where the US military was looking into scaring people via screaming balls of plasma, which gave rise to the joke that the CIA was trying to make religious extremists think their god was talking to them using the tech.

https://newstarget.com/2018-04-24-u-s-military-creating-non-...
Greg Brockman et al.
Search online and look what Iran looked like in, say, 1975. Equally, what Afghanistan looked like in 1970. Or, maybe more relevant, what Russia looked like in, say, 2005.

Sadly, the words about eternal vigilance as the price of liberty are as true today as 250 years ago, and even that is not a guarantee :(
Henry Ford II: Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues?

Walter Reuther: Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?
Discussed at the time (of the article):

Frank Ramsey: A Genius by All Tests for Genius - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22321970 - Feb 2020 (23 comments)

Also:

Frank Ramsey: A more human philosophy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24320717 - Aug 2020 (2 comments)

Frank Ramsey – The Man Who Thought Too Fast - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23011233 - April 2020 (122 comments)
I assume for consumers to use this, we must agree to have product placements inserted into our productions every 48 seconds.
The thread is about an author who created an alternative to loom.

People discussing other alternatives to Loom, or alternatives to what the author created is besides the point, to the extend that there might be helpful comparisons and questions. Could be just me tho, which is totally fair.
VMware Fusion Pro 13 goes free for personal use
Those updates are not retroactive. They apply on a go forward basis. Each day's changes become Apache 2.0 licensed on that day four years in the future.

For example, v0.28 was released on October 18, 2022, and becomes Apache 2.0 licensed four years after that date (i.e., 2.5 years from today), on October 18, 2026.

[0]: https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/blob/76cb6647d...
Data about data from 1k conversations with data teams
The key indicator was having a branch of mathematics named after you.
Their CEO is generating massive, growing profits every quarter while releasing generative technology, all the while threading a fine line in what those models generate because it can be pretty devastating for a large corp like Google.
Yeah it's not very good in practice, you can get a halfway decent demo out of it ("look I gave it 6.5 harry potters and it made an SVG map connecting characters with annotations!!"...some of the characters...spare annotations...cost $20). Just good enough to fool you a couple times when you try to make it work 10 times.
This comment is genuinely confusing to me. I think the people who get paid when you pay for paywalls are largely media companies and content creators. I think the owners of HN are, broadly speaking, investors. I think these are two different groups, and I don't understand the equivalence you're drawing.
To add a counterbalance, I just checked in the app and on the website on a non-paid account, and I too do NOT have GPT-4o.
"The prison system and UAB have an agreement for UAB to perform autopsies as an independent contractor. That agreement was filed as an exhibit in the new lawsuits. According to that document, the prison system pays $2,200 per autopsy and $100 per toxicology test.

"According to the lawsuit, UAB Division of Autopsy publications from 2006 to 2015 show that 23% of their yearly income comes from Department of Corrections autopsies"

https://www.al.com/news/2024/04/uab-stealing-dead-alabama-pr....
Yeah, it also crossed my mind.
Last I checked you could disable the safety triggers as an API user with gemini (which doesn't alleviate your obligation to follow the TOS as to the uses of the model).
Yeah I was going to say another factor is a large population of poor, unemployed/underemployed young people. That is fertile ground for the rise of an authoritarian populist or religious zealot.
If you have cancer in the fingertip, they can cut the whole hand to be safe. With the brain each milimiter is very important. (IINAMD. They usually cut more carefuly.)

Also, some cancers are isolated from the rest of the body and some are interwinded with the sorrounding tissue. I'm not sure in which type glioblastoma ia is.
The negative space makes the cycle. The green arrows represent items going to a central location to be recycled, while the white arrows represent them going back out into the world.
I'd like to fact check this amazing comment on that video, but it would require watching Taken 3:

> Some of y'all may find how awful this editing gets pretty interesting: I did an Average Shot Length (ASL) for many movies for a recent project, and just to illustrate bad overediting in action movies, I looked at Taken 3 (2014) in its extended cut.

> The longest shot in the movie is the last shot, an aerial shot of a pier at sunset ending the movie as the end credits start rolling over them. It clocks in at a runtime of 41 seconds and is, BY FAR, the longest shot in the movie.

> The next longest is a helicopter establishing shot of the daughter's college after the "action scene" there a little over an hour in, at 5 seconds.

> Otherwise, the ASL for Taken 3 (minus the end credits/opening logos), which has a runtime of 1:49:40, 4,561 shots in all (!!!), is 1.38 SECONDS . For comparison, Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) (minus end credits/opening logos) is 3:50:59, with 3163 shots overall, giving it an ASL of 4.40 seconds, and this movie, at 1 hour 50 minutes, has north of 4,561 for an ASL of 1.38 seconds?!?! Taken 3 has more shots in it than Zack Snyder's Justice League, a movie more than double its length...

> To further illustrate how ridiculous this editing gets, the ASL for Taken 3's non-action scenes is 2.27 seconds. To reiterate, this is the non-action scenes. The "slow scenes." The character stuff. Dialogue scenes. The stuff where any other movie would know to slow down. 2.27 SECONDS For comparison, Mad Max: Fury Road (minus end credits/opening logos) has a runtime of 1:51:58, with 2646 shots overall, for an ASL of 2.54 seconds. TAKEN 3'S "SLOW SCENES" ARE EDITED MORE AGGRESSIVELY THAN MAD MAX: FURY ROAD!

> And Taken 3's action scenes? Their ASL is 0.68 seconds!

> If it weren't for the sound people on the movie, Taken 3 wouldn't be an "action movie". It'd be abstract art.
Has Gemini started generated impacted of people again? My trial has ended and I haven’t been following the issue.
If anything google search with the Gemini area on the top has been very good for me.
The Endangered State of Normality
Competition is good, and the end user profits!
> some compromises would need to be made

That doesn't seem to make sense though, as the iPad Pro hardware is completely able to do what the err... macOS-wanters er... want. It's the software side (OS mostly) completely blocking forward progress.
Is it just me or the bigger problem is investor owning 70% ? You have a lot of problems from what you wrote and the CTO issue honestly is just a small part of it. You have spent over 4 years and still have nothing to show for ? I think the blame goes on all of you as a team.

If you still think you can save this company somehow, figure out a way to fire the CTO and start fresh. Talk to Lawyers but the investor owning 70% is bothering me the most.
PyFileFixity
> It's not like the power users who currently use Firefox and yet dislike this stuff are going to switch away from Firefox

Sure they do. I know a lot that have, anyway. I'm one of a tiny percentage of my tech circle who uses it anymore.
Cite? My vague understanding of how vision works is that your brain will tend to interpolate over missing data rather than perceive it as black. So you need to actually test whether you can discriminate things in the affected field of view.
The genius of the logo is similar to the genius of the FedEx logo: you have to look at the negative space to see the arrows heading back out.
> You can very much have a single vector owning the memory, and do all other ordering over auxiliary vectors of indices. Should be cheaper and faster than holding more linked lists.

Cheaper in space depends on the percentage of elements in the auxiliary list. An intrusive list has space for every element to be in the list, which is wasteful if few are. A vector that grows by doubling could waste nearly half of its elements. Indexes can often be smaller than pointers, though, which favors the vector approach.

Faster is debatable. Iterating the vector of indexes is quite fast, but indirecting into the data in a random order is still slow. An intrusive linked list doesn't need to do the former, only the latter. (Then again, it also bloats up the data slightly, which matters for small items since fewer fit in cache.)

The main reason why linked lists could still be at an advantage is if you don't want allocations in your auxiliary list manipulation path. Maybe you don't want the unpredictable timing, or maybe you can't handle failure.

I agree on tombstoning, but note that you're giving up some of the vector advantages by doing so. Your processing loop now has a much less predictable branch in it. (Though really, the vector probably still wins here, since the linked list is built out of data dependent accesses!)

Sometimes these auxiliary lists need to contain things that are no longer in the main list, too, as in the case of a free list. (And if you swap such things to the end, then you've just invalidated all of your indexes.) And non-intrusive linked lists can point to variable-size elements (though they lose most of the other benefits of an intrusive linked list.)

Anyway, it's the usual "use the right tool for the right job", I just claim that linked lists are sometimes the right tool.

(Random side note: I use "indexes" instead of "indices" these days, for a silly reason—"indices" is a fine word, I have no issue with it, but it seems to encourage some people to use the non-word "indice" which is an abomination.)
Transitioning from Java Classes to JavaScript Prototypes (2007)
I'm somewhat surprised people still watch YouTube with the horrible recommendations and non-stop spam
The wacky, grueling bike race that captivates a Midwest college town
Washington Post article about the Little 500 bike race

https://wapo.st/44E09PH

https://iusf.indiana.edu/little500/
It is not available on my (free) account in either the app or the website. So no, everyone does not have access to it.
Thanks for the reply, I did reach out and did not hear back. This is the first time this has happened to me in my 18 year career, so I don't think it's me. I've spoken to other ppl searching for a job now and have heard of similar stories which is just sad.

It's my job to find a job, you're right. It's the recruiters job to represent the company. Canceling a meeting with no notice and not replying to emails asking about it is not just unprofessional but negatively impacts brand perception.
The person now in charge of Search is Elizabeth Hamon Reid, a long-time googler who came up through the ranks from engineer (in Google Maps) to VP over 20 years. She's legit.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_review) says: "Empirical studies provide evidence that up to 75% of code review defects affect software evolvability/maintainability rather than functionality, suggesting that code reviews are an excellent tool for software companies with long product or system life cycles. This also means that less than 15% of the issues discussed in code reviews are related to bugs.

So, "don't usually" equals 15%. :^)

Deep dive: https://www.michaelagreiler.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/C...
Not to my knowledge. I believe TimescaleDB has their own incremental view maintenance engine.
Because the docker developers hate security. The idea of the docker group is insane, for example. You can mount any directory into a container so being in the docker group is like having a root account.
Well I didn't remember AMC theaters were ever gone.
At the bottom of the text blurb on the Veo page: "In the future, we’ll also bring some of Veo’s capabilities to YouTube Shorts and other products."

So...you're not cynical, it's an explicit product goal.
Cold plunging might help heart health, new research suggests
You know why and it’s not that their technology struggles with it.
I think it's inverted: their support was highest where they weren't doing the worst things.
Ask HN: Disillusioned after AI?
Maybe it’s me but the advances in AI are just leaving me feeling disillusioned as a builder. There’s an odd feeling that whatever I am going to build will just get gobbled away by some big tech company. The demos just become more cringey, the messaging more duplicitous and fake-authentic. I’m wondering if anyone else has wrestled with similar feelings or maybe I am just going through a rough patch.
I absolutely agree that you need requirements. If you don't know what you're trying to build, it makes it really hard to build it. (And, one page? That's hopelessly inadequate for anything real. But I agree, too often we just start writing...)

But I think where the disagreement comes is in the difference between requirements and specification. The example you gave is, in my view, not a spec at all, just requirements.

Take item 4: That could mean anything. It could mean a SQL database with a published schema, or it could mean a 1 GB file on disk that I can view in a hex editor. (The file probably can't be in /tmp though, because you said "robust".)

So people try to make the requirements more specific, so that they "specify" exactly what the software does. And that's where my previous comment comes in - you can't make it specific enough to answer all the questions. Which was one of the points of the article.
Ffs, why not just stick to Google lens/assistant branding?

Google just can't seem to keep internal org politics separate from the user facing product line.
They would first need an angry mob of barons (sheikhs?) to force the king to sign a Magna Carta.
As usual with the google AI announcements, it’s a lot of “soon you’ll be able to do X” for the more interesting features. It shows that they’re rushing: they want to scream that they’re still relevant in the space, and are talking about features they don’t have now.

I can also do that: I can think about something possible and say soon you’ll be able to do it. It’s not impressive…
SanDisk makes a similar device, the clip sport.
What they are experiencing is terrible but still doesn't compare to actual censorship. I'm sure they still appreciate that the state didn't put them in prison and ban their children from education and employment except the hardest, most hazardous jobs where it is actually expected it will kill you sooner than later. State sanctioned violence hits very differently - the power disparity is unbearable and nothing you do will help you or your family, you can't move, you can't run, you can't negotiate, you can't fight, and unless you're very lucky and the entire regime falls it will never stop.
Everyone who says they have access in the replies to my comment seem to be paid users. So maybe it's only rolling out to them first.
One malicious car could trick smart traffic control systems in the US (2018)
The Astonishing Ways Animals Use Social Networks
> Black market organ harvesting of live prisoners didn't even cross my mind when reading this headline.

It's not that crazy: https://www.westernmassnews.com/2023/05/11/getting-answers-b...
If you prune all the branches, where will the fruits grow?
Depends on the following the person has and how vocal they are. Consider someone with a million followers calling out a company by name on socials and sharing their experience. Dev rels have done driven bans and caused monetary losses before.
This basically already exists for porn
Having used Wacoms for years before trying things like the Surface Pro and then settling on iPad? The iPad 100% beats every other tablet I've used.

How well the iPad / Apple Pencil work for drawing very much adds color to posts here berating the iPads for being a content consumption device.
Quicreach: A 'ping' equivalent tool for QUIC
The native population is roughly 1M. All other 7M are immigrants. So they don't have to turn against no-one. Locals tend to get pretty good jobs and are actually expected to perform.

The UAE is actually pretty predictable.

All in all, I wouldn't call UAE a dictatorship.
you think it's because of him or despite him?
It'll be so much easier to oppress those millions of people after all the new tech they're getting to control/track/monitor the population too.
How very well explained
In preview, can't be used in production, they already rug-pulled people building on Gemini w/r/t cost and RPM, and they're pointedly not putting any RPM or cost on the page. (seriously, try finding info on cost, RPM, or release right now, you're linked in circles.)

Agree on OpenAI multimodal but it's sort of a stilted example itself, it's because OpenAI has a hole in its lineup - ex. Claude Haiku is multimodal, faster, and significantly cheaper than GPT 3.5.
I'd like to see the difference in bug detection between "pull requests" vs. "over-the-shoulder code reviews".

Edit: or, rather, in my experience the author of the code often finds the bugs when explaining it to the person standing next to them. This goes away in the GitHub-style pull request.
This looks like some kind of spam, I'm even tempted to say AI generated.
> It isn't. Slack is better.

"You don't get it Steve, that doesn't matter." [1]

That actually does not matter if Teams is making larger progress than Slack. I prefer Slack over Teams too, but to disregard the market force and market position of Teams is naive.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFcb-XF1RPQ
And this is only true of the DCT - 2D Fourier transforms of images usually concentrate the data near the center of the image.
Sounds really like the future

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Dubai