skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean it's not like anything is going to happen to them anyway.

People will continue to defend and worship Altman until their last drop of blood on HN and elsewhere, consumers will continue using GPT, businesses will keep hyping it up and rivers of cash will flow per status quo to his pockets like no tomorrow.

If one thoroughly wants to to make a change, one should support alternative open source models to remove our dependency on Altman and co; I fear for a day where such powerful technology is tightly controlled by OpenAI. We have already given up so much our computing freedom away to handful of companies, let's make sure AI doesn't follow. Honestly,

I wonder if we would ever have access to Linux, if it were to be invented today?
It just seem petty, refusing to sign a simple document agreeing to not to trash your former employer (with whom you intend to continue to benefit from a shared interest in said company). It wasn't as if Altman was threatening to take back equity. Little more than a "just be nice, OK" and yet somehow that is asking too much?
Clojure will get more adoption if they find a way to make it very easy to build cross platform mobile and web apps like React & React native. They need to keep adding libraries to make the eco-system bigger.
I can verify Teslas do this as soon as they’re shifted into reverse at least
For anything on a phone, agreed. I have mine disabled so I can switch easily depending on where or who I’m talking with.
The same applies to airplanes with two large companies being dominate: Boeing and Airbus.

Further examples: Search engines, operating systems (particularly mobile) … in many areas we face a monopoly or duopoly.

The more complicated the product, the higher the risk that a monoculture is created.
Sloth stool ceiling.
If "google stuff" was part of (open source) android OS, then sure.

But it's not, it's exactly the same shovelware that any other OEMs push at You, except people give it a pass because "it's from google". My phone app should be my phone app, not google contacts.

And sure, GMS integration are de facto 'the android experience', but let's not pretend like Google’s version of calendar being preloaded is crucial for GMS to work.
Would love to see more of the output data.
- How many win/loss clusters did the data produce?
- In vector space what was the seperation between B2B and B2C companies?
- Did you normalize against size of win/market-cap or anything else?
Remind me a story when French government in Vietnam started to pay bounty for rats tails
Lizardman's Constant
Well, it is wrong to disparage someone that is innocent until proven otherwise. Even if you disagree with them and think they are a snake-oil salesman.

That does not mean you should not hear someone out. As far as I am aware Annie said Sam and their brother molested her as a kid. He claims otherwise, and deflects with “she is a drug addict” (heavily paraphrasing here). Lots of talk of how her trust was broken, and it is impossible to get justice against someone so rich and powerful, etc. where sama’s camp claim it is a money grab and there is zero proof. A sticky wicket.

Now, whether all these “new” revelations (honestly never thought Sam was honest) help support her claims is up to you. Just wanted to add some context for those unaware. Not accusing anyone.
What year is it? I'm surprised they haven't fixed the title.
This is objectively false. Source: I have ears and hate living near freeways.
What a scumbag.
PG is Altman's godfather more or less. I am disappoint of these OpenAI news as of late.

5. Sam Altman

I was told I shouldn't mention founders of YC-funded companies in this list. But Sam Altman can't be stopped by such flimsy rules. If he wants to be on this list, he's going to be.

Honestly, Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder I refer to most when I'm advising startups. On questions of design, I ask "What would Steve do?" but on questions of strategy or ambition I ask "What would Sama do?"

What I learned from meeting Sama is that the doctrine of the elect applies to startups. It applies way less than most people think: startup investing does not consist of trying to pick winners the way you might in a horse race. But there are a few people with such force of will that they're going to get whatever they want.

https://p@ulgraham.com/5founders.html
*edited link due to first post getting deleted
It’s not just the MBAs that saw dollar signs. A lot of the engineers and researchers did, too.
Is it not roadworthy without one?
It's a little odd to see discussions of Hamas centering on the 2017 charter. That document was written by Khaled Mishal, who led the Hamas political wing (the "politburo", I guess?) from Doha. It was announced just as Mishal was forced from power by the hardline Gaza-based Al-Qassam wing of Hamas, which rejects that charter.

People go back and forth on how much evidence there is or isn't for Sinwar and Gaza-based Hamas's rejection of the 2017 charter, but read reporting and analysis from the time, untainted by what happened on October 7, about what the objectives were for updating the charter (significantly: easing Egypt's longstanding blocade of Gaza, repairing political relationships, working around Egypt's post-Arab-Spring, post-Sisi coup suppression of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas's parent organization). Then look what happened on October 7. Like, there isn't much doubt that the 2017 document was unserious at this point?

This is purely a nerd point and not something I expect would change anybody's mind about what's happening in Gaza or what the outcomes should be.
Apps are signed.
I think you missed the point. GFS supported append operations and was created around 24 years ago. S3 still hasn't caught up with this particular feature. Although they clearly implemented it, as you can do a long multipart upload and S3 will join the file for you.

At a high level, yes, you can implement systems like Megastore or Bigtable over S3. However, there are many details you must take into account. You cannot simply wave away the complexity and potential failure scenarios.

For starters, how are you going to create the newest SST?

If you keep it in memory or on disk, it must be replicated to prevent data loss if a machine fails. This approach could lead to losing the most recent changes. Additionally, you end up with a hybrid system that needs to read data from multiple sources, which adds complexity. If you essentially reimplement the system, why use S3 at all?

What if the data volume gets too low and you end up writing many small, expensive files?

Using something like Kinesis for batching might work, but the data won't be visible for N minutes.

Merging partial tables also requires maintaining an external index to track availability. Transactions would be helpful, but how do you handle failures?

And we haven't even mentioned managing garbage collection. It would require an external lock or reference count system.
Also would like to see Ticketmaster broken up itself, not just the LN part.
> (In our state, Medicaid eligibility goes up to $80k in income and up to $100k for food stamps!)

In FL, Medicaid adult eligibility ceiling is $Ø. Also the next states over. And states past that. And more states.

In FL SNAP income limits for adults are [whatever the ASCII symbol is for irrelevant]. Whatever the guidelines are, the vast majority of impoverished adults are denied. Same for next states over. And you get the idea.

Folks posting from states that aren't hostile to vulnerable people are posting their healthcare/assistance figures - in a way that seems to imply their numbers could well represent America. They don't tho.
Building C/OpenGL Pong With AI [video]
Ask HN: SaaS Founder and DM's: What's the good, the bad and the ugly look like?
Taking to Reddit in hopes of conducting a bit of market research with the help of everyone here to better understand your use of various subscription management and optimization tools along with all of the ups and downs that come with them.

For context, I help lead a team buidling an alternative Subscription Management tool aimed at solving some of the most common problems that we have seen and have experienced ourselves with other players in the market. At a previous venture, we took a good look at our tech stack and noticed that we had individual tools all aimed towards a similar goal. Things like retention and dunning, expansion revenue, payment orchestration, rev rec, and metrics were all housed and managed with their own tool of which came from different providers - more than an oversight and definitely can’t chalk it up to hindsight now.

This leads us to the now. If you happen to have any positive or negative experiences, or perhaps something that you wish you had known prior to using a specific/tool or feature, I’d be keen to hear it from people other than myself and those around me.

TIA - team @OpenPay
I'm confused... Is this an actual prompt programmed into ChatGPT?
This is really unkind and this sort of discourse makes this website increasingly pretty boring to read. Please don't be unkind.
Something similar I've noticed--there's a certain level people reach within a company where they're now too busy to type out "thank you" or even "thanks." Now "thx" is all they have time for.
Yeah I have mixed feelings about those quarterly reports too - on the one hand they satisfy HN's "original source" rule ("Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) but on the other hand they have quite a bit of overlap with the "corporate press release" genre, which is the one big exception to that rule (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). There's another principle which trumps both of those though: on HN we trust readers to be smart enough to find the interesting bits.
As I recall McCartney didn't like the idea of Live And Let Die being parodied as Chicken Pot Pie, since he's vegetarian. Funny thing is so's Al.
You still don't see many scripts or CLI apps in Java though. I was wondering if that would change now that you can run a source file directly, but then wouldn't the startup be slower, because now it's also having to compile.
The question is what is the performance per watt of AMD's and Intel's products. My guess is both have significantly worse performance per watt. Energy and cooling are huge data center expenses and paying less for a product which requires more energy and cool is not a good idea because it costs more.
I tried migrating my Linux setup script to Python, but the sudo thing is quite hard to solve.

Either I have to grant the whole Python process sudo privileges and manually change the ownership of all touched files, or I have to spawn a sudo rm process to remove the files owned by root (instead of using Python's standard library).

Neither of these makes the script simpler or easier to maintain.
Can you give me the definition of nutritionally complete that applies to seitan but not red meat considering that seitan, at the same amount of calories, is more amino acid dense than a steak according to Cronometer?

Let's pretend you can only eat 500 calories per day (which is usually part of the weird implication in these claims). Seitan gives you 100%+ of all EAAs except one (70%). A steak gives you 100%+ of the EAAs except for three (85%, 80%, 77%). Seitan also contains double the total protein of the steak.

Wouldn't you have the bite the bullet on steak being nutritionally deficient if seitan is?

If that's not good enough for you, we could look at another protein dense plant-based food: TVP aka soy chunks. 500 calories of soy chunks have 100%+ of the EAAs, 25g more protein than steak, in 50g less food than steak.
The hope is to eventually remove the in-kernel terminal emulator. See here https://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/killing-off-config_v...
> This is a demonstration that when costs of getting the people there are low enough, people > robots.

Maintenance missions close to Earth and space exploration are 2 very different tasks. This does in no way "reality check" my assertion that trying to make people live long term on other planetary bodies, or even send them there on limited excursions, makes no sense in todays reality.

You want a reality check? Fine, here is a reality check:

[Perseverance Mission cost][1]: 2.725 Billion $, is already up there doing work, and only the lastest in a line of ever more capable robots.

[2014 Projected Manned Mars Mission Cost][2]: 100 Billion $, could take 20 years or more. That was 10 years ago. Today we know it's likely to be even more expensive and take much longer.

This is the reality. Today, Robots outperform people when it comes to going to other planets, by any scientific or economic metric.

[1]: https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-perseverance

[2]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140422-ma...
Conveniently that stat doesn't say whether it's relay attacks, or just getting towed, or some other means
I think I've seen that in every contract I've ever signed.
GP may be referring to Khan Academy affiliated but offline Khan Lab School.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Lab_School
No, just an old warhouse who went corporate, left 6 months, and is in pre release - I keep forgetting to apply for that, ty.
> but rates of people who never marry are on a steep rise

restricting everyone's freedoms in order to shove marriage down people's throats is reactionary policy
Well appropriately enough it was an AI movie that taught as a valuable lesson, namely that sometimes the only correct move is not to play.

It's such an insidious idea that we ought to accept that you can just give up your promises you explicitly made once those rules get into your way of doing exactly what they were supposed to prevent. That's not anyone else's problem, that was the point! The people that can't do that are supposed to align AI? They can't align themselves
Agree. Somehow environmentalist have not picked on this. I imagine popular concerts would have huge carbon footprint.
>>The artists aren't reaping these fees

This is not true. The fees are just there to mask the cost of the ticket:

>>According to Ticketmaster, the fees are determined “in collaboration” with its clients, all of whom receive a cut from the charges.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/ho...
You get what you pay for. ;)
It's always drivers fault because they are the ones who chose to operate heavy machinery in the vicinity of random people.
A Go framework for building AI/LLM applications
That’s not where the money is. Why they aren’t selling Gaudi2 by the pallet I can’t quite understand.
Well, it's still partially the JVM at play. For example, if your application has big classes, and many classes, the JVM will be slow to start. This is what is happening here. Clojure is like a large-ish Java project, it has big classes, and many of them, with static initializers, that need loading at the start, and the JVM does all that slowly.

In some sense it's Clojure's fault for having an implementation that causes slow JVM startup, but it's also the JVM's fault that the way Clojure uses it causes it to take a long time to start.
Best Practices Considered Harmful
> Only "rich people" and "dupes for libertarianism" "seem to" prefer low taxes?

I think your problem is you're treating "trickle-down economics" as a synonym for "low taxes," when it isn't.

> In citing communism, I was only matching your hyper-defensive snark and substance avoidance by throwing around a roughly opposite term that is meant to have a negative connotation.

Communism is a dead boogeyman, while libertarianism is a thing that still has some life in it.
Why can't you do some JVM equivalent of memcopy/execve the starting state of the program?

Isn't the initialization procedure (or at least the vast majority of it) exactly the same at each run ?
He's talking about taking students who can't do grade 7-9 math and charging them $200,000 and several years of their life for the promise of a career they almost never get. These students are getting screwed over hard. Most of them don't want to be taking the class.
Indeed, been going to a lot fewer concerts now that good seats start at $400.

There’s still small independent venues with realistic prices but they are being bought up.
This is one of my favorite examples of practical effects. I hate windows as an OS, but I still admire this every time I log in at work.
> The most common mechanism for creating a venture-backed business is by bringing efficiency to existing markets. This approach is the simplest and least risky because the demand for the product already exists. The promise is to deliver a product that is quantitatively better than what currently exists. There is often little technological uncertainty, as existing technology is applied to a new domain (low R&D).

Great insight from the pile of data. I know a lot of fellow founders failed miserably to conclude on this same lessons.
>Better yet us "AI" to determine how productive you were yesterday.

You can bet that's exactly where this is going for the corporate world.
The python project itself lets you download embeddable python, you don't need to get it from random sources. It works great, you can install all your pip packages, zip it backup and it just works.
Eh. Most of those look like they were halfheartedly forged by Thomas Kinkade. I think it's a different level.

There really is a whole gooey schlocky kind of sheen to so much of that stuff that really zeros out any intentionality of the original works. I think the most egregious examples are more operator error than anything else, but it is what it is.
A step like this can change the course of history. So it need to be taken with lot of due diligence.
Nope. Not for LLM workloads at least. They’re competitive across the board.
Self-fulfilling prophecy.

YC startups get pre-seed funding, ridiculously good deal on their seed, access to the alumni to market, free promotion on HN etc.

Which means they are going to have a 100x better chance of surviving until PMF versus someone who is bootstrapped or has limited access to capital.

So really what you're measuring isn't what makes a good startup but rather what type of startups get you into YC. And that has changed significantly pre and post Garry Tan taking over as CEO.

Now the statistics show you want to be based in SF, team of 2-3, 30 and under and building something involving LLMs. Which is kind of understandable given that we are in a gold rush period.
Super interesting that even a heavily consumer facing company like Kodak could employ thousands of people on large scale government projects. It definitely speaks to the scale of some of these projects.
Or people with strong knowledge you trust. There's a somewhat famous legend of a trade Peter Lynch did based, in some part, upon his wife commenting on buying pantyhose at the supermarket. I'll let you read for yourself -

"I had a great luck company called Hanes. They test marketed a product called L'Eggs in Boston and I think in Columbus, Ohio, maybe three or four markets. And Carolyn, ah, brought this product home and she was buying and she said, "It's great." And she almost got a black belt in shopping. She's a very good shopper. If we hadn't had these three kids, she now -- when Beth finally goes off to college, I think we'll be able to resume her training. But she's a very good shopper and she would buy these things. She said, "They're really great."

And I did a little bit of research. I found out the average woman goes to the supermarket or a drugstore once a week. And they go a woman's specialty store or department store once every six weeks. And all the good hosiery, all the good pantyhose is being sold in department stores. They were selling junk in the supermarkets. They were selling junk in the drugstores. So this company came up with a product. They rack-jobbed it, they had all the sizes, all the fits, a down they never advertised price. They just advertised "This fits. You'll enjoy it." And it was a huge success and it became my biggest position and I always worried somebody'd come out with a competitive product, and about a year-and-a-half they were on the market another large company called Kaiser-Roth came out with a product called No Nonsense.

They put it right next to L'eggs in the supermarket, right next to L'eggs in the drugstore. I said, "Wow, I gotta figure this one out." So I remember buying -- I bought 48 different pairs at the supermarket, colors, shapes, and sizes. They must have wondered what kind of house I had at home when I got to the register. They just let me buy it. So I brought it into the office. I gave it to everybody. I said, "Try this out and come back and see what's the story with No Nonsense." And people came back to me in a couple weeks and said, "It's not as good." That's what fundamental research is. So I held onto Hanes and it was a huge stock and it was bought out by Consolidated Foods, which is now called Sara Lee, and it's been a great division of that company. It might have been a thirty bagger instead of a ten bagger, if it hadn't been bought out."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/betting/pros/...

He talks about this more in One Up On Wallstreet about how an observant retail investor who goes to the supermarket or department store or fast food chains, or in your example a loading dock, every week is actually more in touch with what's happening in some businesses than some institutional investors.

The service here has really gone down over the years, product sucks everyone is switching to the competitor, friends can't stop raving about this new product.

I don't know how well that advice holds up in today's market but it's a fun idea, maybe just for the play-money account.
The thing is, he didn't ask you. He put himself into a position where anyone not giving him money would feel they're missing out. It's very unfortunate that he managed to pull it off.
Yes, good seats are now put to auction to capture scalper profit beforehand.
Teachers: How do you come to terms with the low ability of our students? --
https://old.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1cxcd2r/how_do_yo...
This is a great idea. The book is actually subscription-based and will be updated regularly. This could be included in a future version. You can submit a feature request on the GitHub repo of the book to capture it (https://github.com/theembeddedrustacean/ser-std).

Though to your point, in Rust, achieving what you mentioned is really streamlined devoid of headache. Meaning, all you need to do is find a driver crate on crates.io, include it in your toml configuration file. Then all abstractions are available.
This discussion is about space exploration, not maintenance tasks close to Earth.
Pardon my ignorance here, as I don't actually attend concerts, but to play something of devil's advocate...

Isn't the secondary market for tickets- scalpers and such- significantly more expensive than what Ticketmaster is selling the tickets for? Which is to say, aren't the tickets sold below market value?

I'm not entirely clear on how there being more competition would help consumers.
As a gaming and workstation GPU company. That market isn’t available to return to.
Looks like it is allowed when not planned but an emergency.
the actual base standard emacs keybindings are great and always have been, esp if you have a real keyboard
Yes. It ignores robots.txt.
list-map-itemgetter is actually the fastest solution in Python. Should actually promote this.
Except in Babashka you can't use Java libraries.. Right?

I feel a good fraction of code will dip into Java libs at least a bit - so you're limited in what libraries you can use

I think the real solution is probably Graal native - though it's not part of the official toolbox/deps.edn
It's a good options to test local models I guess.