skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Business is rife with survivorship bias, and indie hacking, doubly so.

Indie-hacking-projects have the benefit of a dignified exit by open-sourcing - a lot of whatever value in any technology/code/designs was created will be preserved - which is a good thing.

It's a shame that oftentimes the "best" outcome for a startup or small software/tech company (where they get acquihired by Apple specifically) is not only their product/service gets shut-down, but all traces of it are systematically removed from the Internet and everything the company's founders do is effectively memory-hole'd - the _Dark Sky_ app is the textbook example of this.

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Separately, when a company is small, stable and profitable it isn't a failure as far as the bank is concerned, but not exactly a hyperscaling unicorn - so when the founders/owners want to exit their only real option is to sell-out to either their competition for a managed wind-down-and-migration - or worse: an M&A firm (which will only make a lowball offer, then replace staff eng with a skeleton maintenance crew, and mis-manage the company's products/services for a decade as they hemorrhage-out loyal customers due to declining product quality).

Required reading: https://pivotal.substack.com/p/the-worst-outcome-is-a-medioc...
Your rent has doubled since 2017?
Rasking recommended cancelling searches by mashing the keyboard randomly to extend what you had typed so far with something that was sure to not be found in your text. The search advances with each new key you type while holding "leap". I agree that this was not discoverable at all, though it is trivial to learn. I don't know if backspacing while leaping would backtrack the search, but if that was the case it would have been what I would have tried (this would be just a little slower than Jef's suggestion).
Seeing is believing, probably gonna const 35k anyways when it eventually comes to market.
I don't understand the idea ... do you mean a middleware that parse the SQL query and contains a query planner and has full knowledge of all the indices in the database .. or something else?
How's the battery on this one? I'm hoping to upgrade from 11th gen intel i7. If possible, upgrading by just swapping the mainboard would be amazing.
Not sure about PoW. What about people with slower phones etc?

I don't see how an older smartphone could meaningfully outcompute a spamming infra.
"Totaled" means whatever the laws in the insured's state say it means.
> grinder

That’s the hint you aren’t comparing like kinds.
I think you're conflating wants and needs. All you "need" is nutrition (food and water), air, and temperature regulation. It's reasonable to expand on that to include physiological needs like companionship, shelter and clothing. Sex can also be reasonably included as it is required for the propagation of the species. Everything else is a want. Who are we to dictate what people want to live a better life? What you want to live a better life is quite possibly different from what I want to lead a better life. Wouldn't you agree?
My experience is very different. Often it (ChatGPT or Copilot, depending on what I'm trying to accomplish) gets things right the first time. When it doesn't, it's usually close enough that a bit of manual modification is all that's needed. Sometimes it's totally wrong, but I can usually point it in the right direction.
why would buying an old version entitle you to a new version?
Until they start rebelling, society is already revolting
Deep down inside I know that is by design.
I personally know two people who travelled from Toronto area to attend. I couldn’t because of a shitty situation but followed along with the live YouTube casts, which (for anyone who cares) will prove you wrong

I Know you are full of shit, therefore I know you know you are full of shit

My hobby is calling bullshit and it is fun. There’s so much of it!

Edit: for extra context, the two people who took major time out of their lives to do this, one was in the Canadian Forces when they were younger (not at the time obv) and the other came to Canada in the early 90s after their government wrecked their country and was watching in horror of it happening to them again
IIRC PayPal started off as an encryption library and went through more than 10 iterations before it became what it is now.
The BEAM is pretty high level, and it's REALLY good at managing distributed compute at the thread or device level.

If you have a parallelizeable workflow, it's very easy to make it (properly!) parallel locally, where by "properly" I mean having supervision trees, sane restart behavior, etc.

And once you have that you can extend that parallelism to different nodes in a network (with the same sanity around supervision and discovery) basically for free. Like, one-line-of-code for free.

Nonetheless, it's all message-passing, and so pretty high level. AFAIK it's not designed for parallelizing compute at GPU scale.

That being said, if you have multiple GPUs and multiple machines that have to coordinate between them, Elixir/Erlang is pretty much perfect.
It's 'off the front page' because it's old news. 700+ people upvoted on it and commented on it. Lots of eyeballs. Lots of discussion. Over there. Just try and keep the discussion together.
>Forecasters warned of “DVD-size hail” as stones larger than grapefruits...

Not sure what "DVD-size" adds in this subtitle beyond the grapefruit reference, especially since a DVD is flat and the hail is not
I don’t understand how “DVD” sized hail is different from “grapefruit” sized. A DVD is 120mm, or about 4 3/4 inches. A grapefruit is “ranges from 100 to 150 mm (4 to 6 inches) in diameter, its size depending upon the variety and upon growing conditions.” [0]

Also, the hail depicted in the image did not appear to be one hailstone but an accumulation of several.

0. https://www.britannica.com/plant/grapefruit
I want to believe it because it makes a great science story and it makes good reading but who knows? This meta analysis only shows there is some correlation with behavior changes (only schizophrenia seems to consistently have some correlation) and discusses the difficulties in doing studies in pretty easy to understand way IMHO, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8548174/ The very high 30 percent infection rate among the world population is kind of like like herpes, which at first thought would seem to confound things, though at a glance at a few, the studies were careful to separate infected versus non-infected.
Thanks. I hadn't actually read the announcement, just all the hullabaloo about how the voice sounded so human-like (and like ScarJo), and that's what had impressed me the most about conversing with Pi, thus my OP.
Am I the only one bothered by:

"As a professor of computational photography, I’ve seen how the latest smartphone features overcome the limitations of human vision."

combined with:

"AI allow these devices to capture stunning images"

?

I'm not an expert, but every time I casually read about how computational photography works, I get the impression it is some very clever image processing algorithms (eg, pixel alignment of multiple images, anti shake, combining multiple images to enhance dynamic range, depth perception, detecting under and over exposure in parts of the image) put together by a software engineering team made up of entirely of humans. Occasionally there may be an AI detecting faces, smiles and blinks for things like timing and framing - but not in the aurora photos the article features.

Which means I'm looking at an instance of the term "AI" evolving in meaning in popular culture. Software engineers have a very particular set of statistical techniques and algorithm's when they use the term AI. The new meaning seems to be "any set of computational gymnastics it would require an expert to understand", or worse just: "big complex algorithm".

Sigh. It makes me sad. But then so did OS changing it's meaning from "a layer of software that abstracted the details of the underlying hardware from user space programs" to "Android" / "iOS" / "Windows". The old, more formal, precise and limited definition we software engineers invented is now at best jargon, but in reality probably gone. When I see younger programmers use the term "OS" here, they invariably mean the common definition.
EvilAppleJuice-ESP32: Spam Apple Proximity Messages via an ESP32
I did too as well as Programming Pearls.
But after taxes and lower salary, I bet you're more than $12k/yr behind an equivalent US employee's net earnings yes?
Yep! Edited! I confused Citroen and Renault. But the Renault EVs in India are all made in India.
Yes, the word "inflation" is pretty much propaganda. Especially when you start talking about rates of change of rates of change. People are concerned when they discover that they are now poorer than they were just a handful of years ago and now a box of Cheerios costs $7.
>Even if you don't come right out and say you see them as a "take it and keep looking", that's still going to be obvious unless you're at sociopath levels of skill in lying.

I see it as no different then when they ask "why do you want this job"? Except they aren't even asking.

Many people know the primary reason is finances, but companies tend to not pick someone who answers that way. There's an "etiquette" to lie about certain factors unless you're in crazy demand, so who's really in the ethical quandry here?
This gets better reception here if you do a Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Congratulations on the sale. Thanks for including real numbers, that will be helpful if I ever sell one of my products.
With a human I can look at their face to see that they see me. How do I know a robot sees me? Do they have indications that say “I see you and won’t drive” like a driver looking at you in the face and waving?
Don't believe your lying wallet.
Fortunately we have competition and possibility to switch to banks that are more private and user friendly.
> This solves the alignment problem because now every human has an efficient NN biologically embodied inside them (and for free to all progeny).

That's fine in fiction, but IRL? Well, if I gave everyone an organoid that did this but also it produced cocaine by accident, you can see how that's not sufficient.

It's also a reverse-lobotomy (lobo-plasty?), and it's not reasonable to wonder if the change of personality as a result of an extra blob of mind can be just as severe as the change from a removal of some part of your mind.

> My friend added, then scientists discovered that this mini brain and axonal connection already exists in the gut and develops a way to reactivate it. Lol

I like this twist. Almost "the aliens were in us all along".
Steampipe demonstrates a rather impressive range of scenarios for using FDWs + SQL in place of more traditional ETL and API integrations: https://steampipe.io/
EVs cause way more wear and tear damage to the roads due to their weight.
Well, distributions like the Dirac delta qualify. But they can also be viewed as approximations of a continuum.

Outside of that, maybe if you look somewhere like string theory?

Still, in general, the continuum is enough. And while it takes work, I'm pretty sure that nothing relevant to physics about the continuum cannot be said within a strictly Constructivist version of the continuum. So no, there is no physical theory from which we can justify the existence of more reals than rationals. The justification must be philosophical. And the answers that we accept will strongly depend on what our notions about what existence should mean.
It doesn't have to be a full replacement. Meta for example is already running both. Interesting how they state [1]:

"This announcement is one step in our ambitious infrastructure roadmap. By the end of 2024, we’re aiming to continue to grow our infrastructure build-out that will include 350,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs as part of a portfolio that will feature compute power equivalent to nearly 600,000 H100s."

350k NVDA GPUs, but the compute power of 600k. See here for how quickly their silicon is advancing [2].

No one is saying NVDA will go away. But the stock is priced for near perfect growth projections. NVDA's second biggest customer like Meta cutting back even just a bit will hit NVDA's bottom line. That's the stock risk.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/12/data-center-engineerin...

[2] https://ai.meta.com/blog/next-generation-meta-training-infer...
People post random stuff on here all the time. Often it is just a Wikipedia link to some topic with no context, no discussion or anything. I think it is lazy karma whoring and it works because people upvote it if they know what it is an like it. I might go ahead and submit the Wiki page for Rust :)
> Getting kids to go outdoors is a tough sell.

The problem isn't the kids. It's the adults.
>Also, the hail depicted in the image did not appear to be one hailstone but an accumulation of several.

Concretions of hailstones in the air do occur which is how you can get to these larger diameters.
Is it just a mock up and a landing page or is the MVP actually functional?
What? I create something, and I shouldn't be able to sell it? What?
Maintenance on an older Audi is expensive compared to, say, a Japanese economy car, but you're talking maybe $1k/year to maintain on average, vs $500/mo payments for the cheapest new car.
They canned the UP! - there was not enough money to make for them in that market.

I currently have a 2017 Polo and there is nothing below in their model lineup and when I look at the replacement Polo it is bigger and more expensive and now the size of a Golf.

Either people are getting bigger, or the concept of an entry level affordable car escapes car manufacturers.
I have no relationship with my car radio right now.

I don’t want a relationship with my car radio.

I can’t remember the last time I turned on my car radio.

I don’t expect this to change in the future.
I should have been clearer. Apps from big publishers were more expensive than the indies in the 1980s. And indie shops that were charging ~$40 ($100 in 2024 dollars) for their titles. This is a direct comparison to the type of pomodoro app mentioned in the upthread comment.

The thing is, all software constantly needs new updates. If not platform-driven, then security, bug fixes, etc.

The more niche (like a pomodoro app), the fewer users over which to amortize the dev costs. A lifetime fee of $1, sold to a huge audience of 100k paid users, will pay for ~1 year of a single dev in the US, perhaps 2-3 years of a developer in a low-cost country. And then where does the money come from for updates in year 4 and beyond?

Subscription payments recognize the realities that a) development never ends for most apps that are in use and b) developers are not going to be free in the future just because the publisher only charged once.
The $10/mo subscription is the data plan.
Interesting. How do the artists get paid beyond the ticket prices if the money goes to Ticketmaster though?
There should be at least one : in there.

(IIRC these options are used like -XX:foo=bar)

(Edit - no, but some do use : instead of = I guess)
Citing the dimensions of a grapefruit... Hackernews, never change
You can store 255 values in one byte, and reserving two bytes is not what that did.

And even if I did, it still leaves the inability to actually rename enums without scanning the full table at least twice (which still doesn't seem possible in MariaDB, unless I missed something there).

If you potentially want great flexibility you shouldn't be using enums in the first place but int and a relational mapping to another table.
I agree.

My point (which I communicated poorly) wasn't that assholes are necessary, but rather that there are reasonable definitions of "cool technology" which are an inherent virtue.
Strictly optional and without changing the language API, fwiw. So about as smooth/painless an experience as possible.

Its addition into the next minor verision (1.17) will bring warnings that address some of the most common footguns in the language, like comparing structs.
That animation with the comparison swipes below "What if you could use all that powerful extra color data and get a cinematic look with one tap?" looks highly misleading. I've never seen original videos as bad as the ones used in the "before"-state. Am I wrong? I'm not into filming, so I might be.
next best alternative is efficient public transportation. But when the bus stop is 15 minutes away, runs every hour, and still drops you off an hour from your workplace, you see why that becomes unviable.

And that was for my closest first job, some 15 miles away (so, a 15-20 minute car ride). It legitmately would take me 3 hours to get downtown, with multiple stops to walk to. And even less options to get back home after work.
From the Quiet Light site, the SaaS multiples are in the 4 to 4.5x income range, which is still incredibly low. They have one for sale that involves 5 hr a week work for just over 4x multiple. Not really worth selling for that amount unless desperate or wanting to retire.
Hell no. I suspect I got my current job so easily because I didn't distract the hiring manager with a LinkedIn profile that says exactly the same corporate gibberish as everyone else so I really stood out.

Anyone who reads this though please don't do this. You need to have a Linkedin profile to get a job and it needs to be tailored with language so specific to your industry that anyone outside your industry has no idea what it actually is talking about or what you actually got paid to do. If you don't do this you are a missing out.
Whats the next OpenAI?
Do you have to use human neurons?
If I lived downtown Ottawa and likely worked for the federal government I would be extra sympathetic to any protest at all. I would have to appreciate a democracy in order to work for such agencies, which apparently your buddies don’t.
It isn't that the codes are named wrongly. 401 Unauthorized means you don't have permission to access the page, whether you're authenticated or not. 403 Forbidden means you can never access the page, regardless of permissions. This is typical in multi-tenant setups or when a site is never accessible to unauthenticated users. The distinction is subtle but important, and developers often misuse these codes, serving 403 Forbidden for authorization issues instead of indicating a permanent block.
I don’t consider inspections maintenance. I’m mostly referring to the vehicle needing recurring things done to it.

Safety inspections are simply making sure things are functioning as expected. Ideally, no additional maintenance is needed.
I'm tempted, of course. But without any information on it, getting it working would be very time consuming. I'm trying not to get distracted with too many side projects.
The fact that the audience is so far is part of why I think that the attitudes of skepticism are more important than any particular set of facts.

But it is also important that you make it easy to follow your explanation without having to challenge emotionally held beliefs. For example, consider those religious beliefs. A big part of why we hold them is that trying to give up those beliefs involves accepting a lot of pain. Both from external causes, like the condemnation of your religious community, and internal ones, like the gut level belief that even thinking about rejecting Jesus puts you at risk of going to Hell. It is very hard to engage in quiet contemplation while feeling that you're risking eternal damnation.

As for where you tell people what to believe:

And indeed it is a counter-example to the idea that mathematical truths are grounded in actual objective reality, but that is not news -- we already established that with the example of negative numbers and imaginary numbers.

You claim to have shown that the ideas were not grounded in actual objective reality. But that isn't true. You only showed that they aren't grounded in the first way that you tried to ground it. Both of those examples are things that can easily be grounded in objective reality in other ways.

But the Banach-Tarski construction is different. It depends on the axiom of choice. Which in turn is a statement about a process that cannot be actually done in objective reality. And without being able to do that process, we're unable to do Banach-Tarski in objective reality.

I think that's an important difference. And it is one that is missed when you tell them that this is like that other thing which you just saw.
> The feeds have become really terrible. This wasn't always the case. Before, a lot more weight was given to posts from people you were connected to, vs. the weight given to their overall engagement.

Isn't that just, like, the (apparently inevitable) enshittification of all social media?

And since in each case it's governed by the platform's algorithm, and algorithms don't write or approve themselves, seems it's invariably intentional.
Well, a cheap laptop lets me check my mail and write a document. Which I can also do on an expensive laptop. A cheap car gets me from a to b. An expensive car too.

But seriously, that's not a car. I own a Toyota IQ. Very small, but still a car. That's not a car, that's a toy. Not comparable to the cheap laptop, more comparable to a Nintendo DS or something similar. It works, but it won't let you email. Just like that "car" won't let you drive for a couple of hours on the highway without feeling you might die every moment.
> “A user with "five million additional systems" on AWS?”

Someone is going to be in for a big surprise when they get their AWS bill this month and realise there’s an infinite-loop bug in their instance spawning script.
Why aren't packages based on torrents? Most distros come with a torrent client.
It seems you are describing the Cocktail party effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
The code is open source, in case you are interested in reading the source code!

https://github.com/capjamesg/nanosearch/blob/main/nanosearch...

The algorithm of what happens is:

1. You provide a sitemap.
2. All URLs in the sitemap are downloaded.
3. The HTML from each URL is read, extracting the page title, description, and contents.
4. The contents are processed using a search algorithm. This tool supports TF/IDF and BM25, two commonly-used search algorithms. I use Python packages that implement these since there are many people who have implemented these algorithms reliably.
5. A link graph is calculated that tracks all links between all pages.
6. When you run a search, the algorithm you chose (BM25 or TF/IDF) will run to find related documents. This is a keyword search. Then, results are weighed by the number of links to the page. This weight is useful if a site talks a lot about topics with the same keywords; by using links as a ranking factor, posts that are more connected to others will be elevated in search. Google pioneered the idea that links are "votes" on the relevance of content (although this tool doesn't use PageRank like Google).
As mentioned immediately prior to the comparison/line:

> Out of the box, Apple Log footage looks really flat. It's not meant to look good. It's meant to be edited later.

The before/after is about how you can apply each of those different prebuilt LUTs immediately with a tap, not about comparing how much better edited log looks than unedited log.
This is a rabbit hole :)

In short, no, unless you have tens-of-thousands[1][2] to spend on this panel. Rays of sunlight are parallel, an effect that very difficult to emulate.

There are folks who have developed DIY versions, with impressive results[3], but in that case you're trading off way more effort, potentially requiring maintenance, and a lot more space required.

[1]: https://www.coelux.com/en/home-page/index
[2]: https://hometronics.com/about-us/press/item/coelux-the-40000...
[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw
I bought my shareware copy of DOOM from WBB, alongside many other books.