skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nitpick:

"the problem worth solving and that drives you to start a company"

Sure YC is all about getting startups on their feet. So don't be embarrassed that is 1st thought.

BUT: starting a company is just 1 way of working on a problem. And not necessarily the best way.

Another option is joining others already working on said problem (or closely related ones). That could be existing company, non-profit, online community, etc.

What matters most to you? Starting a company (and work on problem from there)? Or work on problem, period? Answer to that may help decide what's the best path.
Except if an employee knows they provide more value to their employer than they receive, then an employee has every reason to stop working hard and start coasting off the social-capital / past-accomplishments / strong-relationships.
From TA:

> by tuning the microwave fields to allow some interaction between molecules, the team expects to see the system separate into quantum droplets, a new phase of matter. By confining the condensate in two dimensions using lasers, the team also hopes to watch while the molecules arrange themselves, under a microscope, to form a kind of crystal. “That’s something that has never been possible,” says Will.

> The condensate molecules could also form the basis of a new kind of quantum computer, adds Will. Given that each molecule is in an identical, known state, they could be separated to form quantum bits, or qubits, the units of information in a quantum computer. The molecules’ quantum rotational states — which can be used to store information — can remain robust for perhaps minutes at a time, allowing for long and complex calculations.

Coherent for perhaps minutes?
try pressing space
> You then say that if they used Vulkan, it would mean they wouldn't have to debug on a Mac. This is overly optimistic.

Sure, but supporting two variants of Vulkan is less work than having to support two incompatible APIs. It's not a binary thing.
>But we could do it. To what end?

Why do anything at all? Who are you to dictate to others what their options are?
> In other terms of what I consider "corporate feudalism:"

What about having an SP500 index fund (or other broad market fund) compose the majority of your life savings? Or your city/county/state government’s pension fund savings?
People who continually get rewarded at their companies (higher level positions, promotions, etc.) tend to stay at said companies. That’s all you’re seeing.

I’ve seen folks go from new grad to staff in under 4 years at FAANG. They just had a favorable relationship with their manager. It’s a ton of luck. You don’t get to entirely choose your manager and company trajectory in most cases.

Almost everyone in SV is overqualified. I’ve rarely met anyone who I felt was incapable of doing the job adequately. Often when I felt that way, it was someone who was “distinguished” in the way you’re mentioning… which speaks more to my point. It’s about your relation with management and your luck in said relation.
I appreciate your response. I feel the same as the other commenter: the asymmetry between "a steep fine" and "losing your home" is enormous. But "what happens if the fine is enormous" (say, the landlord also stands to lose their home) is an interesting thought experiment - how big does the punishment need to be to "fix" the power imbalance?
I have a question of my own. Is there another country whose citizens are regularly elected to Congress? Dual citizens are not barred from holding office in Congress, and certainly there are more than a few English Americans and French Americans who hold citizens in both respective countries, but I have never heard of any winning office (or even running, for that matter).
I totally believe that.

Nevertheless, after job-hopping a bit, in my twenties, I stayed at my last job for almost 27 years.

I have found that money isn't everything. I know that's basically heresy, around here, but it's been my truth.
This wasn't a quick success ...

Jensen started Nvidia 31-years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia
Yeah, AIPAC really opened my eyes to how deep the ties go. They spend tons of money to put their preferred lawmakers in place, and openly brag on Twitter about how much they spend and their extremely successful track record. It just -feels- like it should be illegal, seeing as it's a foreign country.
Is there any tutorial/documentation to get started with Vulkan 1.3 specifically? Last time I looked, all I found was a hodgepodge of techniques using old and new methods haphazardly in various combinations. Though that is exactly how OpenGL used to be, so maybe the apple (heh!) doesn't fall far from the tree. Well done, Khronos...
How luxurious of you to have such thoughts in the face of genocide
Accepting proper pay is suppressing wages of others. It's ok because you need money.
> I rely upon FF sync too much. It's handy getting your bookmarks and other details on mobile devices.

I would love to use that functionality, but... How?!? Once you have a gazillion tabs open on your phone, the “Open tabs from other devices” (or whatever it's called) menu item on the desktop just shows an endlessly spinning spinner. :-( So maybe via bookmarks... But where's the “Bookmark all open tabs” menu item in FF for Android???

Anyone got any tips?
Rust has a pretty nice setup. Definitely doesn’t require workarounds like the chromium-style build flags pattern. I’m sure there are others.
LLMs don't generate their language sequentially either, they just output it sequentially token by token.
Just buy Crossover, then Diablo runs fine on MacOS again!
It looks good here... Are we back to the "best viewed on IE" times?

Maybe we need browsers with quick visual tweakers (past CSS editing in the "developer's panel").
The Decade Ahead [pdf]
Took me a long time to realise a Y/n prompt only requires you to hit Enter to confirm...
There are claims that Nvidia will go bust like how Cisco did, but I think Jensen Huang knows what he is doing.

https://x.com/all_in_tok/status/1796602545055342784
Question for HNers: Do you think that AI is having a big enough impact already to generate this valuation? Is it changing your life?

And do you think all of Nvidia’s customers throwing money at data centres full of GPUs will cause the current generation of AIs (LLMs etc) to deliver greater and greater returns, sufficient to make Nvidia worth this current valuation and more?

WalMart’s market cap is $540billion. Would you rather own one Nvidia, or WalMart six times over?
What is the supposed functionality? I haven’t followed this in detail.
Have you read the book "It Starts With Food"? I follow it 100%, mine and my son's lives have changed for the better in unbelievable ways.
> There is no coherent data corpus (compressed or not) in ChatGPT.

I disagree.

If you can get the model to output an article verbatim, then that article is stored in that model.

Just because it’s not stored in the same format is meaningless. It’s the same content regardless of whether it’s stored as plaintext, compressed text, PDF, png, or weights in a model.

Just because you need an algorithm such as a specialized prompt to retrieve this memorized data, is also irrelevant. Text files need to be interpreted in order to display them meaningfully, as well.
Primitive. (Primitive radios used a crystal for tuning. We have since gotten a lot better at tuning radios...)
I don’t see anything like that on their marketing doc. Maybe you are projecting your unrealistic ideals onto it?
Jordan never sunk a US Navy ship and then machine-gunned the sailors trying to escape in lifeboats. But if they did, they wouldn't have painted over the jet's markings first.
> Any links or ideas of how to make sure Google is aware of this?

Cancel the account. That's the only real signal you can send.

Switch to simply downloading YT content: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
What? No! They were TERRIBLE for cat litter because they frequently had holes in the bottom from the manufacturing process, and would dribble used litter all over your floor. We use the allegedly-biodegradable (but probably not) dog poop bags, at a grand cost of around 2 cents per each.
Covid vaccines may have helped fuel rise in excess deaths
He's selling shovels in a gold rush, which is a solid plan.
It is not what happens in Barcelona. For six months the "okupas" have been inside an apartment that a family left completely closed to go away for a weekend, the Mossos arrived 15 minutes after the occupation, probably alerted by "Securitas" and did absolutely nothing. Saw everything from my window, and now I’m terrified if I have to leave my house for one day.
Nothing will ever protect you from trademark violations because trademarks can be violated completely by accident without knowledge of the real work. Copying is not the issue.
I imagine the sound of the hull + everything else shuddering would probably dominate the perceived sound from eardrums or direct excitation of the air.
> AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.

The largest GPT-2 model had 1.5 billion parameters (each a connection weight between two artificial neurons). By some estimates, GPT-4 has on the order of 1 trillion parameters, or around three orders of magnitude (10^3) larger.[a] Another jump of three orders of magnitude would require a model with on the order of 1000 trillion = 1 quadrillion parameters.

It's far from certain that such scaling is possible over the next three years, and also whether existing model architectures, e.g., Transformers, can continue to improve qualitatively at similar rates as in the recent past, because there is some evidence they're hitting diminishing returns. Prominent experts like Yann LeCun think we will need new ideas and breakthroughs, i.e., new kinds of AI models not yet invented, the timing of which cannot be predicted in advance, by definition.[b]

The OP's "forecast" all but ignores these challenges.

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4

[b] https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1d5b57b/lecun_...
Even if there were observational data to this effect, the obvious confound is that more skilled people are more in demand -> more likely to hear from recruiters -> more likely to move
PA can model Turing Machines and reason about them. I feel like you missed the important link between logic and computability theory.
Did you mean lossy compression algorithm? That would make sense.
This idea was popularized by Graham who wrote (in the very article this submission is about) that 20-25% of the Viaweb source code was macros, and made careless hyperbole like: "Programs that write programs? When would you ever want to do that? Not very often, if you think in Cobol. All the time, if you think in Lisp."

The idea has become oversold, and has caused some harm by giving rise to the circulation of reactionary "Lisp curse" type misinformation.

Lisps are useful without the application programmer writing a single macro.

Most Lisp coding style guides include a few words to discourage the writing of new macros.

Macros, as such, help Lisp dialects themselves grow. That in turn helps programmers need to write fewer macros of their own.

Macros are great for managing language growth and versioning.

One example is that, within certain limits, it's easier to make a Lisp program work with an old version of its language implementation in which certain newer macros are missing, than to make programs in other kinds of languages work with older language implementations in which syntax is missing.

Programmers using Lisp but not writing macros are certainly not missing the point of Lisp, let alone the entire point. You do not think about programs writing programs "all the time" when coding in Lisp; it is hyperbole.
I don't know. There are some benefits to be sure, but I figure that above some threshold (and 3B is definitely above that threshold) it becomes difficult to make new friends without worrying about their ulterior motives.
You don't need to wait for a ban. There is a company that sells wonderful cherry tomatoes. They sell them in an elaborate non-reusable plastic container. It keeps the product from being damaged and it presents the product well. However I cannot justify throwing a large plastic container in the landfill so I can have a dozen cherry tomatoes. So I don't purchase them anymore. I wrote to the company letting them know the situation (I haven't heard back). We can make choices in our day-to-day lives to reduce plastic. Let the levers of the market pressure producers.
If this is true then is a ban even necessary? Or are just 15% of the people responsible for all single-usage of plastic?
No you have to install native. Also Parallels is way better than VMware, if you want good 3D performance inside a Windows/Linux/MacOS VM on MacOS.
The important bits have already been shared. Definitely check out /r/personalfinance and read their guides.

Remember that anything that sounds too good to be true very likely is. There are a lot of people out there trying to scam you out of your money. Be smart and don't try to get involved with get-rich schemes. Definitely don't pay for courses that claim they'll teach you how to become rich.

Don't get into dropshipping or MLMs (pyramid schemes). Don't take advice from anyone who recommends "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" or related books.

Be exceptionally cautious with crypto. If you must participate, keep it at a small percentage of your overall assets. Don't get involved with "meme stocks."

Only lend money you're ok with losing.
I'm getting more and more concerned that the US can't roll out any new infrastructure despite throwing billions of dollars at a problem. It's just embarrassing. California's handling of the high speed rail (especially the well documented corruption) was embarrassing. NYC's inability to stop shitwater from flooding their streets is embarrassing. Even more, nobody even attempts to correct the issue. The largest fire in california (2018 Camp Fire) killed about 100 people and was purely a result of mismanagement. Large parts of Texas are just crumbling and in "poor condition" according to white house assessments.

The worst part, for me? Nobody cares, nobody looks into it, and no one is held accountable. It's just a slow, gradual decline while we imagine things that would be nice, skim money off the economy to fund them, and then throw our hands up in the air and act surprised when the money catches on fire.
Would you really bring your boss an offer letter? Even as top performer it seems like a bad idea to take any counter offer.
Show HN: The first Jetpack Compose and Compose Multiplatform component library
After building and shipping multiple apps with Jetpack Compose and Compose Desktop, I realized how important having solid components to your disposal is, if you want to move fast.

Material Compose is great but it is a real pain to customize. Also, building good components simply takes time. Having to cater for different screen sizes and resizable windows, accessibility and keyboard navigation, ltr and rtl configurations, dark theme and the list goes on and on.

Composables UI is all providing Compose developers with solid components to build apps for every platform Compose runs on (Desktop, Web, Android and iOS).

PS: I have included live component previews of the components using Compose Web. This means that all components visible on the website are going to be rendered exactly like in your app!
Charging makes a lot more sense at scale than battery swapping. Nio is doing it successfully in China, but they haven't been able to replicate it in Europe, to say nothing of the US. A battery swap in a Nio takes 5-6 minutes but requires you to be in the car the whole time so if you want to use a restroom, get food/drinks, walk around, etc. you have to actually do that in addition to the battery swap. Charging allows you to multitask, and modern EVs can add a hundred or more miles of range in 15 minutes.
> It's incoherent to argue others should tamper down their energy usage because most folks producing energy aren't doing it in an ethical way.

There's a general consensus that paying someone else to do your dirty work doesn't free you of the moral (or, usually, legal) culpability for the damage done. If you knowingly direct your money towards unethical providers, you are directly increasing the demand for unethical behavior.

(That's assuming that the producers themselves are responsible for the ethics. If a producer is doing its best to convert to clean energy as fast as possible, they may be entirely in the clear but POW would still be unethical. In that scenario POW is placing strain on the limited clean energy supplies, forcing the producer to use more fossil fuels than they'd otherwise need to.)
Analogies are sometimes useful for understanding, but they rarely seem useful in marking an argument. It always seems redirect the argument into the ways that the analogy is different. (If the analogy weren't different, then it wouldn't be any clearer.)

If one goes into it with the intention of using the differences in the analogies to illuminate the domain, it can be helpful. But any argument of the form "X is like Y, and therefore since p(Y) is obvious then p(X) must also be true" is pretty much destined to shed little light but much heat.
Giving the funds to the states provides great CYA increases spending which is a goal of most government programs
>> It's a public policy failure for land to sit vacant like that.

> Then the government should buy the land.

No, I don't think so.

> You own a building and the building is not currently occupied. The building is unsightly but structurally sound. Does/should the government have the right to make you surrender that building without compensation (because that’s what forfeit means) simply due to it being unoccupied? Why?

Yes. The legal principle has a long, long history across many different legal systems.

And I think you're thinking about it wrong: the government didn't "make you surrender that building," you chose to surrender it by leaving it unoccupied and unused to the point someone else could occupy and use it without a timely challenge.
Another possible risk that is not addressed in this submission, or in any other submission on this that I have seen so far, as follows.

Any Microsoft software installed on the computer owner's computer, e.g., the kind that "updates" itself remotely, because Microsoft coerces computer owners into keeping their computers connected to the internet 24/7,^1 can query this SQLite database to learn what the computer owner is doing with that software and also what the computer owner is doing outside of that software, e.g., with other software. The later is, in effect if not literally, next-level "telemetry".

It is also an internet marketer's wet dream.

Arguably it does not matter whether the data in this database is ever transferred to Microsoft, so long as Microsoft can install and run any software it wants on someone else's computer^2 and that software can query the database to see what the computer owner is doing with their computer.

We have seen how badly software developers want to use so-called "telemetry", by default, at the cost of computer user privacy. As such, this is, IMHO, a plausible risk.

1. Why? See #2.

2. It can, just like a botnet.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-prompted-scientifi...

Many reports show man made in lab is more likely now.
Despite headlines, air travel gets safer and safer every year. At least when measured by fatalities per departure. Boeing has had several high profile failures, but it's correlated with a huge increase in flights and a huge increase in expectations.
Agree with you and share your concerns.
I don't know where you read about the existence of those magical "48 hours" to kick them out; that possibility doesn't exist in practice.
Much, much more peaceful. Once parties lack the resources for war and have to come to peace, it often takes hold in unexpectedly strong ways
Also Hidden Bar https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
>healthcare (US) is a major factor.

Not as much since Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) became law over ten years ago. Anyone can get minimum essential coverage, with a subsidy if income is low enough (as it would be when out of a job), regardless of pre-existing conditions.
Hi tithe! Thank you for your feedbacks, appreciate it

1. About the login page on another page, design wise, separating the landing page and login page was recommended to us to achieve simplicity and better UX.

2. Thank you for the idea of showcasing cakes on the website, we will implement it for sure, however currently users can upload and comment about their cake designs on our Discord community.

3. Thank you so much for your kind words
Generic career advice is to apply for a different job every month. After 24 months, you will at minimum know your market value.
Yes. For the last 20 years. Many of the largest applications aren't ones you're aware of or ever see directly. Most of Google's revenue, to pick one example. For every flashy start-up or cool open source project, there is an army of people quietly delivering 10% relative improvements that drive $100M revenue lift in their particular niche at a huge company.
>> Don't forget to consider Alice when counting.

a.k.a. "don't forget to give the LLM the answer when prompting".
Depends if you're in US and if you're working at fang I guess.

Could probably get higher if I made an effort getting a fang role but not really interested in fang.
Foundation Agents for Decision-Making
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17009
I'm a lazy front end dev, so I built ProtoUI to code for me
If you're a frontend dev and you use Tailwind then maybe ProtoUI will help you too.

I keep building the same UI components over and over again and every single time I build it from scratch and just tweak the UI a bit.

With ProtoUI I just tell it what kind of component I'm looking for..

"Render a login form with an email and password input and a blue login button"

And voila, couple seconds later I got the UI for it and I can copy and paste the code for it straight to my application to continue coding it.

Is it perfect? Nah.. but it does help me iterate quickly on UI in a visual way before polishing it up in VSCode.
> If we are all considered pedophiles, then all politicians are criminals.

Well you could do the latter without doing the former. Except that - of course - politicians would never do anything against themselves.
Officer I merely stabbed the man. What he died from was blood loss.
Am I the only one who hates working with Pandas?
Put that on a solar-powered drone that sleeps on commercial roofs where there is free WiFi, autonomously finding another if discovered.

Drones on power lines: https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/drones-recha...
And millions of euros to Securitas, Prosegur et al.
The market is "pricing in" this future potential.

With Walmart, it's hard to speculate what ground-breaking future potential they might have that isn't already known.
I reject the notion that a good manager can manage anything.

I also reject the financialization of modern companies where we put accountants in charge who aren't subject-matter experts whose only playbook is to cut costs and jack up prices.

It's exactly what's wrong with Boeing today.

Obligatory Steve Jobs quotes on "idea people" [1] and Xerox [2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdplq4cj76I

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlBjNmXvqIM&t=2s
General consensus among my colleagues and bosses are that anyone who comes to a routine salary negotiation with a competing offer is encouraged to take it. If you've been eyeing a different opportunity, then you're not going to find your current role engaging. The money is rarely enough to keep you for long.