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Show HN: Launch a yield-generating community / memecoin with just your Twitter
Hey Hackernews!

I built this as a hackathon project (two weeks). The concept is simple: instead of launching a token and dumping it on your supporters, Sizl is a launchpad where anybody with just a Twitter can launch a refundable erc20 token. Instead of making money on the initial sale, creators make money sustainably through the yield generated from staked funds. 8% on USDB and 3.1% via ETH

Use-cases

- Seed a community for your project (High-quality replacement for Quest & Zealy campaigns)
- Launch a loyalty/fans club (Creator Coins)
- Get funding for an idea (Kickstarter / pre-pre-seed funding)
- Get first users (Product Hunt)
- Ecosystem grant distribution
- Patreon

You can try it out here (Blast Testnet) log in using your Twitter and click launch community: https://testnet.sizl.fund

Here's a thread I wrote that also demos and explains the concepts:
https://x.com/pokgairay/status/1798121380774612996
You’re right about there being other genocides.

But the difference here is that for many in the West, they are seeing their own participation in it (ie USA, UK) with the Germans giving morale support for it. All those American Boeing-made missiles ripping apart and burning alive those little hungry toddlers camping outside in their cold tents… it tends to make people reflect a little more.
Now they appreciate privacy it seems. But their own, not their customers'.
Modern LEDs light up with incredibly low currents. In a RF noisy environment, I've often seen LEDs glow just by touching one side with a wire and the other to ground. Just the parasitic from such a crude antenna was enough.

Of course as stated by another comment, our eyes are also incredible, and can pick up very faint amount of light.
Step one; log on

Step two; feel sad

Step three; hate your life choices

Step 4 repeat
Note that this has the typical noncommercial "you have to pay for a membership to use commercially" Stability license.
Surprised any federation would have anything other than a Bonzini table, honestly it's barely even a game IMHO unless you play it on one of those.
Thanks for the tip! I'll try leaving a task unfinished to start the next day with a small win. As a remote dev, I struggle to be productive all day. My company trusts me and gives me lots of flexibility, which sometimes allows me to procrastinate for days, leading to self-blaming and anxiety. I know starting the day in a good mood makes the rest of the day easier. Kicking off with a small victory definitely helps my productivity!
They were right tho.
This is insecure. Assuming the user can get a few key examples (which, we assume they would be able to if the german tank problem is a problem) then the secret can easily be revealed. [1]

[1] https://dev.to/wrongbyte/cryptography-basics-breaking-repeat...
Why Chatbots Aren't Working
I added a comment above the plugs my Svekyll blog tool. I love Svelte for these kind of things. You can view source of the post I made:

https://webiphany.com/2024-04-29-distance-sean-shawn
if the break even was 4-5 months, it means compared to going to cloud vendors, in 36 months, the self hosted solution would have saved 7.2 times the cost!!

Even if within 3 years there needs to be OS upgrades, you can just e-cycle the old machines and buy brand new minipc's (with added benefit of increased performance) every time you need to upgrade, and you'd still be ahead!!
So, enlighten us: is there? Any example of this sort of things between allies? Or is this just an extreme case of both-sides?

Spying and keeping tabs on your friends is one thing. Influence campaigns among close allies are generally not the way it works.
Apple killed support for legacy 32-bit applications a good while back, which killed support for virtually every Mac game port.
IANAL, and this is not legal advice, I don’t think it really impacts anything for academic research, but Legal usually has a major fit when AGPL is even peripherally mentioned.
now combine it with this: https://string.spiel.com/ :)
Weight loss drugs help change stigmas around obesity
Basically just setup a discord webhook, and most languages will have a discord client you can use. Just when you get a subscription webhook event from stripe/apple/google, send a notification to that webhook
It's like a little microcosm of what the rest of us are dealing with.
> There are a lot of problems that need to be over come for Dream Chaser to be crew rated.

Intriguing. Can you elaborate?
That sounds a lot more fun than AWS DeepRacer.

+1 - Yes please
Not that I'd get about 5 different ISO country code changes (with some flipflopping) just by sitting in this very same spot for a couple of decades. "Stability" in country codes, bah humbug.
No current LLM understands words, nor letters. They all have input and output tokens, that roughly correspond to syllabes and letter groupings. Any kind of task involving counting letters or words is outside their realistic capabilities.

LLMs are a tool, and like any other tool, they have strengths and weaknesses. Know your tools.
The High Price of DevRel Debt
> If I write a parser combinator based parser for a grammar that is not ambiguous

How do you even know it is not ambiguous to begin with?

I already said it doesn't matter what tool you use to parse a language designed by someone else. The language you design yourself is not automatically free of ambiguity, and intuition only gets you so far. If you stick to only using productions which are valid LL/LR, then why not have that enforced by the tool, so it can warn you when you go astray?
No one should be banned for content that isn't illegal. Anything less promotes partisan abuse of censorship mechanisms, which harms democracy. First amendment law provides an adequate guideline, as enforced everywhere else and as defined by the Supreme Court.

But yes, government representatives are different than the rest of us as they are the public voices of their constituents. Silencing them is the same as silencing their mass of voters. Which, again, is deeply antidemocratic.

Today, too many people believe in the unresolvable paradox that democracy only exists when their views are spoken to and when they win. Continuing with the paradox: at the same time, they believe that those who are too much of a "threat to democracy" to speak (or win) have to keep believing in the system or democracy is also at risk.

Censorship "in defense of democracy" has rendered the national discussion to be ridiculous, on its face.
There needs to be penalties on the landowner side too. The paper requirement should carry penalties enforced against them if they are violating it. This would be better than just a chance of pain from the eviction process. After all, if they are shady landlords they might push people out in other ways to avoid the eviction process currently anyways.
It's not Jewish, it's pro-Israel (American Israel Public Affair Committee). Israel is a foreign country whose interests might be conflicting with those of the US. That's different, don't you think?
The best part is when it comes from our own "newspaper of record" i.e. with the extraordinarily dubious "mass rape" article the NYT published. They finally dismissed the one Israel-connected reporter who had liked tweets calling for a brutal response against Gaza, but that of course has seen about one billionth the attention that her original claims continue to receive.

You also get stuff like the POTUS repeating lies like "40 beheaded babies" and "a mother and child had kerosene poured on them" with none of the usual media freakout you usually see over "misinformation."
This was tried before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMicro
To take a stance much more suited to this forum. It's a massive travesty that without some work Americans are now redirected to BBC.com, which curates news to be American-facing, and thus IMHO bows to advertiser pressure. We can't see BBC.co.UK, so we can't know what the other side of the news even looks like.

All news services do this. And it already fragments and destroys and hope of really talking about the news in a healthy manner IMHO.
The Rise of the Abundance Faction
It's not, it great if you have a large org.
I wonder how that's supposed to work with their unique captive fairing design. Feels like they'd have to design crew flight specific boosters which don't have the fairings.
'It's impossible to plan without an internal monologue.' - Sorry, but I disagree with this. I have no 'internal voice' or monologue - whenever I see a problem, my brain actually and fully models it using images. I believe 25% of the population doesn't have the internal monologue which you're referring to and this has been tested and confirmed. I highly recommend listening to this Lex Friedman podcast episode to get a full grasp on the complexities of modelling language and general modelling present in the human brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Jd9GI6XqE
Peer review is great in theory, but fails because it makes too many assumptions and because the incentive structure. And it certainly doesn't scale well. It's important to remember that the point of publishing is communication. Anything more or less is ill founded.

It is obtuse to think that a few people can read a paper and know it's validity. It's falsifiable but even that's fuzzy. The problem then comes down to the incentive structures. Why do people cheat? Because we're lazy evaluators. It's odd to me that we won't read the works of peers in a department, lab, whatever. But doing that would be a much stronger form of evaluation than anything that could be inferred from citations, h-index, conference ranking, etc. Plus, the structure is to push novelty fast and frequently. That's not only not possible but ignores a fundamental aspect of science: reproducibility.

But this also doesn't mean there aren't scam publishers and publishers scammers prefer. But I'd say that those are a result of the former issue. Because metrics are not being treated as guides. It's just Goodhart's Law in action.
No, for instance the RD-180 engine is from NPO Energomash' facility in Khimki, in Moscow Oblast. Of the things to worry about with the RD-180, Boeing QA is not one of them.
I'm one of the people who flags some of these articles (though not this one), because they're generally uninteresting, and repetitive. I'm not Jewish, have never been to Israel, and am not part of any brigade.
If you want continuous video for months then you probably need a custom solution using a battery. The battery will have to be somewhat large (solar can help, but don't rely totally on it). LFP batteries like those made by Eco-Worthy might be a good choice, light weight, high power. A $30 battery box (sold for use with lead-acid car batteries) can protect it from weather.

Continuous video for months isn't really possible yet on low power because the camera sensors are not designed for it, current CMOS sensors would have to be totally redesigned. There are people working on custom sensors that are much lower power, rebuilding a camera sensor from the ground up, but it's high level research and I haven't seen that they are commercially available yet (the DOD may have priority, they would love to have long lifetime continuous video on the battlefield). They started working on them about 5 years ago and it involves new micro-fabrication techniques (Chip Elliot was involved), but they weren't entirely sure it was possible.

For time lapse check out the Brinno camera, it's made for time lapse, it has a waterproof shell, it can be powered from USB:

https://brinno.com/

It can be set for automatic exposure so it gathers enough light to record at night (many seconds of exposure if your time lapse interval is long enough) while still handling daylight. It has a lens mount so you can choose wide angle or mild telephoto (maybe others are also available from 3rd parties). A time lapse Brinno plus a custom power system for a continuous video camera would probably at least make sure you get something with two independent systems. Redundency is good in unattended systems.
Orbiting planets be like, "Dang, look at the moon's back side."
The internet created a whole stratum of people who don’t use tv, radio and newspaper anymore. It’s not that we entered internet warfare, we just exited absolute control of large mass media. Now every TLA has to deal with it somehow.

Why internet is the battlefield? Because everything in our world is based on an opinion. You can sell a lot of bs to your “client” if he has “correct” opinion.

Bad news, our opinion system was designed for groups and villages, not for the internet.
Reading papers is absolutely part of academic research. The other part is probably producing things and submitting to journals/conferences advancing things based on what one has read (and hopefully having a day job that pays for the publication fees and travel fees...)
That's kind of what gives me pause about Texas thinking they can do things better than the other exchanges.

It's entirely possible that they can, I'm not claiming that NYSE is perfect or anything, but in my years on this earth something has become abundantly clear to me: if there's an "obvious" solution to something, and no one is doing it, then there's probably a pretty decent reason and you're not a genius for thinking it.

The easiest example that comes to mind is the stainless steel frame of the Cybertruck that doesn't crumple, which sounds like an "obvious" good thing (no one really wants their car to break in a crash), until you realize that that drastically reduces the safety of the vehicle because a lot more of the shock transfers to the passenger, and the other mainstream car producers were already well aware of that.
Or on official tables according to the International Table Soccer Federation.

From what I've seen during my travels, there are lot of variations for foosball tables. Each countries seem to have their own variations.
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> AI is only helpful when you know exactly what it can do.

Create spam, phishing and disinformation, apparently. This kind of of article isn't making a great case for the wisdom of using AI, much less going all in on it.
great added this to my $PATH

i make lots of custom bash file editing and this is gonna help mein the futuré
People are responding talking about interfaces changing… I’m going to say that interfaces changing is the whole point.

You see weird stuff when you scale to Google scale. I know it’s cliché to talk about “Google scale” but bear with me for a moment. If you are just running some little service, maybe you have a local filesystem and a SQLite database and that’s enough. If you grow, maybe you have a few machines, network storage, and a PostgreSQL server with a hot replica. If you grow, maybe you have distributed storage and you shard your database across multiple servers. If you keep growing, maybe you end up with Google’s situation, where you have filesystems like Colossus and databases like Spanner.

These systems didn’t appear overnight. Someone at Google made a distributed database, and after iterations and evolution, we got Spanner, which is now a Google cloud product you can use yourself.

There was a lot of interface breakage on the road to getting something like Spanner. Now that Spanner is a Google cloud offering, you can bet your ass that the interface is stable. It just takes a long time to get there, and the internal customers (Google teams building products) don’t want to wait for the stable, final iteration of some infrastructure to arrive. Nobody knows like that looks like until you suffer through the growing pains of building it.
Nokia lacked vision. They had a widget much like the original iphone, with better resolution (800x480 vs 480x320), had an app store, and has a user friendly GUI. Rather ironically Nokia wouldn't add a WAN chip to their WIFI nokia 770/800/810 until it was too late. Nokia had an app store when apple was still pushing "weblets" or whatever they called the web based apps.

Pretty surprising from a big phone company.

Then a microsoft exec took over, forced a migration to windows mobile, sold a bunch of phone, orphaned those phones, and brought a new generation of incompatible windows phones. Not to mention the famous burning barn memo. Pretty much the entire market dropped windows mobile.

Similarly Balmer's microsoft lacked vision and was doubling down on windows laptops+desktops running microsoft office at the cost of mobile, at the cost of cloud, and a late start on web based apps. They did of course turn things around and started playing nice with others, offering cloud services, supporting linux and android, etc.
Tornados are better
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584135
The problem is that we don't know how we do reasoning.

I calculate stuff by following a formular after i pattern detected a problem i already know.

Plenty of humans are not able to solve those math problems.

If the future of llm / ai becomes a LLM with multi modal and mixture of experts and that solves those reasoning problems, we still don't know if this is a different type of reasoning than what humans do.
drones already / are gonna have this issue too -- funny how these two technologies fill both roles, each in very different ways.
it speaks to the lamentable state of boeing
Base-model economy EV's should sound like cheap kitchen appliances.

Loaded top-end EV's should sound like Vader's Super Star Destroyer.
> It's crazy the US could soon have up to 5 different spacecraft/launch systems that can take humans to orbit with 2 more in development

We had a launch system that could take humans to the moon in 1972.. haven't had one since. Maybe we will get another one in our lifetime, if it is even possible.
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> in LoTR, it was made abundantly clear that the ring could not be destroyed this easily. Gimli even tried it with his axe. Ending this way would have been internally inconsistent.

FWIW, Gimli trying to destroy the ring with his axe is a Peter Jackson invention -- it's not in the books, and it's not at all consistent with the Ring's effect on people in the rest of the story, e.g. Bilbo was not capable of casting the ring into his fireplace (that was nowhere near hot enough to melt gold). So Gimli even attempting to destroy the Ring with his axe required me to suspend disbelief in an annoying and immersion-breaking way.
For those who are unaware, "Fair Dealing" is the Canadian equivalent of "Fair Use".

As a Canadian, I have so much gratitude to Michael Geist and the CIPPIC. Many of these issues don't seem to generate the same amount of public interest in Canada as they do in the States, but it's very important work.

"The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is Canada’s first and only public interest technology law clinic. Based at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, our team of legal experts and law students works together to advance the public interest on critical law and technology issues."

https://www.cippic.ca/about-us
To quote an Eli Valley cartoon: “It’s a blood libel to hit ‘play’ on our genocide TikToks!”

https://jewishcurrents.org/israels-defense
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> I am glad at least that the standard gave us a sizeable common subset over half a century rather than everybody doing their own thing from day one.

There are tons of popular programming languages and they share paradigms, good ideas and syntactic similarities. Query languages ought to be the same.

Dialects work in natural language because interpretability, syntax and semantics are all fuzzy.

Dialects in computer languages is an anti-pattern because syntax and grammar must be precise and deterministic. You are either writing Java or gibberish, the Java toolchain will never charitably interpret your syntax errors as "close enough to understand".

SQL-the-standard birthed a bunch of different dialects of SQL that ought to be de-jure separate query languages.

So much human effort is wasted dealing with the standard SQL abstraction layer. If someone is migrating from Oracle to Postgres, the fact that their query languages are eerily similar is far down the list of practical concerns.
It does start out touting a particular piece of software, but the last section, "What does doing research for leisure mean?" does go into research as a leisure activity, and the author promises more posts on the topic in the future.

I'm with you, I really enjoy learning just for the sake of learning and feel very lucky that I get to live now, when there is almost always a rich lode of existing research that I can read on almost any topic that strikes my curiosity.
Is there an old man coffee variable?
That, as I understand it, is not a valid chain of logic. Requiring fewer data points does not inherently indicate that the underlying mechanism (autogressive sequential generation, not the transformer which is just an architecture) is different.

Not to mention the secondary arguments like - no proof that human learns faster from fewer datapoints, that's just your assumption in the sibling comment. Humans inherit information. The equivalent - fine-tuning a foundation model - is very fast to learn novel objects.

Just because someone has a Turing award doesn't mean they know what they're talking about. They are just people, with strengths and weaknesses like everyone else. But often on the extreme end of strengths and weaknesses.
So instead of going to war with them because they don't want to give up land they just get a bunch of smartphones and soon they'll want porn and pizza hut instead of casava and culture ?
Assuming the question was reg. WarpBuild - we provide blazing fast caches with unlimited sizes. These still need to be downloaded to machines and setup on each workflow job.

We don't (yet) have support for pre-pulled repos on runners per customer. Are the large repo sizes despite fetching only the refs required for the specific context [1][2] which can help speed things up significantly.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/big-repositories
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48072080/how-to-manage-l...
> I just wish somebody would create an open source alternative to Rouge [sic] Amoeba's Loopback!

Rogue Amoeba has been around for over two decades. They are an early macOS X shop and their softwares are best of breed. Their esteemed Audio Hijack recently received an overhaul to its permissions structure. My understanding (gleaned from a podcast?) is Rogue Amoeba worked closely with Apple on this reworking.

It is doubtful Rogue Amoeba would ever silently sell to an unknown developer.

Rogue Amoeba is precisely the kind of software shop worth supporting with your money and time. I say this only as a satisfied user of several of their products.

I have nothing against OSS and do use many OSS products; I also support software shops that produce good software at a good price and have demonstrated loyalty and commitment to their users. Rogue Amoeba is just such a shop.
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