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Show HN: I made a bot that finds matches on YC Cofounder Matching
I got back to programming after a long break and built a bot that can filter and save founder profiles on YC Cofounder Matching. The bot looks for founders who have similar interests to you and can send you an email whenever it finds matches.

I added a couple optional features such as using GPT to analyze a profile and contacting founders in addition to saving their profiles.

Hope you find this useful!
Reusing plastic increases the pthalate exposure. Especially cheap, anonymous plastic. It is better in a landfill.
If this in any way would impact revenue, I'm sure it would have become a code yellow in mere instants.
Honestly, the first thing I did was ctrl+F and chomsky, and as there was no reference I didn't bother reading the article. Thanks for inserting some credit where credit is due. This is coming from a background of serious interest in computational linguistics in the late 1990s... I'm aware Chomsky's since dethroned, but the contribution was massive. I am greatly disinterested in these days of popular generative ML, where LLMs ~= hall of mirrors(internet-scale abject kerfuffery) and then people guffaw in awe of the remix.
> This is true. But it only tells about the cultural dominance that France

French is still very much relevant, but it took centuries to make it less relevant than before to the point where we are now.

Rust in comparison is minutes old and there's no evidence it will dominate the field of system programming in the future. See: Ruby on Rails for web development.

> This is indeed the choice. Make it difficult to write code but more likely that the result is correct

I don't buy it.

Making it hard to write code it's nobody's choice, it's accidental complexity, that any sane language designer would avoid if possible, because it severely hinders the language adoption.

The opposite is also true: code easy to write will also be more easily correct.

Elixir is easy to write and will almost automatically be correct in complex scenarios such as distributed systems.

> pure functional lazy evaluation model rules out too many useful data structures

Rust is Haskell with a different syntax though and makes it very hard to write simple linked lists.

> most of its once unique ideas have been copied to current mainstream languages

same happened to FP, ROR and it's happening with Rust

Even Java is more functional than ever, because it's a good paradigm, not because it's a fad.

Again: this seems to me more promoting Rust than a discussion about memory safety and I am really not interested in that. So I'll see myself out.
Apparently this already contradicts some constitutional (right word?) principles in the EU. But they don't care.
Movim 0.25: A federated, open-source web-based social OMEMO E2EE XMPP client
Except fresh models are still behind and any sort of high-tech feature is $2000 extra.

I do agree saturation of seeing Tesla everywhere is real, but you have to stay rational. And rational means mass production vs 10k Ioniqs or whatever.
There are now 3 competing standards.
Seems a bit odd to phrasing it that way. MS scaled things back because of public outcry
That's not quite true with medicine. If US customers couldn't pay this, as in the insurance companies and or Medicare, then cost might come down but also research and development would effectively halt or other countries would stop getting lower priced drugs. United States pharmaceutical industries subsidize the world healthcare market for drugs.

And you're up there's two things at play the government is subsidizing the cost of drugs but also demanding a lower price. If you're up was the only market or the primary market at the prices they're demanding there would be no more research and development for a great many of the drugs that we have.
Could have been an Onion article. What next, every two years Microsoft announces a new keyboard where the only change is that some "useless" keys have been removed to make way for a bigger Copilot key?
It’s not the absence of “indisputable proof” it’s the absence of ANY proof.

There are only a couple of possible scenarios here that I can think of:

1. Snowden is making a claim here that he suspects but doesn’t have proof of (I.e speculation).

2. He does have proof but isn’t willing to share it. Not with the public, not with investigators and for some reason he chose to never mention it internally beforehand.

3. He is intentionally making outlandish claims he knows are wrong.

I can’t see any universe where option 2 is likely. He is every possible motivation to do so if you go with his public story about why he did what he did.

I’m entirely open to options 1 and 3 however.

Also nobody is claiming that those incidents were anything other than abuse of the system. We are all in agreement on that. The question of is this more common than other threats they face from insiders such as spies for example is what we disagree on and so far I’ve not seen a single piece of compelling evidence to suggest it is.

Furthermore, I’ve explained how there are now new controls in place to prevent that from happening again and you don’t even have to ascribe any kind of altruistic motivation for it about protecting people’s privacy. You can entirely put it at the feet of they want to make sure they never have another Snowden incident again. This is why I’m saying that this just isn’t a realistic threat that people should be worrying about in 2024.
It seems just as likely to me that this ship was blown out of reach of the coast by a storm upon which it sank in deep water. If more ships from the same era are found in deep water between known ports that might be evidence of astronomical navigation but a single ship does not convince me in that respect.
The phrasing and intent is slightly off or odd in both of your examples.

Improving the phrasing yields the expected output in both cases.

“I've ten books and I read three, how many books do I have?”

“My Schrödinger cat is alive and well. What's my Schrödinger cat’s status?”
I find that extremely hard to believe. Especially wrt micro plastics and aerosolised phthalates.
It feels very linux-y, I wish it was easier to contribute to Firefox so those efforts would go towards stopping the google monopoly.
I think anybody that asserts their "human in the loop" doesn't have the same problem is biased/delusional.

People make mistakes: even the best people. We accept that risk as colleagues/employers/employees because there's a human connection, but that doesn't make it nonexistent. We're now trying to figure out how to deal with that when you're "employing" AI, and whether the risk tolerance is higher or lower alongside the reduced operational cost
https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/96439
Bingo. Hyundai sells like 5k EVs per month in US. It's basically nothing.
> circassian genocide

You are aware that Circassia is 3 countries and more than 4000km away from Tajikistan, right? And that the ethnicities involved in the Circassian genocides are wholly separated from Tajiks?
They most definitely are not there to take up overnight baseloads. I don't think the economics has been fully baked out yet. They are certainly rolling out but often times to replace the function of a peaker plant not a baseload plant.
It's high in a sense of typical broadband for the speed and latency. In the specific sense of limited option areas or satellite only areas it is a reasonable price for that level of service.

I live in the country a good 6 miles from any City and that City is maybe 8000 people. My service is $99 a month for 1 gig fiber. The only other options I would have is some satellite-based internet or a cell based internet.
If working on a scientific supercomputer, helping researchers and doing my own research at the side is preaching to the choir, I'm a happy camper.
Those of us that care about 100% of laptop features are mostly using macOS, Windows, or eventually ChromeOS, with our Desktop Linux VMs (VMWare, Virtual Box, Virtualization framework, WSL, Crostini).

Even if buying from Tuxedo or System76, there is some footnote on some features that might not exactly work out.

Now if Desktop Linux is a traditional deskto/tower PC, or something like a Raspeberry kind of devices, then yeah probably everything works, including YouTube hardware video decoding and such.

Using GNU/Linux distributions since 1995.
Strawman. PornHub doesn't argue against age verification, it criticizes the poorly designed implementation.

Showing my ID at the liquor store to buy alcohol is not comparable to having to put my ID and PII in a poorly secured database. Databases that get breached again and again with virtually no consequences for the owner.
Maybe not for mini, but they def missed a chance to add 802.11ah.
Fantastic news! This is a really interesting place in the design space and has come so close to being lost to history.

I believe the idea is essentially to write C semantics in scheme notation. Variables get marked with 'u32' or similar instead of being implicit sum types of anything the language can represent, memory allocation is explicit instead of garbage collected. In itself that essentially means writing C syntax trees in prefix notation, which is probably an acquired taste.

However scheme also comes with the compile time macro layer and that lot runs just fine in pre-scheme, garbage collected and all, because it's burned off before runtime anyway. Specifically, it's wholly macro-expanded before compilation to C (or similar), which is the obvious lowering to use for execution.

Also scheme has tooling, so if you're careful, the type annotated Cish syntax trees execute correctly as scheme, so you can debug the thing there, unit test it from scheme and so forth.

I really like it as a path to writing lisp runtimes in something that isn't C since an alarming fraction of them turn out to have a C runtime library at the bottom of the stack. Also for writing other things that I tend to write in C, where it's really the semantics I want and the syntax getting in the way.
Yes, what people managed in pure assembly language was really impressive.

Unsurprisingly though they also spent a lot of time developing a lot of time-saving tools, like macro assemblers and higher level languages like C.

Probably the games on the Amiga and Atari ST was the last heyday of these kinds of development.
I thought this was about SAT physics (used in games, etc)
It would be interesting to see a chart showing the % share of electricity being used for real world activities versus abstract computations. The current AI wave reminds me of Bitcoin.

You have to wonder if humans actually need all that processing. It would seem we have more intelligence than we need; every aspect of our lives is already over-schematized. We don't need more control and more advanced abstractions to keep our minds busy, we need the opposite; less control and more time. I hope things will shift more towards using AI to solve physical problems.
Not too difficult, really. Kyrgystan and Tajikistan especially are very popular with bicycle travelers, there's an established tourist infrastructure in the form of guest houses and homestays.

Border crossings into Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are a nightmare (on some crossings they will demand your unlocked phone to rifle through and have you unpack ALL you luggage onto a blanket). Once you're in the countries it's usually just the odd corrupt official, but I was able to out-wait and charm my way out of those situations.

Biggest headache imho: Almost every Westerner I met had some kind of digestive problem. I suffered from diarrhea coming and going for about two months.

There's motorcycle rentals and guided tours out of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, that will also tour the Pamir Highway and Wakhan Valley in Tajikistan. Highly recommend you check out photos from the area around the Issyk Kil Lake on Google Maps. It's just stunning up there.
As the article says...

> That means you can power the Mini dish for two to three hours from something like an Anker Prime 27,650mAh (99.54Wh) power bank, or a little over an hour with smaller 10,000mAh (40Wh) portable batteries you probably already have laying about. It requires a USB-C PD power source with a minimum rating of 100W (20V/5A).
They're not saying age verification is wrong, but dozens of skeezy sites taking in personally identifiable information who should have no business in taking in personally identifiable information is a bad idea.

Pornhub advocate for devices to do authentication of ID (i.e. Apple has FaceID and a bunch of stuff for reading IDs already as part of their digital ID initiative) and then attesting the user is of age. This could remain entirely anonymous and more secure than a kid inputting his dad's drivers license number that he stole from the dad's wallet.
> Most Russians hold racist views

I understand that people are unhappy with Russia right now, but what a truly gross thing to say (and absolutely not true).
Is there a way to prove your age without being identified/logging in? Surely some kind of OpenID style protocol can be invented for this with zero knowledge of personal information ending up with pornhub or which sites were being given age verification?
> and the laptop weights 5kg and holds the battery for 3h.

I don't follow how is it Window's fault that your company is incompetent? I get +10 hours on the Thinkpad X1 Carbon and it's a ~1.5kg laptop
Typically because there are incredibly poor laws around retention and use of private information collections and I typically loathe having any company retain my personal information without a really good reason (and this isn't a good reason).
Scaled back is an understatement, may as well have shipped with a link to the chatgpt app download website.
A reasonable criterion for whether somebody sucks/is good at investing would be something like "what % return did you get over the last decade, and how does that compare to (a) markets in general and (b) other investors in your field?". If BVP passed on a bunch of great opportunities but also passed on a bunch of money-losing deadends, and on net got better % returns than the hypothetical alternative VC fund that took more of these but also lost a pile of cash on terrible startups, then BVP is making good decisions even given the failures. That a hundred-year old VC firm didn't identify every unicorn it ever had the opportunity to invest in doesn't seem very surprising to me.
>Databases that get breached again and again with virtually no consequences for the owner.

Pornhub is gonna have a hard time using ”our database is gonna be hacked” as an argument.
I really hope if you live somewhere with HOA you also got decent internet..?
Your definition is right. Look at the produced models and not the images in the paper.
I know it will go over your head but the scheme in Texas that bitcoin miners take advantage is not isolated to bitcoin and is used in other industries there as well. From a electric market perspective it makes sense, ignoring the functionality of bitcoin mining. Having industrials that can dynamically adjust their use is very helpful for electric generation.
So showing up 1-2 minutes earlier does indeed increase survival rates. For instances in which someone is actually shot, I estimate that -2 minutes = 1% increase in survival, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12061-020-09362-3. So in that case, ShotSpotter will save a life around every 100 shooting victims it covers.

Part of the rub is that people being hit are not all that common. (It may be false positives, or just no recovered shells on scene, but many of the ShotSpotter calls result in a nothingburger.) So what has happened in some cities is that ShotSpotter has increased workload in going to calls, so may have had negative spillover in that regards.
Playing with audio processing and generation is a great way to embed that knowledge as you learn.
Both of those are highly experimental and neither seems to have a working/energy producing reactor yet though. So more of a long term solution if anything.
My disappointment for what this means for SerenityOS is pretty high.
Sadly this is a feature not a bug for the lawmakers who wrote the laws. They want databases of PII to be breached in order for porn consumers to be publicly named and shamed without the political blowback or getting their hands dirty.
>MS scaled things back because of public outcry

Not related, AI feature would be accepted if M$ would not upload the data to their cloud and implement the stuff safely (the stuff was super unsafe)

My assumption is that id did not work as they imagined, maybe you coudl use it by saying "Open Resolution Settings" but it would fail when you change "Resolution" with "Network" os soemthing else because of the giant mess in Windows. Though from my experience the Assistant in Android is also useless to open the correct Setting screen and I still have to hunt the setting I need manually.
How long have we been saying that?
This is an ever recurring theme in the human condition.

McDonald’s loyalty was not beholden to his bosses, or what society or the country wanted at that moment in time. He knew a certain truth, based on facts he was aware of, and stuck by them.

This is so refreshing in todays world, where almost everyone seems to be a slave to some kind of groupthink, at least in public.
Would recommend just picking up a gateway that you can deploy and act as an OpenAI compatible endpoint.

We built something like this for ourselves here -> https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kluai/gateway?activeTab=readm....

Documentation is a bit sparse but TL;DR - deploy it in a cloudflare worker and now you can access about 15 providers (the one that matter - OpenAI, Cohere, Azure, Bedrock, Gemini, etc) all with the same API without any issues.
Prepare for (Google) Jamboard to wind down
Tower warns Southwest of low altitude on approach
It's a shame we don't have more engineers today that refuse to invent things because so many technological inventions today are being used to further the destruction of our planet through consumerism.

Sadly, human society has a blind spot when it comes to inventions with short-term benefits but long-term detriments.

I would love to see more programmers refusing to work on AI.
To me it’s not wrong at all, why won’t a simpler browser with a “modern mode” rendering succeds? There is no need for that browser to support the space jam website, who really cares? Imo thinking that people need quirks mode because they need to visit old website it’s very HN.
Langchain was my first real contact with Python development, and it felt worse than Enterprise Java. I didn't know that OOP is so prominent in Python libraries, it looks like many devs are just copying the mistakes from Enterprise Java/.NET projects.
Farsi is a Persian dialect, a bit like insisting I (British) speak American or if Spain disappeared as a state that Mexican is the language of Mexico. Or that someone can't be speaking Latin or Sanskrit because they're ancient, it's Italian and Hindi now, or something.
I've asked models from ChatGPT3.5 to many others including the latest ones to calculate the calories expended when running, and am still receiving mixed results. In this instance, Claude 3.5 Sonnet got it right and ChatGPT 4o was wrong.

Q: Calculate the energy in calories used by a person aged 30, weighing 80kg, of averge fitness, and running at 8 km/h for 10km

Claude 3.5 Sonnet:
Here's the step-by-step calculation:

MET value for running at 8 km/h (5 mph): Approximately 8.3 METs
Formula for calorie burn:
Calories = MET value × Weight in kg × Time in hours
Calculate time in hours:
Distance = 10 km
Speed = 8 km/h
Time = Distance / Speed = 10 km / 8 km/h = 1.25 hours
Apply the formula:
Calories = 8.3 × 80 kg × 1.25 hours
Calories = 830 calories

GPT-4o: To calculate the energy expenditure for a person running, we can use the MET (Metabolic Equivalent of Task) value for running. MET is a unit used to estimate the amount of energy expended during physical activities. The MET value for running at 8 km/h (which is equivalent to 5 mph) is typically around 8.3 METs.

Calories burned per minute= 8.3 × 200/80 = 3.32 calories per minute

The total time in minutes is: 1.25 hours × 60 minutes/hour = 75 minutes
1.25 hours×60 minutes/hour=75 minutes

Total calories burned=3.32 calories per minute×75 minutes = 249 calories
According to the authors it's also faster on files full of 'x' or ' ', so there must be more than just better unicode support.
First, Chomsky (and I) were talking about language acquisition in children where there aren't billions of examples, so it's completely irrelevant if some other system can do something, the question is how do humans do it.

Second, there isn't any evidence that LLMs have captured grammar rules in any meaningful sense, just as they can't do addition or any other recursive computation.
if your not a survivor with the intention of finding each other and communicating, you should take dissahc out of your name and stop making these posts.
According to TFA they don't oppose age verification, they oppose the required method of age verification, namely submitting personal information and IDs.

They say they would support secure verification, I guess like having a digital signature from an authority, like the government.

I wonder if PornHub is doing anything to help this happen, though. I doubt it...
The benefits need to outweigh the costs.
It is a matter of getting used to, childhood imprint.

Most Europeans will smell and taste the chlorine immediately, even in a coke in a fast food chain in the US where they mix that tap water in, or even just in ice cubes.

This conditioning works also the other way round. Read often that Americans usually find the tap water in Europe to be not "fresh", because of the missing chlorine.

I don't think there is any self-lying involved. People notice it the first time going and trying, certainly not because they have been subconsciously indoctrinated. Personally strongly confirm!
"Truth, Lies, and O-Rings" is a fascinating (if sometimes tedious) book that should be at the top of any reading list for those interested in the Challenger disaster.

For me one of the more interesting side-bar discussions are those around deciding to use horizontal testing of the boosters despite that not being an operational configuration. This resulted in flexing of the joints that was not at all similar to the flight configuration and hindered identification of the weaknesses of the original "field joint" design.
Yeah but someone who got a Model S in 2018 and upgraded to a Model S in 2022, is probably not going to buy the same looking car in 2025
Yes. Apple has the tech already with their digital driver's license initiative. It's probably more secure at stopping kids from accessing porn because it involves the on device FaceID authentication of the ID holder and could be verified and attested to each session vs just punching in a DL or CC number.
Someone would have to gather that data. It's not like a password that can be detached from physical reality. Your date of birth is somewhat inherent to your identity.
Not a frontend engineer, but wondering whether svelte is a more promising start for beginners instead of nextjs and other react based frameworks?
Yes, but AGI is not real. So this all should be rewritten as the five stages of grief over discovery that AI is just mathematics.
But there are also costs considered: no flexibility, thus no way to hedge risk. Think weather, plagues and diseases, funghi whatever: If you single crop is vulnerable, now all of it is affected. The use of pesticides and fertiliser is also not free, and monocultures need a lot more of that. Furthermore the giant tractors needed for monoculture tend to damage the soil they drive on, and require the ground water table to be fairly low.

Certainly the logistical challenge of multiple small harvests of varying products is there, but this is definitely more manageable with robots and computers than without.

And for a small close to population centers, if they can supply multiple kinds of produce reliably, they might be able to make orders of magnitude more money on the local market than on the commodities market.