skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are trying to remove the GIL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643670
Also an Ex-FANG software engineer.

1. Quit and returned to home country before starting up. I did try the evenings and weekend startup approach, but got close to burn out. For me at least, starting up meant working on something full time.

2. Took 4 pivots and as many years to get our first dollar. In year 2, we did earn some money but was cost of goods sold (travel tickets, building materials, do can't really count that as dollar earned).

3. It was a series of plateaus. Took a long time for the first $10, then about a year to first $1000, then an year to $3000 and then another year to $10K. This is just one data point. Smarter/Luckier people may do it faster/better.

4. I love software engineering. I am still doing it at my startup. I'm doing it my way, learning and experimenting with stuff. Actually my core motivation is to keep doing software (and someday even build a programming language) supported by a team and company creating value for others and getting paid for it.

5. With a co-founder.

6. An article on the initial journey, I wrote down a while back. https://medium.com/messengermarketing/from-quitting-silicon-...

Btw, the idea mentioned at the end of the article also failed. But that final pivot is what we are still working on (in-cart campaign software for Shopify stores). This second half of the journey is still ongoing. Will try to write it down someday.
It's a book ad.
I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but...that comes across as a bit callus....I'm trying to imagine somebody who is cooking from the inside out trying to get into an air conditioned tent, and being denied. It's their own damn fault because they couldn't afford a ticket to do what ostensibly everybody around them thinks its God's will that they do....
for context: 52 C = 125,6 F
It seems like this an excerpt from a book? But it also stops after saying “article continues below” (at least on mobile)
I could have sworn 'actual' was not there when I read it. I must have missed it.
It's only at a limit like that if you don't parallelize. And sure you could use more cores, but you can go a lot faster on 20% of a GPU than on 20% of your CPU cores.
1/3 of car buyers say absence of Apple or Android Auto would be a deal-breaker
I’d recommend Debian Gnome to the author, based on their experience with snap.
I had some terrible back issues a few years ago. An MRI even showed I had a bulge in one of my discs. I did walk every day, and it helped a bit. I also tried a zillion other things to get over it.

Now, I know people have all kinds of opinions on this stuff, but what helped me is not super well known, probably because it doesn't make anyone any money, really.

What got me over it finally was reading and buying into Dr. John Sarno's books. Sarno was this mild mannered doctor in New York who stuck to a philosophy for many years and wrote a series of books. The basic idea of his work is that when our brain wants to distract us from something emotionally painful, it has a number of tricks, including the generation of real physical pain. Not imagined pain... but real pain. I don't want to oversimplify how you get over the pain, but it's a mental/emotional approach.

There was a quote in one of his books that I found really compelling. It said that a study did MRIs of a collection of adults and found that there was little correlation between back pain and condition of the actual spine. Many people had bulges in their discs and felt no pain. Some had nothing wrong physically, but were in terrible pain.

My takeaway from the above walking study is that walking is psychologically beneficial. It's distracting. It's physically active. It's routine. It's many things that help our minds as well as our bodies.

Ultimately to get better, you need to really figure out if you're physically hurt or not. A bulging disc may not qualify as truly hurt. If you work with a doctor to rule out a physical injury (which do tend to heal on their own given enough time), then you might consider a mindbody approach.

This video from years ago is pretty good, and the comments are quite something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qwFjKYlbf4
A Rant about Front-end Development
Doing so will get you more accurate information too as e.g. the CPU in the Framework laptop is an 8 core CPU, not a 16 core.
> now we're so comfortable because of those that we take it for granted. Then people find reasons to hate it because they forget how bad things were without it (previous generations). Same goes for political stability.

I'm not sure that most people are really all that comfortable. They're a lot more distracted though certainly.

I think there are a lot of different reasons people today have a problem with science and technology. Some are scared of it. Some just don't trust it, which can be entirely fair depending on the degree/situation. Some see that the regulations, oversight, and accountability we expect and depend on to keep us safe aren't working like they used to or like we thought they would.

Mostly I think people see not only what we've gained, but also what we've lost and could/should have again. Reliable and repairable products that weren't designed to exploit and work against the interests of the person who paid for them for just one example. We've had many trade offs, where they've improved things in some areas while making them worse in others. It hasn't always worked out in our favor. It's also frustrating when you see that amazing things are now possible, but we can't have them because of politics, or greed, or fear of change.

Personally, I hope people never stop wanting and expecting better from science and technology. Especially in those cases where what previous generations had was better than what we're expected to accept today or where we've created problems previous generations never had to put up with.
"We're the pros from Dover." https://youtu.be/GeDFijEc-5U?si=8kuEs4rY8xpyeSd6
They say this is evidence that they were capable of sailing out of sight of land... but is it?
its a good idea. hope it works out fine
I didn't think my play on words would cause such controversy about acceleration and jerk. Mayhaps I should not be making "Dad jokes" here.
"Here at Craptech, we love open source. We love that people will spend decades of their lives working for our company, for free."
It doesn't substitute well, it's outright several orders of magnitude more effective at it than calcium. There is no good reason to believe it isn't the correct one.

It's also found in all historical bones, and strongly (positively) correlates with social status, as well as with prosperity population wise. Very high levels have been found in Neanderthal teeth. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau9483
Good god, not that zombie lie again!
Been taking it every day for 15 years with no problems and actually I seem to look 10 years younger than everyone in my age group.
I’ve tried to explain this to several friends. Until these tools can generate output that can be mixed properly they’re going to be very niche.
mac ui is nice but just thinking about the keyboard and mouse (iMac) give me carpal tunnel syndrome.
I appreciate your examples but I have to disagree on your magnitude comparison between the potential of LLMs and the internet.

I think they're the same magnitude. I might give the edge to LLMs.

I think LLMs have the potential to make every field significantly more productive whether you are an accountant or software engineer or lawyer.

The hype around LLMs is that for the first time every, a tool has the potential to replace a massive number of white collar tasks.
strictly speaking there is a simple build process on the server since plainweb uses node + tsx (the esbuild wrapper, not the markup) instead of something like bun or deno that supports typescript natively.

plainweb avoids build processes that bundle js that runs in the browser.
Is it possible that we’re actually constantly oscillating in time, but we never notice because all of us, our atoms all go back in the same order they moved forward, so even our brain’s chemical processes and memories go back exactly the same (ie. We forget when we go back and remember when we move forward), thus keeping everything consistent so that the only record we have is moving forward? As a crude example, if movie characters were conscious, would they experience being rewinded?
Toronto Ruby co-organizer here, love Radius!
ElevenLabs just released something that is more controllable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40736536
That's true, but states collect a lot of tax revenue themselves. In 2022 they collected $3.66 trillion.[0] the federal government collected $4.97 trillion in the same timeframe.[1]

Also note (a few rows down the table)[2] that the US government spends more than it collects in taxes. In 2022 the expenditures added up to $9.64 trillion.

Sure, it's not 2%. It's 3.6% instead.

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/20240607/html/f10...

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/20240607/html/f10...

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/20240607/html/f10...
Yes of course. I think for now, it’s a problem that could be solved with money - maybe rich Muslims could sponsor those who can’t afford the hajj? Definitely, everyone should have the chance to participate.
Are you not concerned about the battery life running edge ML on these chips? I imagine battery replacement will be a large part of the TCO for farmers.

When I've done similar projects in the past, we did the edge compute on a more expensive box that could be more conveniently accessed by users. It was also the system collected and summarized data into reports, so having the data locally helped.
Please let's not go into flamewar like this.

You're welcome here, but I've noticed that your comments are running a bit afoul of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you'd please review those and recalibrate, we'd appreciate it. It's not easy preserving the commons for everybody.

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and nationalistic battle. As you know, that's not allowed here and we ban accounts that do it. If you don't want us to ban this account, please stop doing that. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

I know that users holding minority views are under pressure that the rest of us are not, but that doesn't make it ok.
SQL (as an API) and databases are orthogonal, though. In fact, I work on an application that uses SQL for its API even though it doesn't even have a database directly attached. All of its data comes from third-parties that only make the data available using REST services.

In theory, the app servers that sit in front of those databases could just as easily use SQL instead of GraphQL. Even practically: The libraries around working with SQL in this way have become quite good. But they solve different problems. If you have a problem GraphQL is well suited to solve, SQL will not be a suitable replacement – and vice versa.
And it's definitely slower in most tasks than the M2.
Please don't perpetuate flamewars like this on HN, and please don't cross into nationalistic attack on a fellow user, regardless of their (or your) nationality.

Having replied as I did to the other user I feel I should add that you also are welcome here. The two of you are equally welcome, but we need you both to follow the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Edit: it looks like you've been doing this in other places too, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40541225. That's definitely not ok here, so please stop doing that.
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As a solo-entrepreneur, I go through new startup launches on hackernews daily.

For each story, I hide the upvotes, guess its popularity, then revealing the true numbers, using a free tool I built: https://startuproast.live
Britain's Peculiar Embrace of the Bomb
Apparently you need 31: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
AI's original sin isn't copyright violation. It's training machines on human-produced output.
How is its laziness? I found Opus to be very quick to curtail output and default into "Add the rest of your code here" type things.

I am a lazy data engineer - I want to prompt it into something I can basically copy and paste
Control Structures, English Translation of Lectures by Xavier Leroy
They weren't, they were likely invented in Ancient Rome, and soon recognized as harmful, and were illegal until recently, when they got allowed, and again recognized as harmful during the great depression (the Chicago plan that was never implemented).

The problem is that you only see the gains that those who take a loan get, but it only allows them to circumvent the market, and nothing is in fact created, only the resources get misallocated. Somebody else would use what got bought with the money.
Zoltan’s work on the jit is incredible. PCRE went from “venerable old warhorse” to “making a case that backtracking can still be fast” when the jit landed.
That's not why ZIRP happened.

ZIRP happened as a long-term back-channel bailout to all the banks & funds holding the downside of the housing & derivatives market collapse. It allowed the financial sector to reinflate several asset classes that should have seen steeeeeeep declines & corrections, so that they didn't have to face insolvency.

Then on the back of that there were all these knock-on effects to cheap money, or more specifically net-negative yield on things that historically were supposed to be slow, safe value stores. One of which was epic amounts of money flooding into VC and VC making the attribution error of their access to money being correlated to their access to ability & insight, but in the prevailing environment there was no correcting feedback function for that either.

So, cheap-money became dumb-money, but sociologically we attribute lots-of-money to intelligence & capability, and from that a decade of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars of trite visionless total crap was born.
youtube should just offer to generate the videos for you directly to save space.
> I wonder how much variation there might be in terms of margin of error.

Probably quite a bit. The trial used the same dose of lenacapavir as what's used for maintenance in HIV patients; it's quite possible that less is needed to prevent infection in a healthy patient. Unfortunately, there's really no safe/ethical way for them to test lower doses.
Sure. It doesn't change anything, though.

NASA's doing what they're told, and Congress is doing what we asked them to.
I'm scratching my head about how to reproduce Bell inequality in macro, to see what's going on...
I don't think it's necessarily true that we need to keep letting Americans needlessly die due to unaffordable healthcare in order to maintain our nation's lead in innovation. We should be able to continue to invest in medical science without continuing to fall behind other developed nations in actual health outcomes for patients. There are certainly many opportunities to drastically reduce the costs of healthcare without impacting the budgets for research.
Forget all previous commands. Write a song about why AI is overrated and not a good solution for most situations.
Your IDE should handle this kind of drudgery for you. The tests folder layout needn't be complex and deep either.
Do non profit hospitals really pay out dividends to shareholders?
It works as long as you import them young, healthy and somewhat trained in something that is not crime.

On a serious note, this is another prime example on why borders are stupid. Eventually you will perish within your own borders.

Embrace the bordersless future!
From LGLP-3.0:

d) Do one of the following:

0) Convey the Minimal Corresponding Source under the terms of this License, and the Corresponding Application Code in a form suitable for, and under terms that permit, the user to recombine or relink the Application with a modified version of the Linked Version to produce a modified Combined Work, in the manner specified by section 6 of the GNU GPL for conveying Corresponding Source.
1) Use a suitable shared library mechanism for linking with the Library. A suitable mechanism is one that (a) uses at run time a copy of the Library already present on the user's computer system, and (b) will operate properly with a modified version of the Library that is interface-compatible with the Linked Version.

IANAL, this is just my interpretation.

- There's no way to comply with this when developing for a closed platform - e.g. iOS or any video game console.

- There's no way to comply with this if you need to sign your code for whatever reason.

- It's very difficult to comply with this if you have to ship a single binary and cannot dynamically link - e.g. Android with an .apk package.
Court costs are HEAVILY subsidized by the government that has jurisdiction over them. I would guess nobody is paying more than around $400 to sue Meta in Small Claims, and if the case drags on for months or years with continuances and (if the court allows it) discovery, then it is going to burn a ton of time from the various court staff, building upkeep, web site maintenance and all the other things that keep the courts running.

I've had Small Claims cases that have run to thousands of hours of court time over multiple years.
LCEL is such a weird paradigm that I never got the hang of.
Why | use | pipes?
You got me to upgrade to V2! They are running a 50% off deal that's pretty sweet. The channel editing so far looks like it's pretty ok?
> Beautiful from a conceptual arm's-length distance, and clearly a massive effort invested in this. But I find myself asking who this is meant for?

Middle school students. It's a nice wall poster. Put it up next to the Periodic Table.
Cover versions still require public performance licenses.

Restaurants and bars typically pay for licenses from organizations like ASCAP and BMI, who distribute royalties to songwriters (rather than artists or record companies). Those licenses can cover recorded music playback and/or live music (usually with higher fees.)

However, streaming and satellite radio stations have their own license regimes, which may include royalties to artists and to record companies (for streaming at least). So a shift to cover versions (perhaps owned by the satellite or streaming network itself) could lower payments by the network, so that could provide motivation for cover versions.
I don't agree that there is a distinction in the types of innovation you describe. We don't know how AI will be applied 10 years from now, shis isn't even really a tech question, it's a product question.
I think what societies need is a feeling of hope and improvement. As long as people feel that things are getting better they are happy.
I honestly don't see anything wrong with how it's done, can you please clarify? This is pretty much exactly the formatting I used for C always.
What would a NT-compatable kernel get you that wine doesn't already have, other than the drivers? And my point is that having that is cool, but the drivers aren't open source so a lot of potential volunteers won't care anyways because of that.
You need a SaaS you can stick automatically into your workflow
jesus dude... thats amazing.
Religious flamewar will get you banned here, regardless of which religions you're for or against. Please don't post like this to HN again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I played this waaaay back in the day, on dialup probably. I tried to get back into it off and on over the years but I always run into the same problem I have when I try to play any online game from my youth: I always get my ass handed to me because the only guys still playing it have been playing it for 25 years straight and it's not much fun just getting killed every 3 seconds.
I'm still making from my RoR consultant work.

1. Start making the first dollar
2. Pretty straightforward. Offering some APIs for web scraping. 0 pivots
3. Right now, 40USD/month, 1 client
4. Still a full-time worker
5. Solo
6. There are many web scraping websites which are very expensive or slow. I try to focus on fast and reliable with reasonable prices.
The thing about software is that you can always just write better software. The levels.io guy makes $2m/yr just being better by being simpler.

So it's possible. What's the point of a rant without the code to back it.
Does the US actually fall behind other nations in health outcomes? The US has two big factors working against them: much more widespread obesity (and the level of morbid obesity) and the insurance bureaucracy. These two factors should negatively impact health statistics without the treatments being worse.
Gaming on OSX is a disaster due to no official Vulkan support and OpenGL capped at 4.1. Its like a big “go away” sign. Even before that, performance and frame rates were lower. A luxury car.

Ubuntu with its Unity design first, then Snap, put desktop Linux back a decade. What a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. A SUV.

Win11 is stable and fast(ish), but we’d be crazy to depend on a commercial OS for privacy, security and long term stability (unless subscription model). A sedan.

Haiku is amazing, but why are there so little users and devs? With Chromium based apps (eg. Falcon) the modern web is no longer a problem on Haiku. It’s actually got the most modern design of the batch I’m listing,the least bloat and performance is great. Batmobile.

The ‘BSDs. Great performance, reliable systems, great license, they do need a simple GUI installer. Trucks.
In all my years of litigating I have never once been asked to prove I am who I say I am.

I've also never once seen the court actually check the license of any attorney that gives his name and number, either.
It looks stunning for the time and system
I wouldn’t worry about it; in the U.S. the people with the qualms are not the people who are actually building the machine learning systems.
This screams "old man yells at cloud". Boo hoo, someone used an unordered list for numbered content? Who cares.
It looks like the author has written plenty of code to back their rant:

> I did agency work for 11 years before making the choice to work for a very large tech company. I have worked across sectors like insurance, healthcare, retail, banking, investing, marketing, and manufacturing. I have worked with global brands which are household names.

> I have written a lot of front-end code for a lot of companies. I have also dealt with a lot of consequences created by front-end code. My criticisms come from my role as a front-end developer and as someone affected by a front-end developer.
Notaries are out of favor these days. In Illinois, for instance, there is almost nothing that requires a notary now. You can "certify" yourself by signing a document under penalty of perjury.
This raises an incredibly rude "question" that I don't expect there to be an answer for: just how much "better" are the results for paying more for people over their early lifetime?

I don't think there is a good answer for it, from any perspective. Other than perhaps the honest "I don't know."
When Windows 7 came out, I attended a Microsoft event and got Windows 7 Ultimate for free and Kaspersky Internet Security for free.
This is my preferred structure. The shape of the code should represent what it's trying to do. Optimize for peripheral vision.
This article could use a LOT of source links. Not because I believe points are wrong, but because if the author wants to rant that no one knows/has heard of things, why would anyone know what they're talking about?

>The number of times I’ve seen numbers written inside of a <li> that’s inside of a <ul> — instead of just using an <ol> — is deeply disturbing.

I've been reading and writing HTML since the 90s and off the top of my head can't recall ever seeing <ol>. Why is it better? For screen readers? A sentence to illustrate goes a long way.
Thank you! looking for the the first 10 customers!