skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how simple it is to register an account

I think the sign-up flow is super minimal/easy at this point, but I'd love any suggestions you've got in mind.

Relevant features I'll be adding to make it easier:-

- Sign-in with Google option

- Potentially simplifying the RSVP flow with an email magic link - someone suggested that here - https://github.com/radiushq/feature-requests/issues/10

> how certain are we this is not going to take the same path to profit than meetup

I'm pretty adamant about not copying Meetup's model and keeping a Free option available for Groups. I think having a Pro plan with additional features, and potentially taking a % of ticketing fees once we've added ticketing will be sufficient. Have a few other ideas around event listing promotion and group memberships but these aren't fully fleshed out yet.

Open to suggestions on how best to convey that I won't be going the Meetup route to profit!
There's a general rejection of intelligence as a superseding quality taking hold in tech across the board. The results have been mixed.

Kindness is a good quality and one we should all strive to display especially in the most difficult times. However, the level of kindness one should expect in an academically or commercially competitive context depends on the role that one is playing. It is not always appropriate for a CEO, for example, to be kinder than he or she is smart as a static property. If we are stack ranking on raw ability, don't expect to come out at or even close to the top with consistency or at all. That's life. It is not unkind.

I think that the current "everyone's walking on eggshells" moment in tech is a direct consequence of the "no assholes rule" we saw become the HR mantra over the past decade-ish.

Very few people would opt to work with someone who is disrespectful and/or berating people -- causing high stress and a psychologically unsafe environment. However, no one wants to work with highly passive-aggressive people who abuse social conventions to avoid being challenged either. Many of the people who view any form of perceived aggression (often in the form of merit based competition) as unkindness simply desire to be #1, and don't want to compete with anyone to earn it.

Sometimes what appears to be kindness is anything but -- and often what appears to be unkindness is just someone doing their job. For me personally, when I'm on the clock, generally all I care about is the work-product. I do want to make great memories with people -- particularly of shared achievement. But the work product comes first and I believe that is an important way to operate if you want to do great things -- especially hard things. If you are in a role where you're just cruising -- doing what you do best with relative ease, this post is not about you. I fully believe HR should create a cocoon around you and protect your mental peace. Accountants, lawyers, jr-sr devs, etc do not usually need to be pushed in the same way that elite tech product ICs do. Sorry I said elite. Don't burn me at the stake please.

Let's be kind to each other, but let's not forget to push others and also develop a thick enough skin to be pushed by others if we are going to call ourselves competitive innovators.

To continue to outdo ourselves as the human race, we need all types of people -- but most of all, we need the smartest people we can find.
I always wondered why the N900, which was designed in response to the iPhone, used a resistive screen. Supply chain would explain it.
> The whole point of the public web is that it’s there to learn from — even if the learner isn’t human.

What a joke.

Right, right, in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee and team all said to eachother, "We build this thing to learn from, even if the learner isn't human."

And lo, the world wide web was born.
It’s not security by obscurity. The law makes Apple turn over the keys to third parties.

You can’t secure your house if the law requires you to open the door to anyone who asks.
Love those great examples! But I wonder why you say Not exactly "eggcorns", as "incorrect but plausible" is pretty much the definition: https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/about/ (I guess maybe because they're not exact homophones?)
All it takes is for a driverless car speeding to hit a pedestrian for the industry to be dead in its tracks.
Interesting, I'll give it a try.
I'm sorry, I didn't read "most financially successful humans" to mean corporations.
Would you happen to have a link for this product?

Edit: Thank you for the replies!
People value music; subscriptions are widely successful. However, the platforms (aggregators) have a stronger market position than small artists (content producers). It strikes me as comparable to the Tivo problem, where they built something of real value but had their margins squeezed to nothing by stronger players.
"Silver nanowires" is probably the limiting factor on this one. Silver isn't that rare but it's certainly not cheap compared to normal textile fibers.
Easy to see how specifically targeting the dead or dying for profit is worthy of derogatory terms.

If you think otherwise, maybe you shouldn't view "bottom feeder" as derogatory? They keep the seabed clean do they not? It's all just "business".

And yes, the sellers in this case are also in the wrong, best case being bad luck, mid case being failure to prioritize, through to ignorance, delusion, stubbornness, arrogance, etc.
No, they're not.

If a problem is systemic in its existence, then it has a systemic cause. Looking at it as an individual problem is fine for yourself, but if you want to fix it for a society, you have to look at the systemic cause instead.
what else could it be ;)
Isn't there some value in handling the infra for the largest genai products currently?
As my father used to say, shit floats to the top of the tank. Shit being sycophants, yes men and liars usually. Oh that sums up MSFT senior management nicely.
> what percentage of the revenue should they receive?

Wherever the supply and demand curves intersect.

Otherwise, society is less efficient in allocating resources.
Regulation: The recent European Union Artificial Intelligence Act [1] defines in article 105 together with EU directive 2019/790 article 4 [2] that copyright holders have the right to opt out.
The US has no such regulation.

Standardisation: Not really. There exist a bunch of novel protocols, but apart from robots.txt (which can only name robots you know), there isn't any established standard. The Open Future think-tank has posted a couple overviews of these [3] [4].

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2024-0138...

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/790/oj

[3] https://openfuture.eu/publication/defining-best-practices-fo...

[4] https://openfuture.pubpub.org/pub/considerations-for-impleme...
Same, except I take issue with the word "tool." Like a program? A library? A screwdriver? Very ambiguous. Very common these days as well. I don't get it.
How do you square that with Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs [1], which found liability for a tune that the composer unintentionally (by most accounts, and in the opinion of the court) reproduced from memory?

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/groups/intellectual_property_law...
Why do we need to "outdo ourselves as the human race" though?
I understand why this is a compelling core belief, but it wouldn't hurt to challenge it.
Ah, thanks - So satire it is. Thank goodness my kid didn’t scream like that as a baby. Although we’ve had our own share of unusual challenges - she was/is a loud crier and could go on for 20-40 mins in the middle of the night. Not murder screams but still loud enough that my Apple Watch would warn me of prolonged exposure to loud noise :-/
https://archive.is/2024.06.21-012520/https://www.nytimes.com...
If you're using floating point at all you have declared you don't care about determinism or absolute precision across platforms.

Fast math is simply saying "I care even less than IEEE"

This is perfectly appropriate in many settings, but _especially_ video games where such deterministic results are completely irrelevant.
What can a cutting-edge medium bring to an 80-year-old movie?
Or Minix 2?
I don't think you realize what a hellscape the world without art would be.
No joke: “Don’t buy stuff you can’t afford” - snl

https://youtu.be/R3ZJKN_5M44?si=Ahdvgr3FNIOl40Q9

Literally changed my life
envkey.com is also distributing environment variables
8.89°C
That'd be because MSR was working on stuff for customers, not for shareholders...
I don't understand the planning around "lifeboats" and the ISS. I thought that there was always an extra Soyuz capsule docked in case people are stranded on the ISS. Yet, it's never been used and it's never discussed as an option.

Even with Columbia and after, the discussion was always around sending a second shuttle up if the backflip inspection found a damaged heat shield. Maybe that's more understandable given the number of people involved on the Shuttle.

Still... What's the purpose of having that lifeboat there if it's never considered?
This is such a heartwarming story. Thank you for sharing about this Anand. I loved the part about how your dad’s legacy is all the children of employees who could continue their education.
The videos of people breaking their own legs to avoid getting drafted into the Russian military are quite dire.
Don’t forget nonprofit work, which is often as toxic as corporate culture but with added gaslighting about how you should do more work “for the mission.”
Also probably a skin and lung irritant. Lots of people have contact allergies to macroscale silver and nanowires tend to get embedded in cells in soft tissue.
Maybe you could go looking for a home for your function in some existing crate then?
yes, that. And how we often mess up the order; ethics should come first.
I'd pin this comment if I could :)
Testing AMD's Bergamo: Zen 4c
That's interesting. I didn't know that bit of the story.

I reminds me a bit of Jeffrey Sachs, who chaired the Lancet covid enquiry saying he was told the insert a furin cleavage site experimentation was already done before a grant application was put in to do that. Also presumably based on some source who didn't want to be exposed.
Agreed. I'm pretty sure it's due to all the different verticals coalescing, though I can't say for sure since some of the problems are consistent across different workflows as well.

You've got the data scientists tinkering away with the actual models where half of their stuff is in Jupyter notebooks. You've got the platform engineers sticking these models behind an API. DevOps making sure any model/code updates get propagated to prod in a safe and hassle free manner. Then you've got Infra who needs to make sure you actually have the specialized hardware to deploy these models onto.
Always use Maxwell's corkscrew rule.
> This sounds great. I will mention to some folks I know, that might be able to use it.

Thanks, that'd be awesome!

And that sounds like most of the experiences I've heard - their pricing options really aren't great.

> Once I started posting meetups, though, I started getting a lot of bogus signups. They were clearly bogus, as many had nothing to do with tech, or were unreasonably far away (like New Jersey or Upstate). I suspect most, if not all, were fake profiles. These signups filled the meetups, so I would get like, one real person showing up. All the rest were no-shows.

I know no-shows are a big problem but spam/fake sign-ups - that's a weird one, and not one I'd considered! Was this recently? I'd assume something like this would have been easy to fix by requiring email confirmation on your account sign-up.
aka “Galt’s speech reformatted for TikTok”

Tell us more about the moochers, please?
When California does these types of policies, companies change their products countrywide since the California population is so large and other states tend to follow policies.

When a smaller state like Colorado tries this… do they just not get dental floss at target anymore?
Not 16 degrees Fahrenheit, but rather, 16 Fahrenheit degrees.
"impossibly thin" sounds a lot like "very fragile and therefore completely impractical for things that you want fabrics for".

Or maybe we now want to fill the world and coat our bodies in nanoscale plastic and silver dust?
It was one of my degree course books. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
the essay is about intelligence, something we value in others.
While pride is when we value our own intelligence.

I agree with you that pride is a big issue (it is, after all, a capital sin).
I would have thought Microsoft on is dotnet multi-platform journey would find a way to make PowerShell just POSIX compatible, supporting at least standard all day commands like `grep`, `wc`, `find` and others. All it would have taken is to create aliases or replacements for the top 50 shell commands.

Instead they re-invented the wheel. It's not a bad wheel, but the wheel is completely different than most people would expected to be and for POSIX enthusiast it just does not feel right.

With wsl or git bash you can do this but it feels slow and clunky most of the time.
I was hoping someone would catch that ;)
That blade cuts both ways; the electron beam in a CRT travels through a vacuum, there's nothing to "rush in". A hole beam would have to travel through a medium with no free electrons.
Archive.is doesn’t kill jobs? Tell that to journalists!
That isn’t what is happening with AI training though… If you apply that to AI, that is more like training using only Dan Brown novels and then asking the AI to recreate The Da Vinci Code.

How much of the work you use in your transformations is a major factor for derivative works. So you probably could make a single Star Wars scene from memory using Blender. But not the whole movie.
Ask HN: How to raise visibility for commoditised APIs?
When I host commoditised APIs on platforms such as RapidAPI & Postman Hub, how do increase visibility for it? How do I appeal to decision makers at companies that might potentially make tens or hundreds of thousands of hits to my API ?

In general how do people that run this business go about it?
Put simply, "the map is not the territory"
It's called "Rolladen", quite popular here in Austria.

https://www.rolladenplanet.de/vorbaurollladen/rollladen-stan...
Never ever buy a property (a flat in my case) together with someone else. You should rather better offer to pay half the mortgage or have the other party pay you half the mortgage, but never buy together.

Of course I heard this and did buy a flat with my now ex anyway. I was lucky enough to manage to buy back the remaining half (burning basically all of my savings) but for a few months i was hunted by the idea of having to give up the place i worked so hard for.

Don’t… don’t do it.
I was one of those, I used to tell myself that I could afford it, and well. i couldn't

to be honest that's why I created my app. just so I have a small "advisor" on if I should or shouldn't buy certain things.

in case you want to give it a look. https://www.producthunt.com/products/innerwallet
I think almost exclusively through inner monologue, and I find I can't speed read at all. If I'm not vocalizing I'm not thinking, so when I try to not vocalize in order to speed read I don't retain anything. It's like my brain is incapable of processing the words if they aren't being vocalized.
The article was written for an American audience.

I feel like if you went to a French article and it said "12 degrees" you would know to convert that to Fahrenheit, if you needed. And that's an even less common situation than second-language English speakers ending up on American articles.
And this is why you cannot trust any corporation in the long term and why i think copy left licences are becomming a hidden corner stone of our civilization.
That’s false. They write wills that we respect, and we don’t make kebabs out of their bodies. But it’s the kind of respect that is not trendy anymore…
> Your wealth likely derives from a mixture of raw talent, hard work, luck, and preferential attachment

This is a disturbing viewpoint to see on HN.

We already went down this path (a few times) and it resulted in >100 million deaths in the 20th century.
Conceptual Clarity: The Foundation of Successful Software
Has GDP gone up or down over time? It's gone way up, so even if the percentage was constant, the amount of money collected has increased significantly. This is what I mean by a clear trend towards "not-less". Despite this increase, I don't think we're seeing proportional returns, and I'm very doubtful that increasing it even further will help anything. If the root problem is mismanagement/corruption/inefficiencies/pointless wars, throwing more money at it isn't going to fix anything, while taking money away could.
Something I read a while ago that has stuck with me is that you can actually buy just two things: time and space. Everything else is made up.
> Well I'm pretty sure they have some evidence to support that claim [...]

> article: To this day, it is unknown how the Incas worked with these calculators. There are several hypotheses about their use [...]

It appears, that there are people who have formed hypotheses, but apparently no consensus...

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> article: The mysterious tablets were apparently suitable for all four basic arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Many objects are suitable for numeric calculation (technically any object), just looking around my room I see a cupcake pan and a chess board -- the chess board being a little more useful for doing 8-bit binary arithmetic, but if I combine it with the cupcake pan I can add a dedicated shift register which makes mult/div a bit easier :)

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Your continued quote from above:

> [...] especially considering they can directly link the word to the meaning "count".

Yes, because as we all know - words in any given language only have a single meaning! 8P

> Do you always just assume science is wrong?

Last time I checked; jumping to a conclusion using a minimum of evidence isn't scientific.
Someone told me on another post. "don't get divorced", yours is a little bit more logical haha.
Thank you for sharing this unique story. Some parts of your story resonated with my life, hope you don’t mind me sharing:

* At times it felt like the true sons are the companies they started. They live and breathe in them. I have a strange detachment to my own family because of this.

* Thus, they have serious attachment issues and zero succession plans.

* My mom later passed away too soon and missed out much of the life experience she could have had. Glad that she did travel around the world before death.

* Even after all that, my old man still doesn’t have succession plan. Dunno what’s gonna happen to all the people working for him. And the clock is ticking.

* Like OP, I spent most of my life in the US, so I too would be useless in dealing with the businesses. Even the real estate company (something I know a bit in the US) is far too different back there.

Also, blatant corruption is simply not my cup of tea.

I tried to help them multiple times. I offered to sponsor them green card, but they consistently refused. I offered if they need help finding private equity to liquidate and just retire. Sometimes I wonder if my mom could have been saved with US quality healthcare.

Oh well, I did my best, there was nothing I could have done.
They're attempting to set a legal precedent, per the piece.

> Worthy noted the case seeks to set precedent for space debris claims in the private and public sector.
Show HN: FastScala Web Development Framework
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> SQLite won't stop working but your format is proprietary.

As far as I can tell, the whole app is open source (AGPL), and sqlite is obviously open source as well. I agree that markdown is more portable, but this setup is far from proprietary.

I may not have made the same decision (I love having my notes in markdown), but I think OP was quite thoughtful about it and has made an informed and reasonable decision.
An early 90's Linux distro (SLS, Slackware) would run pretty well on these. My first Linux box was a 386SX with only 3 megs of RAM.
Maybe coders should learn to love analog? Could they?
Extreme heat is a global killer and worse for our health than previously thought
I think the quote underline that if ethics isn't taught prior tech knowledge, it's unlikely to be given any importance later on. I don't take it to say that one can't value both.
In the King James Bible you have lovingkindness but I guess that might be a mistranslation of the Hebrew checed which literally means "covenant loyalty." But I feel like lovingkindness even if it was originally mistranslated has the same connotation as nam-jai.
I don't think you should aim to create something they find fun and that's it.

HN should be a place to showcase what you're doing and why you're doing it. not becoming the center of attention for your creations.
Regarding nanowires, for what it's worth, nano silver is used as a highly effective antimicrobial skin cream, and none of its users complain of an allergy. In this way it also accelerates wound healing. It is even more benign than some skin antibiotics that trigger an allergy. Given this evidence, I don't think nanoscale use of silver in clothing is going to be a a concern for the vast majority of people.

Disclaimer: Silver is a slight poison and should not be used for a prolonged duration.
Employers don't really care about skills, they care about paper that says you have skills (e.g. education, certifications, job experience).

You could monetize the skill yourself, of course, though that's just called being an entrepreneur.
Thanks a lot.

My take on the subject: Intelligence without compassion is, basically, hell. Compassion to others that is not rooted in compassion to oneself is shallow and will not last.
Elevator music hell: that's what will come from safety-first social-value-aligned corporate-AI-written song lyrics and music scores. Already autotune and excessive compression have created a dreary modern musical landscape, and live pitch correction is widely used in performances - pretty farcical.

I'd rather go back to 80s punk/metal bands playing their barely-in-tune instruments in garages - but it would be fun to see what an open-source LLM fine-tuned on that material would produce. A key condition: The band 'Suicidal Tendencies' could not be excluded on safety-alignment grounds.
As to why, no idea. I guess some engineer was just familiar with it from their undergrad days like the rest of us.

And which version, I know it’s MINIX 3 but beyond that? No idea. They probably heavily modified it and as Minix is not GPL, Intel never published it. Based on the timelines it’s likely 3.1 as the ME platform has heen around since approximately 2007 iirc.
How can a company pretend to be a fake library, i.e use and charge for all those copyrighted works, while I can go to prison if I download a movie for free? Should I also pretend I’m my own library? That’s my issue with those companies.