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Show HN: Test my simple landing builder for non technical founders
A simple landing page builder which will support for AI generated copy.

The software will support drag n drop page building similar to Wix as well as custom CSS or JavaScript.

The main focus is to provide a simple/uncrowded experience only providing what people need, this is not meant to to be a WordPress competitor for example. it is meant to be a simple landing page builder for solopreneurs and other early startups. Specifically looking to speedup development and get leads. I'll try and create around 20 premade templates eg. blog, product launch, resume, freelancing and courses

The website will be affordable (FREE-$25). What i have described above is the MVP, if it is successful i will add payment buttons for users, integrations with email platforms for autoresponders and lead capture forms.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea, would appreciate any feedback. Thanks.
On their investor day, Amex said their aspiration is to reach 80% merchant coverage in France, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Finland by 2026
These little things called the "C standard" and "C++ standard".
Can you be more specific? Who are the "powers?" What is "the narrative?" and why do these "powers" want "control of the narrative?"

This just seems like a vague X-Files conspiratorial statement without those details.
> If Costco produced such features in their imaginary product, people may use it.

The question is would it make people shop more? If you buy one set of paper towels a week, and Costco rolls out a voice interface, would you now start ordering 2 or 3? If not, what return are they getting on the billions of dollars in additional spending?

In reality people would use it for a day, go "neat", and switch right back to the website or app.
GPT-4o-mini consistently gives me this:

> How many times does the letter “r” appear in the word “strawberry”?

> The letter "r" appears 2 times in the word "strawberry."

But also:

> How many occurrences of the letter “r” appear in the word “strawberry”?

> The word "strawberry" contains three occurrences of the letter "r."
Everytime I read articles like this no one brings up that wsl caches file transfers in RAM. With large enough transfers it slows your machine to a halt. It's infuriating and made me switch to Linux for heavy workloads.
> use a platform-independent managed/interpreted language like Java, C#, Go, or Python

or .net!
Wargames have answered that quite clearly. Proud Prophet [1] is what you're looking for. All sorts of different approaches to nuclear engagement were trialed and they all ended up in the end of the world, or at least the end of North America, Europe, and most of the northern hemisphere, alongside just about everybody living there. The scenario you're describing would fall under the 'de-escalatory nuclear strike' category - same outcome. The outcome of these wargames is what drove the shift more towards seeking more of a de-escalatory approach with the USSR.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Prophet
The US doesn’t do differential equations in high-school? Huh, TIL
Appending "Think step-by-step" is enough to fix it for both Sonnet and LLama 3.1 70B.

For example, the latter model answered with:

To count the number of Rs in the word "strawberry", I'll break it down step by step:

Start with the individual letters: S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y
Identify the letters that are "R": R (first one), R (second one), and R (third one)
Count the total number of Rs: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3

There are 3 Rs in the word "strawberry".
Seriously. Someone sent me a link to this announcement earlier and my first thought was, _what year is it_?

I'm a long-time Proton customer and (until now) advocate and I have no idea who this is for or why it's a priority. It gives me serious pause about their ability to read the room and take the results of user feedback into account.
iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens calls out Anthropic for disruptive crawling
Nitpick, the article’s suggestion that Git badly supports Windows strikes me as about 2 decades out of date. I dev on native Windows (only using WSL for key tools like sl and cowsay) and Git has Just Worked pretty much ever since I began using it.

Maybe the only speedbump is that you gotta remember to turn off the “autocrlf” setting, which has a default from way back when there were still editors on Windows that choked on \n.
> Its not a sure bet what is most optimal is what you see.

I wouldn't ever make "most optimal" a criteria. We're looking for measurable improvements, not a jump to god emperor or apex predator.

> you may only be in a localized threshold of fitness stability that is not necessarily optimal, but separated from another optimal configuration by having suboptimal intermediary steps that need more activation energy to overcome before falling into a state with lower entropy (or more optimal fitness).

Optimization is like that. But unlike genetics, where we can't re-route the recurrent laryngeal nerve or change fundamental biochemistry, these are engineered systems where we can set up wildly different experiments at any time. Just to cite one of many different research threads, there's now research now going into developing models from small scale training data.

> you can never be sure if synthetic data is any good or if what things gravitate toward are really most optimal.

We can know if the synthetic data is better. We have objective measures, a scientific process, and we'll always be striving for improvement.
> what do you think of .net core?

Not the parent commenter, but... This is not relevant; .NET Core is a managed environment. If your needs dictate it, then it's a very good choice.

> that's the only native-code-generating compiler for windows other than mingw-64 (and proprietary compilers)

clang also generates native Windows code. You can even set clang to automatically target Windows and expect the Windows SDK by running `clang-cl`. You of course will need a Windows SDK and MSVC C/C++ runtime mounted on a case-insensitive filesystem, like the Firefox guys have done[1].

[1]: https://glandium.org/blog/?p=4020
If you have the privilege to pull off bind-mounting on top of a particular process directory in /proc you should also be able to mount something on top of /proc itself that will present a false /proc/mounts and conceal your trickery. I experimented a bit and wasn't able to bind a single file on top of /proc/mounts and I seem to be having trouble getting procfs to participate in an overlayfs, but if you were really dedicated you could construct a whole fake /proc by hand, or create something using FUSE to create a /proc that redacts anything you want, including mountpoints.
My 3 year old dell has 128GB RAM and 8TB of SSDs
Apparently the smallest a neutron star could theoretically be is 0.1 - 0.2 Solar masses. [0]

And then 1.4 Solar masses is the upper limit. [1]

[0] https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/143174/43351
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit
This is pretty much equivalent to the statement "multicharacter tokens are a dead end for understanding text". Which I agree with.
How did it hose them completely? I thought the problem is easily fixed by removing the offending config?
Magic Mushrooms May Have Shaped Our Consciousness
It was more the "cutesy" (and fact-indifferent) way they were arguing their position (rather than the basic proposition what they were arguing) that suggested to me that something was off here. As confirmed by their subsequent posts. I'll withdraw the pro-Russia insinuation if you like (as whichever side, if any they may favor seems irrelevant in this context).

I've personally yet to encounter anybody who holds (or read any arguments in favor of the view) that Russia is outright winning this conflict in any tactical or operational sense, beyond perhaps a very marginal measure - without it becoming immediately clear that the person making them had major gaps in their knowledge, and/or strong biases (as revealed by reciting standard narratives as to the supposed causes of the war). Or without it emerging (as with the sibling commenter) that they just don't seem to give a fuck either way.

But this is of course a different topic.
Do you mean unbiased or not biased towards forces in power? Everything will have some bias to it, will it not? Even if the model does not, surely the training material.
> Make it a value add in my life and I wouldn't mind paying a subscription fee for it.

I dunno, I feel like the value was priced in the purchase price for me. I would not consider paying both a purchase price and subscription fee for it and probably not a subscription fee at all because all they ever do is go up. What would I do with this dumb robot in my house when I don't agree to pay for their latest fee structure.
I think this is roughly correct. My 2c is that folks used the initial web data to cold start and bootstrap the first few models, but so much of the performance increase we have seen at smaller sizes is a shift towards more conscientious data creation/purchase/curation/preparation and more refined evaluation datasets. I think the idea of scraping random text except maybe for the initial language understanding pre-training phase will be diminished over time.

This is understood in the academic literature as well, as people months/years ago were writing papers that a smaller amount of high quality data, is worth more than a large amount of low quality data (which tracks with what you can pick up from an ML 101 education/training).
bash is slow? Maybe, but I've never noticed a problem. I have opened huge files in vim as well.
The only issues I have when developing natively on Windows are when other developers on macOS don't use cross-platform tools (bash scripts). Scoop is a great package manager, and with windows-terminal + powershell you can't really ask for anything better.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't nuclear-density collapsed matter stars exclusively zero-net-charge neutron stars? I suppose you could instantiate an "oops all protons" neutron star with a charge of 10^54 coulombs in Universe Sandbox, but I struggle to imagine how that would come to or continue to exist physically.

More importantly, I think that the Coulomb's Law repulsion effect would more than cancel out the gravitational attraction effect - both laws work as Force = (constant x particle1 x particle2) / distance^2, and the electromagnetic force is much, much stronger than gravity at all distances.
How? The fix is to just remove the one bad "Channel File." Are there machines where that does not resolve the problem?
The death of independent forums has been greatly exaggerated.

Of all the forums I used to be active in, many are still active. The ones that died did so because the community died (i.e. they did not shift to Reddit and the like).

Reddit is great simply because it allowed anyone to create a community. No need to get a LAMP stack and deal with security vulnerabilities in your forum SW.

These days you have Lemmy and its ilk. Much higher barrier than the old LAMP stack, but also much superior to it. I do hope it takes off.
It's shocking how many Linux programmers rely solely on printf debugging. My goodness it's like programming in the stone age. printf is the ultimate fallback, not the tool of first resort!
Talk to Your Data (Loudly)
My grandfather was talking about his childhood, before WW2.

And I’m not at all surprised to know there are many Poles that saved Jews in WW2 - there are also a lot of Germans! I’m sure individually a lot of Poles were and are fine people.

But at least according to my late grandfather it sounded like it was pretty common to experience anti-semitism as well (my grandfather grew up in an ultra orthodox family so was easily identified on the street as Jewish - he became secular during the war).
The problem with the strong force is that it doesn't have some nice tidy description, like the inverse square law for the electrostatic force.

It's spin dependent, and not just involving interactions of pairs of nucleons. There are at least three-nucleon terms in the potential. It looks like something accidental, not elegant or designed. It just "happens" to give stable nuclei that end up allowing something like us to have come into existence. I get the feeling of anthropic effects on display.
I once heard about a feature dogfooding invite that was sent out specifically for people with babies because they wanted to use Alexa always-listening to activate when a baby was crying and automatically order diapers or something ridiculous like that.
I just email myself. With a little thought you can use filters and subject to get your client to file everything in the right folder for you.
This is not new. Many people have noticed this before, e.g. https://hikari.noyu.me/blog/2020-05-05-github-private-repos-...
I’m pretty certain CS has contracts that limit their liabilities in events like this.

Probably a refund is all they’ll be on the hook for.

Sadly, damage done like this is just chalked up to an accident, and swept under the rug.
This has been my experience as well, it boils down to them mostly being unheard, which causes frustration which can manifest itself as us-vs-them. Taking the time and hearing them out, and like you did, just working with them and hearing them helps a ton. I can count the number of actual jerks I’ve crossed paths with in my career on less than four fingers over nearly 20 years. The other “jerks” just need a little peace, love and understanding.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-supercomputers-0200642f?st=p2...
To add to your point, one can't even pick out a brand-name product directly from Amazon's website and be sure of getting the real thing.
Interesting. Could you not perhaps tank the system attempting something like that?
Yes this was a great video.
Let's get specific. You're confusing with copyright and licensing.

The users hold the copyright (reddit claim that they made the meme) but reddit has the non-exclusive right to redistribute and license the content.

Two different things.
That's fair. I agree with you that in some sense it is user data. And that Reddit is operating unethically.
Imagine how old you feel when you remember Subversion being the new thing replacing CVS…
I think your tone is not helpful here. The parent isn't attacking you.

Clearly US & ROW card markets are wildly different due to various regulations; the structure of the US market and related incentives are pretty unusual. A statement about a US-based experience doesn't & can't translate toe Europe.
No, typically things end at single variable calculus, although it depends on the school. I can't imagine that there is much value to having high school students doing diff eq.
FWIW this (approximately) is what everybody (approximately) is trying to do.
What’s that understanding based on?
> gargantuan investment

it's a bigger investment, but it's an investment which will pay dividends for decades. with a compute cluster, the government is taking on an asset in the form of the cluster but also liabilities in the form of operations and administration.

with a fab, the government takes on either a promise of lower taxes for N years or hands over a bag of cash. after that they're clear of it. the company operating the fab will be responsible for the risks and on-going expenses.

on top of that...

> thousand of staff

the company will employ/attract even more top talent, each of whom will pay taxes and eventually go on to found related companies or teach the next generation or what have you. not to mention the risk reduction that comes with on-shoring something as critical to national security and the economy as a fab.

a public-access compute cluster isn't a bad idea, but it probably makes more sense to fund/operate it in similar PPP model. non-profit consortium of universities and business pool resources to plan, build, and operate it, government recognizes it as a public good and chips in a significant amount of money to help.
Has anyone ever successfully been prosecuted for violating this statute?
This has happened with much simpler models than LLMs, eg. Google Suggest became noticeably worse when everybody started using Google Suggest to input their queries, because it was trained on real query logs and those query logs started to simply reproduce the output of the Suggest model. SEO and Webspam have similar problems within Google Search.

More broadly, this is a reflection of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." The issue is that any model's purpose is to capture novel, useful data about real human behavior. Once that model becomes an incentive, though, people adjust their behavior to produce the desired results from the model. Authentic behavior disappears, which means there's no useful information content for the model to capture, and future generations of the model instead just reproduce behaviors of the previous generation they were trained on, including quirks. Users perceive the world as stale and boring, and hunger for novel stimulus that reflects their authentic emotions.

You could look at this as a full-employment theorem for entrepreneurs and artists.
In this case the judge does not seem relevant. The decision does need to be unanimous from the jury.
There's a difference between being a jerk and having high standards.

Unfortunately, far too many people think having high standards is an excuse for being a jerk.
Well it's still a speaker, and will still play music. If they bundle in a GPT-5 level personal assistant I can definitely see a ton of people paying the added fee.
> I rather wonder who actually uses boxes with only 8gb of ram some still ship with.

Everyone else? :) Joking aside, the majority of people buy the MacBook Air, mostly with the minimum spec. Apple is expensive.

If I didn't have to run docker or didn't store media locally, I could very easily use one.
I reported this on their HackerOne many years ago (2018 it seems) and they said it was working as intended. Conclusion: don't use private forks. Copy the repository instead.

Here is their full response from back then:

> Thanks for the submission! We have reviewed your report and validated your findings. After internally assessing the finding we have determined it is a known low risk issue. We may make this functionality more strict in the future, but don't have anything to announce now. As a result, this is not eligible for reward under the Bug Bounty program.

> GitHub stores the parent repository along with forks in a "repository network". It is a known behavior that objects from one network member are readable via other network members. Blobs and commits are stored together, while refs are stored separately for each fork. This shared storage model is what allows for pull requests between members of the same network. When a repository's visibility changes (Eg. public->private) we remove it from the network to prevent private commits/blobs from being readable via another network member.
Seam Carving (2018)
But would it actually be possible to bring an volcano to errupt with a explosion? They don’t remove a lot of soil layers as far as I understand.
I remember getting that invite!

You could use "baby crying detected" as an automation trigger
Why the Wisconsin pizza farm movement is an idea whose time has come
Its not like an LLM is released with a hit list of "these are the tasks I really suck at." Right now users have to figure it out on the fly or have a deep understanding of how tokenizers work.

That doesn't even take into account what OpenAI has typically done to intercept queries and cover the shortcomings of LLMs. It would be useful if each model did indeed come out with a chart covering what it cannot do and what it has been tailored to do above and beyond the average LLM.
A study in my home country (which aligned with my own back of the napkin estimation) put the additional cost of obesity at around 8% of government expenditure. Which given I was giving up over half my salary in taxes (well over half once you count sales taxes), comes out to over two weeks of work exclusively for obese people’s additional medical costs. That’s not too far off the study you linked, which states an average of 1.8% GDP (though I’m not sure that sample of 8 countries is representative of much), which again would be somewhere between 4.5-6% of government expenditure depending on their expenditure to GDP ratios (assuming 30-40% is pretty normal).

Perhaps one week of work dedicated exclusively to subsidising obese people excess medical costs every year would be more reasonable for a more typical tax payer. But that’s still a lot.

I’m not sure I buy the increased mortality bringing that number down story very much either. Obesity tends to only take about 5-10 years off your life expectancy (depending on how obese…), but it’s going to drive your medical care costs up for your whole life. Obesity kills you a lot slower than cancer does.
In context from GP's source, the claim is for the 2004 Alpe d'Huez climb. This was stage 16 of the 2004 tour. The stage was 15.5 km but only 13.9 of that is the actual climb. Lance's total stage time was 39 minutes, 41 seconds, of which it seems like 37 minutes, 36 seconds was the climb[0].

This is an interval on par with Pogacar's climb, although Lance had less same-day load going into the climb.

[0]: https://www.stickybottle.com/races-results/cycling-fastest-t...
EarPods Rule
I did both web development and deep learning on Windows proper, and can't quite understand what you mean by unergonomic.

Can you name specific examples?

I sort of have opposite experience with Linux where installing the right version of CUDA and GPU drivers was a quest (~5 years ago).

Same with conda for Python and npm for web.
They were valued near $100B prior to this incident and even now their valuation is north of $60B. Even if they were held financially responsible for all $6B in damages - which is definitely not going to happen - that doesn't seem like a company-ending scenario.

Their biggest problem is obviously going to be with customer retention, but there are huge technical and regulatory hurdles their customers would have to go through to switch to a competitor. I'm sure many of their customers will accept this as an isolated incident and be quick to accept CrowdStrike's assurances that this won't happen again.

I think Delta Airlines is probably in more trouble right now than CrowdStrike.
The title should include a question mark, as they don't appear to know either.
The rich history of ham radio culture
You're right, I missed that claim.
> contracts that limit their liabilities… refund is all they’ll be on the hook for

By cashing in this $10 Uber Eats coupon you agree to hold harmless...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058261

- https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-ap...
Yeah, I read that Discover was created by Sears. It was also part of Morgan Stanley for a short period of time!
I kind of wonder why a lot of these places don't give "amateur" sized models anymore at around the 18B & 30B parameter sizes that you can run on a single 3090 or M2 Max at reasonable speeds and RAM requirements? It's all 7B, 70B, 400B sizing nowadays.
So, you all have decided to spend time and money on _this_ instead of working on any one of 1000s of useful features that are missing from your existing products like, for example, making Proton Pass easier to use (e.g. more/better browser integration or Android activity C&P).

Crypto-anything in 2024 is a red flag and, as a long-time customer, makes me seriously question your priorities and long-term, strategic thinking.
I'm not sure there is a good means for buying over voice only, and I'd argue it's only possible to know now that users overwhelmingly prefer digitally handling the product (title, pictures, description, reviews) before making even repeat purchases. Similarly, I'm not sure Amazon could convert consumers to a tablet-based purchasing device like they envisioned Alexa; we all have smart phones and tablets already.