skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it doesn’t cut it to be marginally better than Google Search when they’re the default search engine. You have to completely blow them out of the water.

More than that, it's the de facto default for anyone who can be bothered to change it. It also reminds me of the Dvorak keyboard. It's somewhat better than the competition, but not better enough to justify changing. Google's search competitors are trying, but they're not obviously much better.
This confuses skill for song writing ability. There are 1000s of world class jazz players that can play back to you anything you play them. But they are nobodies because they aren't capable of writing music people want to listen to. That's the hardest part. The Ramones are terrible musicians, but locked into something our collective consciousness liked. You can't practice or engineer that.
What is the costliest coding error anyone has ever made?
> This is at least in keeping with most Linux experiences.

I guess, all that we get from Google, we deserve it.
Have you considered displaying the text representation of the currently-hovered menu item inside the center of the circle? Or if the text wouldn't fit, then above/below the circle?
Because he doesn't want to deal with sama
No permission was required, although we did explain we only were going to use a small area for the pollinator garden.(It's about 4 feet by 30 feet). We just wanted to make sure there wasn't a rule against it.

My neighborhood doesn't have a HOA.
Are you choosing unnecessarily miserable steps, or adding unnecessary misery into the goals themselves?

I'm ashamed to admit this but I have a few blank PCBs I ordered and never did anything with, because... it was just a personal project, and populating SMD parts by hand seems like so much fun until you actually... start doing it.

Working on a Svelte app is often pretty fun. Building a new JS runtime, framework, and build system does not sound fun.
Presumably we around here know, right?

No that's the problem. Here and also among other smart, informed people I know I keep seeing people post unchecked LLM output.
Maduro lost election, tallies collected by Venezuela's opposition show
I only see this mentality here. On Spotify, I search for a song I want to hear and I play it. Or I add it to a playlist. What more do you want? For it to sense your mood and queue up what you played last year during Oct-November before 10 am while you were driving?

I don't understand how the tech crowd thinks Spotify is so hard to use. My 70 year old parents have no issues navigating it.
> Its not uncommon to search for product X, only to find product Z being ranked above the official store of X.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a class action racketeering charge brought. And this is exactly how a protection racket works. You wouldn't want some other brand in the top position when they search for your brand term. You should just pay us to make sure that doesn't happen.
I met Heifermann once during a project and I thought he was a grounded person. I remember one thing he did was paying not for ad slots, but to change your background to a dalmation spotted print for a promotion, with a link. This was long before CSS, etc.

He made his money just when the idea of value being divorced from real product to virtual metrics, “chasing eyeballs,” etc. was getting hot. The days when you sold a huge contract by showing a CD ROM of the website you were never going to achieve, to a client who had no idea what they were buying.

This guy was much more honest than the norm. The McD and meetup stuff reflects the fact that he kept people in the equation.
Yay, capitalism working as intended. The rational buyer can choose to get kicked in the head or in the groin! Vote with your money!

That’s why even Adam Smith himself said that it only works in well-defined markets! It’s the job of governments to define these, and phones are so essential to our lives that they should be thought of as roads, instead of as an average private company.
Will they remove my Chrome extension with acomplaint from LinkedIn?
My chrome extension got a complaint from LinkedIn threatening removal from the store

They want it to not "improperly and w/o authorization modifying information from LinkedIn’s website" - which is the point of my extension lol.

What should I do? (reddit link is screenshots of the email)
Immigration is a terrible solution to a population crisis. That's like dousing an electrical fire in water. Sure, the fire might disappear for a second before it kills you.
If nature is doing it
Trio of Leaders Leave OpenAI
Mhmm. Yeah, johnny guitar is totally capable of figuring out distribution, licensing, copyright, tour planning, venue booking and insurance, lining up sound and light production, logistics, staff management, feeding the crew, budgeting, marketing, etc, all on their own. Anyone with any talent understands how important that entire framework is and how it's literally impossible for even a small team to do. The people who bitch about this are just not making music anyone wants to hear 99% of the time so they blame "the industry".
OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Co-Founder John Schulman, & Peter Deng
I mean, it absolutely would give you natural energy. It's just the format that leaves a bit to be desired.
Big fan of Graphene! The balance I personally prefer is to use Shelter to create a "work profile" and install Play Services in there along with any apps that must have Play Services. Then, I only enable the work profile when I need to use those apps.
Completely dead is surprisingly difficult. And acoustics absolutely are still important, as is microphone selection and placement…
Banks that loan to PE firms get paid back. Those that loan to PE-controlled firms may not.
Tried to apply but was unable to since my school wasn't listed in the required education section
Information also reporting that Greg and others have left, or are about to leave. I wonder how long he's been gone, given he was still on Twitter promoting work until recently...
greg seems to take a leave of absence, but the way I see it, he's pulling an ilya due to legal reasons. IOW, he's not allowed to found another company for now.
From BestInternetSearch.com to yahoo and bing, search engine competitors are affected and consumers of these services negatively.
There is a contradiction on the first page. If "ballots are signed by the voter credential" then there is no vote privacy.

Electronic voting system must be prohibited across the board. Every system is vulnerable, electronic system are all remote controllable, I much prefer to have a person within the jurisdiction to go after than someone outside of it.

I don't understand howhy it's ever made out to be more complex than that.
Palantir Ups Profit Outlook, Says AI 'Transformed' Business
https://archive.is/2N3Z3
The big difference is that at that point of time Google search used to be really good but now Google search is really bad so if there is a chance for another competitor in the market, that time is now.
oof. Still, hopefully other people read this and try disabling C States. I was about to spend the $25 for a spare CPU when the C state issue came up and...

For me it was simple:
disable C states - Stable for a week (at first it'd be weeks between crashes, then days, then daily, and at this point a couple hours)
Enabled them again - crashed within an hour
Disable again - Stable for a week.
Flop back and fourth a handful of times in the same day.... same as above.

I can only guess that this might be something that was fixed in the mysterious "frequency voltage curve change" stepping.
Related Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election (901 points, 5 days ago, 466 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123155
I started building a shed last year to use as a home office. The exterior is done and complete, and the interior is maybe 80% done.

I just need to add the remaining bits of insulation around the tricky, sloping corners, then wrap and seal them before laying some plywood to use as walls. My electrician has been waiting for me to do so since May.

I tried it out during the winter and it was surprisingly cozy inside despite the missing insulation and some air gaps. It's rather toasty now in summer though.

I just, haven't found the motivation to complete it.
Artificial Intelligence and Games
Weapons manufactuters
Carrots are really the best if they freeze lightly in my opinion. So sweet!
https://archive.is/zcQQ6
I can't speak for anyone else, but when I've used Asus devices in the past (tablets, a watch, etc), they've been hot garbage that didn't last more than 18 months. Maybe they've improved with their laptops, but I've been burned enough by them that I don't care to drop the money to experiment.
I didn't do an undergraduate degree - I taught myself to code and then just got a job as a developer, and moved on up the ranks. Effectively a DIY apprenticeship, I guess. This used to be a lot more common than it is now.

The same outdated academic thing is true in other disciplines where the cutting-edge is being developed in industry rather than academia. And yes, teach concepts, but that doesn't produce graduates who are able to start writing decent code the day after they graduate.
Thanks! I should add that almost every app you can get to from https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/lines.love by traversing the "Mirrors and forks" sections of readmes has these thorough tests for the editor widget. Certainly every app you can see in the family tree image map from 2023 does: https://akkartik.name/freewheeling/#resources. It's only a tiny new sub-tree that currently does not:

https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/lines2.love

https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/text2.love

I tend to gravitate towards tests, and taking out tests as I describe in OP is a lot of work.
Anti-jamming is the intermediate goal. Fly by fiber allows the pilot to retain control of the drone while over the battlefield.

With a completely autonomous drone in contested space (presumably with EW around), there's no way for a pilot to tell the drone "fly a little to the left to see what's behind that tree." Each drone has very specific use cases.
I hate that robot warfare continues to advance as if scifi hasn't been warning of the dangers to humanity forever. Everybody is just full ahead as if it'll all workout fine. I consider it one of Obama's major failures, USA was a few years ahead in drone tech so Obama went trigger happy blowing up "terrorists" all over the middle east instead of putting together a UN coalition to come up with a weapons treaty to slow down the spread. The short-term war is always seen as the top priority instead of the long term consequences. I'm still amazed at the gift to humanity that was the coalition building and foresight of the post-ww2 years during which these kind of things were possible, and which we currently seem determined to squander.
I'm not sure how true that is. I live in a Boston exurb--OK, adjacent to a small 40K person city--and there's been no particular renaissance of local eating places. Just the usual mostly takeout and people presumably eating at home.
I have an .iso that boots into a unikernel to launch the C64 emulator and play a hacked version so you don't have to swap disks. Email me if you'd like a link!
I cannot fathom a life with Tesla owners flying over where my kids and I bbq.

The same kinds of people who speed, watch videos, and do dangerous stunts while they drive are going to speed, watch videos, and do dangerous stunts while they fly.

Uber made everyone an amateur taxi driver. AirBnb made everyone an amateur innkeeper. Now the "tech" industry wants to make everyone an amateur pilot?

No thanks.
I would only add that if people have an interest in aviation then gliding is a fun gateway, and relatively inexpensive. As a student it felt like a lot of money (an aerotow might cost 40-50 pounds), but a year subscription to my old airfield cost about 1.5 hours of powered instruction time, flying is cheap on top of that.

You get very good at understanding how an aircraft handles and I like the club aspect. It's really more of a sport than a utility activity, but a lot of glider pilots go on to get PPLs (and a lot of instructors and competition pilots are retired airline or military because they love it so much).

Aircraft cost is in the range of a luxury car, $400k would get you a top end racing glider. You can pick up used aircraft for much less.
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I find this comment to be very tone-deaf. Are you interested in buying stocks to support Venezuelan companies, or are you purely trying to make a quick buck off of the backs of Venezuelan people trying to prevent their country from being a dictatorship?
> “This is an important decision that impacts many of you, but it is the right one for our company in the long term,” Yaccarino reportedly told employees
Well the election in the US was won by the person who received the most votes while the one in Venezuela was claimed to be won by the person who received fewer votes. Hope that helps.
I didn't get that the article is black and white, but... I do have a sincere question. Isn't it good that we be forced to socialize a bit more than makes us comfortable? Analogy: in middle school I, an overweight non-athlete, was forced to run a mile at the end of the semester and the end of the year like all students. It was miserable. But it's undeniably good that kids be able to suffer through a reasonable amount of cardio.

Can one make the same argument about introverts? Sincere question, not rhetorical.
> corn, theirs is bland, ours is sweet.

Maize starts converting sugars into starches the moment it's harvested. That's why fresh-picked is so important: even within a few hours, the flavor changes.

That's also why frozen or canned corn is a good idea: picked at the peak of ripeness and almost immediately has its enzymes deactivated either by freezing or boiling. Aside from texture issues (which won't matter for many applications like soups and smoothies), frozen vegetables and berries have better taste than "fresh" from the produce department for most products, most of the year. Also why so many cooks swear by canned tomatoes for sauces: they're better quality tomatoes picked at peak ripeness, but the only way they can travel is frozen or canned. And nobody freezes tomatoes; it screws up the texture so badly that canning is no worse and possibly better, plus it's expensive to deal with cold chain (whereas a pallet of San Marzano tomatoes can sit on a shelf until it rusts through with little loss of flavor and no maintenance other than the shelf it sits on).
As I said on a different sibling comment, I don't agree that I'm confusing the two. That said, I do think craft is an integral part of art.
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And it's not just no one spending jail time in the prisoner's dilemma; everyone walks away with half of the prize. Doesn't change that it's more rational to defect. I think everyone in the prisoner's dilemma would think that, say, $500,000 each is way better than, say, 5 years in jail for both of them, but that doesn't change the fact that if both sides are rational, that's what everyone ends up with.
Millions might as well be zero to Apple. There is overhead when it comes to dealing with another company, combined with the potential of damaging your brand. If the number is not in the billions I doubt they would bother. The only companies capable of paying the amounts that would make it worthwhile would be excluded from this option.
I thought my 10 windows of 15 tabs was excessive
I don't understand, if I think something is going to do well am I not allowed to invest in it? Isn't that the whole point of investing? Where is the misalignment here?
Sounds like they are artificial constraints.

I'm sure it sucks that it's "four digits only" but the air travel industry isn't immune from changing specifications. I believe ancient cultures called this software maintenance.
for 3.5", DD have proven much more durable than HD.

And notably HD were terrible at being used as DD, as is generally the case with Amiga floppies.
So far (only an occasional user) it's been solid for me. Though I've only been using it in depth every few weeks, and that's mostly to read manga online while waiting for stuff.
TFA: "[T]he feature doesn't work well on translated text or something as mindlessly simple as inserting special characters into the text and then deleting them. And, of course, it can't spot works from another AI model."
Who are your target users?

I think more important than how many people see the repo is whether they click away in 5 seconds.

To you, your app is amazing and it's obvious why people want it.

To everyone else.... We have no idea what it does and you only get about ten seconds to convince people they should spend any more time reading about it.
I think it's more surprising that they hadn't left already. Hopefully they can find a new tenant to take over, that whole stretch mid-market got hit hard by the pandemic-induced WFHpocalyse.
I'm really interested in the reasons behind Greg leaving. IIUC he was doing great engineering related work.
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Hi Jake. We do not know each other, but in reading your story I can tell you that you are loved even by we who do not know you. May the Lord God bless you and your family and provide the peace needed.
Interesting, I have this laptop, and it's got recurrent problems with overheating and with certain keys on the keyboard not working. Wonder if the liquid metal has escaped and shorted out certain keyboard circuits.
Here's Gretel's response to the Nature paper on model collapse. Covers the methodology, and how it's flawed, in detail and highlights a lot of other great synthetic data research.

https://towardsdatascience.com/addressing-concerns-of-model-...
Apple might ask for that in(famous) 30% cut. Or is it 40 now?
Volatile Infrastructure is worse than volatile applications
I take the contrarian position, that the market won't adjust and intentional effort needs to be put into holding on to these experiences through marketing, pricing, etc. WFH/remote are very important for providing workers flexibility and freedom with high value, but so is preserving experiences even if folks must travel to them.

I work remote so that I can explore (because lifetime is finite and there is so too much to see, and too much to do) while still providing value and collecting some freedom tokens, and there is an objective loss when these experiences sunset or evaporate. Jim Haynes comes to mind. How to preserve these experiences for future explorers, I leave up to folks smarter and more determined than I, but I do have freedom tokens to spend with them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55703174
they used a culivator. Basically a hoe you pull behind the tractor. this of course burned a lot more fuel [read CO2]
Or take a look at ebay. Filter by already sold.

Even in non-working or untested condition, they fetch quite a bit of money.
> There are.. other ways, than indiscriminately spraying plant poison everywhere.

You are welcome to throw your hat into the farming ring and show the world how it is done.
I'm concerned that the increased occurrence of gallium (in the liquid state) in consumer devices could represent a sort of warranty time bomb. It's not supposed to leak out, and there isn't much of it, but if it does, you have a serious problem. It's only as good as the seal around it, which could age depending on the type of seal.
All monopolies try this old scheme, that's why they became a monopoly in the first place. No reasonable judge will fall for this.
I'm highly sympathetic to claims that voting machines might have rigged an election (deliberately or through error) up until a hand recount matches the machine total.

In this case, I believe the claim is that the reported numbers don't even match what the machines printed out.

There's a lot of room for distinguishing these, even through the fog of uncertainty in any developing story.
>Those that loan to PE-controlled firms may not.

Who are these firms? Why would they be extending massive amounts of unsecured credit to those PE bought-out firms?
"As a reformed bee-keeper,"

I take it you mean honey bee keeper and I'll assume American (you) and European honey bees (ie non-native to US). There is nothing wrong with that, provided you also allow for solitary bees and other pollinators too. Note that even "foreign" pollinators are still useful for pollination.

Do try to discourage "helpful pest control contractors".

As a honey bee keeper, you can't be faulted. Yes you would deploy colonies of 50,000 insects at a time into an area where the locals are not that well organised. However, thanks to the likes of neonics and monocultures, any pollinators at all are welcome.

I'm a 53 year old Brit and I live next to a park and have a very insect friendly garden. Butterflies are really down compared to my memories as a child. I do see quite a few social bees (eg bumble bees) and solitary bees (eg masonary bees) but again, they seem to be rather sparse compared to my memories. Also, a summer drive does not leave my car covered in bugs.

I have a customer: https://butterfly-conservation.org/ ... you'll have a local equivalent. I think we should all try to follow their advice, otherwise we may be the last humans to remember something and the world goes a bit "Mad Max". That's a bit unlikely but it won't end well if we do nothing.
https://x.com/amir/status/1820619156347326934
Another recent discovery of plagiarism in the classical music world: https://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,6910.0...

(No one has written up an article about Franke to my knowledge, so if you're curious you'll have to read through the thread. It's interesting to see the investigation occur in real time, though.)
I feel like graduating college with so much debt (at least on paper) fucks with your relationship with money and what financial goals seems realistic.
We can say it’s a mindset issue or that Gen Z needs to take more personal responsibility for their financial situation, but that essentially ignores all of the facts on the ground that are the results of trends and political decisions that happened before they were born. It isn’t their fault that things have become so expensive. It’s the fault of the profit maximizing companies that control the economy, and a political class that has allowed these problems to fester.

It used to be possible in America to buy a house and raise a family with free education. This is no longer possible. It was a choice to only zone for single family housing. It was a choice to cut state funding for universities which has led to unsustainable tuition bloat. It was a choice to allow companies to ship jobs overseas for pennies on the dollar. All of these choices reallocated money from younger, poorer people to wealthier, older people.
Pretty good library, but this title doesn’t do it justice
Porsche Macan EV spotted on US streets ahead of deliveries
Mac and Windows users infected by software updates delivered over hacked ISP
Burning fossil fuels is the problem. We can argue until the cows come home about things like plastic straws and bags, but the fact is that burning fossil fuels is rapidly destroying the planet and no amount of burning is sustainable. Banning that is table stakes.
I am the founder of penateam.com, where we help companies maintain and develop their technical documentation.
I submitted my idea to YC in the previous batch with the intent of packaging penateam.com to be like superside.com.

However, I was rejected without an interview.

So probably I was rejected because it's a non software business and I am a solo founder.

So now I just acquired mrscraper.com and want to try to apply again to YC.

Can you all try my product and let me know what you think?

For anyone who tries to provide feedback, I can provide a specific 30% for you.

Thanks! @heykaiyo