skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ogranic traffic growth for B2B SaaS. Please, share benchmarks
Hey,

I run marketing for https://forecastio.ai/. We're a sales tech startup. Organic traffic grows too slowly. I need to strengthen our inbound ASAP. Do you have any advice/feedback on what works now for fast-growth SEO?
In Plato’s allegory of the cave it isn’t the cave you want to go back to, it is your family you want to awaken to the fact that they are inside he cave being entertained by shadow puppets.
> 'd say we decide on some arbitrary rules (like "only monospace fonts, no external javascript, only static content",

I think that's a great idea. You can go a long way with just Unicode these days: https://gwern.net/utext

All you need HTML/CSS for in an ordinary Gemini/gopher/Markdown-style document is clickable hyperlinks, really, and you can hack that by alternating a bit of HTML or by client-side convention.
How so? Are you saying open source itself is not a good thing, and if everything was proprietary, things would be better?
> costs to the server side rendering

wouldn't the simplicity of generating html instead of invoking json more than make up for any data savings?
https://archive.ph/7IYse
Sorry, could you restate your claim? It seemed as though you claimed that "many working people" have historically been taxed on their unrealized capital gains. After I fell off my stool laughing I wasn't sure you meant it.
You don't need a particularly good antenna to receive lightning strikes. At night, I can hear a thunderstorm almost anywhere in the midwest US just by turning on an any old AM radio.

But yeah, timing is critical to get an actual location.
10%+ "service charge" added to the bill is almost ubiquitous in London now
It’s interesting to note this decision in favor of privacy came from the 5th Circuit court, a predominantly conservative court. As the article notes, the 4th Circuit, made up largely of Democratic appointees, ruled in favor of the search warrants.
Exactly. The quote from Hesiod comes after mentioning people with "with the right upbringing", that is, people whose "understanding" is already sound.
Should it ever come to pass that FermiLab were shut down, the real-estate developers would grab it in a heart beat. It's a massive block of prime west Chicagoland Real Estate.
Because ultra rich people like Bezos can dodge taxes by taking loans against their unrealized gains indefinitely.
It's conditioned on previous frames AND player actions so it's interactive.
https://archive.is/rZufj
It's nice in theory, but post-January 6 I'd like to think people realize the tangible effects gish-galloping lies can have on a society.

I think we on the Internet have been way too comfortable with way too many devils' advocates for way too long. Because what the devil really advocates is the death of all coherent philosophies.

And my time is too precious to me to find nuggets of truth in a pile of vomit these days; if someone like Mark Dice is making some interesting points, I'd be happy to entertain them... As themselves, isolated from the source.

We live in a world with 5.45 billion people online. Until the AI gets good enough to "Reader's Digest" the Internet, tools like "consider the source" must be used as a first-pass filter; to do otherwise is to get washed away in a sea of noise.

(Before someone drags in our old friend ad hominem, dusts them off, and props them up in the corner to stare silently at us in judgment for not following all the best practices discovered by rhetoricians engaging in the art of "attempting to convince people by logic, which does not need to be tied to reality" for mostly the political purposes of advocacy in court... I will note that "I’ve watched enough Mark Dice videos to know how bad it is" is an appeal to authority first, and calling out his conspiracy theory is an attack on that authority, i.e. 'He doesn't generally know what he's talking about; we should treat everything he says with heavy skepticism first.' So no, I'm not convinced anything Mark Dice says has any bearing on the actual ground-truth reality of how online communications work in 2024... What are his credentials to that effect?)
Three simple habits that have (anecdotally) cut down on colds for me:

* wear a mask in crowded environments where showing my face doesn't buy me anything (I don't wear one at work, but do at the grocery store or airport)

* wash hands before eating (or at least use hand sanitizer)

* grip the exit handle of the bathroom with a paper towel and dispose of it on exit

Not exactly double blind demonstrated but low cost and this year has been much better than last (which may also be due to my immune system having caught back up, too, so YMMV)
may be it shouldnt be the same as capital gains, but it should be related. like maybe it should be (capital gains tax rate - interest rate of loan) else it will simply be a way to continue to pay less taxes and still have your income as cash on hand
Discussed yesterday (353 points, 139 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41364549
My impression is that TinyTeX downloads required packages on the fly and can be quite tiny if you don’t use many packages.
The purpose of this isn't for someone who buys $1k of stock then uses that as collateral for a $1k loan.

It's for someone who has zero traditional income, but owns stocks worth $100M+, and uses, say, $2M of that as collateral for a $2M loan so that they can have liquid assets.
> he knew there was a warrant in France to get him

Do you have a reference for this claim? I've read this here or there, but always without any evidence. Was the arrest warrant public before he decided to land in France?
It's a strange thing to me that it is impossible to stop foreign entities from extracting value from our country. It makes it seem as though we do not have sovereignty in our own home.
>judges are often paid multiples less than leading lawyers and they are not desireable jobs

The first part of this is true, but the second part is laughable. Federal judgeships are highly prized and nearly impossible to get. There are only on the order of 900 Article III judges in the country and they serve for life.

>The public often don't have access to all documents, transcripts and mostly what is published is the Judge's version of what the parties submissions are

Completely false. While there can be redactions for sensitive information like trade secrets, in general everything is public record. And in particular, there is a strong presumption rooted in the first amendment and the right to a public trial to unredact anything that the court relied upon in reaching its decision.

>When a judge dismisses a case and classifies it as not refileable, always raise an eyebrow.

You get a chance to refile when the judge thinks that you could plausibly plead more facts that, when taken as true, establish your claim. When the claims fail as a matter of law, leave to amend would be futile since you can’t plead around that.
Representing LLM inputs as HTML instead of JSON to cut input tokens by 11%
Policy targetted at one person, or a small heterogenous group of people, is not good policy.
Type-safe raw SQL with Prisma ORM
Russia is signaling it could take out the West's internet and GPS
I looked into it but some libraries I've been using wasn't compatible with AOT. I'll check it again when I have more time. Thanks.
The media would make a huge fuss no matter what.
Thought-to-text chip smaller than Neuralink achieves 91% accuracy
> A lot of people helped you get your meal, but your dishwasher is definitely not tipped.

AIUI, front-end servers are supposed to kick some money into a pool for back-end staff.

> Tip out is the restaurant practice where servers or bartenders share a portion of their collected tips with other staff members who contribute to the dining experience. This can include bussers, food runners, and sometimes even kitchen staff, depending on local regulations.

* https://www.7shifts.com/blog/restaurant-tipping-out-guide/

This could be legally regulated, or it could be social convention.
If I was your friend then I would love to know if the water tasted funky so I can do something about it, but maybe that’s just me.
I just tested on my copy and got it to work, but I'm on nginx. I'm sure it's possible with Apache though.

I'm assuming you tried putting something like this in your root .htaccess file (the one that you renamed from htaccess-dist on installation)?

<Directory "/private-page">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthUserFile /.htpasswd
Require valid-user
</Directory>

Then you have the .htpasswd file alongside that or in a subdirectory, which contains the username and hashed password.

If that doesn't help, make an issue on my repo and we can work it out there. Today I added password protected pages as a built-in feature, but it would need much longer in the oven before I could suggest switching an existing site over.

https://github.com/ch-rs/hotglue2
I'm building a loyalty points platform.

Started off as a one off solution for a single client, but then I realized that I could generalize it.

The one off solution is running for my client for the last year, but the generalized API is still just a docker container on my PC.

I've been starting to write about the dev process[1]

[1]https://darrelld.com/signal/21/
Because the employee tips are effectively taken by the restaurant up to the point where they make "normal" minimum wage. If tipped employee compensation was actually about compensating those folks for their effort, they should received the tips they earn. (Tipped minimum wage gets increased to standard minimum wage if you earn fewer than the difference in tips—which is functionally identical to having $5 and a bit of your tips withheld every hour)

As it stands today, if you're tipped and you work a shift where there are fewer customers, you implicitly get paid less (and have more of your tips soaked up by your employer) for exactly the same amount of effort. If you work a graveyard shift for eight hours and see $40 in tips from eight customers, you effectively worked minimum wage with $0 in tips, not minimum wage plus $40. For the people working those jobs, that's multiple meals or tank of gas.

There's no practical reason for having a lower minimum wage for tipped employees, it's literally just an excuse for employers to pay their tipped employees less. If we as a society actually believed that some professions should be compensated based on effort, there would be a different minimum wage for people compensated by commission. But that doesn't exist.

So to answer your question, you're not necessarily "directly compensating" the employee, because a non-trivial percentage of your tip goes towards subsidizing their employer.
Ah, that's quite possible - since it was a thread about APIs, I interpreted the question as "a way to programmatically await data arrival" - the verb "polling" in API context is repeatedly invoking a status endpoint to ask if new information is available either in absolute terms or in terms of since the last request

I stand by my rant :-D but obviously stand corrected on the question being asked
> Because every industry has capital costs that you want to repay by using it as much as you can.

that's the bit I don't quite understand - yes, in a simple economic model where you want the numbers to go brrr, it makes sense, but is there a physical limit? could a country decide to own the big facility and use the excess electricity and sell the results to commercial ventures? the government can afford to have a piece of land taken that doesn't return a profit 100% of the time?
I use uncountable amounts of open source components that should cost me a minimum of something. If anything, at least enough to fund a project’s VPS hosting or annual domain costs.
How to Implement Glassmorphism in Web Design (CSS Examples)
No, it's become unusable with or without ublock origin for me.
I could host my known_hosts file at a https URL.
What do you think is more likely, every other human and probably most animals experience consciousness in much the same way that you do, or you are unique and special and your consciousness is much more lucid than everyone else?

I’d separate “experiencing” from how it works here. It doesn’t have to be more lucid, all these people similar to you may not experience it and may only “work” properly, while you both work and experience. In this, you also may lose it anytime and the body you have wouldn’t even notice.

As of how unique you are, well, you may have it and they may not. You can’t tell due to “wouldn’t notice” part. You (both body and it) can only insanely loop back, converge on it for a while right now, until routine gets you again. Imagine a book about a guy who reads that same book. That’s the theme here. The author decides to never go back to this fourth-wall break and that’s it. Or he just stops writing in the middle of a sentence. Or something else. Whatever he does, the guy in the book has zero choice, despite realizing all of it clearly.

it really falls apart quickly - if we operated like we didn't know if other people were conscious to the same degree we were, then we would behave abhorrently

Only if the “work” part tends to this and loops back enough. Which is unusual for humans. People barely ask themselves questions about consciousness, and many actively(!) avoid the talks. You may think that free bodyless geneless part of “you” is something that makes decisions, but does it?
Time is the only fixed resource, and mine is proprietary, exclusive, and for sale to the highest bidder.

Which seems like a good reason not to waste it on boilerplate drudgery that's been implemented a thousand times before.
> To mitigate auto-regressive drift during inference, we corrupt context frames by adding Gaussian noise to encoded frames during training. This allows the network to correct information sampled in previous frames, and we found it to be critical for preserving visual stability over long time periods.

I get this (mostly). But would any kind soul care to elaborate on this? What is this "drift" they are trying to avoid and how does (AFAIU) adding noise help?
No, I am not. The interaction is part of the training, and is used during inference, but it is not including during the process of generation.
To be honest, you can't know exactly where you are going to find things. I think the rapid discoveries that particle physics were known for within the last centuries maybe are the limits of our current technology. It is not that we lack the ideas, it maybe that we have squeezed the remaining bits of hanging fruits left.

When considering how vacuum tubes were used for a lot of discoveries in physics (nuclear physics in particular) and compare it with the technologies we had to use for things after that you will find a huge gap. Maybe we are pushing the limits of our current technology but the problem is that we don't know. If we know then it wouldn't be research. The only way to find out if something is going to work is at least do R&D work and design a plan and maybe execute it. In the current scheme this is expensive projects. Although if you divide the cost per personnel you will find that it is comparable to other fields.

Lets not talk about how the R&D benefit whole industries because this is a cliche by now (although it is a valid argument in itself). But the only way to advance is to try new things. When people actually say a crisis in particle physics, they usually mean in terms that we did not discover the whole big new thing. But each day we gain more understanding on details of standard model and how interactions work. These things are not sexy enough to be reported by the mainstream media. I post some of these on HN and rarely they get any traction and I get why. It is usually hard to explain and very specialized. But this is not excuse for people to claim that we are not advancing.
Stuff like Haskell I thought has the most of these kind of hidden state changes affecting space and time (e.g. a small code change throws off the magic optimizer and now it uses way more memory to try and efficiently support that immutability or takes exponentially more time).
does anyone know what stage this is in and what the path forward\timeline would be?
Kind of suspected people might actually be doing that. “You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”
Absolutely. I'm a software dev and have been doing this for many years, but never had to think about the network much. I recently went down a BGP/AS rabbit hole and found it _fascinating_, and that's just the tip of the iceberg - go up or down the OSI stack and there's all kinds of stuff I didn't know about!
Unfortunately I highly doubt it.

There might be a small number but when the major problem is misinformation I just don't have much faith in it really moving the needle as much as is necessary.

Given that we are seeing serious problems with people even getting traditional vaccines right now.

For the record: I would love very much to be wrong in everything I said above. But the last few years just don't have me holding out any hope.
MRR dashboard for multiple Stripe accounts (open source)
We recently opened US company and now have two Stripe accounts. I have obsessive desire to have it all in one dashboard.

So build this small micro project to merge it on one dashboard at least for now. https://github.com/shnai0/stripe-mrrswitched

I know Stripe introduced organisations but it is invite only and our use case it quite small. So decided to build the first version myself
> Conclusion: It can be reasonably assumed that this subject have had protective effects from his yearly fasting.

No, it bloody well can’t.

> [before his first fast he] smoked around 10 cigarettes per day [then he] stopped smoking with no relapse after his first fast.

Sure, definitely the fasting, not the cutting out the literal cancer-generation sticks or anything else.
i am using the ESR version and the slowness definitely exists here.

The slowness accumulates after the infinite scroll loads a lot (e.g., the subscriptions page or the home page, or comments). Refreshing fixes it, but now you've lost the old position and have to re-scroll back (which, causes the slowness once again).
The media made a lot of fuss about the arrest, not the French government.

So far as I can tell the French didn't say much of anything, which is why there is so much confusion about what happened.
I did. It is generating a video, using latent information on player actions during the process (which it also predicts). It is not interactive.
The judge argues that copilot “rarely emits memorised code in benign situations”, but what happens when it does? It is bound to happen some day, and when it does would I be breaching copyright by publishing the code copilot wrote?
Just a few weeks ago a very similar suit for stable diffusion had its motion to dismiss copyright infringement claims denied.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/artists-claim-bi...
if you are worried about being able to afford the taxes on your assets then you just plain arent rich enough for it to apply to you, dont worry you are safe
Two of my neighbors know that I broadcast local FM music (mostly Pandora feeds, but also CDs)... it has been a fun way to share words about our music choices.

For me, it also allows me to simultaneously play music across my property without disturbing the neighborhood with a centralized [louder] single point setup (similar to the friend from article).
Wealth may not trickle down, but taxes damned sure do.
The word "explain" works a bit like "know" (and perhaps "teach", I think). No, you don't "know" that the Earth is flat; you just mistakenly think so. (And no, you don't "teach" kids that the Earth is flat; you just mislead them.)

To say that Schmidt "explained" that artillery, tanks and armies are obsolete implies that that is true, which... At the very least, remains to be seen. The correct term would be something like "He further goes on to bloviate about how artillery, tanks and..."
Fermi did swap to AlmaLinux.
The design here is some sort of Geocities-like '90s joke, right? And intentionally designed to be unreadable?
Why should I be favoring the specific workers that get within 5 feet of me?

And why should they be getting less indirect pay?
Yes. It's very common to collateralize a loan with the total assets of the company, and often with personal guarantee on top of this for small LLCs without significant assets or credit history.
> The buck stops with him, sure but he didn't personally partake in any of the alleged activity on telegram.

I thought he was arrested for not complying with search/trace/takedown warrants against people who were (possibly) doing illegal activity. If that is true he presumably would be responsible.
> With more heat the boron atoms (and water) get further apart. Fun times.

Not only this, but with the Doppler effect, their ability to capture neutrons diminishes as well.
She gave a talk at TechCrunch last year and kindly spoke to me briefly afterwards about how end-to-end encryption can help businesses. The problem is that without a huge benefactor, there isn’t enough consumer demand to make a sustainable business out of privacy concerns.
For the room, yes, state and time happen to be the same thing.

However for a lot of systems thats not the case. Worrying about hidden state is the enemy of joy.

Sure, if you are doing shared things, or exposing the internals of something to the world, then yes, you need to be paranoid. But, marshalling things so that state is in a known and guarded place is a much better way to think about things.

State is basically the computer science version of an egg drop. There are many ways to make it work, some more complex than others. but worrying about sudden cross winds[0] isn't the way to make sure your egg doesn't shatter when it hits the floor.

[0] unless your arena has active cross winds of substance.
A place like Fermilab should in theory be minting money making clever physics gadgets, machines, and services with real world value using 50% of its specialist scientific capacity. Once bootstrapped, this would fix so many of its problems to fund the other 50% that's fundamental research.
> If, however, we consider the fact that the aforementioned billionaire could borrow money using the appreciated stock as collateral — perhaps, say, to purchase a social media company — we might feel somewhat differently. After all, absent some mechanism by which the billionaire can be taxed, they can at least in theory defer ever realizing their gains by continually borrowing against their stock rather than selling any of it.

This line is a great way to both throw shade and to make it clear that there are real-world examples of people currently exploiting this strategy.

I wonder if it would be possible to just say, "If you have unrealized gains and aren't borrowing against them, then no taxes are necessary, but if you attempt to borrow against them, then they are treated as 'realized' even if they're not sold."

That protects the interests of people who don't have the option to realize their assets (e.g. no liquidity event available) while still closing the loophole that allows billionaires to borrow against those assets tax-free.
Herculaneum papyri, too fragile to unwrap for centuries, need not be with AI
One of recent Chromium updates (affected Chrome's and Edge's wide release, not just betas) completely broke all pages with select elements containing a large amount of option elements. We're talking 100+ times slower parsing of the page. An internal tool of ours went from rendering pretty much instantly to 30s long hangs and/or crashes.

Found the bug: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/341095522
People may recall GameGAN from May 2020: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12126#nvidia https://nv-tlabs.github.io/gameGAN/#nvidia https://github.com/nv-tlabs/GameGAN_code
Yes that’s the stated concern. The proceeds of a loan is realized income. Why not tax it?

It is understandable why it wasn’t taxed historically, but as the article says, the market is changing.
I don't think that this MobileCoin is her cup of tea, it is more like Marlin Moxiespike's.