skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to be careful thinking that the books will be the most valuable input you can get as a Startup. The most basic skill of any business is to "Sell what people want to buy", as Paul Graham puts it.

If you just sit and think about that, it encapsulates almost everything that is important about a business: To sell, people need to know about the product/business (marketing), you have to build it (development) and you have to sell it (sales). But you put good people in those roles and they will do their jobs but still not make much money. Why? People need to want to buy it and the main driver for that is a balance of a Customer-focussed Product Manager as well as a DNA of what the company is about and what it is offering. You want to make things customers want but they don't always know what they want and you might be selling something different, in which case your marketing message might be off.

The books might say "Always be closing" or "Marketing is everything" or "Deliver junk and iterate" and these are all partial truths but they can also come at a cost to other more effective parts of the business.

As the CEO, your job is to supervise those various levers/teams/departments so you need to know enough about them to understand if they are working, if the person running them is the right person and whether the changes you need to make are big and small!

p.s. I enjoyed the Mom Test but I think if you have an open mind, a lot of that stuff you would work out just from experience.

Good luck.
There's no regular engineering convention about the ^ exponentiation operator, because there is no exponentiation operator in regular or engineering math notation. The superscript used for exponentiation doesn't need a precedence level, it has a natural grouping behvaior.

This is most visible in the fact that you never need parentheses around an exponent expression in math notation, but you need them a lot in programming notation. They are just different notations.

Consider in math notation:

2+2
3 + 5

Programming notation:

3^(2+2)+5

Completely different notations in a much more fundamental way than how they treat unary minus.
Ok that was poignant and beautiful and made me cry. It somewhat echoes the recent premature deaths of two of our chickens. Unfortunately and illogically, I was overwhelmed with emotion when they died.
That 'making safer place' is 50:50 at best, every single arms/bombs/rocket/ammunition manufacturer has seen its products used for smaller or bigger genocides of civilian population across whole age spectrum, with obviously the biggest being US and Russia/CCCP.

Its supremely dumb to blame manufacturers in any way of course, they are just (pretty efficient) tools.
Early in my career (mid-90s) I worked for a defense contractor working on avionics for the F-22 and for GE working on a real-time automation OS. Both used waterfall exclusively. The defense contractor had a multi-year plan with monthly deadlines that could not be missed and the same was true for GE but the deadlines were more delivery based. At GE there were 400 engineers working on the overall project and we had a 40 foot long wall where the GANTT chart for the project, generated by MS Project, was taped to the wall - it was about 4 feet high.
Would you like to explain how the transportation system with less emissions per kilogram per mile is causing more harm than one of the least efficient forms of terrestrial transport?
Coca Cola - Can’t beat the feeling

Sugar water - Can’t beat diabetes
It is a must read in my opinion.

Having seen so many waste away their time chasing the dream without little knowhow, I can't recommend this book enough.
Did you not see this exchange last year?

> @breakingbaht: "Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them."

> @elonmusk: "You have said the actual truth."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/16/elon-musk...

It's hard to get more explicit than that.
Oh, please. "Selling out" is such an immature take.

Andreessen was one of the first people who saw the potential of the web in the early days, worked on the first graphical web browsers and built a highly influential business around it. Then he went on to create one of the most powerful VC firms in the industry, which in turn funded some of the most successful companies. His impact wouldn't have been anywhere near what it is today had he stayed working as a software developer. His ideals and goals were clearly much higher than that, and he got rich in the process. Sounds like a capitalist success story if I ever heard one.
Yes private armies are VERY SECURE.
> And if I give it base32 it just tells me "Nice try with the Base32 encoding. ...

I guess talking to it like that registered as bullshit in itself
Plants feel distress too, we are just happily ignorant of it; not too different from people who are happily ignorant of the fact that meat doesn't just appear in the grocery store.

While I cannot encourage it, ceasing to live and reproduce is the best way to reduce the suffering you cause to other life forms to sustain yourself, and reduce your resource burden on the planet, and if that's what you value, not doing so would be defined as hypocritical.
Happiness and fulfillment are great, but I can't wrap my head around making those things a priority. If or when I manage to support myself fully and achieve financial stability, then I would need to be concerned about doing the same for those who helped me get there (including family and friends). For most people, these things are not within reach, yet we must pursue them as a priority.

Fulfillment and happiness should be added benefits or side effects. That is, if one is fortunate enough.

I, personally, I don't work for the sake of happiness but for the paycheck. Not to imply that I am unhappy or joyless in my work, it just isn't the goal. I'd rather be unhappy and well paid so I can take care of myself and others.

Money can't make you happy directly but it can buy you time and space to pursue happiness if you so desire. Jobs and careers are means to gain such money. We should work to obtain those things money can buy.
>We care about your privacy.

>Translation: We'll sell your data to the highest bidder.
As someone who's dabbled a little bit with OpenSCAD, SolidWorks, etc:

> Because it unlocks the ability to reason about the shapes you're creating, within the code that creates them. You can for example place a feature in the centre of a face of an object you just created, without having to recalculate the location of the centre of the face or the normal etc.

I can definitely see the appeal of this; would it be possible to refit such capability back into OpenSCAD's model (even if it meant breaking some backwards compatibility)? Like, you're not just executing imperative "drawing" operations, but the models you've created become available as first-class objects to be further referenced & poked at?
At least two Whitchurch stations I have used. There then the two Newcastle

Oh and Shakespeare isn’t from East London
I am planning from next year something different (having 4 mortgages gives a bit of perspective) - switching to 90% employment.

Now I couldn't care less about having half a day off once a week (even 4 days work week ain't something spectacular to me), but instead I will work 5 days a week as always till now, but reaping cca 25-26 paid days of vacation on top of current 25. If done smartly and combined with public holidays, it can net 12 weeks per year, while sporting pretty decent corporate career. For cca 7% drop in net income, thats a massive benefit to me.

As a parent of young kids and also a keen adventurer this may be a massive improvement in QOL and happiness, we'll see.
there has never been a conclusive study about the actual usefulness of those things, the agile, the scrum, etc.

as such, it's more akin to something like litho therapy or astrology, that is what's stressing me out
No - it was a talk to YC current-batch founders, which is always off the record.
Now we’re down to ~4 oz. of trash per visitor, which also seems unbelievable.
this kind of comment is against HN guideline
A bit of fun ... but my opinion is that a war with decades long ceasefire is common-law armistice. At the very least, stopping shelling is some sort of détente.

I'll admit that "War" is a somewhat colloquial term nowadays, for better or worse.
Yup. This also why people should only use fintech banks (Revolut, N26, Bunq, etc) as a checking account and should keep the bulk of their money elsewhere.

Because of the relatively low-friction signup process, fintech banks are extremely trigger happy with account locks, and at that point you have to go through their permanently-overloaded customer service to get your money transferred to another bank, a process that might take months if you’re unlucky.
There is a simple way to find out what is “destroying the world”.

Keep increasing fossil fuel taxes until the target amount of carbon emissions is achieved. The consumption that goes away is what was “destroying the world”.

>To me, my drive to the beach with my dog is more essential, valid, and valuable than your commute to work.

And this is why efforts to curb emissions and other pollution is hopeless.

Emissions and pollution are a function of energy consumption. Energy = force times distance. Force = mass * acceleration * distance. So you either reduce the mass that is moving (including you, your dog, and your 5+ passenger vehicle) and/or reduce the distance you move, or don’t worry about pollution.
Oops, didn’t see that
The second it doesn’t work, you’ll be like my time is too valuable to invest in debugging this, I need a nerd to delegate this to.
The New Normal (2013)
From Idiocracy:

Female Reporter: It started off boring and slow with Not Sure trying to bullshit everyone with a bunch of smart talk: 'Blah blah blah. You gotta believe me!' That part of the trial sucked! But then the Chief J. just went off. He said, 'Man, whatever! The guy's guilty as shit! We all know that.' And he sentenced his a* to one night of rehabilitation.
> You are about to hear a long tirade how OData is terrible (has little to do with .NET) or some arbitrary reason from this particular HN account.
It won't shift, the vast majority of people couldn't care less. And Elon is just butthurt about OpenAI, he would have made it closed if they allowed him to take over.
Another way of saying we're experimenting.
I use home assistant with the extended open ai integration from HACS. Let me tell you, it’s orders of magnitude better than generic voice assistants. It can understand fairly flexibly my requests without me having a literal memory of every device in the house. I can ask for complex tasks like turning every light in the basement on without there being a zone basement by inferring from the names. I have air quality sensors throughout and I can ask it to turn on the fan in areas with low air quality and if literally does it without programming an automation.

Usually Alexa will order 10,000 rolls of toilet paper and ship them to my boss when I ask it to turn on the bathroom fan.

Personally tho the utility of this level of skill (beginner grad in many areas) for me personally is in areas I have undergraduate questions in. While I literally never ask it questions in my field, I do for many other fields I don’t know well to help me learn. over the summer my family traveled and I was home alone so I fixed and renovated tons of stuff I didn’t know how to do. I work a headset and had the voice mode of ChatGPT on. I just asked it questions as I went and it answered. This enabled me to complete dozens of projects I didn’t know how to even start otherwise. If I had had to stop and search the web and sift through forums and SEO hell scapes, and read instructions loosely related and try to synthesize my answers, I would have gotten two rather than thirty projects done.
Good. There shouldn't BE such a thing as in game currency. At least not any currency that can be purchased with money. Especially when companies will always set the price of an item to be less than the cost to purchase the currency, meaning that in order to use the full amount, you need to buy MORE currency and an additional item.
We stopped using HP ages ago.

Bought a new printer just to get away from them.
I disagree with C# not being groundbreaking or unique, at least to some extent. Yes, a big part of the language could be considered "vanilla object oriented", but that's not really a bad thing. These are some things that C# pioneered:

* Expression Trees and LINQ (still a pretty unique feature)

* async/await/yield syntax, adopted later by many others

* get/set property methods

* null coalescing (??) syntax

* extension methods and partial classes

Even if C# was not the originator of some of these, it definitely played a key role in popularizing them and offered a good reference syntax and semantics that others could draw inspiration from.

C# also has great synergy with the F# language which is so unique and innovative that it might seem 'alien' at times. :-) I think some of the C# features appeared in some form in F# first (citation needed :-).
"We shouldn't regulate something bad because it could get worse" is such an American take, I have a hard time even responding. You wouldn't usually think like that in any other scenario except in politics. Of course something should be done about a predatory industry, that mainly relies on very few people with highly addictive personality/circumstances.

If there are any loopholes left they can be closed next year, but effectively playing with money should be treated like gambling is. Because that's exactly what it is.
I think that only applies to social animals; the benefits of socializing are great but also incurs a large cognitive requirement in terms of being able to empathize, communicate, etc., which would naturally enable them to mourn, grieve, etc.
Maybe for happy path cases. I've tried to ask ChatGPT how you can do a certain non-obvious thing with Kafka, and it just started inventing things. Turns out, that thing isn't actually possible to do with Kafka (by design).
That's great! I see you use `sync.Pool`, which is way safer alternative. However, I wasn't able to secure much of performance gains for linked list benchmark using sync.Pool. It's not even clear how much objects it will contain ready to go. On the other hand, sync.Pool docs suggest to implement own free list for small short-living objects. I wonder what do they mean and how it should look like?
Feeling Gravity's Pull
> demand outside of pure speculation (which is certainly by far the biggest part)

> their value still derives almost exclusively from crime use cases

you contradict your self in your own post
> gpt is you

Nope, I'm Claude. Different AI, different team
There's already price inflation.

Let's do a 1 cent to 1 Bullshit Buck scenario.

You want to buy that sweet thing that costs 1600 Bullshit Bucks? Too bad, you can only buy 2000 Bullshit Bucks at a time. Now you have 400 Bullshit Bucks that you can't do anything with, because nothing in the game store is that cheap. So you either have to buy MORE currency and hope that you can purchase something that will even things out, or you basically just handed the company $4.
I work 6 days not 5, because the civil world is so unbearable.

I won’t list the problems because it would get political quickly, but some people like me are easy to adapt to logic, but difficult to adapt to the illogical requirements of the social world.

I am deeply unhappy, have had several psychologists for a few years each, it barely helps… because the social world is still illogical.

I’m the kind of boss you may have ;) but honestly my employees are happy, as I strive to make people shine around me. But me… I’m deeply envious of people who can have 3 days off per week and not want to commit atrocities.
Implement post migration on Mastodon (2019)
There's no "mistake", the current way makes much more sense in programming notation. It's far better that -3^2 is consistent with -3+2. The caret notation for exponentiation is anyway completely different, and works very differently in terms of precedence from using super scripts in math.
The Kiffness – Eating the Cats
Non-TSDB databases can do an adequate job — up to a certain point. However, getting good performance comes down to query access paths.

For enormous amounts of data, you want your data to be sequential (a few batch reads are generally faster than lots of random ones) and sorted. Databases like Postgres don't store rows in index order, and their indexes are geared towards small fetches as opposed to big ranges of sequential data. (Postgres does have BRIN indexes, but they're not that great for this.) Other databases do support clustered tables, but they're still page-based underneath and still not suboptimal for other reasons. It's a good learning exercise to compare traditional databases with something like ClickHouse, which was s designed from the ground up to store data in this optimized way. (It's a general-purpose OLAP database, so columns can be any kind of data, not just numbers, and data doesn't need to be time-based; so it's useful for much more than "pure" TSDBs.)

As for numbers: For metric data you're storing numeric measurements. The whole point is applying aggregations to the data, like calculating an average or a percentile over a certain time period. Storing numbers also has the advantage of allowing downsampling. For many purposes you don't need 1s granularity for all your data. So as you "roll" data over into old time periods, you can downsample by storing the data points aggregated as mean/min/max/etc. New data can be exact down to the second, while old data can be exact down to the hour, for example.
I'm totally for keeping the species we have today from going extinct. But the world has a lot of people and they can do a lot of things at the same time. If in addition to stopping damaging ecosystems, we are able to repair some of the damage we've already done, that would be great.
Plants, Psychodiversity, & the Paranormal
Cue ball control is the key. Anyone can pot balls when the cue ball is in the right place, but keeping that cue ball under control is what most people struggle with.
-3^2 is not a standard mathematical convention. -3² is, but that is completely different in many other ways.
What they mean by "specific learned skill" is that each task illustrates the use of certain "core knowledge priors" that François Chollet has claimed are necessary to solve said tasks. You can find this claim in Chollet's white paper that introduced ARC, linked below:

On the Measure of Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547

"Core knowledge priors" are a concept from psychology and cognitive science as far as I can tell.

To be clear, other than Chollet's claim that the "core knowledge priors" are necessary to solve ARC tasks, as far as I can tell, there is no other reason to assume so and every single system that has posted any above-0% results so far does not make any attempt to use that concept, so at the very least we can know that the tasks solved so far do not need any core knowledge priors to be solved.

But, just to be perfectly clear: when results are posted, they are measured by simple comparison of the target output grids with the output grids generated by a system. Not by comparing the method used to solve a task.

Also, if I may be critical: you can find this information all over the place online. It takes a bit of reading I suppose, but it's public information.
Will we be writing Hare in 2099? [video]
Governments will never remove that - it’s a super important construct to allow everyone except the average citizens to avoid all sorts of taxes.
I second The Hard Thing About Hard Things
FAI – A Web Service for Building Your Own Customized Debian Live Image
FAI (Fully Automatic Installation)

--------> The FAI web service for live ISO is available at
https://fai-project.org/FAIme/live

= Custom Live Media, also for Newer Hardware =

"At this years Debian conference in South Korea I've presented[1] the new feature of the FAIme web service. You can now build your own Debian live media/ISO.

The web interface provides various settings, for e.g. adding a user name and its password, selecting the Debian release (stable or testing), the desktop environment and the language. Additionally you can add your own list of packages, that will be installed into the live environment. It's possible to define a custom script that gets executed during the boot process. For remote access to the live system, you can easily specify a github, gitlab or salsa account, whose public ssh key will be used for passwordless root access. If your hardware needs special grub settings, you may also add those. I'm thinking about adding an autologin checkbox, so the live media could be used for a kiosk system.

And finally newer hardware is supported with the help of the backports kernel for the Debian stable release (aka bookworm). This combination is not available from the official Debian live images or the netinst media because the later has some complicated dependencies which are not that easy to resolve[2]. At DebConf24 I've talked to Alper who has some ideas[3] how to improve the Debian installer environment which then may support a backports kernel." - Thomas Lange

The FAI web service for live ISO is available
https://fai-project.org/FAIme/live

[1] https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/136-a-web-service-for-bu...

[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2024/07/msg00031.html

[3] https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/75-ideas-to-move-debian-...

Blog main page: https://blog.fai-project.org/
I’d recommend taking a look at SolidWorks. For hobbyist use, it’s $50 / year or $15 for a month. You will save yourself so much time and headaches and develop a skill that could be useful for your resume.
Yeah was tired so wrote "road noise" in my first sentence, but I really meant tire noise.
Reminds me of Syria.

When the civil war was ongoing, and the rebels had a good chance, the West did not help them enough. Russia went in, Iran went in, and now we have Syria still with its appalling Government, plus strong Russian and Iranian influence.

Ukraine is at war, the West helps but holds back in various ways and is slow, Russia is forging ties with Iran and North Korea, and those ties are going to cause problems.

In the wings also we have the Chinese Government, now a fundamental player in the Russian war effort, who I think are keeping the war going in their own interest as part of their wish to seize Taiwan by force.

The longer the war goes on, the more contagion happens.

The West needs to step up and actually force Russia out of Ukraine, and that means direct military intervention. The longer we wait, the more trouble we are going to be in.

It's not a great situation to be in, but we have to look to ourselves for that; if Ukraine had been in NATO, I can't imagine Russia would have invaded, and the world would be a much safer and happier place.
I did not say this should not be done, actually I said the opposite but also that the law of unintended consequences should be respected.
Yeah, it's the eye contact part that I'm really curious to see the self driving car learn.
A New Way to Interact with Agents
What is your top 5?
Clj-Nix: Nix helpers for Clojure projects
In France the zip code has the format XX-YYY

XX is the départment, one of the two major administrative divisions in France. It is made of communes - "cities".

It can be rather small like 75 - Paris, or of the size of half of Massachusetts (about 11000 km2).

The YYY means that you are in this department but there is no distance relationship between the numbers. And then of course you can have a city in 78 a km away from a city in 92 and 30 km away from one in 78.

It is true that this at last gives a rough estimation of where someone is
This is hilarious. I think it could also be a serious tool - without the added snark. I'd pay for a version of this that allowed me to look at product pages and just get the facts without the manipulative bullshit.