skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mow that EVs have adopted a 'skateboard' design, it should be possible to have practically any car body you want on the top of it and be able to change that car body top instead of buying a whole new car.

This would be a return to the coachbuilding days of early motoring when you could have any style of 'horse buggy' that you wanted put on your Rolls Royce chassis.

The Tesla drive by wire technology and one big screen means that you can place the driver wherever you want. Admittedly older cars don't have the A pillar strength so you would not be able to exactly replicate something like A DMC, but I want cars to be like die cast toy cars, where there is an upper that clamps on to a chassis.

As it is, EV conversions where the electrics are placed in the boot, transmission tunnel and elsewhere is a fudge I don't like. This is because you have got too much old, crusty ICE car junk going on, whether that is wiring or the mass of ancillaries in the bonnet.
> the folks running it care about making a nice place for people to hang out

This is actually what I didn't like about bsky. I don't want the developer of software to inject their personal social biases into the platform, and thought one of the main points of decentralization was to mitigate this.
Just to be clear, and you probably won't disagree with this, there's nothing wrong with commits like "temp" or "checkpoint" or "WIP" (Work In Progress). I often make these sorts of commits as I'm working on stuff.

The issue is in submitting an MR/PR with those commits. There's an expectation among professionals that you make your work presentable before submitting it for review, although those who are new to the profession don't realize that this cleanup step is necessary (how could they? the intro courses don't teach this and they're usually struggling enough with the code).

I just wanted to throw this comment in here in case some newbie sees this and comes away thinking "oh, I can't have 'temp' or 'checkpoint' in my commit messages"
Can’t respond to dead account, but read about on HN and then got DNA tested to confirm. It’s one of the main genes in the RCCX theory of giftedness.
Not quite “well rounded” as they’ll miss a lot of cultural context from YouTube that all the others watch.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

You're typically screwed and have no recourse.
Mint was the worst experience for me. The trackpad acceleration curves are bad and there's no easy configuration for it. I was willing to either toy with sliders or copy an already tuned config into a file. But the best I found was how to go into a config file and disable the acceleration entirely.
The money is being recovered due to the heroic efforts of the people put in charge of of FTX following SBF’s incarceration.

Due to the increase in cryptocurrency prices all deposits should be made whole.

SBF deserves prison because he committed crimes. If someone stealing $50 from your wallet is a crime certainly stealing from thousands of people is a crime. And if $50 is bad surely $5B is worse.
Letting him out would be like saying it’s ok to steal, it’s ok to lie, cheat, embezzle.

If we were to let him out we should let every single person out of prison because surely everyone deserves forgiveness.

And if we apply one set of rules to the rich and powerful and another set to the poor or lacking in privilege and influence, we’re incapable of enforcing justice at all and should give up the pretense.

In conclusion, freeing SBF would be a tragic miscarriage of justice and would make mockery of our entire criminal justice system.
This point caught my attention, as my experience has been quite different, though in completely different industries. How does one go about finding genuinely good consultants, in any industry?

> "Use Consultants

Consultants are literally cheat codes. Need to make the world's largest slice of cake? Start off by calling the person who made the previous world's largest slice of cake lol. He's already done countless tests and can save you weeks worth of work. I really want to drill this point home because I'm a massive believer in consultants. Because I've spent almost a decade of my life hyper obsessing over YouTube, I can show a brand new creator how to go from 100 subscribers to 10,000 in a month. On their own it would take them years to do it. Consults are a gift from god, please take advantage of them. In every single freakin task assigned to you, always always always ask yourself first if you can find a consultant to help you. This is so important that I am demanding you repeat this three times in your head "I will always check for consultants when I'm assigned a task""
One of these years, it'll be the year of the Linux desktop.

Just you wait.
I thought it would just be a satirical post, except there's an actual app and github repo with 20 commits.

Big respect to the dedication.
Just sharing my own experience..I used to work for start-ups and now I am working for a seemingly boring, profitable company that is not venture funded. By boring I meant there is not alot of media news about them. They just bunker down and do the work. There's way less craziness - more focused, mature approach towards problems.
I was recently reading about violence in schools in Boys Adrift by Dr. Leonard Sax and he mentioned several correlations that are common suspects: economic "level", race, and a few others, and race was the highest correlation by about 20%.

I share your curiosity and have dug into the issue quite a bit, but obviously it's difficult since it's a bit of a taboo topic.
Claris FileMaker was that tool. Easy to understand and provided clear separation between data and the rest. Bundled with Mac OS so everyone used it. It is now an expensive enclave.
> Have you considered that the sour grapes attitude actually comes from an understanding of the world

I would argue the opposite. Often the comments that OP is describing are people who have very little knowledge of the topic at hand, only strongly held emotional feelings based on some narrative that appeals to their bias.

The problem is, HN is a crowd of people who grew up believing they would all become the next Steve Jobs...a decade or two later, the chips have fallen, and most of us have not become that (yet many have had to watch their former peers become wildly successful). So what we have now is a community of bitter, frustrated, and resentful people hurling those feelings onto whatever the topic of the day is.

Instead of accepting your jealousy and failure to achieve [insert desired outcome], it's much easier to believe that...whomever or whatever becomes successful...is doing so not out of merit, but out of deceit. By placing yourself on a higher moral pedestal, you avoid the pain of direct comparison. Ex: Sure, [insert person or company] is successful, but it's because they prey on [insert moral failing of both the product and the people who desire it]!
Unfortunately, maintaining a career remains necessary to prevent the local authorities who are in charge of money distribution and tax collecting from causing harm to my person and family. And the 99.99% of the other people who surround me, who seem to have a general dissatisfaction with identities, nationalities, and tweets, whether theirs or other peoples, are the ones who keep empowering the various authorities that keep this silly conflict based system running. It's really quite an undesirable situation.

"But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!"
OH. WELL, THEN STOP.

That's what SHE said!

RA Wilson says the only options after visiting Chapel Perilous are to become a paranoid, or an agnostic, and that there is no third way. I'd argue one could also become an atheist. The paranoid thinks there's always a force out there trying to get them. The atheist is convinced there's never a force out there trying to get them. I try to remain agnostic as I am not sure all the evidence is in yet to be able to make an accurate assessment of the situation which we all find ourselves dropped into.

I take modified Sturgeon's Law view of various religious teachings. Sturgeon says 90% of everything is crap. I think it's closer to 99%. But the 1% that's left over is pretty interesting.

Anyway I gave you a deserved upvote, but I'm sure your karma that matters is not as negative as your HN karma. :)
That's the beauty of evolutionary psychology. Look at the world you live in, pick any facet of it real or imagined, and make up an entirely unsubstantiated "just so" story rooted in a narrative of hunter gatherer life that cannot be proven to be true.
What are some popular user accounts on Nostr?
HN passwords have been bcrypted (at least) since 2013.
Right, a challenge with an artifact like this is that the writing is good. And it's a lengthy read. The early commenters almost by definition haven't read it and can only comment about their opinions on the creative output of Mr Beast

As someone who has assiduously avoided watching his videos (because of this opinion), I was impressed by the document because it is incredibly practical. The advice about communication, managing critical components and bottlenecks - very very good.

Of course he is singlemindedly focused on building a massive YouTube channel. In the employee handbook it does not say: we treat you well and do the most ethical thing

It says: come here and work hard, we will make a big YouTube channel. (Not: a YouTube channel that is good for society!! Just big!!)
Post on the big tech company's official help channel - Hacker News?
The Working Archivist's Guide to Enthusiast CD-ROM Archiving Tools
Personally, unaroused, single stream. Any level of arousal, two streams at ninety degrees to one another.

Been that way for over 40 years. I can only figure that erectile tissue distorts the internal shape, especially at the “nozzle”.

No other fluids involved.
Depends on the specifics, but you can burn basically unlimited processing power shooting more rays and there’s just diminishing returns. We’re not there for games today but yesterday’s render farm is tomorrow’s GPU.

As to why it’s used, higher FPS creates artifacts on things like spinning tires. Persistence of vision means flashing something for 1/240th of a second can be surprisingly obvious. We perceive fast objects as actual blurs not just sequences of still images.
Show HN: I made this free Marketing ROI calculator like 5 minutes using AI
Hello everyone,

I created a free tool for marketers to calculate their ROI with AI, and it took me just 5 minutes to build.

What do you think?
I find those estimates believable in a narrow interpretation of the question - i.e. if we solve cancer but change nothing else. I would expect a longevity M.D. to understand the spirit of the question and answer accordingly, though. I'm curious which podcast / doc this was?

It's true that solving cancer, heart disease, and even all other similarly deadly diseases, would not automatically mean humans living indefinitely, because there's still cellular senescence to contend with.

Fortunately, we've effectively solved senescence (or at least it seems we're well on our way). Check out the picture of the twin mice from David Sinclair's lab (https://sinclair.hms.harvard.edu/research) - it's hard to believe the two mice were born at the same time...

And if I recall correctly, they didn't even do any sort of telomere modification in that study either... Don't quote me on that. But telomeres are another potent avenue towards >10x extension of life span, and also as it turns out, fairly trivial to lengthen and thereby allow a cell to continue mitosis indefinitely.

The problem to solve is cancer, though. Telomeres limit the number of times a cell can divide by design, and seemingly the purpose of limiting division in the first place is to mitigate risk of developing cancers.
Unlike tech companies, the DMV also has to serve everyone, even the high-cost citizens.
How did you lose the account? Was there a reason from Google?
The whole youtube/streaming/advertiser/influencer/product pusher ecosystem is complete shit for kids and, to a degree, adults.

We have a 10 year old son and best approach we have found is VLC on his ipad and family TV, coupled to a NAS that we drop the content on to (downloaded/ripped shows that contain no ads).
Yeah, isn't this Cummingham's Law?
I only got a 3, I've had an easy life material-wise but still managed to be depressed or something. I think I'm probably pretty autistic. I'm on ADHD meds and they do something but not enough.

I have trouble connecting "I'm looking forward to this" with "I'm enjoying this" with "I remember enjoying that".

Seems like a lot of times I just don't remember positive things, or I don't feel good about positive things that have happened, or I can't comprehend that I'll be happy when I'm feeling down, which is a lot.

I don't deal with romantic feelings or attachment in a healthy way.

You know, the usual shit.
This sounds surprisingly short. Surely the average person with cancer isnt going to live just three additional years?

Went and did a brief lookup (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6710558/) - life expectancy is reduced by at least 3 years, even for the oldest patients, and increases significantly as age at diagnosis goes down.

I suppose from the perspective of an 80 year old, curing cancer would in theory increase life expectancies by ~ 3 years, though I wonder how many people die of "old age" but have an undiagnosed cancer of some form contributing.
Spoken like a “c-player” haha. I’m with you though. It’s only for people who really very much enjoy working on the things he does.
Fusion or ubiquitous Linux desktops (wsl does not count), which happens first?
Classic New York Times:

> During a recent national holiday, the man inside the Mickey mascot costume was warming up in an air-conditioned metal container inside the company’s factory that serves as his office.

> Ms. Blasco asked The New York Times to withhold Mickey’s identity from the Paraguayan public to preserve some of the “magic” behind the mascot.

Seems all reasonable, until you remember the flimsy justifications for their doxxing of Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex fame. See eg https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...
"I look accomplished to people, but I don’t feel accomplished."

You should be proud of yourself. I have accomplished nothing in life and I had a STEM PhD. I think I am even bad in Science.

This book comes to mind. I have not read it yet:
https://www.amazon.com/Drama-Gifted-Child-Search-Revised/dp/...
Because this is how the puzzle works. Most of the key bytes are zero. Only the last 66 had to be guessed. And their solution was made public by doing the payment.

mrb describes it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41547443
It’s just system justification bias
To add to the other responses: sometimes it's splash-back from the bowl water itself. It's gotta be toilet bowl dependent, and I assume some people are just too lazy to clean theirs up.
Skip Mastodon, BlueSky, or Threads, join cohost by the anti software software club, a software company that hates the software industry:

https://cohost.org/rc/welcome

// On second thought, cohost sign-ups are closed, as it's shutting down end of year. Turns out Twitter alternatives are hard to keep going, even if all you're doing is changing your name from Twitter to X.
He is sick. This is the work of a sick person. He even knows that he is sick but does not care, because of the sickness.
I pray for his audience, really.

What's this about the Squid Game video and the half a mil lost because of the "waiting in the sun" ? Did someone die ???
> You may need to explain why govt research grants and endowments tend to follow the higher ranked institutions.

Institutions. Not departments. Within the same institution, some departments may be very well funded, and some departments may be poorly funded. This is basic stuff that you should already know, and if you don't, then you certainly shouldn't be lecturing me.

My patience is worn out here. This back and forth is not interesting. I don't wish to continue with you any longer.
He's still got fans around here, so I can't speak for OP, but I find it fascinating how they can assimilate his latest wild musings directly into their worldview
> Presumably, a company that has been selling grocery staples since 1935 with that logo isn't creating much confusion.

Yes, though their mascot might be? The article itself clearly states that the locals seem to associate the man-in-costume-mascot with going to Disneyland.
Isn’t an electric DeLorean just a Cyber Truck?
For anyone who isn't aware of the problematic issues currently surrounding MrBeast (see sweeeter's comment here for some context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549649#41551656), I encourage you to read the linked Rolling Stone document and actually find a working link of the original leaked document and read it (link in post doesn't work).

The blog post happens to miss a few of the points in the original document that would raise a lot of eyebrows and I'm not sure that it's a fair take on "what it takes to run a massive scale viral YouTube operation" if it lands you in all sorts of management trouble and potentially criminal allegations.
Sure,
the app selects matching patients based on demographics, disease, prior treatments and biomarkers. It also has to be able to express numeric constraints as well ('no more than two surgeries ..', 'at least one of the following biomarkers'). The following prompt sets up the Prolog toolkit the LLM is allowed to use. The generated Prolog conjunction is then run through a Prolog meta-interpreter that generates the matching code. Though it sounds long-winded it is more than fast enough to generate responses to user queries in an acceptable time:

-----------------

Now consider the following Prolog predicates:

biomarker(Name, Status) where Status will be one of the following integers -

Wildtype = 0
Mutated = 1
Methylated = 2
Unmethylated = 3
Amplified = 4
Deleted = 5
Positive = 6
Negative = 7

tumor(Name, Status) where Status will be one of the following integers if know else left unbound -

Newly diagnosed = 1
Recurrence = 2
Metastasized = 3
Progression = 4

chemo(Name)

surgery(Name) Where Name may be an unbound variable

other_treatment(Name)

radiation(Name) Where Name may be an unbound variable

Assume you are given predicate atMost(T, N) where T is a compound term and N is an integer.
It will return true if the number of 'occurences' of T is less than or equal N else it will fail.

Assume you are given a predicate atLeastOneOf(L) where L is a list of compound terms.
It will succeed if at least one of the compound terms, when executed as a predicate returns true.

Assume you are given a predicate age(Min, Max) which will return true if the patient's age is in between Min and Max.

Assume you have a predicate not(T) which returns true if predicate T evaluates false and vice versa.
i.e. rather than '\\+ A' use not(A).

Do not implement the above helper functions.

VERY IMPORTANT: Use 'atLeastOneOf()' whenever you would otherwise use ';' to represent 'OR'.
i.e. rather than 'A ; B' use atLeastOneOf([A, B]).

EXAMPLE INPUT:
Patient must have recurrent GBM, methylated MGMT and wildtype EGFR. Patient must not have mutated KRAS.

EXAMPLE OUTPUT:
tumor('gbm', 2),
biomarker('MGMT', 2),
biomarker('EGFR', 0),
not(biomarker('KRAS', 1))

Express the following constraints as a Prolog conjunction.
Do not enclose the code in a code block. Return only the Prolog code - no commentary.
Be careful to use only the supplied constraints, do not add any:

$constraint
A Farewell to Falsifiability (2015)
Oh, yes? That's exactly what the comment you are replying to is talking about:

The article is about trademark, not copyright.
Buddhism, son!
I know what you mean, but MrBeast cured 1000 people of (a form of) blindness, which is quite a benefit to humanity [1]. I would not be surprised if kids learn a bit of "kindness is good" from him.

[1]: Of course among other things, but you can't deny he did quite some philanthropy
Terry is a genius that can get that value out of an LLM.

Average Joe can't do anything like that yet, both because he won't be as good at prompting the model, and because his problems in life aren't text-based anyway.
Doesn't this defeat the purpose of decentralisation and the fediverse?

Now, you've just moved everyone to hosted Mastodon, and why not make it even easier - instead of hosting multiple mastodons, just make one single mastodon everyone signs up to... and we've just reinvented Twitter.
tickr-agent is an enterprise-ready, scalable Python library for building swarms of financial agents that conduct comprehensive stock analysis and produce insights. Powered by yfinance, loguru for logging, and pydantic for data validation, tickr-agent is designed for businesses that need robust financial data processing, multithreading, and seamless integration with AI-powered models (via OpenAI) to derive actionable insights.
Disclaimer: I'm a software consultant, so obviously biased.

MrBeast enters a new domain every week so consultants are way more important to him than to a software business.

He has enough budget and fame to, as he says, use the Guinness Word Records book as a phonebook. Or any other resource that records world-famous achievements. So that's one way.

Another is to have friends in the business that can recommend people they worked with.

I'm not sure a third consistent way exists.

Edit: very good technical people can recognize very good people in very different technical fields by their thinking and communication habits. Same for business people I believe. So if you have a wonderful devops employee/consultant and need an ML consultant but have zero idea how to evaluate them, have your devops guy talk to a few candidates and ask him whether they're good technical people.
Ignoring the ethics of Mr Beast, he is producing real videos at an incredibly high volume and they consistently do numbers.

None of those videos is easy to make.

Sure, it's maybe not great to be so impressed by logistics or supply chain of a tobacco company, but from a business and systems view some of it is interesting
Thank you for putting this in words; it's been rattling around in my head too.

I feel like the Peter Thiel world has eaten the Moxie Marlinspike world, and this is such a huge, monstrous loss for intellectual curiosity, individual liberty, and human flourishing.
Needs the copy&pasted laughter at the end.
the entire point of this is to "exactly replicate something like A DMC"

genericizing it would be noticeable on a unique vehicle like this, its not a Power Wheels
I dunno man, but your reply with a link and no definitions didn't address that.
You were right:

And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala

My theory is that Elon has never once had a friend.
I want a Mr. Fusion!
It is your responsibility to try.

"I can't help myself" is not a valid excuse. If you seriously cannot bother to phrase things less dismissively, then you shouldn't comment in the first place.

One of the best guidelines established for HN, is that you should always be kind. It's corny and obvious, and brings to mind the over-said platitude my mom, and a million other moms, used to say: "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Your concession was admirable, but your explanation leads me to think that you misunderstand the role you play in the comments. You are not supposed to be a reaction bot; HN is not the journal for your unfiltered thoughts and opinions.

Despite how easy it would be, you cannot and must not simply write replies. Absolutely everything (yes, everything) written here should assume the best, and be in good faith. Authors and the community deserve that much.

This goes for other sites as well, but especially for a community that strives for intellectual growth, like Hacker News.

Apologies if I sounded harsh.