skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does have (very very narrow) legitimate purpose, which is problematic abandoned property. Like say your age-of-sail ship has illegal stuff discovered by the customs inspectors, and everyone you can track down insists it isn't theirs.

But that ends the moment someone says it's theirs, or there are records pointing to an owner who isn't actively hiding from you. This whole modern "prove where you got it from" bs is just theft.
I don't understand the premise of this claim. YC has never really been about getting companies to growth stage. It doesn't make sense to compare YC's investment to the funding needed to, say, compete with OpenAI. If that's what you're trying to do, you'd go to YC to streamline the process of closing a priced round.

The way this thread reads, he's not so much taking issue with YC as with the idea of seed capital. Some of us have the experience of operating in a startup marketplace without routine, standardized seed funding. That's how funding worked in the 1990s and early 2000s. It's not great!
Yeah. Monkeys. Monkeys that write useful C and Python code that needs a bit less revision every time there's a model update.

Can we just give the "stochastic parrot" and "monkeys with typewriters" schtick a rest? It made for novel commentary three or four years ago, but at this point, these posts themselves read like the work of parrots. They are no longer interesting, insightful, or (for that matter) true.
No the official way is the control-click. It was suggested by Apple in the UI of System Preferences back in the Mountain Lion days.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gatek...
> YC isn’t to blame here.

YC is absolutely to blame here. Their standard term deal sheets are unnecessarily greedy and massively distort the cap table for hardware startups that have to raise a lot of money before a Series A.

Their docs are predicated on startups being able to raise a small-valuation Series A right out of the program, which is only true of startups that require low capitalization.

For instance, I'm out fundraising for a molecular nanotechnology startup right now. I will not be doing YC because it would be a shite deal for both me and my existing investors.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. It’s one thing for it to be against policy and FedEx to be seizing it (which itself would unlikely to be a legal action vs returning it and fining the recipient), a totally different matter for the police to be doing it.
Is that a bad thing when you see what the western mobile scene looks like?
How is it that you think YC makes money in a body shop acquihire deal?

People talk about acquihires all the time but I think the bottom line to them is "most startups fail". YC isn't a fix for this; it simply accounts for the phenomenon by funding way more startups than other investors.

There's a fun "human capital" vs. "signaling" argument to have here --- shocked, shocked! that YC would manage to re-invent the core controversy of higher education --- but just drastically increasing luck surface area is a pretty powerful idea, or seems that way. Maybe it'll be less effective in this coming season of high-capital companies, or maybe that narrative will turn out to be overblown when someone figures out how to make $40Bn on international benefits management or something.
Ask HN: The friendship paradox in sheep's clothing
It occurred to me that the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox explains:

Imposter syndrome: the tech-savvy I know know more tech

Social anxiety: the cool kids I know know more cool stuff

I have not seen this paradox connected to these contexts. Is this interpretation of the paradox legit? Are feelings of inadequacy vs network effects simply statistics playing out? Anywhere else this paradox applies?
Nobody says that.

And your assertion about the meaning of "car" is absurd. The meaning, which is profoundly missing in VTOLs, is a vehicle that you can drive around on ROADS, on WHEELS. Nobody cares about the private ownership. They care about rolling it down the street.
The Art of Taking It Slow
https://archive.ph/dRuXw
Are we assuming that ~all packet loss is due to the physical medium, and almost none due to congestion?

The reason why TCP will usually fall over at high loss rates is because many commonly-used congestion controllers assume that loss is likely due to congestion. If you were to replace the congestion control algorithm with a fixed send window, it'd do just fine under these conditions, with the caveat that you'd either end up underutilizing your links, or you'd run into congestive collapse.

I'm also not at all sure that the benchmark is even measuring what you'd want to. I cannot see any indications of attempting to retransmit any packets under TCP -- we're just sometimes writing the bytes to a socket (and simulating the delay), and declaring that the transfer is incomplete when not all the bytes showed up at the other side? You can see that there's something especially fishy in the benchmark results -- the TCP benchmark at 50% loss finishes running in 50% of the time... because you're skipping all the logic in those cases.

https://github.com/nyxpsi/nyxpsi/blob/main/benches/network_b...

Mathis equation suggests that even with 50% packet loss at 1ms RTT, the max achievable TCP [edit: Reno, IIRC] throughput is about 16.5 Mbps.
took me a moment to get this one

well done
New features are often launched with partner companies, and then all the PMs have a real life example to go point at to convince their conservative stakeholders to adopt the new thingy. Looking at your power usage is not an apple thing, it's a power company thing to implement.
People. We're people, and as such we get to make moral judgements. And it's obviously and pretty straightforwardly not okay to force women to cover themselves head to toe.

This particular example is not even difficult to deduct from some pretty basic axioms of morality, mainly that disadvantaging someone on the basis of their sex is wrong and that people should have personal freedom so long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others.
Yeah it's talking about a new feature for LLMs where the output of an LLM is fed back in as input and done again and again and again and this produces way more accurate output.
Then FedEx is more than welcome to refuse shipping those packages, blacklist the sender, or sue them. On what grounds exactly does LE get involved.
It is so rare to get in-depth FEA reports like what you’ve linked us here. Here’s what Boeing states in the report:

“ There is still detail design work that will need to be completed. However, both the C4 and C11 configurations come close to an acceptable conceptual design. A small test program would be needed to address some of the outstanding questions. Additional modeling and optimization are also needed at the detail design level. The inclusion of portals, motor attachments, tanks and other peripherals would need to be included in a final analysis.
More work needs to be done to define thermal load and cure shrinkage for both the composite cylinder and for the bonded joint. This composite structure is much thicker than most of the structure currently being produced. Thermal strains may play a significant role in the design of the structure. The time required for fabrication and the extended time that the material will be at elevated temperature during cure and bonding needs to be examined. These topics were mostly avoided during the first part of the design cycle. This report describes a conceptual design and a preliminary feasibility study. The design is feasible, but will require additional work in the areas of manufacturing, cure kinetics, material allowable, assembly, and dimensional tolerance.”

In summary - even if Oceangate developed a robust design, they’d still need to manufacture the submarine. It appears they never built enough test articles to develop a baseline for robustness, because they never did destructive testing at depth with actual hardware they never knew their margins and were never able to validate their models to reality.
Funny - in my case, I owned a nicer oscilloscope than my company was offering me anyway. Neither is worth more than a couple grand. I acknowledge that more expensive equipment exists, but I'll come back to that.

> There are insurance considerations too - your house burns down with $250k worth of test equipment inside, who is paying for that?

My employer already has insurance on their equipment, and I already have insurance on my equipment. I see no problem here.

Even if there was a problem, why do you expect ME to be saddled with the burden of a problem that clearly exists between my employer and their insurer? Why should I (and thousands of others) pay the cost of 20 hours a week in commuting, when my company and the insurance provider could spend a couple hours to fully think through their terms?

> There is a lack of critical thinking when it comes to extreme WFH arrogance.

I recognize that not everyone can work remote. At the time the shutdowns began, I was working for a defense prime in an airgapped lab. Obviously, I couldn't bring my equipment home. But, in that case, there was a reason for onsite work - national security. For most devs, there simply isn't a similar justification for onsite work.

None of what I said in my toplevel comment is intended to disparage anyone with a job that demands onsite work.
Note how I never disparaged anyone in that situation, nor did I disparage anyone who runs a company where people are in that situation. I merely stated how much I like my situation, with some quiet jabs at companies too stubborn to afford the same benefits to themselves and their employees. Develop some reading comprehension before you start slinging accusations of poor critical thinking.

So I see it the exact opposite way. I see a staggering level of arrogance in Amazon's move to sequester thousands of people in an office who simply don't need to be there. It's detrimental to the workers' health and happiness, it's a needless cost on Amazon's behalf, it pollutes our environment, and it does jack to improve their product. It's just a power move.
Is this move possibly motivated by what Elon did at Twitter?
Out of anyone, Apple seems to be doing the most to fight this. They have been pushing producers to provide high quality recordings via their digital master programme, and have loudness normalisation enabled by default.

I often find the quality available on AM to be superior to other platforms.
For many, many people, (majority of programmers, really) morals don't have a price tag. That number could be anything. When you make a programmer choose between some number and customer damage, it becomes increasingly harder to damage the end-customer. This is known as "prioritizing customer obsession" over business function (which is what we're supposed to do).

Please, everyone, if there has to be a choice, save us (civilization) not them (the CEOs). Please. Think critically.
Many companies which require billions in startup capital began as startups. Just not from startup accelerators like YC. There's a lot of deep tech startups out there with high capital requirements. Dozens of fusion and space launch companies, for example.
If you ask me, over the last few years it's actually getting better. Of course, music taste is entirely subjective. A medieval peasant would say that Beethoven and Mozart are unlistenable trash, and you won't find many fanatical lute listeners these days.

But when I look back, my opinion is that the average mainstream radio music was worse around 2016-2019 than it is now. Back then, hiphop was ubiquitous and even a lot of pop songs would have hiphop elements in them. It was overplayed. It was like rock in the 2000s, everywhere and same-ish. Now that seems to have died down and mainstream music sounds more diverse, which it will be until the next trend comes around.
> I feel like games are in a similar rut for similar reasons.

One look at itch.io or other purveyors of fine indie games should swiftly disabuse you of this notion. There has never been such a wide range of good (to excellent) quality games available this easily.
This seems like a separate issue. FedEx rejecting it could be explained by this. FedEx reporting it to police could be explained by this. The police keeping it indefinitely is not explained by this.
Is this a global thing ?

The music/culture scene in my state Karnataka in India has gone from high-culture to gang-wars and glorifying gangster-life. The culture has similarly declined from dealing with amazing themes from India's epics to moronic low-class shit... to the point that one of the top-actors was recently caught for homicide.

(For context, the southern tradition of Indian Music is named after the state; and I'm a millennial.).
awesome website! what made you choose the ".life" TLD? did you consider ".sh"?
If COVID-19 taught us anything, it’s that people gladly give up civil liberties when threatened. What Ellison describes and desires could come to pass. It already is in China and the UK. The government just needs the right leverage, such as a mass terror event, in order to make it happen.
You can model parallel computation by an arbitrary finite product of Turing machines. And then, yes, you can simulate that product on a single Turing machine. I think that's the sort of thing you have in mind?

But I'm not aware of what "inherently serial" means. The right idea likely involves talking about complexity classes. E.g. how efficiently does a single Turing machine simulate a product of Turing machines? An inherently serial computation would then be something like a problem where the simulation is significantly slower than running the machines in parallel.
this seems like a calculated move to thin the crowd knowing how unpopular this full RTO is going to be, after the massive over hiring during Covid.
some tools make it too easy to enforce bad laws at scale. it's a lot of work for the morality police to catch up to every woman who removes her hijab and cart her to jail. unless you're watching all the women all the time, they'll often get away with it. mass surveillance really takes a lot of the legwork out of running a repressive regime.
Convoy by C. W. McCall regularly features on lists of bad songs and ... well... "roger that".
> Care to give some examples

In the 2010s they were the leader in NLP and the precursor of LLMs like GPT3/3.5/4/4o

Machine Translation with Human Parity (2018) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05567

MT-DNN (2019) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11504

MASS (2019) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02450

VALL-E (2023) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02111

VALL-E 2 (2024) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05370

While OpenAI was the first to monetize an LLM at scale via ChatGPT, it's still the early stages of this field, and there is a lot of innovation that can still be leveraged, especially in non-English language modeling, machine translation, text-to-speech, etc.

It's in this segment that Microsoft Research shines moreso than even Google Research let alone other organizations because of their strong NLP background in Chinese (Microsoft Research Asia), South Asian languages (Microsoft Research India), Arabic (Microsoft Research's older work during the Iraq War), etc.
They will make everyone sit and watch “Rings of Power.”
Ask yourself this, if you walked into a record store to buy a vinyl. Are you walking out with a BTS record?

There's tons of great indie music out there atm, but the radio 'mainstream' has turned to trash.

But it was probably always like this. Old man yells at cloud etc.
The SP500 is up nearly 10x from the 2009 lows. If thats not a win, I dont know what is. Even adjusting for inflation, its still a massive return.

Buying individual stocks is certainly much riskier, but index investing is still stock investing.
No way, My father, his friends and I all listened to Metallica, Nirvana, RHCP, etc, when I was in my teens and they were in their forties. We all loved it.

I think the age thing you talk about is a meme from the 50s or something, it hasn't applied for decades.

I just think there really is a lot of crap around now.
Yeah nothing extreme about going from $100,000 oscillators to $500 garbarage off aliexpress.
>By 'unlikely to stop', I really mean 'unlikely to stop without striking your vehicle if you were to stop', so things like following too closely, clearly not paying attention (which is hard to tell in a quick glance, but maybe you noticed their lack of attention before and haven't had time or space to make space), has a large vehicle that needs more room to stop, etc. I likely wouldn't stop on a fresh yellow if there was a trash truck following me closely, for example. Even at the extreme where I end up running a fresh red, it's more likely a better result than getting rear ended by a vehicle that's around 10x the weight of mine.

At best that's an argument for not slamming on the brakes on a yellow if you already know that someone is following you, not for you to waste precious seconds diverting your attention to your rear view mirror and trying to make a judgment call. In critical moments like that you really can't afford to divert your attention for whatever is happening behind you, because there could be important stuff happening in front of you as well (eg. the car in front decides to slam on the brakes). If you're really in a situation where you think you can't safely come to a stop because there's a truck tailgating you, you really should get yourself out of that situation rather than trying to run the next yellow.
They will make them sit and watch “Rings of Power.”
This is why one pager/two pagers also exist, but agreed doing it for every piece of infra glue would be excessive even for a one pager.
If you want good music you can't sit around hoping the radio will bring it to you. Outside of some college radio stations, your typical Radio stations have incentives that are at odds with that.

You have to go out and find it. I'm big into the Doom/psychedelic rock genres, and there's so much good stuff out that I actually don't have enough time to even sort through even a fraction of what's available. I'm drinking from a firehose (https://weedian420.bandcamp.com/) of music filled with top tier gems.

I really need some kind of self hosted solution that integrates with bandcamp and allows me to to do 5 star ratings of songs as I listen to them so I can create and share curated playlists (via QR code). "What music do I like? Here's my 5 star playlist. If you loved that, then my 4 star list is right here for active listening. For passive listening, here's my 3 star and up list"
> Why build your own game engine when you can just use unreal?

Why build your own camera to make a movie when you just buy one? Why build your own microphone to make a movie when you can just buy one?

Which game engine you use has nothing to do with whether or not your game is good, different, unique. Just which camera you use to shoot a movie has nothing to do with whether a movie is good, different, unique. Similarly, which keyboard you use has nothing to do with the quality of your novel.

Someone might object that engines lead into certain directions but just looking at the diversity of games makes it pretty clear that's not true. It's only true at the bottom end of new devs following a tutorial and ending up with something similar to the tutorial. This is no different than every 3D modeling student making a donut or every pencil drawing student starting with white paper, a pencil, and learning to draw spheres and shadows. The difference is only that these new game devs post their work on the internet and so, at a glance, it can sometimes look like it's engines that makes things similar. It's not the engine.
Endorsing a candidate isn't a factual stance. It's politics. There's a factual answer to Abortion is right or wrong? Or we should have more immigrants or fewer? We should spend money stop global warming or not? Unearned capital gains should be taxed?

Facts are used for all of those things because they all devolve into arguments and facts are handy in an argument. That's not what they're really about though. They're about trade offs and preferences. They're about deciding what's right and wrong.

SA or Science in general gets involved in that and they won't be helping to win an argument. They'll be destroying trust.
It's absolutely true though. No matter when you were born, the "best" music came out when you were about 17 years old: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1d57778/a_cool_...

All nostalgia is a longing for youth.
I tend to agree with the parent comment. The name of the book sounds like it could be part of a series authored by the same people as “The Pragmatic Programmer”. For me, I subconsciously internalized the grammar of the title as “The Pragmatic Programmer: for ML”.

I have no idea what the expectations are legally, but given the original “pragmatic programmer” book has been out for around for ~25 years and is extremely well known, it seems like a reasonable name collision to avoid.
Pairing this move with the belt-tightening is mutually-supporting fires.
I have a specific idea in mind but this is true too :) AI = Imagination!
I hope this doesn't come off as patronizing, but I just wanted to send you an appreciation for the tone of curiosity and openness you've set in your posts here: your post and JumpCrisscross' comments were some of the most insightful ones in this page.

For a long time I'd have a reflex "uh oh" response when unions were mentioned in HN discussions, because they arguments would get too snarky and contentious, but I appreciate the tone you've set. Or maybe the HN crowd is getting older and a little less likely to spend time on snark, too.
The system Ellison describes is one where we know we're under surveillance at all times, so we behave. At the very least, that belief has yet to pervade Western society
I respect the idea, but in practice I find that Apple Music sometimes plays tracks from the same album at noticeably different volumes. It's possible (even probable, I guess) that whoever is sending Apple the digital masters messed up, but frankly when I'm listening to an album front-to-back that's one situation where I basically need the perceived volume level to not be messed with.

Weirdly enough, I've noticed this happens with and without the sound normalization feature enabled.
TikTok Has a Nazi Problem
Sounds like something FedEx would say
That's not what he's talking about. He's a music producer. He likes a lot of today's music because he's producing it. He's talking to the youth who are producing it and he's helping as much as he can. There's not enough people doing it, and what there is isn't getting enough attention because youth are spending a lot of their spare time on social media. Music isn't the primary focus of youth attention like it used to be. Social media is the primary focus now.

Social media can be used to spread music like radio/CD/MP3 used to, but it isn't as effective at that task.

I'm not sure if this is good or bad. I mean, kids back in the 70's & 80's got relationship advice from random song lyrics heard on the radio, a horrible way to make life decisions. Now kids have much better access to information & advice so who's to say that the decline of music is an entirely bad thing? We'll see.
There Might Be More Than One Way to Make a Planet
> Are we just fully ignoring the Constitution now

The feds do quite a lot these days that isn't actually part of their enumerated powers.
It's Hard Not to Love ReMarkable's New Colorful E Ink Tablet
Or you know, learn an instrument, get together with friends to form a band.
Congratulations on splitting off to make some money! I remember reading about ClimaX a year ago and being extremely excited – especially because of the potential to lower the costs of large physical simulations like these.

Have specific industries reached out to you for your commerical potential – natural resource exploration, for example?
Fuck this. What good is an office if it's just to babysit adults like they're in a daycare center?