skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, the major graphics hardware vendors don't release their first-party drivers for anything other than Windows and Linux.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ lists official drivers for FreeBSD and Solaris (which also apparently are used by illumos). In fact, I suspect they have a better time than Linux on account of having actual stable driver ABIs.
All politics fundamentally concerns identity.
it is definitely all the rage in the AI community. what made it better than Github Copilot for you?
I moved ten years ago, so I couldn't tell you about "like" prevalence in the UK today - I think it was a lot less common than in California a decade ago.
This entire article is premised on the idea that YC accepts more startups now than before, but if I'm not mistaken, their acceptance rate has gone down every batch.

And since the OP specifically called out Harvard as a paragon of prestige institution, it should be noted that YC acceptance rate is lower than Harvard's too.
A professor once taught me: If you want your presentation to be remembered, don't make it too perfect. Add some (obvious) errors, mispellings etc. to keep the audience awake.
Sounds a lot like https://dagger.io/ . Maybe you can take some inspiration from them
> but LLMs do solve problems that people thought were extremely difficult to solve ten years ago

Agreed. I would have laughed you out of the room 5 years ago if you told me AI's would be writing code or carrying on coherent discussions on pretty complex topics in 2024.

As far as I'm concerned, all bets are off after the collective jaw drop that the entire software engineering industry did when we saw GPT4 released. We went from Google AI responses of "I'm sorry, I can't help with that." to ChatGPT writing pages of code that mostly works.

It turns out that the larger these models get, the more unexpected emergent capabilities they have, so I'm mostly in the camp of thinking AGI is just a matter of time and resources.
Cybersecurity Workforce Woes
Hasn’t made any major mistakes for me. It’s not perfect of course, but still
or 50$ forever
This is why I don't mind making the recommendation. You seem angry in a way I think I recognize. It feels righteous because of the injustice in which it originated, but it also embodies and perpetuates that injustice. Act on it without grave reflection and it will always lead you to do harm.

I want you to read Kingsnorth because I hope that may lead you to see the error in abandoning all hope of the world. He is as clear in it as anyone I know. That is extremely attractive and I want you to think hard about where it leads.
Monopoly Round-Up: Corporate Slumlords and Housing Cartels
Fun calculator. A little noisy to make its points, but "You could die right now and Shell could continue operating for 6 seconds longer with the carbon you saved" is a powerful statement.

I wasted so much energy in my most vigorous years trying to make decisions that literally don't matter at all and felt so important. I could have been building skills to influence policy instead, but the sustainability movement was bamboozled pretty hard.
300B Emails, Infinite Risk: The Evolution of Email Security
Inkeep has been very solid for us and running in our Discord.
https://milvus.io/community

Robert spoke at our meetup and is awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35JdjmiDvWI
> JSON is beautiful, elegant, and minimal by comparison.

True, but binary formats like CBOR or MessagePack are also that and efficient and have support for binary strings. This JSON is human readable thing is the nerverending argument of high level programmers. Anyone can read hex given enough time.
Considering it is Apple they could also be using a proprietary profile that side-steps this issue, especially since they created their own Bluetooth chip (Apple Hx). But again, I don't know if this is true or not since I don't have an iPhone to test.
I didn't say ad space is 'viscerally inhuman grotesquery", I said that flaying a company and wearing its skin like a suit is.

I dislike ads, sure, most people do at some level, but the idea that Forbes sold out just so people would view more ads is a modern day retelling of the plot of some weird 1980's movie of the week villain right before the heroes step in and save the town with the power of friendship and a giant vat of chemicals.
IIRC a full set of plate armour weighs about 60lbs. How is that not going to make you less agile (no matter how well made)? And yes, I understand the old trope about knights lumbering around, not being able to get up if they fell over and not being about to mount a horse is all garbage. And that 60lbs is roughly what a modern combat soldier carries. But it is still 60lbs!
Quantinuum Successfully Teleports a Logical Qubit
It's interesting to consider what the evolution YC 2.0 could be. I do think we're going to be seeing more innovative organizational models that can be facilitated by adept use of AI.

For example, a network organization that hires individuals and small teams. The organization works on various projects and product streams, which which can be spun out as new businesses.

This is a flexible model that allows for many different outcomes and journeys for the people. Less of a startup factory and more of an enterprise garden.

I like the idea of gateways as a system for managing ideas and new business developments. Regular gateways every 6 or 12 months that assess projects for continuation, funding and further development. People can be involved in several projects.

I see this type of organization structure as a kind of 'hyper network'. By using AI to monitor and report on network activity it should be possible to have effective management oversight, direction and communication ... beneficent controlled creative chaos.
We used "bopping around" as a term to describe a sexually confident woman enjoying herself on the scene, as a generally positive term, at least since 2015, so I'm not sure it's a zoomer thing. Did it become a derogatory term? As we used it it was explicitly in opposition to "slut," it was a word of empowerment. Like yeah she gets laid good for her.
Dish and DirecTV to Merge
A 15-Year-Old Gamer Became the Patron Saint of the Internet
I feel like that "270K job" comment was some sort of cultural signal to Zoomer devs on the FAANG leetcode job grind. I'm in my 40s so it just seems both tacky and unimpressive but maybe for folks half my age it's a meaningful signal towards competency?
Just looked up the etymology of prestige and it’s interesting.

It comes from Latin praestigium ("delusion, illusion"), then 1500s French prestige meaning “deceit, imposture, illusion”. In the 1800s it started to mean “an illusion as to one's personal merit or importance, a flattering illusion”.

I would have wrongly guessed it originally meant “good reputation” (same as the article author meant it, I assume) and that the association with bullshit/fakery is just a modern twist from people using the word with cynical irony. But bullshit/fakery was in fact the core meaning.
AI begins its ominous split away from human thinking
Overlooked Weather Phenomenon Produces Gamma Rays in Our Atmosphere
I have a very high income and I still can’t afford a home. I can’t even imagine how terrible my life would be if I took risks.

Forget the PG essay. Doesn't it seem like there's something wrong here, something you're missing, some way in which your own feelings about your own life are too negative, perhaps like you're emotionally harder on yourself than you deserve?
How is this different/unique than the thousands of other competitors that pretty much promise the same thing? sorry if it sounds dismissive of your product, but that's my first impression, and probably a lot of other ppl's too, so would be good to get a good answer...
And to save anyone else looking it up, seems to be continue.dev is using Apache License in their repos.

(also, I did some poking around, this is the founder 3 months ago talking about using continue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0OylwLzBQw&t=257s - no horse in this race, just sharing)
This is an amazing initiative!

Unfortunately at least on iOS, it's always going to be severely limited by what Apple allows and does not allow apps to do in the background and with regards to P2P connecting to other (especially non-Apple) Wi-Fi devices.

I've been dreaming about an optionally P2P messenger for a long time, i.e. something that just communicates over the internet while it's there, but lets messages piggy back onto others' devices if not.

This could address simple cases like one person with and another without a mobile data plan, or something more complicated like a hiker passing through a campsite, collecting everybody's pending outgoing messages and submitting them once they have signal again. (The return path in the latter scenario would be much more complicated, as it would require either a lot of storage and broadcasting, or good heuristics about who's going to pass by where, in order to preemptively download messages.)
I live in the Netherlands but come from South of France. First thing I did when buying a house was to create a "aromatic garden" in front of my house. Oregano, thyme, lavender, ....

No only the smell is amazing in the summer and it reminds me of home, but it's been so cool to see people come and pluck from it for their cooking. It's been my hope all along.

I love this <3
As I read, this is pretty much what the article says. The very very bottom may have been as many as 30 % of the total population.
We also had issues in Michigan with Verizon, but they seem to be corrected now.
Max Stirner is the only good thing Germany ever produced.
Ah, Runequest! Happy memories.
The reason they want you to apply is twofold -- the application itself is a good exercise in getting you to think about things you should be thinking about. Honestly even if you have no intention at all of applying to YC you should still fill out the application for yourself, it makes you think about important things.

And the second reason is that they get to see as many options as possible, because that's obviously better for them. If every startup in the world applied and they could choose, of course that would be better.

It has nothing to do with "juicing the numbers".
Fuck this is so cool love it
Teeth are a specialisation, but in such a disaster the generalists win, eat dead fish,then dead dino,then dead cannibals.

oh wait teeth would be ideal for that. so, island dwelling seed eaters, hiding away surplus and ready to hibernate for long times?
There was a prior effort to create a Golang SDK for Apache Beam
https://beam.apache.org/documentation/sdks/go/

The BEAM Golang SDK work came from Googlers working on Beam that were Golang fans, and internally there were Golang-oriented tools for batch data processing that needed a migration path forward.

Historical Note: Apache Beam also originated from Google as "Dataflow"
NCAA approves Gallaudet's use of 5G-connected helmet for deaf quarterbacks
Labor is a component. Often a required component. That does not mean it is the source and and value creation can be solely attributed to it.

Labor by itself produces no value. Roll a rock up and down a hill and no value is created.

The labor theory of value is Myopic in this respect.
> It just returns a tuple. That's not confusing at all and it's a very well established pattern in most modern languages.

A few things wrong with this. It does not return a tuple, it returns an array with 2 elements. You, as the react dev, need to just know that this is the case and that one is the value and the other is a set function.

In most modern languages, tuples are common, yes. But not in JavaScript. React isn’t a python or go framework, it’s a JavaScript framework.
Why doesn’t it act like almost everything else in js land and return an object with 2 named fields? Why place extra knowledge burden on the developer?
It’s just poor api design

Yes useEffect is also a huge complex pain point, but it just takes longer to type out why that is.

Pretty much all the hooks are as almost nothing else in the JavaScript ecosystem acts like they do.
One might even say emergent behaviour.
I was waiting for someone to sneak in a anti-car angle into this and presto what have you ! Haha
When you're a politician and have a business hobby
A good PM will understand that to get to C, we need to build and support A + B before we can build C, and plan for this. Like, if we built B to be a terrible barely working mess, they understand that this will make C basically worthless. But in my experience, this ability is surprisingly rare.
Oracle settles customer NetSuite dispute out of court
If being raped, castrated or stoned to death was not horribly abused, I don't know what is.
...so they picked a rolling release distro to take snapshots of and distribute outdated versions to their users. Plasma in SteamOS 3.6 (current beta) is still at version 5.27, just like in Debian stable.

The main reason they switched were PKGBUILDs. Debian packaging, while much more powerful, requires more effort, and yet they weren't going to reap its fruits as their distro gets fully reinstalled on each update anyway. Nothing else matters much for their particular use-case. If it was about fresher base system, they could have gone with snapshots of sid instead, which would have been easier as previous SteamOS versions were already Debian-based.
People are taking it as an article of faith because almost every prediction that "AI will not be able to do X anytime soon" has failed.
"did some clunky work on it. That was their entry to YC"

For more context, YC doesn't judge your code, never has. It was never a code quality competition. Orthogonally, they do judge the results (user metrics).
We Built a Color System from the Ground Up
I don't understand what you're suggesting, then.
Google Gemini running in AI Studio accepts audio files, so you can upload a MP3 to it directly and prompt it to "rewrite this content as a casual blog post" (or whatever format you want) and it should work really well.

Or manually transcribe the podcast with Whisper (I use the MacWhisper app for this all the time) and then dump that transcript into an LLM and ask it to reformat that.
The old prison favorite of a lock in a a sock can very easily be fatal & probably weights 1/4 to 1/2 of a pound. I once reforged a ball peen hammer into a 1 handed warhammer. It was either a 12 or 16 ounce head, so quite light, really too light to get full power. It was shocking how much adding 6 inches to the handle increased the power. The spike end would easily do 1.5 to 2 inches through plate steel(maybe 3/16 or 1/8 inch) & even the sharp(90 degree) corners of the hammer head would pierce that plate if the strike wasn't flush and peel it back can opener style a half inch. It really takes very little mass to break bone provided you can get good speed, a relatively hard small impact point, and no armor/padding in the way. Skulls, hands, forearms, and shins are very vulnerable.
A code walkthrough modeling the rules of Chess in a functional (Clojure) way
In the age of AI, I went old-school inspired by Hanson & Sussman's book "Software Design for Flexibility")

Meant for beginners. I'd appreciate all feedback!
from the article:

> We say that history is written by the winners. That is sometimes true.
Sea Serpents and other Sea Monsters (1999)
Found three links in an old Donald Duck-magazin (25/1999 in Norway) only one worked and the page [pibburns.com] looked like a nineties page.
Sometimes you just need a little bit of Monica in your life.
Yes, LLMs are probably inherently limited, but the AI field in general is not necessarily limited, and possibly has the potential to be more genuinely creative than even most exceptional creative humans.
> but did "the middle class" exist back then?

Not as we would recognize it today, but there were always merchants, craftsman and petty gentry that would have a measure of freedom and earning that serfs did not have the ability to achieve.
"Getting kids ready for government benefits"

"Software for software companies"

Prescient!
I got a suit of chainmail at one point to possibly wear for Halloween/Renn fairs etc. It was heavy! I could not stand it for longer than about an hour, it was a real workout. Certainly made me gain new respect for all the stereotypical medieval knights wearing full metal armor suits.
This hits pretty dead center from what I've seen.

You really hit home for at #3, that's the type of companies I want to see.

If you start such a fund, I'd really enjoy working on that project.
If anyone is interested in Ukiyo-e prints, there's a really fun episode of Samaruai Champloo that talks about them and gives a glimpse of the role they played as a sort of pop culture during the Edo period:

https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRNQ388WR/artistic-anarchy
> Also, ditch the old-timey film-camera look. I don't need 15 physical switches, most of which should be automatic anyway.

No thank you. The whole point of a good camera is to have manual controls IF you want them. Nope that you can already use DSLRs and mirrorless cameras as fully automatic point and shoot cameras of you want to use them this way.
Cable news viewership has been rapidly dwindling.
Yes, and it's also one of the features Steam likely wants, given all of the work they're doing upstream, they'll want those changes ASAP.
Not quite. They can be _represented_ that way (but not uniquely, e.g. c=(a+bi) vs abs(c)=r, arg(c)=Θ) or they can be treated as fundamental (defined by axioms), or as a sub-field of the quaternions, etc. If this seems counterintuitive, think of how the claim that "words are just sequences of letters" breaks down when you examine it closely.

Also, I'm not seeing why a tuple (A,B) (with order) is simpler than a set {A,B} or a bag [A,B].
Is the global south part of western culture?
What are all those Unknown JSC Vimpel objects in that one well-defined orbit between LEO and geostationary?
Hot take: slavery was actually always awful.
Which is your right to lower your trust! Just don't expect him or X to give you a platform to air said grievances. You don't have a right to speak truth to power on that power's platform or for anyone to care. I've been told ad nauseam that the first amendment only applies to government.
The cost of solar as a 24hr power supply must include the cost of storage for the 16+ hours that it's not at peak power. It also needs to overproduce by 3x to meet that demand.

Solar provides cheap power only when it's producing.
You are delusional. Each and every LLM (by design) is uncapable of having arbitrary long conversation as it has finite context window, and hallucinate left and right. But that is all irrelevant, as Penroses point is not about that.

In fact what Penrose saying is that LLMs are Searles Chinese rooms, as they lack qualia, and he offers quantum processes as basis for the qualia, however vagues it sounds.

So the point is not intelligence, not consciosness; cats arguably has less intelligence than LLM, but they clearly have emotions and are conscious.
The simpler break-down here is that they are crappy con artists and need to be be better at con-artisting. Which is fine, but please let's not pretend it's very different.
Good question, took me a while to figure out why I preferred over Copilot.

Number one was the "apply" suggestions from chat, but now I think Copilot has it too.

Number two are the suggestions while I am typing to change multiple lines at once. Such a time saver.

Number three is how I can send entire files/folders as reference in the chat.

Also, it feels a bit snappier? The suggestions seem to come a bit faster than Copilot.

In terms of correctness / good good, they're both equally good (and bad).

To me it's all about how much time I am saving. When I sit down 30-90 minutes 3-4 times a week to code, I just feel like it helps me to get more stuff done.
The original claim was essentially that energy use can't increase past a certain point because it would result in too much energy density. The obvious flaw in the claim is that it assumes no ability to increase the volume of space in which the energy use takes place, which is an invalid premise. Space is really big.
Bluetooth LE support would be great. That's the one P2P thing that allows Apple and other devices to communicate without an internet connection (or at least a Wi-Fi infrastructure network).
6502 has 3510 Transistors. 4500 gates seam impossible.
The reason so many men wind up getting promotions
Reading a brief quote given to a journalist and assuming you fully understand the scientific reasoning that went into that snippet intended for lay audiences is also a remarkable assumption. There is an incredible amount of context missing from the article, the quote, and of course discussion in this thread. But my main issue is that you jump from phrasing in the quote, 'supports the model,' to 'must be' which is an underhanded way to make the researcher seem ridiculous.

"We can't come up with anything better, and have ruled out everything we reasonably can at this point in our inquiry, so therefore the findings support the only remaining plausible mechanism" is literally how science works a lot of the time. It's why the researcher specifically said 'supports the model' not 'must be quantum consciousness,' because this researcher knows and is implicitly acknolwedging there is a whole lot more work to be done.
> If every startup in the world applied and they could choose, of course that would be better.

Would it? With numbers that large, how could anyone possibly do a meaningful comparison and pick out the twenty or thirty or fifty that would get in?

In other words, if it's obvious to everybody that you are getting too many applications to meaningfully evaluate all of them, they everybody knows that you are not meaningfully evaluating all of them. You're applying some kind of mindless algorithmic filter to narrow down the possibilities. But that's not YC's brand. YC's brand is providing meaningful evaluation of startups. Once that brand is undermined, it's gone.
I'm not - I think I learn better by reading. But I know a lot of people who do prefer discussions, and I thought that the comment I replied to came off as arrogant and dismissive of the idea that anyone else might learn differently.

I've listened to a few NotebookLM samples but haven't used it myself, so I can't really speak to how creepy it is in practice. Probably pretty creepy! (I don't think that the female voice in the samples sounds "semi-adolescent," though, for what it's worth - both of the voices just sound like millennial podcasters to me.)
Web UIs tend to make heavy use of message passing via event listeners.

The major difference between web UIs and desktop apps is two fold.
In web UIs, you don’t generally have an event loop in which you change your app state based on system input events and there is, generally, a slow request/response cycle for any interaction.

That’s why immediate mode UI doesn’t really fit well in web land.
Yeah, but talking about grand unification of any kind in 2024 seems to be besides the point.

Newton postulated a relationship between physics on Earth and the cosmos, specifically that a single theory of gravity explains objects falling here and the moon orbiting around the Earth, planets going around the Sun, etc.

Astronomical measurements show quite clearly that there either (1) there is a sector of hidden particles and fields responsible for most of the mass of the universe or (2) gravity and/or inertia (two sides of the same coin?) don't behave the same way at the galaxy scale as the solar system scale.

Either way Newton's connection has broken down, so the physics we know is not the physics of the real world. The microphysics of MOND are baffling; it's not hard to imagine some particles and fields that explain dark matter but impossible to prove that any of them are for real unless we get a breakthrough in experiment that can rule some of them out.