skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding. Are you suggesting using automation to build a list of missing pages for humans to write with said process (automated backlog curation)? Like, walking the knowledge graph and providing analytics on that? Or writing the missing pages with automation?

Workload management for humans is always welcome (two cents, thoughts opinions my own, yadda yadda). Shipping slop to a canonical historical and cultural reference? This is not good, I will die on this hill.
My understanding is that Q is a general purpose internal ai/search service - similar to Glean or Microsoft's equivalents.

Our tool focuses on support use cases (customer-facing or internal-facing), which means we can go deep with workflows like detecting gaps in your documentation and focusing our efforts on quality around these scenarios. Generally our support copilot intro'd here also generates dynamic UIs so goes beyond a normal chat interface.
Serde is a fantastic part of the Rust ecosystem, and is often credited as a reason people reach for Rust. This power and convenience coming to C++ should be a cause for celebration, in my mind. I am sad that Rust is missing an opportunity to do similar here, and hope that someone will pick the proposal back up someday.

Barry was kind enough to share a draft of this with me, and he inserted this based on some of my feedback:

> newer Rust has something called derive macro helper attributes which will make this easier to do.

Apparently I am mistaken about this, and basically every Rust procedural macro does what serde does here. I find the documentation for this a bit confusing. I've emailed him to let him know, and please consider this mistake mine, not his!
Nope.

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/5714/
How much clean energy went into the production of those batteries?

TBH how much clean energy goes into the production of clean energy equipment and its materials?
1. If the weights somehow are obtained by a foreign power, you can't do anything, just like every other technology ever.

2. If it turns into a malicious agent you just hit the "off switch", or, more likely just stop the software, like you turn off your word processor.
Firstly, we should probably not start by building a mathematical renewable energy model that presumes wind energy doesn't exist. Storing solar energy for use while the wind is blowing hard is a bit pointless and vice versa.

You don't store energy from solar on a sunny winter day to use at midnight when the wind is blowing hardest and consumption is lowest. Your store energy to use on those rarer hours when it is neither sunny nor windy and when consumption exceeds the production of both.

This can be done cost effectively and at scale in two ways - 1) by pushing water uphill for short term storage and 2) by manufacturing hydrogen and storing it underground for longer term storage.

So, you combine overproduced solar, wind, pumping water uphill and electrolyzing and storing hydrogen to match demand with supply.

Solar and wind and their transmission are distributed. This makes them poor terrorism targets. A nuclear plant, on the other hand, is a great target for terrorists.
http://archive.today/sgUZN
In this vein I liked this book:

I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-hate-running-and-you-can-too-...
You're right! This has been corrected. Thanks!
No, that’s really not clear at all. You are still assuming corruption is the cause of these actions.

China consistently ranks far worse in terms of corruption on pretty much all organizations that do such evaluations.
Is This Tomorrow?
Which law are you thinking about in particular?

I expectation is that the microphone above the rooftop will not pick up on normal conversations, only louder stuff.
nothing like closing the content loop! try to make that direct.
Hahaha

Here we go, a claim that AI will create a glut of things detrimental to society

And then you’ll have the usual response that the things detrimental to society have already been there and this is nothing new

And round and round we go, while AI advances and totally commoditizes all the things humans produce that you found meaningful.
A friend of mine from New Mexico calls them Trustafarians, where they exist in droves.
Very cool! This seems like an excellent backup utility as part of core SQLite. Great that you can still run write transactions on the origin while it’s in progress, i wonder what the guarantees are there for which in-progress transactions are synced to the replica.

EDIT: ah, missed this part

> REPLICA becomes a copy of a snapshot of ORIGIN as it existed when the sqlite3-rsync command started. If other processes change the content of ORIGIN while this command is running, those changes will be applied to ORIGIN, but they are not transferred to REPLICA Thus, REPLICA ends up as a fully-consistent snapshot of ORIGINAL at an instant in time.
This is actually well said. One of the issues we had to overcome with Zenode was the fact that people reference the same information in completely different ways. For example, "what's the nominal power draw" and "what's the typical power output" are the same query, but to an LLM, these are different.

We had to do a ton of work to get the tool to consistently return the same value (and still sometimes it shits the bed).

So yeah, even light technical jargon can confuse the heck out of an LLM, which is why that wasn't the only tool that's necessary to build this.

Try us out, would be curious to get your feedback! www.zenode.ai
No, the above poster is talking about the Lil Jon song called "Turn down for what" and it's not about volume.
At this point we're just trading sci-fi story ideas. If we can learn to manage our population growth and/or energy consumption growth, then that's awesome!

Watch the Bartlett lecture.
Is there a tool to do the opposite? I can't stand podcasts as a format (even if transcribed).
why was it so hard to find a deal with the cofounder?
Be Kind, Be Curious
Community Network Map Shows the Explosion of Publicly Owned Networks
because he knew he either would get the buyout or the settlement money
Ycombinations.com: All possible combinations of every "X for Y" YC company
I scraped every Y Combinator company with an "X for Y" description and generated every possible "X for Y" combination.

YCombinations.com is an exhaustive list of every terrible "Uber for Pets" (it's in there) pitch you've heard.

Some personal favorites:

- “Digital therapy for former Soviet Union countries.”

- “Marketplace for non-experts.”

- “The AI co-pilot for women.”

You can search for Y Combinations by batch, industry, region, and more. Upvote your favorites and check out the trending list.

(Yes, they are permutations.)
seedbox + syncthing, downloads quickly to a seedbox, syncs locally encrypted, and deletes the torrent at the end
Even very intense psychedelic experiences have not come close to the pleasure and contentment that I sometimes feel on a run. I don't race though, or try and push myself particularly, just do my best to get out a few times and week and cover some ground at a comfortable pace.
Maybe not arguing for the acceptance of a bad situation just because it is ubiquitous?! I have a strong dislike against people knowing perfectly well that something is bad but still they raise their voice for the acceptance of that bad thing on the basis of size, of giving up and doing absolutely nothing against it, not even trying.

... or ... if I see it from a different standpoint then doing nothing is not that a bad idea actully. In my case I make it very hard sharing (accessing) pictures of my kids with relatives. Knowing how the big tech hijacking the communication that is used by average folk and how ignorant most are towards privacy implications on others I rather not share pictures except with those few being able to handle secure channel and private thing the way supposed to. Or they can come over in person. So I have to agree now, doing nothing, not using contemporary technology is a great idea! And ban it from (your own) children too.
The only thing we need to implement from your list is the carbon tax. But it has to be sufficiently high.

The rest will happen without extra nudging just because doing it "the wrong way" will be too expensive.

By feeding carbon tax money into carbon extraction we can eventually start reducing amount of carbon in atmosphere.
> A guitar doesn't make the musician, and the hammer doesn't make the carpenter.

A good guitar player or a good carpenter sure as shit know a good tool from a bad tool. Good tools are force multipliers and can can make somebody much better than without the tool.

Plus bad tools can actively keep people away from learning new things. A shitty soldering iron can absolutely convince somebody they suck at soldering. Sure a pro can make use of a shitty soldering iron but they won’t do it willingly and their output will be subpar. Same with cooking and bad knives. Same with anything.

The argument that “tools don’t make somebody good” is pretty silly. They absolutely do.
May he run over many CIA glowies in heaven <3
That's the goal indeed! What we have right now is version 1, but there's still a lot of room for improvement.
I don't know of an internal feedback tool, that's not more general purpose. I think a lot of what you're describing is the-practice-of-software-development. There are Lots of possible solutions, what works best for _your_ team will be somewhat unique to them.

The company I work for [0] provides application hosting which includes automatic preview URLs, that can also be associated with a Github PR. The PR will have a link to the environment, with discussion below. Subsequent releases to the environment also get registered with the PR so it's easy to catalogue and annotate developments/fixes.

0. https://noop.dev
Technically, didn't they introduce it in 1861?
It’s not hard to have a reliable setup when moving around. You just need a working computer, and a workable internet connection. Starlink resolved the latter.

Even at home, my setup is literally a laptop on a table and some form of internet connection.

It’s been the same for over a decade, just different laptops.

You don’t need multiple monitors and a fucking special desk or seat to be productive - that’s the lie that companies marketing towards devs tell you.

You just need a computer that works and a workable internet connection. The rest is a bonus.

Some of my best work has been done in airport lounges, on trains, or in the passenger seat of a pickup truck with a mounted Starlink while going at Mach Jesus down some fucked up dirt roads in the middle of nowhere.
That is a world class article, thanks for sharing it. Saving to share with anyone in the future that needs advice.

>They are the future you. Do not think that you will be substantially different. Look carefully at how they spend their time at work and outside of work, because this is also almost certainly how your life will look. It sounds obvious, but it’s amazing how often young people imagine a different projection for themselves.
I don't think that's true. What's your example? As far as I know any operation on a classical computer can be emulated on a quantum computer in some short amount of time; constant time, maybe.
Many exploited systems have effectively done this. A random number generator is seeded with something like "PID + timestamp + milliseconds since system startup." But all these numbers cluster in a small range, so it's practical to test all of them and figure out the seed.
For the uninitiated like myself, PearAi just took the source code of continue.dev (not fork, they copy pasted) and did some clunky work on it. That was their entry to YC.
You can pyrolize the wood by cooking it in an oxygen-free environment, cooking off almost all of the nitrogen and other nutrients and leaving nearly pure carbon in the form of charcoal.

Off the top of my head, for a given amount of wood biomass, you can get about a 70% ratio of product to fuel if you use a high-efficiency wood fire to cook the wood itself.

Then you can take that carbon, bury it in decommissioned open pit mines, or use it as a soil additive (biochar), where it will sequester the carbon for thousands of years and act as a fertilizer.

You could also pair the biochar with a fast-growing swamp tree (willow?), re-incorporating the char into the areas around the willow plantation to create a sort of artificial peat bog which could also be useful for water storage and filtration.
Highly recommended. Congrats on the HN launch.

Inkeep works great at Pinecone and meaningfully reduced the number of support tickets with common questions/issues.

[1] https://support.pinecone.io/
The other option you don't mention is "algorithms can solve it, but they do something different to what humans do". That's what happened with Go and Chess, for example.

I agree with you that people don't consider intelligence as fundamentally algorithmic. But I think the appeal of algorithmic intelligence comes from the fact that a lot of intelligent behaviours (strategic thinking, decomposing a problem into subproblems, planning) are (or at least feel) algorithmic.
Hello! I had to reply to your comment here because your reply was briefly flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41697810
Farmers tend to have very high net worths and very low disposable income until they get old. You need several million dollars worth of land just to make the payments on that land/equipment and have enough left over to live on. And of course there are years where you will lose money and so you need to figure out how to ride that out. Then in 30 years you make the last payment on the land and suddenly what was just barely enough money to live on is a massive income and you are extremely wealthy.

I work in flyover country. I'm not a farmer my self, but several of my co workers are - they farm 100 acres of land after work, and it generates just enough money to make the payments land payments. They are looking to buy more land as soon as they can finance it (often leasing it to a neighbor to farm as they don't have time and so they lose money on the land). Their plan is in 15-20 years inflation will have made crops more valuable while the land payments are the same and so they can afford to quit the day job and farm all their land.

Getting started is the hard part. Getting two million dollar loan for 100 acres of prime farmland when you are not already a farmer is hard. Many farmers thus start with livestock, you can start on 10 acres of non-prime farmland which is affordable and then over a few years build enough credibility with the bank to get that first large field which is where the money is.
I don't know if it's "pure pleasure" but running reliably makes me feel good. Very good if the weather is nice. I'm happy it's healthy as well.
Not going to name names, but so far my favorite has been “AI for [somewhat arcane process]”.

I had no idea how “AI” could possibly be of use, so clicked through out of curiosity. Hilariously, it boiled down to “we occasionally use an LLM to email people for you.”
Nobody I know seriously claims that free speech and communication exclusively has upsides, but I'd argue that the benefits vastly outweigh the downsides and risks.

Whether freedom of speech should be externally "dictated", i.e. against the laws passed and enforced by an elected (or often not so much elected) local government, is a much more complicated question, but the ethics of providing a pure communications tool (i.e. a tool that isn't directly leveraged by its creators for foreign propaganda etc.) seem fairly clear to me: I think the desire for communication and information of somebody in such a region is ethical; the desire of others to suppress it isn't.
What's happening at the intersection of ML and Engineering
It depends more on whether the language tooling supports it. I used Lombok back in the day with Netbeans. When properly setup it would pop to the generated code when debugging or if you went to a definition, pretty easy.
I'm sure Wolfram is for real; it's just funny how supposed scientists would jump out of their trousers to criticise him, all the while happily ignoring fraud in their immediately field, their own faculties, etc. Talk spineless. Then the next big fraud is revealed, and they suddenly go back to the usual pikachu face routine.

Surprise!
AWESOME project. thank you for the inspiration! and the hope!
I share your skepticism that rules can contain these technologies. But "society to learn how to behave in this new environment" underplays how continuous souveillance [1] limits our individual liberty. So much of our freedom in public (which has declined enormously in my lifetime) comes from our relative anonymity in public spaces. Sure we are being monitored by CCTV and so on, but until very recently we had a basic assurance of freedom to speak and act without being individually identified and monitored.

The normalisation of AI + continual recording from audio or video recording devices (say future smart glasses) would create an entirely different order of self consciousness.

The chilling effect of a subconscious awareness of being continually observed and recorded precludes many kinds of practical freedom. Political protest, 'controversial' speech, spontaneous performance etc. Just as paradoxically, being able to share our thoughts at any time reduces their value and their capacity to amuse entertain or instate change. Have you ever tried to have a conversation with someone who's filming you with their phone? Or tried to completely forget the 'hot' mic in an interview? There's a basic disingenuousness to performance, and if we're all forced to perform all the time - the healthy space for self is diminished to the interior. A place our technology will no doubt force into the light in due course.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
Who forked VSCode this time?
All these same things are true for emacs/vim/CLion plugins as well. You kind of either have to accept the risk cowboy style, do something in the middle (maybe only allow very well known extensions from source you trust), or live without the extensions.
Why Your Rails-Like Framework Is Not Widely Used
Personally I can’t stand measuring my performance, but a run outside in fresh air, in any weather, is grand, sometimes transcendent.
Everyone is missing the reason they got accepted: they are some kind of tech influencers have 300k subs on YouTube.

You have 10 mins to pitch your idea, so they went in and said ”look, we work for coinbase, we're competent. Look, we have 300k subs on YouTube, we know how to sell shit and get attention. Look we have <some random AI thing>, we got it all" and that's all it takes. The problem is, they want to sell dev tools and those tend to be more grounded in reality than <some random social media thing> where their attitude and skills might be a better fit. Lots of devs like calling out bullshit as a hobby and making fun of shoddily built stuff, so it's a tough audience.

YC doesn't do "due diligence" and never has, not worth it for the $125k they put in. The real danger is they become known as the place for bullshit peddlers, influencers, etc.

Edit: 344k subs: https://youtube.com/@fryingpan?si=QIPTDvJATXFNYBPM
This is good to know.

I'd be interested to see a comparison in performance of the same (recent) game on the same hardware with Windows vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD; I assume there will be a small penalty from Windows to Linux (in general) and a larger one from Windows to FreeBSD, just because the games are not optimized for the best way to do things on the other platforms. Syscall emulation gets you comparable functionality but not necessarily comparable performance, given there's mismatch between the underlying abstractions.

On the driver front, even if it's just nVidia that's holding things back [edit: apparently they're not], that's still going to affect most PC gamers.
I never expected there to be so many satellites orbiting Earth. It feels like we've cluttered space with all these objects.
Same, although I know Shazam does most of its work on very high frequencies so it’s possible we’re not able to hear the part that got matched.

The “Not Like Us” snippet (09/29 2:43pm) is easily recognizable though. And “Rockabye” can be heard at 3:05pm.
The interesting modern flipside to this is that people very consistently underestimate the weight of firearms.
No, because Continue actually added value on top of VS Code. PearAI has not added value on top of Continue -- yet.
Very true.

Saw one recently that literally forked VSCode and Cursor and called it a company with some really shady practices. Not even sure what YC was thinking with that one, but it indeed falls into the category of comical vaporware.

How did something like this get funded? They must think there will be a follow through to liquidity event, but no clue how. Maybe YC is playing into the bigger fool theory that someone else will come along and pay more so YC can extricate their equity.
Sadly, we now have a whole generation of web devs that don't know anything other than SPAs.
Unrelated, but has Cursor achieved this kind of mind share?

Last week, I heard about a company (I think it was an YC company) describing themselves as "open source Cursor".

Also last week, a comment here on HN stuck with me: "I live inside Cursor" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651380

And now, the Cursor for Help Desk.

I've used Cursor, and I loved it. 10 to 1 over regular GitHub Copilot, and well worth the $20 dollars and I am a hobby programmer (management job during the day).

But... all this? It has become the reference point just like we had "Uber for...", "AirBnb for...". It seems like it happened so fast.
What law is that that's broken here?
I find the statement quite well measured. He’s not giving a solution, that’s not easy, but is specifically calling out evidence-based measures. The statement calls out both the need to regulate, and the need to innovate. The issue is not black and white and neither is the statement.
The founders showed hustle, as every founder must. nothing wrong with that in my book.

But they need adult-guidance on communication. You dont go around twitter boasting about your 270K job etc. They need to show grown up hustle (grit, perseverence, etc). Not high-school (mine is bigger than yours) hustle.
Once you learn to cook properly from cookbooks, online recipes become useful again. You will instinctively know which recipes are good and which ones to avoid; further, you”ll know how to modify a so-so online recipe into something passable.

BTW, get Hazan’s book, “Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking”. Much like Julia Child’s book, but for Italian cuisine.
There's no ongoing development, he wants the recurring revenue to build a cash reserve so he has the option to hire a freelancer to fix bugs or implement new features if they are needed, if not then he just keeps the cash.

edit: I'm not condoning nor condemning OP's monetization strategy, I'm just summarizing what he has explained on the original post and subsequent comments.

Direct quotes:

> I suspect further development might be needed as bugs emerge or API behavior changes

> It’s not free because freeware also requires to provide support.

> if it happens that I get a few hundred paying users I can pay a freelancer to improve on the app occasionally or rationalize spending time on this fixing bugs and adding features
Starlink, ironically, is more reliable than either of the FTTH providers where I live - in a first world country with a massive tech industry.

Ambient noises/infosec issues - noise cancelling headphones and FDE with offsite (encrypted) backups resolves this.

If someone was to steal my laptop right now, I’d be back online within “how long does it take me to buy a replacement laptop and restore from backup?”.

It has happened before - I had a bag with laptop stolen on a business trip and was able to recover within a day and complete my work with fuck all disruption.