skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amplitude CEO here. To clear a few things up:

The number that was reported in term sheet / pro rata did not include any stock, which was a big part of this deal. The total consideration for CommandAI was north of $45M. We're working with them to issue a correction. Long story how the wrong number got reported- mostly too much telephone. It was also a good outcome for their investors in that they were able to return more than what was raised.

We at Amplitude approached the Command AI founders about joining Amplitude. They had a bunch of runway and good growth numbers. They were initially planning to raise another round of fundraising to continue to scale their business instead. It took some time on both sides to figure out what the win-win combination would look like.

We're honored that they decided to combine with Amplitude and are excited about what the combined products look like.
Advice on what kind of cofounder to look for if I'm an industry expert
I'm in logistics industry and been doing operations for over a decade including scaling startups from 0 to post Series E stage as an operator. I'm working on building a shipping solution that has key advantages over the incumbents. It will be marketed to ecommerce stores: Smaller stores to begin with. I'm already looking for a minority tech cofounder(it's more ops heavy than tech) but in terms of other main cofounder im a little confused. Some tell me initially its not about sales but customer discovery and its me who should be doing it even though I have never done sales before, some ask me to get sales person and some other say marketing; as to get ecommerce brands especially smaller ones its marketing thats a pull (content, SEO, etc is the key).
I'm totally open to do sales myself and am doing it now but soon I see myself spending more time on ops as im starting to get traction now.

My question is how much flexibility should I have around this main cofounder or do I even need one and wait to get early employee as sales or marketing.

I'm open to equal split but that person needs to bring a lot of value: lot of industry expertise in same field on marketing/sales building 0 to 1 but since this thing needs industry expertise, I think this has a very low chance so trying to be practical around what may happen in next few months.

FYI, I do want a cofounder but don’t want to force it.
Tackling the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus with Vision Transformers
> One can build programmable editors in many interactive languages

Of course, one can - VSCode is a "programmable editor", no? Emacs is a bit different though, wouldn't you agree? It's rather a Lisp REPL that has a text-editor built on top of it.
Facts? lol!
I am curious about your suffixes.

I mean, I understand the post fine, but I have never seen the units (Mo, mo) before and am wondering where they came from.

I would guess mo is megabytes(megaoctets?) and Mo is gigabytes(is ipython really 15GB? yikes)
Yeah this article contains no details and sounds self-congratulatory more than anything. As someone currently working with these same technologies for a new and ambitious project this frankly makes me less likely to hair Wistia, not more.

There are plenty of challenges with video transcoding and delivery even today. ffmpeg/libav are still at the core of any transcoding but they are opaque and their integrals are difficult to understand let alone modify. Global CDNs are able to help but you do hit a wall pretty quickly where it goes from cheap to expensive to basically impossible. WebRTC is an emerging technology that is still full of bugs in the spec and implementation. Browsers don’t really handle video decoding in what you might call robust way.

There are plenty of problems to solve in this space. Just saying that you built infrastructure that is “ reliable, scalable, high-quality, secure, and cutting-edge” is not enough to explain how you overcome any challenges. It just sounds like a buzzword salad.
While I, as a Meteorologist and formerly involved in the TV business, I agree with you on using visuals entirely to overstate this, the fact that the field in the dome was set up before the storm to house thousands of electrical lineman and relief workers expected after the storm, says that the roof coming off was NOT an expected outcome from Milton, making it a reasonable way to tell the story on the news.
Onsite I used the Matterport capture app and Matterport Pro 2 and BLK 360. For the web version linked here, I built on top of the Matterport SDK with Three.js https://matterport.github.io/showcase-sdk/sdkbundle_home.htm...

So in the virtual tour, you're seeing 360 imagery from the cameras and a lower resolution version of the 3d capture data, optimized for web. The lower res mesh from the scanner is transparent in first-person view mode so users get cursor effects on top of the 360 image.

For film, PBS sent out a documentary crew, and they wanted me to render some footage of the full tunnel system, so I exported the e57 pointcloud data from Matterport and rendered the clips they needed in Unreal. It should be coming out soon with "In the Americas."
Stephen King: you'll know better than to FAFO after I tell you what happened in Maine a few decades ago.
The past decade and ventures like WeWork and Theranos have shown me that profitability doesn't necessarily have bearing over a certain timescale.

You can keep the bus rolling for a surprisingly long time before the wheels fall off.
Except they didn't consider any other medical procedures to be "unnecessary." Just dental x-rays. I think they were right for the right reasons, but not the right right reasons if that makes sense. They were worried about unnecessary exposure to radiation, and they turned out to be right that it was unnecessary even if the risk was overstated.
iPads need to have some sort of bezel, else how are you going to hold the thing?
iPhones you can grip the sides, iPads not so much.
thanks for the detailed answer, so following your explanation if I wanted to transmit scientific data at regular intervals (for my friends field work) what sort of licensing / permission would I need?

Funnily enough someone posted down a few comments here almost exactly what I had complained about not existing ( http://www.mobilinkd.com/ ) at least if I understand that page correctly.
Aggressively commoditizing the complement has been a good strategy for them.
I've not noticed a change in the amount of usage of "open" or any mental shortcuts about it since it was introduced via the term "open source" in the 1990s. If anything, there's less discussion and abuse of the term now. The only memery that I see is from OpenAI, which had aspirations to openness in the past but which today is a sham.

Facebooks open efforts here are completely great, IMHO, and have benefited me personally and professionally.
There was definitely similar backlash against Python, with a lot of people calling it not "real" programming
Oh man, the BLK360 can be a frustrating (albeit incredible) device even in the best of conditions, let alone this. Glad to hear everything survived!

I mostly use the Pro3 now but did a big chunk of this Georgia Tech scan with the BLK: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=PB8FgAyyjHx
Correct. DKMS is an automation tool/framework for preparing local Linux kernel modules. DKMS is stable. I write this as someone who has been responsible for commercial support for hardware products used with Linux systems at more than one organization.

I do know there are others out there, paid "professionals" staffed at some vendors, who struggle with DKMS. But not everyone paid to work with DKMS is necessarily competent by virtue of being paid to do a job.
we currently spend about half our waking hours during the day at work during the week. if we got those 8 hours of sleep back then presumably we would get 4 more hours of non-working awake time.

seems decent to me. I hate sleeping, the problem is i get tired and cant avoid it.
The article noted that some massive cruft cut-backs could be in the cards.
http://payloadcms.com -- I'm all in after 12 years on WP.
If you need to separately convert files yourself, then it is by definition not drop in
Same boat.

As we all realize, WordPress itself is not an immaculate piece of code, but it's the plugin library that makes it. But we now know that even the plugins themselves are liable to hijacking from within.

While it would be nice to start from scratch with a modern, better CMS - the reality is going to be something like ClassicPress but using only premium, manually installed plugins.
It's kind of dying on the server, some people thought it would replace containers.
> Part of the magic of learning Rust is realizing that it's a fast compiled language that one doesn't fear to apply to services connected to the open internet. This is so unusual, it may be unique.

Is that sarcasm? If not, thanks for proving my point.

From the top of my head, Go/.NET/Java are fast and safe choices. Also safe in the sense that you won't have a hard time hiring devs that are productive from the get go.
Sadly, I don’t think Safari or Firefox are close to shipping OPFS. https://caniuse.com/?search=File%20System
I think any content the user might care to select should be selectable, even if native apps often neglect this feature.

But I agree that UI elements (eg. buttons) should not be selectable. Even in regular websites, it's best to set the whole gamut of appropriate CSS properties so they behave like native UI widgets. I also make sure to set `cursor: pointer` on anything clickable.

Web apps that just set an onclick handler on a div and call it done are a pet peeve of mine.
"Can store data" isn't "will work locally"

For one thing, it's origin-private, so take a guess how well that works when the company owning the DNS records for that origin goes out of business.

(There's also the issue with actually having an executable that can just run without any external dependencies)
Thanks! I wasn't directly involved in that discussion, but I imagine anyone can do it. It is a requirement for some grants and for some research funders.

Edit: if you need to know I would just ask the editor if it's an option
We consume what is around this. To fault or ask for change in the consumer is to fault or ask for change human nature, which is a futile endeavor. It seems that a well-functioning society would be structured with the awareness of this fact, and with safeguards to ensure that media isn't a race to the bottom of emotional manipulation (not because of any moralistic hand-wringing, but because it's detrimental to society when that's what media has become). The real (and really big) question is, what productive steps can we take in that direction?
Sounds similar to this:

https://kottke.org/09/07/the-steve-ward-diet

but maybe not quite the same.
Are sets and symbols the building blocks of mathematics?
Hacker News: Apple launches data center on a stick, and boy does Elon Musk have an opinion about that (14879 comments)
There is a tremendous amount of misinformation in this.

1.) When meteorologists say it will be dangerous, it is either cold enough for exposed skin to freeze or very slippery. Both of those situations are dangerous.

2.)Help is not readily available in ‘the country’. I could drive you forty five minutes outside of my city and you will have no cell service. People die in their cars out in the country.

If you’re not careful with cold, you’ve been trusting luck instead of foresight. Cold is very dangerous.
Are all TV newsreaders as aggressive and cynical as this?
Let's also admit every language before Rust hasn't succeeded at out right replacing the vast majority of C/C++, so it becomes it's own form of conservatism/bias. This post is coming from one of the few companies that actually does complete large scale rewrites of things. I'm curious/excited to see how it goes for them.

And I have that C/C++ bias: I don't enjoy programming in rust as much as I do C, but I don't like doing lots of new things.
I was wondering the same, was it a decision or a realization? I suppose the decision part is to do it now rather than later when it can get messier. I've gone down with a startup ship and it was rather pointless.
japan is small and europe doesn't do cross border rail well. I could see doing it onia boston to chicago trip (you have to get off in ny anyway) though really it only makes sense for trips where flying makes sense.
What do Java generics have to do with Python's abstract base classes?
Praxis Announces $525M Financing for New City
You’re right, I forgot about the skepticism GCed languages initially faced.
> Apple is the only one making ARM chips fast enough to be competitive even with emulation.

My big problem is Rosetta 2 doesn’t emulate AVX which more and more software uses.

I work in an AI platform team. I’m not actually trying to do machine learning stuff under it, but I just want to start the Docker containers to test some unrelated functions on my laptop. And that happens to start Tensorflow and pgvector, even though I’m not really using either in anger in this case. And both try to use AVX, and then get a SIGILL, so those containers fail to start.

Maybe should just build Linux ARM Docker containers but trying to get some ARM CI machines to build them with (we could just use our laptops but want to do it properly)
How on earth does the "AI! Paradigm change!" noise make any sense as reason for a shutdown?
Do you ever have issues sending messages using user.acme@example.com as the from address?

Some companies want you to respond from the email address on file when you interact with them.
I share your skepticism of B2B companies making claims of being AI driven! Most stuff I see is a thin wrapper around an existing workflow where the AI isn't adding any meaningful functionality (also see: crypto).

We've been very deliberate about integrating AI functionality in a way that's additive: recommendations, proactive insights, and summarization are all areas that are a leap forward in the data space. What the CommandAI team has done is legit- it's their fastest growing functionality in terms of usage. We'll have more here soon.

Relevant TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFHap9QW/
I lost an arguement one time to a guy that was an anti-fluoride nut. My uncle was the same and so I took the pro-fluoride position as the science that he was spewing was dodgey tabloid level material.

The arguement ended with me having to admit that I hadn't looked into it closely but had assumed that it was safe because that's what everyone reasonable seemed to be saying.

Here's the paragraph from the study that made me change my viewpoint:
> Although the studies lacked sufficient detail for the committee to fully assess their quality and relevance to U.S. populations, the consistency of the results appears significant enough to warrant additional research on the effects of fluoride on intelligence.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2006. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11571.

That's pretty strong language and when it comes to something like mass medicating a 2-3 IQ point drop population wide, with a history of claiming substances like DDT or asbestos being safe right up until the point that it isn't, I think we should err on the side of caution.
Journalism is a storytelling business that is optimized for psychological impact, no more and no less honorable than writing a children's book or a screenplay.

Scientists are after fact.

Philosophers are after truth.

The commentariat are after repeat customers.

This isn't a dig on journalists or meteorologists btw, but let's drop the heroic pretense. Even Edward Murrow shoveled mostly slop.
> If consoles did it, it would most likely mean a break in backwards compatibility or a lot of investment in emulation.

Consoles tend to break compatibility every like couple of generations anyway. The PS5 is only compatible with PS4, for example, because the PS3 used the PowerPC-based Cell. Also, Nintendo has been using ARM since like, the Gameboy Advance (Fun fact is that in handhelds nintendo tended to use the previous generation's CPU as a sound chip, and would use it when running previous generation carts) (Nintendo home consoles before the switch used PowerPC. The Nintendo 64 used MIPS)

I agree with you on the custom PC market, but that has to be pretty small compared to consoles.
If you don't want a simple commenting system, go for Hugo.
You should be able to do this with nerfstudio: https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/ I've done it a few times, you can test 3d Gaussian Splatting also instead.
I like what they're working towards with V in Vinix as well. Exciting times to see such things with ABI compat with Linux opening new paradigms.
Is Drupal still a thing?

I have always considered Drupal to be a pretty industrial-strength system, but quite complex.

One of the nice things about Drupal, is that you could customize the backend. I have always hated WP's backend.
I moderately frequently wonder what is next for me after WordPress. The drama has nothing to do with it though. I don't use WP Engine (have long thought they seemed off), and I don't see the drama causing wordpress.org or wordpress.com to fall.
great project mate! but i'd like to know how to get in touch with you. please reply with an email address where i can contact you
> But a Bao-feng handheld that costs around $40 or so can work the local repeaters on 2m or 70cm and is a fine way to get started, learn the lingo, etc.

Baofeng makes a $25 radio that works on 2m/70cm and with repeaters. If you live in a place where there are hurricanes/earthquakes, there is no excuse to not have one charged up and ready to go. Getting the basic ham radio license is easy.
I'm a software developer from Brazil. We have very good dentists here. All my colleagues that went to work in Europe or USA complain of the dentists there, how pricey and bad they are. They wait till they need to come to Brazil to go to the dentist.

When they have something costly to do, they even say that if the dentist alone pays for their all their trip expenses.
From the about page:

> Specific Goals of this Project

> Insofar as possible, support persistent client-side storage using available JS APIs. As of this writing, that includes the Origin-Private FileSystem (OPFS) and (very limited) storage via the window.localStorage and window.sessionStorage backend.
The most recent version with the front page image having a correct link is this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220401185037/http://www.lillia...

Captures newer than that have the image linking to CBD gummies.
You know your knowledge and experience gaps better than we do. You want a cofounder who's just as excited about your mission as you are and complements you. You bring skills and experience to the table that they don't have, they bring skills and experience to the table that you don't have.

Above all, you want mutual respect and understanding. With your experience I find it doubtful that you don't already have someone in mind.
I do think there's a bit of the Ignaz Semmelweis[1] issue at hand here, where developers want to believe in their inherent quality and refuse processes that improve safety if it goes against their worldview.

Also, no other language has really posed an existential threat to C/C++ developers. Other languages have narrowed the pool, but Rust is the first to really be a possible replacement. Now, there's no real chance that Rust will actually replace C/C++ in the near future, but even the threat can be a huge concern.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
How does Appfigures estimate revenue?
Lol ok so imagine your dream scenario is everyone, magically and with equality, is able to live and reproduce to absurdly long time frames - that’s also a hellscape in so many easily imaginable ways. you’ll start to see jobs requiring 100+ years experience or with the right genetic modifications to make you insurable enough to invest a 60 year career into. Since this is all science fiction, we can imagine all sorts of things as we understand this is fiction. My only real point is this isn’t a utopian future. we can’t deal with the amount of humans we already have at the ages they live to. I don’t see what solving aging does to solve any of these problems.
Interesting but it ended so.. abruptly! I was hoping for a LOT more. I think if you're interested in this subject area you must get a copy of Ghost In The Wires, and The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick.
It really doesn’t though. You could scale down to a 1-3 person team. Stop building new features. Keep a full stack dev on for 1year to fix bugs and the remaining team does customer support.

Hiring a contracting company for 3 mo per year to perform updates.

My guess is the decision maker doesn’t think it’s worth their time to run a business like this. Instead of rapidly shifting focus into a higher growth area, they would continue to be attached to a shrinking product
I do something similar except I make up a custom email every time. (No plus addressing at all, everything without a valid destination goes to the default account) It's rare something doesn't like it, most automated systems use the reply to header. Email lists are usually the ones least tolerant.
The value of the ISA is the huge volume of existing software for it, including hardware drivers. The whole x86-using industry migrating away from x86 would be a multi-decade and costly process. In addition, this would just mean more competition for Intel and AMD, as they would lose the moat of their x86 know-how. Why would they do that?
Switzerland actually has plenty of banks still.
Not sure why parent was making such a big deal out of Credit Suisse going bankrupt.
Haha, yeah I know what you mean. I had to do the exterior with the BLK for only a few hours each morning before it overheated.

That's an impressive huge capture!
What a long winded way to tell us you're insufferable. You say it's polite to not paper neighbordhoods with posters? Well this is a pretty impolite country. Drive around phoenix near an election some time. It's posters everywhere. Every corner, every median, every parking strip.

Licensing is why Amateur radio works, otherwise it would be nothing but bullshit, blowhards, and commercial interests taking over the entire space.
The current plan is to port all existing functionality to Amplitude's platform as quickly as possible. We'll then migrate everyone over in a way that doesn't break existing functionality and continue running it indefinitely. We're working through the details now.
Is pg_dump a Backup Tool?
Many places we know now as tombs weren't known as such before, that is untill some skeletons were found.
Have you tried iNaturalist? [0]

Insects, animals, plants, etc get posted from all over the world for ID.

[0] https://www.inaturalist.org/

I post lots of photos of things I find locally and experts step in and help ID the subjects when I don't know what I'm seeing.

I also have a couple of AudioMoths for recording local sounds including birds, insects, etc. Very high quality units at a reasonable price.

I have seen this Mothbox posted a couple of times and almost bought one since I know I have tons of moths attracted to my native plants out here, but the price is a sticking point right now. I think something like this combined with an AudioMoth and some trail cams would be a good local wildlife monitor setup.
yet the back button...
Same idea thanks! I have some more details I could flesh out and was slightly thinking of trying to write a book, but that post is right. Maybe I should just make a website with a forum. It would be interesting to hear how it goes for anyone else who tries.
> often preach replacing GC'd languages with rust in cases where it is not the best fit (mundane web dev for example).

> proving my point.

Was your point misunderstanding that garbage collection != memory safety? Having garbage collection doesn't make a language any better for web dev. Being memory safe does. If you do not understand the difference and needlessly associate the two, you are validating the work put in by the evangelists.
Will soon?