skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you name startups that you think are surviving mainly because of VC money and are likely to go bust soon?

I am by no means an expert in any part of this but rather than specific startups I would suggest:

- Startups that provide self driving anything will need to step up their game to maintain investments. Either step up to meet and maintain their promises or reduce expectations and limit deployment to well tested scenarios.

- Startups that use ground based robots to deliver anything of value. The robots and the contents will be stolen at greater rates when criminals learn how to manipulate and steel them. They will eventually fail at the same rate as traditional businesses are pulling out of high crime cities. They may limp along on low crime wealthy cities. I expect these to die the slow painful death that occurred in the .com crash.

- Startups that stretch the capabilities of LLM's in ways that are unrealistic and making promises that would otherwise require AGI that does not exist. These startups are entirely depending on marketing that gives CTO's and CIO's FOMO. Once the CIO publications catch up these will quickly fail.

- Startups that puts most of their operational dependency on a third party LLM vs self hosted as future rate limits or restriction changes make them high risk. The big players can put any of the small startups out of business in less than a week. Small players do not have the human networking with government and can not afford long downtime or the army of lawyers required to survive this. Only startups run by golden children will survive this.

- Anything that is not critical or a hard requirement for people in a wartime economy. Exceptions are probably things that provide escapism. Such as entertainment related, especially if they can be enjoyed offline should the internet or global power grids go offline. People with solar and large fuel supplies can enjoy offline content.

- This one will be unpopular and taboo, but EV's HEV's, drive-by-wire vehicles. These were cart before the horse. The power grid is in no way ready for this. If the power grid would substantially tech-refreshed and grown and or if people had mass adopted very large solar deployments on their homes or if mini-micro-mini-micro redundant and load balancing reactors were deployed in every neighborhood then perhaps this would be less of an issue but there are not enough financially stable home owners for solar to be impactful and nuclear has too many unrealistic regulations to be viable in a neighborhood. Drive by wire will be a big problem in wartime as they will all be compromised and people will lose confidence in them. Small numbers of hack fatalities have been suppressed but in high numbers it can not be hidden as there will be massive indirect bystander casualties. I see most drive-by-wire vehicles as weapons of mass destruction that have been the same as websites in terms of security and that is not even remotely acceptable to me. They will need to be hardened to the nth degree.
Drug dealing is also mostly logistics, so they are not in the crime business?
Agreed. Regardless of reason, you need to be prepared to walk away if you are serious about negotiating.
Scrt: A command-line secret manager for developers
When danger sprang from screen to real life, Ukrainian game studio battled back
Because the extensions generate fake engagement on Google's properties & ad-network for affiliate fraud.
Sorry, yes, CAS really means that pointers are hash values -- maybe with extra metadata, yes, but _not_ including physical locations. The point is that you need some other way to map logical pointers to physical locations. The easiest way to do that is to store the mappings nearby to the references so that they are easy to find, but the mappings must be left out of the Merkle hash tree in order to make it possible to change the physical locations of the referenced blocks.
If you know what types you're using, you do know. If you don't know what you're calling, that's a pretty high bar that I'm not sure C++ clears.
Observations are anecdotal. Since a lot of LLMs are non deterministic due to their sampling step, you could give rhe same survey to the same LLM many times and receive different results.

And we don’t have a good measure for emergent intelligence, so I would take any “study” with a large grain of salt.
I’ve read one or two arxiv papers suggesting reasoning capabilities, but they were not reproduced and I personally couldn’t reproduce their results.
> In both languages, it’s something programmers have to implement themselves.

I think this is where the difference between these languages and rust shines - Rust seems to make these things explicit, C++/C# hides behind compiler warnings.

Some things you can't do as a result in Rust, but really if the rust community cares it could port those features (make an always stack type type, e.g.).

Code base velocity is important to consider in addition to dev velocity, if the code needs to be significantly altered to support a concept it swept under the rug e.g. object pools/memory arenas, then that feature is less likely to be used and harder to implement later on.

As you say, it's not hard to do or a difficult concept to grasp, once a dev knows about them, but making things explicit is why we use strongly typed languages in the first place...
From my understanding parody is not defamation.
I once reported a bug to a barcode decoding library, reporting that it crashed when the barcode contained a zero byte. They responded that they wouldn't fix it because barcodes aren't supposed to contain zero bytes.

"But it crashed. That's bad. I can't stop people scanning bad barcodes."
What about silicon or wood utensils? Are you saying we have to use black plastic utensils because of non-stick pans?
Frontend Architecture, Back End Architecture or Just Architecture?
One of the claimed benefits of .NET Core was that they could improve the runtime at a much faster pace than .NET Framework did, especially if that meant adding new features or even IL opcodes. And they've done this before, with a big one (IMO) being ref fields in ref structs. Lately, when it comes to developing C#, the language design team has frustratingly been trying to shoehorn everything into the compiler instead of modifying the runtime. Then they say the runtime should be modified to pattern-match what they output. If DUs are to be implemented fully in C#, niches would probably be impossible. This means Optional<T>, when T is a class, would take two words.
that is just amazing (;_;)
No partial classes is painful. I know that we have some alternatives, but migrating from C# is a doom without it.
I have negotiated every SWE offer I’ve had. It doesn’t “feel” good, but it’s helpful to know virtually all roles have wiggle room.

The truth is engineers are still being hired and it costs money (and time/money) to interview more people or continue interviewing people in the pipeline, so offering more to a good candidate is worth it for most companies.
Claude gets desktop apps and dictation support
Windows Themes zero-day bug exposes users to NTLM credential theft
The level of sophistication that can go into a hack when sponsored by a nation-state is incredible. Just remember Stuxnet all the way back in '06 or whatever it was. Tech was a lot less advanced nearly two decades ago. It's not right, imo, to leave your safety up to this process.
Yep. Maybe a good copilot written in Rust and tightly integrated into Zed. Offer a subscription model. I'd pay for that.
Tokenformer: Rethinking transformer scaling with tokenized model parameters
Transformers have become the predominant architecture in foundation models due to their excellent performance across various domains. However, the substantial cost of scaling these models remains a significant concern. This problem arises primarily from their dependence on a fixed number of parameters within linear projections. When architectural modifications (e.g., channel dimensions) are introduced, the entire model typically requires retraining from scratch. As model sizes continue growing, this strategy results in increasingly high computational costs and becomes unsustainable. To overcome this problem, we introduce Tokenformer, a natively scalable architecture that leverages the attention mechanism not only for computations among input tokens but also for interactions between tokens and model parameters, thereby enhancing architectural flexibility. By treating model parameters as tokens, we replace all the linear projections in Transformers with our token-parameter attention layer, where input tokens act as queries and model parameters as keys and values. This reformulation allows for progressive and efficient scaling without necessitating retraining from scratch. Our model scales from 124M to 1.4B parameters by incrementally adding new key-value parameter pairs, achieving performance comparable to Transformers trained from scratch while greatly reducing training costs. Code and models are available at https://github.com/Haiyang-W/TokenFormer
I think he's referring to my small farm, we grow raspberries.
Generally, theme parks will not allow people to wear glasses on rollercoasters for this reason, though you can buy elastic straps that hold the ends together that are usually allowed
There used to be a long manpage about linux/unix `date` and what dates meant in the past - with examples of 15 century and so. Talking about some king who liked some week/month and decreed it must be repeated, and another who disliked some week and scratched it off the calendar.. It was very eye-opening reading.

But i can not find it anymore. Anyone has an idea ? Is it gone completely?
A Meticulous Guide to Advances in Deep Learning Efficiency over the Years
It’s kind of funny to watch the following conversations both recur regularly here on HN:

- The replication crisis means most science is bad and we should be extremely skeptical of scientific consensus.

- This one single scientific paper changes everything and you are negligent if you don’t immediately change your life based on it.
Sophos' 5-Year War with the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices
Self-driving powerbank gives EV drivers a jerrycan on wheels
NZ city waves bye to 'disturbing' giant hand sculpture that many came to love
Sadly, because I answered that question for myself, I have not had a waffle in years.

Has nothing to do with toxins. My old belly just can't handle waffle/pancake batter stuff.

I miss waffles...
Wearable Ultrasound Tech for Muscle Monitoring
Even Llama 3.1 can give you perfect JSON formatted responses for free these days. Also you really ought to be using yaml instead, you save 30% on tokens.

Tried the Gemini Advanced trial last week. For some reason their so called 1M context model is limited to 10 files at a time, so you can't upload a codebase for it to reference and even with the extra data the end result is somehow worse than both Sonnet or 4o without much given context at all. It's definitely not on the level as a coding assistant at least.
> This one single scientific paper changes everything and you are negligent if you don’t immediately change your life based on it

but it confirms my current bias so it must be true!
Exactly. Latency is less relevant if you have to have 4 literal servers (each taking up a whole rack) to push out one single 70B model and we don't know how many concurrent user requests that actually services (probably 1).
Steel (cast iron) skillets. Wooden or stainless spatulas.
If your cooking utensils are gouging or pulling up 'seasoning', it's not 'seasoning'. Seasoning is a micrometer-thin layer of polymerized oil. What you're describing is carbon build-up from a poorly cleaned pan.

At least once a week I give my vintage cast iron a good scrub with Dawn powerwash and chainmail, dry on the stovetop, apply a layer of Crisco, and then wipe it all off as if I put it on by mistake.
Great blog post, very inspiring.
While travelling in Germany, I got to know the man in the pedestrian lights has a name: Ampelman (Ampelmännchen). The fact that they gave it a name - no wonder it’s a touchy topic for them.
Yes, I think agree. And when you use a calculator and get a result that doesn't make sense to you, you step in as the human and try and figure out what went wrong.

With the calculator, it's typically a human error that causes the issue. With AI, it's an AI error. But in practice it's not a different workflow.

Give inputs -> some machine does work much faster than you could -> use your human knowledge to verify outputs -> move forward or go back to step 1.
I can't speak to the first one, but AIUI the ZFS way of thinking about the second one is to create a new filesystem and just mount it where you want it, versus "portions of the filesystem" which I doubt very seriously that ZFS allows. Bonus points that in that scenario, I would suspect the dedupe and compression would work even better since any such setup is likely to contain more homogeneous content (music, photos, etc)
Mostly it's just that it doesn't accomplish anything.
Avoid plastic if you want to live long, whatever if it's cooking or drinking.

Now I know that yet I drink water exclusively from plastic bottle, because ground water is contaminated with pesticides here. So it's either micro plastic in the water or pesticide, choose your poison.

Because I don't use Teflon (plastic) covered pan, I need more oil to avoid food to stick to the pan. The oil comes in plastic bottle, category 1, that are known to transmit pollutants to liquids and especially oils because they're fat.

I choose to go with butter then, so I can avoid the plastic bottle. Every butter comes in a soft plastic coating that definitely doesn't look natural. Didn't search internet for it but pretty sure it is also plastic and it exchange pollutants with the butter.

Not even speaking about the cow milk used to make butter and it's different contaminants, mainly pesticide residues, metals, mycotoxins, hormones, and others reaching the cow through feeding or drug administration by producers.

My rant could go on forever, the point is that plastic and pollution is absolutely everywhere. You can at best mitigate it by being proactive and wealthy enough but it's still not enough.

Even if you buy good quality food from non pollutated area, you don't really know if it hasn't been tampered with. Findus sold beef lasagna that were made with Romanian rotten horse meat..
Food-safe wood conditioner (or just beeswax, or coconut oil, etc.) is basically free, and you should be taking care of everything wooden in the kitchen on a semi-regular basis. If your wooden cookware is degrading, I'd be more worried about the state of your wooden cutting boards.
But why bother with image recognition? And pay a heavy latency penalty which makes it difficult to implement PID-style controls on player's aim? Its a game of milliseconds and opencv is comparably slow, as is the I/O involved.

Far easier to do a MiTM on the network traffic and recreate state in another process.

Still easier to clone memory pages used by the target app, or use hardware that allows dma.
Regardless, it's still an interesting glimpse into fuzzing, for those of us who know little to nothing about it.
He's on blue sky https://bsky.app/profile/maxime.bsky.social
I've been cooking exclusively with Le Creuset cast iron pans. I use to care about seasoning and never using soap to clean but I've gotten way more relaxed as of late. I still take care of the pans and "season them" when it looks pretty bare, but I haven't really noticed much of a difference between seasoned and nonseasoned as an amateur chef.

I make up for the lack of seasoning by using more butter or oil.

The true reason why I use these cast iron pans is that they have a very long lifecycle (going 12 years now for some of my pans) and they sear way better than other cookware.
because it is an internal tool? why does that cause an issue?
Yeah -- essentially all he has to do is enact the OMB rule that he enacted at the end of his first administration that classifies any employee of a federal agency that creates policy as a political appointee, and then he can literally fire the entire staff of any federal agency. Even just firing the senior staff would be enough to erase the power of the agency.

So while it's true the CFPB would remain funded, it would also struggle to act effectively without senior staff to sign off on projects and pay salaries. This OMB rule is how Project 2025 is going to be executed, and it will go beyond chaos as they erase every federal agency including several that we all rely on within less than a year.
Who spends 100% of their time actually typing code?

It’s probably closer to 10% than 100%, especially at big companies.

One thing I would love to see is reports of benefits from various tools coming with one’s typing ability in WPM. I’d also like to see that on posts where people express a preference for “a quick call” or stopping by your desk rather than posting what they want in chat. I have some hypotheses I’d like to test out.
Does it contest anything that we have observed? Because I couldn't find anything there that won't allow objects that behave the same way as the black holes we've seen, and differ only on details we can't see. (But IANAP, and could easily have missed something.)
I don't have SS cookware, but cast iron is basically non-stick. A teaspoon of oil isn't going to break the bank.
Forum posts can also be out of date.
Man I love this blog series
It's too bad that they took the physicality of the monkeys into account, but assumed the key probabilities were IID. It would have been nice to see the effect of keyboard layout on the overall probabilities. Key mashing would clearly make nearby keys much more likely to be pressed in a sequence, implying that there might be an optimal keyboard layout for each phrase. And that’s before considering soft keyboards with autocomplete.
The other piece of this is Gelsinger was given billions in the Chip Act and he's apparently "frustrated" with the USG's pace of giving him his handout. So on one hand Gelsinger blatantly screws Intel and then turns around to complain [0] he's not being given his money quickly enough? This is guy is something else - a CEO he is not.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-ceo-is-frus...
It would be funny if it was done by same people but are we sure it is the case? Is 'HN' homogeneous crowd?
Oh, my sweet summer children…

Once you fully internalize that your buggy program is running on a buggy framework, in a buggy language, in a buggy sandbox, on a buggy virtualization, on a buggy file system, scraping along on buggy silicon running buggy microcode, managed by other buggy silicon running buggy firmware, using peripherals with their own buggy silicon and firmwares, with everything happening billions of times per second (a car engine typically doesn’t reach a billion cycles over a 20 year lifespan ), it seems mind bogglingly improbable that anything works at all lol.

The fact that it does work, and can even routinely reach 5 nines, is a testament to the generosity of the universe… and a good argument for making sure that to whatever extent possible, you should write your software to be resistant to random events and erroneous operations. Fail safe/ fail soft, fail and retry, fail and restart. The more resilience we build into our work, the less angst we create in the world.
Where's the evidence for that? The OP only mentions affiliate fraud and user data harvesting. Neither of that seem to benefit google. To my knowledge google doesn't run an affiliate network, and data harvesting likely helps rival ad networks rather than google.
> How well can you judge the quality of a response on a topic you know nothing about?

You cannot, but those pushing Gen AI wave away the probability and liability for obvious reasons. Sell the magic, it'll be someone else's problem when it doesn't deliver.
To be fair to people, it is INCREDIBLY difficult to cope with the fact that a plurality or even most papers that come out may be found to be completely un-reproducible. For low stakes things like getting rid of a plastic spatula or cutting board, there is a sub-$20 cost to get rid of them and believe it is right (even if it ends up being wrong), while the cost of not believing and the paper being right is a massively increased chance of cancer. Science will likely never have its reckoning with reality, people will just believe in it less and less until it becomes background noise like everything else.
it's a weird hill to die on when you can get an almost-exact item made from silicone instead of that gross plastic
Really? It's one thing to understand that whatever pathogen you were infected with is (also) foodborne. But tracking the infection to something particular which you ate is generally quite hard, and it is even harder to track accidental contamination.

And many people do not understand where actual danger comes from. For example it is a really bad idea to rinse raw chicken meat. Yet this practice is still widespread.

https://www.cdc.gov/food-safety/communication-resources/wash...
It's still trademark infringement and both the activists and the middlemen (Netlify, in this case) can be sued.

This "satire" all comes across as "I'm 14 and this is deep." We get the joke. Just use a fictitious logo.
But why take the chance? Just buy a metal spatula next time and there’s nothing to worry about if it turns out to be true
If you believe this, you hold no contrary opinions.
The only real answer for this is self-imposed handicaps.
At least in the US butter comes in wax paper
>yet another loophole

What's the new legal loophole? I believe what's described above is the same as it's been for decades, if not centuries.

Disclosure: I work at Google but not on anything related to this.
What contract does Netlify have with the EFF?
You are absolutely right, I was just curious to how this could benefit me.
I guess jaywalking laws have been used as bandaid for what is the real problem - a complete disregard for pedestrians and cyclists on the road in big North American cities. But instead of putting more onus on the motorists, they’ve offloaded it to the former. I guess you could say the bias extends to the lawmakers. Almost feels like victim shaming, if you ask me.

But the fact is, jaywalking is against the law and when people don’t follow the rules, it just adds to the confusion which can cause more accidents. Just makes one wonder - what’s the point of it?
Right, plenty of the artists parodied by Weird Al are individuals. Any permission sought (or denials respected) are purely for goodwill, not legally required.

That said, Weird Al hasn't actually distributed unmodified trademarks of other entities, to my knowledge. Even if that would generally be problematic, the context of a "featured partners" list as in TFA probably falls below a threshold of likelihood of confusion which arises in other unauthorized uses of trademarks.
Humane Recalls Charge Case for AI Pin Due to Lithium Battery Fire Hazard
Last.fm, BluOS integration (and lossless of course)

Last.fm with Apple Music requires third party apps and there’s no BluOS integration at all (admittedly a more niche use case)
Only if you don't care about not ruining your non-stick pans (or don't use any).
A p-value of 0.05 just means the observed effect will occur by chance 1 time out of 20.

It means more than that to some people, and it shouldn't.
What I've learned building with AI
A flakey power supply can lead to all sorts of weird errors, so just wanted to add that caveat.

And I never said to not have backups. If a memory stick goes bad, you might need to restore. I just think claiming no ECC = data gone is spreading FUD.

You can find plenty of anecdotes like mine around. It's not like I have a unicorn NAS.

Again sure, if you want to minimize data loss then use ECC. But for a lot of folks, using regular, good non-ECC hardware can be perfectly fine.