skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great article but the main principle at YC is to assume that technology will continue progressing at an exponential rate and then thinking about what it would enable. Their proposals are always assuming the startups will ride some kind of Moore's Law for AI and hardware synthesis is an obvious use case. So the assumption is that in 2 years there will be a successful AI hardware synthesis company and all they're trying to do is get ahead of the curve.

I agree they're probably wrong but this article doesn't actually explain why they're wrong to bet on exponential progress in AI capabilities.
Why the hell would you name your product this.
Blizzard-made Warcraft 1&2 remasters look like Zynga games made by blind duck
Sorry if this is obvious, but when I do `brew install sassafras`, the bulk of the time between hitting enter and being able to run sassafras is downloading and installing. The overhead of Homebrew seems very minimal. Is the slowness coming from a side of Homebrew that maybe I don't see very often?
I don’t have a whole lot of advice, other than to say that I’ve been in a similar situation (in terms of lack of quality software mentorship) and I ended up leaving the company, with that being a big reason. I later learned the phrase “expert beginner”, which is a phrase I’d now use to describe my career progression in my four years at that first job in my career.

https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...

Happy to chat further if you’d like some advice or just want to hear how I recognized the situation and got out. It probably took 2 years longer than it needed to, for me to fix the situation
So being toxic against Trump doesn't count as being toxic? If you like that sort of argument then I guess you could say Trump's twitter statements were not bad since he mostly slagged people who opposed him / the democratic party.
From the abstract:

> This unique configuration offers the opportunity to combine two major lensing cosmological probes: time-delay cosmography and dual source-plane lensing since J1721+8842 features multiple lensed sources forming two distinct Einstein radii of different sizes, one of which being a variable quasar. We expect tight constraints on the Hubble constant and the equation of state of dark energy by combining these two probes on the same system. The z2=1.885 deflector, a quiescent galaxy, is also the highest-redshift strong galaxy-scale lens with a spectroscopic redshift measurement.
No one in Israel is beating women.

But of course they are. Women are beaten everywhere.

There's certainly nothing special about Israel in this regard.
The government did not force anyone to take the vaccine. The death count in US proportionally speaks to that.

If you're comparing walking into a store or concert (both private establishments) to your state telling your doctor thru cannot operate on you, you clearly don't understand or won't understand how freedom works.
What you describe is called a CDN and has been widely used for 20 years.
The point is that whatever control a frog heart may have, it's not cerebral. It must be a very low-level circuit, which can be modulated from outside, but which remains autonomous.
Why would you care that the installer fails gracefully?
Reddit for Digg, Facebook for MySpace to some extent (they were pretty similar in the early days), arguably MySpace for Friendster. Stretching it a bit, Tumblr for Livejournal; they’re weren’t _that_ similar, but then nor are Twitter and Bluesky, under the surface.
I'm not trying to make the point that there is a comparable number of Windows servers to Linux servers, and I believe that going off "number of servers" is of limited usefulness. There are of course going to be far more Linux servers because they are far easier to provision, and the people managing them are generally going to be much more apt at orchestrating large fleets of small servers than the people managing Windows servers, which will tend towards larger servers with multiple purposes.

I'm simply trying to say that Linux is not the default assumption in many contexts where a lot of money gets spent on licenses and services for server software.

There are of course large contexts (tech companies and web servers) where Linux is the default assumption.
Did air fryers already displace microwaves? I've missed the last couple meetings
Not at all. Where are the low and mid budget movies? Where are the games publishers on low budget games? Art as a business has transitioned to investor gambling rather than having any thought for the quality of the product. That's what I take issue with.

Sure single person self-funded passion projects exist. They always have and they always will. And sure what one person can do is more than they ever could in the past. It's still not the same as something that's forged by a team of visionaries each with unique backgrounds and skillsets.

Frost makes the point more well spoken and stylish than me often.

https://youtu.be/gZffFoQekcc
I know nothing about chip design.
But saying "Applying AI to field X won't work, because X is complex, and LLMs currently have subhuman performance at this" always sounds dubious.

VCs are not investing in the current LLM-based systems to improve X, they're investing in a future where LLM based systems will be 100x more performant.

Writing is complex, LLMs once had subhuman performance, and yet.
Digital art. Music (see suno.AI)
There is a pattern here.
I have a few family members who chose not to take the vaccine. They are dead, but that was indeed their body, their choice.

Wherre is this story on a person forced to take a vaccine?
Wait, this was all one take? Not spliced together? Some of those falls looked like you had a mm to spare before you would have taken falling damage.
I think you are making my point more eloquently than I could. A perfect transformer cannot add information to a dataset, a (self-aware, sentient) reasoning human can.

Perhaps at this point we are merely speculating on an existence proof-- whether or not there exists such a dataset that contains a sufficient "world model" (for some definition of "world model"). I assert that such a dataset would necessarily include a concept of the self, otherwise the "world model" would be flawed. You seem to disagree.

That's fine.

My argument does not hinge strongly on whether or not sentience is required for such a world model, it is sufficient to say that no such dataset exists that will provide a transformer with sufficient information to condition weights which will have an accurate world model, sentience or not.

The "self-aware sentience" bit was hyperbolic prose for the sake of the joke, but the joke is that anyone pedaling "if only I had more money for compute I could make AGI" is shilling snake oil. No amount of infinite compute can turn an incomplete dataset into anything more than an incomplete dataset, information is conserved.

Hopefully that point is not too controversial.
Listen to an interview where Kennedy can speak for himself and then decide for yourself. You can find these on YouTube and Spotify among others.

Instead what most people are doing by accident is reading negative opinions about Kennedy on platforms that refuse to interview him- getting their news via censorship.
Yeaaah. TCP hole punching is goofy and unreliable, last I checked. You have to do some arcane ritual of having both peers start a three-way handshake to each others’s public endpoints simultaneously, relying on NATs to accept inbound SYN packets if they match the outgoing SYN. And nobody’s NAT devices implement simultaneous-open the same way, so all your connections just fail.

Naturally this leads to slapping even more arcane fixes on top of that, like NAT port assignment oracles to adversarial interoperate with different port allocation strategies (random, sequential, single, etc.) by analyzing patterns in previous port assignments. Networking sucks.
Why would someone think Apple is better for the customer than Adobe? And why would someone think Apple will reach feature parity to Adobe?
Some open source projects don't necessarily want help. I don't think adding a help-wanted tag qualifies for begging as much as letting you know that contributors are actually welcome if you're interested.
API Reference as an example is a bit odd. Shouldn't this be auto-generated or be part of the docs in the code?
Even rice cookers started doing this by advertising "fuzzy logic".
Tidal, SoundCloud, Deezer, and Bandcamp offer lossless support.
I won’t argue that they shouldn’t have done better, I’m only pointing out that this is fairly different from their usual product. Amazon, YouTube, and Hulu all have a ton of experience with live streaming by now. Apple has live streamed wwdc for several years.

I did expect that Netflix would have appropriately accounted for demand and scale, though, especially given the hype for this particular event.
I too was wondering how to survive the standoff on top of the building when you get the shotgun. Was a brilliant solution.
There are degrees of everything. Good luck with "If you build it they will come." Lots of people here hate advertising of any form as well.

You need to promote things in some form in almost all cases.
Uno doesn't use MAUI. It's either WinUI or Skia-based, just like Avalonia.

Uno also doesn't use Canvas on Web, it uses the DOM. I use it for an enterprise Web App, not a public website.

I feel Nick been pro Avalonia forever as far as I can tell and the pace at which am noticing Uno innovating, one year might make all the difference in the world.

In all cases, I made my mind by testing both and I just had a way better experience with Uno, everything available out of the box, the tooling is above and beyond.

Anyways, just wanted to share by point of view, typically don't contribute here.
Usually we test against best current treatment and not just always against placebo. If something clearly improves outcomes for a patient, it's unethical to not give them a treatment so that you can test your new intervention against a placebo.
People still pay real world money to Netflix after they cancelled and how and why Warrior Nun just to see grandpa being beaten up.

I guess in the year when Trump is being reelected this is hardly a surprise.
IfcOpenShell - https://ifcopenshell.org - https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell

An open-source toolkit for developing digital platforms in the built environment. With IfcOpenShell, you can read, write, and modify Building Information Models (BIM) using the IFC standard — a versatile and open digital language spanning the entire lifecycle of buildings, from design to construction and beyond.

Now including Bonsai, a Blender-based 3D editor to create and edit multidisciplinary information within IFC models.

The built environment is a major contributor to emissions, making sustainability in design, construction, and operations an area we can work on with data-driven decisions unlocked by open source tools.

CAD/BIM has long faced lock-in by the proprietary nature of traditional tools. We aim to change that.

C++ / Python / 3D / Computational geometry / CAD / BIM
First, VCs don't get paid when "dogshit startups" get acquired, they get paid when they have true outlier successes. It's the only way to reliably make money in the VC business.

Second, want to give any examples of "shitty, hype-based compan[ies]" (I assume you mean companies with no real revenue traction) getting bought out for "a few billion".

Third, investment banks facilitate sales of assets, they don't buy them themselves.

Maybe sit out the conversation if you don't even know the basics of how VC, startups, or banking work?
The first people on Tasmania brought fire and forever changed the land
I feel like what makes this a bit different from just regular old sufficiently advanced technology is the combination of two things:

- LLMs are extremely competent at surface-level pattern matching and manipulation of the type we'd previously assumed that only AGI would be able to do.

- A large fraction of tasks (and by extension jobs) that we used to, and largely still do, consider to be "knowledge work", i.e. requiring a high level of skill and intelligence, are in fact surface-level pattern matching and manipulation.

Reconciling these facts raises some uncomfortable implications, and calling LLMs "actually intelligent" lets us avoid these.
In-depth interviews by who? And who is being interviewed?

You seem to be skating around the important details. RFK Jr. has a lot to say, but with little to no evidence to back up his opinions. Just because it's different doesn't mean it's better.
In addition to this, Steam provides an option for developers to expose the older game versions to the players, which Valve themselves make an active use of. So if you have a specific old mod that’s not compatible with the new update, or don’t want to deal with the update in a middle of playthrough, you don’t have to upgrade
Ancient Aliens is interesting precisely because it doesn't explicitly advocate Ancient Astronaut Theory. Sure, there's a lot of weasel-wording and implication, but they regularly go up to that line without ever crossing it.

I think it ought to be required viewing in elementary schools: spot the point in each episode where they jump the shark.

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42094214

EDIT: > the stars imply a sense of place and order

that order changes every now and then; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761574 (in conjunction with https://xkcd.com/3012/ ?)
RFK agrees with you. His book is so dense with references it makes for heavy (and often shocking) reading.
But you wont know that if you get your information from corporate media.
Okay? I already said "I accept the answering-questions part."

Doctors not having to manually probe any signs of heart/lung problems each time they're in the room, would mean that they get either get more time to test each patient for consciousness/lucidity; get time to check on more patients; or (my preferred option) are able to make each check-session shorter and less invasive (no need to sit the patient up to listen to their lungs through their back, for example), and thus less disturbing of a patient's sleep quality (because it's easier to go back to sleep after a short conversation, when you haven't had your blood pressure spike from sitting up.)
Logica – Declarative logic programming language for data
Well, there's at least a bit of evidence from past that linux users are more likely to spend money on software than windows or osx.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/08/linux-users-pay-more-hum...
Confirmed groups: pesticides, herbicides, PFAS, microplastics, nanoplastics, bisphenols, phthalates, flame retardants, artificial colors, inflammatory additives, artificial sweeteners
Related: mortgage VS investments calculator

Shows a graph in your terminal: find out if it's better to put in a smaller downpayment and invest the rest.

https://github.com/whyboris/mortgage-and-investments
I'd love to resurrect my open source real estate website builder:

https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

I was quite active with updating it a few years ago but haven't had the time to work on it recently.

On another project of mine I have been using aider and co-pilot and realised I could bring property_web_builder back to life with these tools. It would motivate me massively to do this if at least one or two other people were willing to work with me on this.
That would be true if there had been zero effort and money spent in subsidizing fossil fuels, hiding data about its true long term impact for decades and sabotaging efforts to move away from carbon dependence.
Serves Netflix right for killing my beloved DVD rentals.
This comment shows how a very random blog about a very small part of a product can dominate all conversation about it. Prime video famously did not undo anything. Out of 100+ teams one team undid one service. But somehow similar comments are common on HN. I am making no judgement or microservice or not just on this particular comment.
>we move forward

Do you work in something related to Astro?
It sounded like that was directed at Elon not Sam? Or is it the other way?

Ilya makes a good point, but I also wonder if he is also being naive. In order to get to the stage where AGI can be built outside of big tech, you probably do need a CEO with typical CEO powers. Maybe there can be some convoluted structure to avoid dictatorial control at the end but I also wonder if this is sort of an organizational distraction. There might explain the push to just move on and get past all this.

Of course this depends on who we’re talking about. I would trust Elon to share AGI as he did Tesla patents. But not Sam.
This is maybe not the place, but we did some apples to apples comparisons between PyMC, Dynesty, and the Julia Turing.jl package.

A little to my surprise, despite being a Julia fan, Turing really outperformed both the Python solutions.
I think JAX should be competitive in raw speed, so it might come down to the maturity of the samplers we used.
> I wonder why!

It almost feels like you're using irony to imply a connection between selling software consulting, and pumping-and-dumping tech trends. But I'm sure that's not your intention.
> "GPGPU compute is a solved problem if you buy Nvidia hardware" type comment

You're replacing the word hire with buy. That misconstrues the comment. If you need to do GPGPU compute and have never done it, you work with a team that has. (And if you want to build it in house, you scale to it.)
Macports might be worth considering

https://www.macports.org/
Mortgage life hack: pay bi-weekly to pay off mortgage faster while paying less money!

https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/bi-weekly-mortgage-calcul...
Thank you for clarifying my point, that's exactly what I was trying to say!
Optimising LR Automata
There is no support for x86-64 virtualization on ARM Macs. Do you mean dropping support for Rosetta for macOS apps but keeping support for Rosetta for Linux VMs (which run ARM Linux kernels and use Rosetta to support x86 userspace software)?
I think this is a pragmatic choice. NAT Hole Punching can be hit or miss no matter the method but doing peer routing guarantees even a client that can only initiate outbound connections can route packets. It can be slow though.

I also know there's support for other transports like QUIC but TCP is the main default.
Last I checked virustotal doesn't test nested archives for viruses even though it's an issue old as modern computing
English PDF Link: https://www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/thoughtworks/docume...
Keeping the analysts and statisticians in the dark should not be too hard. I can even imagine writing a study in which two or more conditions are just labeled A, B, and C. This would not be much fun though.
>And my answer is because it's not interactive.

And I explained why that response is a bit nonsensical. Rss doesn't take interactivity away from you. It delegates it to Wherre ever you choose to visit.

>they don't want the experience of dozens of personal blogs they navigate through by RSS, and needing an account on each one.

1. Thars overly presumptuous. Social media didn't give them a real choice.

2. You don't need an account for every blog. Not even for interacting. I guess people forgot that anonymous commenting is indeed a thing. If you really want to like stuff sure. But that's not anything different from today.

>Regular users don't care if the service is decentralized or distributed.

Sure, Bluesky shows they don't have to but the service can still be successful. As the article discussed, part of the ATS stack used Rss.

How's thst different from using something like Feedly? It's juet a different app view.
Easier to store vs bulky charging case and charger and charger cable etc. The wired solution is more portable, believe it or not.
Well they only can’t have euv because of the Netherlands. Depending what the eu or the USA does the Netherlands can stop listening to the USA.
Consider the expressive power of GIMP over ImageMagick, then imagine that Photoshop is an increment of expressive power over GIMP.

As you become familiar with Photoshop you will experience a usage gestalt that is unattainable with GIMP.

But why? Compared to Photoshop, GIMP's UI is a continually unfolding disaster by comparison.

Plus Photoshop includes Adobe Camera Raw which in and of itself is a UI majesty compared to anything available in Linux and its just an adjunct capability.

The programming language analogy is a good one. There's no point in arguing which language is the best, but everyone knows that language features have an obvious bearing on productivity in particular domains: this is demonstrated beyond all doubt via the enormous efficacy of levels of interface abstraction over the innate capabilities of a physical computer.

If you regard PS and GIMP as GUI languages for image manipulation, the expressive power and smoothness of operating PS compared to GIMP is obvious to any diligent user.

The joy of GIMP is that the advantage of GIMP over no image manipulator is infinite, while the advantage of PS over GIMP is merely incremental. This is the profound philosophical basis of Linux: it's something that can't be easily taken away from you. Photoshop is much more tenuous.

As to being able to appreciate the distinction, there's an old joke about advertising the advantage of color TVs on TV: if you can see the advantage, you already have a color TV. And if you don't have a color TV you can't see the advantage.
You don't have to be harsh, and please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I personally don't believe this. My phone gets about the same number of calls per day, but Google labels them as spam. My second reason for disbelief is that the FTC did nothing from 1995 to present to stem the tide of spam that has ruined the public switched telephone network. Why should anybody believe an agency that was obviously getting bribed by spammers to let calls with bad Caller ID info through?
> I knew it was bullshit from the get-go as soon as I read their definition of AI agents.

That is one spicy article, it got a few laughs out of me. I must agree 100% that Langchain is an abomination, both their APIs as well as their marketing.
It feels like you’re afraid to listen to it in case you end up liking it.
Combined? Fox takes all of the top 10 positions in overall/demo group. Top among the youth / all / daytime / nighttime.
SICP is available for free: https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf

If you want to get it elsewhere, the full info is:
Structure and interpretation of computer programs by Hal Abelson and Jerry Sussman (MIT Press. 1984. ISBN 0-262-01077-1).
Assuming full security, on Signal someone can also copy and paste my message, just as on Proton Mail they can forward it. I don't see any difference.
> Award-winning photo editing, graphic design and page layout software for Mac, Windows & iPad.

They've supported Windows and iPad for years, too.
Icosa Gallery - https://github.com/icosa-foundation/icosa-gallery

A Google Poly replacement with ambitions beyond that. 3D model hosting, viewing, sharing with simple self-hosting and (eventually) federation. An API that's 99% compatible with the Google Poly API means it's easy to revive integrations that used to support Poly. We're also got a dataset that we've cleaned up from Internet Archive scrapes restoring nearly all of the original collection. (about 150,000 models)

Looking for help with the three.js viewer/editor, help with fediverse support, Django database or OAuth experts. And of course documentation, testing, design, ux and everything else.

And anyone with their own project that would benefit from integrating with us.

Stack: Vanilla javascript / HTMX, Django, Postgres, three.js and GLTF

Suitable for any skill levels.

andy@icosa.foundation

https://icosa.gallery/ (currently in private alpha)