skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, having had a few increasingly less unsuccessful startups, a thing I learned the hard way is that:

1) You should not build a tech startup unless you have either a business plan for getting revenue quickly or shit ton of investment. And you won't typically get investment unless you have at least some notion of where the business is going to be. I've made this mistake. Techies mostly don't understand the business side well enough for this to work.

2) Most companies aren't startups. They are just companies. With revenue. That pay the bills. A startup is a company without revenue that is living on borrowed time and money. Especially if that's your own money, you need a plan for this.

3) VC funded companies mostly fail. A VC's business is to ensure that those companies that are going to fail, fail quickly. They fund their VC business with the handful of companies that don't fail and succeed spectacularly. So, getting "accelerated" or "funded" doesn't mean that you are on a path to success. It actually means you are on the spot to beat the odds and that you don't have a lot of time left. Chances are that you will fail quickly.

4) If you are a successful company with revenue, you don't need VCs. So you should question why you are talking to them at all? Are you struggling to make revenue? A VC won't fix that.

5) A lot of VCs are lazy and don't get interested until you are already successful. There is a weird dynamic here where companies get funded early and then fail. Or don't get funded and then succeed.

My current company is four years into being completely bootstrapped. As in we struggle with revenue and we put in our time when able. I mostly live off consultancy that I do on the side. The company just had its third most successful year in a row and is getting close to where I should be able to retire as a consultant soonish and focus on the business instead. But it's been a long journey.

As for open source. I open source anything that is not business specific or part of our core IP. One good reason for this is that I hate rebuilding the same crap when I start my next company. I've been through this and that kind of stuff just slows you down. People obsess about intellectual property in startups. The reality is that most software is not that valuable. But you still need to spend time, money, and energy building it.

So, I contribute a lot of tools, frameworks and what not of which I am the main user. Just so I can continue to use that stuff on the next project.
It's cool, but this only runs with VirtIO hardware.

If you need real-time low-latency, you don't want any virtual hardware.

I'm not sure what's the practical application here. Either you use containers because you have complex dependencies so you want to just package the whole thing in isolation, or you don't and you might as well run as a normal process.
Here you have a simple self-contained executable image anyway.

But to be honest I never understood the point of virtualization.
Can't wait to see this same shitass article posted daily for another two weeks. Weirdest holiday ad ever.
"TL;DR: for the love of Cthulhu don’t buy it. If you want an Arm-based Unix laptop get an Apple MacBook and run either macOS, Asahi Linux or OpenBSD."
TIL: https://snikket.org/
Lets play a game

Teach Sora to dig a hole, https://youtube.com/shorts/KDoQ6IreMtk, modify the prompt by commenting on the video, i will collect all comments and regenerate the video.

Everything that was done will be correctly logged so we can all see the evolution.

i will continue to post updates on the video on this thread, so its easy to track
I remember reading somewhere that this is how Valetudo works, like a mitm on a rooted robot vacuum.
Broken clocks
Oh nice, thanks!! That Bitwarden link is exactly what I wanted to see. Open source software, no services to run, no cloud providers or phones involved. That's a much better process than all the weird phone stuff people are talking about all over this thread.
It Pays to Have Long Hair and a Beard in Utah–Jesus Models Are in Demand
Ok but the C abi includes basically all languages. Frankly they could toss C++ in the trash with basically zero impact to their value because who the hell with two neurons to rub together uses C++ anymore?

(Ok this leaves out Go but they picked their path)

Besides, supporting c++ must be a goddamn nightmare.
Were "the Economy" comprised broadly of 15-20 employee companies with a few £million turnover each per year, I think that could be good for it...
@dang can change the URL to https://github.com/includeos/IncludeOS
that's a wrong simile given that you would get the same end result in both cases.

I'm not using a transformer, just a plain Feedforward, Relu and dropout for a simple classifier.

I don't know, I can be wrong. I hope and some toy experiment shows that even in low case parameters it works fine as well as adam.
One with no humility has no humility to give.

Anyone who starts a sentence with "You really can't use" is preaching from atop their perch of various sh_ts, horsesh_t and bullsh_t, especially. Get over youself.
People chasing such carrots on sticks are not healthy, happy nor balanced individuals. Every single one of them has something fundamentally broken deep inside, unquenchable thirst to over-compensate for that itch, which can manifest ie as greed.

In most cases in fact its just broken childhood mostly via broken father figure, source of eternal income for most psychologists since those issues are not actually fully fixable, at best they can be tamed a bit and folks brought into acceptance. Add some lower intensity mental issues and voila.

Of course neither money nor power work for such issue, but if one surrounds themselves with enough people repeating such mantras, it may eventually feel like they are right. At least for some time.

Nothing for regular folks here, unless one specifically says and feels that pursuit of happiness is not really on their agenda.

Also, would be nice if somebody compared mental issues drug consumptions US vs Europe say split by jobs. I literally know 0 people, peers, IT colleagues nor friends who take anything on mental health, we are just bunch of relatively happy balanced folks here who are not in frequent dread over some bigger protracted health issue that can wipe one out, don't have to worry about saving up a million or two for out kids universities, have enough time to relax on vacations, fully paid sick days etc. Once one is not desperately poor, this is how proper quality of life looks like, not some numbers on accounts.
No, they wouldn't. Nvidia focuses more on premium and margin than on unit share. Nvidia looks at Apple. Apple has 75% of profit share with 25% of unit share of the whole smartphone market. Apple makes 3x more profit than all other smartphone makers combined. Why should Apple reduce pricing in such a situation?
> “…by the end of the decade, von Braun got his original wish, and a vast army of engineers, technicians, builders, and bookkeepers...”

Wait, bookkeepers? Is there another referent here I’m not familiar with?
Compared to virtually every other profession, where we don't have death rates of even close to that of astronauts.

Please leave your insults at home when you go on the internet.
ah, numerical instability in the warmup stage might be the issue then?
Any chemical reaction happens with a success rate that is not 100% guaranteed based on lower level quantum phenomena and higher level atomic interactions. It seems the author doesn’t take first principles into consideration.
Huh, that’s been updated in the last 2-3 weeks.

But point still stands, lots of garbage results to the point I wouldn’t trust the correct answer on anything.
Lots of people log channels, and that is another discussion when you see yourself online. They usually mention it in the topic though that the channel is logged.
Use errors.Is and compare to the returned err to mypkg.ErrOwnerNotExists and mypkg.ErrMissingConfig and the handler decides which status code is appropriate
VMWare might have proven the market, but the concept goes back to ‘60s era mainframes.
Expert warns of public health emergency as India's Capital toxic air returns
That's awesome, I personally wasn't aware of that series from Peter Zhu. Thanks!
“Bookkeepers” in this context means “accountants” or more generally “administrators”. The point is that Von Braun didn’t just get technical people, he got the administrative support to organize them effectively.
Presumably that's a reference to the GP describing "Messianic Jewish". (or rather, Messianic Judaism)

> It considers itself to be a form of Judaism but is generally considered to be a sect of Christianity,[2][3] including by all major groups within mainstream Judaism, since Jews consider belief in Jesus as the Messiah and divine in the form of God the Son (and the doctrine of the Trinity in general) to be among the most defining distinctions between Judaism and Christianity. It is also generally considered a Christian sect by scholars and other Christian groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Judaism
The Unitree links claim a 9000mAh battery will last it 2 hours; I don't know the voltage, but even at 5.5 V cells, that's only about 25 W average power consumption.

I find this difficult to believe, both because that's a very low power draw and because that would be penny-pinching on battery capacity.

My expectation on timescale is that genuinely general-purpose robots will need at least as much compute as a self-driving car (possibly more, that's a minimum), and have at most 1/10th the available power to do that (because they're physically smaller).

Between algorithmic improvements and Koomey's law, I think this will take at least 5 years between any given category of customer being able to afford no-steering-wheel-needed self driving cars, and the equivalent for androids.

Given the Waymos were doing geo-fenced cars with no safety drivers in the vehicles in 2017 (but still had an employee in the back with access to an emergency stop button)*, this gap is compatible with the recent press releases and youtube videos going around about robotics — but as nobody has yet started actually shipping this level of self-driving cars directly to end users**, my only guess for personal general-purpose domestic androids is: some time after 2030 as a minimum, but probably later than that.

* https://phys.org/news/2017-11-waymo-autonomous-vans-human-dr...

** No, Tesla's current one doesn't count; it will only count when it actually ships without a steering wheel or when people are actually allowed to use it while sleeping.
Yes, the majority of business will be conducted with large corporations that offer completely enshittified customer service. Whenever a user has a bad experience with one, they will switch to another.

However, there will be a selection of smaller firms, offering a more human touch, which will manage to survive just by virtue of above average customer retention. As these businesses continue to succeed and grow they will enshittify their own processes until they are indistinguishable from the incumbents.

AI changes nothing about this.
I would say it is an even deeper issue of credentialism vs education.

True education doesn't need busywork but credentialism does. The busywork is the filter for the credential.

Also, if a person doesn't write essays in college how are we going to have all these authors that turn 20 pages of ideas into 300 page books? It would ruin the whole book industry. It takes a ton of practice to uncompress an idea into a coherent structure using 10X more words than needed so the book is the optimal length for sale when printed.
Go through their new tool https://ofcomlive.my.salesforce-sites.com/formentry/Regulati...

There is no choice over number of users.`

Where exactly is this note on size?

Reading the document you gave there seems to be no saying that below a number of users there is no risk or even low risk.
There is the paragraph
"There are comprehensive systems and processes in place, or other
factors which sufficiently reduce risks of this kind of illegal harm to
users, and your evidence shows they are very effective. Even if taking
all relevant measures in Ofcom’s Codes of Practice, this may not always
be sufficient to mean your service is low risk"

Which implies that you must have comprehensive systems and processes in place - what exactly are these systems and their requirements?
What happens if the site owner is ill for a week and isn't logged on?
emm, ok. That didn't help me
glad to hear you like it, thanks!!
love it, thanks!
I think the answer is no, but can Ergo connect to other IRC servers? I'd like to set it up linked with my existing ngircd, for my users to try out, and then if it goes well shut down ngircd, which is a pattern I've used before when migrating between servers.
I believe his point is that this transformation could be done maybe in C and therefore have better performance, it could be a flag to the JSON conversion.

I find the idea good, maybe it even already exists?
> insane productivity

He's insanely productive, but also insanely smart. I used to work in the same office as him at Shopify, and he's the kind of person whose level just seems unattainable.
Really, you expect them to go through every item in the store, multiple times per year, and update the price tags?
English is about one bit per letter. If you type at a very fast 120WPM then you’re right at 10bps. Computers just don’t represent English very efficiently, even with gzip.
> Project has been dead for many years now btw.

Code doesn't die. Especially code targetting the c abi.
Cf https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/seven/dragon-taming-wit... , a python->bytecode compiler that can compile itself.
I think they just walked to other places as and when the climate changed. Some adapted and stayed, others moved the greener pastures. This slow and climate-driven process can hardly be described as colonization.
Show HN: I Made an Alcohol Tracker with a Drink Calendar Feature
I once made a small x86 asm program that generated an image with a similar technique, except with 1-bit colour. Instead of x ^ y, it was parity(x ^ y), i.e. if there are an even number of 1 bits, colour it one way, else colour it another. It had an interesting visual effect; it looks like a tiling that almost repeats but not perfectly.

Edit: Just looked through some old files and found the program. It was written in fasm in 2019 and generates an XPM2 file (which I had to manually convert to XPM3 to view). Here's the resulting image: https://i.postimg.cc/FsFhXSHG/xortiles.png

(I can post the code if anyone wants, though I don't know why you'd care.)
This seems like a farce. Most advertising in america is deceptive.

Edit: they seem to only enforce disclosure and they don't actually evaluate whether the ad is deceptive or not. Still this does seem to foreclose on the domain user in question's use of ads, if anyone cares

> If the advertiser doesn’t have proof that the endorser’s experience represents what people will generally achieve using the product as described in the ad (for example, by just taking a pill daily for two months), an ad featuring that endorser must make clear to the audience what the generally expected results of following that same regimen are.

Pathetic and spineless. If this were actually enforced 99.99% of ad claims would be illegal.
Ah so it is! Still I was looking at getting a mobility scooter for my dad, about 85 at the time, though I don't think he would have pulled wheelies.
Interstellar 'tunnel' found that connects our solar system to other stars
Very interesting, I had not heard of the Brookes but the last crown price died here in New Zealand in 2011, being a an heir to a biscuit fortune. There was actually a connection between Sheldrake and the Brookes family.
Buddy, I followed the link and they want $35.95 to read the paper.

This is... not a recipe for a successful discussion between people who have read the paper.
Fungal Bungle (2014)
That might be the funniest comment I've ever seen on HN!

A plea to reason, that is probably not outside the posting guidelines, but is certainly in a gray area :-)
> Holker has posed as Jesus in many photos but hasn’t charged anyone for the privilege. He has sold his Jesus prints at gun shows to recoup the printing costs.
Firmware makes it possible to make use of hardware you physically own.

Client software makes it possible to use services you pay for, operating systems make it possible to use applications.

It's difficult to come up with a more straightforward analogy - I don't even want to try cars, these are rapidly becoming a much bigger issue than firmware.
I found that interesting too, and curious about what it implies for how people thought about religion at the time
For those who didn't understand, this is a search result and its AI response:

https://www.google.com/search?q=no%20soot%20in%20the%20pyram...
vscode!
From the article

Gladys, who had previously converted to Catholicism and Christian Science, had firm ideas about how her conversion to Islam should go. She wanted it performed ‘on no earthly territory’ so in 1932 she chartered a plane to fly from Croydon to Paris and Khalid performed the ceremony over the Channel

So yes, she was already investigating religions and this appears to have been her idea.
U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in American Homes
Nvidia once rested on their laurels and that was the Geforce FX over 20 years ago. Jensen was so pissed, he literally screamed at every person in the company.

But he also made sure that resting won't ever happen again. Andy Grove from Intel once said that only the paranoid survive and I bet Jensen is the most paranoid CEO alive. You won't see him in public that way because Jensen in public is Nvidia marketeer.

Nvidia has also understood early on how important marketing and brand recognition is. They learned it the hard way with the utter failure of their first chip the NV1 which was a technological master piece which no one wanted. Witht the bad GeForce FX Nvidia even made marketing videos to make fun of themselves and that helped. ATI didn't crush Nvidia as much as expeceted because of such activities despite having the ultra superior Radeon 9700/9800 series back then.
> Government is merely an expression of the underlying society and culture.

That didn't answer the question though, it didn't address the discussion of the thread you replied to.

> Yes and also all the others.

Okay, well that's no different from other countries then.

> Japan has gained the throne of countless industries and then squandered them time and time again. I'm not merely speaking of IT or industrial electronics, which they also gained the thrones of and then squandered.

Same old story everywhere else then. Britain was once the textile manufacturing powerhouse of the world. USA once made the best automobiles.

> Among other things: Consumer electronics (eg: mobile phones, TVs, etc.), household appliances, cars, aviation/aeronautics, medicine, pop culture (eg: anime, video games, music, etc.), and more.

Many examples of such things in countries everywhere.

> Consider that Japan literally owns the CPU architecture found in practically every mobile device (Softbank owns ARM) and they can't figure out how to fucking succeed.

ARM is doing pretty well. It's the object of desire of Nvidia, Apple, China, Qualcomm, and more. Between x86 and riscv and its warring customers it does find itself in a competitive and difficult environment to be sure. Not sure what you mean there.

> Japan's proud tradition of clutching failure from the jaws of success are rooted in problems with their very culture itself.

I'm still not seeing what's special about Japan here. Things rise and fall. Phones? Finland had Nokia and messed that up so badly it's laughable. Canada had BlackBerry and did the same. Chinese companies haven't been able to beat out Apple and Samsung...

Japan makes some good stuff. Cars, motorbikes, engines, electronics, video games, sensors, lenses, cameras, machinery and tools.
Really nice, and I say that as someone that built a quite popular mobile web framework that duplicated a lot of iOS UI (Ionic). One thing I noticed is the swipe gestures aren’t working. This is all very doable on the web which many people don’t believe. It’s pretty wild what the web platform is capable of, the gap is absolutely with web devs who don’t know how to put the many modern APIs and capabilities into practice.
Ultra bright vs fully tinted windows (front included). These are the days I feel greatest my German heritage.
Injectable HIV drug shows remarkable ability to prevent infection
Don't laugh, but we still have a big software solution based on jQuery Mobile up and running, used daily by hundreds of users on tablets and smartphones, and getting new features every few weeks.

(yes, a successor is planned, but it will be a huge amount of work)
There's very similar, but perhaps much more challenging project for digitally unrolling the Herculaneum papyri[1], which is set up as an open machine learning competition[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri

[2]: https://scrollprize.org/
Authentic in so far as there's no back button and using it in Android backs you out of the whole site!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449845
hey, thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts.

I like the comparison page in Hamilton, and in their examples they operate in the asset level, whereas Bruin crosses the asset level into the orchestrator level as well, effectively bridging the gap there. What Bruin does is beyond a single asset that might be a group of functions, it is basically being able to build and run pipelines of that.

In terms of distributed execution, it is in our roadmap to support running distributed workloads as simple as possible, and Postgres as a pluggable queue backend is one of the options as well. Currently, Bruin is meant as a single-node CLI tool that will do the orchestration and the execution within the same machine.
This link has more details on the differences to the previous version
One of the references on the wikipedia page seems to have a full transcription (along with German translation):

https://archaeologisches-museum-frankfurt.de/index.php/de/?v...

I personally cannot make heads or tails of the script used in the various images, but it seems about right.

(Note that V and U are generally used interchangeably in Latin, since they were the same character. Same with I / J.)
You might enjoy Let's Talk Religion[0] and ReligionForBreakfast[1]. Both have variety of topics not solely focused on Christianity.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@LetsTalkReligion

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@ReligionForBreakfast
I think the more interesting developments occurred after the fall of the western Roman empire. The eastern empire (Constantinople) had frequent arguments and disputes with the west over nearly everything, including Christianity. The eastern Orthodox church refers to itself as the "Catholic Church" in internal documents. After the west fell in 476, they continued to present themselves as "the" Catholic church, which was changed forever in 1200 when the largest Christian city in the world (Constantinople) was destroyed. The destruction took two years, and most of the writings, art and treasure of the richest city in the world was either destroyed, stolen, or lost.
And because the world buys all the shelf stuff from Nvidia and uses CUDA, Nvidia get the largest debugging user base there is. This way Nvidia can continue to make CUDA even better and cycle repeats.
Can you provide an example of a company I would have heard of that is in the tech industry, just so I can get a better understanding of what y'all are talking about?

Is Oracle in the tech industry?

Also on the blog post you linked you seem to imply that you do consider Google to be a tech industry company, so I am very confused.

> In tech industry, software is the main product of the company. It can be sold to a customer (B2C product) or a business (B2B product).

> For example, Facebook is the main product of Meta. Google Search is the main product of Google.
Found the pre print if you don't have access

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234