skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>there was a desire to move towards byte level work rather than tokens

Yeah, latest work on this is from Meta a last month.[0] It showed good results.

[0] https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/byte-latent-transf... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415122)
Happy New Year, everyone!
I hope this year brings success and growth to all my fellow builders out there.

I’d love to hear your thoughts: What do you think is the most important skill or make-or-break trait a founder must have?

Additionally, if you have recommendations on learning that skill—whether it’s a book, video, Twitter thread, or any other resource—please share. Your insights would be invaluable to me and others looking to improve.

Thanks in advance for your wisdom and time!"
> health insurance to get proper treatment, support and medication

Health insurance is mis-named: it is not a health care product meant to provide health care; it is a financial product, meant to smooth the cost of health care. It should probably be called health care cost insurance.

Providing the indigent with health care is a different thing from health insurance. Mandating that the mentally ill receive treatment is a different thing from health insurance.

Health insurance is just that: insurance against a financial catastrophe.
What an awful proposition!
Blogging minus the yucky bits of the modern web
It is usually quicker to just zero the disk instead of random bytes, just because the randomness pool might be scarce in a system. This can save hours when clearing a large and fast disk, like a SSD. /dev/zero usually has much more throughput than /dev/random.

Of course this matters less on slow disks, where the bottleneck is the writing speeds anyway.
Google Authenticator does support exporting and syncing now:

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/google-authenticator...
Larger health insurance pools are better. Regardless of societial structure.
https://youtu.be/6MFN7QiF83M?si=kYSxVa0N2GDsrAfP
Agreed, but it's also amusing to run with the literal Germanic verb as a command, like an awkwardly worded "Stop being surprised."

(As opposed to "What a surprise [this is].")
Ask HN: What do you hate about today's dev practices compared to 10 years ago?
Running on Dreamcast hardware

https://youtu.be/6MFN7QiF83M?si=kYSxVa0N2GDsrAfP
https://chatgpt.com/share/677583a3-526c-8010-b9f9-9b2a3374da... o1-mini best-of-1
That’s pretty racist. What does race have to do with personal preference?
Isn’t WASM doom a solved thing already? I wouldn’t consider that the hard part, unless I’m missing your point.
Or Bill Ayers. Or Oscar Lopez Rivera.
Thanks! I'm trying fish once in a while, and currently, the following are missing:

$ cat <(echo "Hello")
Hello
$ cat <<<"Test"
Test
You might have heard about Metasploit.
> Google Authenticator doesn’t export the seeds or store the seeds in the device backup, or sync them, so when you lose or upgrade that phone, you lose all your TOTP. This is bad.

Not true anymore. [0]

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/24/23696058/google-authentic...
Yup. The wrong people do idiotic things like buy the wrong type of UV bulbs and fry people’s retinas making them blind.
> As for the rest of your comment, I'm not sure where you stand here - does the PA represent the Palestinians?

De jure, yes.

De facto, not particularly, and they are quite conscious of that, and actively seeking to correct it but actively prevented by Israel whose strategy to mitigate international pressure for peace (and particularly to avoid meaningful US pressure for peace) centers on avoiding having any entity that effectively represents the Palestinian people.

> Should we believe that Hamas is more representative

It is more representative of Gazans a couple decades ago when the last elections were held (whereas the PA is of WB Palestinians at the same time.) It probably is less interested in fixing the problem (certainly its Iranian sponsors are), but even so it has on more than one occasion reached deals with the Fatah-led PA on new elections throughout the occupied territories for a new PA government, but those agreements went nowhere because Israel blocked implementation.

> If Hamas truly represents the Palestinians, do you think there's any chance for peace?

There's no chance for peace with the current Israeli regime, at least as long as it has unshakable support from the US; Hamas is a symptom of the problem (one actively fostered to both divide Palestinian opposition and provide a less Western-sympathetic opposition by Israel when they weren't in their momentary orientation toward peace), not its source.

> Given that Hamas's goals are basically the dismantling of Israel?

Peace always requires parties compromising on their goals, largely because they recognize that they are unattainable at acceptable cost. Why both Fatah, Hamas, or the numerous other Palestinian factions might do so is...fairly obvious. Israel, whose goal is no more the destruction of the Palestinian people entirely than Hamas’s is destruction of Israel, has bottomless US support, little effective (though plenty of symbolic) international opposition, and continues to progress (slow over the long term, quite rapid recently) progress towards its goal. Yes, it costs Israeli lives, but those are lives that the Israeli government has been clear that it is willing to sacrifice, not an unacceptable cost.
> If you think smartphone customers and server customers are evaluating hardware based on the same criteria, then why isn't Apple the leading datacenter hardware OEM?

Because Apple doesn't want to be in the B2B space.
Metafilter.com charges $5 for an account, so that's an option.
The most powerful engine enters service (2006)
Object that fell from the skies identified as separation ring from a rocket
I ran a 30 year old Maytag up until last year. No problems at all. Funny how things change
This might not be solution for everyone but wouldn’t the best protection to use two separate password managers? One for passwords and the other for the TOTPs?

I wonder why service providers don't have it already. They could even help ensuring that the passwords are different and provide some interoperability between both vaults (e.g. TOTP on mobile device is passed to PC password completions)
I don't think this is racist. Why do you think it is a negative thing? I'm Asian myself and I admire those who achieve. Way better than spending youth in BS activities.
Sorry. I thought it was one of the shady sites that let you record for 60 minutes for free, but to get transcript you must enter the credit card. (60 minutes fells like a lot of time for a free try.)
> Then he says the sea hasn't risen and those people are actually right

You must be thinking of the bit where he says To be fair to those folks, it's true that – as they claim – the water level of various landmarks around the world, such as the Statue of Liberty, Plymouth Rock, and (in my own stomping ground of Sydney Harbour) Fort Denison, has not "visibly" risen since they were erected. but didn't notice the visibly.

> Then he says the sea is gonna rise a lot more than it hasn't.

I don't understand what you mean by this.
People like this are a dime a dozen. They are the "If the government tries and comes to takes ma guns 'way im gon...." type. Most of the time they are entirely harmless and it is all action fantasy. FBI keeps track of these types (they are loud) and they keep track of the inventory too. This guy isn't ever going to go on a rampage, and when the FBI knocks he will always roll over and comply. It only turns into a Waco when you accumulate a following of sorts.
Show HN: A tiny KeyCastr alternative in Rust
A tiny typing visualiser that can be used to showcase keyboard layouts with complicated layers.

Video with technical details here: https://youtu.be/FwvhiFXIAYY
this is a cool app [1] i found to visualize the contents drifting (among other things) over millenia; its pretty cool

[1] https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/earthview...
> There are already H5N1 vaccines for both chickens and humans; pharma companies are working hard on cows.

We need another term besides "vaccine" for the class of inoculations which don't prevent disease spread but rather lessen the (statistical) occurrence of severe illness. A lot of the focus on "vaccines" for chickens, cows, pigs etc. is on preventing severe illness: preventing serious illness still allows product to be delivered to market (hopefully post illness) whereas preventing disease spread requires a commitment to culling breakthroughs which interferes with profit!

My general understanding that preventing serious illness, rather than transmission, is the objective with current influenza vaccines for humans as well.

(As long as they're not noticeably sick, I'll keep on hugging my chickens as a source of generalized immunity to both coronaviruses and influenza.)
in shareware version plasma and BFG guns aren't available
Try cloning Disney, and you have a problem.
Maybe it was 20? I just remember they took expense fluids, hard to keep, fragile.
Then month ago I was in a Micro Center, and there were dozens of very fancy printers that could take dozens of types of line feeds.
Two things:

1. I believe they require that you have an acquired specific landing page (e.g. crusoe.ai/acquired), which we saw directly as conversions through to our waitlist. The volume was lower than other channels, but the signal was much, much higher.

2. To @scarface_74's comment, "you talk to customer and you can ask them where they heard about you from" is mostly why I made the claim. In particular, when fundraising, basically everyone I talked to said, "I heard about you on Acquired, really interesting business model that I hadn't considered, let's talk more about it."

Sponsorship isn't cheap (I would go so far as to call it expensive), but relative to spending an equivalent amount on search or display ads/billboards on 101/etc., I think it was the right choice at the time.

My only analogy for this is what I call "cruise missile marketing" where you're investing a lot of time/money in building something that is very specifically targeted at high value buyers. It works really well for large, infrequent transactions (raising capital, selling GPU clusters, etc.) and less well for commodity SaaS or B2C products where volume >> everything.
It's so weird that people use questions that are well-known for duping humans, who we all consider to be general intelligence.

Getting this question wrong doesn't say much about the intelligence of humans, why would it say something about the AI?
Wild! Would that actually work in the long run? It could cause you a lot of trouble, I’m sure, but it seems like if you have any legal documentation, a lawyer would easily fix it. And it seems like it’s probably illegal to try to remove someone without consent or authorization, so it could potentially backfire pretty hard for him?

I know this happens sometimes, and I’m thankful my partnerships have never gone this bad. Did you know it was headed this direction before he tried it? Was that the end of the company?
The risk is that if your password manager's database is stolen, then an attacker can do an offline decryption attack on it, and should they succeed, they have both parts of the login to compromise you.

At the very least, you SHOULD keep the 2FA credentials in a separate database (IE, keepassxc can keep multiple databases), so an attacker would need to double their efforts to get both parts of the login.
This is great advice. I don't know about other countries but Germany does have a severe "specialist" fetish when it comes to recruiting IT professionals. Less severe for permanent positions but very painfully apparent for contracting/freelancing.

This wasn't a problem in the past decade or so because the IT market was extremely supply side limited. Now this changed and people are getting tripped up.

Its kind of sad really. Recruiters and hiring managers need to better understand that they don't actually need that much specialist expertise as they typically think. But there plainly is little way around checkbox hunting recruiters right now, except ones personal network maybe.

Case in point, a client of mine was looking to improve their Data platform offering so they brought in a couple of experts and me, a generalist (via a friendly recommendation). While the experts did deliver their expertise they would have actually put the org down a multi year path of migrations, platform development and mid seven figure annual licensing deals. Back in the real world, the facts where that the requirements and scale where scratching the upper end of most OTS products in question and also that they already had the correct solutions in play already, just not necessarily wired up and maintained correctly. Long story short, we reached the intended results in months with just minor re-orgs and a couple of additional FTE for maintenance and build out and the client avoided a multi year, eight figure initiative that might or might not have worked out.
This is so true! Our codebase got radically simpler when we did the exact same thing. And faster too, in terms of page rendering. It is very unfortunate that the whole community is being pushed onto frameworks like this unnecessarily.

All most folks need is `npx rsbuild init`:

https://rsbuild.dev/

(And I love that the post authors are using rspack! I read the post after posting this comment. This was our exact same process. No more overhead of next -- just used rspack/rsbuilld and a simple router and beautiful simplicity everywhere, including 10ms hot reloads)
Further: All wealth is the result of governmental largess. Who benefits -- oligarches or the middle class -- is the neverending food fight.

h/t economist Kevin Phillips.
FreeOTP+, available on FDroid [1] provides for import/export of one's stored codes.

The problem with "phishing" is not the technology. Phishing is 100% a human issue and no matter what tech. you might use, those humans vulnerable to being phished will find a way to be phished.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.liberty.android.freeotpp...
Do not bank on living forever in this lifetime
Yeah they do. Check out the 764 cult + project gladio. Lots of assassinations towards left-leaning folks. Atleast two such cases recorded on forensic architecture of murders of hacktivists going unchecked after quiet obviously being staged by intelligence agencies. One in Germany and one at a BLM event.

I wont speak more on it here but I can think of atleast 6 people i've known closely who've just gone completely dark online + in their community after anti-govt organization. I assume they're dead.
https://archive.ph/gsysv
People in the US followed until the government got stupid, lied, caved to corporations, etc.

If you want people to follow instructions, you need to demonstrate competence first.
GLP-1 Medication Adoption Is Changing Consumer Food Purchases
I doubt ai will remove all struggle. I suspect we wouldn't see great extents of human passion in a world where everyone is fed, clothed, housed, etc without needing to exert themselves at all.
If someone knows your username and password and can convince you to give them a TOTP code, then yeah they can log in to your account. That’s hardly iCloud-specific.
After seeing people lose cryptocurrency first hand through the LastPass leaks (hot wallet seed phrases, which is still stupid to have online but..), I really feel like the odds of a leak being the cause of any issues higher than a bad password, for tech savvy security conscious users at least.
Pre-medication?

Wait, here's a better one: speculative therapy

Also make it invite only
I mean Europe has more of the type of policy that you describe, there's still the same drop in birthrates

(Not disagreeing with you that the WSJ is evil, but I doubt throwing money at people will make them have more kids at this point)
Good read!

> Postgres' support for extensions and plugins is impressive. One of the original design goals of Postgres from the 1980s was to be extensible. The intention was to easily support new access methods and new data types and operations on those data types (i.e., object-relational). Since 2006, Postgres' "hook" API. Our research shows that Postgres has the most expansive and diverse extension ecosystem compared to every other DBMS.

Greenhorn developers don't even know that there are non-Postgres databases which have extensions too - such is the gap! I wouldn't be surprised if Postgres had as many as all others combined.
If domain doesn't match, password manager of choice will not suggest to populate credentials. In that case it doesn't matter if 2FA is saved by the password manager, or is managed on another device, because you won't have the chance to use the 2FA.

If domain doesn't match, and you manually copy the password, and login, you can as well manually copy the 2FA code.
Austria got tired of mitigation strategies they still obeyed the rules better than much of the US, but I am doubtful next time a lockdown or restrictions are needed
At a glance, this seems to implement both FSM and Statecharts, and Statecharts are composable AFAIK.
On the “Amazon can just offer your DB as a service”

Yes this can happen. But a lot of people don’t want a AWS managed service. They're like 30% cheaper for 30% less value. They can develop a bad reputation and feel like weird forks (kinesis vs Kafka) that have weird undocumented gotchas and edge cases that never get fixed. Many teams want to host on k8s anyway, and you’ll probably have better k8s support from the main project. Another example is the success of Flink over hosted Google Dataflow. Seems eventually the teams I know trend to the most mainstream OSS implementation over time, maybe after early prototyping on a managed system.

IMO it might not be the highest growth market anymore. Those who want to pay for a managed service will. But many are just figuring out a k8s based solution to their infra needs as k8s knowledge becomes more ubiquitous.
Liveview addresses some of the things they lost, like crawlability.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz0ZnOMaePo
> Anyway, my intrinsic belief is that the universe is dark, and cold, and full of terrors lol. Explore carefully, kids.

Lovecraft felt the same way. Belief in something greater, but something so alien that it cannot be understood in human terms, is a mark of his time period.

There's a lot of that out there, but there's a lot of the opposite as well. There is brilliant, beautiful light and love. My experience is that the light dispels the dark.
> If we'd have TODAY an AI with the same parameters as the human with perfect memory, it will be most certainly closely examined and determined to be not a general artificial intelligence.

The human could learn to master a task, current AI can't. That is very different, the AI doesn't learn to remember stuff they are stateless.

When I can take an AI and get it to do any job on its own without any intervention after some training then that is AGI. The person you mentioned would pass that easily. Current day AI aren't even close.
Historian predicts trouble for president-elect
Some other examples: DragonRuby, and Chef (which I prefer over ansible).
Yes it does, at the top of every chat there is a drop-down to select the model, which displays the current model. It's been a constant part of the UI since forever.
I wonder what is baseline OOD generalization for humans. It takes around 7 years to generalize visual processing to X-ray images. How well does a number theorist respond to algebraic topology questions? How long it will take a human to learn to solve ARC challenges in the json format just as well as in the visual form?
It was not an analogy at all. It was an simplified example of the idea that a slight change in a pattern can induce error in humans.

It seems some people disagree that that is what the game "Simon Says" is about. I feel like they might play a vastly simplified version of the game that I am familiar with.

There was a recent episode of Game Changer based on this which is an excellent example of how the game leader should attempt to induce errors by making a change that does not get correctly accounted for.
_1 is also a bit of a footgun. It becomes an array of all block params IF the block has an arity > 1 AND no other block param (e.g. _2) is referenced anywhere within the block.

It's an unusually half-baked feature by Ruby's standards. I think there was some hesitation about the name "it" initially, because "it" is an essential method name in rspec, and is used within blocks there.
Autoban all new accounts, require their comments to be vouched up until they earn some minimum amount of karma or they pass out of green account status. Also re-ban any account with some a high ratio of flags and downvotes vs upvotes.
If you haven’t already, you could check out this resource: https://datajournalism.com/read/handbook/two
Vedic A.I.strology Without the Fluff
A set of A.I. tools that gives the most layman explanation of each of your vedic chart's planetary positions without the technical jargon and human bias that usually comes when you do not have access to a reputable Vedic astrologer. Other tools like auspicious name generator and deciphering your name numerology is also available.
> That the market can stay irrational longer than people can stay solvent is also true.

It's a myth that markets are irrational. It's a joke repeated amongst traders but fundamentally, we all know that markets simply aggregate all available information and reflect it in a price. A free market as a whole has rationality as its equilibrium: it's always telling you something true about the world.

To call the market irrational is a more humble claim than intended by those who quote it to aver that only they are rational, that is, it says: "I can't figure out what the market knows that I don't."

It means, "Those who couldn't hear the music assumed that those who were dancing were insane."
Apropos of nothing, it seems weird to me that we observe a vocabulary distinction in identical phenomena based on where those phenomena are located.

A prairie is called a steppe if it's in Asia. A steppe is called a prairie if it's in America.

A hurricane is a typhoon, except it's striking the west coast of the Atlantic instead of the west coast of the Pacific.

None of these make any difference to what the object is like. Why do we care? We don't call mountains something different when they're in Asia. We don't even call them something different when they're underwater, which makes a huge difference.
n your (a), (b), and (c) list, you imply that (c) — routine mass murders — connects directly to (a) (talk of political violence) and (b) (stockpiling weapons). However, the examples you give, like Jan. 6 or militia incidents, don’t align with your routine mass murders implication. You could imply unrest for sure and I wholly agree that subsets could even be targeted violence, but that's not unique to either of your examples.

The elements will always be in place for disturbed individuals, just look at the number of "Cars running over crowds" stories, such as yesterday in New Orleans. The question and premise for a lot of the battles are, do we take away rights or abilities of those that won't do it, on the off chance that someone could?

Clear laws, enforced consistently would help a lot here. I would also posit, though not likely a popular opinion, there are people that cannot be a part of a functioning society and we have to collectively agree on that. We need to bring back functioning mental health facilities for long term care and accept that some people will be placed here and not leave.
The joke is that his greed/ unwillingness to squeeze margins has made the entire database company ecosystem possible.
Ask HN: Things to Do in a New City
What do you do when you move to a new city?
What's the quality on metafilter nowadays?