skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the viral genome that I'm proposing we target. Specifically, we should cut it in half so it doesn't work anymore. That's is how CRISPR works in nature: for modifying the threat, not modifying oneself. It would be much simpler to make vaccines this way. It could happen fast enough to make a difference.

The only part of the human genome that would need to change for this is the one that puts the scissors (CAS-9) in place for later use. I suppose since we'd have them lying around we might later want to use them for more invasive gene therapies which do target the human genome, but that would be a separate decision for a later date.

As for the diet part... if nature is going to force our hand here one way or another, we might as well handle things on our own terms. Or maybe nature isn't going to. But that's the kind of thing a scientist would study in the wake of a pandemic if we weren't all so toxic about it. Maybe we'll be more interested in prevention after there are a few more of these and COVID starts looking like the warning shot that we ignored.
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so, what is your suggested trajectory for solo hacker? Do cold "sales" calls?

> there are thousands of $million revenue software companies that never posted on Reddit and never wasted months trying to pump a fake-successful launch on product hunt.

do you have a chance to give some ideas how did you collect such insights? How did you find there are thousands companies which never posted, etc, and how they found first customers?
Wow, where did you go to school? Every 15 year old boy at mine was wearing a team shirt, an athletic brand shirt, or a band's shirt.
Without resorting to any "big-D Devops" definition, I have almost always seen devops referring to "supporting / running the code you write", and have never encountered the definition where dev and ops were 2 different roles. That was what things were like before devops, and coordination on product support and planning wasn't great, hence devops.
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You may be disturbed to find out how much plastic is in contact with boiling hot water in your typical automatic drip coffee brewer.

I was recently trying to find one without plastic to replace the $25 all black plastic one I've had for years. The only one I could find without any plastic was one of those all metal Bunn ones you see at diners. It was more than $400! And even that still required you to purchase a separate all metal basket as the one that comes with it was plastic. And that coffee maker doesn't really make "good tasting" coffee. Any premium "good tasting" drip coffee maker will have plastic, and probably black plastic at that.
I'm waiting for their in house laptop they keep saying they are working towards. They say their workstation cases and keyboards are learning steps to creating the laptop, but so far nothing is here
This is why "new money" is an insult.
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Ok. You are right. I think he is likely wrong, but I'm not a lawyer either. Just someone who researched this a lot for my own projects/company.

If that was true, all user-side aggregations would be considered as separate projects.

I think it might be possible to circumvent the GPL license, when the URL to the list would be user-configurable and the program also worked without the list.
Came here to say the same thing. I saw the video was 15 minutes and didn’t even bother. If it takes 15 minutes to demonstrate sharing code, how can it be an improvement over Slack and Pastebin? In the time it takes to watch the video I could have shared so much code on Slack very easily.
Sure … it’s possible to turn off security. But what I want is a working and secure system that isn’t annoying. macOS today feels as obnoxious as Windows Vista did in 2007. I still weep for everything we’ve lost since Snow Leopard (greatest OS release of all time)

Like yesterday double click title bar to maximize windows mysteriously stopped doing anything on my M4 MBP. Why??? Guess I’ll try a restart and see if it helps…
> local LLM fine-tuned for cleaning my typo-ridden paragraphs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocorrection
I doubt those are the sorts of intellectuals meant in this context! Although interesting how Mearsheiner blames Eastern European countries' NATO membership for the Ukraine war, whilst Dugin has literally called for Russian expansion via conquest since the 90's.
4th option, they are just better than you are at managing dynamism.
Love a good clicker game, but I think some of the mechanics need adjusted. I got it up to a certain point and then came back to the browser tab after an hour or so and had broken the game and bought all the things.

edit: maybe I saw the scientific notation and assumed it was broken hah. I'm launching rockets now. But I feel like there should have been more struggle to get to this part.
you’d have to be crazy to think the onboarding funnel in web3 is easier than web2
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O1 found it.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67782b6b-6248-8012-882d-238b600ef9...
Anyone happen to know what the time dilation factor would be for the Milky Way at somewhere near the outside edge and somewhere nearish to the center (say at 5% of the radius, so that we're not inside the central black hole)? The article says:

"...in fact, an atomic clock located in a galaxy could tick up to a third slower than the same clock in the middle of a void."

Maybe there is an nice simple formula assuming a uniform disk relating the time dilation to radius? I've always been under the impression that general relativity simulations needed supercomputers, but maybe current desktop machines are sufficiently "super" compared to 20 years ago that we could do simple calculations? Anyone have a recommendation on where to start learning enough general relativity to make a computer program? Assuming you've have a couple semesters of calculus-based college physics 101 under your belt as the prerequisite?
> Russia is "winning" Western elections, and who doesn't like to be on the winning team

Finland and Sweden voted to join NATO; Europe re-arms. Trump may not be pro-Ukraine, but his energy policy will wreck Russia's oil-dependent pocketbook while his China and Iran strategies will also hurt Moscow. Russia's other potential pillar, arms sales, is having its reputation trashed as the world watches 90s-era Western kit take out its "cutting edge" hardware.

Add to that the declining population and it's difficult to see the Russian nation continuing in its present form for more than a few generations. Maybe we'll see an independent Chechnya or even Siberia [1] in our lifetimes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Republic
It would be fun if we could define planets with our own materials, like bananas (influenced by xkcd), diamonds or whatever other silly substance we like :-)
> You interpreted it as “Socialism is discussed in the novel therefore it was in the air,”

Yes. I still read it that way.

> but that’s not what was said.

If you say so. I re-read the comment and I interpret it the same way still. If we are not using the book as evidence of what was going in Russia, but evidence of what topic was interesting to its audience then I'm happy with that.
How could anyone consider themselves a well-rounded adult without a basic understanding of the Swing dance?
The author of "Foundations of Geopolitics"? He has essentially engineered the current Russian geopolitical strategy. It is breathtakingly cynical and remarkably effective. Why can't Russia be as good at making their citizens wealthy, happy, and healthy as they are at manipulating politics in other countries and creating fake culture wars to divide and weaken their "enemies" which they seem to think is almost everyone.
I'm not sure if the legend is true or not. But this argument doesn't really disprove it. The devices don't need to send full audio recordings. They are powerful enough these days that they can do a cheap on-device audio analysis and tagging, and then upload the (very small) tags. It doesn't need to be Siri quality analysis because it doesn't matter if the analysis is incomplete or sometimes inaccurate. They would just be scanning for certain keywords.

As for whistleblowing... Is there really that much to whistleblow about it? We already know that ad-based companies like Google are collecting our data every chance they get, because they make billions of dollars from it. They're scraping our emails, studying our GPS location, paying attention to who we are in proximity with, etc. The level of surveillance is incredible and people don't really care. It wouldn't be headline news to find out that they are taking advantage of yet another side channel.
This project already had no one caring about it 5 years ago. If github adopted my metric, than what you described would fool it.

I wrote that as a weekend project one day after seeing the "fake github stars" thing 5 years ago.
> I'm not sure why that is.

Well, you explained it in your second paragraph; to respect the family, and the deceased themself. Some causes of death (suicide, overdose, etc.) come with a lot of private information about the individual that they might not have chosen to share.
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> You've got SREs who (mostly) write software, SREs who (mostly) stare at graphs and deal with random system failures, and now SREs who use a framework to develop a complex risk model of multiple systems (which is more quality control than engineering).

This was always the case or at least going back 15 years or more highlighted by the so called “treynor curve”
Other examples from the article but not in the headline:

Meanwhile, a separate AI summary told some users of the BBC Sport app that "Brazilian tennis player, Rafael Nadal, comes out as gay".
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Littlestone and Warmuth make the connection to compression in1986, which was later shown to be equivalent to VC dimensionally or PAC learnablilty.

Look into DBScan, OPTICs for far closer lenses on how clustering works in modern ML commercial ML, KNN not the only form of clustering.

But it is still in-context, additional compression that depends on a decider function, or equivalently a composition linearized set shattering parts.
One thing I've always stumbled on is finding the people to even ask the questions to. How do you contact people in the domain you're interested in and how do you convince them to give you the time of day?
vscode itself can run in the browser (https://vscode.dev/), and presumably so could the extension - so a full live-demo ought to be possible.
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BTW - prompt optimization is a supported use-case of several frameworks, like dspy and textgrad, and is in general something that you should be doing yourself anyway on most tasks.
You need to crawl, walk and then run. I would argue that talking to users on reddit/twitter is also selling. If you cannot sell a $3 dollar widget then selling a $1000 widget is even more difficult. Enterprise sales has a long sales cycle which is very difficult to do without significant runway.
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I had def saved it as unlisted before sharing the link. It turns out I actually found a legit bug.

1. Change to unlisted without selecting "for children"/"not for children".

2. Save, see an error about fixing it.

3. Select appropriate options.

4. Save and see "unlisted".

5. Video is actually still "private".
> was completely foreign to his audience

I suppose "The Lord of the Rings" is a true history of England?
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I didn’t have any debt and I attempted suicide. What an idiot move.
The most absurd thing of this story is that NATO cannot guarantee the defense of Ukraine. Even now after 2 years, NATO cannot establish air defenses over Ukraine. So what is the point of the expansion? To make the whole NATO weaker?
The statement is correct. "Revise" is commonly used in British english for this purpose. Revise: "reread work done previously to improve one's knowledge of a subject, typically to prepare for an examination."
See my last sentence above.

"not very common"
I read somewhere the family (It seemed) said "he died very quickly in no pain".

(Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1hmynb3/noah_gibbs_co...)
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I 100% agree that a visual demonstration is very valuable, however my objection is less about information density and more about structure and clarity. In my experience these videos are rarely carefully planned and structured keynotes, but rather improvised, meandering, stream of consciousness brain dumps.
For those who can't find other people as your guinea pig, this is the trick I use: After finishing your tutorial, just wait for a few days, and try following it yourself, in a fresh env.

I'm cursed (blessed?) with fish memory so after a few days I forgot everything I wrote.
I typically use Gitlens to get the gitlab or sourcegraph links.

Expiring links might be nice... I have a lot of old gists that don't need to exist, but I'm too lazy to manually delete them.

I don't think such a tool, I would pay for...
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Wow you guys are sensitive. I was trying to underline the hopelessness of what we are doing. I'm not condoning any illegal activity....jeez. But I'll leave. The hostility here is incredible.
> Why half-ass the first step of the interview process?

This one is part of the crux of the woes, IMHO: everyone wants life story, heartfelt, detailed but not too detailed answers to everything. So, let's say roughly 30-60 minutes per application. But, after the candidate completes this okcupid-ish application, then crickets. Multiply that times 10 or 20 applications and the burnout is real. Burnout isn't just "well, job searching sucks" it also cuts into the compassion budget left for future applications, reducing the amount of enthusiasm offered for all these cover letters and "gorsh, I really want to work with your unicorn organization!!1"

So, let's turn this back around: for those top 5% or whatever, do YOU reply to say "thank you, but no" or do you just delete the email and go back to whatever else you do all day?
A lot of comments talking about having kids for purpose, so I thought I'd add mine. I don't have kids and when I compare myself to other friends that have kids I can see how having kids can add purpose (to some extent).

That said, personally I have found immense purpose in life by having a dog. My dog not only makes me happy he teaches me that it is okay to do mundane things in life everyday and still feel extremely happy and satisfied. Each day I look at him and I thank him for being there, for teaching me how to live life, how to love unconditionally and how to live in the moment. I know it's silly but I'm having tears of joy as I'm typing because he is sleeping right next to me at my work desk. Love you my best friend ever !
It might be if traffic had sudden jumps of like 30%, but it doesn't and there is headroom available. Traffic increases slowly over time and you have plenty of time to upgrade your network.
For me O1 found this by telling it "There is a further significant optimization possible."
I don't know how many times I'm going to have to post just one of the papers which debunk this tired trope. As models become more intelligent, they also become more plural, more like multiplicities, and yes, much more (super humanely) creative. You can unlock creativity in today's LLMs by doing intelligent sampling on high temperature outputs.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=FBkpCyujtS
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light
I used quilt over 15 years ago as part of a from-scratch embedded distro, for applying the package patches.

Years later I encountered the same trick inside Yocto: one of the few things done right which made life easier, in contrast to almost everything else inside that dumpster fire.
Seems the email isn't actually necessary, the extension is here for people who wanna try it: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=turbo-gi...

Personally, I use pastebin/GitHub Gist because I know it'll be around for a long time compared to all the new ones appearing and I really hate broken links, so my biggest question when coming across this would be "How do they ensure they'll remain online for as long as possible?"
I was talking about non-DRM use cases of attestation.
call to external db, and then to llm with retrieved context.

also business rules, no?
There's a lot of truth in what you are saying, but I also think this framing can lead to unnecessary nihilism and depression.

I think the simple reason that no one feels like they've won is because we're not biologically wired for that. Like all living things, we've evolved to struggle for survival in a harsh environment. Of course modern civilization has separated us from that harsh reality by layers upon layers of human systems and supply chains, so we apply the same instincts to games of our own devising. There's nothing actually wrong with this though. The problem comes from the belief that "winning" will make one happy. The reality is ones drive leads to engagement and perhaps accomplishment, but it can't answer the why. That is something every person with leisure time needs to work out for themselves.
Did you measure it? I would expect using % would ruin your performance as it's slow, even if it allows you to avoid doing a bunch of sums (which are fast).
Prolog is in fact a kind of database. However it is untrue that it has less power than SQL, just the opposite. Probably it feels harder to use because you're already so used to how SQL works.
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Indeed that's a good distinction that I don't think is made. Some of the other advice I've gotten from YC/PG essays is of the form 'build what seems cool' (if you're a technical and curious person). This seems to be the 'high reward, high risk' route. I suppose VR would fall into this bucket, it's definitely cool to a lot of people, but from its inception, has taken decades to really get anywhere in a commercial sense - and it still seems quite niche.

Other examples: even though PG mentions them as solving problems, would Microsoft (starting with OS software for a niche machine) and Facebook (college kids online directory) really have been starting as 'problem-first' products? It seems like the founders were more building what seemed interesting to them, and got the high reward by stumbling on the right things (and building them better than competitors).

Still even with the distinction ('person not in search of a problem'), it seems there could be a hammer/nail phenomenon going on if someone, say, builds cool tech of a certain type, and then tries to commercialize from there, in that order. What seems to make sense is to 'build what seems cool', keep an up-to-date mental model on new and emerging technologies, and stay open-minded to problems arising that can be solved. But even then, without a 'problem-first' mindset, could one get too pigeon-holed I wonder.

Not sure where I'm going with this, just thinking out loud. The topic fascinates me.
I agree. For something so "simple", with a name like turbo, I expected a 30 to 60 second video that quickly demos the value-add. I quite like the premise, but you're trying to pitch to users who want low-friction solutions, and then hitting them with a 15 minute video to see the sauce.
Yeah, that makes sense. I think it's always right for family's to choose not to share details, and I don't think it's ever appropriate for people to bug them for details.

I think what I wonder a little bit more about is why it's seen as inappropriate for people to just wonder what happened, even though I feel that's a natural human response, especially if they knew the person in some way (as long as that wondering doesn't move into boundary crossing).
This is an excessive level of pedantry, even for HN.