skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Startups and Survival: Silicon Valley's Squid Game"
Joining a Silicon Valley Startup Is Like Playing Squid Game

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Scene: A hopeful coder, Alex, walks into the chic, glass-walled office of "Unicornify," a startup promising to "revolutionize sandwich personalization with AI." The team is gathered in a minimalist conference room. Everyone is wearing branded hoodies and looks suspiciously sleep-deprived.

Alex: "Thanks for having me. I’m excited to join Unicornify!"

CEO (with a perfect white smile): "Welcome! Remember, here at Unicornify, we’re a family. A family that plays to win."

The lights dim. A disembodied voice echoes through the room.

Voice: "Attention all employees. The first game is Ping Pong Deathmatch."

Alex: "Wait, what?"

Two employees are dragged to a ping pong table. A robotic arm serves the ball at 200 mph.

Employee 1 (sweating profusely): "I have three kids, man. Let me win!"

Employee 2: "My stock options are vesting next week. Sorry, bro."

The match begins. Employee 1 loses. A trapdoor opens beneath him.

Alex (whispering): "Where did he go?"

HR Manager (nonchalantly): "He’s pivoting to new opportunities."

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Scene 2: Alex’s first day. The "work hard, play hard" mantra is taken literally.

Manager: "Our KPI this quarter is scaling user engagement by 3000%. Here’s your desk, your laptop, and your weight in energy drinks. Oh, and remember, no one survives past Series B without hustle."

Alex notices an ominous poster on the wall: "ONLY 10 WILL MAKE IT TO IPO."

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Scene 3: The All-Hands Meeting.

CEO: "Today's challenge: We’ve run out of funding. Your task is to find a way to keep the servers running without money. Losers... well, we all know what happens to losers."

Alex: "This feels intense. What about work-life balance?"

The room erupts in laughter.

Coworker (whispering): "Work-life balance? That’s for the Series C startups. If you survive this round, maybe you’ll get free kombucha."

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Final Scene: Alex has somehow survived weeks of sprints, sleep deprivation, and competitive foosball. The final test arrives: The Pitch Gauntlet. Alex faces off against the CEO in a game of "innovate or die."

CEO: "Pitch me the next big idea or... you’re out."

Alex (panicking): "Uh... AI-powered sandwiches that... predict your emotional state?"

CEO: "...Brilliant. You’ve earned another quarter. Congratulations!"

Confetti falls. Somewhere in the background, an employee screams, "WHAT ABOUT MY VACATION DAYS?"

Alex (to self): "I made it. But at what cost?"

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End scene.

Moral of the story: At a Silicon Valley startup, you're not just playing the game; you are the game.
There are some insightful techniques here that can be applied to control any kind of dialog.
You can burn nearly 400 calories running for 30 minutes at a relatively moderate pace.
To expand on this - because if the barrier to publishing is zero, then the "reputation" of the publisher is also zero.

(Actually, we already have the "open publishing" you are suggesting - it's called Blogging or social media.)

In other words, if we have open publishing, then someone like me (with zero understanding of a topic) can publish a very authentic-looking pile of nonsense with exactly the same weight as someone who, you know, has actually done some science and knows what they're talking about.

The common "solution" to this is voting - like with StackOverflow answers. But that is clearly trivial to game and would quickly become meaningless.

So human review it is - combined with the reputation that a journal brings. The author gains reputation because some reviewers (with reputation) reviewed the paper, and the journal (with reputation) accepted it.

Yes, this system is cumbersome, prone to failure, and subject to outside influences. It's not perfect. Just the best we have right now.
sometimes o1-preview start hallucinating halfway through a good solution. it can get the intuition and the 'main' direction for a problem wrong too. but then problem solving is just a series of rephrasings and translating into different math domains is used by mahtematicians for solving problems.
Just reading this kinda makes the OP’s point. This isn’t simple, when compared to Rails. The simplicity-yet-capability of Rails is hard to match.
Spirituality is not universally a belief in non-reality but it mostly is. This overloading of the word with it's opposite might be useful within their group but I think it'll just cause confusion in a global namespace.
Complete pain in the butt for anything else like qemu
The average cheap household product on Amazon is, in fact, Fine.
I'm glad https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page survived Fandom.
* Co-worked from HanaHaus

* Taken a meeting at Buck's

* Received a check or term sheet at Buck's

* Ate at Zareen's more than 3 times in one week

* Taken an Uber/Lyft from San Francisco Caltrain station to South Bay after missing your train

* Complained about how Waymo doesn't go to South Bay

* Reminisced about Antonio's Nut House

* Googled Antonio's Nut House after hearing someone reminisce about it

* Went to a Stanford talk

* Went to a Stanford talk and actually understood the material

* Made a LinkedIn connection from pickleball

* Said "I'm gonna move to the city" because you can't pull on the peninsula

But a lot of the originals still work for South Bay, even though people probably haven't done as many of them
A tree could be at a higher entropic level of reality than the sun. Just like we would consider a tiger to be more "interesting" than a tree.
ironically i posted this on my blog 3:
When Lenin stepped off the train in his return to Russia in April 1917, he was probably the only person in Russia who thought Russia would be run by socialists within a year - the other Bolsheviks certainly didn't. They were working to support Kerensky.

Russia's economy was about the size of Brazil's at the time, and he said socialists would go into a holding action in Russia while the real socialist revolution happened to the west.

From the perspective of its inception, there was no failure in the Soviet Union, the failure was in the revolution in Germany.
No answers in that thread, here's an example, ymmv.

1. Convert the pst to a single txt file with bitrecover.

2. Download AnythingLLM (RAG) + ollama or lm-studio for local. (or use cloud)

3. Import the text file.
It's true. I jogged about 5-6 days a week for about 20-30 minutes a say a few years ago and the weight left me at a healthy tick. Naturally I could lose more with a better diet but I like eating so exercise it is.
The real fear I have is in plausible deniability for filtering and muting discussion, which they do now. Moving it to a NN can always hand wave away the responsibility.
i wish there's more alternative to fandom.

I think one of the best alternative (that is still free) is actually github pages. The problem is that the contribution model is not trivially solvable via permissioning - the owner of the github page has to approve (the PR changes).

Ideally, what would be best is if there's a set of github action that would automerge changes from a list of approved contributors (who would first fork the page, make the edits and submit a PR). This set of github action would need to be a turn-key setup, without needing much technical knowledge (so that the laymen can do it).
> Why would they count an ai model as a monthly active user?

To inflate their numbers and justify higher stock prices.

So money, of course.
Node is a platform for running JS on the server; it's a non sequitur to talk about node page size whether in this case or any other
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> The 'nationalist units' and at least some regular forces would resist

While a great talking point in Russian circles, nationalist units did not represent a significant chunk of Ukrainian forces in 2022. They played a role in the power vacuum of 2014, but not by 2022.

Regular forces were concentrated in the east. If Russia took Kyiv, they'd effectively cut off any supply routes from the West. The resistance would be futile. Remember again how forces in Crimea resisted forever?

> and probably bring in proxy forces

Could you expand on this? Where, who ... how?

> and the most likely scenario (absent a quick settlement) would be something like Afghanistan 2.0.

Most likely based on what? Where do all these fighters hide? Are the Ukrainian plains as good for hiding and launching covert attacks as Afghanistan caves?
Doing my bit to bring pre-seo-driven, or just genuine blogging to the foreground.

Just launched https://lmno.lol blogging platform (no tracking or ads here). Read blogs from anywhere. No JS required.
Since (A) the Las Vegas vehicle did not explode - at all - I’m waiting for a reputable source to say the Vegas one had “explosives”. At best, the video sounds like possible fireworks, also deflagration, not explosion.
It's all relative, from the PoV of the driver it was less stressful than his earlier driving gig:

"He said that he had been a tank-driver during the war and that a tank would have had no trouble getting on to the other side and decided to see if a double-decker could do the same.
Time to put on my robes and wizard hat.
Setting all the exectuable and lib files in an application's directory as immutable might work: chattr +i.
Neat! I wouldn't have guessed we had that many trees.
It was good enough for the moon landing. The video feed from Apollo 11 was some special format that was specially decoded onto a particular monitor. There was a camera pointed at the screen to rebroadcast the feed globally.
artificially produced gaps in ancient texts

Someone deleted part of a known text.

This does require the AI hasn’t been trained on the test text previously..
Also note that the HDMI Forum refuses to allow AMD to make an open source implementation of HDMI 2.1 in their drivers for this reason.
This? https://getindie.wiki/

Thank you from a long-time hater of Fandom and PE-driven enshittification and lover of community-driven knowledge work
A few hundred, maybe a thousand sales.
> It's impossible to use freshly decompiled code for any purpose

But it is not useless, otherwise you wouldn't decompile it in the first place. Creating a reinterpretation of software without looking at the decompiled code is fine, that's what OpenMW or Wine do.

> The musical equivalent would be to create a music sounding similarly

That's a parody or homage though. And still not the same, I'd argue cover songs are reinterpretations. Say I do a Jazz cover of a theme from Mario.

> But the goals of music reproduction is to reproduce the original artwork, in case of a decompilation it's an explicit non-goal as it's impossible anyways.

If my goal is to make a movie, and I "decompile" a movie into a script, that won't perfectly match the original script. I'd have to add my own stage directions, set descriptions, etc. And of course the original film never 100% matches the original script. Is that movie now somehow not Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?
> but the decision to let the Soviet empire go merits him a statue or two.

not to people like putin, who claim that the dissolution is the greatest mistake in russian empire's history.
Hardly: how many rental car companies are there? What is the relative price of them in those areas? Is the distribution of outlets higher in those areas or available rental stock higher?

There aren't that many rental car companies: this is the birthday paradox in action.
This video goes over how it’s not really that simple. Ultimately your body will cancel that deficit out https://youtu.be/vSSkDos2hzo
The USSR had real problems but something like Chernobyl exposed the out in the open. Had it been a chemical event, the Soviets might have still gotten away with it. But a nuclear event with thousands of eye witnesses and even more people responsible for clean-up? And fallout that spread across the entirety of Europe?

We kind of saw a similar process in the beginning of COVID, when China was actively suppressing information internally. But it may not have had the same results because of deeper state centralization and information control, as well as other countries having to bother with the same issue. Yet it still sparked a number of protests across China, due to directly or indirectly being affected by COVID-19.
> In a large company, aren't workers incentived to please their immediate manager and whatever higher metrics/appearances they're exposed to.

Your manager alone can’t promote you in BigTech. Your promotion has to be approved by a committee based on a promo doc.

You can both make your manager happy by doing “glue work” that makes them look good and not have anything worthwhile to put on your promo doc that the committee will find suitable for a promotion.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-prom...
Speaking as someone who, over a few years, lost about 50kg, the problem is that when I most needed to lose weight, my body couldn’t put up with enough cycling or swimming to burn useful calories.

I found it very funny that I spent about 2 years eating less so I could get better at cycling, then suddenly had to start eating more, once I was down 50kg, because I was getting faint on very long cycles.
How much imaginary food are we hand waving in for this thought process?
The Soviet Union was first headless in 1975. After Brezhnev's stroke, he was no longer fit to govern. The people in the back room — mostly Yuri Andropov, the head of the KGB — ran the country by favor-trading and bumbled their way into Afghanistan.

But the mistakes started earlier. The arrest of Khrushchev in 1964 may already have been the point of no return. When you are faking the procedure, at least you retain some possibility of belief in democratic — or at least bureaucratic — principles. But when you just arrest the leader one day, the illusion is broken. Nobody can really believe you anymore.

The Five-Year Plan of 1965-70 — the Kosygin reform — was a success by almost all conventional economic measures [1]. Growth improved, innovation occurred, wages went up. But it was reversed. Some people in the party didn't believe that it was Marxist enough. Brezhnev, having come into office how he did, could never have had the courage to demand some kind of pragmatism that could have led the Soviet Union to the transformation that China underwent just a few years later. A nation can't be run like a mob, with everyone looking over their shoulder to see if they're going to be taken outside next. It paralyzes decision-making.

So when Brezhnev had a stroke and could barely even perform the superficial functions of leadership, nobody even wanted the job. Surely, if Khrushchev could be ousted from his position for his drunkenness, Brezhnev's incapacity should have been more than sufficient. Andropov, the leader of the KGB, was effectively calling the shots at that point, and when Leonid finally kicked the bucket in 1982, it was indeed Andropov who took over. But isn't it telling that for seven years, Andropov could have easily become the leader of the world's second-largest economy and simply didn't want to? What does that say about his confidence in the system he was running?

By the time Gorbachev was in the chair there just wasn't anything left to save. You can't have a vanguard-party government without a functioning vanguard party. The multi-party systems have all proven more resilient because when one of the parties starts to malfunction, it is removed from power and has the opportunity to reinvent itself or be replaced. No single-party state has lasted longer than China's current run, which is also starting to show a few cracks.

So far the two-party system in the United States has avoided the notionally unlikely situation that both parties become highly dysfunctional at the same time. But I don't like the news these days.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Soviet_economic_reform
I see the process more in line with how China handles being a multi-ethnic state. You have a dominant ethnicity and a pretty aggressive program of settling people from that ethnicity in the provinces. If you were a Russian engineer or doctor, you had a fair chance of being sent to Kishinev or Almaty or somewhere else in the empire; conversely, bright up-and-comers in the provinces would have a chance to come to St. Petersburg or Moscow. The Soviet state, like the PRC today, took care to advertise its many ethnicities while making sure as a practical matter that Russia would be the dominant power.

I think you have to be careful excluding "historically Russified areas" in your evaluation, because then that kind of begs the question. Those areas didn't just russify themselves! I agree that the process happens on longer time scales than the Soviet Union lasted for, but I think they continued a quite successful tradition from Tsarist times, with the added help of extremely aggressive and mostly forgotten ethnic cleansing campaigns under Stalin, like the removal of the Volga Germans.
I may reply more comprehensively later, but a few points for now:

>decades of the British forcing

JFC. A few centuries, is more like it. That's how long the Brits enslaved India(ns) for, which could happen at all, and then continue, due to multiple reasons on both sides, including, as one interesting reason, some Indian groups (think small "kingdoms") backstabbing others, and colluding with the British, which is why Alexander won over Porus, it is said in some history books.

Maybe check British colonial history and history of India, in obvious places such as Wikipedia and Britannica (ironically, for the latter).

Also read about Winston Churchill and the Bengal famine, in which millions died, but don't just limit yourself to Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhusree_Mukerjee#cite_note...

http://www.madhusree.com/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill%27s_Secret_War

There, did some of your homework for you.

And let's not forget:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

which you too seem to display in your comment, at least going by:

>the starvation the US was saving Indians from

Sure, they may have saved them from it (I was a kid at the time, too young to look it up in depth, but I vaguely remember reading / hearing something about it, including some newspaper scandals about the quality of some of the food supplied by the US - milo is one term I somewhat recollect, but I don't know the details), but they did not necessarily do it (only) for noble or altruistic intentions.

I would not be surprised if there was some quid pro quo demanded or made a condition for the help, as often is the case when the World Bank
or the International Monetary Fund gave financial aid to developing countries in times of crisis.

In fact I just did a quick google or two, and this is one link I found:

Ghost of PL-480 Returns as India Avoids the Wheat Trap All Over Again:

https://www.news18.com/news/opinion/ghost-of-pl-480-returns-...

And one more for you, for the new year:

US Raising 'Human Rights in India' is Like the Pot Calling the Kettle Black

https://www.news18.com/news/opinion/us-raising-human-rights-...

And let's not forget that the wrecked state of many such countries was at least in "good" part one of the results of European colonialism. The United States itself was earlier one such colony, as you know. Heard of the Boston tea party?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

I have been to Boston, BTW, and have eaten at Legal Seafoods and other places in downtown Boston. Nice town. I liked the architecture of some of the historical public buildings. I think one of them was the Public Library.
I actuallly prefer this over the stuff they have now. It’s part art, part sleaze
I’d bet the same way any office worker gains value from LLMs.

Summarizing things they don’t want to read.
Generating things they don’t want to write,

And RAG tools for surfacing documents, which imo is the killer app for LLMs.
Not a studio, this is development like it's the 90s. Though development is easier now with modern tools, but just like the 1990s it's something one person can write.
Oh Zellij, I forgot to mention that! I installed it a few weeks ago with the intention of replacing tmux but then I thought about using Ghostty to replace tmux and haven't configured my keybindings yet. Zellij is pretty slick and beginner friendly like you mentioned.
The French minitel in mid-80s was successful also thanks to online porn. It was not using the internet (not TCP-IP network), but it was pushing the ASCII art to its limits :)

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-24-mn-718-st...

and it made some people rich
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/europe/le-monde-t...
There is a saying you can't solve a social problem with a technical solution. Wikis are mostly just a thin technical layer to let people create their own solutions to social problems.
There are easily tens of thousands of researchers globally. If every one did a single paper per year, that would still be way more than journals could realistically publish.

Since it is to some extent a numbers game, yes, academics (especially newer ones looking to build reputation) will submit quantity over quality. More tickets in the lottery means more chances to win.

I'm not sure though how you change this. With so many voices shouting for attention it's hard to distinguish "quality" from the noise. And what does it even mean to prioritize "quality"? Is science limited to 10 advancements per year? 100? 1000? Should useful work in niche fields be ignored simply because the fields are niche?

Is it helpful to have academics on staff for multiple years (decades?) before they reach the standard of publishing quality?

I think perhaps the root of the problem you are describing is less one of "quantity over quality" and more one of an ever-growing "industry" where participants are competing against more and more people.
And an average human can probably ingest 400 calories in under a minute, with significantly less fatigue.
> Russia is still not capable of defeating one country in a three year struggle

the counter-factual is that ukraine survived primarily due to western aid, without which they'd be defeated already and is more likely to have to adapt a gorilla war against russian occupation.
? There's a video of it exploding.

https://youtu.be/HLgKKKWDJF0?si=eRWipHRDMJ08Qltc at 1:07.

I Googled "Cybertruck exploding" and it came up. It took 5 or maybe 10 seconds.

Are you trying to quibble over whether the car itself exploded? If so, what point are you trying to make?
A decent case can be made for March 1 as the start of the year. With March 1 as the start of the year the extra day in leap years then comes on the last day of the year. This makes dealing with leap years when calculating the day of the week from a date simpler.

It also makes the names of September, October, November, and December make sense. Those names come from the Roman words for 7, 8, 9, and 10, which were the numbers of those months in the old Roman calendar which did start the year on March 1. The Romans switch the start to January sometime around 700 BCE giving us the current ridiculous situation where those months are two months later in the year than their names suggest.
I'm a little bit confused is it the opensource that searches also in jira, wiki, slack, ..? https://github.com/facebookincubator/glean ?
Your body rejigger caloric expenditure based on how much you exercise. It isn't a straightforward addition of physical activity plus basal metabolic expenditure.
Between miraheze, weirdgloop and wiki.gg it seems like there are quite a few alternatives to fandom. What is missing?
yeah. This post seems basically right, but it's not what most of the rest of the world means by "spirituality".