skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that car dealerships are like that because the dealership cannot offer you the later. You go into the dealer having looked up their cost on Edmunds/kbb/... and are determined to give them zero profit from the sale. Worse you know (right or wrong) what you want to buy and so they can't even provide the service of listening to your needs and getting you in the right car.

In theory you should have better luck by walking in and saying I'll pay MSRP (thus giving them a reasonable profit) if you don't add all that other BS. In practice they won't know how to do that because nobody else does
And then ripping them.

When I hit PLAY I want the movie to start — not FBI warnings, not "previews" (ads), etc.
But these notes stop the printing process early—the purchaser is on the hook to cut them out. So these should cost less than the fully printed and cut bills if we're going by pure cost of creation.

Do banks pay upwards of $1.50 on the dollar for new bills?
In my mind, LLMs are lowering the barrier of searching in the same way Google did in the early 2000s. Back then, you had to very specifically tailor your search key words, not use words such as "the," "a," etc. Google eventually managed to turn queries such as "what's the population of Ghana" into ready-made answers.

LLMs do exactly that for more complex queries, with the downside of possible hallucinations. Suddenly, instead of doing a research on the topic, a person looking to become "a programmer" asks ChatGPT to create a syllabus for their situation, and possibly even actually generate the contents of the syllabus. ChatGPT then "searches the internet" and creates the response.

I have gained confidence that LLMs won't be much more (at least in the next couple years) than search engines with the upside of responding to complex queries, and downside of hallucinations. And for that, I find LLMs quite useful.
Yeah and half the stuff that is of financial value is complete cancer on our society. Social media, advertising systems, etc etc.
I think part of this issue is that people expect a lot from Apple. They exposed the technology to many people who aren't early adopter types, but more "mainstream" types. With an entirely new product and brand, the tolerance for bugs is higher, but here the expectation is that of other Apple products.

In the end, even if the features aren't perfect, they still raise the bar for competitors, so Apple is less in danger of being disrupted.

Also, there is plenty of AI driven features that people do not talk about, but those "just work" so you don't see them as well.
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There wasn't any standardized data on police violence in the US in the 60s through 80s, but I doubt that it was any less significant.
I am not. You are using bias as an excuse to qualify poor objectivity. I am fully aware that astrophysics contains a scale and diversity of data beyond my imagination, but that volume of data does not excuse an absence of common business practices.

> The space of possible correct theories is infinite

That is not unique to any form of science, engineering, or even software products.

> and humans are simply not smart enough to...

That is why test automation is a thing.
The important part is that we are much better 20-30 years in the past. The problem is that there are small improvements here and there, so there is not a big new in the newspaper, just a (few?) more years of life in average.
Don't just count your calories. Count your protein, too. The beans aren't optional on this kind of diet. It's relatively common for people trying to stretch a budget to start substituting more grains instead of beans/eggs/tuna/peanuts/etc. and become protein deficient.

While there are long-term health issues with that, more acutely, you can end up in a low energy brain fog, that might make it hard to get enough protein to get out of said brain fog. I got stuck in that zone a few times when poor.
So it seems, I stand corrected.
Who the hell is arguing against that? Lmao thats obvious on its face
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I like the last one. "Exponential Corporation" has a bit of a ring to it. (I mean, they'd probably just be a consultant shop or something, and fall far short of the promise, but it's still a solid name.)
Hi, co-author of the blog post here. I would love to learn more about the flaws you see and if ideas on how to improve it! We definitely plan to iterate on it and make it as good as we possibly can.
He probably was buying them at a feed store. It used to be much much cheaper to buy steel cut oats and big bags of wheat berries as livestock feed. We ate them as kids in the 70s and 80s. We ground the wheat with a hand mill. Not sure if its cheaper now. Soy and corn are primary feed stock produced these days.
You might want to read "The Nature of the Firm", which discusses this.
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> HEAVILY leveraging LLMs (via Cursor) to keep engineer count and burn rate low.

Absolutely make believe FUD
The emacs mode paredit is basically structural editing for lisp code (and some of its more modern competitors like Smartparens support other languages too, but not as well as Lisp). It's great.
Do you have any experience in countries with large denomination coins? Anything smaller than a quarter is super annoying, even the quarter is borderline. It says something when a countries largest coin is too small to be useful. A 500 Yen (~$4) coin OTOH, is super nice.
Fasting is a funny thing, because the definition is highly variable. As a teenager I fasted a few times[0] while doing construction work —- mostly carpentry. How the hell does a 17 yr old get the energy to move lumber, swing a hammer, etc while fasting? The answer is liquid calories. Juice fasts feel the same to me, I’m going to guess that someone could easily gain weight on a juice “fast” if they drink enough.

0 - religion causes you to do strange things sometimes.
Though, in fairness, I don't find any of the voice assistants very useful. Siri is probably not quite as good as Alexa though. I mostly care more about Siri because I use CarPlay when driving.
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Apparently in the UK baked beans are fortified with vitamin C because baked beans on toast is such a common staple food for college students.
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I saw this when I worked for a SaaS that was incredibly dominant in some countries, and almost non-existent in others (where an incumbent player was dominant).

Every year or so top performing sales and marketing folks from the dominant countries would be tapped on the shoulder and tasked with growing the company in our less dominant markets. Everyone failed.
Google Maps does seem to be more complete with respect to businesses although I prefer Apple Maps for in-car navigation. OSM has both way beat with respect to hiking trails and the like.
No actual smart people think that UBI is an effective answer to anything. The math simply doesn't work. Those claiming that UBI is the answer are either innumerate or are making ideological claims at odds with objective reality.
It depends substantially based on which org you are in. But generally it is at the team level, so it would mostly be on the EM/TL/senior eng on the team.
Be less naive. This isnt the first time such a thing had been seen.
And you would find the business's phone number on Google I assume, because the business I mentioned is simply not present on Apple Maps.
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This is not what history tells. What we get is: the only time that western hegemony was threatened by non-western countries in modern times, they followed a variation of Marxism with revolutionary origin. Countries that did not followed this path, failed to threaten western hegemony. Despite some of them managing to get some wealth becoming partners of the west if they have a communist neighbor, at the cost of having a subordinate relationship, forfeiting some sovereignty and military control so that they cannot threaten western hegemony.

When Russia embraced capitalism, they become a shadow of what they once where, and the main threat to West hegemony is now a socialist country that managed to retain and adapt their communist path to the change of times.

This is confirmed by the western actions, that always resort to violence to prevent marxist parties to have influence in any country and create strong economic sieges against the ones that succeed, instead of encouraging them.
That’s true. But the milk doesn’t really touch it, it touches glass and the silicone nipple.
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They've always been closely related. The "KR" in OKR is "what is the new target for the KPI in order to reach O?"
Sometimes I wish I could check an alternative universe where Apple refused to acknowledge AI slop and just doubled down on privacy and protections of the user. It almost feels like they could have just ignored the trend and let everyone else burn money until the hype dies down.
MacWrite was a WYSIWYG word processor. You could change the fonts or other formatting and see the results updated on the screen.

WordStar and WordPerfect were for DOS. They were not WYSIWYG. Sure they were powerful word processors for professionals, but they were not “like” MacWrite. MacWrite was a tool for regular people.
This reminds me of a thread posted on HN last week. Someone used LLMs to write cover letters and post on job sites for them. He was able to spam out hundreds of job apps [1].

To me that sounds like a perfectly rational response to fake job apps. When there exists the possibility of 0% chance of a response for a given application, the only rational move is to minimize the investment of all submissions and maximize the number of submissions.

Recruiters and hiring managers spun it as a problem being inflicted on them because of AI tools and the attitude of people applying, with one commentator writing

> Recent cohorts have been infected with a sense that the job market is nothing more than a game that they need to min-max… The problem is so bad that one company withdrew from partnering in our internal job board, citing rampant LLM-generated applications and obvious LLM cheating in interviews.

On the other side of your argument you have people who see no problem posting ghost jobs, and think it’s a harmless way to boost company morale and increase investor confidence. They see hundreds of “low effort” applications being submitted to them, believe it is a cost being imposed on them, and think it’s 100% a problem caused by the applicants. They see no connection between their behavior and the response they get back from the environment and would see your proposal as absolutely ridiculous.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42531695
OKRs and KPIs are scams. Human language and psychology are both vague and malleable. The kinds of people who are good at meeting OKRs aren't the kinds of people who can produce quality work. OKRs are mostly about lowering expectations prior to implementing and exaggerating results after implementing... It's mostly psychological work, a magic trick, not real productivity.

The goal of this game is to sacrifice long term gains for short term gains; build a house of cards fast to boost your OKR scores and get promoted fast... Then let the next person who is assigned to the project take the blame for the collapse.

People don't care about foundations... Only thing that matters is whose watch the tower falls on. People are literally that ignorant and superficial. It works every time.
I agree, but not with the "fixable" part.

Encrypted email is near useless. The metadata (subject, participants, etc) is unencrypted, and often as important as the content itself. There are no ephemeral keys, because the protocol doesn't support it (it's crudely bolted on top of SMTP and optionally MIME). Key exchange is manual and a nuisance few will bother with, and only the most dedicated will rotate their keys regularly. It leaves key custody/management to the user: if there was anything good about the cryptocurrency bubble, it's that it proved that this is NOT something you can trust an average person with.

Signed email is also hard to use securely: unless the sender bothered to re-include all relevant metadata in the message body, someone else can just copy-paste the message content and use it out of context (as long as they can fake the sender header). It's also trivial to mount an invisible salamanders attack (the server needs to cooperate).

The golden standard of E2EE UX are Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp; all the details of signing and encryption are invisible. Anything less is insecure - because if security is optional or difficult, people will gravitate towards the easy path.

The only use-case I have for PGP is verifying the integrity of downloads, but with ubiquitous HTTPS it's just easier to run sha256sum and trust the hash that was published on the website. The chain of trust is more complicated and centralised (involves CAs and browser vendors), but the UX is simpler, and therefore it does a better job.
> 99.999% of things normal people get paid to do is something valuable for their neighbor

My intuition is that you will find a small and decreasing number of people agree with or believe this
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> If you buy fresh vegetables, learn how to keep them from spoiling on you.

Frozen vegetables are OP here. Cheap, frozen at peak freshness, still nutritious.

A pound of leafy greens is dirt cheap and won't go bad for months.

Frozen fruits are great too, especially for smoothies. Really easy way to get nutrient-dense carbs in.
"6.02214076×10^23 other people are looking at this room right now".
The whole episode is fascinating to me in that Bloomberg is a reasonable quality news organization and something obviously convinced editors there to stand their ground in spite of no obvious (presented) evidence. I agree though that absolutely no proof has come to light which makes me seriously question the whole thing.
Is it far enough along where you could work on the code editor in the code editor?
Patents equal proprietary.
https://archive.is/Rl7GT
Really depends on your priorities. For me I'd rather do 'good' work (or 'interesting' work to me) since I don't care about minmaxing my comp.
You seem to have focused your 'tunnel vision' on the costs of boring that thing alone.

Sort of CAPEX, so to speak. But what about less OPEX later, because of more flexibility, less maintenance burden, when other demands arise or conditions change?

If the tunnel is wide enough, two tracks can be built side by side, and another level of two tracks on top of it. That makes room for a total of four (potential) tracks, with the possibility to switch between them not only horizontally, but also vertically via ramps (inside that tunnel profile). It also enables single platform stations for one track on one or two of the two possible levels in such a tunnel. Without any further 'big digs', or blocking the line altogether.
People clearly no longer care about reality when it comes to healthcare. They’re either stupid, horribly mislead, or terrible people.

We’ll see an exodus of good people leaving the industry because they don’t care tolerate the sentiment and the US healthcare system will be run by actual terrible and/or stupid people and the problem will get far worse than it is today. There is no correcting mechanism to this sentiment when public figures including politicians and executives in other industries do not set the record straight and correct obvious misunderstandings. I’ve heard 1 person go the distance of attempting to set the record straight since Brian Thompson was assassinated and that is David Friedberg. (https://youtu.be/K2xfW3hgxb4?si=bjBXRLduRuAk_I4m 1:08:00 mark) At best, people have only said “murder is bad”. There are a lot of people, including my friends, who are totally okay with assassination. I think by now we know the perp is an anti-capitalist and that was his rationale.

People do not recognize the importance of business in the world.

Edit: also, the internet isn’t real and people don’t take this stuff seriously. Mix that in with bots from adversarial countries stoking the flames and we have a recipe for disaster.
> dump your memory onto a file when shutting down, then reload the dump when you restart

To me this sounds like building your own db but worse.
Care to share the contexts in which someone needs a zero-shot model for time series? I have just never come across one in which you don't have some historical data to fit a model and go from there.
I agree with your last paragraph (see my last paragraph). But I think the most natural reading of the initial task description is that the machine also pretends to be a woman. The line “we do not wish to penalize a machine for being unable to shine in beauty competitions” supports this interpretation, given that a beauty competition is an event for women, under the assumptions of the time. So I think there are conflicting cues in the paper as to the intended interpretation.

As you say in your other comment, though, I don’t think Turing thought the exact details of the game were important - which explains why he didn’t trouble to spell them out very exactly.

If I had to guess, I’d say that Turing assumes that as the machine has no gender, the only relevant difference between the machine and the woman is that one is human and one is not. So for the rest of the paper he focuses on that difference and is vague on the gendered aspect of the task.
> The original question was about a "meal that provides all the essential nutrients the average person needs to stay healthy over the long term"

> The simplest, easiest, and the most correct answer is "just eat animals".

Stop right there. This is playing switcharoo.

You devised a hypothesis that elegantly goes like "healthiest simplest diet is what is closest to your own body". (And that you used as a justification to eat other animals)

But hey I guess the closest to your body is other humans. So seeing as you now backtrack and are not suggesting humans eat humans, thankfully you understand that the original question implies some norms about what is acceptable and what is unacceptable to eat even if it is contains all you need.

Now you just need to see why growing numbers of people think about eating not only fellow humans but fellow animals who are conscious, feel pain and suffer, especially the ones who grow up for consumption and suffer entire life tortured as unacceptable and you're all set.

In addition there is another "little problem" with your argument and that is that humans don't eat through by absorbing stuff like some sort of amoeba. It goes through complex digestive process that extracts some stuff from other stuff. And a bunch of stuff a human body can/should synthesize. Remember healthy eating is also NOT getting stuff you don't need and synthesize. And if you find the closest thing to what's in your body, that'll be a whole lotta stuff you do not need.

So no "just pick what's the same as your body" is not the most "simple healthy meal". On more than one level. It's just an excuse to justify a existing taste for meat.
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This is a small cookbook that I have used a lot. It’s designed around being able to feed a few people, and eating well, without being expensive.

https://leannebrown.com/good-and-cheap-2/

I get a hard bound copy for everyone I am friends with when they go out on their own. It’s a great resource!
yeah, something local (and free) would be much better. i'm not even sure how expensive could this be if it would run all the time...

re bot removal: thanks for it, will give a it a try!
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> After a NDA with NXP...

It is better than NDA with Broadcom, but still...
As a European, I can confirm that wheelchair accessibility is traditionally better in the US than in Europe.

I suspect it's a combination of getting relevant laws earlier (don't know that, just guessing), having less old infrastructure (building new with accessibility is easier than upgrading existing buildings), and having more space (so adding a wheelchair ramp is less of a deal).

Europe is generally catching up, but I'd say it's still behind the US. At least the places I know.

But of course, that's not the whole story, as another commenter illustrates with some concrete examples for the cost of wheelchairs and wheelchair maintenance.
Incentives should be aligned because you will use that agent again if they do a good job for you. Not all realize this, but repeat moves (every 5-10 years) and referrals are how good agents make their money and both mean that they need to be trustworthy.
From my perspective, the negativity stems from a general disregard of environmental impact, copyright or intellectual property, or education around hallucinations.
Ask HN: How to get your 1st customers?Applying GA's principles in 2025 in Europe
Hi everybody,

I hope you are well,

I wish you all a happy new year. May you reach all your professional and non-professional goals in 2025 !

I am posting this message in HN because, after watching Gustaf Alströmer’s video “How to get your first customers” a serious number of times, I have encountered several hardships trying to apply the techniques GA is teaching.

In the video, Gustaf says that, for you to get your first customers, you need to do outbound sales and thus reach out to qualified leads on Reddit subs, Discord servers, Facebook groups, etc.

However, when I try to reach out to qualified leads on Reddit subs, Discord servers, Facebook groups, etc. either by 1. posting a general message on the feed or by. 2. contacting them directly by sending them a Private Message, I encounter the 2 following problems:

When I post a general message on the feed, the message is flagged as promotion and is consequently deleted by moderators.
When I contact qualified leads directly by Private Message, at best the qualified lead opens my PM and doesn't reply (rare case) and at worst (most frequent case) my message falls into spam (As I operate in Europe, most precisely France, Reddit, Discord and Facebook enforce the GDPR regulation) and is never opened.

So my question is, how do you do outbound sales in a context where reaching out to qualified leads via Reddit subs, Discord servers and Facebook groups is not really welcomed (message is either deleted or ignored), or is even prohibited (GDPR regulation)?

More generally, how did you or how do you get your first customers?

Thank you for taking the time to read this message,

I wish you all an excellent day,

Marcia
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Aspects of AI normalize over time. There was a time when the route finding in digital maps would have been considered almost magic.