skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be curious to know what percentage of Stack Overflow questions are duplicates, as any question flagged as a duplicate is really a misguided search, as the site is intended to be used.

But those duplicates still get flooded with answers and votes and such before they get closed as duplicates. I farmed a lot of points on there myself by answering obvious questioned doomed to be closed that would attract lots of votes.

> Another question: where will LLMs get coding Q&A training data in the future?

I would venture that 90% of SO questions have answers in the documentation or in the code of the library. Discovery is just a tremendous pain. LLMs solve discovery.
Companies that try to turn themselves into the infrastructure of the internet and then control it can fuck right off, private or not. Here's an example of where the Supreme Court agrees:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
Rehiring
So that law enforcement can ask Cloudflare for the IP logs... Signal is a joke.

https://simplex.chat/
>you can either get it directly, or spend time researching the answer, you're going to learn much more with the latter

A LOT of the time the things I ask LLMs for are to avoid metaphorically wading through a garbage dump looking for a specific treasure. Filtering through irrelevant data and nonsense to find what I'm looking for is not personal development. What the LLM gives back is often a very much better jumping off point for looking through traditional sources for information.
VMware migrations expensive and time consuming, plan now, warns Gartner
Not sure what a term for the question type is but betteridge's law is essentially what you're saying - if the headline is a question the answer is no because if the answer was yes that would have been a better headline.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
he didn't say he was going to stop hiring them, he said that AI would perform at a similar ability
Sorry, but this is a fantasy of yours.

You only are able to say so because Trump won - with hindsight.
I really can't imagine having the energy to burn 10k a day - what kinda workload were they doing?
On the other hand, we just witnessed a nationwide drone panic, and not for a lack of video evidence…

An odd phenomenon being rare and hard to document is neither proof nor evidence of absence for it existing.
Hard work is preferred by employers over slacking off (for obvious reasons), so that's what gets promoted as the way to success.
Comments like these are why I come to hn :)
About Fetlife from 2017, 8 years ago.

https://pastebin.com/FFSQUML9

With the movement to a cashless world .. many people will loose there whole life because banks will close there accounts.
Genuinely curious, what do you need to change mid-run on your watch? I set an apple music playlist to start, open a run on WorkOutDoors, and go. I really am only interested in heart rate, distance traveled and pace. And if I need to stop for anything walking back to my apartment after a session I have apple pay.

Granted, I'm not a serious runner, I only do it as a supplement for my muay thai training (i.e. I'm only running 5-8k at like a 4'30" or so pace). So I guess I'm interested in what runners who are running as their primary sport like about the Garmin, as I often hear people say the Garmin is so much better.
There will be other articles that provide a better foundation to discuss that (i.e. "what comes next").

On HN the idea is we want some, but not too much, discussion of such issues, and for the discussion to be intellectually curious rather than flamingly indignant. For the first point to work, we can't have too many threads; and for the second to work, the threads we do have need to be based on more substantive articles (and events).
The rounding rule is carbs <0.5g can be rounded down to 0 and calories <5 can be rounded down to 0. But I have a feeling even if they properly labeled it without rounding, people would eat the whole pack of tic tac anyway.

https://foodlabelmaker.com/regulatory-hub/fda/rounding-rules...
From my research, none of the available sleep tracking solutions are reliable, unless you attach electrodes to your head. When using multiple sleep tracking solutions in parallel, they all report significantly different results.
The DAO, decentralized autonomous organization, holds some promise for new types of cooperative business models. For example, you can define a governance structure that is appropriate for your business. Many DAOs are operating in the Web 3 space, often using Discord as the main communication platform, some with crypto-powered tokens that reward users and participants.

There are examples of successful DAOs, while others have stumbled - governance rules are hard to get right, and it can take a disproportionate amount of time for discussions, voting, admin, etc.

I think we're still in the early stages of the DAO concept and with new governance models and platforms to facilitate building and managing DAOs with best practices we'll start to see a lot more success in this area.
Wait so you got an offer at a FAANG for one level, and you negotiated to go up a level in pay, but not actually go up a level?
Free speech died when Covid came along.
This is the danger with certifications: Making the certification too broad, causes very few things to be certified. Very few things being certified, means nobody knows why the certification matters.

In my mind, repairability, "calmness," accessibility - it's all separate.
I started hanging out more here after Reddit cracked down on anonymity.
1. Cool!

2. Wouldn't the incentive be to abandon your failing startup and go work for one of the more promising ones in your class?
Static discharge from machines like that has killed people in the past, so I’m not sure if that’s the best idea.
Ah yes,
no wonder media literacy is so low.
People think that a PR blog post from the source is just as a good as an article providing context and background.
Rafael Araujo's 20 Mesmerizing Geometrical Masterpieces (2024)
Could you elaborate on what you mean? What does methane have to do with this and what is the "out" column?

Calorimetry is just measuring the heat transfer from combustion, usually by measuring the temperature change of a known quantity of water in the classical experiment. You perform versions of it in high school and undergrad

Calories are just a unit of energy, and heat can be related back to energy (joules for people using SI)
Show HN: A submarine combat game in the browser
We all helped our families and loved ones to ditch MSN for Google Talk for Skype for WhatsApp for Discord etc.

It might happen again. :)
Find an open-source social media project.

Set it up.

Send the URL to your neighbors.

See who joins. Might take off, might (probably) not. But seems to me that's basically it.
Improved Light Attenuation
I'm trying to simplify it so it's easier to understand. It's not semantics, it's a different category of thing.

Yes the billionaire I listed have saved more lives than 99.999% of humans. They do this by paying for specific individuals to be treated for specific fatal diseases, and by funding research that has led to cures and preventative vaccines that have already saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people
Maybe you need to do a quick Google on monetary policy 101 and how money is created. You seem to not understand the basics here.

While you're at it, consider what portion of MS success is directly attributable to Bill Gates and not the many thousands of other people involved in the company and code it literally copied from open source projects. Not to mention the extreme anti-competitveness of MS and their aggressiveness in suing and shutting down other companies, and other negative externalities they generated.
This release is the first with a new "crash-safe, corruption-detecting, simple, and fast snapshotting filesystem": geFS.

https://orib.dev/gefs.html
The original iPhone's maps app was Google Maps.
This isn’t a bad post, but it is a retread of the what is now an old idea — “build a quick sales page to validate your idea.”
> You need customers. Real ones. The kind that pay with real money, not hypothetical market share.

That's reasonable, sure.

But don't you need to have a working product before you can sell it?

If someone handed me, a total stranger, a stack of money for a product that didn't exist, I'd question their sanity, not turn to them for business advice.
Finally an articulation of the difference between anarchy and chaos. (Not being ironic.) Thank you.

I don't agree with the position, but I appreciate the distinction.
PTX does provide a low level machine abstraction. However you still target some version of hardware ( https://arnon.dk/matching-sm-architectures-arch-and-gencode-... ). However a lot of software effort has gone into it to make it look and work seamlessly.

Though AMD doesn't have the same "virtual ISA" as PTX right now there are increasing levels of such abstraction available in compiled flows with MLIR / Linalg etc. Those are higher level and can be compiled / jitted in realtime to obviate the need for a low level virtual ISA.
Where do you see that? Seems one can still print via SD cards without any issue.

It says:

Operations That Do Not Require Authorization
The following actions will remain unaffected by the authorization mechanism:

Sending status information from the printer (e.g., MQTT status push for tools like HomeAssistant).

Starting a print job using SD cards.

General operations outside the listed authorization controls.

https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-au...
Maybe take it as a signal from universe that intense gaming is waste of life and a net loss for you? I know its harsh and double that in gaming thread, but I don't see any other way. We don't talk 3-5h a week, and it seems neither are you.

You will almost certainly badly regret when on that proverbial death bed and most probably well before that, life goes darn fast and the feeling of losing out in the most important aspect of our existence - how well we live our lives is soul crushing. Its not that gaming hard is bad per se (apart from addictions and abysmal effect on health), but you are losing on much better aspects of life which are just out there for the grab.

Or don't take my word, just check what old people regret in their lives. Sure gaming is not there yet, but it will find its place firmly among too much work and not spending enough time on family and relationships, which are consistently on top.
I think you're mixing a few things here. There's social media (TikTok, Instagram, X, viral crap) and then there's social media (organize parties, facebook marketplace, Whatsapp, etc).

They may share a technology platform, but they are not the same.

If you have children you'll see social media (#2) is incredibly useful and facilitates greatly in communication. We're much more connected than our parents were thanks to these apps.
Hear me out: NOT robotics. The recent things were trendy and had hundreds of startups because a small team could hype something up and generate a life changing amount of money very quickly. It is much more difficult to "get that bag" with a robotics startup, so founders aren't going to gravitate as much towards it (other than ones that are already super rich, but statistically there aren't many of those).

The next trend IMHO will be apps and interfaces for whatever replaces websites over the next 5 years. Whether that's API layers for systems to communicate with each other, "SEO" for chatbots, whatever CMSs will morph into, etc. remains to be seen. Websites (in the 90s/2000s sense of the word) are clearly on the way out, but it's unclear what exactly will replace them.
From the perspective of propaganda and establishing US dominance (responding to USSR's impressive gains), it certainly had value, and it's an epic thing that stands as one of humanity's greatest technical achievements.

From a scientific perspective, I don't see it as tremendously better than having done a robotic exploration, except that at that time, we didn't really have the knowledge or technology to build complex semi-autonomous vehicles that could return samples. I know folks have argued that having a geologist physically on the moon made a difference but I don't see that as sufficiently impactful.

Other folks will argue that in addition to the direct scientific achievements of apollo, running the project generated a wide range of side technologies that had much wider applicability, but IMHO, those things probably would have been invented (or other things invented) by non-space funding for materials science.

While I generally think sending any human into space (LEO or elsewhere) is a waste of time and money, if I am speculating about a science fiction future, I think it's imperative that humanity become multi-homed (fully independent settlements) but as a species we don't have the political will or resources to achieve that.
Because the military invented GPS?

The military (sort of) invented the Internet too, so no tech company would exist without the military.
Any idea what the business model is?

It seems like they might have group organizing features now, but I'd be concerned about adopting it for a group without a clear idea of how they're going to make money
Ok let's compare the year 1000 with the year 1500. Do you believe the value of everything in the world increased in those 500 years? There was no monetary policy yet so that isn't the explanation
In Key Takeaways the first bullet increments every second for how much faster AI is than traditional navigation. Not sure if you knew that or not. The execution time also never stops incrementing.
small models can be funny (12b model):

tell me funny story about techbro and real developer who actually ships code

Sure, here's a light-hearted story for you:

---

Once upon a time in Silicon Valley, there was a shiny new startup called "TechBro Inc." It was filled with eager young techbros, all wearing their "10x Developer" t-shirts, and sipping on their $8 cold-pressed juices. Among them was Chad, the self-proclaimed "Tech Bro King."

Chad was always posting his impressive code snippets on his social media profiles, bragging about how he could "crush" any coding challenge in no time. He was the epitome of a techbro, all talk and no walk.

Meanwhile, in the corner, there was Alex, the quiet, unassuming developer who actually shipped code. Alex didn't have flashy t-shirts or a massive online following, but the company's products worked, and that was thanks to Alex.

One day, TechBro Inc. decided to host a "Hackathon" to impress their investors. Chad saw this as his opportunity to shine. He spent the entire day tweeting about his progress, posting screenshots of his code, and even live-streaming his "epic coding session."

Alex, on the other hand, quietly sat at his desk, coding away. He didn't take any breaks for photoshoots or live streams. He was there to work, not to perform.

As the hackathon came to a close, Chad confidently declared, "I've just finished the most amazing feature ever! It's going to revolutionize our app!" The room erupted in applause, and Chad basked in the glory.

The next day, the team gathered to demo their new features. Chad confidently presented his "revolutionary" feature. He clicked the button to launch it, but nothing happened. He tried again, and again, but the app remained unchanged. Chad's face turned red, and sweat dripped down his forehead.

It was Alex's turn. He quietly stepped up, clicked a button, and suddenly, the app was filled with new, useful features. The team gasped in awe. The investors were impressed. The app actually worked, and that was thanks to Alex.

Chad, trying to save face, turned to Alex and said, "Well, Alex, it seems you've just... shipped some code. Not bad for a... real developer."

The room burst into laughter. From that day forward, Chad learned the difference between talking about coding and actually doing it. And Alex? He just kept shipping code, one line at a time.

---
I'd say UFO mania is more intense and more mainstream than ever. Still no remotely compelling physical evidence, of course.
Awesome, I'll give that a try. What I like about it is that you can use whatever high quality eggs you normally use instead of the cage eggs that mass producers will use. Until now I had to resort to vegan mayo.
Ask HN: Tracking small things in your home?
My kids keep losing things like the Apple fast charger in the house, or other small things.

What do you use to track small things in your home so they don't get lost?
Styling is broken on mobile (chrome android). Content overflows and the text is shifted off-screen to the left
IANA nutritionist or expert at all in this area so take this with a grain of salt, but my understanding from looking into it is that the sugar alcohol doesn't break down in digestion and isn't absorbed, that's why the "carbs" from sugar alcohol "don't count."

I would recommend taking it easy on the sugar alcohols even though they "don't count" because they can cause significant gas ;-)
r1:14b outputs ~20 tokens/sec on my laptop with a 16gb 3080 card.
Often when I ask LLM things about topics I was once reasonably expert in, but have spent a few months or years away from, its answers provide garbage as if it were treasure.
The phenomenon in question has been discussed before, and its underlying mechanism can be attributed to electrostatics. A simple thought experiment illustrates this concept: imagine a person with a net electric charge approaching a similarly charged object. As they draw closer, a force of repulsion builds up, increasing exponentially with the inverse square of the distance.

However, a crucial aspect of this phenomenon remains unclear: how does the charge maintain its containment? What prevents the opposing charge from breaking through the insulating barrier and neutralizing the charge? A fascinating analogy from the Boston Science museum offers some insight. Picture yourself inside a gigantic, electrified sphere – akin to a Van De Graff generator. If your charge polarity matches that of the sphere, you'll experience a repulsive force, pushing you toward the center. The harder you try to reach the sphere's edge, the stronger the repulsion becomes.

This phenomenon becomes even more intriguing when considering the context in which it allegedly occurred. A company renowned for its innovative prowess, 3M has consistently demonstrated its ability to harness unexpected effects and transform them into groundbreaking products. The Post-it note's origin story is a testament to this innovative spirit. Given this track record, it's puzzling that 3M seemingly failed to capitalize on this electrostatic phenomenon. One would expect the company to rigorously investigate and replicate the effect, with the potential for a multi-billion dollar industry hanging in the balance. Instead, the story suggests that 3M dismissed the phenomenon as a mere curiosity.
Have you tried joining any relevant discord groups?
Thanks for the reply! In my understanding the no BS version would simply mean: no hellos, previews, plugs in the beginning, straight to the topic; quick summary of the whole content, regardless of the timeline; quick overview of the comments, how people reacted; the form should be not too long
to have a grasp of it in a few seconds, but at the same time it should not miss key points and voice them

Would really appreciate if you could formalize your view on "no BS" version.

PS: there is definitely a bug which cuts off reply in the middle of it, will fix that.
Why isn't the app available in the Netherlands?
I meant the Muskian variety.

Some combination of being playful, superstitious, squeamish, and hoping not to trigger a headless chicken effect, I suppose.
Relatively :)
This is an extremely cool avenue of attack, I love the bot/demonstration.
Thank you for posting my project :D
I wonder if view-once media is even handled the same way as a regular attachment (using CF) or is sent more like a regular message.

I imagine if one really wanted it to be view-once, it wouldn't go to a CDN.

Thanks for pointing this out!
The thing is we're all experts at eating food, we've all been doing it our whole lives. You'd think in that time one would have cultivated an intuition about whether they are eating too much or too little regardless of the nutrition information.
We do care about software and acknowledge the gaps and will work hard to make it better. Please let me know any specific issues that are an issue for you and Im happy to push for it to get resolved or come back with why it isn't.
Sure. Certainly far more than this story.

That's not to say that the HN discussion went well, but we can't control that. We can only play the odds, and it's important to.
> Of course, if you're building a container, it would be redundant to install a kernel, so these numbers are somewhat inflated.

Depends what the container is for; I've used containers to build bootable OS images and had to explicitly install kernel and associated packages. Obviously that's a weird edge case, but if we're discussing installing as many packages as possible we're already off the beaten trail.
How do you tackle churn and grow revenue in SaaS?
Hi HN community,

I’m an early-stage entrepreneur working on a project aimed at helping companies address churn and identify opportunities for upselling or upgrading based on customer interactions.

The project is still in development, and I’m looking to understand the real pain points that SaaS founders and operators face when it comes to retention and customer growth.

If you’ve had experience dealing with churn or scaling customer value, I’d love to hear:

What tools or strategies have worked for you?
What gaps do you feel exist in the market?
This isn’t a pitch—just an honest attempt to learn, connect, and gather insights from this amazing community.

Thanks for reading, and I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Jo ^^
If his desire is for the contestant to lose, then he can't really do better (formally) than winning 2/3 of the time by simply opening the door that they choose. In practice, always opening a goat-door and always asking to switch for a car-door can do slightly better than 2/3 because some contestants, unaware of his strategy and objectives, might choose to switch.

If his objective is more subtle -- increasing suspense or entertainment value or getting a kick out of people making a self-destructive choice or just deciding whether he likes a contestant -- then I'm not sure what the metrics are or what an optimal strategy would be in those cases.

Given that his motives are opaque and given no history of games upon which to even inductively reason, I don't think you can reach any conclusion about whether switching is preferable. Given the spread of possibilities I would tend to default to 50/50 for switch/no-switch, but I don't have a formal justification for this.
It’s a topic that’s had so much spin on it, it’s difficult to tell even from wikipedia. That was my point really, not to accuse you of spreading it.

There are clearly quotes of interest that one would expect from a candidate supported by China. We need to reach a point where the international organizations don’t have “sides” but humanity isn’t there yet.
> sauces you make yourself? I often mix some different oils, mustard, seeds, miso, bit of leamon juice and spices… but weighting and logging everything will take 3x the time to do the sauce itself

I can't speak for anyone else, and I actually do try and weigh everything, but if I forget to weigh or the portions are too small to measure with my cheap kitchen scale: I weigh out my serving of the finished product, and Google either the restaurant or premade-grocery-version of what I made and look at their nutrition labels.

Obviously it's not going to be perfect, but I figure that my homemade pizza sauce will have roughly the same ingredients as the Ragu pizza sauce at the grocery store and thus roughly the same calories and nutrition at a per-ounce level. I always assume that my homemade stuff is 20% higher in calories more just to compensate for uncertainty, but doing this I did manage to lose about 60lbs.