skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that puzzles me is the early "only eating Ramen and pulling all nighters" startup founder story. I suppose nobody believes this anymore, fortunately.

I mean... we all agree, it would seem, this is not the path to getting rich for most people. And it's unhealthy and stressful, so it's also not the best way to work.

So it has to come down to "the mission". You must be doing something so amazing, so innovative, a boon to mankind, that all else is secondary and you're willing to endure financial risk and a stressful job, right. Right?

But no. Most startups' products are unremarkable or banal -- with some honorable exceptions -- and mankind doesn't really care either way.
> most people don’t wear a watch while sleeping

Eh, what? When watches were just watches, most everyone wore there watch while sleeping.

On that note, my brother and I were talking about these smart watches the other day and I expressed how having a gshock is nice because with my use I seem to get about 7 years of battery life, so my watch is always on. Whereas people with smart watches has (as he put it) significant time blind-spots. But he made a comment at one point and basically said something like "It's not a watch. It is a fitness device that has a clock in it". I think that is a good point. As a watch, all these actually perform rather poorly. But as fitness/GPS/communication devices they perform well.
I looked at the Apple watch but choose Garmin as it has a physical button to start and stop my run. I don't know if this is still the case but with the Apple watch I think you have to tap the touch screen. Takes too long, especially when every second counts on a 400m lap round the track :-P
Also, the flashlight and silent alarm are superb features. I use the clock too if I wake up.
Depends on the what your goal is when counting GDP.

If I spend a day painting my garage door, and my neighbour spends a day wiring a new lightbulb, nothing is added to GDP

If I pay my neighbour to paint my garage door, and my neighbour pays me to wire a new lightbuld, that counts as GDP

Same work is done, same outcome.

> by spending a greater proportion of their lifespan in good health, say?

Might reduce the amount, on the other hand might extend lifespan and thus cost more.
I think grandparent is arguing that citizenship is a protected characteristic. I think they're on iffy ground there, personally.
My understanding is that FOSDEM is run by volunteers on a shoestring budget mainly thanks to the support of the ULB (a university). They don't have security, they don't have badges or registrations, you can just walk in and out as you please. I have my doubts this is going to last if people start to deliberately try to take a fat dump on it to elevate their own ego.
That's not what I have written, is it.
If a Polish citizen wants to buy a GPU in Germany and is refused on the basis on his nationality or residence, then that's against the law.
I try calorie count with My Fitness Pal and holy shit it’s a lot of effort. Eat out and you’re screwed (estimated at best). When you include sauces and oils etc it’s really hard to be accurate in the best of times, and it’s just a pain to keep on top of. Best option is to avoid any so you don’t have to count.

I imagine almost everyone will add bad data in a study at some point with the best of intentions.
Most microplastics in drinking water are smaller than EU detection limits
I thought this was generally known that people are bad at reporting most things about themselves. It's a good argument in favor of wearables or other smart monitors, if anyone expects to do actual rigorous research it needs to be objective.
Calling Poland an American puppet state is a stretch (basically incorrect).

While the US can exert a lot of influence, Poland (and others) are not puppet states-- there is no direct US control over government/elections, no dependence on the US for those governments and no US control over polish law.

Being a weaker member of an alliance does not make you a puppet.
HN and Dan’s work are arguably worth more than the VC part of YC. The VC side plays the capital musical chairs game (selling the equity to a greater fool before the music stops), this is the valuable output from that.
What skills precisely you think about when it comes to an early engineer, but not founder/business person?
This isn't a problem. See article [EN][0]. Simply put we are significantly below the cap. If somehow we would manage to hit the cap it definitely should be an alarm for investigation. I feel more folks are unhappy because EU was divided into two parts with this.

[0] https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2461209/will-lithua...
I haven't seen LLM strengths and weaknesses explained like this before and I really like it:

Is what you're doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it's probably going to be great at it. If you're asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will be so-so. If you're asking it to create more text than you gave it, forget about it.

For me, I think the one exception to that is code: I can often get a few dozen lines of working code from the right single sentence prompt.

I can get better code if I feed in more examples of the libraries I'm using though, which fits this more-input-is-better rule.
Usually, the only engineer who has any chance of making a significant amount of money is the technical co-founder, often called the CTO.

The rest of the money belongs to the MBAs and the bankers. It's always been their money, it will always be theirs.
Something about the event of yesterday after which the whole site was replaced.
I found that striking as well. Does AMD expect everyone wanting to try out PyTorch or LLMs on Linux to splurge on Instinct servers?
As a somewhat proud owner of an Apple watch, I end up using my older lo-fi smart watch for long rides I do on cycle (anything 100+) cause its battery lasts just so much more.
I bought it when I did not have enough money to shell out for either an Apple Watch and did not even know what a Garmin was, but it does the job reasonably well though its GPS is a bit poor but I did last throughout the 12 hours I did my my BRM in July (a 208KM ride).

Garmin is at a bit of risk from these sort of companies cause it costed me 7K INR (its newer variants cost a bit more), there is another brand called Coros which has the same value proposition as Garmin as well, so yeah the good times might not last always.

But they have also other interesting set of products like a GPS device for cycles which I don't think anyone else offers yet which gives a lot of advanced metrics like power, cadence apart from speed, time etc but those too cost a bomb and apparently people are being arrested for using it in my country.
Is this actually a problem for society as a whole? Surely a lot of such people would be valuable in industry.
> many studies of nutritional epidemiology that try to link dietary exposures to disease outcomes are founded on really dodgy data

I wonder if the data are always skewed in a particular direction. For example, do people typically underreport junk food and overreport salads? Or do they omit entire meals? Or snacks?
I discovered this recently, but can start/stop by clicking the crown and the side button at the same time.
here you go:https://archive.is/9QwJ0
The southern hemisphere has more bright interesting stuff (including the centre of the milky way) than the northern hemisphere.
The Swedes sure seem to think so. Per capita Swedish entrepreneurship is like 7x the rest of the euro zone, and they’re convinced that it’s that aspect of the social safety net that help prop up that high level of personal risk taking.
Bugs like these are fun to read about, but never fun to debug if you need to get something else done. Nice writeup by Lup Yuen Lee once again.
What does a "truly intelligent" person even mean? Intelligence doesn't have an objective actual definition that is reliable and not contradictory.

It is so odd, that in science, you wouldn't make tests for something you haven't defined, but for some reason everyone believes to have an objective, reliable and consistent definition of intelligence.

People just rush to come up with tests for some reason. It is really odd
> There is no way to keep the other variables like, sport, social interaction, stress and such out of the study.

Sure, but with sufficiently many people, these effects will usually average out. I'm not saying the situation is great, but it's still an important field of study and we need to make progress in some way.
You can tell that to the free market faithful.

I was merely pointing out that saying the market 'just works' instead of it 'working as intended' logically doesn't add anything, because in the free market concept it is meant to to "just work", which implies that is what it is intended to do.
It's not a "protected characteristic", protection against discrimination based on nationality or residence is the basis of the Common Market and well tested in the EU courts. That's of course when selling to the consumer, might be a bit different when selling to companies.
Do you even need to drive them over the border? Plug them in in Germany, go use them from a laptop in Poland.

(I don't get export controls on cloud hardware. Unless it's protectionism designed to lock countries with cheap energy prices out of the market, of course. I could see that rationale).
I've tried a few sites that show up in a search for ai stem separation. Some work pretty well for rock music.

If I recall correctly, https://vocalremover.org/ worked pretty well. Though, it's pretty limited in the free tier and only allows payment via patreon. I never tried the paid version because I don't have a patreon account and don't want one.
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Wouldn't it be possible or relevant to periodically, electronically sign the game state, to prevent cheating? Or with some proof of work?

I am starting to think that cheat are just too hard to fight against, I am making a small, cheap online FPS, and I would let users trust each other instead, and hunt cheaters themselves, or maybe use AI like valve is doing. I would not bother have a anti cheat software.

Also players would have to manage and administrate their servers themselves.

Players would require to have a cellphone number attached, have a reputation score given by other players, maybe give an id or some other strong auth method, manual verification with like a photograph, like it's done for some dating apps. Players would have to play like 10 hours before they could play competitive.

I am confident hardcore players would be motivated to do all those things to make sure there are fewer cheaters.
Schengen applies to people. However, Switzerland is not in the EU and, crucially, not in the EU Customs Union so there are import limitations.

They do not check extra hard, though... It's been a number of years but they used to wave cars through or even have border/customs checkpoints closed depending on their 'mood'...
Couriers mystified by the algorithms that control their jobs
Have you tried using Hacker News Search?

https://hn.algolia.com
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Several exciting features are in the pipeline, including AI video generators and additional creative tools. My goal is to create a comprehensive suite that covers all major AI functions while offering the simplicity of a single platform.

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You remember when you fell asleep? I don't. Watch tracks how often you wake up, how long you spend in the deep sleep, etc.

A lot of value is in the long term trends. One bad night doesn't mean much but if our sleep quality is trending down over weeks, it's a sign you should change something.
Oh I entirely concur; I think there's a team of sorts, not just Dan, but I'm sure the gentle steering is a huge part of the reason things are still on course.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
I completely agree that it's a very hard topic from the perspective of actually maintaining a healthy social media site.

Most of them have a vision for their platform, i.e. town hall for Twitter, family and friend conversations for Facebook etc.

To adhere to this image they filter out spam etc. now, filtering out obnoxious content just becomes one more rule and thus the slippery slope begins.

But to answer your question: for me, any kind of interference such as deleting/hiding content or algorithmically influence which content is shown is censorship on social media platforms, and the user should be responsible for applying such censorship.

I.e. provide a UI which let the user configure their own preferences. But actually nailing such a feature with a good UX ain't easy, and how to actually implement it isn't either, so that's just a pipedream, realistically speaking.
Yes, that's probably true. Investors, or people who take a risk, get the payoff from the risk. If you join as a salaried person, you're taking zero risk (other than that you might need to get another job if the place folds, but then all the money's gone anyway), as you're just getting paid a salary each month regardless of how the company's doing, so you don't get an outsized reward.
Yeah, from the title I thought they lost $40B in market cap due to the pivot.
I'm in the market for a watch. Turned 41, my weight has slowly crept up despite working out 4-5 times a week - not too bad, like not obese. My cholesterol is bad partially due to genetics but mostly due to diet. I also have a mild sleep apnea, especially when my weight is high. I'm focusing on dropping weight this year and would love to start tracking sleep, recovery, apnea, and any heart issues before/as they happen. I do not want another screen though and though I've looked at the Apple watch multiple times, I've not actually purchased it yet.

I don't believe the Garmin tracks apnea signals or heart issues at all unfortunately
Their liking him does not seem to have prevented seemingly near-100% belief in the police version of events. They are orthogonal.

It’s like everyone forgot that we don’t actually have any way to ID the shooter (because the video never got his face), and very little physical evidence was left at the scene. The police say this Luigi guy was carrying around the murder weapon and a manifesto (that very conveniently also establishes motive), and everyone just buys it totally uncritically (and also comments on how much they like him).

I think the NYPD is simply unable to publicly admit that for their $16M per day budget they can’t ID or find a guy who shot someone on video in the middle of a public street.

People might start asking what we are getting for that money if they can’t solve simple crimes, and if perhaps the budget should be scaled back if it’s going to be so ineffective.
This flagged story of 3 hours ago would suggest that there are new levels of hypocrisy being reached: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777938
When you say "You can ask it for sources" are you talking about the GPT-4o model or the ChatGPT feature where it can search the internet on your behalf?

ChatGPT with search is an example of RAG, which is a pattern this article is promoting: better results from the LLM because ChatGPT injected additional search result context into the model to accompany your question.
Thanks for the correction. I'll have to take your word on that.
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I agree. The author seems only happy with RAG, insert nail/hammer quote.

I think of contradictory examples where the article doesn't make sense: LLM Chat products are just the product of training data. Generative coding applications take 1 prompt and generate a lot of code.

What this article did make me think is the existing Chat UI in coding apps are too limiting. Some have image attachments, but we need to allow users to input more detail in their prompt (visually, or by having a pre-generation discussion about specifics). That's why I think product engineers will benefit from AI more than non technical folk.

Also, do you have resources that align with those opinions?
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I mean, in the second example there's not even any hypothetical: It factually WAS better for him working at Google and getting rich that way than any of his startups. There's optimism and there's denying historical reality.
> prints a huge cube to waste all my filaments?

Of course not. Just the one(s) currently loaded in the printer. They can't pull a filament out of the cupboard and load it via MQTT.
>The worst was almost certainly Poland, which had 3.3 million Jews before the war (for reference: 18% of the Jewish population of the world, over 33 percent of that of Europe), killed 82-89% of them

Wow, that was done by Poles in Poland? How did that happen?
Certainly the whole nation had to be behind this? [0]

>some German-occupied country in World War Two

Ah, the bare minimum mention at the end.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_Among_the_Nations#Nu...
It only averages out if the factors are unrelated though. If a lot of asians eat rice and don’t have a high alcohol tolerance, your study would still show a correlation between eating rice and alcohol tolerance when looking at every single person on earth.
My watch charges for the 15 minutes each day that I'm in the shower and getting ready. I'm not missing out on huge tracks of time.
It’s amazing just how badly Technics dropped the ball.

At one point they were the industry standard but they shot themselves in the foot with their reluctance to release a CD turntable until after Pioneer had already got themselves into nearly every club.

Though I can’t say I’m surprised. I never thought 1210s was a particularly good vinyl turntable either.
In your opinion, why did they choose the open source way instead of doing it in a military bunker? (Metaphorical not literal bunker.)
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I saw the same posts you did, but how many people actually listened? How many, instead, came back later asking how to salvage a situation that didn't match the dream?

There are always cooler heads raising alarms on these booms. What turns them into bubbles is the inflection point where there are more people coming for the dream than for the thing that motivates people who understand the risks and know the statistics.

I seem to remember 2015 or near it as that inflection point. Tech media went from worrying about the steady march of unicorns to not talking much about valuations.
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I agree for the most part, there are other ways, like a phone number, manual verification with a photo, require players to play 10hr before they can play competitive, have a recommendation from other players, etc, or even a pay-once 5 dollars game pass on top of all those things.

Although I recommend you to watch the valve presentation of AI anti cheat if you did not already. Their work is quite interesting, and they claim they catch 99% of cheaters.

Although obviously there are also very subtle ways to cheat, too.
As a Prusa user who never used a Bambu Lab printer, what features am I missing out?
You'll find that outside the startup, the director/vp/cto title doesn't translate. Larger companies will often write you off as being "not experienced" enough which is often code for "you don't look old enough for this position". Unlike engineering and the startup world, big companies want you to look the part not just know the part.
My Garmin has a flashlight, maps with navigation on device, altimeter, barometer, thermometer, GPS and other satellite navigation systems, it tracks pulse, sleep, etc. It's perfect for hiking and cycling, helps you find the right route, shows the altitude profile, etc. The form factor is perfect, the watch is light and comfortable.

I'm still considering getting a next gen Apple Watch Ultra if the specs are good. Having data on the watch plus being able to use certain apps are advantages
Feels like 4chan-friendly update to LOIC[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Orbit_Ion_Cannon
Is that a normal thing? Does the whole site gets replaced after a new president starts serving?
Exactly one person replaced 50. Meanwhile we ask more of engineers.
More anecdotal evidence: while writing my Master's thesis it became clear that my advisor (the dept. head) was quite interested in the subject matter, and repeatedly asked me to shelve it, do a quick-and-dirty thesis to graduate and return to working on my original draft during a PhD. I was very open to the idea, since I was in love with research ever since childhood.

We sat down and talked about what this meant in particular, the workload, compensation, options after graduating from the PhD program.

It broke my heart, but I had to turn him down. It felt like everybody who wanted to have a shot at having a career in academia needed to put an insane (read: literally destructive) amount of effort into it, all while accepting that it was extremely easy to get stuck for good. There is extreme pressure on postdocs to produce results, with institutions and labs becoming very cautious about working with people in their 2nd or 3rd postdocs if they hadn't published in high-impact journals until then. Also, good luck finding any sort of tenured positions, with more and more universities switching to freelance "collaborators".

I was not going to spend 80 hours a week investing in something where all odds are stacked against me. I was not going to put years of my life into a thing that can go 'poof' just because your stars didn't align, or because the faculty decided instead of hiring you on a professorship track, they would rather extort some more money and "let the contracts expire" when it was no longer convenient to have you there.
There's a form to report map issues. I've seen a missing or backwards graph edge wreak havoc like that before.
Where will they get the funding if not from VCs? What will motivate VCs if not large potential exits?
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The peasant rebellions you reference were grassroots resistance against heavy taxation and attempted tax increases — they were violent reactions to the violation of private property rights by an undemocratic state. Comparing those circumstances to modern societies with free speech and full democratic rights is completely off the mark.

The brutal violence against an innocent person marked as a "class enemy", and the groundswell of support for it, is much more reminiscent of the communist violence that led to the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the decades of mass murder and totalitarian oppression that followed.
When I read what you wrote I immediately thought of "(...) HAL was told to lie... by people who find it easy to lie. HAL doesn't know how, so he couldn't function. He became paranoid. (...)".
> Java is the most performant runtime outside of C/C++/Rust.

Add Go to that list. Or any popular compiled language for that matter.
Plex Amp is actually a very good player app!

You need to run a Plex server I believe.

But is great and works like you want an MP3 player to work!
It’s also impressive on mobile.