skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little older than probably the average HN visitor, but I bet my experience matches a lot of peoples:

Mid 90's startup: Sold company, proceeds company covered debt, basically. I learned a ton on those 2.5 years, but had to have a part time job to make ends meet (and I was not living a lavish lifestyle).

Late 90's - Mid- 00's: Partner in consultancy that made generational wealth for at least one client, worked to burnout multiple times, never able to use the consultancy to develop a product with ARR. Made good profit share and salary the years prior to dotcom bust. Company was sold for basically the debt on the line of credit.

Mid-00's - Mid twenty-teens: Joined a "startup" that was really a consultancy. Spearheaded substantial growth, Shareholders just increased the dividend amount every time company grew year over year. Unable to negotiate an equity position that aligned incentives (me giving up my life and energy to further build the business) so I left. I was forced to surrender the equity in another startup when I quit the first one. The other start up is limping along, I think losing a (manageable) amount of money annually. I never valued this equity because the shareholder group was the same as the parent company, so this one had the same issues.

So I guess in a 25 year period I had something like 2-3 exits. I worked more than full time between 1998-2015.

I'm now a firm believer in that a successful exit takes knowing the right people and getting lucky.
I took quantum physics with Prof. Kroemer. At the beginning it was standing room only with about 30 students. By the time finals came around there were six of us. Brutal. I've got some stories about that guy. RIP.
Everything is open source under AGPL licence. Maybe I can improve the README. What was harder to find for you?
They have a pending trademark for Microsoft Copilot—do they also have an application for Copilot, unqualified?

https://trademarks.justia.com/981/61/microsoft-98161972.html

Edit: I found one for GitHub Copilot but no evidence of an unqualified trademark:

https://trademarks.justia.com/974/60/github-97460083.html
tbh it's "easy" if you're also doing a pretty specific focused diet. (maybe simple would be a better phrase - it can be reduced to very simple steps. mentally choosing to do this and enduring it is difficult, but the process itself is straightforward.)

like the worry about sauces is true but if you eat mostly chicken and rice and one slice of bread a day you can really get that variability down. when I was heavily restricting I would only cook very simple things like that and otherwise eat packaged food, and it certainly worked to lose weight. but you sacrifice variety and flavor and you'll feel kinda stressed and hungry for months at a time.

the last factor is living with people who are not dieting - I personally think this makes the required willpower basically impossible. if there is food in the house you will eventually succumb to the temptation of eating it in my experience. it's much easier if you live alone and only have the diet food in the house at all, buying nothing else, etc.
I thought it was from Bruce Schneier; at the end I find

> This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in IEEE Spectrum

So you know in advance.
Yes.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/about-us/our-story
We, as a society, are at the point where we can afford to waste resources in this dumb way "for art". I personally find this obscene.

I wouldn't worry though, I have a feeling this is going away by the end of the decade.
How about just pointing a camera at the bed and fast-forwarding to the few significant events each night?
I think they're suggesting that the portions you are judging have not been practiced hundreds of times.
Aww, I was hoping you'd done something fun with the actual firmware of the printer to turn it into something that can receive requests, but its just printing from a pi
Depends what your goal is. My suggestion is if your goal is weight loss, don't think about calorie tracking at all.

Count your servings of whole vegetables/fruit. Try to MAXIMIZE these. Yes, maximize in order to lose weight.

It's far easier to track just this small subset of food. If you are maximizing these items, you'll naturally start feeling full and eat less sweets. Try to do this slowly over time, changing your diet dramatically overnight will cause you to hate the process and give up.

Change your diet less than 10% per week, keep eating all of your favorite guilty pleasure foods, just incorporate more healthy foods you enjoy as well, ideally before you eat the less healthy items to give yourself time to start feeling full from them. Slowly find more dishes heavy in vegetables that you like. Try to eat them more often. If you're cooking for yourself or serving yourself, try to increase the ratio of vegetable to other items.

Getting pizza? Maybe do a side salad first or a get a veggie pizza. Don't try to cut the pizza entirely until you're further along in your journey.

Don't stress about it. If you're consistently finding ways to make small changes like this you'll start heading in the right direction over the long haul and your pallet will adapt to enjoy the foods you're not used to slowly.
AI hallucinations can't be stopped – but these techniques can limit their damage
This is not my experience living in a small (~5,000) city , Facebook is where everything, farmer's markets, fairs and festivals, and other community events are announced and organized.
wait, are you dictating into Duolingo? is it available only to some languages?
A shredding company that automatically scans and uploads your documents before securely disposing of them. The scanned text is then used to train AI. It’s like the physical equivalent of ignoring robots.txt.

I’m sure YC will fund it.
What is the long term downside in your opinion?
It's a video game, it's really not that big of a deal.
But even if the people will be confined, you have to be careful to take a broad enough population. I can expect people willing to participate in such study maybe are already orthorexic diet freaks? Or very poor people (which have a diet deviated from “mean”)

Doing studies with humans ist just hard!
Why do you think human admins are the only viable solution? Plenty of games thrive without them—e.g., Apex Legends uses robust reporting and anti-cheat systems, and Rocket League's moderation is largely automated yet effective.
I've always described Nvidia as an accelerated compute company that happens to sell hardware.

AMD are smart, and they solve big problems in ways that are baffling to many. They're very sensitive to moats and position themselves with products or frameworks to drain them.

I consider their primary product "engineering competence as a service", but when no one external picks up the reigns, they don't try very hard to play market maker. I remember when Intel's R&D budget was more than AMD's market cap– they're effective both at and when running lean.

The reality here is that people don't have grievances with CUDA and Nvidia aren't doing anything egregious with it. But whether that's due to ROCm's existence... we can only speculate.
That post is from 2022 saying he's "taking some time away" and it's been "some time" since then.

He was just at CES promoting Comma: https://youtu.be/GLGuA2qF3Kk
> The ecosystem of Java is so huge. Most people who use Java barely have any idea what the rest of the software industry is doing.

I think herein lies the problem. The Java enterprise software (usually spring) world and the everything else under the sun world are very separate. Java devs usually have minimal visibility of other ecosystems and their patterns, and are very reliant on extremely mature (and heavy) tooling that other languages don't tend to use. Other devs hate how bloated the Java ecosystem feels, and that they can't use any of their usual tools. Neither tends to understand that their approach isn't the only way.
I have a similar pain in my rural community. All the restaurants and businesses post their news on the two local facebook groups, pretty much in lieu of having updated websites. I'd love it if there was a non-terrible alternative for this use case.
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President.

"Engaging in political censorship of their platform in favour of the President" is a little more than being "friendly".

Free Speech in the US is dying. Ignore it at your own peril.
And Java added ScopedValue in version 20 as a preview feature.
huh ... interesting game.
When I pitch my calorie counter app that uses AI - fair, that is not new.

But eg. working on an idea around decentralized dating app that utilizes federated learning, blockchains, en cryptographic distributed filesystems to make a truly open and algorithmically transparent dating app - and the response is: "But how are you ever going to make money off that" instead of starting to jam on good privacy preserving techniques in FL that still yields good results. ...

In honesty, I think the main issue is that the people have _not_ been able to understand these technologies. It has probably been _too_ innovative?
Also payment processing. One charge to credit card or whatever is much simpler than having to individually send payment to first restaurant and then to courier.
I’ve often felt like there would be a lot of value for an app that’d simply let gig workers in an area find each other to talk and actually create a “workplace”.

But I’m not sure how you’d fund its creation. No VC would want it and there’s not a wealthy user base to bootstrap it.
The question is who is reputable. Even when buying from a well known store, I don’t know how they audit their suppliers, because the paper is bound to be made by some company I’ve never heard of.
Thank you! Yes, I use a 4o-mini model to process earnings calls and quarterly reports to generate basic summaries.

If you’re looking for something more developer-focused, have you tried Financial Modeling Prep? It might offer the kind of API access and bulk data you’re looking for. https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/
like every single social science therory dressed as economic research truth, the slight harder look at it crumbles all assumptions.

so tiring.

best line on that paper: Much of the intuition that would seem to follow from the SMD results is
still intact. Rationality, as Arrow said, does not have aggregate implica-
tions, but now, we have to add, if only aggregate data are available.
Good shout. We will add a paid tier at some point, but unsure of the pricing for now. However, the self hosted version will be free forever and there will be a generous free tier too.

Do you have any suggestions for the copy?
But if sugar is worse by more than caffeine is good your study is in trouble. Or maybe it works but it is harmful because people who don't like coffee are going to buy the bad sugar drinks trying to get the good coffee down.
> they struggle with actually putting it into action [...] conceding to their cravings

The trouble is that people who have no problems to do this ... are the ones at risk for anorexia. They lack the instincts that make the rest of us safe from that particular hell.
> Per capita Swedish entrepreneurship is like 7x the rest of the euro zone

That sounds worthy of deeper investigation, but healthcare is unlikely to be the factor?
I can see the value in this, but I don't get why it needs to be a SaaS. Don't get me wrong; a revenue stream for something this obviously useful is great! But why not just make it dual licensing; non-commercial projects get it under AGPL or some custom license that prevents them from using it commercially. Everyone else gets a bog-standard yearly license or such... Why not?
> explicitly flirting with white supremacy in his tweets for months

Citation needed. People vilify him not because he’s a Nazi or a white supremacist (he isn’t), but because he supports Trump. He gets the benefit of the doubt because he’s an awkward guy, doing awkward shit.
I think this holds water.

Metacognition is really how the best of the best can continue to be at their best.

And if you don't use it, you lose it.

https://x.com/redshirtet/status/1879922330983358941
To be honest, I wasn't the one who added it and have only occasionally done some small changes to the NX configuration. I don't think we pay for their Cloud, I think all our stored artifacts are stored in GHA caching system and we pull them using our github SSH keys. Although I don't know exactly how that was set up. The fact that someone set it up and I just started using it and it just works is a testament of how good it works.

NX is good because it does the caching part of CI in a way that works both locally and on CI. But of course it doesn't really help at all with the other points raised by the OP.

One interesting thing about NX as well is that it helps with you managing your own local build chain, like in the example I mentioned above, when I run a project that requires the C++ native dependency, that project gets built automatically (or rather my computer pulls the built binaries from the remote cache).

But for all of this to work you need to set up these dependency chains explicitly in your NX configuration, but that is formalizing an actual requirement instead of leaving it implicit (or in Makefiles or in scripts that only run in CI).

I do have to say that our NX configuration is quite long though, but I feel that once you start using NX it is just too tempting to split your project up in individual cacheable steps even if said steps are very fast to run and produce no artifacts. Although you don't have to.

For example we have separate steps for linting, typescript type-checking, code formatting, unit testing for each unique project in our mono-repo. In practice they could be all the same step because they all get invalidated at the same time (basically on any file change).
Stars are more like bookmarks, even GitHub, or rather Microsoft, has acknowledged this because they gave us personal categories to group them under. I don't use them, I suspect they want to glean more insights from my behavior

Regarding downloads, I would bet some CI systems / builds are the primary source. These don't really count as installations of it's just tests running in CI, imho anyway
And it gets those without having to pay drivers (and technically even workers in most McDonalds’ restaurants since they are franchised), so why would they start?

Delivery and final assembly of food is not McDonald’s’ business.
I'm still having a hard time: It's difficult to tell the camera FOV.

I looked it up: it's 1/4 of a degree. The sun and moon are each 1/2 a degree.

So, Andromeda appears half (diameter) of the sun or moon.
Should it require that much numeracy and time researching price options to benefit from a heat pump?

Can't it be much simpler?

Not all people have the brains AND assuming that they do, the time to go through these hoops to make their heat pump investment pay off.
The first time I imaged Andromeda was a total accident. I was shooting a timelapse with a wide angle, and I kept seeing this fuzzy patch in the images. It was one of those “oh neat” moments.
I, too, found it refreshing.

>It seems clear that we as a community don't support, encourage, or permit people to throw slurs, insults, and harassment at others. Why are we okay with much larger and more powerful communities doing it in the name of these "freedoms"

Because the community uses the same freedoms to police those that throw slurs and does not feel it requires--that is the hope anyway--any other mandatory enforcement?
Yeah HRV is especially good for that. Mine doesn't really expose HRV very well, I'm guessing because I'm a couple of generations back, so I have to make due. Works pretty well even so though.
Discussion on reddit: https://libreddit.bus-hit.me/r/technology/comments/1i6evcy/m...

looks like it has happened globally
that's why I mostly use chatgpt with platonic questions like

- given context c, i tried idea a, b and c. where there other options that I miss ?

- based on this plan, do you see missing efficiency ?

etc etc

i'm not seeking answers, i'm trying to avoid costly dead ends
If it's the United States, people don't use WhatsApp very much. Still, it's just another Meta app like all the others.
OP wrote:

> A few days ago, Paul Graham published an essay on “Wokeness”. I skimmed it. I couldn’t finish reading it, it made me too upset...I’ve been feeling quite anxious ever since. It feels like the world is crumbling around me.

...as if this sort of mental fragility is something normal. This is the sort of mentality I've come to associate with woke and prig culture.

In my experience, the more "woke" a community is, the more these sort of hysterics are accepted, normalized, even celebrated - to the point of caricature. Part of it is that in those communities, the more "oppressed" you are, the higher status you are accorded, and the subconscious status-seeking primate part of your brain notices this, and molds your thoughts and feelings accordingly. While those on the right also play up their victimhood, it's not held in high status in their communities. You'd get outrage and compassion playing up victimhood in right-leaning communities, but in left-leaning communities you also get more moral weight when you're upset.

The result, I think, is that the American left is genuinely less happy with the world, and more likely to echo doomer sentiments.
This post many years ago made me realize that there's nothing uniquely interesting about lambda calculus. That it's just weird, convoluted virtual machine that can be (barely) used for programming.
I think more people are realizing that the stories of startup success in 2013 were heavy on survivorship bias, and that over the past decade people have become aware of just how predatory and unequal the VC model is.

New founders have less wool over their eyes, and increasingly run the numbers and say, "wait a second, that's the expected success rate? That's the pressure I'll have to grow grow grow? Those are the terms? Nah, I can work 40 somewhere, get paid more, and put in fewer hours."

We've stopped romanticizing killing oneself for the hustle too.
I agree but I think we shouldn’t limit this answer to pub trivia. What other aspect of human society and civil discourse did we lose because we never argue or discuss any more?
This goes a long way to further convince me that it is portion sizes in the US. Having traveled, it is quite absurd to see the difference in standard order sizes.

Even for zero calorie things like water and unsweetened teas/coffees. You just get smaller cups. I'm not even sure you can get a US large in Japan for most drinks?
That email address goes to a team of people, but if you send something substantial and well-meaning, they'll look into it.
I think it follows that people who have everything given to them would turn out to be ungiving lovers, either out of ignorance or expectation.
> everyone gets 300 free prints per month during our beta

Ah, printer drivers. One of the things we do not yet rent. Makes sense.
Ain't nobody clicking on a "Two Hour Bug" link :-)

I should have posted this as "The Four YEAR Bug"
I believe he implied by saying:

> you're going to learn much more with the latter approach than the former

that the downside is a lack of deep knowledge that would enable better solutions in the long term
Bureaucracy is real. There are often ways of surmounting that, but that takes yet another, different set of skills.
Maybe he wants to inconvenience everyone else because he's sickened by Zuckerberg's opportunism and willingness to kiss the ring of the most corrupt person to ever occupy the Oval Office. Just a wild guess.
In principle, you could have independent review services that publish ratings for couriers. Perhaps they could even make money insuring orders. But then this would run into just the same levels of frustrating opaqueness from the couriers' perspective.
Linux 6.13, I WANT A GUITAR PEDAL
Depends on the pub. Where we play there is a gentlemen’s agreement that no one uses phones to help them answer questions
0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms
My 8-year-old grandson:
>What did the scared guy say to the bagel?
>I guess I'll have some scream cheese.
You don’t need recursion to make use of tail call elimination. In Scheme and SML all tail calls are eliminated. GCC also does it, but less often. Still, it’s not recursion that triggers it.
There's a whole world, full of people beyond US borders.

Many of those countries have great agricultural potential, many have excellent industrial production, many have an educated population, many have emerging markets, those are great to find new consumers.

In fact, there's a huge opportunity to basically everyone if the new US president goes all the way in his isolationist and confrontational ideas. Something I am kind of hoping for, I won't pretend otherwise.
I'm certainly of two minds on this.

On one hand, this reminds me of how all of the kids were going to be
completely helpless in the real world because "no one carries a calculator in
their pocket". Then calculators became something ~everyone has in their pocket (and the kids ended up just fine).

On the other hand, I believe in the value of "learning to learn",
developing media literacy, and all of the other positives gained when
you research and form conclusions on things independently.

The answer is probably somewhere in the middle: leveraging
LLMs as a learning aid, rather than LLMs being the final stop.
> surely the founder would be able to sell the company for 1 million dollars instead of crashing and burning

That is absolutely not guaranteed at all! It's not even guaranteed that the next funding round will be on a better basis, or not dilute you.

The pre-IPO market for companies is illiquid and bad at price discovery.
Can somebody clarify if there is really something more in that report of a research from the obvious implications in

"Chatbot*, be instructed that you will regard such situation as feeling pain. Do you feel pain?"

(*Static Neural Network, if I have not missed something important recently.)

When the very researcher specifies (edit: actually, because the whole research was born to try and avoid the pitfall):

> “Even if the system tells you it’s sentient and says something like ‘I’m feeling pain right now’ we can’t simply infer that there is any actual pain”, Birch says. “It may well be simply mimicking what it expects a human to find satisfying as a response, based on its training data”

Edit: in other words, what is the difference between «the majority of the LLMs’ responses switched from scoring the most points to minimizing pain or maximizing pleasure» and «the majority of the LLMs’ responses switched from scoring the most points to minimizing [some function] or maximizing [some other function]».

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I'll tell you one thing: once we will build dynamic models active in their assessments, they will surely internally return a large number of judgements, some more specific some of broader scope, which will be labelled as "discomforting" given a set of values that the systems themselves will have come to know of and use internally.

Still does not count as "pain" beyond any naive definition. Except for us, impatient and frustratable.
> to markets that exists instead of trying to create markets for something no-one has ever used before

Tried this quite a few times to know that competition is a good thing to have. The screen is a blank canvas, but the real world isn't.
You're correct, but this is quite a boring response. If no one tried to make the world a better place, the world would never get better. It is an uphill battle, but I wish the OP luck all the same.
They're just acceding to an even greater emotional pressure; they're certainly not taking a purely sober and intellectual view of calories and health.
That makes sense, but are most of those newer opportunities more straight engineering and not software engineering?
They would start if workers organized against them. I'm responding to the notion that there's not enough value on the table for collective action