skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always baffled me how little commercial sense HNers had when I was growing up and reading this forum.

It's as if no one taught them -- or they just don't have the sense for it? -- that a startup is just a vehicle to make money. There's nothing special about it. You can make lots of money without a "startup." You can make lots of money doing many different things even without a business entity. It's just an abstraction for linguistic convenience.

My biggest wakeup was finding people much less educated and much less intellectually gifted and much less socioeconmically privileged making a lot more money than what could be considered their betters in more prestigious and, on the surface, well remunerated professions.

If you don't want to make money, don't go into business. Stay at your job and grind a career out. If you have the desire to make money, your senses will naturally sharpen as you use them more to achieve that end. Otherwise, if you go and "build a startup" for any other reason than making money you will fail barring extraneous circumstances.

Baffling that this isn't common sense, really. But my fault. I keep forgetting a professional forum is just a proverbial water cooler, where you get to see a wide mix of people in your profession -- and all the different backgrounds, values, ideas, and ways of seeing the world -- most of which are continuous works in progress that culminate only at death.
Yeah, the "success definition" trap is real. For me I was having coffee with a former co-worker who was now a VC because they had been at one of the same companies I had been but had joined "pre-IPO" and so probably had a net worth of 20 - 30 million. They asked what I was looking for and I said "To be successful like you!" and they said, quite seriously, they would prefer to be successful like me. And at that point we talked about the parent's point of how do you define success? This person had money but had lost their their spouse to divorce over 'working too hard' and were now alone. Meanwhile my third kid was on the way and I was doing okay but certainly not "FU money" okay. And yet from their perspective, that was more successful than they felt. That really threw me for a loop.
Whatever you hear as an explanation for this, Musk knew how this would be seen/received and made a show of doing it.

If I suspend all possible disbelief, the best scenario is a rich white kid raised in Apartheid South Africa giving "Roman Salutes" to troll people for his own personal LOLs?
OpenIn seems like something I've been hunting for for a while on Windows, use case is I primarily use firefox but I have so many google logins that it only makes sense to use chrome where applicable for several reasons the most annoying being it's hard to toggle between accounts when logged into multiple google accounts, I also use Notion Calendar which by default tries to open firefox when you start a meeting. So my workflow typically is click join meeting, go to the firefox tab, copy said link then open the appropriate profile and paste link. Ideally I'd want to click that link which launches Chrome where I select a profile and it continues to the link.
> Maintaining criticality is a fundamental challenge in this new era of trust. Unfortunately, much of what we know about being critical is based on authenticity ethics. Carles blamed the Contemporary Conformist phenomenon on a culture industry hard-set on mining “youth culture dollars.” This very common yet extraordinarily reductive argument, which makes out commodity capitalism to be an all-powerful, intrinsically evil force, is typical of authenticity believers.

Abusing and exploiting teen minds, fallacies, bias, primed emotions and interests and as a result anchoring preferences is "youth culture dollars" and it is an intrinsically ugly force that will bring many more children of bad, ugly and or overly unhealthy stressed parents in shitty school districts to the brink of selling out their bodies and minds before they turn 21. There will be brutal and disgusting debates about whether pedophilia should be/is getting normalized, and I'm not talking the Nabokov kind of think. And it's all linked to authenticity being replaced by "culture dollars". It didn't happen "by force". It happened by brute-forcing one and half generations' minds. Now it's being hard-coded via twitchy TikkTock.
From heart to Mars
Let's pretend that people actually work when they are in the office.

It's a lot easier to procrastinate in the office, actually, when everybody just assumes you are working just for being there.

At home I actually feel more pressured to show results from what I am doing.
Already is, see: https://old.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/search?q=Cialis&restrict...

Partial doses of cialis use is also a thing in the bodybuilding world

For those curious, be mindful that an all too common side effect of pde5 inhibitors like cialis is eventual tinnitus (even at low doses), which is not worth whatever you are hoping gain.
"If you want to discuss Biden then start another thread. This one is about Donald Trump."

You cannot talk about Trump without putting him in context. The fact is, the reason why we have Trump for President again, is because the person who replaced him was so horrible, that Trump looked better in comparison.

And what's more, conisdering what I said -- and what you are responding to -- I have to bring up Biden, because my entire point is "both sides do it". If you want to bring back honor and decency to the White House, you have to do it with an honorable and decent person. Neither Biden nor Harris fit that bill.
This is, unfortunately, not one of those cases where the full video makes it any better.
To be fair, GitHub also charges for Actions minutes and storage, so it's one of the few pieces that do generate revenue.
I develop Cursive, an IDE for Clojure code, and I spent a long time integrating parinfer smart mode. It was actually really difficult to do well, I wrote a document with feedback about what (among other things I discovered later) that made it hard: https://github.com/parinfer/parinfer.js/wiki/Problems-integr.... I subsequently fixed many of those issues, but it was probably the second hardest thing I've integrated into Cursive, after Leiningen.

It's still a bit quirky, but I use it every day and I love it. Even though I'm proficient enough with paredit, parinfer is just so much easier to use. Several users have commented to me that the parinfer integration is the main thing stopping them switching away to a different editor - it really makes that much difference.
Wonder if Meta is running a one way Usenet host. Much better than torrents.
Smart Charter. I think that might still be a viable business even today, though I have not really kept up with the industry so I don't know.

Ironically, today I have a part-time consulting gig at a company designing network switches, and I see them wrestling with the exact same problems we were tackling 30 years ago. So FlowNet would be a very close second.
Also interesting that it seems like his relatively minor 1 year stint at pre-IPO Google was successful enough to pay for many other endeavors.

It's a great example of the power laws in startups: it's much more lucrative to have a minor role in a major success than a major role in anything minor.
There are levels and levels of enforcement, and, yes, from the across the pond it does look like the IRS is not breathing as menacingly each and every time you may want to do something different.

For example a company like Uber could have never taken off here in Europe because the tax authorities (and not only) would have never let that happened, i.e. Uber (the company) playing the "they're not real employees" game with the authorities. Yes, Uber eventually made it into Europe, but only because by that time it already was a big and established company in the States so it had lots of money to spend on lobby activities.
>My reason for not using my phone as an MP3 player is that there simply aren't any good MP3 player apps on the iOS App Store.

Don't they have itunes? Or is it not good?
The problem always ends up being that it's extremely local (read: NIMBY).

Everyone wants more Z, Y, X. Nobody wants to change where they are to support it. This is why even areas that redevelop in places that are friendly to it, take decades.

The "old" solution was to just build a whole new factory town elsewhere, but that doesn't work as well, and especially doesn't work when you're not building megafactories that employ entire cities.
Thank you for sharing! Looking at their blog, I saw this post about learning Japanese vocabulary (https://migaku.com/blog/japanese/how-to-learn-japanese-vocab...). They share a Japanese Netflix Frequency List - (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15b3j9--RJ1K5hI9vz_2L...)

"To recognize 99% of all the words in Netflix's subtitles, you'd need to know 37,247 words"

Interesting approach! I really don't know how they managed to gather this list, but it's an interesting and clever method.
At least if young you got the energy, time, usually fewer family obligations, maybe even naive enough to do something others won't (as a good thing) and ... you know if that's the lifestyle you want.

But I hear you starting at zero life experience, that is bad. I would find it pretty painful to work at a start up and have to talk to the founder "bro let's talk about the basics of picking your battles" and do it ... well.
Egyptian hieroglyphs were used sometimes to represent 1-3 consonants, rather than words or ideas.

Egyptian Hieratic script simplified the forms down for writing with ink.

Canaanites simplified it further by tossing all the ideograms, logograms and multi-consonant symbols to create an abjad.

The Greeks added the first vowels to create a true alphabet.
What's the lesson, hire contractors?
It isn't hard. We offered as well. Full BIOS access even.

Another neocloud, that is funded directly by AMD, also offered to buy him boxes. He refused. It had to come from AMD. That's absurd and extortionist.

Long thread here: https://x.com/HotAisle/status/1880467322848137295
sorry for the trouble. glad you got it to work.
For founders, the two options are EB2 national interest waiver and EB1A extraordinary ability and which path to choose will require an analysis of your background and the company. EB1A is much faster but the bar is much higher although many founders who've created "successful" companies qualify.
https://semianalysis.com/2024/12/22/mi300x-vs-h100-vs-h200-b...
No kids right?
Re: Why do you need the old code if you implement your own interpreter anyway?

Several reasons. First, we don't need it, we want it -- it's a nice-to-have not a need-to-have.

It's nice to have for many reasons, none of them huge, but together they vie towards having it if we can find it:

1. What we're after is running the old AIs, not having IPL-V. We don't intend to write any new IPL code. The old AIs just happen to be written in IPL.

2. We can run the code without having to reformat it. There are numerous annoying nuances when recreating a very old language, not the least of which is the importance of card columns, which is annoying to "wrap parens around".

3. If we bother to write an emulator anyway, we can test our emulator against the real thing.

4. IPL-V being Lisp's conceptual machine code (one version of it, anyway), it should be easy to do so, so there's that as an engineering experiment.

5. Writing anything in Lisp is fun so it's an excuse to take a break from ... well, from pretty much anything else on my agenda, most of which do not require Lisp programming (although I often manage to squeeze some in anyway. :-)
I never made even $100k a year. Locality matters a lot.

Privileged people being blind to their privilege. Nothing new. My original point still stands then.

Keep finding stuff hilarious I guess, though.
It's a very interesting design space. How to design public forums where people can share ideas and eventually improve their knowledge collectively.

There are very successful instances of that, for instance MathOverflow.

But I don't know what can be achieved when a good chunk of participants don't agree on some basic rules beforehand, such as logic and good faith. It's a bit like consensus with byzantine failures, maybe there's an impossibility theorem here and large social network should be limited to cat videos.
DeepSeek-R1 and Exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
No, it really doesn't...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=joV-9FFoA3Q
Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Scrubbed After Delta Air Flies into Restricted Airspace
their energy policy has essentially crippled their economy
It's a useful piece, thanks for posting it.

Flagging of misinformation has become a controversial topic but for me personally it strikes me as odd to even do such a thing at all. Or rather, if there's a need for such a system it suggests the platform has already failed, in that people are not able to use it discerningly, whether because of the posters, readers, system, or some interaction thereof. If they are able to do so, why have it?

I've posted this elsewhere but the nature of community notes makes it a bit murkier. If Platform A introduces misinformation flags, you can always compartmentalize it as the platform inserting itself into the conversation one way or another, but with something like community notes, you're left wondering at some level "what happened here?" in a way that's similar to upvotes or downvotes.

The point about people trusting community notes I'm not sure what to do with either. Other studies I've seen cited elsewhere suggest that there's a very high false negative rate, so are they doing what they're supposed to? How are people interpreting the unflagged posts?

The whole thing seems well-intended at some level but also missing the forest for the trees or something. I don't want community notes or misinformation flags, I just want discourse and I want to be able to ignore certain sources of posts and be more exposed to others.

It's an interesting idea and I'm not even sure I'm objecting to its implementation. I guess it's more so that I feel like there's an overconfidence in all of the misinformation flagging methods, and this overconfidence is maybe taking attention away from more serious problems, like how people consume and evaluate information, or how information networks are being controlled.
slow clap. Nice twist.

But… this is a MAGAt:

https://bsky.app/profile/patriottakes.bsky.social/post/3lg75...
something not mentioned is the importance of timing. for example a link posted on saturday 11:00PM pacific will not receive nearly as much attention as the same link posted on a friday at 7:00AM pacific.
There’s a cap on how many EB1 green cards they give out per year, and there’s also a per country cap within that cap (no country cannot cross 7% of total cap)

Unfortunately, there are a lot of EB1C greencard applicants from my country (India) as the bar for L1 and EB1C is pretty low. Since all EB1 visas (EB1A, EB1B, and EB1C) are counted together towards the cap, that means that even though I required a muncher higher bar to qualify for EB1A, I have to wait in queue with all the EB1C applicants who applied before me.

Based on my estimate, it’ll be more than 6 years (or even more) for EB1A priority date to come to late 2024.
Until/unless it makes it to SCOTUS and they join him in changing the meaning of the 14th Amendment.
Ah yes, I have a git alias created specifically for the "we don't know what it does until we push it" world of CI:

> yolo = "!git commit --all --amend --no-edit && git push --force #"
> Capitalism fought authoritarian subsidy, and capitalism lost.

If we are going to blame something I would think it's the chinese enthusiasm for capitalist business development.

It's not the chinese State Owned Enterprises that earn american contracts, mostly. Not to mention Foxconn being a taiwanese company that earned that business in the US to begin with (and only later moved it to mainland china.)
I live in Canada, 2 hours from Toronto and a 1 bedroom apartment is CAD2300 per month. Working is not enough to afford that, you need to be somewhat affluent to afford rent and groceries. I think this idyllic idea of life is only possible outside of US/Canada/most of Europe.
Folks pick the wrong tool for the job at hand.

I suspect the author of the article could greatly simplify matters if they used a task running tool to orchestrate running tasks, for example. Pick whatever manner of decoupling you want really, most of the time this is the path to simplified CI actions. CI is best when its thought of as a way to stand up fresh copies of an environment to run things inside of.

I have never had the struggles that so many have had with CI as a result. Frankly, I'm consistently surprised at how overly complex people make their CI configurations. There's better tools for orchestration and dependency dependent builds, which is not its purpose to begin with.
It'd be better than not having them.

Major problems are rarely solved with one fell swoop, but instead thousands and thousands of small improvements.
If you know how plebians can get affordable, licensed Palo firewalls for the home, I'm all ears.

Big fan of Opnsense for the home gateway!
People are bringing their phones into the sauna?
Time-Binding (2015)
Having a PhD is less important than the other stuff - publications, awards, etc. - so there's no need for you to wait until you graduate to start the process. As a first step, I would recommend that you get your qualifications evaluated now because it's possible that you could pursue an EB1A now or an NIW at a minimum.
Notation is ultimately arbitrary, it's just what everyone has agreed on.

(As a fun fact, Spanish has decided to use X for Wednesday because both Wednesday and Tuesday start with the same letter, M: https://www.20minutos.es/cultura/blogs/yaestaellistoquetodol...)
I actually want to learn German, but I want to learn it by reading German texts and starting from zero, even though that makes it challenging.
I need to look up definitions and such, but translating the entire page defeats the core purpose. This app in my case is just perfect match! Thank you for sharing!
Hard agree, the writing here is exceptional.
> it's not that big of a problem to the people that would need to solve it

That's not wrong, but it misses the point. It's not worth the bank's time to solve it, but for me it would produce a pretty damn good ROI. All I needed was one entry point into the system, but I couldn't find it.
That seems so counterproductive, especially in Formula 1. Isn't the objective to have the least stops in the pit stop area? Have the fewest reasons and the longest lasting tyres so you never need to take a pit stop time penalty?
When you see a successful boss, look around for his successful reports. They're always the ones cleaning up the boss' messes. The truth is that we all need to be saved from ourselves at some point (sometimes as education, other times as hard lessons), but tech culture certainly pushes that far with the "gifted visionary" mythos. A gifted visionary's much vaunted "Ideas > Details" only works when the detail people are there to make it work.
Yup. They're nasty drugs--but when the alternative is worse you use them anyway. The DEA should be nuked from orbit.

And they're making the fundamental mistake of thinking you can cut a waste problem by cutting supply. No, in the real world the waste is better at defending itself and you end up disproportionately cutting the good.
No, Elon's doing that all by himself.
So you don’t live in Britain but are claiming to be knowledgeable about what happened here!

And when challenged you decide to produce your own definitions of things… when are you deporting Melina and Barron?
Z would have made more sense as a pair of the Y combinator (and the next letter).

X is jut plain boring because there's nothing theoritical behind it.
Also the word for “of or pertaining to spring” is “vernal”, so… V? Obscure and a bit antiquated, but also technically correct (the best kind).
It's interesting how at least several of the failures were good ideas with bad timing/execution that others have replicated successfully.

iCab: Uber obviously was very successful with this ~same premise

Smart Charter: I assume you can easily book a private jet online now?

Founder's Forge: linking record-keeping and payment is what makes Ramp great; 10 years of fintech innovations made executing this much easier

Spark Innovations: this is basically the premise of Airtable
If you're being serious, you should sign with an agency as a first step.
It's just a success metric + an activity

Tenured (metric) + professor (activity).

He defined his, same as you did:

Good (metric) + programmer (activity)

The activity is just what people find interesting and the metric is what you strive toward. Imposing the idea that the only reason you pursue originality is so that they can't get sacked is a very wild take.
Love it, having an "aha-moment" is always a great indicator that it's something worth sharing! I encourage others to share their ahas so we can all learn together.
But the court isn't going into a server room somewhere and pressing a button to take TikTok off the app store. Apple would take it down because they would incur some sort of retaliation if they didn't. But that retaliation would never come because Trump controls the enforcers, and he has directed them to ignore noncompliance with the law. So how would the court compel this behavior from Apple?
Until there are consequences for actions, he gets to do whatever the hell he likes. It may be unconstitutional but his bootlickers and lackeys will round up people until someone/s actually yanks his chain and brings him into line.
dehumanization of the other side is one of the most used tools of war propaganda of all sides. Just look at people in the west joking about orcs
My recent experience with Github Actions is that it will randomly fail running a pipeline that hasn't changed with an incomprehensible error message. I re-run the action a few hours later and it works perfectly.
it can be quite hard to write proper scripts that work consistently... different shells have different behaviours, availability of local tools, paths, etc

and it feels like fighting against the flow when you're trying to make it reusable across many repos
> Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize comes to mind

Ha well that a particular bad joke.

Most are not so egregious.
Offering software support in exchange for payment is extortion?
How many jobs are in Hope, Arkansas? And I mean real jobs, not building React garbage from a coffee shop. How many people are in Hope, Arkansas, especially people you could easily connect with? How much housing is in Hope, Arkansas? How many doctors? Are there specialists? How are the schools?

I'm so sick and tired of the techbro response to a rising cost of living and a lower quality of life is just "lol be poor :)". There's a reason half the country cheered when that CEO got shot. Maybe there just isn't enough Hope in Arkansas.
BYD is about to open another EV plant overseas with 150,000 vehicle capacity
I'm not saying that never has happened. maybe they trained against openAI models but they are letting anyone to train from their output. I doubt they had access to GPT models to "distill"
"I estimate having software on par with NVDA would raise their market cap by 100B. Then you estimate what the chance it that
@__tinygrad__
can close that gap, say it's 0.1%, probably a very low estimate when you see what we have done so far, but still...

That's worth 100M. And they won't even send us 2 ~100k boxes. In what world does that make sense, except in a world where decisions are made based on pride instead of ROI. Culture issue."

https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/1879620242315317304
Yeah. I'm clinging to the hope the hacker revolution might not be over just yet :P
Sizing Up MI300A's GPU