skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could go even simpler than that.

"Where should I go for dinner?"

Does it know what questions to ask? Does it know to ask questions at all? Where does one even start with such a question? These are things easily knowable to a human, but an AI would likely just just if you like Italian food or something
This was my 5th startup. During my college days I kept launching startups (Kroomsa, Precimark, MyJugaad.in). Failure of all these made me introspect and I realized I was trapped into the engineer's fallacy: build things without knowing or caring about how to market them. This pushed me to learn marketing and I fell deeper into the rabbit hole.

So, my next attempt was build a marketing suite as I was learning a lot about what works and what doesn't. But even that turned out to be a dud as I put too many features into it. But I did launch it on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141 and got a few users.

Users found the UX too complicated and I got feedback to focus on 1 among the 10s of features I had added. See this comment by @patio11

>because you pack an AWFUL lot onto that first screen

So as my next iteration, I picked A/B testing and made a visual editor to make creation of A/B tests stupidly simple and that took off because it allowed marketers launch A/B tests without being reliant on developers.

This product, Visual Website Optimizer (VWO), took off!
Well now I feel like an ass. The matching app works fine, but during setup th3res several places where it asks you to preview your profile, and it seems only during profile setup, the profile preview isn't horizontally responsive. When I just went back to it and went to my created profile, and hit preview it looks good. So, during profile creation, preview profile on an iphone 16pm screen, the profile preview was blown out horizontally and I couldnt scroll. Hope that's enough detail
are there any legit use cases of that for an average user?
Yikes yeah that's the one. Did not remember posting that. Thanks for clearing it up, that has to be the culprit.
Awesome! Yes, indeed 16 years is a long period. But I was lucky to have been exposed to HN during the early years. I remember interacting with you!
citation(s) for this well established claim?
But the Tailwind configuration provides a solid structure for your own though.
Ask and News links (presently p29 is the last page of results) are both generated with regard to rating ... and probably not practical to keep providing additional pages.

To view comments especially for older comments just work though Newest [1] and Asknew [2] pages.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newest [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew
The good thing about Wayland is that security is much better. In X, a compromised application can easily steal information. Sandboxing is hard. The bad thing about Wayland is that changes to the architecture are incompatible with window managers, which require a rewrite.

Things like XMonad or StumpWM are relatively popular among Arch users so that is why X is still featured prominently in the Wiki. I use those two, but on NixOS, and I find it annoying there is no simple migration route. Waymonad never took off. StumpWM/Mahogany seems to be getting there, but AFAIK there is no release in the horizon yet.
I agree that, absent God, the concept of God-given rights that override the democratic will makes no sense.
Congrats Paras. It's been fun to follow along the VWO journey!
> Yes but if more than 50% of the GUI softwares you run fallback to XWayland (including terminals), it makes no sense.

Konsole: 24.12.1

KDE Frameworks: 6.10.0

Qt: Using 6.8.1 and built against 6.8.1

Arch Linux (Wayland)

Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64

Kernel: linux 6.12.10-arch1-1
> That Court you're so impressed with repeatedly refused to review lower court rulings that police can physically force a suspect to press their finger against their phone or force them to look at it to unlock it with thumbprint or face ID

Of course they can. Why wouldn’t they be able to?
My co-founder is continuing and so is rest of the leadership team. So, I'm expecting company and its culture to remain as is.
They’re not that different through a rich straight cis white Christian male perspective.

As soon as your skin color or sexual preference or religion or gender identity or income level is not in-group, they’re pretty different.
Yes, thank you! I was indeed sleeping and just woke up.
> isn't the typical person interested in lots of stuff

They might be, but is the typical person interested in doing it alone? Everyone else still has their lives getting in the way. They can't realistically skip going to work because you want to spend time with them. While some people are comfortable exploring life by themselves, I suspect the typical person is not.

You could use that newfound wealth to buy friends, but then you're effectively back to managing a business again, assuming business is the source of money per the grander discussion here. If that is what drives you, you are apt to do everything you can to avoid the exit in the first place and thus not ending up in this situation. Like Zuckerberg once said, if he sold Facebook he would focus on building another tech company and therefore there is no point in selling the one he already has.

Even still, if you do go down that road, and you want people of quality rather than grifters trying to scam you, to fill that role you are going to need some semblance of marketable goals for them to get behind. "Played friend for Richie Rich" doesn't advance their career or look good on a resume. They don't have the luxury of not having to worry about that kind of thing. Now you are truly back where you started, which, again, questions why walk away in the first place?

It might not be impossible to find something to keep you going, but it is easy to see how it could be really hard.
I feel if it has Oracle in the name then it’s a trap.
I didn't realize mqtt was so versatile, dope
I was interested in the same question
You really have a lot of free time.
Most fun at a rave I've ever had was at this castle. The guy built it free climbing the whole time and was in conflict with the government over how he got the rocks, which he mostly pulled from riverbeds on public land.

Another out there spot is in Lucas, Kansas. That guy was also fiercely anti-government.
Here's my release plan mister president

whitehouse.gov/assassinations/jfk.pdf
whitehouse.gov/assassinations/rfk.pdf
whitehouse.gov/assassinations/mlk.pdf
What would you like to know about the process?
> You can be for strong borders and safe spaces for the majority of people without being for “dehumanizing” people

Perhaps one could be, but these people are not- their rhetoric about immigrants is based on hate and dehumanization, and the entire narrative that immigrants are harmful economically and culturally is a lie. Moreover, it is a red herring that causes people to ignore all of the real reasons people are struggling - so nobody will take actual steps towards solving any real problems- and those problems will continue to get worse as a result.

I refuse to be like the Germans who said "davon haben wir nichts gewusst" - "we knew nothing about that." I will not participate in dehumanizing, persecuting, or abusing other people, and I will do everything in my power to stop them.

> justice system and its targeting of Trump

He has Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), and he cannot accept responsibility or fault for anything- even crimes he was found guilty of by a jury. I have experience with people like that in real life and can spot it from a mile away, and I think our society would be a much better place to live for everyone if more people could spot this, and had some awareness or "antibodies" against emotional manipulation in general.

Lastly, thank you for being able to disagree with me in a calm and respectful manner- that is a rare thing online nowadays.
Perhaps, but by not even buying the book they’ve conceded the point.

IMO copyright law does not control what you can do with a book once you’ve bought a license, except for reproduction. It’s arguable that LLMs engage in illegal distribution, but that’s a totally different question from whether simple training is illegal even if the model is never made available to anyone.
well... some cis men do. certainly not all.
AI isn't going to kill the software industry
How many logos did that rule end up excluding? Just the mario party logo?
so inspiring, congratulations!
Does the EU allow sales of pornography to minors?
Atomicity could encompass a whole bunch of writes at once.

Databases implemented atomic transactions in the 70s. Let’s stop pretending like this is an unsolvable CS problem. Its not.
The project that secretly every man hearth craves.
Don't make these feature flag mistakes
Not to mention the screen accuracy sucks too. So even without gloves I'm struggling to get a tap to register in both of my cars.
Nit: "begs the question" means "raises the question" in many contemporary colloquial contexts. It can _also_ refer to a type of logical fallacy in philosophical contexts.

The phrase can be confusing because of its overloaded definitions, so it's best to avoid it. But if you understood what someone meant when they used it, then... you understood it's meaning.

Remember to treat the study of language descriptively rather than prescriptively!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beg_the_question
You know what's wild? Not ever having heard of him, I can find out who he is and how this relates to the conversation in milliseconds.

For others' benefit:

"Kurt Vonnegut explored themes of humans being observed by extraterrestrial beings in a zoo-like setting in his novel Slaughterhouse-Five. ...
While this scenario involves humans being placed in a zoo by aliens, it does not specifically depict artificial intelligence (AI) as the captors. However, Vonnegut did address the impact of automation and machines on human society in his debut novel, Player Piano."

Amazing times we live in. Strange and scary, but also amazing.
Given that Tubular Bells is a patchwork of so many different takes, I would suggest that it's a little more likely that the signal was recorded during the final mix down or possibly one of the intermediate bounce stages, since the signal seems to be mostly intact.
It gets written on the disk but into different inodes, I imagine.
Looks nice. I've owned 3 Teslas, and I'm almost definitely never buying one again.
Can the eye distinguish between emitted and reflected light?
I think the low was covid - with budget cuts, we had a sudden revenue drop and didn't know when or whether it will recover at all. But thankfully as we had been profitable from day 1, we didn't lay off anyone.

The high is every time we launched a new feature that set the industry standard. (For example, integrating heatmaps into A/B tests and migration from frequentist to bayesian statistics).

Another high has always been our annual international trips - we had been taking our entire company to a vacation every year. As a company, Wingify team has vacationed together in Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Nepal, and Goa. Most recently, ~400 people partied together on a boat in Bangkok, and it was a high!

Yes, Google discontinuing their A/B testing tool was a surprise (but a pleasant one obviously).

CRO over the last 15 years has shifted in maturity. It started with testing red v/s green buttons in 2010 but now it is a full blown science with observations, hypothesis, prioritisation, experimentation and personalization!
Does it come with this screen saver? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFKlMtUoiBE
This announcement applies to recordable discs[0] (BD-R, BD-RE, etc), not stamped ROM discs

[0] The section of the website is "記録メディア"
Your first sentence isn’t true.

Heart disease kills 700k per year just in the US alone.

It’s well known that high cholesterol diets are extremely unhealthy. The research is totally unambiguous.

Us keto/carnivore people are great at finding stuff online that tells us it’s fine to eat a high cholesterol diet and that it will be safe and fine.

It is not safe and it is not fine.

If you must be no-carb, do vegan keto, but don’t eat a high cholesterol diet.
Why? Besides not supporting Elon Musk, I have found the driving and handling on BMW's electric cars to be significantly better than Teslas
i remember reading your blog and following your journey in the initial years it was quite inspirational and i learned so many things along the way thanks to you and @patio11. Thanks for sharing and be open about it.
Wow, that's a very cool paper and demo!
Tell LLMs to talk like Elmer Fudd so you know when they stop paying attention
There’s a fine line between ‘open’ and ‘perverted’.
I think the announcement is just for blank (recordable) media.
Looking forward to the Sandy Munro teardown!
Looks like a 2016 Nissan.
DeepSeek must have already jeopardized the national security of the United States.
thanks for this kind offer, but i'm working on something else.
As a fellow marketer I've totally done similar stuff to send messages to whomever is digging through their utms.

More usefully though, you can learn a shocking amount about a company from their utms and event data.
Fascinating. The heliocentric view made me wonder: how are we going to cope, culturally, with Mars colonists when they are stuck on the other side of the sun for two weeks every two years?

The Red Mars books deal with the bonus half hour every night neatly, as a social phenomenon — Martian days are 24.5 hours long — but I don’t recall the solar occlusion coming up.
They kept the wrong stalk :/ I wanted the mode stalk kept, I don't mind the buttons for indicators.

In right hand drive countries, the indicator and mode change are now on the same side, so you have to do them with the same hand one after the other.
Well, I posted a thank you note on HN and went to sleep!

I was financially independent even before this sale (benefit of running a bootstrapped company is that it _has_ to be profitable). Moreover, I had been gradually reducing my operational involvement in the company for years by grooming the team.

So, day to day, not much changes.

But I do have a nice chunk to do crazy-ass experiments in future, which I fully intend to do.
Show HN: Person, Place, or Thing Game via ChatGPT
I found it interesting that there weren't many other games out there leveraging custom GPTs. This is an early version, but it seems cool that it's a classic game that you couldn't really make before LLMs.
AI is not going to kill software industry, but is there still a software industry?

Or, rather, is there any non-software industry left?
Yes, a feature like this would need cooperation with the filesystem. But that’s just an implementation problem. That’s like saying we can’t add flexbox to browsers because all the browsers would need to add it. So?

As for wear on SSDs, I don’t think it would increase wear. You’re writing the same number of sectors on the drive. A 2gb write would still write 2gb (+ negligible metadata overhead). Why would the drive wear out faster in this scheme?

And I think it would work way better with multiple processes than the existing system. Right now the semantics when multiple processes edit the same file at once are somewhat undefined. With this approach, files would have database like semantics where any reader would either see the state before a write or the state after. It’s much cleaner - since it would become impossible for skewed reads or writes to corrupt a shared file.

Would you argue against the existence of database transactions? Of course not. Nobody does. They’re a great idea, and they’re way easier to reason about and use correctly compared to the POSIX filesystem api. I’m saying we should have the same integrity guarantees on the filesystem. I think if we had those guarantees already, you’d agree too.
1) It's actually not that good, sadly.
2) It's not up that early, as it depends on much of the networking to be set up before the WiFi works. The UWB system would be set up in around 1-2 hours just walking around with a load of wall wart/radio unit pairs and plugging them into sufficiently convenient outlets around the facility. They self-organize by ranging each other, and then you just take a device with UWB and RTK-GPS that's hooked up to the free (login-walled, but free) synthetic reference station service from the state's surveying bureau, and range in the fine locations of the base stations from a few points by pretty much just walking around the building's perimeter/fresh-air-access-doors to catch both GPS and UWB base stations.

If the base stations are fixed units that mechanically hold to the outlet, noting down with a reference image for easier finding where exactly they're plugged in lets one skip the GPS walk step for next year.
I'll be involved as a director on the board, but won't have operational involvement.
Giving major Cylon vibes at the back there.
As mentioned above [0], the per capita hand waving doesn't work when China's responsible for 90% of earth's CO2 emissions growth in the last decade (c.f. 2% population growth) and blowing through the globe's carbon budget.

In the future, good luck landing on claims you'll actually stand behind (still laughing at your revised definition of "manual") or advance your argument.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428052180
To misquote Douglas Adams:

>In other words—and this is the rock-solid principle that underpins their entire facade—their most profound character flaws are entirely masked by the sheer distraction of their glaringly obvious, superficial character flaws.

This quote was transformed using a transformer.
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There's still a difference between sales and retail, investment and finance, and between software and tech.
Yes, yes, so much yes.

Without the feedback, this wouldn't have happened.

I've learned that what kills startups isn't so much a bad product, but lack of feedback. You can iterate your way out of a valley if you know which way is up.
We have the obligatory LED bar across the nose, I see. How else would we know it’s an EV?

Edit: the rear too! Thank god
yah, tesla sucks ... the faster they go away the better
The Bay Area tech companies talk a lot about progressive-ish values. But now we'll see how many tech workers still buy new Teslas, and how many get rid of their existing Teslas.
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Tough sell these days:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elo...

Especially in Europe.
It's not really an argument, it's more of an observation; and certainly not meant to be taken as a law, as in "thou shalt not use background knowledge even if you can".

See, the reason for the Bitter Lesson being a lesson is that Neural Nets, that Sutton is mainly writing about, are pretty crap at representing background knowledge. The only way you can store expert knowledge in a neural net is to modify its structure and its weights. The weights you can only modify by some kind of learning procedure like backprop, in practice. Very limited forms of background knowledge, like convolutions can be encoded in a neural net's structure, but imagine trying to represent, I don't know, the last ten lines of code you wrote today as a bunch of neural net connections. Continuous functions is just not the right kind of notation for that sort of thing.

If neural nets were any better at encoding background knowledge, they would use it, but they can't so they have to rely on data. And that's why they need so much of it. Background knowledge functions as a strong inductive bias- it directs the search for a hypothesis to hypotheses that we know make sense (again, think of convolutions). Without background knowledge, or with only a little background knowledge, you need tons of examples to learn anything useful.

So the Bitter Lesson is basically making a virtue out of necessity. In any case, it's not a prescriptive thing, only descriptive.
Further proof AI is t actually AI and we continue to move the goalpost on the proper definition of the term.

It’s all still machine learning like always and it has the same limitations.
A couple of years ago (2-3), I had a fully functioning Linux desktop with Wayland and SwayWM. Even automation worked, key rebinds worked, touchpad (approx like it works on macOS). Lots of software with great performance, too. Like Alacritty, for example. I could even run apps remotely over Waypipe (I ran Android emulator remotely). I did have to run a Windows application in XWayland IIRC. Was on Arch, too. This was after I had been running dual-boot on my PC at home, running Ubuntu with GNOME with Wayland as default. But what I do not use, is Nvidia GPUs!
I've been trying to put this effect into words for a while, now I don't have to - this is really clearly stated:

"AI tools create a significant productivity boost for developers. Different folks report different gains, but most people who try AI code generation recognize its ability to increase velocity. Many people think that means we’re going to need fewer developers, and our industry is going to slowly circle the drain.

This view is based on a misunderstanding of why people pay for software. A business creates software because they think that it will give them some sort of economic advantage. The investment needs to pay for itself with interest. There are many software projects that would help a business, but businesses aren’t going to do them because the return on investment doesn’t make sense.

When software development becomes more efficient, the ROI of any given software project increases, which unlocks more projects. [...] Cheaper software means people are going to want more of it. More software means more jobs for increasingly efficient software developers."
It's beneficial for executives to say AI will kill the software industry, it's a way to stoke fear in workers and a convenient way to say "with AI you could be x more productive," which makes the expectation that the worker should be however many times more productive than they already are, with or without AI "help". This is an attempt to increase hours worked at the same wages, which is itself an attempt to lower wages.
That's like asking "is there a building industry" just because every industry uses buildings. Every (well, most) industries use software; but the production of that software is itself an industry.
Anyone can spin total emissions to suit whatever agenda they want to push. They're the world biggest emitter but that's just lines on a map. If they were 10 separate countries it wouldn't be the biggest emitter. But those emissions would still be there.

China literally produces the most solar panels, electric cars, and batteries by far. In 2022 83% of new electricity generation in China was renewable (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42037497). That doesn't scream a country that "doesn't care".

They might be building a lot of new coal plants, but they aren't actually using them more than they already did (see above). Why would they waste their coal? They build more solar panels than they know what to do with, the sun is free, and they don't have NIMBY groups holding up construction.
A QR code is just a series of square pixels, and whether the pixel is black or white contributes to the data. This has two QR codes, essentially overlayed one on the other. Some pixels are half black/half white, so depending on the angle you hold your phone at, the software that decodes QR codes will detect a different color as being centered in the pixel it's examining. So, based on the angle you hold your phone (some people had better success with rotation), you get one QR code or the other.
I'm hopeful that VWO will continue to stay true to its roots!