skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to say that evolution isn't versioned, and what we're observing isn't finished. We may be looking at an evolutionary dead-end. Which is to say that if eating the male is an evolutionary development, it might a poor one.

There is no logic to evolution. No decisions are being made. Evolution is reactive, and the surviving lineages may only be responding effectively to some of the external forces. Evolution doesn't happen at a species level, it happens at the individual level and has downstream effects on the species.

We're seeing evolution in action. Tragically, we (individually) won't be around long enough to observe the changes in another 100 or 200 or 1000 generations.
ASIS?
https://archive.is/hj3Om
Maybe you should ask an LLM?
It’s a shame this was downvoted and flagged.

The author did themselves a disservice by not filtering some of the bitterness of their journey, because the opening story was fascinating and hints at something worth exploring.

The constructive criticism would be better served as a follow-up post.
? I put Slack into non-rich-text-editor mode and use standard markdown link syntax dozens of times a day
I think this is great, I was looking for something like this and I appreciate the minimalism.

One question... why do my users need to give you their email to leave a request?

Is there a way that I can send them through with a token that is valid for a time to leave the request?
Funny how AI companies love training competitors to human labor on human output but then write in their terms that you’re not supposed to train competing bots on their bot output. Explicitly anticompetitive hypocrisy, and millions of suckers pay for it , how sad
Your vps costs are low now. But won't be forever when your database usage and traffic grow.
Even if a $10 vps can handle the traffic, the provider might rate limit you.

Let's be optimistic and assume the following over the next year:
- You get 100 paid users from initial launch. You'll need an advertising budget to gain more.
- And 500 free users over time because they'll keep coming.

Can you support 600 users with $1000 for a year? And this is not about vps costs, it's your time as well, you'll need to manage the vps and respond to customer tickets whether it's bug fixes, performance issues, or feature requests.

I think $10/first year is reasonable to test out your SaaS idea, you'll pay a lot out of pocket, but it'll give you the chance to evaluate and workout your pricing model over the first year.
I realized recently, who needs torrents? I can get a good rip of any movie right there.
I have no interest in defending Notion or anything but... have you actually used it? It's not even close to a "simple notepad app." I mean, that's what it started off as, and you can use it that way, but "simple notepad app" is ludicrously wrong.
MLM... uh oh
I'm not sure very many people will actually be helped by reading the linked discussion, which appears both too technical to be clear for newcomers to Quantum mechanics while also not providing any interesting detail for the more experienced reader.

This seems to be entire argument:

> But the wave function is a wave in the space of possibilities, and not in physical space.

Which is fair enough as an initial claim, but it doesn't really get motivated further, or at least not before I got bored reading and started skimming.
No larger screen has ever had issues with permanent damage from regular use. They just aren’t a good fit for most people in their current durability state. Anyone who totally baby’s their phone can use them, but that’s about it. Also, they’re pretty much all in an extreme price bracket. You could buy a small tablet and a regular flagship phone for the price of one of the galaxy folds.
I too have noticed this word appear recently! I read a lot about politics and I believe it has shown up there mostly. Wish I could find some examples. I think it’s been in the context of cults and martyrs.
How similar is this to the sipeed NanoKVM? (RISC-V based, software source https://github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM ) From the outside it looks very very alike.
Links to Vanderbei's work are dead.

Here are fresh links:

https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/tex/sunset/34-39.OPN.1108two...
> edit: apparently they build a kafkaesque layer of caching. No thank you, I'll just keep my data on locally attached NVMe.

I can't speak to Neon specifically but I've worked a lot with analytic databases, which often use NVMe SSD caches to operate efficiently on S3 data. For time-ordered datasets like observability (e.g., metrics) most queries go to recent data which in the steady state is not just in NVMe SSD storage but generally RAM as well if you are properly tuned. For example, indexes and other metadata are permanently cached.

In realistic tests of the above scenario the effect of nVME SSD can be surprisingly muted. That's especially true if you can use clusters that spread processing across multiple compute nodes, which gives you more RAM to play with and also multiplies storage bandwith.

There are downsides to S3 of course like restarts, which require management to avoid performance issues.
A minority will be diligent and actually learn their subject deeply rather than learn to massage AI output, and they'll have an advantage. That part isn't terribly different from where we're at now. But it is a change and it's not a win for society if the mediocre majority GPTs their way through school. Even if relative to each other they're just as well off as they were back when they had no choice but to put their own effort into learning.
My magic link isn't coming through when I try to leave a test feature request. What postal service are you using? :)
Unless you make the candle out of better materials.
Disappointed that the author of the article has a German name but didn’t coin a long single German word for this.
I don't think your entire family will be streaming 4k at the same time on a Comcast budget connection, as the NOC would start capping your bandwidth rather quickly.

Something about media compression that drew our attention to quality versus efficiency:

"Typically, the production style of low quality media of the same duration creates smaller compressed video data." (Joel's corollary 6)

This was mostly because the producers increased the number of re-used video clips like stock-footage/B-roll, lower grade non-broadcast quality audio, and filming style focused on simpler tripod work with low-textured similar looking environments at fewer locations. Thus, the self-similar nature of low budget films made relatively smaller files, and were compressed into shorter track lengths on storage media.

While the budget constraints are very indicative of bad film, it does not necessarily always mean relatively smaller video files for the same media playtime indicate lame content. However, of the thousands of titles we processed at that company, it was correlated most of the time if all other factors were held the same. Now some people did like "The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black", but with perceptual compression it was a tiny track-length compared to most other films.

I'd wager streaming media ultimately has similar unconscious fiscal incentives to create lower quality content that decreases distribution costs.

Best of luck =3
And thanks and sharing. As I got into what I wrote and decided I wanted to express, I got pretty far from responding to what you wrote. Sorry for that and still, thank you.
Also my question. Understanding the credibility/experience up front would be helpful in the article.
Is it worth pointing out that GNOME doesn't always use FOSS for creating branding materials? Sure.

Is it a betrayal of the entire FOSS movement? A loss of "all pride and dignity"? No.

Pointing fingers like this is more a betrayal of FOSS principles than what GNOME has done and makes me embarrassed to consider myself a part of the community. If you're working to support FOSS it is your right to use whatever software enables that goal best.
Classic paintings: everything used on Standard Ebooks productions is old enough to be in the US public domain. The artists are in the colophons if you want to find out more.
Here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24965204
The license used [1] would mean this very much wouldn't be widely considered open source, since the license sets limits on use and does not seem to provide open modification nor distribution.

[1] https://github.com/Safe3/uuWAF/blob/393262d525d0e35c14819bfa...
I think the real problem with LLMs is we have deterministic expectations of non-deterministic tools. We’ve been trained to expect that the computer is correct.

Personally, I think the summaries of alerts is incredibly useful. But my expectation of accuracy for a 20 word summary of multiple 20-30 word summaries is tempered by the reality that’s there’s gonna be issues given the lack of context. The point of the summary is to help me determine if I should read the alerts.

LLMs break down when we try to make them independent agents instead of advanced power tools. Alot of people enjoy navel gazing and hand waving about ethics, “safety” and bias… then proceed to do things with obvious issues in those areas.
I guess becoming venonmous is evolutionarily easier than becoming better lovers.
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Is it really theft when an American company sends over the CAD files to a Chinese manufacturer to make it for them?

I know there's some about of corporate espionage where trade secrets got exfilled, but what makes you so certain the majority of Chinese success is from stolen IP, as if electrical engineering grad students can't figure out how to make solar panels from first principals?
Isn't wireless charging only about 75% efficient at best? If Apple decides that everyone is going to use wireless charging all the time even when a cable would suffice, that's a lot of power to throw away for no good reason.
You could replace that year with any year since the start of the GIMP project and it would still be true. It's the epitome of an open source project run by people who care about technical features, not real world users.
No, they use it because it was cheap and useful, and switching tools to something newer that's actually better has to not just be better, it has to be so much better as to justify the time and costs required to port a bulky knowledge base from one platform to another.

It's really just standard "voluntary lock-in": any knowledge system you decide to use locks you into that knowledge system simply because you're going to be generating tons of content in it, which may at some point need to be migrated, and the longer you use it the more of a hassle that'll be.

And if it feels a bit gross (it's not, really, it's just what happens when someone has a good sales pitch) they're not holding your content hostage like some other platforms *cough*zendesk*cough*.
They absolutely are recording audio. It has a microphone. It records voices without consent. They may not retain the recordings for longer than necessary to transcribe the audio, but these devices sure as heck are making those recordings.

They are clearly attempting to circumvent the laws that prohibit this kind of activity, and their strategy likely involves fighting it in court long enough to pay off the investors or ultimately change case law. Sound familiar? It’s a common SV strategy that I personally think is grossly unethical.
As far as I know it died because of dupes.
I couldn't upvote you more than once.

I agree wholeheartedly with your point.

Government-funded open source like this, creating alternatives is a good idea. Taxes put to good use!
In the year 2525, if man is still alive, he may find he has a web page from an unknown time period. To read it, all he'll need to do is reimplement all standards for the previous 500 years. Version numbers wouldn't make this easier at all, somehow.
Fizz Buzz, Object-Oriented Edition
The part where "you have a shot" is crucially important. Otherwise, if all people do is help others to help others, you have a circular system where nothing is done.
Chimps have memes without language! Communication is a lot broader than just language.
We have one of their PS5 games that my son plays some. If you start a new game you are forced to watch, without any way of bypassing, a 5-10 minute long incredibly boring video. One of the worst game experiences ever.
AppFlowy is pretty notable.

https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy
Don’t delete it, I don’t mind, and I don’t want to discourage anyone’s free speech, that includes mine, too (so please deal with my thoughts).

All I’m saying is that only because French and German government paid for this piece of open source software, maybe next time look in the mirror and ask yourself first:

Is this really about Macron vs Trump?

Instead of looking at this as me restricting your free speech, this is an intervention and I encourage you to not see Trump and Macron in everything.
FWIW I am not American or even from the west. At a nation-state level, the west (US) shared knowledge with the intention of offshoring production for cheaper goods, not out of the kindness of their hearts. They still protect key technologies like the jet engine and bleeding edge fab tech. It is the same when it comes to Chinese companies that are at the top of their game - DJI or Bambu labs don't open source their designs last I checked, and their track record when it comes to software is also not great. Simply put, companies only open source when it makes business sense.

I am simply assuming that China follows the same principle - try to wring maximum advantage out of their industrial might and commoditize their complement wherever possible. Because of China's unique single party system, their strategies are very top-down coming straight from the CCP in key areas like AI and robotics. It is not racism, simply realpolitik.
You can use Markdown in Google Docs, but it automatically gets converted to rich text. (When you copy/paste rich text out of Google Docs, there's also a "Copy as Markdown" option, but it'll default to a particular Markdown syntax that may not be the one you refer.)
Someone not participating in briar or the DoS can use fing (android app) or a signal strength meter (handheld, I have 2, personally) to direction find and triangulate the person sending the traffic. Hence $5 lead pipe.

and by "someone" i mean "any android cellphone"
Wasn't Pringles right hand man pagan?
I'm also finding that this has happened already in the past and GitHub didn't cleanup the spam entirely, like: https://github.com/Xyntax/1000php/issues/1#issuecomment-2318...
Law of Requisite Variety
Which license forbids static linking?
The $880 billion is the amount that the House Republican budget plan adopted on February 25 directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find ways to cut. That committee has jurisdiction over Medicare, Medicaid, and a few smaller programs.

Republicans have ruled out Medicare cuts. With Medicare off the table Medicare accounts for 93% of the funding that the House Energy and Commerce Committee can cut to reach their $880 billion target. That other 7% is way way below $880 billion meaning that to actually cut $880 billion from programs that committee has jurisdiction over must involve cuts to Medicaid.

As far as SS goes, the current Republican party platform does say it is safe: "FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE" (yelling from the original). (BTW, note that they mention Medicare but not Medicaid).

However there is a good reason to not feel reassured by that. The Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House whose membership is around 60+% of House Republicans had repeatedly said that there are three ways to address ~2034 expected insolvency of the SS Trust Fund which are (1) increase revenue to the fund, (2) cover shortfalls from the general budget, and (3) reduce benefits. They also repeatedly say that #1 and #2 are off the table.

If #1 and #2 are off the table, and Congress does not reduce benefits, then there will be a benefit cut when the trust fund runs out. I suppose technically they could argue that letting that happen through inaction rather than passing legislation to cut benefits would mean that they didn't violate their promise not to cut benefits.
Right, I'm not saying it's for no reason, but the asymmetry makes it harder to keep track of which undoes exponentiation in which way.

And logs are frankly more confusing than the other operations because more than anything else they feel like an algebraic expression in the form of an operation. Other operations intuitively feel like a process, whereas logs feel like more like a question.

Maybe that's just because I never learned them super well though, maybe they're not actually that inherently different ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Perhaps not exactly but you can run:

git log -L 120,150:filename.txt

To see all commits that have touched lines 120-150 in filename.txt, and see those lines. Gives a view into a subset of lines but won't help if the code in question moved out of the line range.
And the US ‘small’ LLMs will actually be slightly larger than the ‘large’ LLMs in the UK.
How many of those "closed societies" were implemented as such because of direct actions by the US and other larger powers?

Cuba, Guatamala, Vietnam, and North Korea all seem to have been led by people who were very sympathetic to "open-ness" until the CIA got involved.
I just cannot understand the appeal of these browser based note taking apps. Notion, Obsidian, Outline? Is it the collaboration feature? Why not just use Google Docs or equivalent?

For notes, I don't see the appeal of having a browser interface. I just put my notes in a text file. No protocol, just search for text strings or text tags. If I need hierarchical organization, I use directories. What am I missing out on?
This was apparently during a moment of silence for the dead. This sort of thing has been rumored to be related to Havana Syndrome and will apparently cause permanent damage. Not that the folks deploying it are concerned about that.
I scraped and analyzed 5000+ job postings on Upwork to get SaaS opportunities
Hey everyone! I've been growing this application where I analyzed 5000 job postings on Upwork (from over 500 categories) so that you can uncover potential SaaS opportunities.

I came across this (now deleted) post on Reddit about someone who worked at a hotel and noticed some flaw in the hotel’s software. They ended up building a plugin to fix it....and made a really nice side income from it. Now, that got me thinking a lot: How many other unmet software needs are hiding in plain sight, waiting for a solution to make you money?

I wanted to help skip the guesswork, and I knew that job postings on Upwork would show the specific challenges people/companies are facing. I wanted to find opportunities that people were willing to pay for, meaning that they hadn't found an existing solution to a task they wanted done.

If a software solution was in high demand, these people would likely be seeking experts or ready-made tools to streamline their task. So what I did was I basically analyzed thousands of job postings on Upwork to find recurring software challenges that could be transformed into viable SaaS solutions.

I scraped all of the postings from over 500 categories and I used AI to analyze through each to identify common jobs people are posting, and highlight potential improvements or new features that could be developed as standalone products or integrated plugins.

I then separated the data by categories and by industry, highlighting task specific problems users were having as well as category specific problems.

If you’re building (or improving) a SaaS, this application might save you a ton of guesswork on finding a SaaS idea to build!

DEMO: https://youtu.be/mdMuXE3Heuk
Running old Python projects with outdated dependencies
Almost everyone says ‘PIN number’ as well.
I would take this as two things at once, from personal opinion:

- There is probably a PRC backdoor somewhere in this

- This is probably very high quality software

I've dealt with Huawei security a little bit and in general Huawei as a company is really serious about security and handles low-level/deep security software pretty well.

Also based on what the top commenter posted about the license... I don't know how usable this actually is for anyone, lol.
This really ought to be allowed a discussion here on HN. Given the influence that SV and tech culture has within the administration and that industry's reliance on a large number of foreign workers and those in the US who started as such and became permanent residents and naturalized citizens, it is not without relevance here. Ditto the common thread in conversations here regarding a productive "move fast and break things" approach, when it becomes non-productive, and its current rapid application to US governmental changes directly from this industry.

yes, it will get heated and there will in all likelihood be trolls and flames but also valid discussion, even if headway isn't made on anyone with an entrenched position, since we will all at least see a bit more detail and justification for those positions. If it can't be discussed, at least briefly for significant events of this sort if not for continuing coverage, that would be a pretty awful statement about this community and the influence to it. I'm more optimistic about that, but if that optimism doesn't show at least some small fruit amidst some toxicity well, that too is important to know about the current state of an industry that's supposed to be on the forefront of change and advancement.
The best use I've gotten out of LLMs is as an autocomplete. I use Cursor at work, and it's pretty good at consistently calculating the next 10-20 characters I want to type out. Anything longer, save for some situations where the changes I'm making are super repetitive, the quality dives off a cliff.

I've yet to coax out good/working code of significant complexity from these models without putting an amount of effort into prompting that would be greater than just working it through myself without any LLM assistance.

The use I do get out of Cursor can save a lot of time for me, so I do think it's a productivity boost as is.
I have actually been listening to the Beatles back catalog, and its incredible. The musical invention and diversity is unlike any individual group I've ever heard. I love Motown, but honestly, if you've heard one 4 Tops song, you've heard them all, they even parody themselve with "The Same old song". But then you listen to the Beatles at the start of their hits with I want to hold your hand and then compare it to the end with the Symphonic Medley on Abbey Road, and you cant believe they're the same group, and all in a period of 6 years.The only other artist I can compare them to for so much evolution in such a short period of time is David Bowie.
The original Flat Earth "movement" was an exercise to show that it is impossible to prove anything without some leaps of faith about the nature of the Universe or interpolating between gaps in definite knowledge..

There is always an assumption that can be denied. Turtles all the way down.

Later it grew into to a haven for a certain kind of mentally ill person and grifters that profit from them, illustrating the philosophical Problem of Subjectivity: malice cannot be reliably distinguished from stupidity.
I have a couple of these too, and I strongly believe Intel is effectively subsidizing these to try to get a foothold in the market.

You get me equivalent of a $500 Nvidia card for around $300 or less. And it makes sense because Intel knows if they can get a foothold in this market they're that much more valuable to shareholders.

Great for gaming, no real downsides imo.