skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT:

PMF stands for Product-Market Fit. It refers to the stage when a startup has developed a product that meets a strong market demand, meaning customers are willing to pay for it, and adoption is growing organically.

Achieving PMF is a critical milestone, as it signals that a company has found a scalable business model. It often results in rapid user growth, increased customer retention, and reduced reliance on aggressive marketing. Startups that fail to achieve PMF usually struggle to sustain themselves, regardless of funding.

Marc Andreessen, who popularized the term, described PMF as the moment when “the market pulls the product out of the startup.”
This (in the specific) is the result of decades of tech workers saying "Unions? That's for blue collar workers. Also, they're corrupt. Also, I'm the Bestest Negotiator Evar, so I can definitely get myself better compensation just by using my leet negotiation skillz than I could ever get as part of a weak-ass collective bargaining agreement! That stuff's for girls, not alpha—no, wait, sigma—males like me!"

In general, it's the result of the closely-related broader trends of the gutting of unions nationwide, and a devastatingly permissive attitude toward consolidations, which leave all our industries with increasingly few, but increasingly large, companies, who are thus able to exercise disproportionate control over the expectations around work, and the conditions of workers.

This is then exacerbated by a resurgence of the American individualist attitude, which says that the most important thing is to work hard so you can get yourself a prestigious title and a fat paycheck—and ignore all the other stuff that's going on; only focus on your career ladder.
Why are a growing number of airlines banning power banks on flights?
"Selling" is usually associated with overstating of the qualities of the thing you want to exchange, in order to increase its perceived value. This is considered, for some reason, a good thing, an achievement or desirable skill or a social norm. When everyone strives to master this desirable quality, each exchange of a thing artificially bloats its value, while the things probably remained unchanged since the first exchange. That doesn't make sense.

You don't need to "sell" anything. Having to sell yourself, whatever that means, is pathetic. If you have something of value that you want to exchange with some other thing of value from someone, just communicate the facts/specs about the thing you want to exchange.
I did. Seven days ago. No response from you.
>but there really is a skepticism about some Europe nations, can they - and the bloc - sustain its 21st century advances and social safety nets while adequately paying for its own defense?

Yes.
The EU's defence is a political unity issue. Not a spending one.
It needs a unified foreign policy where that makes sense and the like. Not countries receiving preferential gas pricing and pusyfooting when it comes to giving arms to Ukraine or the like.
It's greatest single threat is russia. One may think they spend a far greater share on it's military and so Europe should too. But it's economy is smaller than Italy's and it has no capacity to fight the block.
if you get it you get it, if you don’t you don’t, it goes for many things and does for records as well
I've been having some very impressive results from Gemini 2.5 Pro for complex coding tasks in the few hours I've been experimenting with it so far.

I added a section about that to my review last night describing two of the larger examples: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/gemini/#update-it-s-ve...

(It's always risky saying anything like this on a forum like Hacker News because it's inevitable someone will find a way to argue that the examples are trivial/unrealistic/show I don't know what I'm doing/clearly just regurgitated from StackOverflow/etc, but I'll take the risk anyway.)
At least they link to the eff at the end of the article. I wouldn't take technical advice from a general audience newspaper.
It already refuses to answer to some questions. I wanted to know the mechanism of action of a medication and GPT did not want to answer me, I had to work around it by telling it that I am doing research or it is for university. Like come on, I can't even ask the mechanism of action of medications? This is just one example, there are lots of censorship going on around the models. Which ones are less censored? Are free & open source ones even censored at all or would they answer? I imagine they would. GPT and Claude may not answer so the company can save their asses, so local ones should probably work.
NCSC taps influencers to make 2FA go viral
For a long time my home server was a dell wyse 3040 that I got for £25 on flea-bay. 1.4ghz quad core x86-64, 2g ddr3 ram, 8gb emmc, <= 5w max load, fanless, runs standard, normal debian like a treat. :) Eventually I got tired of being constantly vigilant about disk space and replaced it with a more traditional desktop, but I still love that little (compute) engine that could (it's still alive as a glorified ereader desktop for the kids -- just enough muscle to run firefox and epub/pdf readers without being capable of distractions).
Hunter Biden: Hold my beer.
That would solve the problem of accidentally adding journalists to chats, but phones belonging to high level officials are surely targets for the intelligence services of hostile nations. A phone that's used casually, taken to foreign countries, and not actively managed by security professionals is at high risk of being compromised given that threat model.
Let's Make a Space Shooter with Nintendo Family Basic – Leaded Solder
I'd feel more optimistic if you had a specific mistake that Europe was going to stop making. Maybe adjustments to tax laws. Motivation doesn't cut it against people like the Americans or the Chinese, there needs to be actual actions taken beyond makerspaces.

This whole Europe bashing is becoming a tiring trope. Europe has a lot of successful companies, including in computing (ASML, ASM, ARM, NXP, STM, etc.). What we don't have are hyper-growth companies that mostly profit from vacuuming up your data and selling you ads. Good riddance.

Yes, Europe would be nothing without the US. But the same is true the other way around as well, a few decades of globalism has distributed the production chains across countries.

At any rate, back to the GP's comment. I do see a lot of optimism and the EU is going to invest a lot in defense, chips, and AI. There will be plenty of money floating around.

Germany seems to have purposefully triggered a domestic energy crisis

Well, not purposefully. But certainly ill-considered. At any rate, the EU is on the renewable energy track, we'll get there, and it will give us energy independence. Which is better than going a few decades back in time and 'drill drill drill baby'.
> Puerto Rico has a life expectancy of over 82 years

Where are you getting that figure from? I’m seeing 79 years, which is still higher than I would have guessed, but not higher than Portugal at 81.
can't wait! thanks
Would be interesting to see the input prompts.
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A mate of mine built a works scheduler using RL + MCTS. It was interesting seeing the scheduler get smarter as they added in reward for real life constraints. For example, certain types of work couldn't happen on a tuesday - they add that in to the reward calculation, retrain, it now avoids Tuesdays. Build up that reward calculation based on available data, and it got to be super capable at making a workable schedule. Also orders of magnitude faster than linear solvers (albeit without guarantee of "optimality").
uv v0.6.10 has just been released with a more convenient way of doing this:

uv python find --script foo.py

— https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.6.10

— https://docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/cli/#uv-python-find--scr...
Which features from Atuin are missing from/inferior in McFly?
I don't know about that. I would bet my computer uses far less energy than the average vehicle in someone's commute.
I honestly don’t think my comment warranted your attention, let alone your feedback. Nonetheless, point taken.
I have never used an LLM for fictional writing, but I have been writing large amounts of code with them for years. What I'd recommend is when you're defining your plan up front as to the sections of the content, simply state in which phase / chapter of the content they should meet.

Planning generated content is often more important to invest in than the writing of it.

Looking at your paste, your prompt is short and basic, it should probably be broken up into clear, formatted sections (try directives inside XML style tags). For such a large output as you're expecting id expect a considerable prompt of rules and context setting (maybe a page or two).
I said you need only watch the first 5 minutes to see what I was getting at.

You would also think emphasizing grammar's usefulness would make it plain that I do not think it is a waste of time.
> if I do a project, the price of doing that project is that I have to write about it.

Definitely something I need to do. I've been meaning to do a "what I did in 2024" blog post but since I didn't keep track, trying to figure it out has postponed the post for 3 months already...
Look at the actual facts of the Adams case. Regardless of policy, politics, party, whatever - it's blatant corruption that approaches sending an email saying "hell yeah we would like to do that illegal thing! let's go!"

It deserved to be charged, and it deserves to be prosecuted fully. I do not accept corruption from government officials regardless of the letter after their name on the ballot.

We have an adversarial legal system. Law firms take up a variety of positions for a variety of reasons. Even the most despicable criminal deserves a vigorous defense at trial. If they did something illegal, charge and prosecute them. Executive orders are entirely the wrong vehicle. It's wielding presidential authority like a mob boss.

Keep drinking that kool-aid.

https://i.redd.it/koriqrcwv2qe1.jpeg
Which regulations do you believe are contributing to the system being broken?
When was the last time you looked at robots.txt to find a page that wasn't linked anywhere else?
> “I don’t know who Putin is,” “I have no relationship with Putin” and “I don’t know Putin.”

Good examples and I believe that’s a Bill-Clinton-under-oath use of carnal “is”. Nobody has the patience to wonder whether it’s true or false that Trump knows of the existence of Putin. Bill Clinton didn’t get away with it, so I’m willing to say this is specific to Trump.
So far everything I tried indicates that it is superb at coding. Maybe the best yet (though I understand that some of the published benchmarks dispute that).

Here it one-shotted a fully functional LISP interpreter for me: https://everything.intellectronica.net/p/the-little-lisper
Deja vu, or didn't we already know this?

I remember allegations of cyber crime connections the first time I heard about "Big Balls".
These fucking mediocre, feckless and otherwise ineffectual assclowns...
DOGE is the best thing to ever happen to foreign intelligence agencies.

Also lawyers.
Some people have issues with the idea that the entire web will eventually depend of a single point of failure and private for provide entity like cloudflare.
> There are portable SCIFs, basically specially designed trailers […]

There are 'tents' as well; Obama in one:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-12810675

* http://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/us/poli...
I think he cut the sensors because he's so used to Muntzing — save money by cutting stuff until something fails and then putting it back — being a winning strategy.

That Musk is surrounded by sycophants means that Muntzing is now not going to work in general, because so many people will tell him that everything's fine even when it isn't. Only SpaceX can get past that, because RUDs are impossible to miss.
Intel Low Power Mode Daemon 0.0.9 Released for Linux Users
It's private/public partnership with an established "makerspace" called Motion.Lab. Historically their cheapest memberships have been 250 EUR per month. Unless something changes this initiative is an incubator/business park.

It's interesting that the state is contributing, but it looks like the intention there is to encourage industrial startups to the city. That's probably a great thing to do but I think calling it a makerspace is stretching the definition a bit.
I've had a (relatively) bad time with Scala codebases. The last one I was involved in was like a 6-minute wait between making a code-change and being able to run or test it. But I still wanna work with Scala devs.

I'd rather work with Scala devs on a Java codebase than Java devs on a Scala codebase.

It's not about intellectual appetite though. It's about not re-litigating the same crap at every new work place. Avoid mutability and nulls where possible, etc.
I have blocked these ip from the country:
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For the cookie popups this is a great add-on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

It will click no no no no no to all cookie prompts for you, and hide the popup. It's sad that we need to do this, the companies could just not track you at all. But I haven't had a need to manually click these popups for quite a some time now.
AG1 is a spectacularly good example of a marketing led product that doesn’t solve any real problems.
How much of this is because of the US strong-arming companies in their sphere of influence? Nobody here actually forgot the MegaUpload fiasco, it's just that people pretend to forget abusive relationships.
> The speed of light is 1c and is a fundamental constant.

Yes, but why is the value that it is and not higher or lower? From my (basic) research it seems, it could be plus or minus 20% a different value, and the current Universe would still be feasible.
"third world" is often US shorthand for "the foreign places I don't know much about but the guys who live inside my TV tell me are bad"

If someone's using it to describe poor conditions (especially in their own country) you can just smile and move on safe in the knowledge that their contribution to the conversation isn't really worth spending much time thinking about
There's only a risk if these statements are meant to generalise the overall performance of a system, instead of what they are: arbitrary samples.
The UK can get pretty rude, for example. ~40p/kWh is not unheard of for residential. (Natural gas price shocks, unfettered greed post-privatization, badgers in the transformers, idkwtf, etc.)
Putting to one side special cases would this disqualify you from security clearance? Or even.. federal employment?
> major versions are intended to be mutable and be updated to point to new minor versions as they are released [...] because you "can expect an action's patch version to include necessary critical fixes and security patches [...]

It's two sides of the same coin: on one hand, an update can include fixes for bugs and vulnerabilities; on the other hand, an update can also include new bugs and vulnerabilities (or even malicious code). Updating too quickly can be risky. Updating too slowly can also be risky.
This makes tons of sense, the AI trainers spend endless resources aligning their llms, the least we could do ia spend a few minutes aligning their owners. Fixing things at the incentive level.
It's high time that the EU retaliates and institutes similar demands for US travellers. India and China could do the same.

Causing inconvenience to ordinary Americans is the only way that will get through the thick brains of US Congress, I am afraid. And this should have been done in retaliation ever since these measures were introduced.
This just doesn't seem like much of a story to me when we have Kevin Mitnick being convicted for hacking crimes at 25 and being a consultant for the FBI after doing his time. It might be shocking to the general public but the shady hacker turned white hat thing is as old as the cyber security industry itself
I’ve seen others within the CIA say that the statements about signal being pre installed are false.
"""
Create a complete reproduction of the ReBirth virtual synth. Create it as a single HTML page with javascript. Use canvas and/or react for the UI and tone.js or something similar for the audio. It should be fully working and playable. Output it as a single HTML page. See screenshot for the UI and description below for how the virtual synth system works.
"""

(this is followed by long spec of the RB-338 which I also generated and is too long to include here, and a screenshot).
What makes you think there is a domestic energy crisis?
Spot prices are comparable with neighboring countries: https://www.energyprices.eu/
>Models don't know anything about themselves.

They can. Fine tune them on documents describing their identity, capabilities and background. Deepseek v3 used to present itself as ChatGPT. Not anymore.

>Like other AI models, I’m trained on diverse, legally compliant data sources, but not on proprietary outputs from models like ChatGPT-4. DeepSeek adheres to strict ethical and legal standards in AI development.
The next administration is going to have to replace all these systems. You have inexperienced, sketchy, and hostile actors who've gained physical access to them. They can't be trusted anymore.
USA is in that final season that producers wanted but nobody asked for.
Fair, the question is what possible solutions exists.
"but the tides are turning and the EU is motivated"

well EU didnt even have their own tech giant, most top 10 largest tech company is from US. also china catching up fast

this is down to a culture tbh, most german firm that I been work so far is very meticulous about their work and its great but sometimes tech is changing fast and you must make compromise
Number of times I've heard this advice, agreed with it intellectually and yet haven't applied it concretely: 7956 and counting.

Every new thing I build, everything I learn, seems to me to open a multitude of new possibilities, of new exploratory venues that I am eager to follow, instead of stopping to sell what I've just done.

Why is this so hard?
I just want to point out that this is very much what I expect from Europeans. Motivated, optimistic but explicitly rejecting large profitable companies and cheap energy. The immediate plan is to invest in the military which, notably, generally has negative returns on investment.

> Europe has a lot of successful companies, including in computing (ASML...

visualcapitalist has a wonderful chart I thought of when I saw that: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/semiconductor-production-by...
No, as a society we apparently don’t really care about these inmates. The social justice movement has chosen plenty of questionable causes, but neglected ones like this one.
Die Frau and dem Fernglass don’t bind tightly though.

In my view, this phrase is only unambiguous to those who feel the preposition tradition, and all the heavy lifting is done here by “mit” (and “durch” in the opposite case, if one wants to make it clear). Articles are irrelevant and are dictated by the verb and the preposition, whose requirements are sort of arbitrary (sehen Akk., mit Dat.) and fixed. There’s no article-controlled variation that could change meaning, to my knowkedge it would be simply incorrect.

I’m also quite rusty on Deutsch, aber habe es nicht völlig vergessen, it seems.
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Without context of what you mean, it's hard to tell how "different" your take is. I mean, are we taking "pineapple on a pizza", "sex with kids is OK actually", or something else in between? For many "very different from ordinary thinking" ideas, failing to engage/continue is not a bad result at all.
Ukraine is and was literally the poorest european country. Even before this war.
About 20 kilobytes of socket + TLS state, if you've really optimised it down to the minimum. Most server software isn't that lean, of course, so pick a framework designed for running a million or so concurrent connections on a single server (i.e. something like Nginx)
Bugjakt
It’s a very large leap to assume anyone at DOGE is doing anything “white hat”. I mean I can think of one “white hat” thing they might be involved with but it’s not related to hacking.
"after doing his time"

So then have BigBalls at least do his time before handing him the keys to the kingdom.
What makes his library “standard”?
Somehow, someway, I suspect basically every that operates in the EU has thought more about the requirements of EU regulations than the internet know it all's that insist the consent forms are unnecessary.
>well EU didnt even have their own tech giant

One word:

WireCard.
> You know just saying it doesn’t make it true, right?

You sure as shit seem to hope so yourself there…
Disagree that we have all pieces for AGI.

Memory for one, not only do models need to be able to have long term, short term memory but they also need to be able to selectively forget. Hallucinations are still a big problem, you can easily (unintentionally) put the models in situations where they make up facts. Context limits - comprehension limits are still effectively 8-10k even though the token limits have been raised to infinity.
You can also buy a rebranded Azure Kinect called the Orbbec Femto Bolt. Like the original Azure Kinect, the quality is amazing and blows the Realsenses out of the water.
Human language is a poor medium for concise and clear communication.
This seems so foreign for someone living in Norway. The "what kind of weirdo are you" - vibe would be so real if someone did this.
I think the biggest challenge in Berlin/Germany is that very little of the capital that has been poured into the startup sector has made it's way back to the the engineers.

Part of this is due to severe restrictions on employee share schemes (changed recently), low employee turnover (3-6 month notice periods), enforceable non-competes, and heavy tax burdens on income. As a result you see a surprisingly low amount of engineer led/founded companies.

Germany has genuinely innovative companies though, but they don't look anything like SV, eg. Trumpf, Zeiss, etc.
I've never minded that an image might take 10-30 seconds to generate. The fact that people do is crazy to me. A professional artist would take days, and cost $100s for the same asset.

I ran stable diffusion for a couple of years (maybe?, time really hasn't made sense since 2020) on my Dual 3090 rendering server. I built the server originally for crypto heating my office in my 1820s colonial in upstate NY then when I was planning to go back to college (got accepted into a university in England), I switched it's focus to Blender/UE4 (then 5), then eventually to AI image gen. So I've never minded 20 seconds for an image. If I needed dozens of options to pick the best, I was going to click start and grab a cup of coffee, come back and maybe it was done. Even if it took 2 hours, it is still faster than when I used to have to commission art for a project.

I grew out of Stable Diffusion, though, because the learning curve beyond grabbing a decent checkpoint and clicking start was actually really high (especially compared to LLMs that seamed to "just work"), after going through failed training after failed fine-tuning using tutorials that were a couple days out of date, I eventually said, fuck it, I'm paying for this instead.

All that to say - if you are using GenAI commercially, even if an image or a block of code took 30 minutes, it's still WAY cheaper than a human. That said, eventually a professional will be involved, and all the AI slop you generated will be redone, which will still cost a lot, but you get to skip the back and forth figuring out style/etc.