skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: As a Founder, is this business model compelling?
I recently launched an independent sales agency specializing in early-stage startups. My model is adapted from my experience as an independent manufacturer's rep. for electric utility products used to transmit power from generation to end-users.

In an overly simplistic summary, I am offering to work with companies under a performance-based contract that requires payment only when something is sold. It is backed by an agreement that is cancelable, with a 30-day written notice, if I don’t produce the agreed upon performance metrics. The macro trends that make me think this is an interesting approach in today’s environment are as follows:

1. Higher interest rates and less availability to capital is making seed funding harder to secure
2. Investors are aligning with more efficient and cost-conscious startups
3. Runway and cashflow are more important than ever because funding rounds are taking longer

So, do you think this is an interesting approach or am I missing something? As an aside, I have been a long time reader of HN and I am so grateful for the interesting, intelligent, and thought provoking comments. Thank you in advance for any you may offer to my post!
Transformers already are very flexible. We know that we can basically strip blocks at will, reorder modules, transform their input in predictable ways, obstruct some features and they will after a very short period of re-training get back to basically the same capabilities they had before. Fascinating stuff.
Have US companies ever cares about laws if there was money to be made? Move fast and break things!
Double submission because I'm fighting with this laptop; I thought I deleted the old one, but I'm not sure.
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Not functional.
Did you see the supplemental material that explains how they arrived at their timelines/capabilities forecasts? https://ai-2027.com/research
Nope. I leave javascript turned off like with every other website. No CPU use issues.
Your costs only went up 100x if you built your site poorly
> I'm not arguing in favor of el salvadoran prisons, but he's not in an el salvadoran prison.

He might wind up there; a judge has halted the deportation process for now. The administration is demonstrably sending folks (some with no criminal record: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...) there, including via "clerical error" they can't undo (https://apnews.com/video/white-house-says-maryland-resident-...). Oopsie daisy!

> He's being charged with being in violation of his Visa.

He has not been charged at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Mahmoud_Khalil

"Khalil has not been charged with a crime and is not alleged to have engaged in any activity legally prohibited to U.S. residents... Removal procedures were initiated under section 237(a)(4)(C)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which permits deportation of lawful residents if the Secretary of State believes their presence risks "potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences"."

> I don't need to know about your affiliations with hackernews, because hackernews is not closely affiliated with designated terror organizations.

The form doesn't say that. It says anything, ever.

> Now that the UNRWA is properly designated as a terrorist organization itself, do you think it would be appropriate to lie about your affiliations with them on a visa application?

When did the US designate UNRWA as a terrorist organization?

I don't think they ever have, but they certainly hadn't back in 2023 when he applied.

(The US was UNRWA's single largest donor that year, in fact. https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/top_20_donors_over...)

> Mahmoud Khalil is in an American jail awaiting trial.

Having not been charged with any crimes, he is in immigration detention awaiting a court hearing.
Cowardice is in the eye of the beholder and the article is self-serving.

The article makes the point that it's cowardly to cave to administration pressure to limit the activities of anti-Israel/Pro-Palestine protesters.

Someone on the other side of the issue could make the argument "it is cowardly to kowtow to a small but vocal minority who justifies interfering with other students' ability to learn, as 'free speech'".

It is dishonest to describe non-speech activity such as intimidation and forceful prevention of access, as "speech", even if you like the motivation or outcome. "Speech" is talking with words. Physically using your body to prevent someone else from acting in a desired way, is something other than "speech".
That sounds like something one of Plato's cave dwellers would say.
1) You have to walk in Europe.
2) People eat better.
Because China will flood the markets with its products that it can no longer economically sell in the US.
Oh, wow! Huge respect for this comment. Thank you! This is really cool to hear about.
Ah yes, it is the left's fault the right is spiraling the country into despotism. Feeling a lot of "Why do you make them hit you?" energy in this thread.
More sensitive is a relative term rather than an absolute term -- the green cone selects for its color better than the red cones do.
Kind of a weird take that excludes the vast majority of human artwork that most people would consider novel. For all the complaints one might have of cubism, few would claim it's not novel. And yet it's not based on any new development in the external world but rather on mashing together different perspectives. Someone could have created the style 100 years earlier if they were so inclined, and had Picasso never existed, someone could create the novel style today just by "remixing" ideas from past art in that very particular way.
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They've effectively lost their pension, have they not?

The money's gone, and the people that the retirees entrusted with the money, lost it.
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The mindset is simple to understand.

It is the self-deluded individual who enjoys abusing and torturing others, and has willfully blinded themselves to anything else.

More beast walking on two legs than human, and meets a relatively objective definition for evil people.

Willfully blinded through acts of false justification, repeated acts of destruction and active torture on others.

These are things if they did it physically they would go to prison or be put to death under capital punishment. Psychological harm isn't being treated with the same rigor as physical harm though.
Surely Zig differentiates between, say, a function in a module, and a member on an object? Or are "modules" literally just instances of classes or something?
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Maybe I missed it, but are there any instructions on how to create them...e.g. how/where to draw the circles? It would be a fun activity with the kids.
Not sure I really understand the "development" part of it even after reading the article.
This is equivalent to saying a C Major chord only exists in our brains since it isn't a note.
Well, Switzerland cowardly decided not to react or retaliate, even though those tariffs make no sense.
I don't know why we expect a reasonable response here, if you ask me this is a huge red flag and warning that the US is not a trustworthy trade partner.
Color is a mixture of wavelengths of visible light. Mixtures of wavelengths of visible light exist in the wild.
Unfortunately, it's not legal for them to take a political stance to the detriment of their shareholders.
it's not open source - this is clearly "source available." these are terms of art.

just because you can read the English literally and say "the source is open" doesn't mean you've proven anything.
To couple with food supply differences add in calorie intake differences.

With pollution add in car culture which decreases the amount walked
I wonder if near-UV like 380nm starts exciting the red receptor at 760nm like a resonant frequency or harmonic. Would also explain why something that's deeply red enough doesn't start looking purple, because the lower-energy photons can't get the higher energy receptors to trigger, unlike the other way around for deep blue. Which would make the color purple a distinctly quantum phenomenon.
obesity is a symptom, not a cause.

to me, the rabid response to anything remotely resembling socialism, and the inability to see life as anything but a zero-sum game is the obvious culprit. this precludes caring for eachother, and creates a life that's essentially a never-ending rat race for everyone, rich and poor alike.

you cant inject your way out of a society that is, at its core, defined by class/racial segregation, systemic inequality and distrust of governments.
I'm curious, is it the AI that should be blamed or the prompter who asks to generate something based on copyright?

For all of the examples, I knew what image to expect before seeing it. I think it's the user who is at fault for requesting a copyrighted image, not the LLM for generating it. The LLM is giving (nearly) exactly what the user expects.
For him this is, if you'll excuse the pun, par for the course.
GHG emissions from boat transport are actually a very low % of the total GHG emissions from producing that food. Moving it across the country on a truck would certainly produce more emissions than shipping it by boat from abroad.

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
It's only "intellectual theft" because we consider peoples thoughts their own property. On many levels, that doesn't really make sense to me.

Tons of historical documents have shown that inventions, mathematical proofs, and celestial observations were made by humans separated by continents and time. What that shows is that it is certainly possible for two persons to have the same exact or similar thought without ever having been influenced by the other.
As ever, there's no need to guess what's happening when one has a Profiler on hand.
For the downvotes:

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf

“Copyright does not protect
• Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, or discoveries”

Not sure why this is even controversial, this has been the case for a hundred years.
Well that explains it doesn't it? One can cheaply employ your youth at bottom barrel wages and buy up or rent the real estate without competition with native professionals. And I'm not damning anyone who does that, it helps the locals more than them not coming at all. The Spanish government has more or less set up the incentives to play out this way -- that Spain is a place to come on holiday or to retire but not a place for native educated professionals to partake in business.
> USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

This kind of work is extremely important for making the US be seen as the "police of the world" rather than a bully, who will turn a blind eye to genocide when convenient, but will shell civilians if people who come from the same city threaten commercial routes.

For instance, the US strongly condemns the Venezuelan government. At the same time, it doesn't condemn the Saudi government, even though it is obvious for anyone to see the massive human rights infringements that happen there. The US government also doesn't condemn the Bukele government and, currently, they even give Bukele money by paying him to torture prisoners deported from the US.

Do you see a pattern here? Of course the US needs all the favorable media coverage it can get.
I had been super bullish on US stocks and I went super long on margins. Now, I am looking at losing everything and starting over from scratch in my 60s. I can’t even hold water down right now. I feel like I need to go to the ER. Pray for me.
If they made the opposite choice then people would argue that they're not prioritizing bandwidth for those with poor internet connections like those living in rural areas or third-world countries. My gut says it's much more likely that clients have access to a discrete GPU than they do to broadband Internet. I also do not believe it would be possible to deliver the experience they're shipping with pre-rendered assets shipped over the wire, or, at the very least, I can't readily conceptualize how that would be implemented.

I feel it's totally within scope for an animation-focused library to expect clients to have GPU hardware acceleration. The fact you're running in an isolated environment, and haven't configured it to be able to use your host machine's GPU (which is possible!), feels niche enough to me to write off.
Purple is a measurement, but wavelength is a measurement too. Ultimately everything is a measurement to us as that is the only way we can experience "the wild".
No such thing as a free lunch! Universities exist for the benefit of society, not the other way around.
> I need 8,276 consents from other public bodies, planning, transport, the Environment Agency or Natural England

> That’s one different consent form for every 25 meters of track. Mind boggling.

I can easily imagine Sir Humphrey lecturing Bernard on why 8276 is not enough consents and why they need more of them.

Our country inherited/modeled our civil services and bureaucracy based on the British system. We know the effort it takes to get things done.
That's never going to happen... when has that ever happened?
Torturing people was considered very cool and very legal until quite recently. Some of the leaders involved in Iraq and Afghanistan era torture are still in positions of power. And I would not be shocked in the slightest if it came back under Trump II.
How do you imagine importing modules by version in the code? Something like "import requests version 2.0.3"? This sounds awful when you accidentally import the same module in two different versions and chaos ensures.
While I agree in principle, CUDA is more than only AI, as people keep forgetting.
Middle class does not translate across the atlantic. Middle in the UK might be what an American calls upper. Upper class in the UK is reserved for royalty.
This is why you keep those friends, and instead of replacing your identity, you keep it and kick out the false profits. We need a Martin Luther moment in MAGA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
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Maybe we don't need another gadget anyway. Like why do we need a new gaming console every few years, a new phone every year, such and such?

With a depression looming, I'm going to cut costs left and right. A gaming console is not even on the list of consideration. I'm sure families with bigger kids probably don't agree with me though.
>any time they need sixty votes in the Senate, the Democrats have leverage.

And how many votes are needed for every executive order he signs? None, is the answer. The tarrifs required not one single vote from congress.

There won't be any votes that require 60 in the Senate that will happen for trump to continue his awful agenda.

Please tell us where exactly Democrats have any power, and be specific.
Every language could benefit from a linter.

Given how accessible and widespread it is, it's hard not to make mistakes in JS without a linter.

Can you shoot your foot off with C or Rust? Sure. But they're systems programming languages for the most part, and aren't realistically proposed as tools in the "move fast and break things" world of web development where JS rules supreme. Ruby and Python are also used in web dev, albeit on the back-end, and they're not as idiosyncratic as JS.
Bottom of the barrel wages for the uneducated natives are the result of uncontrolled mass migration - we have received millions of immigrants in the last decade, which has basically destroyed wages, and has made the poorest suffer.

On the other hand real estate is held by wealthy old natives and laws are enacted to make sure that real estate increases in price forever, the young be damned - no one cares about them since our population pyramid means they’ll always be a minority.
I think it would be more accurate to say you can (and people choose to).
>I'm sure you could find myriad examples of this in the natural world.

Can you think of any?
To be honest, I dont have a lot of time for complaints from such people. Maybe I am one, but the solution is to go live in a cabin and bake your own bread, not sit at the table looking for sympathy.
Powell seems to disagree: https://archive.ph/hbwTZ
python 3.0 code, released back in 2008, is still compatible with latest released python, with some exceptions like asyncio or obscure file formats which are unlikely to appear in scripts. The pip packages likely did break, but we are talking about python-with-stdlib here.

Granted, it's not 30 years old, but 17 years is pretty impressive. And I don't think there will be another big break, the 2.0->3.0 transition was so painful they'll likely avoid another one for decades.
No one can predict the future. Really, no one. Sometimes there is a hit, sure, but mostly it is a miss.

The other thing is in their introduction: "superhuman AI"
_artificial_ intelligence is always, by definition, different from _natural_ intelligence. That they've chosen the word "superhuman" shows me that they are mixing the things up.
I really hope that NYC is smart enough to properly oust this corrupt asshole.

I live in NYC, and I have triple-checked to make sure that I will be able to vote in the primary to try and avoid him getting the democrat nomination, and this is the first time in my life that I've genuinely considered voting Republican if he does manage to get the nomination.
My car is my biggest source of emissions in my life. (I use a heat pump except on the coldest days) Though I just got a PEHV, which has greatly reduced my profile. I also live where my electric comes from renewable sources (my local utility generates more wind in a year than all customers use), so I can just ignore the impact of electric generation.

Yes making a car uses a lot of carbon, but the car lasts a long time and generally in a ICE car the carbon emissions from using it are greater the manufacturing.
What even is "vibe coding"? From the looks of it, it's just a prettier way of saying "using ChatGPT to make my program, poorly."
It’s a complex, nuanced topic, but the cost of living in most of Spain is much lower than the US. Healthcare in the US for a family of four costs me >$20k/year. You can live comfortably in Spain for ~1.5x that in euros.
What on Earth? How is their argument out of touch or made in bad faith? It's a reasonable and popular line of reasoning that you disagree with strongly. Assuming the best possible interpretation is one of our community guidelines, please follow it.
You usually can't see the really purple-y violet in a rainbow because it's quite dark -- it's easily absorbed by the atmosphere and our color cones aren't very sensitive to that wavelength. But it's there if you amplify it.
They are very different problems. You can attach every kind of sensor to the phone and get HD images, lidar scan, 3D model, heat signature and whatever other signal you want, but you still won't be able to figure out calories in a piece of food without breaking it apart at a molecular level. There's just too much hidden information. What sensor will tell you how many tablespoons of oil the chef used to fry onions for the sauce? Heck the chef himself probably won't be able to tell you.
> personal liberties and free markets

Codeword for "Jeff Bezos's continued monopolistic domination of online retail and logistics at the expense of everyone else". In other words, he's doing to right-libertarians what rich billionaires always do to right-libertarians. Play them like a fiddle.
I cannot name a single moment in the history of my life where another person has asked me who "owns" a piece of digital art. I know people who asked about the author, but nobody cares about the owner.

Unless your ownership confers some sort of meaningful control over the piece, society will entirely ignore your rules and distribute the work however they want. It's not like you can take the case to court, anyways. You're role-playing on a extralegal asset, not a tallying stocks and bonds.
One thing I haven’t seen anyone mention in the replies. There are millions of conservative parents who sent their children to college and then “lost” those children when they turned into a “liberal.”

The ideas that it’s ok if your child becomes a liberal, or that there might be good reasons why people who undertake higher education often become less conservative, are too horrible to contemplate. So they settle for “universities are bad.”
If your prognosis is that index funds will be worth buying after this is over, doesn't that imply that they're a bargain now?
NVidia cards are everywhere, the biggest difference to AMD is that even my lousy laptop GeForce cards can be used for CUDA.

No need for a RTX for learning and getting into CUDA programming.
Efficient and Portable Mixture-of-Experts Communication
What’s the law specifically say? Mickey Mouse and Pokemon are protected. A style or technique isn’t.

As far as the U.S., have you been to China or Korea and evaluated their views on IP?
> And unlike with a lot of companies, they often continue to invest and move their acquisitions forward, such as github.

Which helps them win in the enterprise. Not just their acquisitions, but if MS puts out a tech you can be confidently sure they are going to support it for a long time. There's been a few examples contrary to that - Silverlight and their UI frameworks they can't seem to get a handle on, but everything else they've put out exists long-term, and is generally backwards compatible.

There aren't many others that offer that level of stability. We tend to value new and shiny, but non-tech companies don't they want boring and stable, which is why Microsoft won there. Hell, you can still run a lot of apps from the Windows 3.11 era on Windows 11 with minimal fuss. The same can't be said for most other platforms.

Microsoft tech isn't necessarily sexy or exciting, but it checks boxes and is supported for a LONG time, and for a closed source OS, Windows is surprisingly open and configurable (well, used to be anyway - that seems to be going away with 11+)