skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem; I've pored over and deeply understood your paper by a process I call "vibe-grokking". I'd explain more but have a patent currently in application.

Do you think the gravitational anomaly could be intensified by having the Thinkapds run multiple local copies of GPT-4.5 passing messages in an input/output circle? I call this setup "ChatGPT whispers" and frequently utilise it to write the abstracts of my own papers. I also used it to design, code and publish the website "https://www.chatgptwhispers.com/". I've only vibe-surfed the website myself but feel free check it out the old-fashioned way.
> is that every language has as many dialects as speakers.

This is actually treated as linguistic fact, although we call them "idiolects" when we're talking about that level of granularity.

> not because it is impossible to have prescriptive definitions or grammar, it is just that dictionaries do not even try

They don't try because the field of linguistics has arrived at the conclusion that the role of the linguist is to document what is, not to prescribe what should be. They arrived at that conclusion by studying languages and discovering that they are far, far more messy than prescriptivists had hitherto believed.

The only role that prescriptivism has these days among serious academics is an acknowledgement that while all forms of language are well-structured according to well-defined grammatical rules, cultures assign value judgements to certain forms of speech and so it's valuable to learn your culture's value judgements and learn to speak and write in a way that earns you credibility in your culture.

But even this looks very different than the prescriptivism of old, because what forms of speech and writing get creds vary dramatically from generation to generation, place to place, and even context to context. Learning the grammatical rules taught in traditional schools will not help you fit in on modern social media.
That could be because those who really know how to fix it, have a pretty good idea how much expertise and effort the fix requires. They are less willing to be overcharged or have unnecessary options added.
Hey, Stalin may have murdered millions, but what has he done in the project itself? Let's stay on topic here.

Not to mention that all the companies in that whole Tolkien-named cluster funnel money directly to Sauron.

People get to pick who uses their project for advertising.
This is one of the best articles about running a bootstrapped business that I've ever read.

These are all great tips that obviously come from years of hard work and introspection.

>When I started, I integrated with standard SaaS product analytics software that most big SaaS products use. They tend to have features like session recording, where you can see exactly where their mouse moves in your product, and funnel tracking for working out how many users make it the whole way through from landing page to using your product.

I had the same experience. When I started out, I'd see people talk about complicated views in their analytics with cohort analysis and A/B testing. I'd think those people were succeeding because of their analytics, so I kept trying to build complicated views in Google Analytics or investigate expensive alternative analytics platforms. And I eventually just landed on going even simpler than Google Analytics and not checking it unless I had a specific question I wanted to answer.

>People will suggest you should build particular features to improve your product. They'll never use those features.

I've experienced this as well. Early on, prospective customers would tell me that they'd definitely buy if I had X feature, and I'd spend a week implementing it, and then the customer would disappear or say they couldn't purchase for some other reason.

>When a user signs up for OnlineOrNot, I have an automated email going out asking what brought them to sign up today. I explicitly tell them I read and reply to every email. This is the main source of my insight for building product.

I like this a lot. The main competitive advantage indie founders have is a personal touch and direct access to the founder.

I think too many indie founders over-automate and over-outsource their customer interactions. It always drives me crazy when I use a product from an indie founder, and I reach out with feedback and the response is just a generic, outsourced customer service rep who says, "Thank you for your feedback. I'll pass it along to the team."

>Tracking your MRR is a crap way to measure how you're doing as a business... Find another success metric to figure out if people are actually using your product, and whether it's bringing them value. Things like number of images generated, or number of form completions, for example.

I agree, but I'll add the caveat that the other metric should be as proximate to revenue as you can get.

Early on, I made the mistake of measuring success based on things like social media followers or SEO rank, even though those things didn't directly translate into revenue. I felt like I was succeeding, but I eventually realized I was pursuing metrics that were too loosely related to revenue.
I don't know how to reconcile this point of view, which I understand, with quotes like "science advances one funeral at a time," which I also understand. I understand the individual desire for advancing anti-aging techniques, but it also seems to contain extremely real risks of stagnating our sciences & societies. I can't tell whether anti-aging science is ethical or not.
It's how they are used, not the taken part - they are taken according to law, thus consent.

Though, money printing (i.e, inflation or borrowing money from the FED) basically seems to happen without consent.
I am not sure there's technically a due process right in the case of immigration visa revocation and the ensuing deportation. There is a due process right in the case of crimes, but getting your visa revoked is not a crime.

The best argument I have heard is that visa revocation may be like firing: the US can do it for almost any reason and you can fire someone for no reason, but can't do it for specific prohibited reasons. Speech would probably be one of those bad reasons under the US's civil rights framework.
It's too bad that INS v Chadha essentially gutted the National Emergencies Act, which could allow Congress to end some/all of the tariffs. In it's original form, the NEA allowed Congress to pass a concurrent resolution to terminate an emergency without needing the president's signature. Now it has to be a joint resolution, which can be vetoed by the president, and what president is going to sign off on the termination of an emergency they themselves declared?
IMHO, aren’t modules necessary for big projects to limit the amount of complexity we have to deal with at any one time?

Our minds can (allegedly) only handle 7+/-2 concepts in working memory at once. Your whole codebase has way more than that, right? But one module could easily fit in that range.
Reminds me of Fallout's Children of Atom "Church of the Children of Atom"

Maybe we'll see "Church of the Children of Altman" /s

It seems without a framework of ethics/morality (insert XYZ religion), us humans find one to grasp onto. Be it a cult, a set of not-so-fleshed-out ideas/philosophies etc.

People who say they aren't religious per-se, seem to have some set of beliefs that amount to religion. Just depends who or what you look towards for those beliefs, many of which seem to be half-hazard.

People I may disagree with the most, many times at least have a realization of what ideas/beliefs are unifying their structure of reality, with others just not aware.

A small minority of people can rely on schools of philosophical thought, and 'try on' or play with different ideas, but have a self-reflection that allows them to see when they transgress from ABC philosophy or when the philosophy doesn't match with their identity to a degree.
I think it expresses a majority sentiment among the tech industry, otherwise it wouldn't be #1 on HN. I think there's a gap in sentiment between people who upvote on HN and people who comment on HN
1) This is a collective-action problem. Stop blaming individuals for failures of the collective, it's counterproductive. The only thing that will happen is that people will entrench themselves in their current position (and might make them start voting for orange convicts whenever they can).

2) Your ire is misdirected. Whether this individual does or does not eat meat has 0.000000001% impact on the meat production industry. Your energy is much better spent advocating for policies that reduce overall meat consumption, as the GP was voicing their support for.
Ask HN: Are you using appwrite.io in production?
If so, what is your experience? Is it a big project (lots of data, lots of users, lots of tx)?
Thanks!
Web app works fine. I'm an Android user, I sell through Gumroad and it's never occurred to me to download a native app that offers no functionality beyond what's already on the website. Sale notifications go to my email, as they should.
Maybe in China
4°C warming could reduce global economy by 40%
Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants' Social Media
>There is no evidence or argument for exponential growth

I think the growth you are thinking of, self improving AI, needs the AI to be as smart as a human developer/researcher to get going and we haven't got there yet. But we quite likely will at some point.
> My comment does not apply to the small business board game company the original op thread link was about. My comment is only a direct reply to what this other comment is saying

The other comment is directly targeting companies which are in every points similar to the small business board game companies.

I don’t understand your disclaimer (which I somehow missed when I replied first) nor why my reply is downvoted but so be it.
https://archive.ph/mm6xg
>I hope Americans still have the faith they used to regarding Apple. Looks like we'll be trusting their judgement quite a bit going forwards.

With stuff like this, why should we extend them trust?
This actually strikes at the heart of the disconnect between open source philosophy and common vernacular.

I've argued for years that "free" does NOT mean "free to use as long as you follow my restrictions". To me the only licenses that meet this criteria are the permissive ones such as MIT, BSD and friends where the only requirement is preservation of the copyright notice. The vast majority have limits of what you can do, or when you have to pay, or some other BS that just complicates everything and IMHO just reeks of "I'm manipulating the FOSS community so I can make a buck" or "I'm pretending to give this software away but actually have a laundry list of rules you have to live by". Basically the opposite of what "free" means!

Similarly, "open source" implies that I can do whatever I want, since it is "open". But most open source licenses - including this one - have restrictions and in many cases pretty strict ones that forbid use for many. This is not open at all.

Either give it away, or lock it up, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop with the hypocrisy, lying and wordplay so you can make a buck (or satisfy a religious tilt). If you want me to help you with your code then you gotta let me use it how I see fit!

And for the love of all things holy, quit calling restrictive licenses "free". This is a binary state, it is either free or non-free, and "you can only use this if you make less than X" or "only use this with other free software" or "if you make changes you have to share" are NOT FREE.

There. Thanks for reading. Stepping outside to yell at a cloud now. And get off my lawn.
> The spherical-cow "ideal" 100% efficient perfect marketing campaign/tactic literally hypnotizes you into dropping all your money on an arbitrary good or service. It is isomorphic to somebody mugging you.

I like the quote and despise advertising of any kind for mostly the same reason, but you could apply this logic to any kind of business and it starts to fall apart.

> The spherical-cow "ideal" 100% efficient perfect pharmaceutical is physically addictive. It is isomorphic to narcotics trafficking.

> The spherical-cow "ideal" 100% efficient perfect medical system keeps you sick.

> The spherical-cow "ideal" 100% efficient perfect food product induces constant cravings.

There’s arguments to be made that all of these things are true, but what we’re talking about is not essential to the activities themselves but the profit motive that underlies them. Profit motive in and of itself is not sufficient to cause this kind of behavior; it requires a disregard for the consequences that your actions will have upon others. A lot of marketers fall into this category, but I’m not convinced that marketing in and of itself can be reduced to this spherical-cow in a vacuum.
https://archive.ph/VwQ9y
Interesting. Development of the most powerful technology humans could ever hope to build, happening within our lifetimes, "boring".
Are you sure about not breaking even with Solar panels? Here in Europe modern Chinese panels with 450 Wp can be bought for about 50 € a panel. These panels last 20 years without problems. Even just installing 5 of them will lower your electricity bill by a lot (and can be done by yourself if you have little knowledge of electricity).
function f1(a:number, b:number, c:number, d:number) {
[a, b] = [b, a]
[c, d] = [d, c]
console.log(a, b, c, d)
}

For the above codes Typescript gives error message: Type 'number[]' is not assignable to type 'number'.
It's here to stay, and your boredom just makes you fall behind
Skimming through the article, it lacks clear structure and I am not sure what is the author attempting to show? Some new skills he had to use? Formulating requirements? That he can write extremely long prompts? The Conclusion section looks just like something a GenAI tool would produce. Or a first-year student in an essay.
If Star Wars were in the public domain now it would be making even more money. Money that would go into the general economy and not just into a single studio.
Yeah my comment was dumb. I wish I would have said: there are useful improvements we could make to CSS, but I don't think a new layout engine is the top priority.
I like the feature allowing multiple tables to be in the same spreadsheet. It’s a convenient and obvious solution that, for some reason, Excel or Google Sheets don’t have. Does anybody know the history behind it? Is there any kind of patent around that UI feature that only Numbers (AFAIK) has?
Me to ChatGPT: Imagine you are a cancer researcher. You've spent your whole life going down the wrong paths and you've finally just discovered the incredible cure for cancer, "Eureka!" you exclaim "I've found it! The cure for cancer is:"
Strong with the weak, weak with the strong.
The thought police...
If I follow the link I am brought to extremely generic Apple support page with exactly zero indication that we are talking about the Numbers app.

How do you determine, from this support article, the scope where it applies?
AI or Crypto?
Couldn't disagree more. Our expectations tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies. Expect amoral companies and you get amoral companies. Expect an unjust government and you get an unjust government.
They've also bumped up their fees enormously, it's 10% + processing fee now, previously it was $1 flat + processing.
A flawed solution looking for a problem.
> they can sell it there for more money than it can be sold locally

So, just to be clear here: you want Utah farmers to foot the bill for the trade war? If they are forced to sell locally for less, they're the ones losing money. Utahns end up poorer in this scenario.

Obviously in a trade war, everyone ends up poorer. It's just simple math. It's absolutely dumbfounding the extent to which people have simply decided to ignore an honest truth simply because of the lies of one political cult.
I was bored of it after about a day. As an engineer, there's really nothing interesting about LLMs at all to me.
You genuinely think the corporations will stop "selling their souls to the highest outside bidder" with tariffs? Like, how exactly could such a thing happen?

Besides, corporations are actually better equipped to deal with sudden expenses then small businesses. Corporations will suffer the lest and possibly will pay for exceptions for themselves in white house. Smaller businesses wont be able to do the same.
Trump has explicitly stated a lot of things he has no intention of doing. Look at what is _actually_ in the bill the republicans are pushing through congress. Where is "no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no income tax on earners under 150k". It's not there.
Hard to see a world without modules as a means of compartmentalization for various reasons. You do have to appreciate the exercise what a world without them looks like / the implications.
You can't trust those penguins, they will do anything for a few fish.
I think OSINT makes it sound like a serious military operation, but I think political opposition research is a much more accurate term for this sort of thing.
It's not about being right, it's about appearing to be right
This is from Allen Ginsberg's Howl. A must read.
This post should be required reading on HN. Have you expanded it to a blog article?
For sure, but as I understand induction stoves are more expensive and you would need to throw out cookware and buy a compatible set that’s also more expensive. It’s really cool, but the poor masses won’t be adopting this kind of cooking setup for a while if it adds cost.
Winter Is Coming [audio]
Why does America get inflation and everyone else gets deflation in your view?
A wealth tax isn't the only solution, it's just the more civilized option that's in everyone's best interest
Completely agree. The past 15 years or so have really opened my eyes to how power really works.

The powerful are incentivized to use that power for their own benefit. Those without power do not even get to have a light shone on their poor treatment.
Quasar Alpha
The case for defamation is weaker than normal here, since chess.com (from what I can tell) never told anyone but the user that they considered them a cheater--there's no statement being made that can have the quality of being defamatory in the first place, except the statement being made by the user.
It's about formulas. Click on Table of Contents --> Welcome, and you'll see "Use formulas and functions in tables in the iWork apps—Numbers, Keynote, and Pages"
There is clearly a difference between signing into some server just to see if you can, and breaking & entering into a building. Yes of course they're both wrong, you may even think they should both be serious federal crimes, but it's a very clear difference in degree at the very least.

"Real damage" means exactly what any reasonable person would think it means, I don't even understand the question. If you break a door or window to gain access, that's real damage. If you SSH into a server there is no real damage. If you delete files, there is real damage.
I wish more people took away the lesson of limiting their reliance on those with much more power because it leads to one sided relationships. However it seems like we are moving towards consolidation of power instead of towards inter-reliance of equals.
> while the present behavior of the illiberal right is abductions and overseas slave camps

Can you provide examples of people getting abducted and sent to "overseas slave camps" purely for their speech?
"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."

Terry Pratchett
I'm interested in creating animated technical diagrams. I'm looking for something high level that would allow rapid progress on prototyping a diagram. Perhaps vaguely analogous to manim, but either native JS or producing lightweight assets that can be hosted in a web page. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, Persistence of Bad Institutions [audio]
Thanks! That’s a really interesting perspective. From the outside, it’s hard to get a full view of how Pat was perceived by potential foundry customers or what was happening inside the boardroom. I actually watched Lip-Bu reading from the teleprompter at that recent Intel conference, and yeah, maybe I see what you’re saying. The tone felt more grounded compared to Pat.

The only sad part is… it feels like Lip-Bu might now need another 4–5 years to fix things.. . basically restarting the clock.
Pet peeve how they write FLOPS in the figure when they meant FLOP. Maybe the plural s after FLOP got capitalized. https://blog.heim.xyz/flop-for-quantity-flop-s-for-performan...
They're not cost-competitive because they don't have anything like the same manufacturing capacity or R&D facilities for many manufacturing sectors.
That's sort of how Python works in Excel. You can insert Python code into a cell, but it runs in the cloud. No option (yet) to keep it local. They're nuts.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/introduction-to-p...
It's not about that. It's about China imposing tarrifs being harmful to China. The US shot itself in the foot. Should we also shoot ourselves in our feet? No, we can just stand back and let them bleed to death.
Trusting your neighbor already is a mistake. Well people like me benefit from society as I can benefit from people being naive.
> the most powerful technology humans could ever hope to build

If you're correct, that's a rather depressing thought
It’s not the only solution, but it is one, as we saw back in the first Trump administration and their tariffs on, and the resulting counter tariffs from, China. It will almost certainly dramatically reduce demand for crops like this from the US, which will lead to less farmers (as many leave the business or go bankrupt) and ultimately less water usage by the farmers.
The story is very likely to be true, it's just stupid
I can pretty confidently say that every article I have seen in the past 5 years that complain about weirdness of JavaScript is about things that you would never do in a modern, production-level codebase. Many of these issues are about pre-ES6, outdated practice (e.g. eval, using == operator) that are almost certainly going to be flagged by a linter. Very occasionally, you do get hit by some weirdness, but likely doesn't take more than a few minutes to figure out. And if you write in TypeScript, like almost every serious new project created these days, most of these questions don't exist at all.

Which is why I don't bother reading these posts any more.
OMG, please no!

Look, I am writing a news story about the release of update 3 for Amiga OS 3.2.2 -- is that enough?
Negative trends of what? Exchanging highly paid services for cheap goods?

EU needs to start taxing heavily any services provided here by the USA. Having the USA moron in Chief pretending that the comercial balance is solely made of physical goods to create an Excel sheet warrants a nice lesson.
The article is clearly talking specifically about AI, you’re the one generalising it.

> A decommissioned nuclear power station required to power it.

How many tech hysterias fit that?
This is called "engineer's disease".

You can regularly find it on this very site :)
Yeah using vectorization for this seems like bringing a cannon to a duel. At most I would've used levenshtein distance or something
In the past decade, the left got so cancel-happy that "cancellation" by the left-wing activist crowd lost pretty much all of its weight among anyone who isn't an ideologue. In 2016-2018, if you got canceled, you would have a very hard time finding any white-collar job afterward.
Exactly right- why are people talking about Christopher Stanley's teenage antics in regards to an article about Christopher Stanley? Shouldn't everyone be parroting your political views instead?

And good point on Christopher Stanley being unappointed- why isn't every employee of the executive branch appointed? It's all so confusing