skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having gone through the process of incorporation myself, I agree with everything you said: Yes, there is some paperwork you'll have to take care of and a bit of a learning curve to everything but not outrageously so. It can all be done within ~2 weeks (including roundtrip times for mail). Yes, that's still a lot more than it'll take you in e.g. Estonia (where you can do everything online in a few minutes from what I've been told) but it really would be the least of my worries, compared to actually running the company.

That being said, I do think the process could be simplified drastically. Not necessarily by getting rid of the notary requirement but 1) through digitalization and 2) by streamlining (possibly centralizing) the whole back and forth between notary (official incorporation & signing of articles of incorporation), bank (getting a business account + obtaining proof you actually put the money in that account that you're claiming to have during incorporation), local court (registering the company, including articles of incorporation), tax authorities (getting a tax ID and sales tax ID), local authorities (getting a business permit), local chamber of commerce (paying dues for mandatory membership), Federal Gazette / federal company register (submitting your initial balance sheet).
So it is only for software developers?
Crypto Ad-Tech Shop Builds 'Retargeting' Service to Reel in Likely Customers
Is that why they lost the copyright case?

A bunch of for-profit companies proped OSI up to exclude "open source" projects that are not free to use for businesses so they can profit more from OSS community and you eat it up.
It's not working for me. I have those all unticked but if I create a new file and go to cell A1 and type 1/2, it puts 2-Jan in the cell rather than the text I want.

If I then put 60/100 in cell A2, it doesn't do any conversion.
Then put the formula "=Search("/", A1)" in cell B1 and copy that to cell B2, B1 evaluates to #VALUE! and B2 evaluates to 3.
They show like that for me briefly and then load. Maybe the decision to load the image is done dynamically in JS as a scraping countermeasure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43611926
Especially since web pages today don't really do all that much more than web pages did a decade ago. Yet the machinery is far more complex, the download size of pages is much larger, and pages are less responsive.
> As a relatively new Linux user,

You need to understand that you are now in Unix land which means you compose this pipeline using programs that perform each step of the processes. So when creating an encrypted backup you would use: `tar -c /home/foo | gzip | aescrypt >backup.tgz.aes` or something to that effect. This lets you use whatever compression program in the pipe.

Breaking this composability leads to the kind of problem you are complaining about. It also removes the ability of splitting this pipeline across machines allowing you to distribute the compute cost.
So you'd rather have 25 cents to your name than $25 million?

This is just like a regressive tax, which impacts the poor to not-so-poor more so than the ultra wealthy.
Surely the child's father was Anton Peschka? Gertrude was engaged to him, later married him, and his mother raised the child. I don't think the article suggests otherwise.
Love this article. Brings back memories of such a simpler time spending way too much time doing exactly this with IDA pro and Bochs (my favorite tool at the time for these sorts of projects). Bochs plus custom plugins equaled some amazing capabilities for real-time dynamic analysis of DOS, bootcode, and other low-level applications.
The truth is that a lot of current American manufacturing sees little investment / engineering towards the automation that could save it and is in a holding pattern where it will eventually be shut down or moved to a country with cheaper labor costs.
Why would immigrants who are not citizens vote?

Anyway, what about vote by mail? Also voting day could be changed to Sunday.
It’s faster for our designer to change code than file a ticket
There’s a big difference between “becoming dependent on a competitor” and “using a competitor’s products for two to three years so you can shake the bugs out of your EV production process and get a product to market ASAP, then switch to domestic batteries that will soon be available.” This 2/3 year delay in the early part of the adoption curve matters a huge amount for the future of Japan’s EV business, particularly given that China is aggressively working to enter some important markets where Japanese companies have no competing EV product. Buying BYD batteries for two years matters only marginally to the long-term success of BYD.
In this book 'World Wide Waste' he states 'Every time I download an email I
contribute to global warming.' Is this true? Aren't some data centers, Google for example carbon neutral?
> Current versions of macOS use a signed system volume

Sometimes I feel like I'm deluding myself with the small inconveniences I put myself through only using Linux, but finding out about stuff like this wipes that away.
> I literally walked into offices in my town and asked what the most annoying part of their job is and I made a prototype.

Consumers don't have offices. You are looking at a business-to-business transaction, which is where we said there is still opportunity, in large part thanks to those collecting angel money.

If you are going to disagree, surely you can provide an example of where you have sold to the consumer? Affirming that you could only find opportunity selling to other businesses too makes it seem like you do agree.
Many hosts consider anyone entering the unit , even just for lunch or dinner, to count against the listing "max", and accuse you of having a party. and some are quite big brotherish about monitoring.
I vaguely remember the engineering code of ethics, I'm pretty sure it goes against most things expressed in this post.
Yes, the price tag is high but on the other hand they are super reliable. I have one on my water boiler that triggered its relay many times per day for five years and measured dozens of MWh.
Yes, I have family in the USA, usually visiting them two or three times a year.

Not gonna happen this year, probably the next 3 years or more.
Having been a reader approxumately all my life, approximately all the books have been worth my time.

Though the best book is far and away Three Little Pigs which my now grown-ass-man child called “the wolf book” when requesting it at bedtime at the age of incredible. I highly recommend it — time spent with your child I mean,

But if you want an HNish book recommendation?…The Art of Computer Programming is well worth trying to read because it will be challenging for as long as you keep at it. Good luck.
Thanks, really appreciate that — and your Bitcoin + escrow idea sounds interesting too. There’s definitely a lot of untapped UX potential in that space.

Right now, the donation flow is super simple and fully on-chain:

- The creator shares a unique page tied to their wallet address.

- Supporters send ETH, MATIC, or any ERC-20 directly to that address — no intermediaries, no custody.

- Funds are instantly available in the creator’s wallet.

There's no built-in off-ramp yet, but I’m looking into ways to plug into services like Coinbase Commerce, etc.

USDC is definitely on my radar since it’s widely accepted and has regulatory traction in the EU/US. I’d love to support flows where creators can auto-convert or cash out.
He didn't do those things, or he couldn't? Not too familiar with American politics, but AIUI his majority was much weaker last time round, possibly resulting in some of his crazy being kept under control?
Gotta love being downvoted for daring to suggest a company should sponsor the sole open source dev making their whole product possible.
Docker is literally just "download blobs and run them". Ever so helpful, Docker also silently turns off your system's firewall for you. Thanks, Docker!
I never thought about founding my own company while living in Germany. I hate this countries bureaucracy to the core. If I ever wanted to found one, I'd first move out of Germany.
That’s impressive, and I’d say is mental recall far above average. I applaud you for taking every advantage of it possible
This argument doesn't really make sense. Imagine if someone said "You really need to learn assembly language for the VAX! Someday we'll have Windows 11 on a completely different architecture which is nothing like the VAX, but if you don't learn it now you're not gonna make it!"

Either what we have now is important and will be used 20 years from now and you should learn it, or things are improving so fast that our future interface will be very different.

How many of the "prompt-engineering" tricks that people gained from 2 years ago are relevant today? Almost none? So why should anyone waste their time on something that isn't very good today?

Use LLMs. Try them out for sure. But don't buy into the VC hype. They're just trying to 10x their money by spreading FUD.
On the "bobby tables" thing, my point is basically that all the same rules for API services still applies. You still have to sanitize sql and all the other stuff we've already been doing for decades.

> How do I put it behind an API without dumbing it down to inutility?

I dunno, I'm still feeling this out and just asking honest questions. But so far, most of the MCP functions I've seen have struck me as "this could be done behind an auto-generated RPC service running in a sandboxed environment".
I have an LLC in the US and have to deal with tax stuff all the freaking time
Curious to wonder how many academic papers/other kinds of analysis have perhaps come to incorrect conclusions because of these date inconsistencies!
I just want to go back to the early days of Facebook, when it was simply a small list of friends I actually knew and enjoyed hanging out with online. No karma, no upvotes or downvotes, no organizations, just people connecting.

Is there even a social platform like that anymore? One that isn’t political, overwhelming, or trying to be everything at once? At this point, it feels like the only real options are private Discord servers or maybe WhatsApp.

I guess the elephant in the room is that any successful platform needs advertising, and once businesses get involved, things tend to spiral with ads everywhere, and eventually, politics creep in too.
> Interesting case if we are the “ants” and it is our 3 dims happen to be compact looping somewhere beyond our event horizon. Multitude of Universes […]

I think you're mixing up two different cases here: 1) Our established 3 dimensions are actually compact, i.e. loop around or hit a boundary somewhere. No multiverse here. 2) There are extra dimensions, meaning that for every point in that extra dimension there's another 3-dimensional universe as we know it.
most stocks pay dividends. The others tend to do buybacks. The only exceptions are recently IPOd companies. All the big tech companies are returning capital to shareholders.
They do not load for me, even after waiting for several minutes. I've tried in Chrome, Firefox, and Brave. No ad blockers, nothing unusual.

edit: They work on my Android phone.
It's probably more like "your first sentence doesn't address the GP's situation at all, so the rest of the post is just gonna be grandstanding without foundation". Which happens to be a correct assessment of your post.

Specifically, "disappeared for a few days" is not at all what basically every country on the planet does.
Legit question, why would you be using an untrusted tool in the first place?

Why are people surprised they are vulnerable to a malicious tool when they are using untrusted and/or remotely hosted tools?

Without some method to tag context as sensitive and an LLM model/service that respects said data tagging, you'll likely never have a scenario where you can trust that the LLM isn't sending some sensitive information to an untrusted endpoint. If you accept that, then you have to design your system around not using untrusted endpoints. Just adding untrusted endpoints is kinda like running untrusted applications on your machine. It's fine until it isn't.

At the very least, your agent should have some way to mark the entire session as 'tainted' in such a way that calling out to untrusted sources is forbidden once sensitive context enters the loop. And that would need to live outside the LLM calling loop since the LLM could be tricked before the sensitive data was introduced. With the tool annotations being added to the spec, your internal tools could provide those flags the the agent to facilitate such a blunt security process. And I am aware there are likely holes in such a plan, hence my first question.
I don't understand your issue.

If you are doing deployments, actions etc does exactly that. Run pure bash commands or whatever.

If you want it for other purposes, you essentially want to run a "server" application but don't want to manage a server. Just use serverless? Write a JS function (or some other languages) and the platform will run it when the event triggers.
Do "Runge Spikes" offer a better metaphor for hallucinations by LLMs?
Sometimes LLMs put on their novelist hat and insert fiction into contexts that demand an accurate account of the real world. For example, an LLM may invent a legal case that never happened, citing it as a precedent, to the peril of humans who never suspect that it could be merely made up.

We use anthropomorphic language: hallucination, confabulation, lies. But the behaviour of the LLM is weirdly inhuman. We are using language magic against ourselves by choosing our words unwisely. We persuade ourselves that artificial intelligence is like human intelligence, even as we describe how it differs from human intelligence.

We have a rough familiarity with fitting polynomials to evenly spaced data. We know that extrapolation works badly; higher order polynomial approximations breaks down especially badly. We know that interpolation with low order polynomials is fairly safe, and cough, mumble.

But high order polynomial interpolation may work well or badly, especially towards the ends of the intervals. The interpolating polynomial may trick us with good accuracy at the middle of the range, but further out, even though we are still interpolating, the values swing wildly. The graph exhibits spikes between the data points. See https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/11/18/runge-phenomena/

This offers a metaphor for the unwanted insertion of fiction. We picture the LLM interpolating the training data. We picture it doing some kind of high order or clever interpolation, capable of impressive accuracy. And whoops! What happened there? There are surprises lurking. Surprising in the same way that Runge Spikes are surprising.

The name "Runge Spike" offers an escape from anthropomorphism. It invites us to view "hallucinations" as a technical issue in interpolation. We are not accidentally insinuating that the LLM will have metabolised its tab of LSD in a year or two and stop hallucinating, without any need for a break through by researchers.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43602809
That's interesting, because when I learned English in school the pronoun for "a person whose gender isn't specified" was he.
Feser's very good at explaining Thomistic/Aristotelian metaphysics clearly. His _Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide_ is a good introduction.

The point of Thomistic/Aristotelian metaphysics it not that it's useful for building things; it isn't, which is why the early moderns mostly abandoned it. But physics and the quantitative/mechanistic view of the world that it fosters is an abstraction from reality--an extremely useful and productive one, granted, but still an abstraction. It leaves things out that Thomistic metaphysics retains; and while Aristotelian science has been left in the dust, his metaphysics still has important things to say.

Modern philosophy embraced the mechanistic view of the world with Descartes, leading to a number of philosophical problems (the mind-body problem, the problem of other minds, how to account for qualia and consciousness, and so forth) that are amply accounted for in the older philosophy.
Peter Bevelin's Seeking Wisdom.

The other day someone on here recommended The Philosopher's Toolkit, and I ordered a copy based on that recommendation. I've only started to dip into various parts, but I can already confirm that it is a good introductory compendium of the basics of philosophy, logic, and argumentation. In the same vein is Daniel Dennett's Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking.

A personal favorite is Frances Yates's The Art of Memory (think: intersection of rhetoric, mnemonic systems, philosophical systems, and the occult during the Renaissance).

Matthew Butterick's Practical Typography and Typography for Lawyers. Bryan Garner's The Winning Brief.

Umberto Eco's How to Write a Thesis. Adler's How to Read a Book. Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read.

I could go on. Book posts are my favorite posts on HN, but they always lighten my wallet and at home I'm surrounded with ever-growing piles of great material.
That because Excel defaults to treating numeric data as a number and leading zeros are extraneous and it will strip them off before storing the value (and it will right justify the display).

The root issue is that zipcodes though numeric in content (at least in the US) should not be treated as number (data type) but instead as a text (string) value

To tell Excel to treat this numeric data as a string you to either

* Precede the value with a single quote (') - Excel will treat the rest of the data as a string (and won't hide the leading zeros)

* Before entering the value set the format to TEXT which will tell Excel to take the entry verbatim with no inferring what the data represents (i.e. a number or date)
Willing to concede that. But he has thousands of followers and is well known in the MMA comunity. Would he throw all that away for a good story? Also there is an update: "Update on U.S. federal prison detention of MMA coach Renato Subotic who recently trained Merab Dvalishvili"

https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-update-u-s-federal-pris...

"UPDATE: I just spoke with coach Renato Subotic for a few minutes. He says he was detained at FDC Honolulu, which is a federal prison facility. He says he has no criminal record and it was a simple visa application issue. Interview later this week."
There were lots of applications written on enterprises, hence why Gang of Four book used Smalltalk and C++, not Java as many think when bashing the book ideas.

That would come later and take the air out of Smalltalk business adoption as IBM and others pivoted away from Smalltalk into Java.

It is no coincidence that while Java has a C++ like syntax, its runtime semantics, the ways how JVM is designed and related dynamism, Eclipse, key frameworks on the ecosystem, and by extension the CLR, all trace back to Smalltalk environment.
Raspberry Pi 45W USB-C Power Supply on sale now at $15
I find it amusing that in 02023, after 77 years of software development, they referred to something like 01992 as "early software development", because people had only been developing software for 46 years at that time. But it's true that most software that has been written so far was written after that.

Are we still in "early software development"? Presumably most software that will ever be written hasn't been written yet.
> They lobbied for features until the cars became so expensive that nobody buys them.

Dealerships still try to sell people on financing and that makes them so much money.
Amazon Q CLI: now available in Nix unstable
> if the crust is sturdy enough

In short, the crust is not sturdy enough.

In comparison to the bulk of the earth, the crust is like the film of dry paint that forms on a paint bucket if you leave out too long. At the scale of a planet any rock is still a liquid for mechanical purposes. (Which is in fact what the hydrostatic equilibrium part of the IAU definition of a planet is talking about.)
The rest doesn’t matter.

No one wants to be detained.

People who are spending thousands and tens of thousands of dollars to travel are fine if they need to spend a few hundreds additional ro fly back and cancel their vacation. Or sucks but it’s in the realm of the risks you take with international travel.

However, being detained, even for 1 day, and treated like a criminal is something none of these folks want.
This is it folks, we have finally reached peak of webdev
I wonder how much this effect is due to lifetyle (e.g. diet) and how much is due to preventative healthcare? Certainly poorer people in the U.S. would be less likely to see a doctor due to the substantial costs involved and thus not get early treatment for preventable diseases.
The answer is 1/21, clearly. I guess what it should do is give a green squiggly if the implicit conversions are suspicious.
I agree, I had the same thought about the vegan example.

The premise of dark mirror ideologies is interesting if you don't consider the moral inversion to be an exact mirroring. TFA even gave the anti minimum wage example at the beginning, which is not an exact mirroring (scoring political points & looking generous != enjoying killing businesses).

If dark mirror ideologies is supposed to be more like the main examples (dark veganism, dark liberals, etc.) then I'm afraid all TFA has discovered is that the no ideology has "being evil" as their priority.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512001
Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice series.

Culture, gender identity, hive mind, all rolled up into one extremely dense universe with a rich history told through warfare and cutting remarks, humanising potentially inhuman central characters with a vague number of limbs.

It takes ten pages to get used to the dense yet clipped writing style, but once it clicks, you cannot put the book(s) down: the plot moves forward at breakneck speed.
Crafting Interpreters, by Robert Nystrom. One of the best, perhaps the best, programming text I've read--and I started reading them in the late 70's.
A short list of books that cost some candles after I reached 40 (has been very picky about books since then). I not only read them into late night but also went back to them whenever I need some mental boost.

- The Soul of a New Machine

- Showstoppers

- iWoz

- Athens and Jerusalem (Shestov)

I'm devouring many F & SFs (right now reading Arthur Clarke) but so far nothing really sticks. A lot of them are interesting but I'm keeping counting the pages I read. I used to burn candles reading them back in the day, but the magic was lost. I'm going to try out some recommendations I got on HN and see what happens.
The Tao of Pooh is awesome.

(But holy crap, avoid the follow-up title, it redefines “off-the-rails” in comparison to the first book.)
I just saw that he is the one who photographed "New York's Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind The Subway" a great book on the old substations that powered the NYC subway system. Certainly an excellent photographer.
Truly sorry you feel this way. For what it’s worth, this was common for people graduating into the 2008 financial crisis, too. It’s actually unusual that we went for so long without another period of contraction.

From last time around: The people who kept pushing and took any job, anywhere turned out okay. This translated to a lot of people taking jobs below what they expected to get or having to move when they didn’t want to, but it was ultimately temporary.

The people I knew who turned cynical, let negativity take the wheel, and checked out of the job market struggled much harder to get back in.

You’re early in your career. This current period of turmoil doesn’t mean that much, even though it feels like everything right now. Keep at it, work a little harder than your competition, and put a little more care into your applications and it will work out. Stay away from the doom spirals on Reddit or Blind. Uninstall those apps (and others) if they’re making you worse.