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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does appearance matter more than we admit as founders?

Ask HN: Does appearance matter more than we admit as founders? 3 by jmaha | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been thinking about something that feels a little taboo to talk about. Founders spend a lot of time trying to improve themselves outside of work—getting in shape, improving how they communicate, dressing better, whitening their teeth, getting LASIK, fixing hair loss, working on executive presence, etc. None of those things directly make the product better, but they can absolutely change how you’re perceived, and maybe even how you perceive yourself. I’m curious whether people think appearance (or more broadly, how you present yourself) has become a bigger part of the job than it used to be. Is it because we’re constantly on Zoom, podcasts, conference stages, and social media? Or has it always mattered and we’re just more willing to talk about it now? For those who’ve made one of these changes, did it actually have an impact? Not just personally, but professionally. Did it chan...
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New ask Hacker News story: Finitude of Knowledge

Finitude of Knowledge 2 by Abhishek000001 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone. I am a school student I have certain doubts about human knowledge One human has finite amount of knowledge There are finite number of humans on earth at present And in past too there have been a finite number of humans There is a certain point of time from where life began on earth And as the life forms evolved Modern Humans came into existence Hence in both space and time Humanity as whole is finite Therefore I concluded that collective knowledge (everything known)is finite But enormous and continuously growing. The collective ignorance or the unknown (things which no one knows and has known ) is probably infinite as I speculate. What do you all think Am I right I imagine all of collective known knowledge as a sphere Which is finite which is depicted by boundaries or surface of the sphere And the sphere is growing . Uneven growth in all directions 4pi steridian. I am basing all my reaso...
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New ask Hacker News story: Whats the Hardest Challenges in AI?

Whats the Hardest Challenges in AI? 3 by debpalash | 1 comments on Hacker News. As the time of ai passing the cradle to vast amount of new contributors i'm here wondering about things agentic/ai researchers are pulling hair about.
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Fable guardrails trigger on random questions

Tell HN: Fable guardrails trigger on random questions 4 by nocoder | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have Fable guardrails trigger on seemingly innocuous questions. Two examples: a) What is Echium b)I want you to deep dive on coffee and it’s effect on health, cognition and longevity. The output should be something that tells you areas where the evidence is strong and where it is weak but plausible and where there is no strong evidence. Does anyone know why this happens? I have many such examples where it will randomly switch models.
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New ask Hacker News story: Bitemporal provenance in agent memory: What did we believe, when, and why

Bitemporal provenance in agent memory: What did we believe, when, and why 2 by shanrizvi | 0 comments on Hacker News. CozoDB, a transactional relational-graph-vector database with embedded Datalog in Rust, went dormant in December 2024. We hard-forked it as MnesticDB (not official CozoDB), under an MPL-2.0 license, to continue Ziyang Hu and the Cozo Project Authors' vision of building a "Hippocampus for AI", or agentic memory. But agentic memory isn't a pile of current facts with a log of past decisions. It has to track change over time, and be auditable. We've recently shipped several features that make this possible. First, we added a distinction between valid time (when a fact is true about the world) and transaction time (when the database came to believe it). This allows time travel, the ability to audit the memory at any point and see what knowledge any past decision was based on. Every write draws its transaction time from a crash-safe monotone commit cl...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: My father died and I need to find my path

Ask HN: My father died and I need to find my path 4 by c4kar | 5 comments on Hacker News. It's been 38 days and 6 hours since my father passed away. I was let go from my internship during the last month we spent at the hospital. I went to the hospital in tears and poured my heart out to my father. He told me something I can still hear ringing in my ears: "If, when I took the university entrance exam, I had the opportunity to get into the best university in the country, believe me, I would study day and night to get in. I'd find some way, study hard, and get in. Your profession matters so much. Having a good profession is crucial for your family's comfort and future." Those words became a pearl earring in my ear. After saying this, he kept giving me advice to pull me away from the uncertain path I was on. And now he's gone. For the past two years, I've been studying electrical and electronics engineering in my country (Turkey), and this semester I notice...
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New ask Hacker News story: Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number

Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number 7 by superkuh | 5 comments on Hacker News. Google is now deleting all accounts that do not, and have never had, phone numbers associated with them if they haven't logged in within a year or so. "Urgent: Sign in to your Google Account if you want to keep it" But then it doesn't matter if you log in with the correct username and password and receive the PIN via your email. This is isn't enough. Unless a phone number is somehow added to the account one gets, "You can’t recover your account at this time because Google doesn’t have enough info to be sure this account is yours." This is despite having all information ever associated with the account. Unless that account has a phone number it will be deleted. This is a very shady dark pattern by Alphabet corporation.
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