skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they were, and then they ran into real competition to be at the top of their field, and that dream just disintegrated.

What are you left with when you are raised on one specific value system and reality proves you’re not going to excel in that system?

We need to teach our children to have a variety of value systems, and that, of all of those, their academic or professional performance is not the priority.
Blockchain technology never stopped continuing to improve. Same with VR/AR, the hardware keeps getting more comfortable and more capable. Package delivery drones have yet to be deployed at a large scale but are gradually increasing usage.

Arguably there have been many successful metaverses including things like Second Life, World of Warcraft, Minecraft and Roblox. The VR part of metaverse hasn't taken off yet due to comfort, expense and poor mixed reality capabilities. And we are still waiting for large scale open metaverses not controlled by a company. That probably will come eventually once we get better hardware and wider adoption more people understand the concept of the metaverse.
Someone who has the capacity to be exceptional would probably not be happy to be held back. Would Ramanujan have been happier if he didn't pursue math and became a taxi driver or something instead? I don't think so.

You're creating a false dichotomy. People can be both exceptional and happy. Parents do sometimes create unhappiness by trying to force their children to be exceptional at something the child isn't interested in, but you don't have to do that. You can let the child develop and follow their natural interests and support them without trying to force them to be something they're not.
me too.
Literally, IBM is a me too company. They haven't innovated in years. Their marketing department is probably larger than their engineering department.

I actually interviewed at IBM 15 or so years ago. They had me attend this seminar for an hour before the interview. They spent the whole seminar bragging about IBM's past, including how the IBM brand was #2 in the world (after Coca-Cola).

Seriously. They didn't talk about tech, their future, or any cool problems they were working on. Just their brand. Ironically, their brand keeps becoming less and less significant each year.
AWS Creates New Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar
Is there any popular commercial apps based on these? Most of projects I have seen using these tech are developers' side projects.
Which specific tools have you been using? Just a general dialogue with chatGPT or a are you using CoPilot?
It's got to be possible to have a conversation about other languages without these - frankly boring - comments in them. Maybe consider that Rust the language does not benefit from this kind of evangelism if you have no clue about the backstory of that particular project?
I have always wanted to create an email based forms application using subdomains as variables and identifiers.
My early experience was with Lotus Notes which is in essence an email application.
Maybe one day if I get the motivation...
Championships are a team accomplishment. Sure, an individual player can have a larger impact in a sport like basketball since someone can play almost the entire game if necessary, but it’s not like singles tennis where one player determines the outcome.

Did you watch LeBron when he was younger, or just looking at stats?
Could it be a regulatory compliance issue? Maybe they couldn't get their accounting affairs in order.
But most people would not be typing john@smith.net or any of the variants you mentioned into their browser address. My point still stands that domain names have a completely different set of constraints.
> i'm curious what you think is worthy of humans to do?

It depends on what you value. If you value efficiency, automation, thinking deeply about new problems, then gen AI will likely free you from what you consider tedium. However, that’s not to say that those are the only valuable characteristics. Painting your family home is a noble, rewarding thing. If you enjoy the work, then it’s worthy.
In theory yes, there should be an overlap as the philosophy are similar (no hidden control flow) in practice they are very different.

For example Austral has no macros whereas Zig relies heavily on comptime.

Austral is to Ada and Rust what Zig is to C..

I'd say that Austral is even more focused on safety and correctness than Zig.
Zig is older than Austral, but Austral is simpler, which implementation is going to be reliable first?
I don't know, there's a (small) 'ecosystem' around Zig, is there one around Austral?
Well if you consider that then he might have proven that having tutors, connections, and apprenticeships is a necessary but not a sufficient condition then.
The repo describes this as "a CI/CD pipeline to build an application and deploy [...]". I don't think they are changing any meanings here.
> We really shouldn't be building an "open source" AI in the first place though, and it's going to be illegal to do so soon.

How do you make that illegal while still allowing private corporations to build AI? How do you legally define AI without applying it to all kinds of existing applications and without stopping all research on AI? And while staying broad enough that simply using a slightly different technique would still qualify under that definition?
But it's Facebook. So you'd pay for it, and there would accidentally be a 'bug', and paying customers would have their data sold anyway.
I just typed the same comment before reading this. I totally agree!
I don't see any Machine Learning or Data Science roles on the careers page. Have they been removed?
Well it depends on what you mean by "contributes to the world". For sure I don't think we can measure people's contributions only based on their work.

But assuming that's what parent was talking about (since that's the only thing they mentioned) - the market is sometimes wrong, for sure, but not as a general rule. If someone is earning a lot of money, they are giving some value that is worth it to the company that is paying them. More money = more value.

This doesn't always track with "contributions to society", because you can do things like e.g. stealing, which "gets you money" but doesn't contribute to society.

But consultancies as a general rule aren't stealing, they aren't as a general rule doing unethical things, etc. They are, for the most part, helping businesses. And that help is worth real money. This isn't theoretical either - if a consultant helps a business be more efficient in some process, that means real money to the company, which means real-world additional wealth is generated, which is a good thing.

The parent just made a quip because (I imagine) they think consultancies are a waste of money. And sometimes they are! But c'mon, I've known plenty of good, smart people working as consultants and I wouldn't want to jokingly quip that their job is meaningless. It's not worthy of a site like HN where we try to actually talk about things thoughtfully and critically.
There's a YouTube channel called Illegal Freedom which shows similar stuff:

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob9YJlGb4oM
Yes, so? Where do you see me using any of those?
Looks very interesting, the autopilot code looks especially interesting to me.
It is a (short) biography which means it is about the life and experiences of the artistst, not just their works.

The article mention how the Jewish cultural background influenced Superman, eg superman arriving like Moses.

But does the article even talk about the religous beliefs of the kids?
Also, the population decreasing will see fewer and fewer people to work those crummy jobs.
We’ve lost track of the best parts of being alive.
I think we should learn not that it is something that we can reproduce at will, but it is something that naturally occurs and we should be aware of it.

Some people are born with an innate gift for math (or music, or whatever else). And the location and circumstances these people are born into are not correlated to anything. As far as we can tell, they are as likely to be born in a slum in India as they are in Cambridge (UK or Massachusetts, take your pick).

Therefore, we should strive to make opportunities available to everyone as much as possible so anyone, anywhere, born with such gifts can make the fullest use of them possible (should they choose to).
I had always assumed that "Superman" had been intended to be a parody or response to Nietzsche's eponymous concept, albeit only having managed to be a superficial, weak, and ineffective one (and based on a misunderstanding to boot).
RE the point about catching mistakes involving far apart pieces of code, they are clear that it's "interprocedural", so the analysis is only within a single function at a time. Like with rust, there is a focus on annotating function inputs and outputs, with a lot of inference within functions. I am curious if there's a way to quantify how quickly the safety propagates as you do gradual typing. If you annotate 20% of the functions in a typical codebase, does 90% of the runtime data pass through an annotated function boundary at some point, catching 95% of the ownership bugs?
Perhaps people should kept at a distance. It happened before with a ball of his:

https://hyperallergic.com/436913/jeff-koons-gazing-ball-dest...
Getting Off the Windows Defender “No-Fly” List
I remember playing around with Linux of the Dreamcast back in the day. I think my plan back then was to use it as a media centre (that was before XBMC) but even back then, the lack of an Ethernet adapter as standard made Linux rather pointless. Though it didn’t help that I also didn’t have a keyboard either.

The modem did work surprisingly well for online gaming though and routers with Ethernet sockets weren’t (yet) common in most homes so I don’t disagree with Sega’s decision not to ship Ethernet as standard. It’s just a pity those Ethernet adapters are now in such short supply.

I still play on my Dreamcast a lot. It is a great console that, in my opinion, is the first of a whole new generation of consoles based around online play. But like a lot of pioneers, it suffered a little from being ahead of its time. Plus the fiasco of the Sega CD, 32x and Saturn (all of which were actually pretty decent in their own right but shouldn’t have existed from a commercial perspective) wouldn’t have helped peoples options of Sega ahead of the Dreamcast launch either.
The reputable western journalist has given exactly the same amount of evidence as game theory: zero.

Yes the US had reasons for disliking this pipeline. But I would forward that blowing it up at that time would be a dumb move. They were kneecapping the Russian economy anyway AND getting lucrative LNG business from Europe. The downside to being caught seems to outweigh the gain of doing it in such an ostentatious way.

Plus the US didn't need to blow it up to achieve the same goals. They have so many diplomatic levers. I don't think German politicians give any credence to it being the Americans.

So it could be the US, but only if they were really stupid. I guess Russia doesn't have a monopoly on stupid.
Its isnt hard but you need to change your programming standpoint. To write parallel code you need to think more about data alignment, dependency and flow. Its quite different than typical object/behaviour oriented programming.
Then I give 1/799th of a shit about this.
Yes, I accept that. I'm personally lucky that all the people alive with my surname in the world are related at the great-grandparent level. There's less than a handful with my firstname.

I briefly looked into trademarking my personal name (legal to do in Australia) but its cost prohibitive (vs verifying for multiple online platforms).

I even thought briefly about legally changing my name to include a new middle-name that was my PGP short key id. But Australia does not permit the use of numeric symbols in names. (Though I guess you could shift the hex string by 10 so 0-F maps to A-P. That wouldn't break the rules.)
Where does it say originals will be destroyed? You can digitize them without destroying them.

Digitized books are more valuable, IMHO: They are accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, rather than anyone in the Library of Congress' building.
By this logic Robert Horry is better than Jordan. No one thinks Robert Horry is better than Jordan.
Oh I invested most of it, and now I don't have all that cash anymore. I have assets instead. I'm back where I can worry about spending a few bucks on something minor.
I think you're just falling on a lack of imagination. You can easily see what the line cook is producing, and it's much harder to see what the consultant is "producing" cause it's the stuff of thought and ideas, often. But that doesn't make it any less valuable - and often it's more valuable. The market certainly thinks it's more valuable and rewards it as such, which is a fairly good proxy for actually providing a contribution.

Also, you say:

> More like an optimization for a small set of people.

As if that's a bad thing or a not-as-worth-it thing. But this is what a lot of software is. I personally work with schools, and one of the things I do is create tools to make teachers and school administrators more efficient and effective at their jobs. It's a fairly small subset of people that I'm helping, but I believe I make their lives a little bit better by providing them better tools that are time-saving.

Is what I'm creating less valuable than a line-cook? I don't think so.
More water plz.
Yep, the company behind this advertises online demos in gitlab
> _using subdomains as variables and identifiers._

Can you expand on this? I think formspree.io does some version of this, if I understand your ask correctly.
I'm tempted to go check, I read that too around the end of HS or very start of college, but isn't QED the one that starts off with a story about counting physical beans in jars to do familiar arithmetic operations like summing and multiplying? Then the rest of QED is presented as describing how QED works using a similar counting-beans approach that everyone can understand vs. the more sophisticated methods that working physicists use that require a few years of undergrad training at least. That both end up having infinities at the core is an important part of being able to accurately (mathematically) describe nature, like counting beans vs. just using a calculator both involve numbers at the core to accurately describe to other humans what's going on -- and numbers can seemingly be "canceled out" when removing beans from a jar! (Or perhaps adding a different color bean does the canceling.) Without thinking about it further I suppose this falls under the umbrella question of whether reality is fundamentally continuous (as we assume when we model things with calculus) or discrete.
Maybe Boeing would like to make a project like this, using Python, but running on actual aircraft with passengers.
Things have progressed since the 1930s. At this point Superman would be a stateless person, and there are presumably a variety of international treaties that govern how he can be treated.

I also believe that his alter ego, Clark Kent, is documented as an adopted child of the Kents. It would have been much easier back in the day for infants to be recognized as natural born US citizens regardless of whether or not they were as home births were much more frequent, and IDs such as social security numbers weren't automatically given to infants at birth. Given Superman's discovery as a white appearing infant in Kansas, there would be no reason for the government to presume he was not a natural born citizen. And if they did presume this, they'd have to climb a mountain to legally prove it (not being accused of a crime, good luck getting a court to require a DNA test to show that he is a literal alien).

As for Superman the alter ego? How would anyone prove he isn't a US citizen? They don't even know who he is.
Off topic, but if corporations are people, at what point are AIs people? Can anybody suggest any reading materials pertaining to this ethical dilemma?
As soon as a company IPOs, or uses a SPAC, it is either GAAP or IRSF accounting. And it doesn't matter what the comoany might think about that.
> We plan on having a lot of novel, one off interfaces, which TW isn't just right for.

I think you misunderstand Tailwind, but there's nothing wrong with your technology choice. :)
Full size image: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmQbzpYoa7A4T6MncEJgPsincke...
One absolutely astounding aspect of the path integral is that it ascribes amplitudes to trajectories that don't obey the (classical) equations of motion. If you like: the classical paths are at turning points of the action (loss function) but all other paths have some associated imaginary loss. In the path formalism we sum every possible path, weighted by the imaginary loss.

Since the classical paths are at turning points, small deviations around that path tend to sum coherently, while large deviations tend to have neighboring paths that contribute with opposite phases.

If you write the amplitude for a photon going from your flashlight to your wall, the path integral tells you to sum up all possible paths, not just the classical ones. So yes, the path integral formalism really does say that a photon goes from the flashlight, around Jupiter, and to the wall. But not in 48 minutes! In time = (distance to wall)/c! It goes every which way without caring about the classical law. The "insane" ones cancel.

Well, if all the insane ones cancel, what's the point of all this? Just forget about them, they're a huge surplus of nonsense in the theory! However, it's perfectly possible to construct experiments where it's clear that photons really do "smell out" alternatives. Diffraction gratings, the double-slit experiment, etc., all show this quantum weirdness.
Yeah I’d never touch anything Oracle. Don’t reward horrible behavior. Best thing the industry can do is ignore them as much as possible and let them fade away.
What I want is an anti-feature: character limits.

Discovering that Mastodon instances can just raise their character limits to the sky and there's no way to automatically block them killed the service for me.
>It's meaningful with respect to the claim that LLMs exhibit emergent behavior in the same way in which Game of Life does.

I said it's amazing in __similar__ ways to Conway's Game of Life.

i.e. a system which behaves in unexpected ways (emergent abilities) and is greater than the sum of its parts.
Pee-C is not memory safe. Pee-Rust is the future. /s
One thing you realize after a certain age is that the notion of a person having any attribute X, whether X is a good thing (genius etc.) or bad thing, is almost completely a product of the environment / society and has little to do with the person themselves.

People are just people, society puts these labels on people and that shapes people to express / develop certain attributes and hide others.

The more interesting question is why certain attributes are highlighted over others. Think about that for a bit and the answers will probably surprise you. Some reasons are self-reinforcing / recursive but others are rooted in a functional reason or a flaw in thinking (also interesting to consider why some flaws are so common that they are grandfathered into the system).

My thinking abruptly stops once I get to the physical survival layer and I don’t think we have sufficient language to reason beyond that.
It's intraprocedural.
The internet changes this in some ways. You don't need to literally be surrounded or in the same social circle to interface with gifted people now. Although the other aspects like being wealthy and having excellent role models and private tutors certainly still make a difference. Also home schooling means that people learn at individual rates rather than being held back by the class.
In EU this is part of GDPR.
That's not really unusual for Hersh - he's always been prone to being a bit free with the details. Which hasn't stopped him from getting the big picture right in some very famous stories!

...but he also seems to have gotten it wrong in some other cases. Hersh is a fantastic investigative journalist (and a good writer and speaker to boot), but he has very limited credibility because he will make fantastic claims regardless of whether he has the ability to back them up.

I mentioned them in one of my other comments but this is a decent (but long) roundup of Hersh's history: https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11719/

Or for quick summary (but without a lot of the details) see: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-the-story-with-se...
The first thing I would expect is a visualization of the failure.

When you move things around and break stuff, let's say by creating two disconnected solids, then I would expect a preview to show that.

Also, one problem with FreeCAD is that you need to open a sketch to modify it but often the model you are modifying is then hidden. So now you have to roughly guess the optimal value, close the sketch and inspect the model and repeat this process until you have something usable. If you need to use clipping planes to see inside the model then enjoy setting those up every iteration.
Leading how is a linkbait trope and our software removes some of those.

The software isn't perfect by any means but this time it worked fine!
I agree. I suppose interesting is more of a compacted term for depth, and from that comes levels of fulfillment in my mind.

I think no matter what you do it will have a deterministic effect on your kid. If you're more responsive than deterministic they'll observe you for cues of who/what you have the most respect or adoration for and maybe seek to emulate it (or if they're rebellious, spite it). There's a fine line and moderation is important as with everything of course.
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Yep, copying the external surface behavior of exceptionalism misses how a lot of exceptionalism is due to compounding internal motivation and meaning making.

A way of being that constantly re-emphasizes that way of being. Super-linear growth that doesn't stall out or crumble when external motivation is absent.
Interesting idea RE PGP key as middle name... just it would suck to then later on lose access to your private key!
I tried this on a random Swedish person and she identified all of the names as people that sounded like a genius. Seems legit.
What is the worst case scenario for security on your network, in the above self hosted setup ?
It reduces file count in the project browser, renaming/refactoring is much simpler in one file, it just feels like working with a newer language.
In fact, the GGP should've called his list "nice", not "good".
Happiness is like flux and is predicated upon moving goalposts (hedonic treadmill).

It seems to have emerged that way to drive evolution / progress.

In order for happiness to be sustained, you need economic / technological / societal growth. Who do you think is capable of producing that? Why should society care about the happiness of those people if them being happy / content slows down growth and hence the collective happiness?
Unfortunately, the Azov Brigade is actually a thing.
As I explained earlier, the submission page is not a PR newswire. Your content is fine for LinkedIn or other social media sites, and announcing a product launch here is cool, but what you're doing borders on spamming. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34863773
The same reason that there are multiple independent restaurants in a single city.
For me, getting on a train in the UK is enough to break almost every app. I’m “technically” connected but signal can be spotty at times, with massive latency spikes and packet drops, and any kind of interaction that depends on the network will stall, which is incredibly frustrating.

Every time I’m in that situation (or get on a plane), I’m reminded of the value of local-first software.
Good way to find sibling ROM sites at the time...
> for eight years!