skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've actually made a good argument for the M&A ban.

Consider: if it is as you're implying, that investors expect their returns to be realized mainly through acquisition, and if it's indeed common that startup acquisitions are done to kill a potential competitor, then... all the investors are doing is extorting large corporations. If you include IPO in the picture, they're also alternatively robbing the public.

If it's just rich getting richer by pulling money out of megacorps and large populations, then this is... literally the opposite of useful, valuable contribution to the society.

The way I see it, the above isn't 100% true, but it seems true in majority of cases, which makes me inclined to support the "M&A ban" idea.
Quantum Computing/Information researcher here. This article is largely garbage, the original (~2 month old) paper is surprisingly readable [0] and I suggest you to check it out. Here's my $0.02: The efforts of the Google team is commendable in that they're trying to squeeze as much out of their noisy systems as possible until error correction is here (they need to, to justify their existence after all) and they are aware of the shortcomings of the paradigm. But personally I don't see anything useful coming out until error correction and number of qubits are improved many orders of magnitude to have fault tolerant QC. The jury is still out on their utility once realized; Shor's algorithm is an obvious one followed by quantum simulation algorithms that might benefit chemistry and fundamental physics, but it's not as big of a silver bullet as we thought before for simulation. Maybe someone can tell me what fast prime factorization is good for besides breaking encryption.

Also IBM released a paper[1] recently making similar claims ("quantum advantage without complete error correction") which got obliterated by 2 back to back papers [2,3] that did what they did for much cheaper on a classical computer.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.11119.pdf

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06096-3

[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.14887.pdf

[3]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.16372.pdf
The example I always give people is imagine that you're a civil engineer and you walk into the interview and they have a bunch of Popsicle sticks, sticky tack, and a bowling ball.

They inform you that your interview is to build a bridge with the sticks and tack that can support the bowling ball rolling across it.

(Yes, I know the age-old argument that 'real' Engineers are accredited and all that, but I still think the example shows how ridiculous it all is)
Yes, you can use a ruler and the scale to get closer with each guess, regardless of what the picture shows. I use the built in drawing app on Linux Mint.

Here is another attempt, with my triangulation circles written (don't judge me)

Attempt: https://i.imgur.com/Hz3c37c.png
Same here, and there are a lot of people like that. But there are also a lot (more?) people for whom drinking is only a means to get drunk.
>"Formerly wasted talent would be used in the economy, countless lives would be saved, and families and relationships would be healthier and less violent." The author really doesn't want to talk about these claims were lifted straight from Prohibition

Does this make it wrong? Both prohibition can be a failure and alcohol can ruin lives.

Its best to separate the facts from potential policies.
Duhigg, and I would like to second this. That book helped me immensely with confrontation and setting professional and personal boundaries. Not so much for smoking, though.

To quit smoking, I used acupuncture. It may be complete woooo, but it worked incredibly to stop by cravings.
> This assumes that people read books completely at random.

I'm not sure it implies that. I think that if:

1. Book quality follows a normal distribution.

and

2. People are capable of accurately assessing the quality of books relative to other books.

then you'd end up with an average rating of 2.5.

It doesn't matter if people are disproportionately reading the better books and rating them highly because an increasing number of reviews on a book would only give you more confidence in its rating, not change the rating of the book relative to other books.

To illustrate this we can imagine a world with only 100 books in it and only 100 people in it.

Let's assume that a single person from that group reads all 100 books and per the two assumptions above correctly rates them on a normal distribution.

Then the other 99 people read only a single book which the first person recommends as a 5. And per the two assumptions above they all also rate it as a 5.

Now there are 99 books with only 1 rating normally distributed between 1 and 5 and there is 1 book with 100 ratings - all 5s.

Does this change the average rating of books on the platform?

Nope the average rating is still 2.5. In fact the one book could have a million ratings or a billion 5 star ratings and the average rating of books on the platform would still be a 2.5.

What we see on sites like goodreads is that either book quality doesn't follow a normal distribution and/or people are not capable of accurately assessing the quality of books relative to other books.
Some languages allow declaring things like this per file

"use strict";

from __future__ import annotations

{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}

which probably scales better than 2^n filename patterns.
I'm not quite sure what you're getting at, but that's effectively what the current model forces you to do, to specify the elements in order that they go on top of each other. This is very bad.

I would rather have z-index so I can group elements how I want and use z-index to dictate the final display order.
Yes, it does attempt to give one-- but I didn't find it particularly satisfying. But some of the replies in this HN thread have been better in that respect, for me at least. The idea that it's just an extension of why the area of a triangle is 1/2 the enclosing rectangle to 3 dimensions to me is the "oh, that's why" framing for what otherwise seemed sort of magical to me.
No, it is not. Asphyxiation is very unpleasant. Hint: anything made up of matter is a chemical.

You probably also enjoy a lot of "chemicals" that are mind-altering or intoxicating without realizing it, unless you're very strict about your diet indeed. Casomorphins are delicious, you see, and can life without chocolate really be said to be enjoyable? Better skip fruit juice and bread, as well, given that they certainly include a percentage of alcohol and fermentation byproducts.
I never understood the use of the phrase "virtue signalling" until I realised that the people using it literally don't believe that the problem and/or the solution exists.

So, imagine that you didn't believe that the earth was warming, or that humans contributed to that, or that we can't do anything to change that if it was the case, etc. etc.

Clearly anyone bringing attention to these so-called facts or proposing or implementing alleged solutions to the non-existing problem isn't actually achieving anything. They're just signalling virtue to others in their confused tribe.

Same with racism, sexism and any other fictitious problems that don't exist and that therefore don't have solutions. You can't fix problems that don't exist hence pretending the problem or a solution to it exists is just "virtue signalling".
For me good alternatives are good coffee and plain or sparkling water. About this latter choice I have to give an unironical shootout to /hydrohomies and to Cristiano Ronaldo [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ZLS1V3iMw
“Only runs on”, or “is only supported on”?

Debian alien worked the last time I had to install some janky rpm-only commercial software.
In the "scientists complacent about dangers of the systems they are working on" file, I think we are all familiar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core.

Now, admittedly, this was scientists being complacent about a thing they knew was dangerous, whereas here we are saying scientists don't think their thing is dangerous. But very clearly, AI could be dangerous, so it's more that these scientists don't think their system could be dangerous. Presumably the scientists and engineers behind the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 didn't think it would kill people.

So maybe the problem is precisely that when we bring up extinction events from AGI, scientists rolling their eyes is the very reason we should be fucking worried. Their contempt for the possibility of the threat is what will get us killed.
Or until someone decides to give AI a "lizard brain" and sets it loose.
This was also my understanding - the WHO classified alcohol as a carcinogen[0], and the statement "No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health" appears to be true.

[0] - https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...
Yes I agree it might be same thing under the hood. But with intelligence many very smart people seem to fall into using these analogies that diminish humans in a way I don't think is accurate. And I feel that makes people more scared of AI than they need to be, makes AI seem totally alien. [1]

The AIs might spit out entire fields of knowledge, and it might take humans decades of study to understand it all. And no single human might actually understand it all at the same time. But that's how very advanced fields of study already are.

But the "cockroach" slur implies AIs would be in this other stratosphere having endless discussions that we cannot remotely grok. My guess is that won't happen. Because if the AI were to say "I cannot explain this to you" I'd take that as evidence it wasn't all that intelligent after all.

[1] - https://metastable.org/alien.html
I don't drink often or a lot, but I really enjoy it when I do.

I genuinely enjoy the taste of cider and wine. I love mixing cocktails. I enjoy experimenting with combining flavours to make something refreshing and hopefully unique.

As with all vices in moderation, speaking only for myself it's been a clear net positive.
I've always felt like the fact that they seem to constantly be thoroughly invested in the right wing groups and let them persist, while they barely infiltrate the left and done everything they can to destroy them asap, really suggests theyre not so much infiltrating the right wingers as much as taking control because they actually support the underlying ideology....

But maybe that's just something I see and is just a perception issue.
sha256 is a hash algo. you probably meant something else?
The free market elected a government with an FTC, so...
Of course it is possible. But I think in modern society which our brains are definitely not evolved to handle, people use alcohol as an temporary escape.

Plus society (actually marketing, so society by proxy) tells you that you are odd/unusual for not drinking).

It's peculiar how we as species have evolved into this destructive behaviour.
You're not a weirdo but yes, lots of people struggle saying 'no' to a drink.

Your caffeine example is a good one. To some folks on /r/stopdrinking, alcohol is more akin to how you feel about caffeine.
>Except the Xerox Star, which was "interesting" enough to attract spillover crowds to the Xerox booth at the May 1981 NCC. Including Jobs himself.

Yeah, I mean except Xerox. The context here is you saying that "Jobs came to PARC in December 1978. 4 years later was an eternity" and I take it you implied with this that Xerox didn't influence the Mac/Lisa.

So, my point is that not a lot of developments happened between that and 1983 in the commercial space for it to actually be "like an eternity". Star did happen which is also Xerox, but the "let's copy this" spark was already lit in Jobs from 1978 (and Lisa itself started being designed after that time).

>GUI concepts: if you mean mouse manipulation, you're right. However, the Lisa had a unified interface that enforced some choices, while the Alto let every developer make his or her own choices. Also, as far as I remember, dropdown menu bars across the top weren't prominent on the Alto.

Mouse manipulation, but also a hodgepodge of GUI ideas from the programs he saw demoed (and later on Star). E.g. Alto had Bravo with WYSIWYG, scrollbars, etc.

TFA was like: (a) People say Apple copied Xerox GUI ideas because Jobs saw Smalltalk-80 demo (b) But the Mac GUI is quite didfferent than Smalltalk-80, so this is wrong

And basically I'm pointing out that people don't just say it based on Smalltalk-80, but also Alto stuff Jobs saw in that visit, and Star stuff which came out before the Mac.

Love the Future book by the way!
Have you seen their sales revenues?

Big difference between "buy this $5 plastic crap widget despite its product description being barely coherent because there's only so many seconds you're willing to spare searching for 'Plastic Crap Widget' because Familiar Tech Company's algorithm puts CBSPOO ahead of VRIENGLU in this particuar search parameter combo" and "hello professionals in niche market. You will recognise the name of our product whenever you next have $xx,xxx to spend on these services, because we were the one whose ad was inadvertently extremely sexist"
"Deep decarbonisation pathways of the energy system in times of unprecedented uncertainty in the energy sector" (2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142152... :

> Abstract: Unprecedented investments in clean energy technology are required for a net-zero carbon energy system before temperatures breach the Paris Agreement goals. By performing a Monte-Carlo Analysis with the detailed ETSAPTIAM Integrated Assessment Model and by generating 4000 scenarios of the world’s energy system, climate and
economy, we find that the uncertainty surrounding technology costs, resource potentials, climate sensitivity and
the level of decoupling between energy demands and economic growth influence the efficiency of climate policies and accentuate investment risks in clean energy technologies. Contrary to other studies relying on exploring
the uncertainty space via model intercomparison, we find that the CO2 emissions and CO2 prices vary convexly
and nonlinearly with the discount rate and climate sensitivity over time. Accounting for this uncertainty is
important for designing climate policies and carbon prices to accelerate the transition. In 70% of the scenarios, a
1.5 ◦C temperature overshoot was within this decade, calling for immediate policy action. Delaying this action by
ten years may result in 2 ◦C mitigation costs being similar to those required to reach the 1.5 ◦C target if started
today, with an immediate peak in emissions, a larger uncertainty in the medium-term horizon and a higher effort
for net-zero emissions.

> Highlights:

> • Probabilistic assessment of 4000 decarbonisation pathways with the ETSAP-TIAM.

> • Delaying the action for the 2 °C target costs similar to acting now for the 1.5 °C.

> • Demand electrification is higher in 2050 than today in all model runs.

> • Hydrogen is used in 99% of the model runs to meet the 1.5 °C target.

What about non-CO2 emissions and prices/fines/fees; like Methane (natural gas) which is like 80x worse than CO2 for climate?
Yeah best alternative is to not consume substances that negatively harm your body.
im not sure if "easier said than done" is being applied here in terms of it being hard not to drink in social situations or it being hard to quit drinking when using it to simply cope with life, but you can find stress relief through people and the small things in life...? I can't drink because my body viscerally reacts negatively to it like I get hives. I think it sucks for social situations but I don't really find it necessary for me to find an outlet through substances but this is all personal experience.
This is incorrect. I had the same issue supporting my family members on good hardware with windows. It was just too common that software updates broke things, random adware would get installed when they clicked on things, etc. This was windows vista/7 era and when I made them switch to macOS the problems just went away. I think apple seems to be better about making it so non power users can’t accidentally mess things up so much.

It doesn’t help that the windows install for a printer includes some huge print center bloatware if you accept defaults and for Mac it didn’t prompt for anything like that (same printer plugged in with usb).

I can’t even imagine trying to support them on the new windows with the advertisements and changing stuff in the start menu…
Yeah, I've seen that. I'd have called it "recipe mode" but I like your name for it better.
What exactly do you want me to state up front? A general intelligence can solve general problems when those problems are formally specified. Sudoku is a good example of a formally specified problem that can be solved by most people but not by LLMs. This is because LLMs and all neural networks are simply DAGs of function which do not support recursion or backtracking.

Adding recursion to neural networks has been tried a few times but no one actually knows how to stabilize their dynamics so the industry has settled on feed forward networks with constrained function blocks which have stable dynamics with respect to back propagation of errors.
Tesla FSD isn't restricted to specific locations, and seems to be reducing the number of human interventions per hour at a pretty decent pace.
>Unique VR experiences only matter to a fringe set of users

I disagree with this. Why would someone buy a headset instead of use an ipad or desktop? If there is nothing unique to VR why should people put a heavy thing on their head for about the same experience?

>Take the ability to run iPad apps on it natively. VR enthusiasts will scoff at it

No, where have you seen this? Everyone likes the ability to run these apps, but my point is that these apps are not a draw. Most people find it more convenient to use these apps on their phones or tablets.

>To which I’d say, who cares?

Developers care. Most big developers don't care about devices unless they have a large amount of users. Their time is better spent on devices / platforms which have hundreds of millions of users.
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yeah athletic brewing is pretty amazing. i also just had a bbq yesterday and got some of the NA coronas and they basically tasted identical haha!
From the linked article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36577474 :

> A large computer simulation dealing with this issue is now providing some answers. It combines climate models with economic models and 1,200 technologies for supplying and using energy, as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the study, a supercomputer calculated 4,000 scenarios for 15 regions of the world, taking into account possible developments in ten-year steps up to the year 2100.

> [...] "We considered 18 uncertainty factors, including population and economic growth, climate sensitivity, resource potential, the impact of changes in agriculture and forestry, the cost of energy technologies and the decoupling of energy demand from economic development," explains James Glynn of Columbia University.
from my experience being a drunk and having lots of drunk friends - both
Well, everyone is hybrid working now, but even before that, a laptop says "now you can't refuse to hotdesk or work evenings/weekends"
I suspect that just delta compression would reduce the required number of bits considerably.
Full color pass through and good hand tracking are not available on any headset even near the mainstream.
If you are doing quick edits you don't need a really big workspace. If you don't want to haul things around you probably don't want to also haul around a vision pro carrying case.
it'd be very strange to think that there are no benefits to drinking alcohol considering that humans have been going out of their way to drink it for the last 10,000 years. In all of that time, it's safe to assume that at least a few people found something worth the cost/trouble/risks.
Add FB and Twitter to the list of "computer problems", and we are wasting 80% of our time.
>acupuncture

People need to understand there is a physiological response even if the underlying idea is nonsense.

Also, dry needling can be freaking amazing. Would recommend for both acute and chronic issues at least 1 time. (If it doesnt solve it after doing it once, its not going solve it doing it 4 times)
I am what I consider "borderline" for alcoholism, although I've been told by professionals that I am nowhere near it. I'm still trying to quit completely (after having reduced immensely) my intake because no level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health[0].

As you say, it's probably okay to drink rarely. But I wouldn't discourage the instinct to quit completely, and recognize that there is a high amount of pressure through culture to imbibe.

[0] https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...
Your "facts" are not, as you appear to believe, counter evidence but merely misleading and goalpost-shifting distractions from the claim that inordinate sums have been spent by the fossil fuel industry supporting organizations whose entire purpose is to produce insidiously distorted argumentation and PR, aimed at producing misinformation and disinformation on fossil fuel impact on climate change.

For example, your argument that one incomplete list of a single company's "charitable activity" is "nowhere close to billions of dollars" when the claim was "probably billions" across the entire industry, where "probably billions" is pretty obviously no more than a vague gesture at "huge amounts of money".

That you find a climate-disinformation spend even in the $10s of millions acceptable is something you might ponder before you start lecturing people on what sites they should post on.
I actually think Windows does it better than OS X (and Gnome, Wayland, and anything that does not support true fractional scaling). OS X just scales the entire surface and as result it always look blurry.
> I don't have a need to limit myself; I'm good after 1.

Maybe in your social circles that is normal, but that is highly irregular from everything I have experienced over the last 20 years across 3 continents. And if you don't believe me, just look up the statistics on alcohol consumption. It's pretty clear that an extremely high % of people regularly abuse alcohol, especially in social situations.
Isn't the difference between us and cockroaches just "we can think much quicker, see patterns and make insights better and faster than cockroaches"?
> "The implementation should be simple too at less than 10K C lines, because I want wider adoption of this tool. Simple code is easier to learn and maintain. I'd like also to avoid any external dependencies for this project. At the end of the article, you can see the actual results I have now. (...) As for the generated code performance, I decided that it should be at least 70% of GCC -O2 performance. The implementation should be simple too at less than 10K C lines, because I want wider adoption of this tool. Simple code is easier to learn and maintain. (...) The biggest cons of the existing projects were their size, the fact that it would be hard for me to achieve my goals using them, and that I can not control the projects. Also, the smaller source size of the MIR project makes studying the code easier for other people and reduces the effort required to maintain it."

I can understand the point for LLVM, but I don't fully understand why QBE (https://c9x.me/compile/doc/llvm.html, which is part of his assessment) didn't fit in what he is looking for.