skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But there is a third option with the safe, you can subject it to an intricate sequence of motions and it will unlock, requiring far less energy than it does to rip it apart. Is it not conceivable that there’s not a similar situation with cells in that the intricate EM patterns of telecommunications devices could unintentionally “pick the locks” of cells and damage them? Have you considered this as a possibility?

Or it could give you superpowers! Or transport you to another dimension, or any other random thing I'm free to conjecture about because I also don't feel bound to base this on observed phenomena!
Those of us on well water don't get fluoride in our drinking water.
For some reason the same product often shows up multiple times in the list. And I don't mean "the product looks the same" I mean "the URL it links is even the exact same" .
Hydrogen ions. More specifically, protons.

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This misses the fact that signed integer promotions are generally not free because they require sign extension. For example, the cast in b() emits a `movsx` (move with sign-extension). `movsx` is not free in the ways that `mov` can be.

`mov` can be "free" in two ways:

- the compiler can frequently avoid emitting the `mov` when part of a larger operation

- modern CPUs handle `mov` instructions earlier in the pipeline

Neither of those are true for `movsx`.
these upsides are a sirens song. it wont matter how advanced science is or whatever benefit you can imagine if human society is destroyed. the upsides will be pointless. destruction of human society is inevitable and intrinsic to artificial intelligence.
> But the real number is actually six, because we have two separate salt-taste systems. One of them detects the attractive, relatively low levels of salt that make potato chips taste delicious. The other one registers high levels of salt—enough to make overly salted food offensive and deter overconsumption.

I can imagine a future scenario where, in the interests of public health, someone figures out how to transliterate the 'too much salt' genes to 'too much sugar' genes.

Of the various ways that I could see human augmentation play out for the better rather than the worse, I'd rank that right behind tetrachromacy and hypoxia genes (particularly for Martians and Lunatics)
That's called source available, not open source.
> You see, when formulas create a circular reference, Excel will run that computation up to a number of times.

Like almost every spreadsheet before it: Lotus 1-2-3, Borland Quattro Pro, VP Planner ...

Spreadsheets iterating on circ references goes back to the 1980s.

The first spreadsheet application, VisiCalc, didn't track dependencies: it evaluated cells left to right, top to bottom, IIRC.

Microsoft had a product called Multiplan that competed with VisiCalc. Not sure if that did iteration.

I think it used to be a setting in some programs whether circular references are flagged as errors, or iterate. Maybe it's still that way in Excel?
This is why we worry about robot take over, it’s because we’re assholes, we worry we’ll create bigger, better assholes.
That's neat!

A number of years ago I attempted to create a program that would exhaustively evaluate short, digitless "dc" programs to find the shortest programs for all numbers under a million: https://emergent.unpythonic.net/01518231512 & a database of all my results for numbers up to 1 million: https://emergent.unpythonic.net/01525128151

While dc does have looping and function calls, my program didn't investigate their use; only straight-line dc programs are checked.

(dc is an rpn calculator available on many unix systems)
Another good one on the game design side of things:

Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
by Tynan Sylvester (RimWorld)
Amazing! I independently had an extremely similar interview question (because of this work) that also gave me great signal. That's really funny!
> walk your cat on a leash

I doubt any of the cats I've ever had would approve of this
Auto profits are falling. Whule I wish everyone higher pay, there must be enough pie for a bigger slice. This will likely, and sadly, get worse for both workers and automakers before it gets better, or offshored.
I knew there was something wrong with that phrasing, thank you.

Turns out they taste like burning (acid, in particular).
I associate that with a certain mindset in the 1950s.. the same people that built steel mills and chemical plants in the Ohio valley, polluting so badly that a river actually caught fire. It is a blatent and smug assertion that mocks the sensibilities of even a casual environmentalist. Make no mistake, plenty of Fortune 500 and also dot-mil, fosters internal leadership with exactly this gestalt.
Yup. When I updated my company's secure development requirements, and compared them to others, I was confronted with a lot of choices that would increase security somewhat, but at the expense of user control of their own devices, like refusing to function if the device was jailbroken, or requiring the use of the system keyboard only (which is also an accessibility problem).

These are tempting choices, but they go a lot further than, for example, requiring only modern TLS ciphersuites to be used to communicate with my servers. They dictate the state of your entire device, and no one app or company should have that power, unless you work for the company and they issue you the device -- but even then, modern MDM/MAM can and should sandbox company apps from the rest of the device.
My biggest takeaway from my time programming in Objective-C was not being afraid to name functions and variables more verbosely.

Curious to hear what aspects of Objective-C you feel influenced id?
You wouldn't drive a 15 year old car. Why read a 15 year old book?
Love it. To me this is a playful way to use sound. It’s loud, bright, flashy, interactive.
MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD: A randomized, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial
> It’s easy to treat a particularly clever or elegant piece of code as a masterpiece. It might very well be a beautiful trinket! But we engineers are not in the business of beautiful trinkets, we’re in the business of outcomes.

This spoke to me.

However, as anyone that has looked at my code can attest, I tend to also want my code (and its functionality) to be very pretty. I'm generally writing code that I will be maintaining, so it needs to be something that I can look at, in a year, and understand.

I'm currently in the final phases of a project that I will never announce here, and don't plan on taking much credit for, but it really is da schizz. It's that way, because no one is paying for it, and no one will make money from it.

Money both spoils everything, and also makes it all happen.
Why'd you get a cat if you can't give it a proper life? I find it hard to believe that all areas/countries are equal here. Cats shouldn't be imprisoned if at all possible.
I don't know why you need the "ask chatGPT" piece. Why not just semantic search on the documents?

What is the value add of generative output?
“This Kafka queue collects the zstd-compressed BSON chess messages encoded as base-64 and distributes it to the chess engine VM scale set worker pool for processing… what? Everyone knows chess AIs need large scale and programmer time is expensive! Anyway, the Databricks cluster for move analysis is over here, and…”
Perhaps more affordable on average, but if the apartments replace older smaller single family homes, then the supply demand thesis suggests that those single family homes would become less affordable.

So yes, things become cheaper if everyone wants to live in an apartment. But for modest income folks in small old houses, up zoning means moving out of the community.
Another approach would be to use the Excel APIs. Both the classic desktop Excel and the web version has APIs to read/write cells and recompute. Rebuilding is more fun of course :-)
I wrote highly processed, not processed
> (from the article) - Having Excel in the browser was a useful solution, but the problem wasn’t showing spreadsheets in the browser: the problem was getting a specific UI delivered to the right users quickly.

> (from the above comment) - A good engineer can solve any problem with clever code. A great engineer knows what problems aren’t really problems and probably an XLS download link updated daily would have been fine.

I saw the bullet list further down the substack page and it's still not good enough for this level of requirements gathering. Those questions describe the scenario, but asking them would not have arrived at this simple solution. Checklist thinking is a crutch and just overcomplicates the problem. All the signals here were organizational and social, and not a matter of improving a process.

This should be obvious, but people who are not involved with implementation details can't answer questions about implementation details.

"Just make it like Excel" is a super low quality answer from someone who has a completely different set of objectives. The only way forward would have been to consult with someone closer to the actual users and counter-argue from there. What's missing here is the courage to recognize weak assumptions and deliberately avoid writing any code until enough details are pinned down to get to an agreement from all parties, not just say yes to the person "in charge".
I’m a non-coder and use git for versioning text files for my fiction writing. I don’t have any sort of deep understanding of git, but I’m pretty comfortable at the command line for commits, pushes, pulls, etc. I must admit I’ve started liking the GitHub gui app lately, though.
> Congress had no such intention; it was actually 3rd party lobbying

Right, but 3rd party lobbying can't force anyone to do anything, whereas Congress can (and did) give this mandate the force of law. The fact that lobbyists got Congress to do something that they had "no such intention" to do is its own problem, but let's not lose sight of who is responsible for laws.
Just want to add a +1 for these, particularly Art of Game Design, A Theory of Fun, and the Tanya Short/Tarn Adams books.

To add to your list: I have a copy of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences that I recently started reading.
When I first learned of NaCL/libsodium I was very interested in a new API but.. It seems to me like if you go with anything along these lines you have very little chance of ever supporting hardware protected keys (smartcards, hsms, etc) and, quite frankly, I'm not sure any data should be stored on a normal computer or mobile phone that you wouldn't publish in a blog, so having a software key is madness, IMO.
Use one of the many companies in this space to verify the users ID? Or push some development in this space to find a better way?

Or like, basically anything except pretending it’s not an issue and externalising the cost + issues onto everyone else while you reap fantastic profits?
> You can't just specify a diameter and go from there. You must create a seal to prevent hydrogen from leaking from the pump. It's doable, but also dangerous if you get it wrong.

Imagine the amount of people who mess up refueling an ICE vehicle. Now extrapolate that to H2 refuelling where we're dealing with a highly flammable gas in extremely high pressures.

> Electricity is already distributed. The fact that you are writing here on hacker news means you have a source of electricity that could potentially power your car.

Exactly. The BEV doubters seem to think that everyone in the world drives 600 miles without stopping for over 30 seconds every single day.

When in fact the average person could charge from a normal power outlet overnight all they need for the next day and ever a little surplus. Effectively keeping the battery full at all times, making that weekend road trip a breeze.
Can we talk about how dynamic chunking works by any chance? That is the most interesting piece imo.

We have a similar thing (w/ UIs for search/chat) at https://github.com/arguflow/arguflow .

- nick@arguflow.gg
I usually ask both Bard and Phind (which also does web searches to help generate answers, usually using GPT-4) the same questions, and I can't remember a single time Phind didn't blow Bard out of the water. Bard has done better when asking it creative stuff like to make up stories.
Mini boost from BMW doesn’t mean UK is in global car industry’s fast lane
We talk about which scientists we should put in charge of AI and I think that's all wrong. The self-preserving question is which philosophers should we put in charge? And which group of developmental psychologists should be auditing their work?

Teach

your children well

Their father's hell did slowly go by

Feed them on your dreams

The one they pick's the one you'll know by

...

And know they love you
I had a quick look at it: https://fnands.com/mojo-advent-of-code/

It honestly feels a lot like writing C++ with Python syntax. Still a lot missing, but excited to see where it goes.
Ha! I must have been editing my comment as you were writing yours. I just started into Sylvester's book.
The MONIAC built in the 1950s by Bill Phillips (of Phillips curve fame) attempted to model economic processes with coloured water (fluidic logic)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
The disdain extends to all other fields because they were told software was going to eat the world - they felt like special snowflakes entitled to call everyone else special snowflakes, and it went about as well as you'd expect.
I think the value is "Hey, I remember a paper talking X topic with Y sentiment, it also mentioned data from <vague source>. Which paper was that?"

If you're dealing with 100s of papers, then having a front end that can deal with vague queries would be a huge benefit.
Compared to Veeam how is it?
I mind this much more than I mind shrinkflation
Not in the US, but possibly in your city. But even then, I bet you can't show me the city code that prevents it. Why? Because it's ABSOLUTELY legal, as long as someone approves it for you. Who? Well, someone who sits on city council and approves it for builders and banks, not chumps like your broke ass trying to turn a fourplex. Of course you can't do it! They wouldn't want your affordable fourplex driving down the price of their bank buddies' loft apartments at a million plus downtown. This is a slam dunk example of why high density is a bullshit marketing front for REIT stock millionaires capitalizing on the destruction of environment, community, civil liberties, and freedom in America. Based on this comment, I must point out that you are your own worst enemy. Stop supporting high density housing if you want to turn a fourplex. That's not high density. Fourplexes have yards dude. Have you been to the city?
I tried both Mullvad and Google's VPN. I wasn't logged in
This is so cute, love the animation and idea behind it.

Just yesterday I listened to Planet Money talk about how Bill Phillips got a position at the London School of Economics on the strength of his hydraulic computer simulating the economy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
Do health code violations carry criminal charges in any relevant jurisdiction? Regardless, the situation is different for two reasons.

1. It's one isolated incident, and no connection can be made to show that the organization itself is responsible. If, instead, you trained 10 workers and they were all violating the health code, then I would find it hard to believe that it's coincidental, and you should probably be held responsible for whatever penalties that incurs.

2. In your example there's already a specific individual responsible (the employee who violated the health code, against orders). In the other, real example at hand, the legal system seems to be okay with saying that no person is responsible because all potentially-responsible parties are pointing fingers at the ghost of The Company itself. This system results in crime being committed that would hold criminal charges if an individual did it, but instead holds only fiscal penalties because it was done at scale by a group.
Oh on your own projects and personal passions absolutely, I think emotional investment should be high. Not for someone else, though.
Show HN: ChatGPT-based parental control browser extension
> I can't imagine many development managers do that.

Wow, just a reminder that everyone's experience is unique and can't always be generalized. My first thought was "I can't imagine a development manager not doing that."

Seriously, I feel for you. Essentially all of the engineering managers I've had at one point or another have been coders. Some were well, well out of practice by the time they were my manager, and as I moved up in my career my managers were less interested in the details of my code, but I could always talk with them about highly technical concepts. I really feel bad for folks who think their engineering managers can't judge good code. And as someone who's also been an eng manager, I can't imagine managing devs without having an understanding of good code.
> Just imagine the positive impact on open-source maintainers' earnings, as they truly deserve our support

Just imagine the positive impact if the corporations making billions and billions of dollars were to actually support them
You could just write "X topic with Y sentiment similar to foo/<vague-source>" into a search bar.

Then, plain old vector distance on your data would find the chunks relevant. No need for generative AI.

citation to prove this works: chat.arguflow.ai / search.arguflow.ai
(I'm sure you're aware of this, but price increases only require increased spending from customers if transaction volume is held constant. It's entirely possible for prices to rise to arbitrary heights even as the economy contracts and customers become poorer, either because supplies dry up, or because high-volume demand dries up and companies are forced to shift to a smaller but wealthier customer base with high spending power.)

More importantly, this is why I said that inflation becomes more unstable when it is higher. Dramatic price increases can happen as companies become less competitive, and then price collapses can happen as well as consumers tap out and companies are forced to compete for a shrinking pie. Economists generally prefer low inflation rather than high inflation, even if all else is equal in real terms, because higher inflation brings higher volatility.

Lastly, this isn't necessarily the driver that initiates inflation, but it is a feedback loop that can propel it to overshoot an increase in the volume of money.
> That's completely unfounded speculation and wishful-thinking.

It's not 'speculation' to suggest that logically, an animal which is not hungry won't expend energy to hunt for food.

> Basic decency demands that you don't facilitate this.

Basic decency demands showing compassion to animals in need. But if there's one thing I'm seeing in this thread, it's lots of people who seem to think their views on these matters are moral universals.

> Would you like for cats to deposit their parasite-laden (human-infecting, incurable) feces in your herb garden, where your children play, or directly outside of a window you need for ventilation?

Do you even know how cats decide where to poop, or what they do with their feces? Cat feces doesn't just sit out, they bury them. While it's true feral animals - including many cats - harbor parasites, healthy cats are typically fastidiously clean. Much cleaner than dogs, and I should know, I have both.

You have awfully strong opinions but they don't seem like they're based in much knowledge.
MIT makes low-power underwater communication practical
I'm finding it hard to find a source for what the current available global capacity is. 1/2.85 TW sounds amazing, would you happen to have a source?
I live in an apartment complex with lots of animals and I see several of my neighbors leash-walk their cats regularly.

It just takes some time to train them usually. It's much easier if you get them used to it early in their lifetime, though.
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Does this comment in any material way relate to either my comment or the comment to which I was responding? I'd love to know more about how it works in Finland, but I can't figure out why you left this message.
Two-Person Authentication: Strengthening the Weakest Link in Cybersecurity
All EVs have crazy fast 0-20mph or 0-30mph speeds because you can just floor it and get instant torque without resorting to launch control modes.

Even my older model Ioniq is fast enough off the lights to trigger people with German ICE cars into thinking I'm trying to "beat" them somehow. Even though I just pressed down the accelerator to get up to speed in a prompt manner.
"my cats are this way therefore everyone's cats are this way"
Yes and they are very conservative in many social policies, including drugs (conservative = maintaining ("conserving") the status quo).
To be fair, he wrote a spreadsheet engine that could run one particular spreadsheet. Admittedly a complex one, but it was a fixed set of functions that he needed to implement and not and endless tail of things that people expect Excel to do. I think I'd probably have argued more about the UI spec and down some Excel behind the scenes but it is a familiar UI if you've got lots of number inputs all over the place.

I've always enjoyed this article about building a spreadsheet in 100 lines of F#: https://tomasp.net/blog/2018/write-your-own-excel/ The expansion from that to the feature set needed here is manageable.
> Potassium chloride tastes a lot like salt

Not at all, it‘s disgusting. The idea of replacing NaCl with it is laughable.
That’s totally fair if you’re booking at well known and reputable places.

My point is that not every location fits this criteria, and the cost can be very real.

I fully shared your mindset until I had several major issues with smaller places that easily cost more than whatever value the points had.

I’m now more careful about who I use based on where I’m going. There’s still value in the points, no doubt, but risk as well.
Toyota has insane brand loyalty, at least over here.

There are people who have driven cars for 40-50 years and every car has been a Toyota. These are the people they're trying to keep.

"Our Super Great EV is just around the corner, but here's a new Toyota Corolla Hybrid for you for the mean time"