skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either you're not measuring anything useful with your current metrics or you fall into not giving a shit category
I believe we are well on that path already. As I point out in the article all means of measuring trust are on significant declines.

However, reaching a point where nothing is trusted will likely lead to societal disfunction. If no institution is perceived as legitimate and no information can be verified there will be a breakdown of social order.

If elections and politics seemed chaotic already over the last few years, it likely will pale in comparison to what is coming.
It came from trade. The exact provenance was not important.

Herodotus tried to figure out where all the “stuff” is coming from, but mostly found stories he admits are far-fetched.

Modern historians take pleasure in proving his “myths” to be fact.

“Apparently there is some place in Asia where gold is mined by ants!”
> We can't even fix the problems on our first planet. How (and why) can we even begin to think about another one?

By this logic we never go. There will always be giant seemingly insurmountable problems. If we solve climate change there will just be another, and another, and another. Life is a never ending fight against entropy. There will never be a time when we have it all figured out.

Secondly it’s entirely possible that the stuff we learn trying to survive off world will be applicable to making life here more sustainable. It could force us to figure out how to run industry efficiently with a very high percentage of material recycled, and how to
run an economy without a lot of low entropy ecosystem to draw from. Also no fossil fuel. They don’t exist. We’d only have nuclear and solar really.
30min of standby capacity for an internal lil battery, external poptarts galore? I don't hate it.

It's kind of an interesting play because apple could make a super thin phone that has 30 min battery life and then a few different size pop tarts with different capacities. You want 3 days, get the mondo brick.
Related submissions:

- Texas man sent to death row over junk science denied US Supreme Court appeal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37748408

- A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
The moralizing is a bit pointless since every big tech company is trying to monopolize and lock-in users as much as possible. It's just the old blitzscaling enshitification cycle. They have deep enough pockets to subsidize the cost until monopoly status is achieved. Pot meet kettle.
And a fresh wave of undergrads will take their place. CS programs have ramped way up though and will probably over saturate the market.
The world hasn't become less technologically dependent. Software isn't easy to write and even if LLMs make it more approachable for everyone, there is still so much digitization yet to come that there will not be less demand for software. The biggest question is can you afford to write software on what you can bring in if you're working at a body shop?

Software touches every single interaction anyone has in the world anywhere unless they live in some of the very, very few subsistence cultures still in existence. Some people may use less modern tools but even selling grain or fruits you grew will likely still need some kind of software and some kind of technology and touch markets in international places. The world is no longer local.

Maybe it's different this time. I don't think so. Interactions will be changed. Habits will be reconfigured. Software is not going away or getting easier. LLMs may make it easier to crank out some rote CRUD app but they still cannot replace reason, interpretation, or the development cycle.
the good old indispensable and underappreciated linear algebra
AGPL still allows somebody else to offer your software as a paid service. This is dangerous for a lot of business models.
I think this phenomena is less about PMs and more about a "data driven" culture.

I worked at a mobile game development company for a couple years. While the industry was young, they had some really big hits and grew to be mid sized. While I wasn't there for that era, talking to the people that were, it was mostly driven by passion and people that cared about games, and while they monetized well it wasn't the focus.

However, they had a couple of misses after those hits. This is pretty normal in game development, although in my opinion those misses were mostly about being too ambitious: way too much tech requiring cutting edge phones, tools that were still not mature, team sizes that were larger than they knew how to handle, etc.

So, the founders stepped down, and they were replaced with a new C-level staff that came from the gambling industry, mainly slot machines.

These people LOVED the numbers, KPIs and all that jazz. They loved showing those numbers to the staff too, which credit for being transparent but realistically a group of creatives are not generally that interested.

The problem was, since every decision required "data", innovation became impossible. Have a cool idea out of left field nobodies done but everyone is excited about? Can't be done, where's the data? But we can make a match 3 with a familiar IP! Who cares that we're just copying the market leaders and entering the space once its already saturated.

Anyway, the company folded two or so years after that. It was a shame because there was a ton of talent there, but the C level management just did not understand the industry, how to get creatives excited, and they did not care about games. They just had "data"
I'm afraid your reading comprehension needs work.
My whole point is you seems to be reducing the genocide to a single event "buffalo killing". Whereas I'm trying to say there are MANY different genocidal impacts on the Native Americans.

By the time the Americans had a program to slaughter the bison to get rid of the natives, many estimate the Native Americans had already lost 90% of their numbers.

I'm not saying there was no genocide, I'm saying it was going on long before buffalo killing was used as a tool for it.

And when someone asks for documentation (where this dispute started), it's unreasonable to claim "two things don't exist, therefor one caused the other". By the same logic I could say "the Tasmanian devil doesn't exist and Indians don't exist, therefore killing the Tasmanian devil was used to kill the Indians." what an absurd form of logic. Just because something is true, doesn't mean your logic or justification for it are valid or educating for others.
> if you do pay for the service they should enable more privacy.

They're never doing that.

I pay for ad-free Kagi search. I'd pay for an ad-free YT competitor. It would need to be run by someone other than Google though since I'd never trust them if they said they were giving me more privacy.
If you don't read anything else in this, read the "Epilogue and Apologue".
Comment of the Year, right here. Thank you.
talking about amazon, someone suggested me to get gareth williams linear algebra with applications (5 bucks on ebay)

it's a good applied primer, not big on concepts, more about the mechanics, and it unlocked a lot of things in my head because dry textbook morphisms definitions sent me against imaginary walls faster than c
YouTube switching entirely to a Netflix-like paid model or going bankrupt are entirely acceptable outcomes.
There is such a thing as computer science, but the majority of what gets called that is really engineering, not science. People often get those two things confused because they have a fair bit of overlap in the Venn diagram, but they are two different things.
Menuet & Kolibri are still actively maintained though.
I agree on hosting, but what additional advantage does separating your DNS from domain registry add?
Well, yes. Just as you don't develop guitar skills by practicing on stage during a live performance, you don't practice your social skills by asking out the girl in your social group with whom you are infatuated.
How have they behaved?
Wanna make one, we could open source it? I have thought about making something similar before for driving VFD/Nixie tubes. There are a bunch of things out there that don't quite scratch the itch.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15801

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5807

https://electroniccats.com/store/catsink-usb-c-pd/
Our Journey with Xeact
I've seen two types of PMs:

- micromanagers of tasks and features

- insightful data munchers

The first group is usually a bunch of people citing Marty Cagan, talking about continuous discovery and running in circles. They are not helpful and sometimes hurtful to performance.

The second group captures business and market data, process it and create insights from it. They keep the engineering effort focused. Those are very helpful.

This is just my personal experience, of course, but I'm yet to see a third type.

EDIT: to be fair, Marty's books seem to advocate for the second type.
Facebook could be ran with 500 employees
Size. Ban exports of GPUs and other compute devices, task the CIA to track down leaks, bomb data centers you can't raid with the FBI. I think that's very unlikely to happen though.
I don't think PDF can do that.
Good thoughts overall. I will assume Sagan has deeper thoughts on religion than what he writes here, but I found those parts superficial and overly simplistic. The problem I have with his perspective is that we know from Godel's incompleteness theorem that no formal system can explain its own consistency in the language of the system. As a human, this means that there are things in life we have to accept as true but are fundamentally unexplainable. Religion does not explain the unexplainable but it provides a language and framework in which certain experiences of being alive can be felt and communicated. Both science and religion (to the extent to which these are even different concepts) have positive and negative sides. I personally think the dark side of science is just as dark as that of traditional religion but I don't deny the light or dark contained in both.
> Solid state batteries with 10k charge/discharge cycles are never going to happen for the same reasons, which are identical to the same reason incandescent bulbs are purposefully manufactured by every single lightbulb manufacturer to fail when they figured out a hundred years ago how to make them last forever.

My first phone was NiCad Nokia. Later Nokia monochrome display phones used Li-ion well before smartphones. I use an iPhone now, but if a user-upgradeable Android phone came out with a solid-state battery, I would switch.
this is exactly why back-to-office initiatives have value - it's easier to coordinate when the steerers are next to each other
Let me give you some insight. Out of 100 applications, 60 don't meet even the most basic resume standards (zero experience, not in country, blatant errors). Of the 40 remaining, 20 do not have adequate experience in the field. Of the 20 left, 10 fail the phone screen, 5 fail the interview loop and a single applicant is far better than the other 4 who got this far.

You are not competing with 100 other applicants (unless you put zero effort into your resume and have no experience, in which case you have bigger issues).

The amount of blatant errors I've seen in resumes is massive.
Want a simple to boost Calculus scores globally? Make the notion standardized. I passed Calculus one and this notion is unrecognizable to me.
Because life deserves redundancy?
It's amusing he doesn't consider at all whether people will want and trust his paperclips and chewing gum form of banking on top of a shitposting app. The central experience of the app is falling into disrepair, while he's dreaming about taking over the world with something that doesn't exist yet.

Maybe he is drinking his Kool Aid. But it's time his investors & lenders stop.
That is very valid, I guess I may have a certain view since HIV is not something that I need to read an article to be reminded of? It is basically a daily thought for me.

I should be clear that I am happy that the research is being done, its just this article isn't (unless I missed it) isn't even a PR piece for the company doing it? A company putting out the actual PR is perfectly valid and I think a standard practice.
Startups are not a low interest rate phenomenon. I bet the average small business would be considered a startup in terms of revenue, potential growth and employee headcount.

What is a low interest rate phenomenon is the unicorn growth strategy and dump trucks full of cash going in to stupid businesses that don't really have a path toward solvency but have really nice marketing.
Good for them, I guess?
As an independent contractor with a mercenary attitude, thanks for the reduced competition.
It's unclear at the moment because of the limited testing (minimal ISO and a Gnome ISO) vs Arch/Debian/Guix rebuilding entire package repositories.
Of all the things I've ever wanted to be different on my macbook, removable batteries have never been one of them. Now when battery life exceeds a (long) working day, why on earth would anyone want this? The very few times you will be away from a wall socket for more than 12 hours, you can just bring a power bank.
Yeah. They *used to* exist, but they're more work and the companies can't extract as many dollars so they were eaten and destroyed.
Wouldn't this help solve the problem Ken Thompson wrote about in 'reflections on trusting trust?' If you can fully bootstrap a system from source code then it's harder to have things like back-doored compilers.
> for thousands of years

It depends on how you define money. Coins didn't really exist until the 7th century BC, that doesn't mean long-range widescale trade did not exist prior to that for 1000+ years but they didn't generally use money (in the way we would understand it at least) so the boundary between using money and barter wasn't really that clear.
So what?

“That’s foootball”
The thing is, by the time you get to this book, most students have probably taken DiffEq or multivariable calculus, and had exposure to linear algebra there. (If not in high school.)
> but I think it’s pretty clear [...]

Is it? Because that is not clear to me in the slightest.
They don't have to be the same, but exploration is a necessary part of the scientific process, whether that be in the depths of the ocean, inside the earth, or in space.

Curiosity has driven exploration, discovery, and subsequently science. It's fine that you're not as curious as some, but suggesting that we must only focus on things on Earth when we have literally billions of people on earth that all have individual interests and things they're curious about is just about limiting progress, not about preserving Earth.
I think where this breaks down is when you have something rare that requires immediate attention. My impression is that a lot of that medical training is being able to say "oh that's unusual, you need to see a specialist".
Never use Hertz. Never.

I haven't used them in a while, but Avis always kicked Hertz's ass all over the map on customer service.

Hertz only had the advantage that they were bigger. Nothing else.
Not including my laughter, I seem to be nodding in agreement.
> If you go to urgent care, you most likely won't get a physician.

Not my experience. Every time I've gone to urgent care I am always seen by a MD.
That's sad. I'd assume your love for you sister would make you find common ground in doubt and humility, virtues of both science and religion. Every single human tells themselves lies to feel better, we just call them Justice or Democracy. We're just self-conscious meatbags thrust into existence against our will, after all.
Nontrivial amounts of the source are PDP-11 assembly -- a lot of it in the kernel, but also bits of userland.
> For the first year or so, pretty much everyone who's learning is going to need the romanization alongside / above the Hangul.

For folks who are learning Korean, hangul is maybe two days to get the basics and maybe a week or less to be able to get comfortable with it.

For super-casuals who just want a ballpark representation, you might be right, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to design around these super-casual folks — when they decide to get serious about learning Korean, Hangul will come quickly.

Hangul, as a phonetic representation, has about the same difficulty as learning hiragana, which takes about the same amount of time to learn.

Maybe if you are referring to older Korean texts that had Chinese characters in them, then I could understand.

> … It shows up in tools for Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew

Kanji (not a syllabary or alphabet), hanzi (not a syllabary or alphabet), and no vowels respectively.

These languages need some romanization support much more than Hangul, imho.
Why aren't you hostile against your Internet service provider for charging you for access? Why do you accept paying the ISP to access YouTube, but not paying YouTube or video creators?
If you actually had reproducible builds, the build date would not tell you anything about how out of date the software is—you would only need the date of the source code the binary was built from. By definition, the binary you'd get from building a version of the source today would be identical to the version you'd get building it the day that version of the source was finished.
Exactly the same "tech stack" as I used before that term became popular:

- HTML
- JS (Ecma Script, not some "framework")
- CSS (not "Typescript" or whatever, standard CSS)

For backend I'd use PHP. Yes, PHP.

Edit: The same would apply for $job
butthurt zoomers decide to give up high paying jobs because theyre mad they got laid off. ok i guess. more room for us.
So he's innovating by the fact everything keeps falling apart, but behold: everyone has not left yet (despite about 20% have). That's literally your explanation on how he's innovating.

Damn, I can innovate too, I guess.
Where can I search for this kind of discourse? There's a lot of "actual" here without names.
Interesting metaphor. In this case there are way more sheep then there are farmers. What happens if they organize?
There isn't a backup procedure. If something were to happen to the primary in San Francisco[0], that's it.

There have been many attempts to crowdsource the backup (e.g. http://iabak.archiveteam.org/, now defunct), but none have approached backing up even a tiny fraction.

The IA has been approached several times by companies offering to provide a backup location, but has rebuffed them on the grounds that they want any backup to be community-owned-and-maintained. Which I understand, but this is classic "perfect is the enemy of the good" behavior.

[0] Fortunately, SF isn't known for large scale natural disasters.
I, for one, wish we'd go back to physical storage media such as DVDs, Blue-Rays and CDs.

It made you value the content so much more.
There are many self employed or employed by coöperatives but the majority aren’t and moreover most likely would not take either path, but I’m willing to revisit the question in a few years. I don’t think the dial will move much.
17 for the minute, although Tomcat already has support for virtual threads
Nothing is stopping you from living a slower-paced, less competitive life right now, today. While still getting all the benefits of society being advanced enough to not die in agony of easily treatable diseases.
Do not get me started about my packages getting routed through "ONTARIO CA" -- which is a city in California.
> but I'll be efficient getting to the bar in a "climate controlled buildings" where I'll just stare at the iPhone some more and not really talk to anyone, as that's what everyone is doing, too.

Sometimes I wonder if internet people are living in parallel universe. I see literally opposite, wherever I go, of what people like you describe.
I'd trust Yann LeCun a lot more if he committed to eternal human supremacy, but he's said some dubious things in the past that amount to being okay with giving over the light cone to some arbitrary AI system. I'm pretty sure he does mean "light cone" more or less, he's a techno optimist.
I don't understand how anyone could be in favor of the death penalty.

Forget about the fact that sometimes innocent people get executed. Forget about how expensive it is to execute someone. Forget about the idea that the state shouldn't have the power to kill its own citizens.

Even forgetting all of that, I still can't see why you'd want to execute someone.

Is it that people want justice? Revenge? (What's the difference, here?) If so, fine. Is killing somebody really justice? Would it not be more just for someone to rot in a cage for all their years, instead of receiving the mercy of death? You can't teach a lesson to a dead man.

What's the point?
I'm so confuzzled, because later on, the story spins into a bitter, sarcastic rant about how preventing existential risk is considered regulatory capture and hence Bad.

I know that EY is terrified of a "hard takeoff"-style singularity, to the point of calling for datacenters to be bombed if it looks like they're taking risks with AI development. so presumably he doesn't give two shits about an oligopoly of enlightened billionaires choking off open-source AI research, dictating alignment and gatekeeping access, compared to the risk of Skynet he perceives looming.

so why is his take towards "AI safety" so much like my own? I guess he thinks the term has been watered down?
I can understand someone believing that this is how the world is, but I can’t see why you’d phrase it in such a nasty way.
Ooofff fuck, no I __need__ tips lol. Though I'm short of time right now (PhD + a job) so language learning has been on the back burner. I never found Duolingo helpful except in learning characters but Anki being better. But I have no better tips than that. I tried learning Chinese a few years back and found a language book and getting an iTalki tutor were infinitely better than any apps or any self study. I don't think you can do it without some tutor (even your gf).
> The world hasn't become less technologically dependent. Software isn't easy to write and even if LLMs make it more approachable for everyone, there is still so much digitization yet to come that there will not be less demand for software.

I’m old enough to have suffered through .com and the whole “outsourcing will take our jobs”. LLMs aren’t nearly as useful as on offshore junior engineer in a 12 hour different timezone.