skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a point I always try to bring up whenever a "simulated universe" discussion comes up. I hope it is clear because I feel people often miss what I'm trying to say:

If the universe can be evaluated in a simulation, then the computer carrying out the simulation is not actually necessary. In fact, even defining the rules of the universe is not necessary, because the contents of the universe with any given set of rules are not changed by the act of writing the rules down. Mathematical truths are true, even if they're never discovered. If a universe can be simulated, then it has a mathematical description, which means all of its configurations, and all of the events within it, are determined from the mathematical description.

(As an inhabitant of the universe, you may experience non-determinism, but this is because you are limited to experiencing one path at a time. For example, you can make a mathematical model of the outcomes if you flip a coin 20 times in a row, and even though the outcome of any given path is non-deterministic, all of the possible observations are determined purely by the rules, and all are equally true regardless of how many times you flip the coin, or whether you even bother flipping the coin at all).

By analogy to Conway's game of life:

The outcome of any given configuration in Conway's game of life is fully decided regardless of whether anyone actually runs the simulation, regardless of whether anyone writes down the rules, regardless of whether anyone even thinks of the rules. The outcomes of Conway's game of life didn't become decided at the point that the first simulation was executed. The outcomes were always there.

No observer inside Conway's game of life has an experience or lack of experience due to the simulation being evaluated on a computer. Evaluating the simulation has no effect on the outcome. Evaluating the simulation allows someone outside the simulated universe to inspect its state, but it has no effect whatsoever on the observers inside the simulated universe. They were there all along.

The observations made by observers inside the simulated universe are decided by the specification of the universe, and are the same regardless of whether there is any computer outside the simulation actually evaluating it.

All of this is to say that IF our universe can be simulated, then we don't need the simulator. The fact that it can be simulated is enough to create all of our experiences. And in fact I think this is the "true" explanation (whatever that means) of why the universe came to be: we exist just because mathematics says we can. (And, further: every possible universe "exists" - as far as the observers inside it are concerned - and every possible experience is experienced).
Computers are not a means to an end any more. Computers are the end to a means since the ordinary user has no more choice not to use a computer at all. Ordinary people in 2020's use computers because a computer is the God, not because the man wants to run some program on it.
AVP already has foveated rendering so if MacOS had some awareness of what is being rendered it could potentially render unlimited windows since it would only need to render and stream enough to handle what is being looked at.

The primary problem I would guess here would be latency though so maybe not feasible. The other possibility is if the actual rendering happens on device instead of streaming pixels. It would dramatically decrease bandwidth required.

I think there's a solution somewhere for this.
I've found myself setting up a new Windows install - sometimes VM, sometimes bare metal - every 4-8 weeks for the past 6 months and it's sooooo painful. My computer is a vehicle for getting work done - just let me use the damn thing.
Sounds like there should be a use case for high density qr codes instead
"college-educated", in the US context, is a long way from "elite"

"Some college" is now ~60% of the population (closer to 2/3 in recent generations), so a similar characterisation on the wealth axis would be households with USD 100k or more in (pre-tax!) assets; holding the equivalent of a few cars or a small condo also does not strike me as being very "elite".

(in short, it would appear that "elite" in US discourse has become as meaning-free as "middle-class")
So true thanks for posting.

Minions must return to office and support CRE valuations!
This comment on another thread links to a succinct presentation of the Relational Model which you might find helpful - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39201972

Basically, SQL does not constrain one to a strict mathematical relational model since you can have ordering, duplicates, nulls etc.
To have a better understanding of what operations you are trying to do. I can't answer your question specifically because it depends a lot on use case and what date/time standards you want to use.
Interesting, no I'm on the pro tier aswell. So you're telling me you never get the character-by-character experience?

Edit: What prompt sizes are we talking about?

Even with small prompts I occasionally get rather slow responses but it becomes unbearable at 2000-3000 characters (the upper limit of custom instructions), at least for me it does.
They're trying very hard to make up for the tracking and personal data they cut themselves off from when exiting the smartphone biz.

However their behaviour with Windows and Edge makes me wonder what telemetric-hell their phones would have been by this point.
Regarding inflating the number of authors, it is especially bad in medicine, where I've observed a lot of names being added to papers for "political" reasons, despite the "author" playing no role in the paper.

Some journals now require an "Author Contributions" section to at least partially address this issue.
Brave is a browser with some kind of built in native cryptocurrency or something. Apparently despite that red flag the browser itself is decent
Haha!

I’ve ordered yesterday an unused old external floppy-drive (IBM) and a set of floppies (Sony). More for fun than on purpose. By the way you need them everywhere where stuff remains a long time usable e.g. the older B747-400 or trains, plants and heavy machines and so on.

I hoped that SD-Cards replace them because the slip into a slot (other than USB-Thumbsdrives), have defined speed-classes and you can write on their outside what is stored on them. Cars, cameras, bike-computers and so on use them everywhere but computer manufacturers failed to built them in or connect them properly via USB (I refer especially to Lenovo which connected the card-slots via PCI which prevented booting from them…).

Honestly. I don’t like optical disks. They allowed for higher capacity but they were like multiple steps backward and a huge waste of material. Mostly one time writeable, a lot of material required, big form factor and writing them was also complex. Optical disks are like technology which should have skipped over? I even myself bought once a mini-disc player…wasted money.
No - but they can imply that you should, and if you don’t make cashing the check more onerous opening an account.

I had this happen to me 25 years ago with Wells Fargo. I was on vacation and had a check drawn on the branch I was standing in front of - and foolishly thought it easier to cash it right the and there than wait to get home and deposit it. Boy was I wrong.

I’d also done this once or twice as an actual child in the early 90s and then it was not a problem.
> The nerd discussion on this sim question is totally serious.

Yes, but just as likely to result in a useful outcome as trying to count angels.

What I'm trying to say is that unless someone in this discussion is maybe a high-energy particle physicist, or astrophysicist, all we're really doing is the equivalent of trying to deduce what happened to the Holy Prepuce, or what Hermione Granger's canonical ethnicity is.

Which isn't to say that it's not a fun thing to talk about; but we should recognize that we're just sitting around the fire with a couple of beers and bullshitting, and that we can't make any really definitive statements here. We're at the Greek Philosophy level of being able to talk about this stuff - all thought experiments without much actual data.
Convert to unix times, and do the calculation with those?
I still like HTML+PHP, easy to deploy, no build process, can share code across pages, no packages to maintain or keep updated, no dependencies to install, no server-crashes as each request is independent etc.
Probably not. They don't need to send your data to Microsoft's servers to import the tabs in Edge.

Now if Edge also auto activates some sync service that sends your tabs to MS...
TFA has an update at the bottom that suggests it might be a case of the "continuous import" setting being synced between multiple computers after being set on only one. Not sure I believe it though.
I am letting language evolve naturally, by providing evolutionary pressure. The people who tell me not to correct people are the ones who don't let language evolve.
>What kind of narrative is being build around the feature to justify its implementation?

I dunno, what kind of narrative are Googlers or Meta employees using to justify building an ad tracking and surveillance dragnet for the whole world, including one that emotionally manipulates youngsters into depression and slef loathe?

Probably making enough money to be able to afford not to think about ethics. Everyone has their price, especially those with no wealth to their name.
Show HN: Alternative framework for OpenAI document agent for all models
Sure, but most Maths papers are read by like 3 people in total globally, so there's that.
a new SaaS service that lets you upload media (docs, PDFs, images) and generate a deployable NS ready to be used. it links to many AI models as mistral, llama, OpenAI, gemini and more
I experienced the same. My hack was to create a GPT to interact with the interface for me. It’s GPTs all the way down, and my prediction is that eventually every interface on the internet will be GPT-based communicating over their own GPT IR under the hood.

Oh god.
Or you assume it is a simulation and work from there: if you find how to open the console it is proof you were right ;)
Prefer table driven tests (2019)
Forbes listing is a big red signal
What legal battles do you have to fight, to move apartements?

I remember, I had to file one paper from the landlord and my ID and that was it. Took 5 minutes.
> Cashier's checks

Though I was surprised a couple years ago when I bought a new car. I thought I'd have to run to a bank branch to get a cashier's check to pay the balance (as I've had to do in the past). They were fine with just a personal check. I assume the finance guy had some means to verify I had the balance in my account.
"Ahh, cool, you want me to help blue collar workers unionize to get more leverage and agency against low empathy high status demanding usually elderly (55+) management. You got it boss."
I can picture future HN conversations now.

"It's a good thing copyright law exists to prevent AI from doing anything useful because I'm fearful of AI."

"Hey, does anyone know why the web has become so boring and useless???"

Who knows – maybe Google Search won't even show page descriptions in the coming years.
This take is terrifying to me. Obviously we all have things that we don’t want to be exposed to, and probably many things that we don’t feel anyone should be exposed to, but who gets to make the decision of what is acceptable and what isn’t?

Bias and financial interests in speech and content are more rampant, now, than they have ever been. I don’t trust anyone but myself to “save” me from seeing what I can only describe as “wrongthink”.
Since foveated rendering would only send the resolution required for what the user could perceive then even logs in the peripheral space would be ok since they would be sent in much lower resolution. I think the challenge with some smart foveated rendering would likely be latency.

Another option would be handling rendering on the Vision Pro rather than the MacBook so pixels don't need to be streamed at all.
I would be tempted to switch to edge for the sake of "super duper secure mode" [1] but they have violated my trust in so many ways that I can't bring myself to do it.

1: https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Sec...
It depends on context. Often reviewers are chosen because they work specifically in that area, and of course they know their work best. I've often done this as a reviewer in appropriate situations, where I point out closely related work that I've or others have done.

Of course, I've also seen EDITORS email me saying they would like me to cite some papers from their journal after I submitted my paper. That was definitely a turn off.
Junior development can be addressed with things like tuple.app and recorded screens when pair programming. That's how I learned a lot. Also, screen recordings of pair programming sessions are an advantage. The seniors I worked with would often go on tangents that I wouldn't remember, rewatching those sessions made me understand the tangents and have a much more complete context of what was said.

Remote work is a competitive advantage when it comes to programming.
the defence/offence line is pretty blurred... What with 99+% of the kills by the US Department of Defence being on other peoples soil...
I'd do it -- absolutely no issues. Gotta earn money to compensate the lack or deficit of social services and/or house prices.

I'd just protest a bit with an email for upper management just in case upper management tried to shift the blame to me.
In general for N total balls (N>1):

Pr(R,R) = 2 / ( (N+1) (N) (N-1) ) * N^3 / 3

The N^3 / 3 is just the integral of N^2 evaluated from 0 to N.

As N gets large, then Pr(R,R) approaches (2/3) because the cubic terms in numerator and denominator cancel out.

This means that no matter what N is, probability of red,red will always be greater than probability of red,green.
Bravo, building this must not have been easy
Writing is probably not the best medium to express a review of a product like this.

At least have a few more photos.
“Why does all this life keep showing up when I’m trying to simulate dark matter clouds. I’m this close to restarting with the parameters tweaked.”
You know, "operating just fine" is pretty relative. It the company lacked high-performance culture in the first place - yeah, it would continue to operate/decline just fine. Just a personal opinion.
In my last job we regularly talked to users for $100 for a 1 hour interview and user test.

The money offer helped a lot to recruit participants because with this treat it was more easy for colleagues to advertise the interview with friends and family.

Using friends and family as a lead is always most effective.
Having immigrated to both places: yes, much worse.
You can't disprove it but if the Deity in question lifted you into his world and allowed you to experience it, I'd say that would constitute proof.
Like those Star Trek Holodeck episodes whith doctor Moriarty where he becomes aware that he's only an hologram.

I always find it fascinating to think about that, when we would be living in an simulation, they could shut the whole thing down for let's say 1 million years, turn it back on and for us it would be like nothing ever happened. Like, I sit here write this comment, in the middle of it they shut it down, wait for "a while" to power it back on, and I wouldnt even know. :)
I know Germany always catches a lot of flack for bureaucracy, but changing my address in G was essentially pain free. The most adverse circumstances I have definitely encountered in the US of all places... Having rules is one thing. Having processes that are borderline broken, that's the real issue.
Wait, are you saying email is reinventing the wheel that is GitLab etc.? I think your history might be a bit backward here.

My advice is to develop your own personal tools in such a way that you can handle all kinds of interactions with other developers and projects. It's pointless saying "I prefer this or that" when you probably don't get to make those decisions. Projects develop workflows and common tooling like forges for practical reasons. But you, as an individual, shouldn't be tied to any one of them.

My point isn't at all about trying to switch projects from forges to email based workflows, it's merely saying that you can do things to improve your tools such that you can interact with those projects. If you find it difficult to work with a successful project with many contributors then you are the problem, not them.
> Now imagine some very advanced quantum computer (or something 10 generations after it) that can scale infinitely...

Yeah, um... about that assumption...

This solves the "too much detail" problem by assuming that they have magic hardware. That's absolutely not realistic in any way.

I mean, this whole thing feels like a substitute for God for those who don't believe in God. It's Someone who existed before the universe, and created the whole universe out of "nothing" (nothing pre-existing in this universe, anyway). Now you're giving Him infinite resources (or miraculous ones that can scale to infinity, which amounts to the same thing).
I would guess this article is paid propaganda. So many articles about RTO/WFH in the last few years, it's obviously trying to manipulate people. If you consider news today as a paid propaganda machine for the wealthy, articles like this make more sense.

The premise on it's face is wrong. A lot of big tech companies are forcing their employees to RTO, including Apple, Amazon and Google. If they aren't elite, I don't know who is. I suspect this article is designed to introduce class division into the RTO/WFH argument. Sadly, it will probably sway some people on that basis alone.

Return-to-office mandates in select tech companies worldwide 2024, by number of days. As of January 2024, several major technology companies, including Google, Amazon, Meta, and Apple, have implemented return-to-office mandates requiring employees to be in the office at least three days per week.
I think we need to shift from “prompt engineering” to “prompt vibing”— there is an astonishing lack of actual prompt engineering (eg A/B tests with evaluations) — and it usually isn’t the right frame of mind. People need to develop intuition for chatGPT — and use their theory of mind to consider what chatGPT needs for better performance.

Most people can get good with chatGPT if they know how to edit their prompts (it’s basically a hidden feature—and still not available in the app). Also, I recommend a stiff cocktail or a spliff — sobriety is not the best frame of mind for learning to engage with AI.

Obviously I need some controlled experiments to back of that last claim, but our human subjects board is such a pain in the ass about it…
?t=40s

Nice. Maybe GP got the wrong end, or it is a test of ripeness, or perhaps 'bite off the end' ruined it (it at least didn't seem to be necessary in the linked video).
13 century Chinese rockets were useful weapons or war though.
do you recall percentages? like 10% higher or 5x higher?
What does a holophonor opera have to do with this?

Just kidding. Futurama must hold some kind of record for sheer number of series finales.
> Sending just 1000 probes strikes me as fatally timid. We should be thinking in terms of millions of identical probes.

DDOS attack on Proxima Centauri—-planet spamming!
My understanding is that citations are used to avoid having to argue for the truth value of a proposition, not to give credit, nor to establish some kind of chain of trust. A sort of "I assume this is true, if you want to argue about it take it up with this guy". If two papers are very similar in structure, but neither uses the conclusions of the other to support the truth of a dependent claim, then I don't see why the older paper should be cited by the newer paper.
Yes they do. Check again.
There's an argument that anyone with a pension should be worried about commerical real estate[1].

UK-specific, but for political reasons our local government tier has been investing in commercial real estate for the last 15 years or so[2].

I've no intention of going back, of course. Someone else can take one for the team.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/pension-funds-feeling-pain-c...

[2] https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/local-authority-investment-in...
On top of that, in what universe is the typical remote knowledge worker “wealthy?”

Making a 50-70% higher salary than the median isn’t “wealthy.” That’s just “upper quartile middle class.” That’s a wage employee who depends on a regular paycheck and couldn’t remain unemployed for an extended period of time.

The word “wealthy” doesn’t meant that at all. “Wealthy” means you fly first class. “Wealthy” means you pay for luxury cars with cash. “Wealthy” means you own more than one home.

The median software engineering salary is now at the bottom cutoff for being approved for a mortgage on a basic home.

I bet most of the “wealthy” software engineers who worked in-office in 2018 and are remote now make less today after adjusting for inflation.
Given that the discussion is about whether or not the shareholder’s interests were violated, share price is a pretty good metric in this case.
Unless dollar looses it's reserved currency status Silicon valley is going to be fine
Yes instead of making improvements to their product like removing spam sites like Pinterest, etc - they are actually killing the good features which gives Google edge over chatgpt. Not sure what the gameplan is here.
Best selling car over a cherry picked time span is quite far from "best selling car of all time".
Hey, I bet you could hire a stand-in, to show at meets with a few buzzwords - TPAE
Citation needed. XD
Microsoft is a big company with a lot of different groups of developers, I bet a lot of them think this stuff is really dumb.
This is why I normally use "23/Aug/2023" form. Only breaks down if you don't know the months in English.
The old code was

targetEndDate = new Date();
targetEndDate.setFullYear(endDate.getFullYear());
targetEndDate.setMonth(endDate.getMonth());
targetEndDate.setDate(endDate.getDate());

Even if the endDate is valid, this can fail, because today is the 31st, which doesn't exist in endDate's month.

If you just did:

targetEndDate = createDate(endDate.getFullYear(), endDate.getMonth(), endDate.getDate());
// createDate is an intentional placeholder, I didn't want to double-check the actual syntax

you wouldn't pass through the transitional stage where you have the new month but today's day of the month, which is what causes the bug.

In this case, using mutation on the individual fields makes you have to transition through an invalid state to get back to a valid one, and the JS date object does something unexpected (though I think there's nothing good to do here, an exception is probably the best you could do). So mutation really is at issue here. In general, mutation creates room for these kind of counter-intuitive state transitions to arise.
> I, personally, can make a judgement about both of things better with a patch that I apply locally than with a PR.

FWIW, my git is configured in such a way that pulling from github also pulls all PRs for that repo, so, in effect, all PRs are applied locally, and I can review them however I want.

I do think that email threads (when all parties are disciplined and have them properly configured) are superior to the PR+comments format for discussion, but applying patches from a mailbox has never seemed to me like a pretty and reliable way to go, so at least github helps with that.

At any rate, git sucks for reviews in general because it still lacks mercurial's "mutable-history"/evolve approach to safe and distributed history rewriting (or "diffs of diffs"), and that, to me, is saddening as one more evidence that git's monopoly is causing stagnation and unnecessary pain in this space.
* Commercial Real Estate
I love working from home. So blessed. Quit my good job to go 30% less money just so I could stay remote.

It is elite because I don't have to commute.

I'm wealthy now in time and proximity.