skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many CEOs are regular people

Agreed

> who happen to be overtly charismatic to a fault.

Not so much.

> they're being themselves and doing what they did to get their position.

yes, there is a way of talking in industry that allows people to rise through the ranks. Its very rare that you get to the top by being an odious prick all the time.

However, people on the inside don't tend call out CEOs, because they need something from them. If you are frank with your CEO and they don't like it, you're out on your arse, to be replaced by a yes man. (not always, but its surprisingly common)

It is very easy to become a CEO as a normal person, only to develop into an horrid shit later.
We know nations go after critical systems, but what happens when crims join in?
I didn't have a problem understanding it, but then again, I've played these Alchemy games before. It was one of the first games I ever played on my first Android back in 2010.
I mean, this whole hypothetical is dumb. The top shipbuilding companies in the world are in South Korea and Japan - strong US allies.

But even if the Mississippi was covered in Chinese manufactured and owned ships, if war were to break out, we would just seize the ships. There would not be a huge impact to our infrastructure.

The only real vulnerability would be deep-water domestic transport - places like Guam and Hawaii. But the irony is the Jones Act has made these places more reliant on Chinese shipping because domestic transit options are so stinking expensive.
Goodbye to Aduhelm
Hi I am Textbook Master. There are 2 books that fit your desire. You can just read from first page to the back without doing any exercise and appreciate the physical world. Which none of (literally) other books can provide the same experience.

1. Conceptual Physics

High school level. Talk about physics concepts and their manifestation in daily life/the world around us.

2. Matter and Interaction

Non standard college level physics that fuse contemporary advancement on theory into old school classical physics. There is no rough transition from classical to modern physics in this book since authors successfully merged both in the same narration.
Moderates believe supply and demand applies to housing, and that building more housing, regardless of whether it is explicitly "low income", is the most important thing to improve housing affordability. In practice, this means favoring upzoning (allowing duplexes/triplexes/apartment buildings in more places), and minimizing burdens on developers. Eg, advocating against "inclusionary zoning requirements" that require X% of a given building to be rented out at below market rate and against long development approval processes.

Progressives believe that allowing developers to build housing will only create "luxury" housing that is unaffordable to all but the rich, increasing gentrification and displacement. Therefore it's necessary to mandate things like "inclusionary zoning" and tight review of every single development project.

Empirically, the progressive stance results in a lot less housing of any sort getting built, whether "affordable" or otherwise, and consequently higher housing prices for all but the lucky lottery winners who grab the limited number of BMR ("Below Market Rent") units. Some would say that that's actually the goal of progressives (ie, they're using "progressive" window dressing to preserve property values/neighborhood aesthetics of the very rich).
Ask HN: Do you have any games on your phone?
Who's to say that they don't have plenty of other simulations for simulating civilizations, and we're not just an unintended side effect in a dust cloud research sim?
I'm Blocked By Garry Tan, but Tan appears to actively focus on convincing his enemies that he is a real asshole.
It is good OpSec to scramble your DNA every six months, says no one ever.
Selling it is not a problem for the same reason they can't make a profit from it. It's not worth much.

(They do have valuable data, but it's the survey answers and friend and family connections. Nobody really cares you have a G at SNP 12213244243.)
Note .IO is the British Indian Oceans Territory, which is a disputed territory claimed by Mauritius.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago_sovereignty...
He said he was drunk when he posted the rant calling for slow death of most of the San Francisco city council, so of course he didn't send it to corporate PR to check. This kind of behavior shouldn't be acceptable for the head of a respectable corporation, even if his tweet hadn't led others to follow up with death threats. He should resign or be dismissed and YC should replace him with a responsible adult. This isn't a minor offense, it is grotesque. If he remains, it reflects very badly on YC.
Most people move between jobs.
Yes, those are both exactly what I believe, since that is exactly what I said. Nailed it.
The XML digital signature spec had that problem in spades. It took us about five times as long to button it down as it did to implement.

By the time I was done with that project, the document for partners and vendors (if anyone wanted to implement their own instead of using ours) was several times longer than the spec, what with all the extra MUST and MUST NOT situations. Which is not that hard when you're dealing with swiss cheese.

Document.findById and Element.findById being able to return different (non-null) results being the most egregious one I can remember.
Death threats are not free speech.
I published a blog post last month asserting as a footnote that telling ChatGPT in the system prompt "You will receive a $500 tip for a good response" does improve model performance, but Hacker News got very mad and called it pseudoscience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782678

I am working on a new blog post to hopefully demonstrate this effect more academically.
I get you are being sarcastic, but the real problem is people don't vote and you see this at every level of government office. Other than the president, it's hard to engage people (which I don't really fault them for) and so you end up with politicians - all across the field - who do nothing but pander to the most extreme voters.
Society and the victims are lucky that the letters are the core of the incident. Tan incited some lunatic to send IRL mail with a printout of the tweet to their home address, we're fortunate that he didn't incite some lunatic to send IRL bullets to the home address.

A wealthy, powerful, influential celebrity figure saying something 'regrettable' on Twitter often has real-world consequences. If he'd posted a tweet that read something like "Upload a picture of you assassinating so-and-so and a Bitcoin address and I will send you $100k" and someone followed those instructions, that would be conspiracy to commit murder. If he'd posted "I feel that so-and-so's politics are misguided" that's totally reasonable free speech.

There's also a question of scale or exposure. We legally define rights by qualitative analyses. I feel strongly that as technology increases the power of an individual that quantitative analyses are relevant too. If someone's speech will be broadcasted to 400,000 or 40,000,000 followers, that's one thing, if it's said privately to 4 friends that's completely different.

Somewhere in the middle of these things there's a line between right and wrong. I'm quite confident that telling an audience of 400,000 that you want a few named people to "Die slow motherfuckers" is on the wrong side of that line.
It is hard to believe that a company with the expertise of Adobe in graphics programming (Photoshop, Premier, After Effects, Illustrator) cannot build a vector design program.

Not for the workers using those tools. Adobe has been coasting for a decade if not more. Probably difficult to see from the outside if you're not directly using it daily.
You completely missed the point, in its entirety.

A. Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences.

B. Just because you CAN say anything you want doesn't mean you SHOULD. Part of living in society is acting... civilized.

Suggesting you should treat others with respect is now equated with hating freedom of speech? I guess our country really is in trouble...
from a few days ago, with more commentary https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145783
What does being Jewish have to do with receiving antisemitic hate mail shortly after October 7, a brutal antisemitic atrocity committed against Jews? Are you asking that in good faith?
OP author here.

This is correct, however, not everything is lit by sunlight, especially onset in the motion picture industry, where solid state lighting and its narrow band irradiance sources, e.g. led lights or led walls, are prevalent. Those emission sources induce a lot of unexpected appearance problems, e.g. metameric failures that RGB rendering cannot possibly solve. Our spectral renderer, i.e. Manuka [1], was specifically designed to address those issues whilst imaging with a virtual motion picture camera.

One recent example I have in mind is The Batman (2022): There are sequences/shots lit with high-pressure sodium lights (HPS), those have a flat spectrum with spikes between 500 and 600nm, the appearance of objects lit under them is very specific and can only be accurately reproduced with a spectral renderer such as Manuka, Mitsuba [2] or Art [3].

- [1] https://www.wetafx.co.nz/research-and-tech/technology/manuka...

- [2] https://www.mitsuba-renderer.org/

- [3] https://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/ART/about/
Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
This is very interesting. Is OCR good enough to reliably read these kinds of bills in bulk? Or have they been manually entered?
Sony, Zee clashed over Russia assets, cricket deal before India deal collapse
A tech CEO employing hip-hop in this manner is also supremely cringey, if you think about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKuoXw2h3Xc
Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences. You can't say whatever assholish thing you want and then claim freedom of speech as a shield when it inevitably pisses people off.

This is not a freedom of speech issue, it's a "CEOs shouldn't be idiots" issue.
Ever notice how most of them never even joke about certain things?

Like, say, death threats?

I'd be willing to bet that a lot of humans go their entire lives without joking about death threats.
I don’t understand your premise. Criticism is other people speaking their mind. It sounds like you want to speak your mind and dislike when others do in response. What is your thought process exactly?
Given the invention of the cotton gin, the slave owners should have been clubbed to death and the technology not used to make slavery more enticing but to improve productivity to reduce level of effort and provide more free time.

This can be translated to modern day.
Go work a week as a landscaper and then let's talk about programmer salaries. Anyone sitting on their ass making over 100k a year is overpaid IMO. Unless you are curing caner lets be honest you are just making the next fart app and no you don't deserve more money than people breaking their back to make your garden look nice.
You have two coins, one is biased heads and the other biased tails.

Someone picks a coin without you knowing which one, then starts flipping.

The first toss shows heads.

Does that mean subsequent flips from the same coin will be more likely to be heads?

Yes.

Answer is only no if all coins are the same with no bias, which they are not.
That’s what primitive 3D species always rule out. No offence, we are all so obviously primitive just by how much we don’t know.
I would push back on this. What is the goal here?

If thr goal is to master the skill, then it takes as long as it takes and there shouldn't be a deadline.

If you need to pick this skill up in order to accomplish a certain task, then mastery isn't what's required. This is a challenge we face regularly as software engineers. There is an art in deciding which rabbit holes to plunge down and which to step over.

My process for doing so is roughly to survey the field in a broad and shallow manner to understand the context, evaluate what parts of it are most relevant to the matter at hand, and then study them in depth. But try to keep it tethered to the task you set out to accomplish. The minimum amount of information you'll need to capture is probably still a lot, so don't put more on your plate than you can eat.
Show HN: Soar – Preflight Safety for General Aviation
TLDR of the linked post:

We're out to make pre-flight safety assessments for general aviation pilots simpler and faster by prioritizing key threats and using a LLM to translate hard to decipher pieces of information.

Let us know if you find this useful and we welcome all feedback!
We suck at building ships. We can't build them quickly or resource-efficiently. They frequently break down (remember Windows NT problems on Destroyers?). Washington State can't even figure out how to buy new ones.

The Jones Act has failed in every way.
The international consensus is that Crimea is Ukrainian territory.
Also, Musk wasn't giving it to them for free. The US was paying for it.
>By requiring U.S.-built and registered ships, it guarantees high safety and quality, which is really important for complex operations like wind farms.

It certainly doesn't - there are enough "cowboy" US operators who are working far below the quality and safety standards which are practiced by European contractors. It's really a struggle sometimes to ensure that things are done properly and safely in the US. It's a practically new industry in the US and there is a lot of catching up to do.
> The Overton window has shifted hard to the right in the United States,

Economically or socially and over what sort of time scale?
When I compare the "Hello" on the screen to the concept of "Hello" in my mind, I cannot hold the details of the character shapes in the same clearity as I do when I just focus on the shapes.

So the siutation with the two Hello's might be just as simple (My rough estimation: 100 bits) as the situation where I focus on the shapes.

That's why my feeling is that the lower bound for how complex the universe is, is 100 bits.
The tone is entertaining, but some of the snarkiness around the code is bit frustrating at times. e.g.

> # do i really need to say I'm not serious about this?

Can you just come out and say what you mean here? Like, presumably it's bad, insecure code, but can't you just spell it out for the benefit of your audience?

I'm probably being really picky here - just find this kind of developer in-crowd signalling to be really irritating and counterproductive.
I'm sure this will be possible in future Vision Pro devices, main issue right now is probably performance. Macbook Pros already can only push to 2-3 monitors (albeit at higher resolution) and the Vision Pro is also running its own apps simultaneously alongside the Mac window (curious if it is the Mac or Vision Pro doing compression and other processing work for streaming to the headset). Apple being obsessive about frame rates and performance are likely erring on the side of caution before allowing too much. For example the recent downgrade from 1080p to 720p when it comes to streaming the Vision Pro screen to other devices.
To be clear, this paper is about advances in optical waveguiding and has nothing to do with space.
Funny, I thought of superheroes, because they're called "supes" in The Boys. I was confused whether this was a joke announcing a new season of The Boys. I clicked the article just to clarify what supes meant lol
The funny thing is the money doesn’t even go that far in Silicon Valley! You’d often be better off making less comp but living nearly anywhere else in the world.

My theory is the real reason for the return to office mandates is to keep employees stuck in a situation where they are compelled to chase big comp and compromise whatever morals they once had just to put food on the table.
The sound effect for successful combination is 80% the fun
PostgreSQL Extension Network (PGXN) Challenges
Absolutely.

But freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences of that speech.

Like people judging what you say.

I'm a free speech absolutionist, but I still think neo Nazis are assholes. I think they should be allowed to say it (absent violence), but anyone who chooses to say it is going to drastically change the way I think of them.
I wish Adobe InDesign had more competition for desktop/print publishing as well. Affinity Designer/Publisher seems a popular alternative for Windows and Mac for a one-off cost.

Scribus is open source and runs on Linux but I found it hard to use and slow on a modest document. Does anyone know of other good options on Linux? I've seen some posts about Affinity running unofficially in Wine but it seems a risky choice. There's LaTeX but that's not for everyone.

Figma isn't open source but at least you can use the web client on Linux. I'm curious if Figma will even get into print design also, as it doesn't seem like they'd need to add that much to support the basics (like CMYK color model and exports for different printer color profiles).

Unfortunately, Figma, Adobe and everyone else have the broken incentives to make money by locking teams into expensive subscriptions via closed file formats and a family of products that don't play nice with products from other companies. I recall that Sketch had a documented file format, which Figma used so you could import your Sketch files into Figma to escape Sketch but you can't go the other way.

I'm not going be surprised when Figma gets less generous with their free plan in the future now that they have such a strong network effect.
Did anyone else get blocked on Twitter by Garry for liking a tweet critical of his San Francisco housing policies?
>The average index fund fails to outperform the S&P

This is a straw man as most people understand investing in indexes as buying a an index that tracks the s&p.

>If you are picking S&P as your champion, then I am allowed to pick a hedge fund as my champion.

You are making a false equivalence. The s&p is a proxy for the us market and therefore is a benchmark. It captures the captures the bets placed by all market participants including citadel.

Citadel does something beyond buying and selling equities to generate that alpha. And it’s likely not just restricted to equities. Nonetheless they are an outlier. Which is the point I was making. Most people won’t do better than the us market in aggregate over a similar stretch of time.
Your reading comprehension could use a bit of a tune up.
The comment you linked is not from a GitLab employee but a community contributor.
Because the supes didn’t formally pass a resolution about Scott Wiener, it’s hypocritical of them to informally criticize any kind of dear threat?
I never got that company, to me it seemed foolish from start.
Bug report: I got to 'Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega' and it can't be combined with anything
> To create a recurring revenue stream from the tests, Wojcicki has pivoted to subscriptions.

Just in case, you know, your DNA changes /s

I attended Ann's talk at Google when she was still with Sergey. They had spit kits in case anyone wanted to do it on the spot (I didn't).

When President Clinton announced the completion of the human genome project, he looked forward to all the wonderful drugs that would follow therefrom. Then I took a number of extension classes in molecular biology and drug discovery, and learned from the people who actually do it that DNA information is often helpful, but it's not a silver bullet.

> Sequoia, which invested $145 million in 23andMe, still holds all its shares, he said. Today they are worth $18 million.

.. and this is why those VCs get the big bucks /s
I recently attended a talk by someone at Balsa Research last week about the Jones Act. Balsa Research is trying to get it repealed. Highly recommend checking them out.

https://www.balsaresearch.com/
It invented narlwhalicorn from narwhal + unicorn, cool
What is X-Forwarded-For, and when can you trust it?
Speaking as a researcher, I think the whole citation business was invented by and consumed by administrators. Researchers don't need citation numbers to discover new works and evaluate people. They are perfectly fine asking their circle of friends, using journal quality and author fame as a crude proxy, and (most importantly) just read the damn papers and reach their own conclusions.

Administrators needed some objective metric that allow them to make decisions themselves without relying on the personal opinions of researchers, whom they don't trust. This is magnified by rankings that like these metrics for the same reason, publishers trying to promote journals, and database access sellers.

Unfortunately, this has now circled back to the researchers, because the administrators are making hiring / promoting decisions based on these metrics, and people started to game the system. However, I think in many circles, there is a healthy culture of rejecting this nonsense.
I had a friend in high school who was a great athlete and his coach pointed out that no-one in our region at our age level did the pole vault, so he registered and got gold every time at the county then regional level for a while till others figured out they could join in. I remember his annoyance at the first meet where someone else showed up to compete and he had to actually put in effort.
That's a nice example of permanently solving a problem. I think my favorite example (not really relevant to learning, but funny) is an anecdote about a rich guy who had many houses and was always lugging shoes around. Eventually he just buys a hundred pairs so he never needs to worry about shoes again.
There's a lot of censoring here, not sure how you can be so certain. I think that the admins outsource most of the censoring to "senior" users though by giving more weight to their flagging.
> If you dislike their politics, so be it - donate to campaigns or personally run against them. Write a letter explaining how you'd like them to vote.. But the amount of absolute crass behavior people allow "because it's the internet" is mind boggling.

I don't even think it's "because it's the internet." "In Real Life" political discourse has been getting significantly more and more crass and more and more belligerent in the last 10-15 years. Go over to YouTube and bring up some Reagan-Mondale or Clinton-Bush debates and compare their tone and temperament to what we see today. People still felt strongly about the issues back then, but we weren't so constantly hurling threats and potty-mouth insults all over the place like today.
I was just thinking that.

How can you be in support of Freedom of Speech,

and at the same time be out here saying there is "too much criticism"?

It doesn't make any sense.
The October 7th terrorist attack was aimed at Israel.

Are you asking your question in good faith?
Deepfakes, trolls and cybertroopers: how social media could sway 2024 elections
it can be highly inconvenient not to "volunteer"

I guarantee you don't have a child in public education.
Basically all the big semiconductor companies do R&D in Israel
> being certain that this report will not be censored here

Why? HN censors shit all the time, and its all invisible unless you go looking for it.
Agreed. Our designers work in Figma and I hate it, the devs tend to import into Sketch because it's so much nicer to work in.
> there has to be some process reversing entropy

That's true in our universe, not necessarily in others and certainly not in a universe containing our universe.