skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> by definition some source of energy is warming it over zero Celsius degrees. And if there are huge oceans of liquid water, the source of energy somewhere must be huge also. This is all that life needs to thrive.

Unless you're counting the warmth itself as the energy source warming it, I don't think this has to be true. Earth's core is hot mostly from residual heat from the Earths formation. It's cooling. It just takes a long time.

Thermodynamics won't let you extract useable energy from the ambient temperature. Lifeforms could extract energy from a strong temperature gradient, but not from something like 1°C per kilometer.

The energy source for deep ocean life on Earth is life from near the ocean's surface that dies and falls down. The study in the article was investigating if something similar could happen on Titan due to surface impacts.
What about 2 decades ago?

From 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20150526182019/http://phys.org/n...

EDIT: Here's a more modest proposal of 125 GB in a crystal cube from IBM in 1995: https://web.archive.org/web/19970121005010/http://www.resear...
>> (And, if there is any other core concept I am missing, I would love to hear that too.)

When you get into parallel programming, I think you'll need more than just those 4. But I'm not sure what the reduction is. Something akin to forking and joining.
We've been there already, before transformers, with AlphaGo.

The AlphaGo model doesn't lose symbolic inference of the Q states/map it learned whereas transformer based models do.

Whether or not it can learn the coordinates of a more complex function (like f(x) = 123xe^3 + 12x^2 + f2(x)) depends on the amount of neurons in each hidden layer. Depending on how detailed the boosting method is, it is able to learn integrals (just as LSTMs can), the limitations about the detail of the result is limited by the implementation and the amount of neurons, hidden layers, and the boosting method.
The reach of a per financial institution credit file is different. I’m also not sure how much that is true or practical without a Pre-existing relationship with that particular institution but when your credit is polled for things that aren’t about even obtaining credit (renting/employment) what matters is the FICO Scorsese from the big 3. They have an outsized importance in functioning in society and deserve extra scrutiny.

I don’t have an inherent problem with having a broadly accepted and comprehensive credit-risk profile, but the way we do it and the institutions who profit off of it are disgusting.
The Earth is getting greener
They removed premium accounts, removed people buying awards before going ipo too.
It reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
Ngrok's developer-defined API Gateway: Shifting the paradigm of API delivery
"Note: I think public perception of healthcare as a moral good in principle is correct. It's just that there's a wicked mal-alignment of incentives which leverages that perception to cement a bad solution in place."

That is everywhere now. Birth, education, courtship/marriage, employment, ... all the way to death - everything is analyzed, pessimized, and stripmined for every last penny. "Enshittification" is all over HN and with good reason.
I don't know what that means - All I have are my own anecdotes and others.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=endmyopia+resul...

I personally went from -3.0 diopters to almost 20/20 vision. So either I'm experiencing a fabulous placebo or the 'known mechanisms' aren't as comprehensive as we've been led to believe.
Ask HN: Should I Change My Specialization Due to Market Saturation?
As a Computer Science graduate with over a year of experience in Full Stack development, I recently faced an unexpected career transition. My previous employer, facing financial challenges, made the difficult decision to reduce their workforce, leading to my departure. With a background in both frontend and backend web development, I find myself navigating a job market that is increasingly competitive, particularly for remote positions which are my primary focus due to the scarcity of local development opportunities in my home country.

Given these circumstances, I'm contemplating a strategic pivot in my career path. Considering the saturation in the web development sector, I'm evaluating the potential benefits of diversifying my skill set into areas such as Android or iOS development. My goal is to enhance my employability in the remote job market. I'm seeking advice on whether such a shift would likely improve my chances of securing a remote position, and if so, which platform might offer the best prospects.

Thank you
(Sorry for offtopicness but can you please email hn@ycombinator.com? I want to send you a repost invite for a different submission. The current one is good too!)
You don't even need a notion of ownership. A distinction between an immutable and mutable slice should be enough, because an immutable slice can never be changed which implies that its excess capacity (if any) can't be exploited for optimization.
You can't write any music accurately. Ask her if she can write a later Miles Davis solo accurately so that anybody can perform it just as he plays it :)

I work in a much more notation-bound genre (I am an orchestra bassoon player) and I would say you would struggle a LOT to notate twinkle twinkle little star in a way that makes everyone perform it the same.
> Yeah, it's their job. What's your point? Are they actually doing it? Signs point to no.

The share price today already reflects the long term outlook for the stock.

If you can 'juice' the stock and sell it high, that's a job well done.

> I think short-term ownership is one of the roots of a lot of today's economic ills.

Why? A change in ownership doesn't affect how stock are valuated. If it's eg widely know that a company is going down in five years (because eg their industry is declared illegal), the price will already drop today. It's just a standard backwards induction argument.

Btw, with the stratospheric rise of passive index investing, truly long term ownership has never really been more widespread than today.
I linked my account as they suggested and it looks like you can just go by your credit health not really money management and not a fan of YNAB.
I worked with Irina (at Parse.ly!). She's an incredible engineer. Any back end team would be lucky to have her.
IMO it's OK for work to be a big part of your identity. People should strive to achieve things professionally; it's a very human thing to master a craft for a living.

But, to be fair, work != your specific company. It's stupid to tie your identity to the people hiring you.
I can't even learn the names of 10 people I met at a party:)
It's a tool for constructing recursive functions when the language does not support a function calling itself by name. That happens if, for example, the language won't finish compiling the function and making a symbol with its name available for binding/linking until it's done compiling it, so.. in such a case you can't recurse by name. So what to do? Well, you make your recursive function take an extra parameter that is also a function value, and then you'll define a function that calls your wannabe-recursive function with.. itself as the argument function so that it can then call itself as intended.

It's quite simple when thought of that way. "Fixed point" can seem like a high falutin' term of art, and that's because it is -- we love our terms of art, but we also need to be able to explain them.

`fix` then is a function which takes a function value as an argument and which returns a new function value which is a function that calls the argument to `fix` with that same argument as its first argument. Reading that I realize it's hard to express this in pure natural language -- one has to introduce symbols for naming the various functions.
He'd probably be fine with that perception.
It’s a compounding thing. Ever since the rise of these LLM’s I’ve seen people argue against human experts by saying “the LLM says this”.

It’s like they’ve completely outsourced their thinking to the LLM.
Good kuck getting ICs to unionize. Otherwise it's 'there's more miners than mine bosses'.
It's all about the long tail cases.
Credit card network operators brag that accepting their network means customers will spend more. If spend increases even 1.6%, you are on net spending more.

CC acceptance decreases "friction." Some part of it is unlinking paying with the feeling of depleting resources when you pull cash out of your purse or wallet. Maybe running low on $20 bills and having to go to an ATM makes you decide to put one item back on the shelf. Or one's bank account is nearing bottom. In younger generations the opposite ironically can happen. They feel digital numbers fully but cash is spent more freely.
This article brings a very good question, let us say I have a stock news app and want to issue an alert everytime a new news item is added to the database for AAPL. There could be a 1000 symbols. What is the best way to implement this alerting system in postgres?
The updated "Except" says:

> The general thrust of the idea is true—Luce did run both the editorial and business sides of Time—so it is pointing me in the right direction.

My skim of the book suggests that's being too generous. Where is the "I can do this myself syndrome"?

The p 141 anecdote suggests it equally applies to both Hadden and Luce ("Hadden, the publisher, moonlighted as an editor, so Luce, now the editor, found himself moonlighting as publisher"), and that Luce had business experience by this time (he had been doing it for years, and was good at it; p104), and that contra Gemini, Hadden did not provide that advice, nor would Luce have thought it valid ("because he felt it necessary to compensate for Hadden’s inattention").

The author continues:

> So, Gemini is not perfect. You do need to check its work. But if you're careful it's a powerful tool.

I feel like that's a deliberate misdirection. Of course it's not perfect. That's never been the question. The questions are, how much do you need to check it is work, and how careful do you need to be?

I noticed https://every.to/about does not list a fact checker.
And neither did an average person. Why is it worth pointing out?
This is a strategy, but your results may vary. After a few years meditating on how much of my psychic energy I could give to my work, I found that programming for work was impossible. Understanding systems enough to update them, debugging, and keeping up with the ecosystem are very hard work. For me there’s no way to do it well without thoughts of work clouding my brain at all hours of the day. On the other hand, doing my job poorly is an even worse option. I don’t think I could live with myself if I brought apathy to work, since I do it more than anything else.
So as a result I don’t program anymore.

Knocking your ego down to a reasonable size is nice, but it probably also means not making very much money.
The law probably only applies if you upset the police or otherwise annoy someone in charge.
Agreed, they could use the help.

The issue I see is that is by far the most challenging corner case. It's not the largest market, but it's the most difficult to capture.

Good business sense would dictate that you should try to capture the largest market, that is simpler to capture first, then go after these more difficult corner cases.
Visual Logic – Build programming logic visually
Visual logic is a simple structured editor that helps you build programming logic visually by chaining operations on data. It contains data flow tracing, static types, first-class functions, code generation and many more.

Source code: https://github.com/aadityabhusal/visual-logic
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOfOhNwQL64
Totally agree on this. It was the true hacker spirit back then
I wonder why didn't they add a system crash analyzer component that would tell user their CPU is misbehaving (xor eax, eax) to save themselves some hard to debug support volume.
It is not about human language being imprecise. I can formulate the questions using the math language precisely with the exact same result (different number of roots are possible for different formulations of the problem for the same "physical" (coefficients of the quadratic equation) setup).

The Map is not the Territory.

Different maps can be useful. No true map.
> these things have sort of acted as a de-facto substitute for more traditional tribalism (patriotism, national pride, etc) for a lot of Gen Z / Millennials.

In 1963, Kurt Vonnegut called it a _granfalloon_: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle#Bokononism

- _karass_ – A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident.

- _granfalloon_ – a false karass; i.e., a group of people who imagine they have a connection that does not really exist. An example is "Hoosiers." Hoosiers are people from Indiana, and Hoosiers have no true spiritual destiny in common. They really share little more than a name.
> I'd argue that unless you're literally curing cancer, it should be the least important part of your identity.

You are probably going too far. You are spending a reasonable fraction of your waking life at your career. So you can make it a reasonable fraction of your identity.
I have a set of standard macros. I rarely write more.
>Keller is someone who could generally call any chip company in the world, and have a top job tomorrow.

How does someone achieve this? Raw IQ? The right schools? Right place/right time? Luck + effort?

Is there something a moderately intelligent person can do that has a high likelihood of moving them in this direction (if not actually achieving it)?
Gpt3.5 Regulating Itself
To piggyback on your point, some people like to be exploited, and I met so many hard working people who never realized the value of their work and how important they were to their company, maybe just blinded by the culture, but were severely underpaid.
What you've done, conversely, is to other the opposition until they are, from your perspective, "batshit crazy". The far left also believes in as equally divergent ideas from a global middle that you could apply any of your extremist epithets to them.

You are not the arbiter of what counts as reasonable beliefs. Neither is the far left (or the far right).
> The Defense Department is implementing a 2023 policy it interprets as allowing the replacement of human beings with human judgment.

Sounds like we'll be one hallucination away from Armageddon. Nice knowing you all.
Well, they could also deregulate their insurance and healthcare markets a lot.

Profit is only a small part of the overall costs.

See https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/20/the-amish-health-care-... for what's possible in the US right now:

> Amish people spend only a fifth as much as you do on health care, and their health is fine. What can we learn from them?
yeah, precisely. there's a reason new houses aren't built like that any more. you have the same problem in parts of the US where houses that are really not all that great to live in are nevertheless preserved as-is because they are "historic"
Why does your child need a Robot? What can robots do for children's development? Cognitive development, motor skills enhancement, orsocial development?
My favorite social network! Took quite a bit of problem solving to get in, and a shift in expectations to handle the wait times for p2p data transfer, but the high walls make for a chill community.
> Understanding systems enough to update them, debugging, and keeping up with the ecosystem are very hard work. For me there’s no way to do it well without thoughts or work clouding my brain at all hours of the day.

I often think about that Isabel Fall attack helicopter story [1], where pilots of the AH-70 Apache Mystics must have their brains rewired to include the helicopter as part of their gender, so that they'll fly by intuition. Otherwise they wouldn't be good enough to fly.

I thought this was an interesting premise already, but now I wonder how much of my programming skill is really ego. How much of my code takes up space in my brain where gender or religion or joi de vivre or something was supposed to be stored.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sexually_Identify_as_an_Atta...
idk

For longer context to brute force it the problem is more on the memory side instead of the compute. Both bandwidth and capacity. We have more than enough compute for N^2 actually. The initial processing is dense, but is still largely bound by memory bw. Output is entirely bound by memory bw since you can't make your cores go brrr with only GEMV. And then you need capacity to keep KV "cache" [0] for the session. A single TPU v5e pod has only 4TB HBM, assuming pipeline parallel across multiple TPU pods isn't going to fly, I haven't run the numbers but I suspect you get batch=1/batch=2 inference at best. Which is prohibitively expensive. But again who knows, groq demonstrated a token-wise more expensive inference tech and got people wowed by pure speed. Maybe Google's similar move is long context. They have an additional advantage as they can have exclusive access to TPU so that before H200 ships they may be the only one who can serve a 1M token LLM to the public without breaking a bank.

[0] "Cache" is a really poor name. It you don't do this you get O(n^3) which is not going to work at all. IMO it's wrong to name your intermediate state "cache" if removing it changes asymptotic complexity.
Just added it! Feel free to make a post :)
Perhaps because I am a frequent lurker.

I mean you can look the bot's post history yourself, no need to ask me.

And I'm sorry but lol @ 'strong inflammatory language' (it was neither imho) we are supposed to be adults here.
i'm aware of that. my comment was cynical as i'm fed up with overpriced premium products (especially from apple) failing to deliver. (angry side glance at my air pods pro 2)
<del>If we could, you could use AI to answer your own question</del>

You can use AI to answer why we can't do that
This didn't work for a long time. Chrome previously disabled position sticky on thead and tr elements: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41303743

I remember the browser support matrix showed almost all green when it didn't work for tables in Chrome.
How does an enterprise chat tool not have the ability to invalidate all session tokens and all connected clients to disconnect?
We're looking at what, multi PB per 1U now? Future is getting insane!
It is for sure a problem, even if some people say it’s 2-3% of the worlds emissions, it doesn’t matter , it’s a problem
I'd argue that you don't really need to remove the coin mechs if you set the machines to freeplay. And maybe that you could charge admission to get into an area with machines on freeplay.

I might not be willing to bet my machines on it, though. Although I would be highly amused to be legally declared a nuisance. :D
> or that it’s more lethal now than it ever was.

it can get much more lethal now compared to the past 50 years in US.
There's so many of these "just add water" little "semantic" CSS projects. Going through projects and seeing which are dead is always a chore. Maybe an AI scanning projects for "life" would be helpful?
> On your death bed you won't wish that you spent more time delivering value to a company (even a great one) than spending time nurturing relationships with loved ones.

To some extend. But I spend a lot of time with my loved ones. I would regret losing that the most, but I can totally imagine myself also feeling sad about that feature or project I never got to finish.
I think is the key, most likely it was a big part of their training dataset.
Why has any pleb been on the end of any innovation ?

Isn’t the entire point of Gemini bringing AI to the plebs ?
Seems to be missing some functionality I require: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/provi... (the addon does not appear to cut it either)
Something I've noticed is that some people protest too much. The remote engineer who insists that in-person work is for people who can't find friends. The light worker who insists that people who like working have no better meaning in their life. The blue collar worker who says knowledge workers don't have basic life skills.

It's just obvious there's a chip on their shoulder. By default, no one cares about these things.

One of my friends cares most about her family, her husband cares about that but work is a much stronger part of his identity.

Many of my smartest friends work remotely very successfully. Others like me, just as smart, work in person well.

Our friends and family who work in restaurants and factories and driving buses are often happy, though some are not. And more of the knowledge workers are happy because they're wealthier but some are unhappy regardless.

But the most striking thing is the difference between the ones who are choosing their path and secure vs. the ones who show other signs of insecurity: it's the statement of their choices as being their own without the obligatory put down of the other. This mechanism of justifying their choices. Insecurity pervades. The person choosing other than them is always flawed in some way they are not. The other's choices alloyed by some sin.
This same duty was there already for decades and it didn’t prevent them from destroying the environment. I don’t think it’s the gotcha argument you think it is. In the end their growth was bigger than any lawsuit.
I purchased the Windows version and uploaded the file to VirusTotal. It gave me two detections: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4da40fd5c643e9c7e771b896...
i dont think that balfour declaration has any relevance in modern "international law".

but given that you opened this topic, under international law, un charter, etc, do jewish people have right of self determination in judea and samaria ?
I think the impact of AI will be too pervasive and complex to be understood in terms of a simple winners/losers dichotomy. My prediction is this:

Software developers and lawyers will probably have significantly lower incomes, and so to some extent, we'll lose status relative to everyone else. But software and legal work will become cheap as hell. This ought to reduce prices generally on just about everything. Even housing prices should go down, as the median worker will be making less money. Governments will probably try to counteract the ensuing deflation with massive stimulus programs. Optimistically, this could culminate in new UBI programs. A happy outcome is not by any means guaranteed, but seems likely in the long term.
I had a similar experience with a huge lotus notes database I supported. Like a year after they let me go, they wanted to hire me back for the end of year/beginning of the year setup that the db required. They were super rude about how they approached me through the contract agency. I just ghosted them and figured they'd get someone to handle it for them. It was mostly documented anyway, but I assume they had also laid off anyone that knew enough about notes to follow the documentation.
Think about it... Google could train its AI to recognize malicious behavior for moderation purposes, to recognize astroturfing and manipulation of public opinion (for purposes of stopping it or carrying it out).

There's not much value in training it to simulate a redditor, but there's a lot in modeling bad behavior.
Sorry, but I know EndMopia believers don't know what the choroid is. Science knowledge is terrible in this space.

An arbitrary "correction" of two diopters is within the margin of error of the possibility of initial overcorrection, choroid changes, inherent small variability in eye tests, and tricking yourself into believing your vision is better than it is. -3 is trivially myopic, but if you do manage a 4 diopter change, verified by an ophthalmologist, not an optometrist, then you would be a medical miracle and worthy of multiple case studies. Get on it if that's the case!
i'd say if you want to go mobile go with react native and expo.
Lesson to farcaster, scuttlebutt seems to have managed to give every user a blockchain without tying it to any monetary value.