skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"YX Problem" aka "geeksplaining" originated right here on HN 9 years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10023951

Also a few other takes based on that comment.

https://csf.github.io/blog/2018/05/01/the-yx-problem/

https://yxproblem.wordpress.com/ (SEO ad farming page?)
dupe from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635232
Why Can't We Have a 'Discuss' Button for Hiring Posts on HN?
I recently came across an intriguing hiring post by Snapmagic [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=snapmagic.com), a YC company that's carving out a unique niche. The opportunity they're presenting seems not only promising but also raises a lot of questions about their journey and strategy, especially in terms of their AI focus.

For instance, if they were part of YCS15, I'm curious about the timeline of their evolution towards AI. Was AI always part of their grand vision from 2015, or was it a strategic pivot they made along the way? These kinds of discussions could add so much more context and value both to potential applicants and the broader HN community interested in the dynamics of startup evolution, technological pivots, and the real stories behind a hiring post.

However, there's no straightforward way to initiate these discussions directly from the hiring posts, leaving us to find roundabout methods like creating separate posts just to talk about it.

I believe adding a 'Discuss' button directly on hiring posts could foster richer conversations, deeper insights into companies and positions, and potentially even better matches between companies and candidates. What does the community think? Is there a specific reason such a feature doesn't exist, or could it be a valuable addition to Hacker News?
I think the original plan was to convert the heat back into electricity with a turbine. So the higher temperature of sand would greatly improve thermodynamic efficiency.
NIST to Launch Competition for AI-Focused Manufacturing USA Institute
Doesn’t matter as far as the Constitution is concerned. It says “Congress shall make no law …”. Doesn’t add anything about “except in time of war” or “when it’s really inconvenient” or “when parents fail to monitor their child”.
There really isn't a lot going on here. They're trying to simplify the model, but running into issues with the small sample size.

Many papers tend to use overly dense speech, and a lot of it seems to be self-congratulatory on the part of the authors. On the one hand, they're addressing their small audience at the forefront of their particular field. But on the other, they do appear to take pride in their prowess with academic gesticulating.

It's the exact opposite of Bezos' recommendation to write simple and to try not to sound smart [1]. There's a way to be precise without it being impenetrable. Unfortunately, those writing the primary literature sometimes enjoy their special cathedrals. And at the end of the day, they're not writing this stuff for the layperson. It's a shame, though, especially with regard to publicly-funded research.

[1] https://medium.com/@writerbites/how-to-write-like-jeff-bezos...
Netflix is optimising for our attention as a way to get money; if the content creators are also on UBI and create only for their own artistic vision, we'll probably mostly be a lot less interested in what they make — the alternative is that Holywood is run by people who add nothing and possibly actively harm their own businesses, for which I will let y'all supply your own punchlines.
Blocking it entirely is indeed a novel use.

It is an procedure distinct from the mere delaying of precocious puberty.
I think you're referring to Bowerick Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged -- an immortal who went about insulting every living being in the universe in alphabetical order :)
I'm sorry but you have no grounds to claim you know Chinese people's political outlook based on a visit.

Mainland China is still cut off from knowing a big chunk of human thought. Realism - the school of thought you're describing - is the Marxist mode in a place you can't vocally disagree without serious consequences. No wonder it's what you heard.
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What about the Heat?
Let's assume fusion is available to everyone, anywhere, at all times. "Green" energy from A to Z.
Things are jolly, no more green-house gases, no more radioactive Cs-o-Sr that replace the potassium-o-Ca in our bodies, thus having us radiated...
But... every form of energy, as far as we know (which, despite all the fuzz, is not a lot), eventually ends up as heat. The motion of atoms and molecules. Can't stop it, can't prevent it.

How one gets rid of heat w/o causing another form of green-house effect?
We've solved one issue but introduced another. We've made available "free & green" energy to everyone, thus enabling rise in consumption but then - what about the heat?

The question goes beyond...the ask. Once we solve a given problem, the solution itself mutates into another problem, harder to solve and sometimes the solution resembles the suit juice that the hungry fly dreamt about...

Everybody wants to have the greatest and best of talent but does one know how to keep it content, engaged, challenged? W/o the fakery, propaganda and "we are family" cr/\p? Most want to be billionaires, but strangely, few are willing to have the life of one - with all ups`n`downs. And there are lots of downs.
Especially once you've gotten the "ups". At certain points, we've all imagined living the "high" life, having big houses, fancy cars, fans, being "recognized" and "validated" & etc - but have we taken into account what it takes to maintain those? Or... we think, "Am a BiLi baby, will hire people to figure it out for me!"? Cool, but people can figure out only so much. And... still, what about the heat? It gotta go "somewhere". Say in space but... when the rate of generation becomes higher than the rate of dispersion, then what?
We still got just 1planet...
If you’re planning on commercializing this, absolutely do not expose your employer to it.
In Edinburgh Botanic Gardens. Beautiful for other species too.
And Gene wrote the assembly tools that did shotgun assembly of the human genome for Celera when most folks (except Jim Kent who wrote the _other_ assembler (used by the public sequencing effort (NIH,Broad,UCSC, etc…)) said it couldn’t be done. IMO, he and Jim Kent deserve a Nobel prize for these efforts.
Yeah; we're a public cloud platform, not a VPN service, so the key was just making sure everybody could drive our services. The "normie" way to do all of this stuff, at existing public clouds, is just HTTP anyways.
Chrome Extension Hell
Thanks for pointing it out, it made me look closer at it.

I normally would actually welcome GPL, because it allows to keep project being open source.

Though looks like project also comes with CLA where anyone who contributes surrenders their copyright to FloxDev, Inc.

What this means, is that no one can fork it and make from it a commercial product. Many would say this is great as it can keep the project open source, except the CLA gives FloxDev, Inc. option to change license at any moment to whatever they want, including making the project fully closed source.

I don't think such project can be called open source. It feels like a Trojan horse to fool developers (kind of what Hashicorp did). I mean it is the right, but if you're contributing to it, you're not contributing to Open Source project but volunteering free work to another company.
I have been testing quite a few: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/02/10/2000
Call by Hash
These things are not in conflict. It's very easy to build 100% car-dependent high-density residential. Just cut a subdivision off an arterial and chuck a 5-over-1 or some townhouses in there. That's the vast majority of multifamily development by volume.

Multifamily housing is valuable against car-dependence in the context of a city street grid with mixed use zones or at least somewhat proximate neighborhood commercial zones. Then the people living there actually have destinations they can walk to, and routes they can bike or take transit on that aren't "snake around to the subdivison's one interface to the 6-lane arterial, and try not to die on it."
But that's a different use to blocking puberty entirely for psychological reasons, which is what this change in policy is about.
My friends mother took her car Saturday afternoon to a stretch of Bloor Street around Runnymede to do some shopping. She parked her car, got a parking slip, went in the store for about 15 minutes and her car was gone. She was confused because there was another car in her spot and she started to question her sanity. But it turned out that it really was stolen. Insurance company found it a couple of hours later in Mississauga because it had an tracking device. This is like the 3rd time the vehicle (Lexus) has been stolen.

Since there are no consequences to car theft in Toronto, it is a highly lucrative career...
To me it's never been that "intrinsic value" of Bitcoin makes much sense, but that it holds up a mirror to the incumbent system and how little that makes sense either!
I may have not been clear that someone begged me inside the Panda Express. Likewise, someone recently begged me inside a favorite cafe. These were both first-time incidents.

I assume--no, hope--people misread me, and thought I meant 'on the way to/back'. If not, I'm horrified: it is not normal, and should not be normalized.
It's desirable by people who have it - that's not the world. That's people who have stake in the game.
I’ve been tracking that and NPU support. Neither are… OK at this point.
Demo gif. Implementation via Apps Script, WASM, Rust, and RustPython
If Hamas on Oct 7th managed to kill 1% of Israel's population I would not call it genocide. Don't tell me what I'd do. If they killed 5% of Israel's population I would still not kill it genocide. I can give plenty of evidence to the genocidal intent of Hamas but that coupled with killing 1% of Israel's population is not a genocide.

Your "unsourced propaganda" comment is offensive bullshit, but here are some sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/oct-7-sexual-violence-united-n...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67629181

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-hamas-used-sexual...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-at...

https://theintercept.com/2023/12/24/feminism-sexual-violence...

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/02/03/hamas-raped-a...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13005021/october-ge...

https://www.businessinsider.com/hamas-sexual-violence-octobe...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/world/middleeast/hamas-se...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/israeli-activists-say-worl...

https://news.sky.com/story/womens-genitals-systemically-muti...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/12/witnesses-confirm-rap...

https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/12/29/horrific-new-evidence-...

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sj62yy7na

https://nationwideradiojm.com/bbc-hamas-raped-mutilated-isra...

https://oct7map.com/women

https://themedialine.org/headlines/special-report-on-deliber...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/23/israel-shows-f...
More like people who can afford houses want bigger houses. If selling more affordable smaller houses made more profit then they would be sold.
For reference, if my counting is correct, Mandarin Chinese has:

~1465 syllables considering tone (is there a word for this?):
~416 syllables ignoring tone:
21+1 initials (b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, h, j, q, x, zh, ch, sh, r, z, c, s, empty)
35+1 finals, consisting of a subset of the possible pairs of:
3+1 medials (empty, i/yi, u/wu, ü/yu; but note that "u" is used instead of "ü" after some initials)
10+3 rimes (empty, e, ê, a, ei, ai, ou, ao, en, an, eng, ang, er; note however that the spelling often varies based on what initial and medial precede it, in particular this is how "o" appears in several unrelated places):
?6+2 combined non-medial vowels (empty, e, ê, a, ei, ai, ou, ao; but this isn't a particularly meaningful thing to count since medials can occur without a main vowel, and there are so many irregularities of the pronunciation and spelling)
2+2 codas (empty, n, ng, r; note that "m" can also appear as a syllable of its own but is an initial with a vowel that has been lost, unlike "r" which is clearly a bare coda with a practically-absent vowel; syllabic "n" and "ng" are bare codas unless for a character also pronounced bare "m")
4+1 tones (¯, ´, ˇ, `, and neutral; neutral tone is only allowed for a handful of syllables; fairly often only 2 or 3 tones actually exist for a given syllable)

Most of the weirdest cases are for interjections and core function words - only a few characters, but fairly common in (informal) speech. But note that Pinyin absolutely is a mess of exceptions, not any kind of organized thing, and only some of that can be blamed on the fact that it's trying to model human speech.
I see hundreds of new job adverts on Linkedin everyday. How much of it is genuine?
Many professors work for free… it’s called an unpaid adjunct position. You’d be surprised how extremely common it is- students paying a ton and the professors unpaid. Often they are doing it for experience hoping to move into a paid position someday, which are in short supply… or they have multiple jobs and the other one is related in some way and pays, but being a professor has advantages such as students that will work for you for free, and the ability to use the university’s name when writing grants and papers.

I knew a humanities professor that taught a heavy course load for years, and he and his wife lived off her paycheck serving food in the university cafeteria.

Sometimes getting an unpaid adjunct position can still be extremely competitive and hard to get. Academia is pretty weird.
Market is the worst it has ever been, at least in the last 10 years but even before because now supply significantly outnumbers demand. Most people on LinkedIn have a green badge. The economy is doomed. Keep rising interest rates to the sky.
Both problems come from hiding assumptions in an attempt to focus on a conclusion, which is presumed to be the only relevant information. That's not a bad thing to do in general -- we always have to be selective what we communicate. It's only bad if your hidden assumptions are wrong.
Thanks, that’s much more helpful than the article.
> how does one determine what "best" is for multiple subjects?

Perhaps invert the question - how to recognize "not-best"? If it's on a consensus list of common misconceptions, it's not-best. Science textbooks, web and outreach content, are thus often not-best. If the topic isn't the author's direct research or professional focus, it's likely non-best. People badly underestimate how rapidly expertise degrades as you blur from focus to subfield, let alone to broader field. Journalism is pervasively not-best. If the author won't be embarrassed by serving not-best, it likely is. Beware communities where avoiding not-best embarrassment isn't a dominating incentive.

> not exact sciences.

Most content fails even the newspaper test, that any professional familiar with the topic will recognize that it's wrong. This applies as much to science and engineering as to whatever. Not-best.

"Soft" fields do have challenges. Subcultures with incompatible "this work is great/trash" evaluations. Integration of diverse perspectives in general.

But note that agreement and uncertainty is often poorly characterized. A description of "A, B, and C" rather than "A. And also B and C, orders-of-magnitude down.". "B vs C!" rather than "A. And A.B vs A.C." Leaving out the important insight, the foundational context, is common. And sloppy argumentation. Not-best. Basically, there's opportunity for very atypically extensive pruning of not-best before becoming constrained by uncertainty rather than by effort.

Once you eliminate the not-best, whatever remains, however imperfect, is... far less wretched than usual.
Imagine the travelers all sitting in large cars and you have a good picture of how much space that consumes.
How long ago was this? The idea seems simple enough and would really benefit from the increasing glut of renewables. Even better, unlike a sand battery, you can potentially cycle it for several months of summer, by offsetting consumption by just a few hours feels like it could be economically viable.

Then again, the competition is general purpose batteries which can be used all year and probably require less maintenance.
HN commenters frequently resort to describing the choices of software available to internet users in terms of "winning" or "won". This is more "all-or-nothing" thinking. People sometimes write software for the enjoyment of it, or to satisfy personal needs. That is, for non-commercial purposes. Sometimes this software becomes popular, sometimes it does not. In either case, the software persists; it remains available. It does not have to "change the world" in order to be useful. If it is non-commercial, it does not "win" or "lose", except in the minds of HN commenters who can only think in all-or-nothing terms. In truth, it simply exists as an option for all internet users.

It is possible that "AI" might not be as world-changing as its proponents are claiming. However, if it is free and open-source, and non-commercial, it may still persist and remain useful, regardless of whether it becomes popular or not.
well just last week I heard on NPR, may be Marketplace. They were saying there are these huge tech layoffs happening but unemployment claims haven't gone up that much because people are getting new jobs quickly. So basically I don't know what/who to believe.
My only issue with that is, it's behavior over the past 15 years seems to have a lot of interest rate risk built into. The thing about gold is historically it has been a store of value that is independent of interest rate risk, and I'm just not seeing much evidence that BTC is also orthogonal to interest rates. When rates went up, BTC went down. When interest rates were low, BTC also mostly climbed. If I want exposure to the interest rate + some extra exposure to other things I can just invest in equities.
"elwebmaster" posted a completely contradictory assessment of the market 11 minutes after you.

WHO DO I BELIEVE?
You are right. This assumes Mandarin.
Given the constraints and so many compromises I've taken, this isn't too bad a stretch. After all, all other dialects in Mainland China are seldom used in written text, especially in the field of technology. Mandarin is the one and only go-to option.
I am not judging whether this is good or not, but it is the current situation of Chinese languages.
100 MWh is 8 tons of "oil", according to a google search. Oil is probably about the density of water, so 1 cubic meter is about 1 ton of oil, and this structure is about 2000 cubic meters, so oil has 200 times the fuel density of this battery.

It's still pretty good though.
LA _could_ be much more like Tokyo if USA cared to make mass transit work.

# Service accurate enough to set a clock by.
# Service mesh that provides walk-able freedom.
# Safety and cleanliness (both a culture and enforcement issue)

Yes, there would need to be a slight increase in density as well as much more transit service; but that metro area could scale up were there enough water.
Totally valid, but more and more people want it every day and are buying it.
The new etf's have provided them with an alternate method of doing so and are currently the most successful ETF launch of all time. The daily demand of the ETF's far outstrips the number of new coins generated weekly. Add in the fact that that newly generated supply is getting halved in a few weeks and you have a good outlook for BTC pricing.
You’ve just described what is implemented in TextEdit since time immemorial, which is symptomatic of modern applications :)

Seriously now, why can’t we have normal desktop apps anymore…
This is a little hard to understand without more context. What's a "Spin WebAssembly application"?

edit: Seems to be this: https://developer.fermyon.com/spin/v2/index
The cynic in me says they’ll tie it to Ukraine and Israel funding.
My observation is that companies are getting much more precise on their needs. The days of “you’re smart and have a technical background” have given way to “there’s a dozen people in the market who have the exact experience we need, so we will limit our pool to them.”

This is especially painful for college grads, who don’t have specific experience to fall back on.
And we're having a hard time finding experienced and skilled engineers... trying to hire for a senior nodejs role, over a thousand applicants (most people just hit apply without reading the description, over half are disqualified for not meeting the basic requirements), dozens interviewed, and we've only managed to hire 1 person that seemed close to being qualified, and he quit after 2 months of barely working. We're around a ~600 person company.
Agree, so much of our global financial system is just made up and produces wealth from the ether. Credit default swaps...
I was looking for a change 6 months ago (had a job, did find a new one) and applied for a few positions. One of them in a large/known company that engaged with me and then rejected me without interviewing me. That posting is still up on LinkedIn and it's hard to believe they couldn't find someone to fill it for like 7 months. So one can only conclude it's not genuine.
Yes, and RTF text editors allowed for just that. Which apparently is a lost art these days…
>asking for a recent transcript

What does this mean?
The million dollar AI engineering problem
Is there anything that makes spin stand out?

From what I've read, it seems much more complicated then it has to be. I've been running crun with wasmtime enabled since about 1 year in my private test clusters. No shim, no operator, no runtime class manager. I just have to set one extra annotation to the pod.

Only problem is that most k8s distros ship with runc. So there is no out of the box experiance yet, but it is a super efficient setup.
Your approach seems more managed/enterprise ready, but also a more complicated. I don't want to be rude, I just want to get what additional value I would get from this since there a so many small differences in the WASM runtime world and I'm not super familiar with most of them
> I don’t know where these changes came from. And I believe these are indeed changes from the original release...

Well, our copy at school was on a 5.25" floppy, with a sticker over the write-protection, so we'd regularly take the sticker off, change the code, save the file, and put the sticker back. We didn't really know what we were doing, but finding arithmetic in code and changing it was not beyond the ability of a clever 6th grader.

So if people were getting the source from old floppies... changes could have come from kids like me who did not realize how obnoxious our decisions were are that point in our lives.