skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why some of the very best theoretical physicists, who were entirely free to work on whatever they wanted, continued working on string theory

Historically, it is not unusual for intellectual wrong turns to persist for decades or centuries. On the flip side, brilliant insights can also be abandoned too early.

The problem here is that data has dried up and cannot guide us. Some future tech will open up new data and then progress will resume. Without data, physics becomes theology.

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Feynman's talk "Seeking New Laws" excerpt:
"But the age that we live in is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature. And that day will never come again. I don’t mean we’re finished. I mean, we’re right in the process of making such discoveries. It’s very exciting and marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Of course, in the future there will be other interests. There will be interests on the connection of one level of phenomena to another, phenomena in biology and so on, all kinds of things. Or if you’re talking about explorations, exploring planets and other things. But there will not still be the same thing as we’re doing now. It will be just different interests.

Another thing that will happen is that if all is known– ultimately, if it turns out all is known, it gets very dull– the biggest philosophy and the careful attention to all these things that I’ve been talking about will have gradually disappeared. The philosophers, who are always on the outside, making stupid remarks, will be able to close in. Because we can’t push them away by saying, well, if you were right, you’d be able to guess all the rest of the laws. Because when they’re all there, they’ll have an explanation for it.

For instance, there are always explanations as to why the world is three dimensional. Well, there’s only one world. And it’s hard to tell if that explanation is right or not. So if everything were known, there will be some explanation about why those are the right laws.

But that explanation will be in a frame that we can’t criticize by arguing that that type of reasoning will not permit us to go further. So there will be a degeneration of ideas, just like the degeneration that great explorers feel occurs when tourists begin moving in on their territory."
1. It comes from the concept of 'causal inference' in statistics[1] — when we started out, we though the product would go in a much technical/statistical direction, but we were very wrong about that But 'causal' as a word is still relevant to modelling, etc.

2. Fair question haha. While a majority of our customers are startups/tech cos, a bunch of our customers are also non-tech small businesses (e.g. small agencies/consulting firms in various niches). Interestingly, we found that after the economy went down 18 months ago there seemed to be more demand for Causal from smaller companies (startups + regular SMBs) — our guess is that staying on top of finances is important when things are tough, and less important when there's tonnes of cash flying around!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_inference
This is incorrect as companies will pay less for ads that convert less.
This is really bad news for Microsoft culture. See https://archive.is/ZuvYu. Also from Wikipedia: In August 2019, Suleyman was placed on administrative leave following allegations of bullying employees.[17][18] The company hired an external lawyer to investigate, and shortly thereafter Suleyman left to take a VP role at parent company Google. An email circulated by DeepMind's leadership to staff after the story broke, as well as additional details published by Business Insider, said Suleyman's "management style fell short" of expected standards.[19][20].
Another Fake UFO Report. Why Do So Many People Still Believe They're Out There?
Like I said, conspiracy theories. Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi claimed them selves to be members of al-Qaeda. The Muslim Brotherhood are no friends of al-Qaeda.

The only actual link (other then all Muslims are terrorists) I can find between al-Qaeda and the Muslim brotherhood is that some former members of the Muslim Brotherhood left and joined al-Qaeda or ISIS. This is not a smoking gun, as quite a few members of many political organization across the world (including European organization) left and joined ISIS.
He also left DeepMind because of allegations of bullying employees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Suleyman). Between that, what you just brought up, and the strange PR blitz he went on to promote his book, I kind of predicted Inflection would run into major trouble well before OpenAI and Anthropic
Feels off to jump ship shortly after raising $1.3 billion from investors (including Microsoft)..

https://inflection.ai/inflection-ai-announces-1-3-billion-of...
I missed the edit window before noticing the completely fair flagging of this post, so I'm going to try again, this time, following the rules I have now read more recently and carefully. Sorry folks, second post, new norms. This is what I wish I'd posted:

I don't think their current team thinks about the product website very much. I think this has become even more true since the Broadcom acquisition, but even before that, they still had - and have! - a banner about being "here for you in these unusual times." It's from early COVID times.

As of this writing, their latest blog post is about _adding PayPal as a payment option._

It's from December, before the Broadcom deal closed. I think "add paypal" and "eliminate non-enterprise paid tiers" are different enough as product directions to illustrate the impact of Broadcom's thinking on the product.

For anyone coming to this conversation later, there's a site at talk.storytime.solutions dedicated to talking about Pivotal Tracker alternatives.
Because in 2007-2015 every dumb teacher told their design students this lie and then it became truth.

Yet it entirely lacks value.

Greater design positions don’t rely on Mac’s lol so why should more simple design?
Same here. My 2004-era Cingular-specific email isn't in HiBP.
Reducing the difficulty of a railroad to regulatory approval (what the comment you replied to does) is really oversimplifying it.

The main barrier to building modern rail (i.e. high speed rail) is property owners. Nobody wants to be forced to sell off part of their property to the state to add noise pollution to their property. So everyone fights it tooth and nail.

That's of course a problem and it happens with roads as well but it's standard practice to just eminent domain property for roads if people won't sell. The state will not do this for railroads though. So a railroad project may end up blocked for 20 years because they don't own a 1 mile stretch of land 20 feet wide but with a new highway extension they'll just eminent domain your half your property and bulldose your home after 5 years of negotiating to add a few lanes to an existing road.

This is not to say that eminent domain is a good thing but rather that it's a lot more naunced than "regulators won't rubberstamp the project"
The thing is you don't start with a 1:100 shot of becoming Google. You, hopefully, level up each shot you get. Your first shot, you'll probably make something no one wants. The second time, you can't figure out how to get anyone to pay attention to you. The third time, you can't get enough people to hand over their cash for it. The fourth time...

Each time, you learn and get better, your odds go up. Now the real question is whether your odds are going from 1:1000 to 1:100 or from 1:100 to 10:100?
Post some links in their Twitch chat to i.e. images on a server you control. Correlate your access logs with geoip information and you have a good chance of getting their IP.
> Imagine a German bar franchise trying to open bars in the US. They cannot sell beer to 16 year olds even though that's how they operate in Germany and that's what they firmly believe in. They'll have to follow US laws and not sell to anyone younger than 21. Now the German bar franchise can say "That's against what we believe freedom to be" and not open shop there but the US is not specifically banning that company from operating in the US.

I don't think that your analogy is comparable to the prospective US TikTok ban (ban with the alternative option of a forced sale). In the case of TikTok, the US law will be "if you want to do business with people in the US, don't let a major stakeholder of your company be in a foreign adversary country". That might sound reasonable in some contexts (e.g. computer hardware), but a one-size-fits-all rule that makes a broad assumption of "controlled by foreign adversary = national security threat" (resembles a Great Firewall of China and) overlooks rights that US citizens have to voluntarily use certain services from other countries (especially social media services because of the First Amendment).
The interesting emphasis to me is commercial customers. They are acknowledging that the competition to be the nth gpt vendor is too stiff for them, and they aren’t successful as an independent venture funded research lab.

I can think of 4-10 other large vc funded operations in this boat.
I think only the M2 air (and M1 pro, depending on size) can use fast > 30W charge; it varies by model.
How does the internship model work with more senior folks? I totally see it for entry level, but above that, I am fuzzier on how this would work
This is an awesome app! Do you plan on adding macros to this? I would definitely be using it if it had that feature.
Because computers don't have any of the limitations that most humans, even ones with photographic memories, have.
More mind-boggling they raised billions to do something any LLM can do with some prompts (be more personable)
They will eventually bring value types to Java with Project Valhalla.
I'm actually quite impressed with Mead's recollections of von Neumann and the early cybernetic movement here. She is generally remembered today for her perhaps too naive belief in the sexual utopia of 1920s Samoa, but it is clear from this that she had other interests.
I'm not sure why you think those are mutually exclusive. If anything, I think pulling out the middlemen—the actual interviewers—gives upper management more direct influence on hiring (assuming the models are tuned at their direction).
But the static pieces of information like address, phone number, etc. can carry over between services. Is there any reason to suspect a Frankenstein breach, where only the subscriber email list was leaked, and the other data was correlated into personas, giving the impression it all came from one source?
I find it curious that your reaction to this is to reduce OP's point to the "capitalism is bad" trope when it is in fact more nuanced than that. His point isn't anti-capitalist per se - it critiques the traits of the dominant economic system that many of us currently live in.

I won't assume bad faith on your part, but your argument also relies on a big assumption with regards to productivity gains, and who reaps them, and at the detriment of whom and what.
Interestingly, Colossus was initially designed to be the next generation BigTable storage. It turned out that other teams had a similar problem, so it has become a more general file system.
What kind of results is that producing? Or what's the biggest difference you've found using the internship model for hiring?
Very interesting overview of the technological / materials breakthroughs to enable miniaturization.

From a physician (specifically radiologist) perspective, I'm a big fan of handheld/point-of-care ultrasound and am excited about their potential at democratizing a very useful and low-cost/low-risk imaging technology. (I also own a Butterfly.)

That being said, the "cart-based" ultrasounds will likely always have a place in a hospital; the size of the ultrasound probes is not why the cart is big/expensive/useful. The cart is a big floating screen and also an image/record management system. You (or at least, a trained ultrasound technician) can manipulate ultrasound parameters and annotate images (critical for ultrasound interpretation) way way faster on the cart's set of wonky keys/dials/trackball than on a smartphone.

Also, with the rise of handheld/point-of-care ultrasound, we've noted with amusement in the radiology department the frequency with which patients get referred for additional imaging because the ED or primary doctor saw some pathology on their handheld ultrasound... and when we take a look it is just not there. I think this is probably more of a training issue, as ultrasound is truly quite challenging both to perform AND to interpret (and a major part of using an ultrasound probe is essentially real-time interpretation), which is even more challenging given the lower image quality and field-of-view of smaller probes.
We have a Figma plugin that help do codegen for engineers. Our browser extension recognize the plugin data and make the code easier to access.

And the CSS code output can also carry design tokens.
I've heard people use age 12 as well. Old enough to have had individual development, too young for peer pressure.
Get ready for AI to rip off your favorite cookbooks
> "I think your choice of wording above is important to call out: The advice "maximizes" the chance of success; but it doesn't guarantee it."

This is a great observation!

I agree that Paul is framing an inspiring narrative, especially when targeting younger people. You're spot on, suggesting that this advice sets people up for success in general, whether they become entrepreneurs, standout employees, or something else entirely.

We need more narratives about those successful 'in-between' tech roles.

Paul's giving the ingredients for good outcomes, but the recipe is up to the individual.
Lilac Joins Databricks to Simplify Unstructured Data Evaluation for Gen AI
This would be news to every Department I know of. So dead and rotting in favor of what exactly?
This is great reply, I learned a lot from it.
Apple is now using GaN for chargers as well. Here's a teardown of Apple's 70W charger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYfoRkzqAII
I think in a podcast or so just months ago, he talked about how he planned for Infections to stay in the race for next few years, and seemed to be excited about it

Wonder what drives this sudden change
They get it all kinds of ways. There's a podcast on their big breach that talks about some of them - https://spokemedia.io/breach/
Housing cost is the single defining factor in retirability now and if you're a janitor, you seriously need to consider where you are living, because moving from a VHCOL state to a lower one could be all you need.

Sure the pay is lower, but the housing costs are substantially lower.
Execution Is King
As a Product Manager, more often than not, I notice people mixing up ideas and execution in discussions. Both these concepts have entirely unique levels of fidelity to what the finished product will be. It’s important for Product Managers to know the difference between these two concepts, how to manage them, and what importance they should have at different stages of the product development cycle. Not understanding the differences between an idea and an execution isn’t just a minor inconvenience; it’s a significant obstacle to innovation and strategic execution for products and companies.
Internships are definitely not a waste of time. First of all, they pay well in and of themselves (at least in tech). Second of all, most internships are filled by students on their summer break. What better use of that time than getting an inside view of a company they might want to work for? From the companies perspective it gives them a much better idea of how well the candidate performs and how they fit in at the company, giving much higher confidence in a hiring decision that could lead to significant future impact.
No, that’s not what the article says.

If there is one thing developers can be relied upon to do, it’s this: if there is a Fallacy of the Excluded Middle, they will find it, fall into it, and then set up a household there. Just like the author did.

It’s one thing to avoid immediately going back onto a football field, where you might get hit again before you’ve recovered, or to work, which might be cognitively straining. But instead of *nuanced* advice that included downtime or a scaling back of activities, the recommendation became total rest.

A 2022 study published in the journal Pediatrics found that children who spent less than two hours a day on screens in the first week after a concussion had worse concussion symptoms after one month than did those who engaged in “moderate” screen time of two to seven hours a day.

I don’t think anyone would call screen time energetic, by either the definition you guys are using, nor the one I was thinking, which was, “activities that can lead to injuries” which I’ll admit adds to the confusion.

“Not doing energetic things” includes many more options than hiding in your bed sleeping.
Would you say that there’s a significant enough effort currently to gain an understanding? I work in fintech, and based the kind and variety of security and compliance controls we have in place I can’t imagine a world where we are permitted to include generative ai technology anywhere near the transaction hot path without >=1 human in the loop. Unless the value is so enormous that it dwarfs the risk. I can see at least one use case here, especially at the integration layer which has a very large and boring spend as partners change/modernize and new partners enter the market.
LTL, the next frontier in logistics optimization
You can take figma out of adobe but you can't take adobe out of figma.
So far it seems that other automations have not done so. We've offloaded many tasks to computers, but now we spend more time than ever in front of a screen (see https://www.statista.com/statistics/645644/north-america-dai... for example). More people live in cities, with less opportunities for fresh air. And let's not forget that the system itself is so complex now with so many dependencies that we surround ourselves with anything but simplicity.

There might be a world where what you say is possible of course, but I don't see it in this one when it comes to more advanced forms of automation.

In fact, sometimes the joys of life can be found in the most simple of mechanical tasks. Of course, not everyone thinks so.
That is not the case. Fast charging is worse for the battery, but a 60W GaN vs a 60W SiC charger is not going to treat your battery any different, for example.
Thanks for trying it out - really glad you like it! Yes we will be adding macros very shortly :)
I think an omni-channel integration would be great and would have the potential to transform your crm into the first screen. For ex. Matrix.org's Element/synapse with their messenger bridges and sip bridge into your dashboard. Talk to them, they are very receptive and who knows, maybe your partnership with them can create a powerful first-screen for sales people.
The linked article about the BOAT Biggest Of All Time GRB event is fascinating.

https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-missions-study-what-may-b...

The graph shows previous events at a few seconds duration, and the Big one at about 1 minute. So immediate effects would be limited to the air and land of half the Earth. Any further effects must be through disrupting Van Allen belt, ozone layer, NO2 in the atmosphere, secondary ionizing radiation products, etc.
Do a search for “cheap charger bricked phone”
Very good article, thank you.

I would add that the tagline says "when used thoughtlessly".

For example, I agree that using Result objects to reinvent exceptions is a bad idea. There's a reason they're called "exceptions". Error results should only be used for domain-level errors. ie. things that _your expect_ to go wrong in the domain.

Also note that in my article I use continue/halt, not Ok/Error. At the library level it's just a way to compose functions together with a mechanism to halt processing. Whether something halted execution because it was an error, or any other reason (ex. caching), is up to your app's semantics.
Have not heard of these. Where can I learn more about them?
The actual risk is that a cheap charger fails in an unsafe way, and exposes users to unsafe voltages. You need, internally, the right creepage and clearance distances, and you need to use the correct parts in certain places with the correct failure modes (e.g. must fail open or must fail closed). Some cheap chargers are not built to the same safety standards. You won’t notice anything unless they fail in an unsafe way. Unlikely, but possible.
My guess is that it is much easier to get rich from working at a tech company and rising through the ranks. Being a FANG middle manager for a couple of years and managing your money well should put you in a very comfortable position. However, if you want to be private island rich, you need to do your own startup.
Halfway down, next to the caption "Smooth even all white background", is this image: https://codyznash.github.io/white_paintings/images/SDXL_2.pn... Doesn't that count?
IT recruitment would be broken with or without Joel. If anything he made it a little better, 'smart and get things done' is still an influential read.

My take on interviews is that the company must eventually spend as much time as the hired developer in the process. Eventually, due to the high number of applicants there must be some rough initial filter. We have currently 700 applicants on 20 positions, so all are getting the same online test at the same time (University admission exam style) and the ones with top scores will have an in-person interview, probably similar to the one I got. Again an online test consisting of a coding part then a multiple questions quiz, then the solution and responses are discussed afterwards.
Which them, Dell? They're clearly remote hostile.

I was just pointing out the problem is there, unstated, in other companies that allow remote.
First off, Yves is a woman.

Secondly, NC has been sounding the alarm on SV's penchant for automated systems with no human recourse for years in other contexts, and are now finally running afoul of it themselves.
Ampere Altra Max Performance for Ubuntu Linux 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04
Tried the macOS Apple Silicon build. Launched and I see spinning wheel for next 2 mins on Splash screen. Killed the process. Launched again, I see a few settings to configure, and finally my home folder. Clicked on a folder, again the spinning wheel for 2-3 minutes. Killed the process.

The only working/reliable Finder/Explorer replacement is Folder's, unfortunately, it only runs on Windows.
Well, I didn't fail in that case, the company started making money, and they were repaid handsomely. But yeah, having a familial, social, or financial safety net is pretty important. If you never want to have to depend on anyone, or can't for whatever reason, then sure, play it safe. Sounds like you'd judge yourself harshly for taking this sort of risk.
I wonder how the radiation affects things like ESC motor timing, communication protocols, the cou inside the drone flight computer etc.
I also wonder how long of a lasting impact he's even had on his founded companies. Trello is obviously absorbed into the Atlassian blob, Stack Overflow's current owners are clearly in the extraction phase, and while Fog Creek always seemed a cool place to work, my understanding is its current incarnation of Glitch is just your typical mid-sized tech co.
> Yes they do and I actually think it is a fair way to hire.

... if you want to hire a bunch of fresh, young developers.
I believe this is the answer.

It works especially well here because there's no easy way for multiple bad actors to collude and generate a false consensus.
good point. also need to be careful of countries where the federalis just ransack banks and take all the safety deposit boxes, too: https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/us-federal-appeals-court...
But still impressive. I will see, if I can massage Justine Tunney's sectorlisp into something resembling a (subset of) LOGO, probably w/o turtle graphics. Deliverable will probably be a DOS COM-file rather than a boot sector.