skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only skimmed the article, which seems to argue for a level of well-roundedness in computer science programs (coming from an author who dropped out of their CS program in favor of philosophy in the 90s).

I’d sympathize more with this if college was not so expensive. If you have the means, by all means spend the credit hours on whatever you like. But covering tuition is difficult for many students, and graduating even one semester early is a significant cost savings, and more so if you can start working and making money.

Instead of “random humanities” requirements, maybe actually prepare me for a job. Provide industry relevant courses, or apprenticeship / internship opportunities. Or leave me time to do school and a job concurrently to help cover tuition.

Let me be done with school, and afterward I’ll learn a language or philosophy or whatever I like in my free time.
> associated with fear

I think this is true. And I recall reading that adrenaline helps form strong memories, which makes sense (best to remember your existential fear of tigers forever)

I was young, maybe 2nd grade, and the teacher pointedly ignored my raised hand. I ended up peeing in my chair. I remember it pretty well. :)

I also remember revisiting that 2nd grade classroom, and the room (and desks!) was MUCH smaller than I remember. My memories were from eyeballs closer to the ground looking around at a spacious room.
Perhaps they shouldn't use esoteric abbreviations.
YAADH.
Many of the US's fundamental problems stem from racism.
That is a huge wake up call. Thanks for posting that.
Yep, many of these same ads on seek here in Sydney. I applied for one once and I had a few completely fake interviews that had someone just asking buzzword bingo questions. It was completely senseless until a few searches lead me to what was going on. It was surreal a the time. I didn't know what was going on.

Now, years past, I am thinking it would be fun to do this again for a youtube video like kitboga or Jim Brown.
We did invest in one. Sadly the investment hasn't paid off and doesn't look like it will anytime soon, if at all.
I actually found the portrayal of Paul in the Villeneuve films to be closer to what Frank Herbert described as his intent in interviews when compared to the book.

That is, sincere with terrible consequences for bystanders. Not bad per se, but not conducive to the common good.

I also felt that the books undermined the warnings of tyranny by leaning on prescience to provide an ends justify the means argument. Moreso with God Emperor where the Golden Path seemed to be the ultimate end justifying any act.
Seems like the current iteration is the version of the logo Columbia has used the longest: https://www.hatchwise.com/resources/the-complete-history-of-...
They are also much more prone to making risky decisions at that age, though, which is why that is the default.
Maybe they all have an interview process like that post here yesterday on Canonical or Google, where people do ten interviews, each one trying harder and hard to avoid employing a perfectly qualified application so they can inflate their self worth?
Why not CA or NY?
> We suggest a completely different approach. Instead of getting rid of noise, we use continuous real-time noise surveillance and adapt the system as changes in the environment happen,” says Ph.D. Researcher at NBI Fabrizio Berritta, lead author on the study. [...]

> The protocol behind the new findings integrates a singlet-triplet spin qubit implemented in a gallium arsenide double quantum dot with FPGA-powered qubit controllers. The qubit involves two electrons, with the states of both electrons entangled.

"Real-time two-axis control of a spin qubit" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45857-0
"...can't reproduce the human mind because it's obvious that is not how we work" <-- that's a very strong assumption, without any concrete evidence to support it
It takes some self confidence to share a video where Vint Cerf calls you a nincompoop -- even if jokingly. Thanks for sharing it anyway. I enjoyed watching.
Very cool work. Can something similar be done for audio?
Your point is broadly correct (not sure about disability though), but I think it overstates the danger of what will happen in practice. Yes, if you picked a random target and blasted away, you probably wouldn't have a good time. But anything that even approaches clinical trials is going to get substantial engineering put into it to minimize (and characterize) all of the off-target loci. If there's meaningful editing near an oncogene then that's going to be a deal breaker for a particular guide. When the FDA was discussing the Casgevy application, they went into remarkable detail of how Vertex had measured the off-targets - the regulators really, really don't want to approve anything risky.

Frankly just getting it to work at all is the real hurdle in this case.
> We have produced arguably the highest efficiency single junction solar cell to date. Our panels cost 70% less to make than a normal one-sided solar panel.

Why not multi-junction cells?
That's a nice little platitude but it's not supported by the historical record.
Doesn’t diabetes mean that the cells has to extract more energy from those lipid droplets instead of from the glucose pathway impacted by the diabetes? Thus in the cases of 2 and 3 those droplets is an additional significant source of energy.

I also think that in the case of 1 the cells may be starving on glucose pathways (pre-diabetes), similar to 3 during the exercise and to 2 in regular situation, and that causes the over-eating while all that food doesn’t feed the cells because of the original issue and thus goes into fat for storage and into the lipid droplets way of feeding the cells to workaround the original glucose pathway issue.
So here is a question: what would happen if this process faced a person who was specifically hostile to it? Could you "trick" the process by intensely thinking of, for instance, a yellow ball while viewing a cat picture, as one example?
> 20 years ago... This paper caused me to go all in on evolutionary algorithms, and eventually burn out because I could never get any kind of promising result out of it. Wrong choice I guess!

Wow. 36 years ago, I was super excited about neural networks, but lacked the skill to get good results fast enough; meanwhile, a very talented colleague was getting really interesting results from evolutionary algorithms.

It can be hard to move forward all alone.
Non-American here: do those states happen to have better employee protections by any chance?
Landmark moment because it's the first time? Don't you think that's an accomplishment in itself? Just like the first flight, or the first satellite, none of those were particular impressive.
This is a lot more nuanced that that. My position doesn't conflict with wanting to see this tech advance, and your wanting to see this tech advance does not lend support to your reductive utilitarian philosophical assessment of "the" purpose of any sort of art, as if there's one true one, let alone in the astonishingly broad realm of music.

I can say that I want to see AI enhance medicine, and also think it's ok for doctors to want to be paid for the work they do. I can think the point of medicine is to heal people and not to make money off of it, while still thinking it's bullshit for the organizations to train a model with all of a doctor's diagnoses and fire them, which is essentially what's happening to many commercial artists. An artist can make something solely prompted by a client needing to use it for a product or service and it's still art... in fact, you can tell by the output of most of the available models that the vast majority of images they ingested were in some way commercial, and I'll eat my hat if anyone could make a model like this one without using almost entirely, if not entirely commercial music.
Pretty cool, and thank you!
People are currently doing this manually by grabbing the transcript from a video and then asking a service to summarize it.
This is a much nicer interface.

Feature request: turn the summary into speech for easy listening. I apologize if this is already a feature (I didn't see it).
Depend on how you define "progressive". But it does say something about how the world function.

Imo, CA is more interested in appearing to be progressive than actually being progressive, i.e. making laws that treat the symptoms instead of the root cause and as a result ended up making things worse. Prop 13, "anti-discrimination" laws, tough laws against gas cars, etc. Those backfired and instead of repealing and fixing them, they moved on to making more laws to add on an already gigantic clusterfuck.

It is hard to make real progress. It is so much easier to mess up and never admit to it.
The AI spam is insane! Every time I go on Facebook I get spammed with AI generated photo’s of Avril Lavigne and I don’t understand why because I don’t even like Avril Lavigne never listened to her music, never Google her (except for now just because I couldn’t even remember how to spell her last name).
The pure soul was corrupted and converted to an NPC, beaten by rules and structure to follow a clear path where choice is an illusion.
We moved out of our first house when I just turned 4.
Many years later as a young adult when we were discussing research on early childhood memories with my parents (specifically the theory that children form childhood memories seeded by parents retelling), I surprised my parents by drawing the layout of our home, my nanny’s house and the school. Like you, I have very clear visual memories and can remember scene very well (but people‘s face lack details which is logical considering that I’m incapable of recognizing people)
Mathematicians plan computer proof of Fermat's last theorem
Yeah it seems like memory is a graph and you need the right path to get somewhere. Sometimes distant memories only have a few ways in and you don’t have a world map.
I really doubt AI will *improve* the quality of code out there. It just makes it easier to churn out barely functional copy/pasted code where the "prompt engineer" has no reason to understand any of the underlying code. Good performant software requires domain knowledge and experience to architect things correctly to solve the problem at hand.
> myth oft-repeated on HN. US freight rail does cheaply transport a lot of tonnage, but it is a shadow of its former self

What is the myth? It is a shadow of its former self. But it retain its mantle of the 1850s as the world’s largest rail network.
I thought the whole point of sqlite is that you don't have to deal with the cruft and overhead of having to send queries over a network connection. Why tack that back on?
Pretty cool but unfortunately it’s wildly inaccurate. I said “two chicken breasts and lots of green beans”. It estimated 262 kcal. The “actual” calories were 754 kcal. Specifying the actual grams was better, of course, but still off by quite a bit.
> If the US were to invest in running the railroads efficiently, getting a package from NYC to LA in less than 72 hours should be possible

Still need air for every other pair of destinations. And in the meantime, I’d be shocked if that freight leg had enough volume to justify that expense over a couple more planes.
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> What’s the contingency for a snapped tow rope?

Same as with a dead engine: fuck off to the nearest airstrip or improvise an air strip.
It seems like cannabis must have been a domesticated crop that was shaped by humans for a long time before rewilding. The probability of a wild plant hitting the right chemical formula seems way too low. Probably started with something roughly adjacent and then humans took it from there. Weird that we have no idea who did it.
I wish I could boost your comment even higher.

It really captures what I felt as I started to read this PR bullshit. I fed it through an LLM to summarize it, and there was no substantive content in that summary.

Lampooning aside, the sobering reality is that a tiny number of people are acquiring O($10^8) wealth (or more) via such shenanigans, and that is the reason we will see a lot more of this.
Okay thank you! My challenge is I'm a non-tech founder, over a year into this business and have invested loads of my own time and resources at this point (bootstrap). What would you do in my position? I know that might be a difficult question to answer but just as a starting point...
All net emission schemes in California for solar are essentially subsidized from non solar customers (generally a poorer, more consumption conscious population) to solar customers. NEM2 was outrageously bad but nem3 is still a subsidy.

Removing those schemes will make people install batteries instead, which will have a bigger impact on co2 reductions
Now this is going to be a fruitful conversation.
'Resourcefulness' generally means the personal quality of being good at problem-solving, improvisation, or whatever in situations where you don't have resources. I've never heard it associated with someone who was well supplied with external resources.
Reminds me of a little prototype I wrote a while ago that tried to do something similar with Javascript's Proxy class. https://github.com/emileindik/cashola

The main difference is that it stores the state of an object, not a function.

If your data is JSON serializable then it could be a cool way to save and resume application state.
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Move fast, break things!
I hope someone will do a similar experiment with visualization (imagination) only. Some people are better at this than others so maybe focus on those people who easily create vivid images in their mind's eye.

Or maybe text.
Ah the next one. Do you also negate, that the gravity of mars influences particles on earth, so also in the brain?

And maybe I used 2 different terms to emphasize, that I do not claim that there is a significant change in the brain because of that influence. But a force is influencing, even though it is very small and below of what you can usually meassure. You can still calculate it if you want and extrapolate the meaning, if you are capable:

F = G x m1 x m2/(d²)

"Where G is the universal gravitational constant (meaning it has the same value throughout the universe), m1 and m2 are the masses of the objects in kilograms, and d is the distance between them in meters"

Spoiler alert, the result will be really, really small, but not zero. And none of this will proof claims of astrology, in case you got that mixed up.

To reiterate: the base of my argumentation is -

gravity: every object with mass influences EVERY other object with mass

butterfly effect: small changes in complex systems can lead to great outcome

The particles in the brain have mass and are a complex system.

So if you declare my argumentation is unscientific, it would probably help your case to show where exactly.
> I did this before I learned how to finish projects

Very curious about this. As do many people I struggle to finish projects.

How does one learn this skill?
I did not read the article but I would have thought they are going for the 1 miner clone plus 1 gpt6 trolley in a lunatic economy. like in that movie
>Joe Rogan promoted

You mean he did an episode where he had a conversation with the doctor? Or was the doctor a sponsor of the show where he advertised products?

I don't think simply having a conversation about an idea counts as promotion.

Advertising is another matter though..
US freight rail companies have already invested heavily in efficiency and are now pretty much the most efficient in the world. What you seem to be asking for is a reduction in latency. You can't have both high efficiency and low latency: those metrics are in direct conflict with each other.

Trucks with team driving can already run coast to coast in about 3 days. This works fine for somewhat time sensitive loads.
Anti-discrimination used to stand for something we needed, that is to stop discrimination and ensure people has equal access. But when that is achieved, like all those with power, these DEI folks instead push the goals forward and make up news criteria to make sure they are still relevant. It is all easy enough, anyone speaking up against them get absolutely destroyed socially and professionally.

So they keep pushing until we are here, in a place where the original intents is all but corrupted and the oppressed has become a symbol of oppression. Meanwhile, there are places where these oppressed minority actually need help but helping them is harder and less profitable than sitting in a nice and secure DEI job in CA...
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> If there's meaningful editing near an oncogene then that's going to be a deal breaker for a particular guide.

At this point do we know every gene that had the potential to cause cancer?
Yeah, that's intellectually right there with: "Say you mention a new variable. Wouldn't it be nice if the language just defined it for you with a blank value?"
I think it's orthogonal to sector. Wealthy and established workers are doing REALLY well, everyone else is struggling.
You have a much better idea of what demand is tangible and grounded, which means you are in a great position to start a bootstrapped small business. Some people have been calling them boring businesses which is actually pretty exciting to me, since they are tangible machines you can put work into.

All my attempts at starting a SaaS when I was younger were basically me building a cool thing and then yelling into the wind. I am looking for a more concrete market for my next venture, and it doesn't have to be cool or cutting edge.
You really nailed the last part. The luck part is the funniest. It's a gamble with very low odds that pays out after a couple of years if not decades.
The last I checked, I was surprised how often people recommended Thunderbird to convert between email formats. Sometimes a manual process (where the human is the glue between systems) is “best”. Good luck. Curious what others recommend.
The Russian empire's is larger by extent.
Going through auth by clicking on Google Sign in to be met with "Please sign up with you work email" is pretty poor CX.
I don't see any mention of being ready to completely pivot from your original, lofty mission ("best search with no ads") to exactly the opposite ("ads are money").

Google was a successful, unsustainable search engine before it was a successful business.

Facebook was a successful social network waay before it was a successful business.

Reddit was... You can see where I am going with this.
Believe it or not people outside the US actually buy and sell things too! Africa is a primarily mobile first continent with the fastest growing mobile infrastructure and 100 million new handsets sold a year (and that is predicted to double by 2025).
To me whole db being a single file is something.
Speaking of observability tools. Anybody here know how to gather more in-depth metrics on mTLS requests? Have an internal (self signed) CA and just want to know which issued certs are presented to nodes. Would be nice to get cert serial number and other metadata as well
Ugh. I dislike almost everything in this press release. Way to do all the wrong things, Inflection...
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When your customers are enterprise, page load times dont mean anything. Some 500k/yr VP gets a demo, signs off, and $20/hr users are told to use the system.

If page load times mattered, then i wouldn't have written what I did above
- > - "Coherent Interaction of a Few-Electron Quantum Dot with a THz Optical Resonator" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365579

- "Navigating the 16-dimensional Hilbert space of a high-spin donor qudit with electric and magnetic fields" (2024)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-024-45368-y

- "Shattering the 'copper or optics' paradigm: humble plastic waveguides outperform" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493372

Plastic!

But then now, today, "Researchers demonstrate breakthrough recyclability of carbon nanotube sheets" which are functional substitutes for copper IIUC
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762164
I didn't think there was such a thing as negative mass. That is, you can hypothetically have gravity that is repulsive, but you cannot have negative mass because mass is a property of matter conveyed by the Higgs field. All matter has some positive value for mass; the measure of the matter's resistance to acceleration.

Photons (a.k.a energy, including radio waves) do not interact with the Higgs field and so have zero mass.

There is no negative Higgs field, and no negative mass.

There's also no ether either as originally constructed (it was ruled out by experiment) but you could be speaking metaphorically.
That's a great question. This pattern is actually getting popular today with services like Turso and Cloudflare D1 (technically only SQLite compliant).

There are a few reasons I can see reaching for SQLite behind an API rather than something like Postgres. Portability can be a big benefit and I would expect you don't need to deal with connection pooling.

If I had a service running on a single box and didn't mind setting up my own db backups, I might reach for SQLite just for the ease of standing up new environments for dev and automated testing.
Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis
If there was actually demand for faster high-volume shipping between East Asia and North America then logistics companies would just buy faster ships. The technology for that already exists and is far cheaper than building a railroad tunnel across the Bering Strait. Shipyards are capable of building freighters with more hydrodynamic hulls and powerful turbine engines. So far no one is really asking for those, which indicates the market doesn't exist.
Even in the before times (before they were run by MBAs), that company was notorious for boom/bust hiring/firing of both blue collar and white collar workers.
> We think the way you win in CRM in 2024 is by keeping the flexibility of SObjects, and then tacking on modern UX.

What is driving that thinking? Is it something the market is asking for?

> Salesforce is slow and clunky. And that doesn’t matter because people don’t buy Salesforce to be delighted.

So if they are buying it despite bad UX, it stands to reason that UX isn't important to them.

Who does your CRM attract, if the differentiator is "good UX"?
That was a scam though. All the money went to lawyers, consultants, and the usual grifters. Hardly anything was actually spend on construction and they started with the most useless leg of the rail. They should have done obvious ones like LA to SD, SF to Tahoe, etc. Every layer of government in this state is incompetent and over-spends intentionally because there is zero accountability as it's a one party state.
"almost certainly don’t" is strong language - but they're not saying you don't. I'll interpret as meaning that most of our memories were "implanted" but by no means all.

I have very strong visual memories of events from when I was still in a crib to the present. Lots of those memories are from when I was alone so there was nobody who could have implanted them.

Also, neuroscience says (unless theories have changed) that all memories are "implanted" in that memory works like DRAM. Every time we remember something, it's getting retrieved and then written back to long term storage. It's a destruction-recreation process.
I remember my mother changing my nappy, she laid me on top of the washing machine. cant remember what age that was but it was definitely within the first year of my life.
Maybe, maybe not. What is possible is investor returns lol