skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this particular proposition have no evidence (none is in existence)?
Totally random, and basically zero. People are awful at internalizing and handling tail risk.

This reminds me of the old Schneier article about how despite flying being the single safest way to get between any two places, post-9/11 people were so afraid they started to drive longer distances and the death toll was staggering. It's called "our decreasing tolerance to risk" and it's a good read. [1, 2]

It's true that "your odds are much better." But you can't control them completely. You can't control whether the person who hits you is drunk, tired or looking through coke bottle glasses and going 100mph. You're part of the equation. But even the safest drivers are going to be just about as safe as everyone on the MTA.

There were 88 deaths per two billion rides on the MTA. That's 0.00036%. Car deaths are 1.6 per hundred thousand, or 0.0016%, so 4-5X higher. Injuries though, several orders of magnitude.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/excess_automo...

[2] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2013/08/our_decreas...
Yes. Seeing it as landscape would be an improvement though
You're right that there's a lot of personal viewpoint and I'm mot fully understanding the people buying alt-meats at their current state. I sampled a bunch that were touted to be good, and they tasted really meh to me.

They sure are hitting some "this could be meat" points, but not the good meat that would be a guilty pleasure, and more around the deadest and cheapest meat I'd find to make sure I get my protein count of the day. That's were I see the connendrum of paying premium for meh food by sheer guilt, it doesn't feel like a growing market (the elephant in room being that meat will never fully disappear, including ethically sourced meat like meat from wild species' population control)

In decades, perhaps. But as you point out the nostalgia part is strong, and nostalgia dies, so will it ever work out at some point ?

> look, smell, and texture.

This is cultural though. For instance looking at bread, historically brown, round, starchy and compact bread was the standard in europe. But the US moved to square, white, uniform, light taste and more processed white bread. Same with fish sticks, nuggets, meat balls, hash potatoes：we moved from a complex and close to the natural form, to heavily processed, standardized and geometrically shaped presentation, and it's widely accepted.

That's where I see focusing on taste instead of shape and texture to be a viable way forward in the long term.
I don't remember if it's why I initially did it, but it allows hardcoding the final characters of the output string ("%)\n") somewhere into the ELF header where they don't do damage ahead of execution.
>unportable

(X) Doubt.

It's no stretch to say many a HN user can, easily, port such a trivial program to other assembly languages.
In the US it was uncommon. Contactless payments had been supported in Europe and Asia for a while (2007 in the UK), though with fairly low limits at least in the UK.

Interestingly, it seems like the UK still has a £100 limit, while in the US I've paid well over $2000 with a contactless payment using my Android phone.
Not a free car because I paid them.

Funny enough their dashboard showed a payment so I just screenshot that for them to look up in their own db!
I feel like the concept that keeping track of numbers, particularly with distributed sources and sinks, is hard would actually be very intuitive to engineers.
I guess that's why Elon Musk is so successful?

He does not shy away from taking responsibility (and loudly boasting about it / taking credit on Twitter/x).
If you get a monthly pass, it is not.

However, this $15 charge is a floor. If you commute into the city by car, you're paying for parking and gas (if driving ICE) as well.
The Infantry Square
This is cool, but how will they enforce it against someone like Apple? If I buy my next iPhone in Oregon, I'll have the right to repair it / buy non-VIN-locked parts?
Probably most commonly is fixing bugs on websites in dev tools. Often if something on a website is broken I can hack an API call together or fix up some HTML and do what I was trying to do. This happened recently when I was trying to download a bill, but the website wasn't working correctly. I was able to look into dev tools and find the broken API call and fix it.

I think my my favourite real life use of tech was many years ago when I was taking some kids to see Santa and stupidly assumed it would be possible to just turn up.

We got there and I was told they were fully booked that day and that I had to buy tickets online. I went on their website and noticed that the day was greyed out so I couldn't click it. When I clicked other days that were available though I saw that it was just navigating me to a page with a query string for the selected date.

Obviously at this point I tried to change the query string to todays date and to my surprise got through to a similar page, but instead for selecting time slots. Again all the time slots were greyed out so then I found out the query string for that from another day with available slots.

In the end I managed to get through to the checkout page and booked tickets for same day. The staff were very confused when we turned back up with tickets, especially since they were now over capacity which shouldn't have been possible. But they acknowledged the tickets were valid so everyone got to see Santa.

Stuff like this is rarely ever possible today unfortunately. In the past you could often even alter the payment total at checkout security was so poor. Not that I ever did that, but I realised it was possible a few times.
Can we stop posting paywall bullshit. I am not "joining" fn barrons to read trash.
People made the same arguments about reusable rockets. If there’s one thing that saga taught us it’s that traditional aerospace is incredibly conservative and risk averse. “If it hasn’t already flown it can’t fly.”

Not saying this design is the answer but it’s quite clear that the opinions of the big players about novel ideas are to be taken with a certain amount of salt.

I’m not sure where this mentality came from. My guess would be many boom bust cycles and shifting political winds causing project cancellation. That probably burned people too many times on new projects. Combine that with a safety at any cost mentality and a lack of incentives to innovate.
So, Japan is not a democracy then?
They may be thinking of MST
Opened comments to make sure this was mentioned, X86S (formerly X86-S or X86-Simplified). Getting rid of all the old compat modes & booting straight to 64-bit. See: Intel Continues Prepping The Linux Kernel For X86S, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-More-X86S . Also mentioned by chipsandcheese: Of course, compatibility can’t be maintained forever. ISAs have to evolve. AMD and Intel probably want to save some money by reducing the validation work needed to support real mode. Intel is already planning to drop real mode.

Personally I think ditching the old real mode systems will be a big boon to hobbyists, not a hindrance (sorry mode 13h users)! Linux/x86 Boot Protocol docs tentatively support this assertion (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.9-rc1/arch/x86/boot.html). What is helpful is having ACPI and UEFI and other conventions/standards in place.

ARM does have Base Boot Requirements (https://arm-software.github.io/ebbr/), that builds to something vaguely x86 like, but wow there's so many systems that still use hardcoded device trees. I haven't spent that much time, but just a couple hours is all it takes to figure out that uncompressing your dtb, applying an overlay, and recompiling a new dtb is awful & terrible & no way to compute. ARM is used so heavily in consumer devices that it's hard to see what would compel the greater ecosystem to do the right thing, to reform. I also can go read a deck like https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20and%20... (UEFI and ACPI in Arm System
Architecture) and appreciate, yeah, well, trying to be compatible & a good citizen is hard; there's specifications on top of specifications on top of specifications (Wei lists 17) to make it happen. x86 has benefited form a history of everyone tending towards intercompatibility, but there's nothing else in computing that's ever had such a strong overriding cooperation motive before.
Extending lifespan misses the point and is reasoned from the individual, and not the child. Lifespan extension adds to your maximum age but maximum age isn't the most pressing issue to begin with.

When you're born and you have parents that are 20 versus 40, that is a dramatically different situation. Likewise if you have grandparents that are 50-60 versus 70 or already dead. Sure, more lifespan means you'll have more years together but you're completely dismissing the quality of those years.

I feel the same way about relationships. Some people willingly only seriously settle in their mid 30s or even later. That means you did not share the other person's most energetic, adventurous, and exciting life phase. You're 40 and have zero shared history together, no stories, nothing. But hey, you're finally "comfortable".

Fuck comfortable. The clock is ticking, hurry the hell up. You're wasting the defining and most valuable years of your life.
It is heavily taxed.
It's probably the right thing to do, from visiting NYC it seemed to me that people driving in was creating enourmous negative externalities, though I'm sure there's positives as well.

I hope that they use some of that money to improve public transport options though... We were staying in Montclair, a stone's throw from a train station, and trying to use public transport to get to and from NYC was flabbergasting. Some days it was just effectively impossible.

I realised how spoilt I've been living where I am (Victoria, Australia). The regional services into and out of Melbourne here are excellent by comparison, and we have waaaay less population density outside of the city. And NYC is famous in America for its public transport!l infrastructure!

Apologies if the article addresses how the money will be spent, I couldn't open it directly or via any of the archive links provided, so I am just bouncing of the title and my own strong impressions from my visit.
That it takes that much data to see the result pretty much proves my point - maintaining a 500 calorie per day deficit is just very difficult for me and I suspect most people. I don’t mean the hunger - when I do lose weight the deficits are easily above 1000, but 500 is too marginal for me to resolve.
Yes, two new sciences. To those criticizing his work: I’m not saying the magnitude of the impact is the same, but have all of Darwin’s ideas about evolution stood the test of time? Clearly not.

Each of us sees the world through our own sets of biases. None of us is immune. Any of us that can see clearly enough to move humanity’s body of knowledge forward even a smidgen is a rarity and a treasure. Even among that group this man (and his collaborators) did more than most. I don’t believe _I_ will be counted among those. I can’t fault Kahneman for making some mistakes. Finding and fixing those is part of the process, and requires others with a different set of perspectives and biases. At a future date, weighed against his contributions, I believe they will appear relatively small.
Those sound like awful conditions.
There’s a Freakonomics podcast about this topic that’s worth a listen.

It helped me work through what it felt like to be in this position. I’d class myself as a reluctant staff eng at this point who has no wish to progress further at this time.

Most interesting part of the podcast is how it talks about how companies know this happens but let it happen anyways because it’s the least of all evils on their eyes.

One suggestion to beat it is wild: random promotions. As I’ve gotten older and seen how titles/pay are tied closely to experience and age I’ve started to see that maybe it isn’t the worst idea. It does, however, absolutely murder the method of meritocracy.
it definitely used to be easier, i have a distinct memory of us being able to stream No Man's Sky around launch day to each other with sound mixing being handled automagically by discord with no hassle (we wanted to see if we could see each other if we stood at the same place at the same time (we couldn't))

teamspeak and mumble were definitely easier to start up and use once you get up and running the first time, i think i remember having to either install drivers or something else to get stuff like global push-to-speak and other core features to work
and New Jersey!

it's one of the reasons why I left!
I wonder how manufacturers will reconcile this with their promise of device security. I'm mostly against parts pairing but I do like the fact that someone can't steal my iPhone and resell everything. It's mostly dead weight to them (unless they know my password ig)
I bought one of these, and really like it. My main issue would be is the mechanism is a little chunky so I resorted to blue-tacking a dice on the wall towards the bottom of it so that it's flush [1]. The width of a normal sized dice was pretty much perfect to get it sitting "straight" against the wall, without that it would tilt downwards - and that was driving me nuts.

Re. materials & quality - it looks and feels very good to me,
the print is very sharp, it is smooth and well made - no sharp edges or fraying, nothing is peeling off etc. For the price I am very happy. I have no nostalgia for the acorn nor a need for a second clock but would be tempted if I could get away with it in the kitchen.

They must've partnered because I bought mine originally from RetroFied [2] - I saw it mentioned by Neil on an RMC video at the time and thought I must get one for the price (£25).

[1] https://i.imgur.com/Rw6Yt92.jpg

[2] https://retrofied.uk/collections/gifts-and-gadgets/products/...
This was a fun read, appreciate your work. Did you read anything about iCloud Private Relay emails and how they get used with apple pay?
Written by a guy (and submitted by him too) that runs a recruitement agency for European positions...

Although I do feel like having a life outside of work is more important than trying to boost how fast the number goes up which is stored in the field labelled "total assets", so Europe is better.
> And it's 15 years less time that we will be able to spend together with our kids.

You say that like it's a bad thing.
> Funny how we're closer to the past than we think.

I really love this recording[0] from 1941 of a photographer born in 1843, talking about the American West. It's one of Youtube's many gems.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ab5nv4Suc (video)
I would honestly just set up Arch or Gentoo Linux (or NixOS if you’re feeling adventurous) from scratch on either a VM or a NUC / cheap local machine as a home server to start. This was how I learned Linux and it’s pretty satisfying having a server at home.

Once you’ve got that under your belt you can either use DynDNS or rebuild your setup on a VPS. Bonus points if you can start using a single implementation across both instances so your homeserver and remote are replicas / peers.
In other words there's no "best" or "perfect" time to have a child. There is only when you feel personally ready. So maybe the conversation can turn from "everyone should have babies when they're in their 20's! It's awesome!" to "why do so many people today feel like they have to wait until they're 30 to have a baby?"

I think that would be a more constructive conversation than the one people in my cohort of people with kids wants to have.
> Free bonus I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere yet: you can take the average of the N embeddings forming a document to figure out if you should look at the N embeddings individually. This does over smooth too, ex. my original test document is the GPT-4 sparks paper, and the variety of subjects mentioned and length (100+ pages) meant it was over smooth when searching for the particular example I wanted it to retrieve (the unicorn SVG)

This is something I've been pondering for doing lookups across essays!

That is, I saw some people doing per-paragraph embeddings, so you could do something like mouse-select a paragraph in an essay, and then get a list of all other paragraphs site-wide which are 'similar'. However, it seems to me like this would run into trouble with small or generic paragraphs (because their embeddings will be noisy & extreme & there's a lot of them and you may wind up pulling up only sibling paragraphs, defeating the point)...

But what if you did it as a tree? Embed each paragraph, then average a couple paragraphs, then average the paragraphs embeddings, and so on to the whole-essay level. Then do the lookups as usual. Any given paragraph might instead pull up a genuinely relevant section, or a range of paragraphs, or a whole essay, rather than some spurious paragraph.

(And you could constrain the lookup to be tree-like too: first find the most similar essay-level embedding, then see if any of that essay's section embeddings are more relevant, then check its paragraphs embeddings etc, and stop when the distance stops decreasing compared to the parent node. This would let you enforce diversity of results: eg take only 1 hit per essay, so you don't wind up showing the reader 10 hits which are all on the same page.)

Does that correspond to anything? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Navigable_Small_W... seems tree-like but the trees used in it do not seem to correspond to the actual document structure like I'm proposing, and solely is an optimization on pre-existing embeddings which mostly ignore any document structure.
In Australia it seems like a credit card contactless is limited (was AU$100 or fifty quid if you like) but now might be more.

But the apple pay is way higher I have spent over $1k on it before. Probably because there is at least another layer of security which is a Passcode which is probably a better PIN than the credit card pin itself.
Just referencing his opinions ironically. He didn't have a valid point either. He simply didn't understand computers enough to see how they were being used.
You do if there are potential further charges like damages.

“Has credit card” is obviously a coarse filter, just as creditworthiness is a coarse filter for “won’t wreck my car” but I’d bet you anything you’d see at least a 150 pt FICO spread between people who pay for things with debit vs credit. There’s only one reason to use a debit card and not get the rewards of credit (assuming the price of either is the same) and that’s that you cannot be trusted by a bank and/or yourself to not spend money you don’t have. This is particularly exacerbated with car rentals in particular since so many credit cards include car rental insurance, making it significantly more expensive (either in immediate cash or expected value of risk) to use debit.
I've lived in both rich(ish) and poor(ish) areas of London over the years. Clapham, Fulham/West Brompton, and Maida Vale in the "rich" west. Whitechapel, Poplar, and the Isle of Dogs in the "poor" east.

It is my general observation that the "rich" areas suffer more from traffic congestion and pollution, because more people own cars and more of those cars tend to be giant diesel Range Rovers and such. In the east it seems like while there are still a lot of parked cars everywhere, people don't actually drive them around as much, choosing the bus/train/bike/feet more often for everyday travel.

Also worth remembering that even the "poor" parts of London are still pretty rich by overall UK standards.
It seems low if you’re from a HCOL like Bay Area but the guy is from KY which is a fairly low cost of living state.

I took a look at realtor.com and homes there and in surrounding areas are like 200k to 400k.

In Bay Area homes are like 1.5 million plus. And unlike LCOL areas the prices here will continue to go up.

I grew up in Midwest. It’s quite cheap to live there. Homes where I grew up still cost like 200k.
Most CISC proponents (armchair digital architects) entirely miss the point.

An ISA is the interface between hardware and software. Thus a complex ISA does impose complexity upon both the hardware and the software.

Complexity is inherently (very) bad, and thus needs strong justification.

RISC embodies this idea by recognizing the value of simplicity and requiring any ISA addition be weighted against its complexity cost.

Implementations of RISC philosophy ISAs demonstrate (by achieving or even surpassing parity) the complexity in x86 is not justified, and this is why there hasn't been any tabula rasa CISC architecture worth noting in several decades.
Higher humidity too.
Ahhhhhh of course. Thanks, that makes sense.
If evidence exists (failed studies) of lack of causality, is it a proof that no causality exists?

I suspect I may not be the first person to entertain this question, perhaps there is some literature on the matter.
The DOJ doesn't have a case, but WOW the last paragraph of that blog is an extraordinary wall of brand fellatio.
Me too. Folks these are physical clocks with retro computer faces.

$33 suddenly doesn’t seem too bad.
It says that Apple Pay protects your privacy by randomizing the number, but Clover based stores seem to have no trouble tracking my loyalty rewards once I linked my phone number to my virtual card.

Same for transit like OMNY in NYC. It tracks my virtual card enough to implement fare capping.
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
I’ve applied to more jobs in 1 day than they did in 3 months. Ghosted 99% of the time while the other 1% is the automatic “Unfortunately, we will not be moving forward with your application, but we appreciate your time and interest” message from LinkedIn ~3/week
Studia AI – Generate your own course on any topic using AI
Studia AI is an AI education platform that is trying to let you generate in-depth courses about any topic with just a prompt. The beta version will be released of Studia AI will be released on the 31st of March.

I am currently looking for beta users to use my product and give feedback about their experience.

The Studia AI beta version will cost $5 (a one-off payment to get access to all future product updates by Studia AI forever).

Follow Twitter for product updates: https://twitter.com/hiresh_b.
Fair, I don't think I explained this well. Because even I would "work" (see [2]). But it is a completely different kind of work, not being bound. They can definitely run companies big or small with no concern of investors.

No doubt billionaires work hard to get there. And no doubt it is a hard task.

I guess part of it is why care about how much money you make anymore? If you care about "score" it seems odd to compare your assets when you can compare your companies' value. Because you can't actually do anything with that money in your bank, and the company's value is a more meaningful metric as to your "value." I think Jensen's rise says a lot more about his value than the $80B in assets or him being in the top 20 richest. (golden handcuffs aside) In that respect Jensen is doing much better than Musk or Bezos. Of course there's tons of metrics to consider but just using this to help ground a talking point.
What products have European tech companies made that the average person uses often?

I can only think of Spotify.

Would love to be enlightened otherwise.
> Does nobody make apps for fun anymore?

I feel like the fact that you need to pay $100/year to publish an app to the app store and keep it there kind of kills off fun apps that don't have some plan for monetization.
What about crappy parents?
They’ll be six workers standing around not doing anything while one works, up from five.
I’d rather be broke in LA than move back to the Midwest though. I’m glad others enjoy it, however.