skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m not entirely convinced that multiplatform UI is a good idea for anything other than the simplest of applications.

Well, I disagree with that. Again, it just takes a lot more effort, but I believe this is achievable (to a large extent).
I like to call it an acquired taste. First you hate it, then you fight it, then you get surprised, finally both you and Perl win.
What you explain is the confusion that comes from reading news articles about science ans succumbing to nihilism and conspiracy theories.
I don't know what else to tell you, I just think people deserve to be paid for the work they do.

Your vision of a world where anyone can create voice for their projects for cheap CAN NOT exist without someone getting exploited. Nor is it sustainable, really.

You said they this world would be worth some people losing their careers, but what do we gain? More games/audiobooks of questionable quality? Is this really worth fucking a whole profession over?
Because researchers put on emotional costumes to serve how they pay for food and shelter, spend their time defending crap results for years/decades.

Let’s not pretend the replication crisis isn’t real and endemic within academia these days.
Postgres is one of the top open source projects of all time. That doesn’t mean everything is perfect with no room for improvement but almost anyone could learn from what’s worked there.
Exactly, ultimately there is always a point where the digital control meets up with the mechanical control that does the actual work. If the digital fails then you assess the mechanical control directly.
Business isn’t always steady so it’s not tenable to have too many people onboard. Although we are hiring. It’s just hard to find experienced software engineers who can communicate with lawyers and are willing to do things like code inspections with nothing but a pad and pen. You certainly won’t be living the Googler lifestyle but it is way more meaningful, energizing and sociable.
How would you recommend implementing population control?
For most of human existence, the great unwashed masses were illiterate, and society seemed to plod along just fine.

Where's the sense in forcing children to spend the best years of their lives as automatons to an education system, just to be baristas at Starbucks anyway? Everyone simply can't work a white collar job, somebody has to clean the toilets. We should at least let those people enjoy their childhood.
Implicit in this statement is that conservatives are excluded now, and need special protection to be included.
My experience with my teen has been that, post-pandemic, he and all of his friends simply decided they didn't want to be inside/bored like they were. We're struggling big-time to keep ours in class. We've tried incentives. We've levied punishments. It's like neither they nor their friends care - at all - about any of it (certainly much less afraid of consequences than I ever was).

Add the much more common use of drugs to the mix (from 14 on), phones that are not required to be put away in class, and it's very tough to keep them on track.

I didn't have half of the distractions/opportunities for entertainment kids these days have, and it was hard for me to muster up the enthusiasm.
I suspect most people already know the answer to how to live sustainably, it's just people don't like the answer. They know they'll have to consoom less and sacrifice some modern comforts. But who wants to do that? Who wants to disadvantage themselves like that? You first, right?

Not to mention some comforts are virtually necessities, like cars.
The Big Bang has nothing to do with explosions
Yes, basic physics shows [1] that we can use (free space) optics instead of wires inside chips. This will improve energy use and speeds by 3 orders of magnitude. Next to a transistor you put a photon detector. You can flip the transistor with the voltage from the photon detector by sending 10000 photons (or less). Pictures of such systems in the slides [2].

We can beam billions of optical channels with different frequencies in parallel across chips, exabits (yettabits, yottabits) per second.

We will not compute with photons tough [4][5], the optical structures are to large and it would only work for very specific types of computations.

We design wafer scale integrations (very large chips) this way we can start making these fast on-chip interconnects around 2027 if we invest a few billion today in making free space optics. A layman's introduction in my talk here [3].

[1] Stanford Seminar - Saving energy and increasing density in information processing using photonics - David B. Miller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hWWyuesmhs

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Miller-65/publica...

[3] Smalltalk and Self Hardware https://vimeo.com/731037615

[4] D. A. B. Miller, “Are optical transistors the logical next step?” Nature Photonics, vol. 4, pp. 3–5, 2010.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Miller-65/publica...

[5] Attojoule Optoelectronics for Low-Energy Information Processing and Communications – a Tutorial Review https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05510.pdf
It's been the same for my kids.

Another thing I've noticed is that post-covid they've come home from school with more stories of the teachers just putting on videos and having the kids watch that, or else they just read crap on their tablets. What I'm saying is, it seems like education has also changed post-covid. It's like the teachers are still remote-teaching even though everybody's in the classroom.

This is public school, and maybe that's how they do it these days?
The average case is also O(n^2).

You have a completely utopian idea about what might be computationally feasible. I don't even know what you are arguing. Certainly it is thinkable that SAT is somehow ridiculously simple to calculate, just in the same way that achieving simple and near free fusion energy is thinkable. It just isn't going to happen and speculating on it is pure science fiction.
Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist, goes through how the cosmic distance ladder works and the recent JWST results here[1].

As you say, measurement errors of Cepheid stars has been something scientists considered a possibility, hence why they're cross-checking by measuring them in different ways.

And, as mentioned in the posted article and the other papers mentioned in the video, it seems that measurement errors are very unlikely to be the culprit.

Preprints to the articles Becky mentions are here[2][3][4].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NeKR7bqolY&t=1330s

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04773

[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04776

[4]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04777
I thought ghost kitchens was a good idea: optimize for delivery, focus on foods that travel well, cut costs by using cheaper real estate in a smaller footprint and eliminating all the expenses that come along with people sitting in a space for hours. Probably less regulatory burden than a full service restaurant.

The reality was it just enabled a flood of crap onto the delivery apps.
In 2005, my 55yo uncle died of an overdose in southern california (orange county Kaiser). Ofc he had no insurance. My grandmother was billed over $2500. There are plenty of cases where insurance doesn't apply.
There was an Air Canada case where the airline was held liable for what the chatbot told the user.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...

I think Air Canada fought it because it was a litmus test to see if they could get away with it, which in turn would have saved them a lot of money.

I can't see the case here though, this is the NYC GOV according to the site (https://chat.nyc.gov/), surely they would need extra levels of vetting of the response because bad information here can affect people's lives.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
User behaviour is not company property.
'The Nightmare Is Over': NASA Resurrects Veritas Mission to Venus
There's no allure, but I'm old enough now to realize what a job actually is (a way to trade your time for appreciating assets).
Have you talked to children that attend public school today? School is not helping them socially whatsoever.
Why do I use Emacs?
I know you're responding to someone else, but funny you say that. I suspect modern NN's are just iteratively solving some really large instances of SAT (similar to WalkSAT), to find a representation of a circuit that best matches a function defined on training examples (which are the constraints). So they're, unwittingly, kinda the SotA SAT solvers.
I had worked with it for a while (when I was at Adobe, a lifetime ago), and I thought it was a cool piece of technology. You could build up complex good-looking UIs fairly quickly. Was sad to see active development stop.
This is the HN IQ bias: assuming that smart people are somehow less susceptible to cognitive biases etc. that the mere mortals have.[1]

Smart people can be incredibly biased and ideological. Some careers for smart people are even all about reasoning backwards from a given conclusion.

[1] redacted footnote
Infinite can expand.
Hey there. Thanks for the compliment. By clicking on the chart at the bottom of the dashboard you can select multiple months.
Do you think women who have the personality and temperament to rise to the top in 2024 corporations will act substantially different than the men who are there today? Why?
Doesn't this article talk about the same problems and results? https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-hubble-tel...
> Does super-resolution add real information to the image? Can it be used for real world analytical applications? [...] The answers to these questions are resounding YES

I have no idea whether it might be useful for real-world analytical applications. But I am quite sure that it is impossible - metaphysically impossible in an information theoretic sense - for a filter to "add information to the image", in any sensible interpretation of that phrase. Where does that information come from?

> into the corresponding most likely image of the desired high resolution according to the acquired prior knowledge

That's like me taking the first image in the example sequence [1], recognizing it's an airport, and then drawing from memory, what an airport might look like. If I know those grey blobs are airplanes and the black strips are tarmac, I might come out with something not unlike the AI produced. But that's what the result is - a statistically plausible interpretation. (In the AI's case, an interpretation masquerading as if it were an actual photo.)

Have I "added information" to the original photograph by interpreting it in a certain way? I would say no.

[1] https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*gUcv...
I would say there is no working definition of consciousness at all—and potentially there can’t be a complete and provably correct one, if we assume Gödel’s incompleteness theorem is true. The reason is that our arguments about consciousness originate from consciousness itself, we are building a model of the system while being inside of it. The only definitive statement that can be made, I guess, is that consciousness exists.

As far as consciousness that doesn’t react, there are materialist/behaviourist/illusionist views that hold that only observed behaviour matters and anything else may well not exist, but I personally am not convinced by them.
"Ozone" layer was a win.

We found a problem, reported it, people believed the scientist, and we identified and adapted to solve the problem. We fixed it.

Same with 'Acid Rain'.

We don't hear about it. Because we identified a problem, believed the science, and fixed it.

I'm continually dumfounded that we used to be able to adapt and fix things, but suddenly with "CO2", this one molecule that we've know was a green house gas for a 100 years now. Suddenly this is the thing people don't want to believe.
Learning to believe your own bullshit helps/confidence in what you're saying. You probably aren't nearly as bad as what you're telling yourself and trying to come off as in your post.

Plus time helps, 24 is still really young and underdeveloped relatively speaking, and you're already trying to improve :)
The fact that you seem to be interested enough to email experts about ancient galaxies, yet still are referencing the big bang as an explosion, leaves me utterly confused about your level of knowledge, but leaning heavily towards "no idea what they are talking about".

The big bang was not an explosion.
What's Google Photo?

I know Google Photos, but that's still active, and haven't failed to my knowledge
Somewhat reminds me of another story from the same decade, of a 30 year old man attending a Scottish high school:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60081503
Ask HN: A PDA for 2024?
I'd like to have a PDA, like in the old days. By a PDA, I mean a portable computer, fitting in a pocket, which would be capable of making notes etc. I'd like to be able to access a wifi network to sync files, but I don't need nor even want cellular connectivity. An important thing is that it should run neither Android nor iOS, so that there won't be a possibility of distractions like games. I'd also prefer it not to have a web browser (for the same reason). Ideally it would just boot into Emacs with Org mode;-).

I found https://www.clockworkpi.com/uconsole (btw, any opinions about it?), and it seems it would be exactly what I want, but are there other options?
What makes you think that should not be possible?

It's a pretty well accepted fact.
Is it really a problem that needs solving? What’s the issue with having multiple means of communicating?
I remember working with the Xerox high-volume printers (8700/9700 series) in the 80s. They were workhorses that could print high volumes at high speeds (for the 1990 TUG conference at Texas A&M, Thomas Reid printed up note pads for (I think just some) of the conference attendees which featured 128 pages showing grey-scale bitmaps of the cmr10 typeface enlarged to fill most of a 5.5x8.5 page with the attendee’s name at the top of the page. He commented about how it was a few thousand pages, all unique. The big catch was that the on-board software on the printers was full of bugs and it was easy to cause the printer to crash (which Xerox called a rollover) which took it out of service for 10–15 minutes which doesn’t sound so bad except when you’re regularly printing a hundred pages a minute for a few thousand users, downtime can be a problem. The smaller 2700-series printers had no ability to handle graphics or use any fonts except the fonts programmed in ROM.
It's in part because old displays had a screen resolution 640x480 or 800x600 back in the 90's, only a little more than phone displays (375x667 for something like an iphone SE, but at higher pixel densities).

Since the 90's, desktops went to 1024, 1920 / HD is mainstream now, and 3840 / 4K is on the rise for desktop.
"Entra" means "Enter" in Spanish as well.
From my understanding, The infinitely large theory relies on the Universe being incredibly complex in terms of dimensions. The best way to describe it is like a balloon Take a deflated balloon and draw two dots next to each other on it. Then blow up the balloon. The dots are further away from each other (universe expansion). And if you "walk" across the balloon, you can make a full circumference so you never run into an edge (infinite).
Your argument is basically "the poor should stay poor and uneducated," which I reject, and society should reject. Kids that are truant are more likely to become criminals (idle hands and idle minds do bad things a lot of the time,) be homeless, draw welfare, require public support, etc. That's not ideal. We can easily stop that from happening, we should not encourage it. You say they'll work at Starbucks, it's just as likely they will just not have a job at all.

Some truancy is because their parents can't enforce what their kids are doing (though some are just really bad parenting), or are too poor too (work double shifts, etc.) We can support those people with social programs, while also making sure their kids go to school and making sure the schools are funded, even hinging the programs on truancy. Incentives work.
Gah, it's not even the politicization! I dare you to sit through a 3rd grade class at your neighborhood school. Nothing gets done. They do projects with little to no mooring to curriculum. That is, unless you live in a top percentile district that values curriculum mapping, but then you were already going to be in the middle class at least. In the meantime, most of these schools are day cares so parents can work. Marx wasn't that wrong.
Amigo Sampler, an 8-bit Amiga style sampler plugin
I hate clickbait titles like this.
This bears passing resemblance to Aurae [0]. Both projects are trying to reimagine the space between the Linux kernel and the cluster using modern languages for improved safety. Beyond that, I can’t confidently compare and contrast the projects at this time.

[0] https://aurae.io/
Yeah, that's part of the problem, too. Although it's also a problem with GPL and the likes: you can't integrate closed-source components from third parties with GPL software.
Far more involved people are in this thread, but my 2c. Forking of software isn't a big issue, but of the community is. If new software was R++ which company will close and original Redis is now in hands of the community everyone would have been OK. The community is built organically and has contributed a lot over the years. Now, it will have to be built again where the efforts would be diluted in multiple forks till they gravitate toward one. Maybe AWS, Tencent, MS will back one and we'll have to settle on a version backed by corporates.
and yet are still truly awful to use.
This is true, high absentee rates make teachers’ jobs much harder. It’s the kind of thing that seems ok when it’s just your student, but if everyone behaves that way, it harms the whole class.
There's still Flickr but I think the reality is that typical people have zero interest in a dedicated photo site.
I built an optimizer for ship loadouts for a game I love playing, Highfleet. I also added ship file sharing, since that was really popular.

Nobody, even in that community, wants to use a tool to explore the trade space of highfleet ships - but I realized that was probably a niche case. And people are happy pasting their ship files into discord, getting 3 reactions, and never having anyone download them.

I think if discord had "download stats", nobody would use it to share things, given it is incredibly transient and impossible to search.
Molecular Natural History of the Channel Island Foxes
Lava a Software Framework for Neuromorphic Computing
A fad that set back the industry by a decade.
They went another way to wall the garden.

The super-open Apple II family had expansion slots and published circuit diagrams that third parties could use to build all sorts of cards. And build they did.

Instead of Jonathan, Apple drove towards the 1984 closed Mac ecosystem. You needed a special wrench to gain access: https://www.micromac.com/products/macopener.html
Similarly from Notes From An Emergency [1] by Maciej Cegłowski:

"It's not clear that anyone can secure large data collections over time. The asymmetry between offense and defense may be too great. If defense at scale is possible, the only way to do it is by pouring millions of dollars into hiring the best people to defend it. Data breaches at the highest levels have shown us that the threats are real and ongoing. And for every breach we know about, there are many silent ones that we won't learn about for years.

A successful defense, however, just increases the risk. Pile up enough treasure behind the castle walls and you'll eventually attract someone who can climb them. The feudal system makes the Internet more brittle, ensuring that when a breach finally comes, it will be disastrous."

[1] https://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm
It's not that there is a shifting boundary where the universe ends, but what is meant with universe expansion is (per my understanding) that objects grow further apart over time without experiencing acceleration or any force acting upon them. It's like drawing a map on grid paper and then increasing the grid size without adjusting the scale: all distances become larger

This stretching includes any photons traveling across the grid, and the stretching causes them to expand. Longer wavelengths are more red, giving us the word redshift for stretched light rays. That's one of the ways we measure the expansion: see how much redder the light is as you look at more and more distant objects
Oh I’m sorry on an open forum where I don’t know every reader I use casual language.

This isn’t a forum for PhD defense.

So glad the takeaway is about a single word. While the idea that researchers are failing left and right which reaches into everyone else’s lives is left untouched. Likely because you’re the sort that relies on people buying the con about your efforts.

Reality is not a neatly organized set of decoupled microservices. It’s a monolith and bad science radiates through our lives.

Experts should not have the influence over society they demand.
The problem with this is, it's virtually impossible to compete against the FOSS trunk that your now-closed-source software branched off of, or FOSS clones of it. Low-end proprietary UNIXes got wiped out by GNU/Linux and the BSDs, for example.

Amazon, Google, MS, and all the rest easily have the talent and resources to create a Redis replacement with code that already exists. They'll do so because it is to their advantage to not charge for the license fees Redis now wants.
You're so lost I'm not sure where to start.

Not that you really deserve help, with that attitude...
perhaps using datasette? https://datasette.io/
Remove the word "junior" and that's totally my opinion and why I absolutely adore it.

I can write a program while drunk or high and I know that I'll get 99% there, on the other hand python, js and C++ let me write basically whatever and it even let me run it.
So, marketing is inevitable and necessary, but I have a hypothesis that the current Internet is making it worse. For example, creators (I'm lumping in researchers with songwriters, actors, etc) used to focus on passing the hurdle of getting an "elite" power (record company, publisher, University) to support them. Once over that hurdle, they specialized in creating and left marketing to the elite.

The elites would pressure the creators to do things they thought were marketable, but it didn't always work because creators had some leverage in negotiation and a small number of elites actually cared about making good stuff.

Now, there are fewer gatekeepers, but instead there is an all powerful algorithm. Creators all have to do their own marketing in addition to creating, and the algorithm can't be negotiated with.

So what we wind up with is insipid YouTube thumbnails and myriad academic papers with breathless "state of the art" claims.

There are tradeoffs, but I do think it's worth noticing how effectively we've started to reward creators for marketing rather than creating.
probably an outlier here, but at one point I thought that building optical brain computer interfaces made a lot of sense. It took about 6 years to figure out that it's a far far harder approach than high density electrophysiology, which hadn't been invented when we started the optical approach.
I'm not against making gambling advertisement illegal. It is reasonable enough ban.

On other hand I might find odds kinda interesting point to discuss. Not as specific odds, but in general. As that is purest number that could actually help in predicting the game. So maybe it should be okay to mention range of odds, just not where those odds come from.
Why not put the batteries in cargo containers and load fully charged batteries when you arrive at a dock and unload the depleted ones. Surely there would be a way to connect them together that could even happen automatically once the batteries are in place right?
Is there a regional component to this?

Some of the “meh, missing two weeks a year for vacations isn’t a big deal” attitudes in this thread are very surprising to me, also as a midwesterner.