skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The demos does not get to decide how spouses interact or how parents raise their children anywhere but at the extremities.

For 99% of human history, they did actually.

But that whole argument is a red herring. OP is dead right: If your megacorp aids genocide, there should be consequences. Firing employees who dare to make noise about it is just peak dystopia shit and we'd be mugs to accept it.
I've done it to watch a live sports event I really wanted to see.

It's basically a combination of me really wanting access to something + not having an alternative source to find said thing.
Anything to do with trains and levers.
I don’t think you can make that argument in good faith: “many of the smartest people happen to go to Stanford/Ivy”.

I think you _can_ say that many smart people go to Stanford/Ivy.
it's not their problem. If you have issues or any issues or they smell any issues, you will be rejected. Too many people take VC/YC personally but try to put yourself in their shoes and ask yourself if your startup would be worth it. Your answer will be their answer
I'm no expert but I've been hanging around YC for a long time and have the consistent impression that when it comes to visa issues, something can nearly always be done. If I were you I'd just apply and mention in the form that you'll need help with this. If it's the kind of application YC would fund, they're not going to turn you down for this reason.
Actual title is "not very censored" which makes a big difference. And the examples are about overreactions in llama2 more than censorship in llama3. It's definitely still censored, it's just better at "false refusal".
I think your point is orthogonal to OP's point. I agree with him, the first chapter of a book about a programming language should include hello world and it should ruthlessly minimise barriers to the broadest range of possible readers being able to try that out. They can then supplement their reading with active experimentation, a vital step. You can't learn to swim by reading a book about swimming.
> Nothing is more _inefficient_ than top-down governance from people who are so many layers removed

Correct. Those are the information-transaction costs Coase describes in his “Nobel” prize winning write-up [1].

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2626876
I feel bad that you didn't know about https://www.ticalc.org/ . Kids in my class would have loved to have a TI-89 instead of a TI-83, since there were so many better games for it.
> Some quick Googling indicates that people with internal monologues might only make up 30%-50% of people [0].

That probably explains so much.
I couldn't disagree more! If anyone is feeling this way, please re-read my text at the top because the whole point is to convince you that YC might be a lot more interested than you'd assume.

Look at it this way: if there's even a small chance that an application could lead to a major startup, would it make any sense for YC to reject it because of visa reasons (or similar)? Absolutely not. That would be how startup investors fail.

On the contrary what would make sense is to fund it and then help get the obstacles overcome. This is a no-brainer and is one of the big ways that YC helps founders—not just about visa issues, but lots of other things - legal issues, cap table issues, prior investor issues, cofounder conflicts, god knows what else.
It's the most patriotic thing a person can do in Washington DC, but just try it in a small town.
That sounds like a system that leaves out a lot of people who might be better at starting and running companies than the persona willing to throw their family in the garbage for their company.

A startup founder who is 40 years old is 2.1x more likely to start a successful venture than a 25-year-old. [1] The kind of people who tend to have kids and families.

And it’s kind of pathetic for an industry that’s supposed to be creating innovations like spatial computing, augmented reality, and fully remote companies to be unable to set up an online school.

[1] https://www.founderjar.com/startup-statistics/
that doesn't make any sense, would you also say that there should be land stars?
Except everyone I've spoken to has had car wash damage covered by their dealer, except Teslas.
Well, just because you can use a tool doesn't mean you should. It's not always about skill but rather whether the tool is appropriate. It may be possible to clean your floor with a toothbrush but that doesn't mean it is a worthwhile tool for doing so. If you're trying to kill a fly, perhaps the best tool for the job is not a baseball bat.
Do you still have your master's thesis?
Totally. And it’s interesting to consider what Elo a human would have, if there was some way to account for the extra latency without unblinding the test. I suspect a human control would not be a lot higher ranked. For the most part top LLMs already sound human if you prompt or fine tune them to emulate conversational style. A determined Turing tester would tell the difference most of the time I believe, but most people submitting arena ratings are not determined.
I think maybe we’re talking about different comments, or it was edited. The one I’m referring to is this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40089785

(If it was edited away from what you’ve said, then I’m not going to defend the original comment. And I agree that what happened to middle eastern Jews is not uniquely evil; only that it ought to color our understanding of the overall situation.)
Ah, totally fair. I took that to be "unapproved all the way back to the designer." Which, yeah, that doesn't happen. It almost certainly has approval from a line manager at the bare minimum, if it helps perform the assembly. If it goes to more teams than a single line, it gets more approval.

I think I largely biased to the next message, which did indicate reviews would happen, but that they have some freedom at the line. And that still sounds right to me.
>p-zombies

I looked up what he said about p-zombies on the p-zombies wiki and am happy to see he has a position I agree with.

>Dennett argues that "when philosophers claim that zombies are conceivable, they invariably underestimate the task of conception (or imagination), and end up imagining something that violates their own definition".
> they say it is not that useful for bespoke medicine, you say that people are using it for research purposes, both can be true?

They said it is “really a marketing for bespoke medicine.” That implies only (or mostly) useful to bespoke medicine as a marketing tool. Demonstrating any significant other utility falsifies that statement.
When I took Fundamentals of Programming Languages 20 years ago - I nearly failed the class. Lambda calculus was simply too esoteric for me to appreciate and much less understand intuitively.

Fast forward 20 years, and I see the fundamentals of Alonzo Church’s system in every computation problem I encounter. It’s one of those concepts that age like wine. The only other concept I put on the same level is Shannons “informational entropy” and maybe Wolfram’s Ruliad.
For context, as far as I am aware, ENS is the most prestigious non-engineering institute in France and is known for its extreme rigor. And l’X is the top engineering institute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_normale_sup%C3%A9ri...

Someone more familiar can correct me if I am wrong.
> the smartest people happen to go to Stanford

There's no way this is even possible, let alone true.

This might be a hot take but if you're under the age of 25, it's likely that you know very few things total. And the things you do know, you're just not going to have a master level of understanding of in your 20s yet nor the drive to focus on it the way it needs, especially with other social pressures at play. What is extremely high in your 20s is your ambition - your loftiness of ideas and goals and your expectations of yourself - these can land you exceptional jobs, opportunities, and get you to a great starting point, but that's not the same as intelligence and ability.

For manual labor work, there's a definite peak - college age and the years just after. But for knowledge work, math, programming, business, politics, etc. being older is almost always an asset - you get better at things, you get smarter, your networks grow, you become an adult among the children and are far more aware of timing and can predict and speak on things with more accuracy. You simply know more.

Besides that, I don't think raw intelligence is selection criteria for a good founder anyway. It has a lot more to do with your particular situation - how well you're situated to pull it off, which can mean many things. In terms of personal qualities it probably has more to do with determination and obsession (work ethic) than intelligence, especially these days where information is so cheap and available.
What, we're all just assuming the law of the excluded middle now?
Taking out "very" from the original title turns this into clickbait.
Can anyone explain what the deal is with that Us department of state foreign affairs policy board?
There has to be some programmer rite of passage involving learning lambda calculus. I went through this a few years ago when something similar was posted. I learned the notation, marveled at its dual simplicity and completeness, and and did a few exercises. But I came out the other side none the wiser. I think I was looking for some great epiphany on the nature of computation. Alas, it eluded me in the end. It was fun but ultimately useless for me.
YC has increasingly come to resemble a selective community, with an almost cult-like allure. It presents itself to a broad audience, yet only those who share its unique ethos are granted admission. Nowadays, many applicants use the platform not just for entrepreneurial ventures but also to enhance their resumes. Consequently, a number of them lack genuine commitment.

Moreover, YC is notorious for advocating an intense work ethic—bordering on having no life outside of work—and for creating a tightly-knit community that some liken to a mob. Although these dynamics are not universally appreciated, many individuals join to benefit from the network. Nepotism also plays a role, as mediocre founders who have personal connections with partners often find an easier path in. In addition, there is a prevalent sense of self-deception among the members who offer startup and life advice, advice they themselves might not be equipped to provide. This is particularly questionable in today’s era of AI and new technologies, which challenges the relevance of their supposed wisdom.

Despite these criticisms, if you are young, hungry, and perhaps a bit naïve, giving YC a try could be worthwhile if you feel your vibe might align with theirs.
> That's like, your opinion.

That's what the law says. You own a piece of property, you want to get into the market by building more housing on it than currently exists, you can't.

> Fact is that you can build dense housing in any big city in the US. No cartel and no laws forbid it.

Explicitly prohibiting something and purposely using the law to render it uneconomical are de facto equivalent.

> The argument of "but I want an apartment tower right THERE and it's zoned SFH!!!1!" could as well be applied to SFH and with the same veracity you could repeat that "the law forbids building SFHs" because there are lots zoned AG or industrial where you cannot build a SFH.

Okay, so let's do that too. There is no good reason to prohibit single family homes in the most permissively zoned areas -- maybe the agriculture or industrial workers would prefer a shorter commute.

But also, this is often already the case. The farmer is allowed to build a farm house. There is no valid reason to prohibit it. It's just not going to happen very often whether you prohibit it or not because there is no demand for a SFH development in the middle of a large block of farmland or a bunch of warehouses and factories.
> We can’t predict the weather more than 14 days into the future

a casino can't predict the next 14 blackjack cards, but somehow it can predict the profit over the next 365 days (millions of blackjack cards)

just sayin.
Can you provide some kind of compilation or useful report they get as a result of the discussion?

"hey, talk to me in an open ended fashion about how you do _____ in your business and I'll summarize the responses, show you how you compare and share all of the solutions I know about that can help you"
> people with internal monologues might only make up 30%-50% of people

It's incredible to imagine there are people out there just thinking in language as they go about their lives.

I wonder how it must work. Are they literally lining up one word after another in their minds? I guess it has to work that way to feel like some sort of "consistent internal monologue"?

At scale, though, imagining a roomful of people thinking in single-threaded monologues does explain a lot about why some teams take forever to get anything done.
> There are almost two hundred thousand employees at Google.

There are two hundred thousand employees, and approximately 90% of them donate to a single political party. Google isn't a politically diverse place to work, it is an environment where you are expected to have certain political views.
Could you expand on the points of vandalism and threats? The article you linked to only had some vague corporate speak about vandalism, which could easily refer to the banner they hung. The only reference to anyone feeling threatened was a reference to another employee who "felt scared," but it doesn't say the protestor were doing anything threatening.
https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/1d7...

But just for the record, re-reading it now 37 years after the fact, I would not hold it up as a particularly good piece of work. It's a bit cringey actually.
A second year PhD student no less! He did his undergrad at Tsinghua and is doing a PhD at Berkeley.
> That it seemed a bit much in response to Google employees just sitting-in, in their workspace peacefully, saying, “Hey, drop Project Nimbus or come talk to us about it. Have some sort of conversation with us.” It was a complete overreaction on Google's part to not only fire everyone who was and wasn't involved, but then also threaten everyone else in the company who would dare think to stand up against this. And people are taking notice that it feels like a very fascist environment.

That was from the article.
Redis (64.7k stars): Excluding merges, 8 authors have pushed 8 commits to unstable and 10 commits to all branches. On unstable, 173 files have changed and there have been 2,002 additions and 3,194 deletions.

Valkey (12k stars): Excluding merges, 41 authors have pushed 147 commits to unstable and 181 commits to all branches. On unstable, 473 files have changed and there have been 10,635 additions and 9,663 deletions.

You may as well just start mentally teaching yourself to alias redis to valkey.
You may add some RGB pixels for even more realism like i have done in Blender some years ago:
https://blenderartists.org/t/rgb-display-shader/684533
That’s a good point too. Maybe it’s not much of an issue for us “older” drivers but as we start to get “native” one-pedal drivers it could start to be.
This should occupy 0% of your attention. If you're the kind of founder YC would fund, applying with an AI idea vs a non-AI idea won't change anything.

YC supports founders. It's as simple as that, hard as that is to believe, given the assumptions many people make.

The reason AI startups are so prominent in recent batches is that it's what many founders want to work on. If you're the type of founder YC funds and you want to work on something else, YC will support you to work on that. If at some point it's clear that it's not working, they may advise you to change—but not because of the AI bit.
Certainly that's a part, but it didn't help that SCTP has some fundamental low-level flaws.

Given that TCP also has at least one unfixable flaw, the only recommendation I can make is to use something UDP-based - which, to make sure you don't stomp on everybody else's traffic, means use the only popular one: QUIC (the layer beneath HTTP/3).
Then they should quit if their personal beliefs no longer align with the company. The expectation that they can do anything outside of working for the company on company objectives while on company time and not face consequences is insane to anyone that's worked at a non-SV tech company.
difficulty also updates every couple of weeks.

less folk mining means less energy per coin mined
I absolutely adored The Curse of Monkey Island, and still do, having gone back and finished it 3 or 4 times.

It was my first encounter with the series and even after the remastered versions I couldn't go back and get into the first 2 because they simply felt less developed, less funny, and less interesting. I know those that have started with them would think that's a travesty, but here we are.
Having not heard of any of this before now, I'm struggling to wrap my head around why this would be evidence that they're not good stewards of Redis-the-project (as opposed to their Redis service). If they had delayed the general release until their cloud could support it or tried to expedite their cloud release by moving resources over to the cloud services, I feel like that would be much more worrisome in terms of their stewardship of the project as a whole. If anything, it sounds like they basically chose to prioritize Redis in general over their own offering, which is exactly what I'd expect people in the community to want.
“Humans sheltered for thousands of years” isn’t quite right. Humans stopped by and used this shelter from time to time for thousands of years.
Linear growth in husbands? Pathetic. You'd need at least quadratic to amount to anything.
Ask HN: Is there a music library app that sits on top of streaming services?
I want to be able to let others in my office see the music everyone is listening to, or has listened to, share albums and have a communal library. But I want the library to be distinct from something like Spotify, but would allow someone to browse and play using their own account. This is not a central jukebox, just a central library.

Is there anything out there like that? A sort of shared music library app?
Ah, I was expecting https://xkcd.com/1102/
In honor of Dennett's death, if we go with the proposition that consciousness is illusory to begin with, then it is fine to ignore the also-illusory consciousness across the animal world as well.

I will go ahead and claim that it is not like anything to be a bat (iykyk; see the Nagel reference in TFA). And, frankly, questions of consciousness have become a bit boring to me, despite being the focus of my interest for decades now.

Questions of intelligence, communication, social organization, etc are interesting. But questions about a consciousness phenomenon that may or may not even be real and has literally no consensus about theory or fundamental meaning across many disciplines? Boring.

Get back to me when even a bare majority of philosophers and researchers can agree on a definition of consciousness.
Show HN: Open-source SDK for creating custom code interpreters with any LLM
Duke Nukem is an obvious parody. And most ironically, the franchise always seen has more female fans than comparable genre games.
loading everything upfront (a loading bar) was a better trade off than having unloaded images if you scrolled too fast.

making each image a separate file was not very efficient for basically every reason. i ended up writing my own streamable archive format called an "asset bundle". it is essentially all resources concatenated.

that code is public -> https://github.com/paperdave/assetbundle

the scale of the universe webapp loads all the assets, but then pixi.js objects are dynamically created and destroyed depending on the scale. i never fully verified but i hope does the right thing and keeps sprite data out of vram when it's not needed.
Those are some serious assaults without backing any of it up
May be so, but I think it is move valuable to explore the ideas of different people and look for truth, than to simply rank them.
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The book Hackers was first published in 1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compute...

Jargon file was published as The Hacker's Dictionary in 1983 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File

I consider this definitive evidence that the foundational period of hacker culture was before these books were published. I'm not sure what the point of trying to shift that period forward so as to include Dennett's works is. It's neither true nor necessary.
This is not accurate. Ethics is very well-studied in analytic philosophy, and discussion of Plato and Kant are central topics.
Thanks, Dang - for the encouragement! You made my friday with this post, so might as well give it a shot as a gratitude
Just because someone has an internal monologue doesnt mean they think slow. Its just a voice in your head you can talk to. Its not how you think.
Physicists Suggest Universe Is Full of Material Moving Faster Than Light
When I was younger, I thought that we eat in order to live. Growing older, I realized that the opposite is true.
How are we supposed to interpret these numbers? In its whole history, Redis has had 8 contributors? And in less than a month Valkey has added 33 contributors?
In the sense that wanting the job is disqualifying, yes.
While I sometimes do talk to myself without uttering the words, most of the time it's a tad more abstract than that. It's like when you're discussing something complex or involved, you don't think too much about the exact words, the sentences just form as you go.

It's not "on" all the time for me, but the majority of the day I'd say.
> you invented a fake quote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphrase#Analysis

> double quotes means a literal quote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation#Quotative_verbs
> As a rule, old folks aren't going to take their pensions to Fast Freddy's strip club backroom poker nights

Trivially so. People with gambling addictions don't wind up as old folks with pensions.
For most people it is a very important part of ethics. Most people would consider it unethical to boil alive a being with a sense of self and the ability to feel pain, but are perfectly happy to do that to things that don’t have those characteristics. So it’s a very interesting question for most people whether a lobster is conscious.

I’m not sure I would ever want to interact with you if you don’t think that consciousness should have anything to do with how you treat other creatures; at best you might be indifferent to cruelty towards pets and at worst you might be a psychopath.
Speed of environmental change frames ecological risk in climate change scenarios
Sounds more like made-up propaganda to drive a wedge in a multicultural society.
Yes I literally line up one word after the other. As I think, I converse to myself. "Should I do it this way? No, well that's overkill and too difficult. Can I get away with just that? Yeah that's likely fine" I think there are definitely extra-verbal aspects to my thinking e.g. sometimes when I tell myself "how about this" "this" refers to a thought or graph or concept or whatever. Other than that, my thinking is like speaking.
Seems to be buffering more than other videos on same site do on my end on the original link, but it does eventually load.
It depends on whether you want to make a high-growth startup or not. If you do, YC can help with that a lot.

I guess you might be joking, but there are tons of open-source startups these days, for some definition of "open source" or other.
I would personally never contribute to a project with non-free license without getting paid. It's basically working for a company without pay.
This is absolutely awesome. I wonder if this is the same concept that phones use to focus/blur elements of the photo in post
awesome, thank you so much.
I'm sure your application will get reviewed but if you want to email me at hn@ycombinator.com I can double check that it has. Maybe wait a few weeks though.