skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert either. I'm a computer scientist, not a physicist. But the math behind QM -- at least the parts that matter for this discussion -- is pretty straightforward linear algebra. Really, anyone can learn it. So don't take my word for it, look into it and decide for yourself. You can start here:

https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Physics-Princeton-Foundati...

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mechanics-Experience-David-Al...

Or, if you don't feel like buying a book:

https://flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

Or, if you prefer a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

BTW, it may come as a surprise to learn that I am actually not a big proponent of many-worlds despite recognizing that it is in fact a logical consequence of the math. If so, you may find this interesting too:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2009/04/on-shadow-photons-and-re...

and a follow-up written ten years later:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2019/07/the-trouble-with-many-wo...
Bloomberg, Capital One, Cisco, Intel, Meta and Red Hat all are sponsoring at the same level as GitHub. FerretDB, Perforce, Tidelift and Salesforce join Microsoft at the next level down.

That's a much more diverse crowd of sponsors than I thought I'd see based on your comment.
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Those numbers mean nothing because obviously a fork in its inception will have a burst of activity. Half of those changes are probably just renaming redis => valkey, too.

Let's check the numbers in 6 months or a year for a truly meaningful figure about the health of each project.
Agreed, that's an extreme but reasonably plausible scenario. In general, I don't think there's much you can do on this earth that could resist such a coalition.

I guess some encryption could hold even if the whole world agreed to break it, so there might still be a gap for an absolutely indestructive currency. Of course, excluding aliens or future generations with sufficient technology, or total data erasure somehow. Or our extinction, but it's not a fault of the currency if there's no one to give it value.

You don't even need to get that far, perhaps you don't even need 51% of miners. A much lower percentage of people loosing faith in the value of the currency, or just agreeing not to value it, or just realizing it's not actually very useful, would be enough to kill it. Most of the value of crypto is speculative anyways, when the bubbles burst, the actual real utilitarian value of the currency that is left is small enough that it just gets crushed with the momentum of the bank run.

That's a much larger threat in practice, and it has happened to a lot of crypto over the years.

Just throwing some thoughts out for the sake of conversation, this has already been endlessly discussed much more thoroughly for nearly two decades. I'm not even much into crypto, it's just fun to think about the possibilities.
Anyone have a sense on when realistically mining becomes totally impractical for the reward? I seem to recall reading somewhere that with the current technology it would take till around 2100 to mine them all, but surely somewhere between 2030 and 2040 the reward to power consumption will get out of whack such that nobody will do it?
The core issue with consciousness is first and foremost subjective experience. These are very private things and exists outside material world, i.e. the term “evidence” does not apply as evidences are based on appearances and appearances are content of senses and the entire existence for any experiencer first and foremost exists in his mind.
I love this man. Thank you for posting. This is an outright immoral act and should be illegal.
Ably’s LiveSync (https://ably.com/livesync) is conceptually designed to solve exactly this problem by providing a database connector that subscribes to changes committed using the outbox pattern, and a models SDK to subscribe to those changes in your app. It’s early days as it’s just been released, but at the core the team’s goal in designing that was to solve this exact problem. Interested if this is meets your needs?
Disclaimer. I am the co-founder of Ably.
Well, 2M of energy + opex at least
The only way I can foresee a cryptocoin actually holding value is if spending the coin meant spending processing cycles and RAM doing things like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr...

But in more general sense, less like https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ and more like AWS...

It's the only way to have value, actually holding computing power in a distributed network.
Color changing header is annoying as all get out. IF Scrolling and you pull my attention away you're doing it wrong (disengaging my eye). If you put content under that header (blog) I would click away. It's also annoying to have it snap colors when clicking on the header.

The logos of the people you work with are in color. Use the color versions. You're killing their visual language for yours and making them hard to scan. If you have to dump the blue to get that done, do it.

Blue is a brutal color to work with. This shade and this much is, a lot. It works but you need to find a way to smooth it out down the page/through the jumps.

You have product screen shots, and a dark mode. Your product screen shots need to swap to dark mode... or I just assume your product doesn't have dark mode.

In your 8 points section... ai... templates. Too much info in one spot. cull that down to 4 things. Make it two screens. Your icons being bigger than the text is... a waste.

Trial plan, 30-90 days, 2-4 accounts. Dont give your stuff away, Costco samples work.

>> Can I cancel my subscription? ... You can cancel your

Easy to cancel, one click, cancel at any time and we will refund you the prorated amount... Or not renew you... or...

In general there isnt enough here for me to make a 40 buck decision. More content (how about some walk through videos). And a better intro plan, or a month free (see easy to cancel).

Yes that's a rough review. What you have isnt bad, it can be better!
After applying last time without success, I tried again this time but this time just did it super quick without investing too much time and effort.

I figure if it’s a good idea they’ll be interested and if not we’ll then I won’t have invested too much time in it.
Doctors have to be very careful with this type of request. If they allow an unrelated third-party to view protected health information, even inadvertently, then they could be punished for a HIPAA violation. Most well-managed healthcare provider organizations would outright prohibit this unless there is a business associate agreement in place.
Yes, of course. His guests love being able to come on and present their view with very little critical analysis of what they are saying. It is fantastic PR for them.

Interviewers shouldn't be aggressive, antagonistic or clickbaity but they should put opposing views to their guests so that the guest can respond. Testing ideas like this is a fundamental way of learning and establishing an understanding of a topic.
Why does Meta embed a 3.5MB animated GIF (https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Meta-AI-Expa...) on their announcement post instead of much smaller animated WebP/APNG/MP4 file? They should care about users with low bandwidth and limited data plan.
While I agree with vegans in spirit, I think humans are closer to obligate carnivores than not; ergo, I think it is a neccessary sin to sacrifice animal life for sustinence until such time we can grow the proverbial walls of muscle on artificial life support from stem cells more cheaply than [no sin tax] standard beef. At that point, we must shut the slaughter houses for good.
Spending tiny amounts using Bitcoin's Lightning Network for digital (SaaS) services is something I'm exploring. It's an interesting application when you need an international payment system for settling cross-border payments. (I'm not a fintech expert, but like I said, I'm exploring the possibilities...) When something costs only a few cents (sats in Bitcoin-speak), the variability of the full price of one Bitcoin is minimal. And when something is a few cents, the transaction fees using any other method makes the whole idea hard to imagine.

tl;dr: international payments for digital goods using the Lightning Network is (arguably) a valid use for Bitcoin that is not speculation.
is nothing < dancing dollar sign >acred?
That's not so. At the last YC talk I attended, founders of $100M startups were cited as successes (anything else would be pretty weird, no?) That's incredibly successful, even though startup investing is a power-law game.
While I don't want to downplay anyone's feeling of safety, in the current climate, some Jewish Zionists (A phrase i'm choosing deliberately, as a person who is Jewish, but anti-Zionist) have weaponized accusations of anti-semitism to suggest that any discussion of Palestinian statehood, support for peace in Gaza, or even the very presence of a keffiyeh are inherently anti-semitic and make them feel threatened.

This is not happening in a vacuum. It is ALSO unfortunately true that whenever the issue of Palestinian statehood becomes magnified some activists use this as an excuse to promote all sorts of classic anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists and start raging about Jewish people indiscriminately, not just the Apartheid system. (Much in the same way that some BLM protestors take things too far and start accusing all white people indiscriminately of racism).

But it is happening. Since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_keffiyeh is inherently associated with Yasser Arafat, many uneducated people innocently incorrectly assume that it is inherently a piece of terrorist paraphernalia, and as a result feel unsafe just from it's mere presence at peaceful demonstrations. Likewise, "from the river to the sea" and chants like it also imply a jewish genocide for them, and make them feel unsafe. I personally believe that particular chant is more harmful than helpful, and I likewise cringe at people wearing keffiyeh's as a means of solidarity. I don't care about what people THINK it means, it is perceived by those whose opinions they must change the most (unengaged moderates) as a symbol of terrorism for justifiable reasons. (Much like the Nazi Swastika's original hindu origins don't matter anymore in any context outside of India, sorry)

So. It's complex. It's nuanced. I don't know what happened. But I wouldn't assume that just because someone "felt threatened" by this protest that the protestors actually did anything indefensible.

Others have already touched upon the point that "vandalism" can be defined however any party wishes it to be. My 4 year old drawing in chalk on a sidewalk could be considered vandalism, if someone wanted to. In Google's case, using scotch tape to attach a sign to a door and lightly scuffing some of the paint as a result, could be considered "vandalism" for the purpose of an HR-justifiable firing. This is no different than "assault" legally being any physical contact. Tapping someone on the shoulder could be "assault" if it's deemed aggressive and unwanted. Vandalism is no different.
One situation is if you live in a country with highly inflationary currency, it's a hedge against loss of value even in the short term. This argument goes for any inflationary currency, including USD, in the long term. This stems from Bitcoin's inherent design of provably predictable scarcity.
I'm curious about the impact of the licence change on the average company.

Were you self-hosting redis in all your companies, or how were you using it?
Sounds like one of America's "Best Places to Work".
That transaction appears to have an image attached: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/2fc565c... (see Ordinals Inscription)
The amount of the fee is kind of up to the sender. If the fee is not high enough, miners will not include the transaction in the blocks. But there's no upper limit on how high the sender can set the fee.

Edit: Since a block has a limited amount of space for transactions, transactions with more bytes have to pay a larger fee to get picked up by miners. This one looks really large.
Was the multiplier high enough for this block that it would have made sense to rent GPUs to mine it?
Can't be taken away from you / frozen. Which isn't a problem for most if they have multiple bank accounts, but for some controversial figures it can be essential.
When you make a transaction on the Bitcoin network (and really every other cryptocurrency), you tack on a fee to the amount of coin you want to send. Miners prioritize higher fee transactions when deciding which transactions to include in the next block. Therefore, to guarantee your inclusion in the next block, you would choose to increase the fee you pay.

So, for this transaction, they chose to pay a $5000 fee to guarantee their placement in this block.
That depends on the valuation of BTC, no?
What exactly is "internal monologue"? It's heavily debated in the comments. I don't understand though, because when you learn to read you're mouthing words, and over your lifetime it's actually very hard to not mouth words when you read.

It makes me think that internal monologue is precisely an artifact of language itself. In this way, this debate and surprise over people "not having it" is not really profound. All people internalize language, that's the only way that not-mimicked language synthesis can happen. This is different from parrots parroting back what they hear for example.

Anyway, I'm curious about this debate over internal monologue. Perhaps it's really that people don't retrospect. That's different. They don't adopt viewpoints outside of their own. Is this really a physical limitation vs a choice?

Am I just ignorant about the state of this science?
If you are on the fence on the topic of eating meat vs going vegan / vegetarian, this 2018 documentary might change your thoughts: https://watchdominion.org/

Warning: Some visuals may be disturbing.
It's also very likely plants have some sort of experience of the world that would be very alien to ourselves or animals. They have complex networks through roots and mycelial connections, communicate to one another through chemicals emitted and "smelled" through the air etc. By some this could be considered a form of consciousness. What that means for vegans I don't know
> If you trick them into disclosing their name, it is discarded right away and doesn't count towards the score.

However that process works would be the thing to circumvent, like by getting it to disclose some letters of its name, or any value that is different between models but the same or similar for each one. I assume it doesn't provide the numerical token values in the output or it would be trivial.
The 8-bit era was an interesting time because DRAM memory had finally become cheap and there was no clear cut market leader that had a definite average over the others. This lead to a lot of interesting innovation in the market, some truly unique designs, companies who bet big, some won and some bet it all and lost. The software industry for micros was also just getting started.

There was this whole period where machines were getting small enough that an individual person might be able to afford a computer, and away from unit record systems that were basically glorified accounting machines that worked with punched cards and paper tape into things such as refreshable text and graphics displays, sound chips, etc.

Why preserve it? Well if you want to know where you are going it helps to know where you've been; and yes, there's a heavy dose of nostalgia there for those of us who grew up with these machines.

Have you never wondered what the GUI and mouse was like BEFORE Windows and Mac? You could actually try it on a Lisa or Xerox Star, an Amiga or Atari ST, or using GEOS on the C64..
Past a tipping point that could make earth uninhabitable is going to create a financial crisis as bad as the 2008 great recession, to paraphrase.

If the end of the world is only as bad as the 2008 financial crisis I'd say we lucked out.
People have always loved gambling. Crypto is nothing but a game of musical chairs. Also, smart people fall into cults like everyone else but they tell themselves they are into it for rational reasons (techology).
Vegetables may as well have feelings. Many vegetable demonstrates observable reactions to cuts. If you can switch the angle of perspective to plants like Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj do you might as well experience pains as plants were cut and eaten.

The core of any sin is against the will i.e. I have heard there were people who would like to be eaten and found a guy who actually ate him.

In the book I AM THAT Sri Nisargadatta said to a questioner:”

Look, my thumb touches my forefinger. Both touch and are touched. When my attention; is on the thumb, the thumb is the feeler and the forefinger -- the self. Shift the focus of attention and the relationship is reversed. I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness -- love; you may give it any name you like. Love says: 'I am everything'. Wisdom says: 'I am nothing' Between the two my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.
This post reminds me of a quote:

> Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted.

Like any good maxim, the original author is lost to time. But this [1] traces it to:

> It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could be enumerated because then we could run them through IBM machines and draw charts as the economists do. However, not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Which is from William Bruce Cameron's 1963 text “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking.”

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/26/everything-counts-e...
An analysis by expert witnesses in the trial found that a small amount of memory corruption could trigger task death and unintended acceleration. The report did not find the cause of the memory corruption, but many software errors can corrupt memory. https://www.safetyresearch.net/Library/BarrSlides_FINAL_SCRU...
thank you, I will take your advice and apply!
Oh no, won't someone think of the differing opinion of <checks notes> people who support genocide.

Look, I'm sorry that our age is polluted with too much information and people like to play devil's advocate. But history will not be ambiguous on this subject any more than it was on South African apartheid or Nazi Germany.

What the political administration of Israel and it's military wing the IDF are doing in Palestine is indefensible. We can split hairs about the legal definition of genocide (because to some unless it reaches the German level of efficiency with literal extermination camps it does not count), but one can support the safety of Jewish people in the Levant without "supporting Israel" and arguing about semantic definition while tens of thousands of people die.

It's unfortunate that like too many other subjects this is perceived as something that reasonable people can debate about in the west because of how deeply entrenched countries like the US are in supporting Israel at all costs, but it does not change the ethical reality on the ground.
I intentionally chose not to editorialize the title, as doing so is against HN guidelines. If a moderator wants to change it, though, I'll abide!
While the hustle is admirable, I think you could use more creativity on the outreach plan. Doctors are likely one of the most harried professions in the world. Cold emails to these folks are not going to work well.

You have to find a way to network.

Look at how pharma reps do it. Attractive people, coming into the office and bring lunch.

Where can you put yourself in a spot to meet and talk to a high percentage of doctors. My first thought is a golf course. Is there a way in that way?

Do you volunteer at a hospital on weekends?

Another tip is for anyone you talk to, ask for introductions. Who else has this problem?? I work in healthcare (not a doctor). Not sure if I can help, but happy to chat if you dm me.
Miners make money from the transaction fees as well as the block reward. If fewer people mine, then the difficulty level drops and allows people with lower computer power to get the rewards.
New protocol launch coincided with this block - in chasing becoming the first use of the protocol, users spent thousands to use it or create an asset via the protocol.
Ah sorry for clarity I didn't mean "currently attend", and agree "smartest" here was probably excessively casual.

I think there's different benefits at different ages, and agree on importance of determination and obsession. A good market is the only thing that might be more useful.
llama2 was kinda weird. I work on postgres internals for a living, I asked it information about a postgres internal function - it responded that it was unethical to ask about private/internal postgres functions. It then proceeded to expound on the perceived ethics of the situation.
It's more like a self conversation, one in which I must internally LARP as the other party. It's like I am using some theory of mind stuff to simulate earnest and good faith debate.
This was a historic event people paid to be a part of.

Only 4MB of data can fit in a block. To get priority for your transaction you pay more.
I don't know but that sounds bad.
Wow they spent $5k to put some incredibly ugly AI generated art on the blockchain. Money well spent.
> We want to live in a democracy, but fundamentally undemocratic entities run the world and act on it in ways none of the citizens decided. The obvious next step is to dismantle those undemocratic places, or at least reduce their actions to what citizens decide, but we're far from it.

Governments and companies are different things entirely.

These folks can choose not to work for Google. They (and we) can't just impulsively choose to stop dealing with the United States of America

Well, of course you could obtain citizenship in another country and move there, but that's much more difficult than just finding another job, particularly if you are a Googler. I doubt they'll be unemployed for long.
Yes, someone is factually wrong. The likelihood that it's you is about 50%.
I think it's fine as is, comments are already in place providing the context.
Well I sure feel stupid now, heh. Good point.
I have a hard time too. But specifically about chickens, I happened to run into the opposite sentiment on TV from a farmer. On the idea of eating animals she talked about how she debates it herself but with chickens - she eats chickens - because if you've ever raised chickens you know pretty clearly they are dumb AF.
It was a dummy transaction to begin with, they just wanted into this specific block.
Genuine question: why is that? Is inflation required?
Many of them turn out not to be marketable, though, and that doesn't necessarily count against you. It's not the high-order bit—the high order bit is the founders. Ideas can and do change.
So they don't get into it until the very end, but the claim is that these things have so many cores that they're actually faster running CPU inference than GPUs while being a little bit cheaper? That'd be pretty fun if true - of all the things to put pressure on Nvidia, I would have bet on another GPU vendor before I bet that CPUs would leap back into being faster!
Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety
The article doesn't really explain their theory whatsoever.
You will probably be wanting unlambda then. an implementation of the lambda calculus without the lambda forms.

http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/