skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that makes this eugenicist is the fact that it is none of his business whether other people do with their bodies. If he decided for him self not to give birth to a baby with Down’s syndrome, that is his choose, but if he is claiming to be a moral arbitrator of what other people choose, he may be dabbling in eugenics.
You all talk about the work Dan does moderating this place, which, fair enough, but "Launch HN" is low key one of the coolest jobs in startups. The before/after on what those launch posts become after Dan gets involved would knock you out. A sibling comment asked him what his comp was (which is very funny) but it's a question with a simple answer: whatever he's getting, it's probably not enough.
Since there is no time from the perspective of a photon, there is only one photon everywhere at anytime. Our perception of multiple photons is incorrect. Its just multiple timelines with the same photon.
i find the story of albert hoffman synthesizing lsd to be entirely unbelievable. he details it in his book and the story is:

- in 1938 he had a list of compounds to synthesize and inject into mice

- most do nothing, one of them, the 25th item in the list, causes restlessness. he notes this and moves on to the next

- none of the many compounds tested produced any significant results and nothing comes of this

- 5 years later he just one day remembers that one lsd compound, number 25, that produced restlessness and decides to remake it and ingest it himself

this is the kind of totally unbelievable macguffin type stuff you see written into the 7th movie of a long series when they run out of ideas. this is like when a show jumps the shark with some flashback to an earlier season with a “it was planned all along” trope
Not a YC founder, but this is factually not true. YC allows Delaware, Cayman, Canada, and Singapore corporations [0].

Pre-empting the accusation that "cayman companies are about tax dodging": Cayman companies are a great fit for heavily international businesses that do not reside in the USA, but that want to be governed as if they were, because cayman corporate law is basically delaware's.

A good example is Nubank, which is a cayman corp that does most of it's business in LatAm.

The reason a company like this should not be a delaware c-corp is so that, in case of an acquisition of the companies assets, the holding company doesn't have to pay usa taxes (which is reasonable, since the company didn't have usa operations to begin with).

[0]: https://www.ycombinator.com/deal
Philosophy, like every field, follows Sturgeon's law: 90% of it is crap.
Yeah but your high school experiment has no feedback mechanisms, no oceans, water vapor, volcanos, solar cycles, plants, and so on. You’re also not putting in 0.04% CO2 vs 0.0395% CO2 and measuring anything meaningful because the scope and scale of the Earth’s atmosphere is unfathomably larger.

If you’ve ever owned a Fish Tank or taken High School Chemistry, you’d realize that even in the most simple environments things don’t always add up in a way that seems intuitive.
> The causation goes the other way. When an area has a lot of housing demand, that's where they put the tall buildings. Nobody is going to build a skyscraper in the middle of a corn field.

I believe it's a feedback loop really, not exclusively in one direction or the other.

You're right that nobody wants to build a skyscraper out in the farmlands. They build it in the city, which makes that city a tiny bit more dense, pulls in more people and makes the city a small increment more attractive and pulls in even more people which in turn raises prices even more and the cycle continues. As cities get more dense they always get more expensive.

Look at Manhattan, full of highrises and skyscrapers as far as the eye can see, and is the #1 most expensive area in the US to live.

> Which are the two cities in the US with the most restrictive zoning and building codes?

I have no idea to be honest. Do you have info on that?
For sure, I think that last part is underestimated but powerful. When the SolarWinds or similar attacks occured, we had to rely on investigation reports put out via PR teams and such about how such an attack occured, what processes missed it, etc. With the xz attack, every step of the attack was out in the open for everyone to analyze. Or at least the vast majority, if there were private emails exchanged between "Jia Tan" and the original maintainer, those we can't recover. But we can see pretty much every other aspect of the attack.
Valkey Is Rapidly Overtaking Redis
I am aware this is an unpopular opinion, but I think the idea that recursive descent is inherently better suited to error reporting than table-driven LR is massively cargo-culted. You can handcraft error messages for an LR parser if you overspecify the grammar, meaning that you don't just write productions for the actual language; you also write productions for likely errors and have the predicates for those productions report your handcrafted error message.

I'm guessing that a lot of people's first impression of that will be "That's insane, are you seriously suggesting writing two grammars in one?" But that's exactly what you do when you build custom error reporting code into a recursive descent parser. It's just less obvious because the code is procedural instead of declarative.
Those are Tesla updates. They were asking about non-Tesla OTA updates, for the Lincoln cars I think.
"Don't be evil" is a good reason for a business to not accept a customer though
The bait and switch is the community and social elements, not the code.

Inviting the local community to come and improve your space that you opened up for everyone to exist in, and then suddenly locking the doors is both entirely legally justified and a crappy thing to do.
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088106>
Not only do I not know the answers, I am so devoid of such knowledge that you would find it hilarious. But from my perspective (FWIW) it's all sort of optimizing for the wrong thing. If you want to do a startup, YC is such a force multiplier that none of these details matter in the end.

I do know that one reason the YC deal is far larger than it used to be is to give founders resilience against market ups and downs. You get a lot of runway now.
You know paperwork gets "lost" right? I know someone which was allergic to something and got prescribed that something by their general doctor (which had those records).

That person died and the all medical records (from that doctor) somehow went missing. fyi: This was during the 1980's in the UK.
As a long time HN reader, eventually participating in YCW21, the main thing i would like to highlight is there's so many misconceptions about YC on HN.

It would take too long to refute them all, but just remember the HN readerships' view of YC is pretty distorted. ("it's all about VC money" , "it's just for ivy league grads" etc).

I could go on, but just read Paul Graham's essays - that's probably the best way to understand how YC thinks.
Does it really matter when your home folder is a mess. I have thousands of files in my downloads folder. Hundreds of folders in my home folder.
I never run into issues. I occasionally use search to find old files or just sort by newest date.
I think I can relate to this, even despite mine is just purely software startup (but it's low-level software/firmware for off-the-shelf devices, which can only run commercial closed ones at the moment). Too much attention before our product is mature enough would be easily able to kill that. We won't be able to handle whatever could arise from that with our several-person team.

But that's me. Mind sharing your reasons? Of course could be obscured as much as you need.
Putting shifting controls on the screen was dumb for many reasons, but doesn't really cause a problem in this case - the cybertruck will disable the accelerator when you hit the brakes, accomplishing the same thing as putting it into neutral.
Keeps referring to high-NA and low-NA. What's NA? (Numerical aperture is all that comes to mind.)
Classical word embeddings are static - their value doesn't change depending on the context they appear in.

You can think of the word embedding as a weighted average of embeddings of words which co-occur with the initial word.

So it's a bit of a blurry meaning.

Is "bark" related to a dog? Or to a tree?

Well, a bit of both, really. The embedding doesn't care about the context of the word - once it's been trained.

So if you search for related documents based on word embeddings of your query - it can happen that you miss the mark. The embeddings simply don't encode the semantics you need.

In fact, this can happen even with contextual embeddings, when you look for something specific or in a specialized domain. With word embeddings it's just much more apparent.
Oh, sorry. They must allow clickthrough from search engines but not direct links. I never even noticed they had a login wall.

I don't know or use any archiving service, but you should be able to bring up a working link by searching "statista first-time homebuyer" on Duck Duck Go (or probably elsewhere)

Otherwsie, maybe somebody else can generate an archive link. Sorry!
NY Times obit: <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/books/daniel-dennett-dead...>

Paywall: <https://archive.is/EIsGd>
> Anyway they do mention complex adaptive systems. But whether that means building a model with it, or just nodding vaguely towards it as generally supporting their thesis, I’m not sure

Done well, models in the complex adaptive systems world can help understand system dynamics at levels better than usual language. Making those models specific enough to make testable predictions is very important but often lacking.
That's awesome news! Will have to investigate the renderer plugin model.
Apple Pulls WhatsApp and Threads from App Store on Beijing's Orders
You're talking about something else entirely.

One is, how do you compare the values of e.g. pollution vs. job creation? What's the monetary value of a human life? You can try to make an estimate but there is no objective answer or unambiguous line.

The other is, there is a cartel charging monopoly rents because there is a law inhibiting anyone new from entering the market. There is a proposal to get rid of the law. By any plausible estimation the net benefits of removing the law are positive, but the cartel claims they'd be harmed because they couldn't charge monopoly rents anymore and then they'd make less money. This is not the same problem; this is the cartel objectively wanting to create a net loss for the general public in exchange for a net gain for themselves only.
Ongoing discussion:[0](102 points 11 hours ago, 116 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085214
Numerical aperture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_aperture
For adversaries, it's just easier to take over tech companies than good willed folks to build them. Going on, the community should just not trust anything that is centralised. Implementing that well, lack of profit and fatigue are the great challenges.
Tim Powers' pirate fantasy book On Stranger Tides is a very important link in this chain. Gilbert's said it was a major influence, and the first Pirates movie had a lot of Tides' vibes. Pirates 4 was a straight-up adaptation of the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Stranger_Tides#Influence_on...
> The default position is that protons are stable, per the standard model, not that they're susceptible to decay.

It's only the "default" in the sense that the simplest model explaining data gathered to date (the standard model) predicts no decay. However, most physicist do not believe the standard model is the last word (and surely it cannot be when you go to the Planck scale), and many models post-SM models predict proton decay. I would guess if you surveyed high energy physicists, you'd find the majority expect the proton does in fact decay, so it's the "default" in that sense.
If it's a software update that only a service center can fix then few folks are going to take their time out to do that expeditiously, like with hardware recalls. Assuming their address is current and they even know about it. Whereas an OTA update is either automatically done or in their face the next time they drive.
Even if parent was a bit stuck in a rant (which I'm guilty of) I think a few forces were at play during the 90s desktop apps. Limitations made apps more focused on bringing rapid enough functionality in a stable manner. Web does offer too much rope to hang your users with.

My bet it that, if computing doesn't evaporate in the next decade, there will be a middle-ground solution.
Show HN: Lipupini, an OSS PHP Media Platform, has reached release cycle v5.x
Public domain source code: https://github.com/lipupini/lipupini

Demonstration of tests with Playwright (recorded today): https://lipupini-demo.dup.bz/@lipupini-tutorials/Testing%20L...

If anyone tried cloning it before, I hope you'll give the latest version a try as well.
The way you define the entry point function is so bizarre I assume scripting was the original use case.
In optics, the numerical aperture (NA) of an optical system is a dimensionless number that characterizes the range of angles over which the system can accept or emit light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_aperture
You're right, I've been "trapped" with this hover effect since the beginning...
What would you prefer?
Thanks btw!
Hacker culture was not well established by the 70s, simply because so few people worked with computers in that decade. You can certainly trace its roots back to at least 1970, but it really did not become established then.

What most people identify as "hacker culture" today arose in tandem with (a) relatively affordable "personal" computers (b) modem-based communication.

The rise of these two things is more or less entirely cotemporal with the most productive phase of Dennett's career.
> I think the moral obligation is slightly different when you have capabilities that no other firm has.

hmmm... I don't know if that argument holds water.

for example, the corollary would be that your obligation is less if other firms have the capability?

although AI and choosing bombing targets is pretty horrible, I think surveillance tech ("advertising") is something more fundamental that everyone should think more about.
im not saying you have to graduate from ivy league to get into YC but bulk majority of people in YC are.

they are almost always going to favour people from their own league.

im basing this off people who are coming from YC and telling me how it is.

some folks applied to YC in the past, get rejected and then find some Harvard graduate running with their ideas they submitted.
Ask HN: Getting into technical Manager/Director roles if weak technically?
We hear it all the time: Managers aren’t technical and don’t need to be. Yet, I get blocked entering management positions because I lack the technical proficiency to lead. How have you broken into, and successfully grown into leading teams?
It could be the same electron after all. Although probably not.

One electron theory.
https://youtu.be/9dqtW9MslFk?si=qdWGUyJnDRCOns9F
When there are layoffs it's the top 10% that re-evaluate and leave. Because they have options.
In the C language, you do not get to strtok(3), strtok(3) gets to you.
It is slowly dying, just like vitalism before it.
I’d love to apply, but I’m building FlingUp.com and there is no chance in hell anyone would ever want to fund a lone founder hacking on this project when the kids have gone to sleep.
That childish truck has been recalled. All 4000 of them.
> Objectively better

> is forced to pattern match on every interaction with object now

Not sure if trolling.
> But what lesson did you learn? That long names are better than short names, which is what I called cargo cult programming and an instance of mixing up the metric for the principle? Or did you instead learn that descriptive names are better than non-descriptive names?

Do you always suppose that the people you are talking to are morons and cargo-cultists?

Rhetorical question - have fun.
Improving microbial phylogeny with citizen science within a video game
This is just an empirical question, right? What are the proportions of credentialed elites among all applicants and successful applicants? If this number is surprising, it would mean a lot more to people than any amount of insistence.
The poster is alluding to Project Veritas I think.
Agreed that wouldn't make any sense. You can always bet on the joy of pocky!
There is no such thing as slow photons, photons always travel at the speed of light.

When light enters a medium there are two mostly (but not entirely) equal ways to think about what happens, one is to view light as a purely electromagnetic wave that interacts with atoms and causes the atoms to oscillate. This oscillation produces its own electromagnetic wave that interferes with the original wave. The result of this interference will be an electromagnetic wave with the same frequency, same amplitude, and travelling in the same direction as the incoming light but shifted backwards and it's that shift backwards that gives the appearance of light slowing down.

That explanation is pretty good and accounts for almost everything except for the latency of light through a medium.

If that's what you want to model, then it's better to think of light as made up of photons instead of being a wave, and then when photons enter a material they no longer exist as independent particles but through a process of absorption and reemission by electrons in the material become particles called polaritons. Polaritons do have mass and hence travel slower than the speed of light.

Neither of these explanations are perfect, but the full explanation is ridiculously complicated and there's no suitable metaphor for it. If you are interested in knowing the edge latency of light through a medium, then the polariton explanation is appropriate. If you want to know the "bandwidth" explanation of light through a medium, then the wave explanation is appropriate.
Heh, edit jinx. This answer leaves me almost as at sea, so I guess my time's not best spent on this article. Thanks.
Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
"Cuffless" blood pressure measurements, which could be easily used to measure BP continuously, could easily solve this problem.[0][1]

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2019.00040...

[1] https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/i-have-high-hopes-for-th...
I'm quite a fan of how Kagi does it: they'll only give you back AI answers if you end your query with a question mark. For when I'm looking for a fact, it's very helpful and never gets in the way.
Maybe useless was a bit strong of a word. Combined with some VPN/proxy to bypass the great firewall they of course would become functional.
> 041924

I can accept YY instead of YYYY, but surely YYMMDD is preferable due to sort order.
This can be a very real loss. Third party contributions are driven by specific needs. When the license changes too much, those third parties can either pay for a fork (with money/time investment) and improve their own modifications or get the enhancements in the upstream product without any improvements of their own. There is a middle ground with paid source code access, but I don't see a lot of commercial offerings do that.
you should look at lance(https://lancedb.github.io/lance/)
So I'm going to speak about a problem that I have and that's that I'm a philosopher.

When I go to a party and people ask me what do I do and I say, "I'm a professor," their eyes glaze over.

When I go to an academic cocktail party and there are all the professors around, they ask me what field I'm in and I say, "philosophy" -- their eyes glaze over.

When I go to a philosopher's party and they ask me what I work on and I say, "consciousness," their eyes don't glaze over -- their lips curl into a snarl.

And I get hoots of derision and cackles and growls because they think, "That's impossible! You can't explain consciousness." The very chutzpah of somebody thinking that you could explain consciousness is just out of the question.

... It's very hard to change people's minds about something like consciousness, and I finally figured out the reason for that. The reason for that is that everybody's an expert on consciousness. ... with regard to consciousness, people seem to think, each of us seems to think, "I am an expert. Simply by being conscious, I know all about this." And so, you tell them your theory and they say, "No, no, that's not the way consciousness is! No, you've got it all wrong." And they say this with an amazing confidence.

And so what I'm going to try to do today is to shake your confidence. Because I know the feeling -- I can feel it myself. I want to shake your confidence that you know your own innermost minds -- that you are, yourselves, authoritative about your own consciousness. That's the order of the day here.

From Daniel Dennett's TED talk, 2003

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_the_illusion_of_consci...
I wouldnt be surprised if most game studio didn't enjoy it/try to promote it in maybe indirect ways. Skyrim is an old game, great game, but an old game. However modding keeps it fresh and interesting and I would imagine it probably is a big reason why they still get sales on it. While it isn't a huge money maker any more, they are still selling copies just for people to play with the mods, extending the timeline of how much revenue the game will create over it's total lifetime.
> build a dozen housing units there and sell the property for $2.4M, pricing each of the units at $200,000

If builders were selling units at their cost plus a fixed profit margin, you're right.

But builders are in the business of maximizing profit. If in this area there was a backlog of people willing to pay 400K for a housing unit, the builder will sell each of these dozen units for 400K.

If you feel I'm wrong, please point me at a few cities in the US where housing became cheaper as density increased.
In the before times we didn't have social media and its algorithms and reach. Does it matter that the chains of trust debunk a viral lie 24 hours after it had spread? Not that there's a lot of trust in the chains of trust to begin with. And if you still have trust, then you're not the target of the viral lie. And if you still have trust, then how long can you hold on that trust when the lies keep coming 24/7 one after another without end. As one movie critic once put it: You might not have noticed it, but your brain did. Very malleable this brain of ours.

The civilization might be fine, sure. Now, democracy, on the other hand...
Right. We all need 192 or 256GB to locally run these ~70B models, and 1TB to run a 400B.
Chinese Half-Marathon Champion Disqualified–Along with Runners Who Let Him Win
Hey I appreciate you pointing this out, thanks for taking the time and writing this feedback!
My question was literally asking if/why this was unsafe.

> The trim appears to be providing some strain relief for the strap holding the LCC in place, perhaps to keep the tension from providing unnecessary stress on the condenser during vibration or flexing, or to prevent any sharp corners from severing the strap itself.

Can you explain to me why wood trim would be less safe than plastic for this?
What makes them think you have hypertension with purely blood laboratory tests? Electrolyte levels ratios? They aren't changed in all types of hypertension (won't be changed in most, probably), but that's just my wild guess.
I'm seeing a few "founding engineer" roles that pay pretty well and offer up to 1% equity for highly experienced candidates. Honestly some pretty unique opportunities.

But yeah, I'm not building out and MVP without pay for 1%.
I feel like you're probably kidding, but I kind of like this.

Maybe not psyched about the shell-interpreted brackets, semicolons, and spaces. But the idea is interesting!