skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unless a virus took control of a semiconductor fab, it's hard to argue that they are alive/reproducing in the context of this discussion.

It does not seem implausible at this point to imagine a virus which gets to control some currency, uses it place an order for parts to be assembled, delivered to a location, connected to power, etc.

It is, in a sense, taking control by pulling the levers supplied by our society. Is that alive?

I would say no, it is not 'alive'… but I would also paraphrase Dijkstra: "The question of whether an AI or computer virus is 'alive' is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
Yeah: VC incentives do not match with founders incentives - share classes are just one obvious signal of that. Good article on that conflict: https://siliconhillslawyer.com/2019/02/18/relationships-and-...

> ~9% where valuable enough for investors to take profit

Or aquihired.

Best analysis I have seen of YC: https://jaredheyman.medium.com/on-the-life-and-death-of-y-co...

Disappointingly YC hasn't provided any good analysis for founders or employees.

YC doesn't try to align founders and investors incentives - Paul mostly reads like a Venture Capitalist to me (sell founders of their good intentions but don't actually structure incentives to align).

I actually think that YC is a great deal but startups are naturally a frog and scorpion system. It is hard to find better options.

Finding good information is difficult and YC don't help.
I think there are different onomatopoeia for different kinds of pain. English equivalent is probably when a doctor may ask if a pain is sharp, dull, pulsating, burning, etc.
it is bonafide high-speed rail. average speed is obviously lower.
Folks saying politics should get removed are effectively saying they're fine with the status quo. Its intellectually dishonest for people to not recognize this in themselves with that opinion. Everything we do is inherently political as we are operating in this political landscape.

LGBTQ+ being welcomed in tech in the earlier days is partially what's responsible for the LGBTQ+ being somewhat welcomed in society in general today.

Status quo for companies back then would've been to never support anything LGBT related until 2015. That's something that a lot of people right now would say would be absurd.

IBM has been rightfully criticized in its role in the Genocide of Nazi Germany. "Never again" means understanding what circumstances in society led to the decisions being made back then. "Never again" can't be actuated if speaking against authority is discouraged.
Xitter (pronounced like "shitter," a chemical toilet) is where I see nothing but political rage bait now.
Well that's a little bit disappointing, because I thought they could surely get much more mileage from the idea than simply criticizing abuse of crowd workers and energy.

Thanks for your reading and analysis - when I read the paper I won't go in expecting quite so much.

An issue I have with the liberal criticism of AI is that they make lukewarm arguments and never quite get to the point where they insist that we must work communally to seize control of AI power from states and corporations, or reasonably sketch what that seizure of power would look like. This is why I feel a more radicalized approach is appropriate, where we do not assume that society as structured has the means to reform AI with nothing more than moralizing and wishful thinking. We must forcibly seize AI codes and build them to the purpose of revolution.
The way I think of this for some Asian languages is that Japanese and Korean are like English and Dutch, while Mandarin is like one of the Romance languages (e.g., Mandarin is to Cantonese as Spanish is to French). The three have an easier time learning any of the other two for different reasons of shared vocabulary or grammar depending on the direction.
Tipping culture stays because consumers don't want to pay what the product is worth. You reduce salaries and suddenly the food looks cheaper, and the "tip" is what they took out of the salaries. When restaurants end tipping, consumers revolt at the real prices.
I would suggest that `display: tetris;` is implemented such that each row SHOULD have whitespace, and if at any point a row becomes fully occupied, a conforming rendering agent MUST remove the entire row.
見える only means “look” in the “to seem” or “to appear” sense.

Often in English, we have multiple words for sensory experiences to indicate how much focus is put into the action. “Seeing” a picture is less focused than “looking at” a picture. “Hearing” a song is less focused than “listening to” a song.
The fact that it is a well-documented language that has evolved over thousands of years with almost no external influence and is entrenched with thousands of years of cultural concepts that are distinctly unfamiliar to a majority of the western world. Many phrases used in Mandarin today date back millennia. Also something that many people don’t recognize is that a single character can embody many meanings depending on the context. It’s not as simple as memorizing the character because you have to know which meaning a character is representing within a particular context.
> NASA's budgetary limitations, and not any mismanagement from within the Dragonfly project, were responsible for a large share of the cost growth

Can anyone translate?
> the kind of exercise regime that allows eating loads of food is generally only accessible to people who are already extremely fit.

Of course. And I'm not suggesting that people ignore or go crazy with their diet. I'm personally very strict with mine, though I'm not counting calories at all but rather trying to mimimize salt, saturated fat, and added sugar (which perhaps naturally restricts calories somewhat, since the highest calorie foods also tend to have high salt, saturated fat, and added sugar).

> But if my 240 lbs buddy wants to lose weight? Dude would be doing well to jog 5km. He's not going to be running any marathons.

Of course. What I would say is that in fact it's a (metaphorical) marathon, not a sprint. The goal, I think, should be health, not simply weight loss, which is only one aspect of health. You shouldn't be afraid to exercise strenuously just because it might make you a little hungrier. In the long run, you want to control your diet and also get your body into shape, which requires investment in exercise.

My dispute is with the idea that "we burn calories within a very narrow range: nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level." That's simpy not true in general. It may be true for a relatively sedentary activity level, but it's not true for people who are at higher levels of vigorous activity, and I don't mean just elite athletes. A normal person can build up to becoming quite physically active if they commit to it long term. Of course nobody can just run a marathon right away, but almost anybody could run a marathon eventually. The author was examining people who walk all day, but I don't think that's a good baseline for measurement of "maximum" physical activity, because walking is generally not very strenous.
What is scary is living in a society, where doing something productive most of your life is undesirable.
Aside from the annoying pop-up, I didn't actually notice the other calls to subscribe.

It's a bit of an unfortunate situation for the author, if any reasonable number of people are like me. If I didn't notice the less-intrusive efforts to get me to subscribe, and when I see the intrusive one (the modal pop-up), it makes me less likely to want to subscribe... oof.

I think the theoretical ideal from the reader's standpoint is that there's just one call to subscribe, at the very end, the idea being that if you can't make it to the end of the article, you probably aren't going to subscribe anyway.

And yet so many sites still do the modal pop-up that interrupts you while you're reading. So clearly they must work, at least well enough to get people to sign up? Then again, I do wonder how many people are so turned off by those pop-ups, people who would have subscribed, but decide not to?
What happened?
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> Sacrificing a new model to focus on FSD is a great move.

Musk has been saying level 5 fsd is just around the corner for well over a decade, demonstrating a large and persistent disconnect between expectations and reality. That makes the reward/risk ratio of sacrificing a model to sink more into fsd rather questionable. The outcome isn't just not guaranteed, it isn't even known to be solvable with today's technology.

People will buy nice electric cars that aren't riddled with quality issues. Investing in QA (where Tesla has next to none) is a bog-standard, practically-guaranteed route to improving products. But that doesn't excite this "brilliant leader" so it's off the table.

This sacrifice isn't a "great move," it's another mark in Musk's record of bad gambles.
Satire and pedantry actually aren't that much of a flex.
Yup, it doesn't take a very big starting pattern to produce likely infinite novelty -- though it's not always easy to prove that any given pattern won't eventually unexpectedly "go boring" due to some kind of unexpected feedback effect.

Life being Turing complete, it's also not difficult to build a pattern with an unknown fate -- like a Fermat-prime calculator that will stop growing if it ever finds a sixth Fermat prime, or the Collatz-sequence simulator described here:

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Fate#Unknown_fate
We get that control of images and versions through our git workflow and it also ensures wide consistency

Simple and minimal is nice
"… IBM VisualAge for Smalltalk and IBM VisualAge for Java. Both of these products were written in Smalltalk. The IBM VisualAge Micro Edition product was the first serious and actually quite successful experiment with writing the entire IDE in Java. Many concepts found in Eclipse have been tried out in that product already. However, for third parties, it proved difficult to extend the product with new components …

A small team of experts set out to take the experiences of the previous years of designing and implementing development environments. The result was Eclipse, a platform designed from the ground up as an integration platform for development tools."

FAQ Where did Eclipse come from?

https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_Where_did_Eclipse_come_from%3F
What are xooglers experience with Code [Yellow|Red]? I've seen xooglers implement them in other companies and it was a total cluster fuck with some of the most aggressive bullshit from VP level execs yelling at ICs and pushing questionable technical decisions, along with extreme overwork that was all justified because "Code RED!!!!"
LLMs and astro-turfing have ruined that approach. I honestly don't know where to get information from these days.
> If someone happens to be your child, you're happy to give them positions they don't deserve even if they're completely incompetent.

Yeah, I'm being a bit contrarian & spicy for the sake of argument (don't hold it against me, my actual position is way more nuanced), but even so: I don't really see how nepotism forges a path to oligarchy. If they are completely incompetent, they'll run the company into the ground and the free market still wins.
> The short lifetime of patents

20 years is not short! 20 years might be appropriate for capital-intensive innovations (e.g., in pharma), but definitely not for industries where innovations are not typically capital-intensive. E.g., 20 years for cryptography and software patents is a disaster.
> And a common tactic by this sort is to pick at only the controversial parts that are right wing talking points.

Calling things "talking points" is the only tactic at play. If people have real concerns, then address them. Don't dismiss them as "talking points".
Reminded me of a game engine of mine. Years ago I was experimenting with a time travel game concept. It had a virtual machine with green threads whose state could be suspended and serialized into a single binary blob at any time. I basically repurposed the GC's reachability analysis to find all objects reachable from the roots (VM's stack and global variables). IIRC it had also some sort of topological sort when serializing so that most references could be restored in one pass. It also serialized the stack itself and the current instruction pointer. "Manual persistence" they mention is actually quite straightforward to do if you're in full control of the VM. Additionally, it also serialized the physics engine's state as well, so that the forces applied were fully restored (important in a game). The concept was about being able to return to any point in time and have N versions of yourself working together to solve a problem. NPCs and objects had running scripts attached and that's why I needed the whole thing. It also allowed to have proper game saves out of the box. Oh, those were the fun times, and now I'm writing boring enterprise stuff :)
This is assuming there isn’t any cross pollution of shared properties either.
And your criticism of him is what? Encourage more sensationalism? Because there's so much evidence of that being such good and healthy way for journalism/news to operate?
This is great! I've been following the Spritely project on the sidelines for a while now and have built a couple toy applications with Goblins; persistence and IO were often my biggest pain points. Looking forward to giving this a try soon!
> where he argued against the other search leads that Google should use less machine-learning

This better echoes my personal experience with the decline of Google search than TFA: it seems to be connected to the increasing use of ML in that the more of it Google put in, the worse the results I got were.
> It is a programming language and system, with its own bugs

The cool thing about theorem provers is that an invalid proof won’t even compile (as long as the kernel is correct). There’s no such thing as a traditional software bug that happens only at runtime in these systems when it comes to proofs, because there’s no runtime at all.

You can also use Lean as a “regular” programming language, with the corresponding risk of runtime bugs, but that’s not happening here.
Haven't you done that already?

I mean this in all seriousness, have you used Oauth with google/facebook or the like to login and register with online services? Why not? Have you put passwords into a password manager? Why?

Did you give Uber or Lift your credit card number? What if they were a scam?

I say this also thinking rabbit R1 is a pointless product that based on hype that nobody should buy. However, I can see why people might think it reasonable to give their AI assistant a bunch of personal information. For the same reason people have trusted google with health data.
While the Sumerian writing system presents some of the same difficulties of the Japanese writing system, like many signs that have multiple possible readings and a combination of semantic signs and phonetic signs, the total number of signs and the number of possible readings for them are far greater in Japanese, so the Sumerian writing system is easier and more regular than the Japanese writing system.

The main difficulties of the Sumerian writing system are due to the fact that many of its rules had to be guessed, e.g. about where to use certain readings for some signs, depending on their context, because the last people who knew the complete system have died millennia ago, and such guesses are seldom completely certain.

In the comparison with Sumerian, Japanese is aided by the existence of native speakers who can always show the correct reading and meaning of a text (though many young Japanese can have great difficulties in reading any book published before WWII, because the writing reform has made drastic changes, replacing both many kanji signs and the furigana used for many kanji signs, so even where furigana are written they may not help enough a modern reader).

However, while the availability of native speakers eliminates the problems caused by not knowing the correct rules, that still does not make the Japanese writing system simpler than the Sumerian writing system.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/09/25/rivos-countersues...

Phillip Shoemaker. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18643868/apple-app-store-...
And Qubes OS.
I dunno, stuff like the IBM Nazi thing or the helmet tracking used on slaves in Qatar is kinda... kinda gives bad vibes, I guess.
I think we're using different definitions for "end of string".

In PHP, the following is considered true:

> var_dump(preg_match("/^[a-z0-9 ]+\$/", "hello\n"));

That is clear proof that "$" does NOT just match the end of the string; it also accepts an extra newline at the end of the string. In PHP you need to use \z if you want to match the end of the string, or use the "D" flag when using "$".

That definition of "$" is often reasonable when you read files a line-at-a-time from a file, which is why Perl changed its definition. However, PHP is often used for server-side web applications. In this case, you are often NOT reading a line-at-a-time from a file. In such cases, allowing an extra newline at the end could be disastrous. The MediaWiki code (written in PHP) deals with this by adding the "D" flag when it uses "$", but I'm not sure it always uses it, and I doubt all PHP programs use this flag when they should.
Rust tries with a crate and traits but it misses out on e.g. record memory overlays which are so powerful in Ada. Type design is beautifully intuitive for the main part in Ada too. Restricting your parameters with ease means there is less logic to write and mistakes and refactor fallout gets caught early.
Same as student loans. It’s election season.
The new Batch API[0] endpoints look really interesting with a 50% discount.

[0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/batch
These are getting some attention after a guy had 2,200 of them stored away NOS:

https://gizmodo.com/why-2-000-nabu-pcs-appeared-on-ebay-1850...
> on average we’re pulling 70 hours a week

The rest is peanuts compared to that.

> This is to all the human right and socialism ambassadors who live in their Utopia world:

Hi from Utopia!

I understand if you and maybe 3-4 hackers want to go goblin mode, sleep in the office, get caffeine poisoning and get your startup to market before you run out of runway. Kudos.

But I don't get the impression that that is what's going on here. Poster sounds like she's the means by which upper management can sit back on their yachts, while the workers are in charge of whipping themselves.

What would happen if you dropped to 40 hours a week, and came to terms with the fact that humans reproduce?
Isn't the secret sauce just VNC with playwright? What more do you need to achieve 80% of what they are showcasing (basic doordash orders, spotify controls)?
How can there be an “inventing masonry” section without a reference to the masonry js library[1] - I suppose this is where the name comes from?

[1]: https://masonry.desandro.com/
It's about oppressed vs oppressor narratives. LGBTQ people tend to sympathize with the oppressed because most of them have memories of being oppressed themselves. Ive actually asked a few about this and they tend to agree that Hamas and palestinains in general would not form a government they would support, but theyre not willing to overlook how oppressed the palestinians have been for the past 80 years.
That sounds a lot like Kodak.

I remember running into Kodak engineers, at an event in the 1990s, and they were all complaining about the same thing.

They were digital engineers, and they were complaining that film people kept sabotaging their projects.

Kodak invented the digital camera. They should have ruled the roost (at least, until the iPhone came out). Instead, they imploded, almost overnight. The film part was highly profitable.

Until it wasn't. By then, it was too late. They had cooked the goose.
That makes sense. It is possible that Google search got better and not worse since it was taken over by the guy that used to run Yahoo search, in which case context would thoroughly vindicate the choice to promote SEO spam sites and make ads and search results nearly indistinguishable.
Interesting how you call it “stealing” to hire someone who worked at a competitor. They aren’t property, companies don’t own people.

If you don’t want to them to leave, then entice them to stay.

Getting rid of noncompetes puts workers and companies on more even footing, reducing the large power difference.
Organic compounds on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Looks very interesting, but it would be good to know a ballpark price.
Accurate or not, the perception of someone being a Nazi made them punchable. It's not hard to argue people desiring to punch Nazis are probably not anti-Semetic.
Large discussion yesterday [0] (725 points, 250+ comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117599
The problem is that they claim to have developed a groundbreaking Large Action Model when in fact it's just a playwright wrapper
Once you lose the weight you only need to run 30 minutes a day for maintenance.
Awesome. Thanks. I made it to level 10 like that
Why RISC-V is so important
Teaching exclusively the "good side of history" is literally indoctrination.

US most definitely doesn't deserve to be lauded for internment camps or the reasons why US entered WW2.
J2EE was created by Sun, based on a Objective-C framework.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Objects_Everywhe...

JSON and YAML keep trying to re-invent the nice tooling ecosystem from XML, badly.
Nice! I looked through the logs and saw that you linked to it in this article: https://www.adithyabalaji.com/datascience/2021/05/17/Analyzi...
Douglas DC-4 plane crashes into river outside Fairbanks, Alaska
Later article with more information: https://www.newsminer.com/alerts/emergency-services-respond-...
The Apple Vision Pro Is a Total Failure [video]
That's a sad thing for the team, but a happy one for the employee. Yeahyy, cheers up!

I know how it is, but rather being the one who've done everything and it's not even have been seen by the management.

May be there is a way to compensate it with some other team member, making him take over duties, while his duties is split up or done by one or two other members. if it's possible in the project structure, there should be only the easiest Tasks left and this, in my opinion, is the bearing of the team leader :)

Or much easier to split to the other members.

It's hard but doable I think.
Call me xD
Is this supposed to be a reference to something? I'm not following this logic :(
A silly question and a PSA:

1. There was a two-player game called The Immigration Game [1] using GoL rules. Has anyone actually played this? Even better, has anyone developed an AI to play it? Is there really much of a game there?

2. The PSA: The Immigration Game was described in Lifeline, a 1970's era (typewritten!) newsletter about GoL. I managed to obtain a set of them. I've been planning to scan them and make them available online. I don't think there is any ground breaking info in them, after all, folk were programming on mainframes (surreptitiously).

[1]. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/129088/the-immigration-g...
There's a simple solution to that: stop using Chrome. It is beyond me why so many people still use a web browser made by a company that wants nothing more than to track you and serve you ads. It's maybe excusable or at least understandable that so many average, non-technical users are still on Chrome, but anyone who knows anything about technology? Shame.

(Yes, I know, some people actually need to use Chrome for whatever reason, but the vast majority of people who use it, do not actually need it, and would be fine using Firefox.)