skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I am not American. I have spent a total of 3 years in American corporate colonies in my country, and probably 3 times as much operating at various roles in local startups, many of which had major American funding.

I observe that even for the most capable Americans, operating a startup is at best a phase. Across the general public, it is not considered prestigious vocation. Of course, academic stars can do so, but very often that's as a side gig (unlike Big Tech, which is a valid extension of one's academic career). And for people who could both work in tech and e.g. finance, working in tech is the odd choice.

Since founding is premised on operating and having operating experience, a direct corollary is that extraordinary circumstances are needed for an American to be a participating founder (as opposed to e.g., throwing in the funding).

P.S.: Even if they are "special", the sheer size of the US leads to an abundance of indigenous founders. It's just that in my society, being a founder is a universally aspired role, whereas this appears not to be the case for US-born Americans.
Googling "tap size for a 5/16-24 bolt" gives the drill size in the first line of the results page.
But even without going this far (with integrating various other specialized or having an LLM use them when required), an LLM is probably able to recognize a sudoku puzzle when it sees one, and even tho it itself can't solve it, I think it can easily write the code that would solve sudoku. So instead of hooking it to a set of pre built models, it might be enough to hook it to a python interpreter
Mortgage interest is tax deductible in the US?!?!!
Do you realise how your comment sounds? No actual reason for any of the opinions, just "this happened" and words like "serious". What does serious means, is it type safe or something? Can you try again with substance?
Heartbeat Scheduling: Provable efficiency for nested parallelism
There’s clearly an association between randomly applied old-fashioned noun capitalization and conspiracy theorizing. Everybody in this scene does it, from Trump on down.

Is it just because Capitals make things seem more Important and Ominous? As in this post, where the Elites control not just paper Assets but also the Fertilizer.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building
A lot of these boomtowns were the result of ZIRP and Section 174. Not saying they will collapse any time soon though, just that the growth phase is over.

The alternative is relocating back to SF, which is an unlivable city at this point.
That the current team has just been mown by the latest swing of the scythe, doesn't mean the product is being killed.

At least in some other cases, other teams are being spun up or being changed to take on these projects.

Of course, that doesn't mean this isn't disruptive or unfortunate.
But they can also have a separate job that doesn't ruin the internet and produce out of generosity, like some of us, free content that is not span ridden.

Also web hosting doesn't cost much when your website is well made with some frugality in mind.

And there are also better, cleaner ways to make money on the internet: getting rid of the ads and spam and having the content accessible to paid members.
I made a comment about this 12 months ago. How close is my projection?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35829544
a part of everyone knows both a major cause and way of improving loneliness yet we lie to ourselves and look to science to give us an excuse continue to ignore what we know to be true.
We have built a world that revolves around money and almont everything that gets built that wants to grow no matter how pure in intentions succumbs and instead of using peoples desire for connection to actually make connections with people perverts it in a way to make more money.
And we let this happen to us because its easy, it feels good in the moment they are careful to give us just enough of a taste of a real connection to keep us coming back but not letting us develop real connections that would "graduate" us to real human connections that would reduce our reliance on them thus reducing their profits.

If Television stayed live, local, honest, people you seen around your local town, it would encourage engagement.
youtube could have focused on sharing videos with friends, could have ignored likes/dislikes and didnt focus on popularity and parasocial relationships.
Facebook could have encouraged not on finding, adding, expanding, friends and engaging on the platform, but instead encourage real connections by encouraging prodding for real world meetups suggestions on games to play in person, finding people who like to do the similar things and suggesting times and places they can do it together with a focus on existing friends and connections. And not showing as much on what people have done but what they can do together.

Its not that these things aren't possible on the networks now but its not how these sites use their influence and primary resources, and really it would be stupid for them to do, because they are businesses and their goal is to make money, they will only improve peoples lives as long as it doesn't get in the way of making money.
Part of use realize what they are doing we know they put profits above us, but they deliver what we expect a little bit of happiness a little bit of connection, we know it wont satisfy us but its easy, real easy with no risk, why put effort in for maybe a solid human connection when you can have that quick and easy hit right now.

If you read this far, why is scientific studies, or science in general not going to fix this? Because even if there is perfect research that spells out exactly the issue and lays out exactly how to not be lonely 2 things are going to happen.

1. Companies will exploit it in a way to make money if not right away then over time putting us right back to where we were.
2. We wont do it because we prefer the easy/fast way even if its worse.

this isnt going to change, its not that we cant have real connections, its just we have never had so many easy alternatives before, for a lot of people being alone has become the default we grew up with instead of the exception.
This is absurdly wrong. Most immigrants are poor people entering their new societies at the very bottom, not hipster digital nomads. Sometimes they are lower middle class in their own societies, but often they are pretty much at the bottom at home as well.

For whatever reason the west fails to successfully socialize an unacceptably large portion of the native born population.
And that answer is both wrong and actively harmful to people involved.
But it sounds clever and insightful, so there's that.
reminds me of go unikernel: https://github.com/icexin/eggos
Vault Dwellers and Wastelanders: The pharaonic quests for eternal life
The problem with social sciences isn’t that they’re young, it’s that they’re all junk science. They’re all filled with poorly defined experiments, theories that you can never properly test, results that you cannot reproduce and that nobody’s going to try to, and if the topic of a study is even slightly political or controversial, you’ll often find that a study can’t feasibly be conducted, or it will be conducted by people who don’t want it to be rigorous in the first place.

I’m skeptical that a lot of these questions even can be answered scientifically at all, but rather confident that they’re not going to be by the existing system.
To be fair your site just looks like a link aggregator.

If you think there is value then start charging money from your visitors.
Are there any particular techniques or styles that stand out to you as useful when prototyping in Rust?
I suppose a hack would be to enter today-99 in the year of birth (so 1925 this year, 1926 next year, and so on). Afaik only the name has to be exact for the security theatre people?
Google was a decent search engine until the gold rush years.
The one thing I really liked about Australian airlines is that you boarded from both ends of the plane. I think that would really help.
I created https://github.com/jrz/container-shell to add a layer of security / isolation in addition to tools like asdf.
I've been through this thought-process many times.

1. Google isn't working well any more.

2. Therefore bring humans back into the system of flagging good and bad pages.

3. But the internet is too big - so we have to distribute the workload.

4. Oh, a distributed trust-based system at scale... it's going to be game-able by people with a financial incentive.

5. Forget it.

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Edit: it's probably worth adding that whoever can solve the underlying problem of trust on the internet -- as in, you're definitely a human, and supported by this system I will award you a level of trust -- could be the next Google. :)
This situation is made even worse by us. Yes, us. Inbound links used to be a good quality signal: the more people link to you, the more important your site is. And there were always link farms and SEO lowlives that abused the system. But these days it is nearly impossible to get any legitimate inbound links, because people don't have web pages and web sites anymore, instead entering all the information into silos like Twitter, Facebook, etc. These tag your links as nofollow/ugc, so they don't count towards SEO.

The net effect is that pretty much the only link signal is from link farms and paid media. If you don't crap over the internet with shady tactics, you will not appear in search results.

We lost our vote, by our own choice.
Please, let me change my key bindings. I always use S to move forward and W to move backward. But otherwise it is super cool.
Show HN: XTopics find your voice on X
Wow. This is so good. For reference:
It is 4 times smaller than HTML.
It is 29.5 times smaller than PDF.
It has a really good structure and is more readable than Markdown (sometimes).
The Catch to Apples New Patented Parts Lockdown System [video]
> Every website can access rotation and velocity data from Android data without asking for permission.

What????!!! That's nuts
Some basic facts.

10 years ago one person buys a house for £100K
10 years ago one person buys a house for £250K

They both buy their houses in accordance with the level of income they earn.

The person who bought the £100K home could not afford the £250K home.

10 years later house prices have increased by 100%.

The person who's home is now worth £200K still cannot afford the house which is now worth £500K even though, on paper he is £100k richer.

The person who owns the £200K home can only buy the expensive £500K house if he increases his mortgage which involves increasing their earning capacity.

Back in 1982 I bought my first home for £29,500 (cheap as chips) with a 25 year mortgage. The mortgage adviser said that over the 25 year period I would pay back £160,000 in interest. 42 years later that same house is on the market for £360,000.

On paper I am considerably richer today than I was 42 years ago. This is meaningless. I have no access to that money. I cannot just sell my home and have loads of cash in my bank account. I would be homeless. I cannot buy a cheaper home because my home was cheap when I bought it and is still cheap.

As a 25 year old I loved my new home. I looked around at all the more expensive homes and thought that one day I would buy one of them. Naively misunderstanding that as my home went up in value so would all the other homes around me even the more expensive ones.

After working all my life I finally retire. My dream is to sell my home and move to the seaside and enjoy my final years and die in peaceful surroundings. Alas, my home will not sell for enough money to buy a home near the seaside. I remain forever stuck in the home I bought 42 year ago.

It is increasingly more difficult for young poeple to buy their own homes. Unless you are earning £120,000 per annum you cannot afford the house that I bought for £29,000 when I was 25 years old.

Who really benfits from home ownership?
Who really benfits from ever increasing house prices?
Who really controls house pricing?

Banks and estate agents!
I'm considering doing a pilot (~5 devs out of 120) with using nix to manage dependencies and build containers at $DAYJOB, and here I think devenv is nice as a "one package" plus an active community for support.
How the Humble Donkey Became a Big Problem for China
Even within what you discuss, things like renderers, audio engines and physics calculations have business logic, which I interpret as being the logic pertinent to their specific tasks, as opposed to support logic. Clearly these sorts of terms are heavily overloaded, so please don't too hung up the precise term I used.

That said, I think the view of systems programming is more relevant. My understanding is essentially the same as Wikipedia: "systems programming aims to produce software and software platforms which provide services to other software, are performance constrained, or both". I don't see business logic excluded from that definition.

For context, the area I use it is in direct interaction with an FPGA in the middle layer of a bigger system. The software acts as a performance critical controller of the FPGA and data marshalling system, controlling the DMAs and shunting the data into the network subsystem. Another bit of the system on different hardware then receives the data and does some performance critical signal processing before passing the result to the application layer. The "systems programming" stuff is responsible for translating high level application API commands into low level FPGA control and low level FPGA data and feedback into high level application structures.

Async works really well on the data handling. I have a full back pressure chain from the application, across the network, across the DMA subsystem right down to the FPGA. It also allows careful pinning of different tasks to different cores with pinned runtimes, which is important in maximising the network throughout on the resource limited cpu cores.

Rust async is great for this kind of stuff. I read a post a while ago, which I annoyingly can't find anymore, in which the author was using custom reactor and executor to hide cache latency. It was really beautiful and incredibly simple and annoyingly forgotten by me (!).
A nice essay on circle work: http://www.australianbeers.com/culture/circlework.htm

EDIT: and I guess the B&S was part of the answer to this 1959 question?

> An American psychologist, Mrs Graham Bell, said she wondered how Australian men and women ever got together enough to get married. But it is not true that Ordinary Australians fail to recognise the value of women. Any man will tell you they are indispensable for packing picnic-baskets, and for keeping other women company while you are drinking with their husbands
Nowadays, there are numerous free hosting services for static sites.
I had a guy I knew in a PhD in quantum computing and he told me that he was working on making an algorithm to perform edge detection on an image in O(1), apparently it's possible to do some operation much quicker with quantum computing

A paper i found on edge detection https://arxiv.org/html/2404.06889v1#:~:text=Quantum%20Hadama....
Graph DBs (KGs) add a much needed structure to unstructured data fed into traditional RAG. They are more holistic (interconnectedness of all things) than traditional relational DBs. That comes with 3 advantages;

1. They find insights you didn’t know you needed. Like discovering both Bob and Alice like to play basketball & paint the wilderness, so they could be a good match!

2. KGs are simple to read by humans, so are perfect for natural language processing.

3. KGs are dead simple and scalable. No complex tables and referencing. Just dots and lines. So LLMs have an easy time understanding.

I really think graph data structures is the missing piece to fixing RAG, but it hasn’t been mass adopted because, building quality graphs from unstructured data is HARD. But we’re getting there!
> “patch” just changed the password on the back door

so someone else malicious who knows about it has complete access to your router? That's almost as bad as leaving the default admin password unchanged.
Are you sure that search engines don’t count nofollow links at all? I know that’s kind of the purpose but I would be surprised if they would really completely ignore them.

Edit: On this page https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/09/evolving-n... it even says that they use all links to rank websites, even if you set them to nofollow.
Pdf.tocgen
America plunders Britain's tech economy
> However, one of the newer / more cutting-edge methods of studying things like loneliness involves pinging them multiple times a day to see how their emotional state is changing over time.

That would seem to have a strong Heisenberg problem. "I'm not so lonely any more, sociologists keep asking for my important opinion."
yeah, I don't understand this comment either
> Empty, selfish

This is sad.

I wish you the best for your non empty, non selfish life. I also hope once you open your mind and develop some sympathy for people who think differently. Not to mention those who didn't choose this path, yet you put them into the empty, selfish box.

Hope this is not your best self.
Even a very slight challenge is a problem for scrapers: they have to do it far more frequently.

Its better than captchas and whatever Cloudflare does in terms of overall nuisance.
https://archive.ph/KFG5L
A train engineer with decades of experience moved to the US when the war in Ukraine started. The job she could get here was as a nanny, watching children in her extended community, and even that was half a favor.
once-lifetime alcohol, weed, psilocybin is useful.

surprised you did not mention physical exercise. that is by far most helpful.
I have been doing this for a long while now, and it's great
It's a "solution looking for a problem." Nothing wrong with that. Lasers were theorized in 1917 by Einstein and invented at Bell Labs in 1958, but it took another 20 years before anyone had any idea what the heck to do with them. Now they are the backbone of the internet, among thousands of other applications. Patience, grasshopper.
Difference between "oneliness" and "loneliness" is crucial. I was little astonished when Lex Fridman told us that he does not have "Inner Voice" commenting all his doings.

I have sometimes spent 6 months alone in wilderness and eventually the Inner Voice kicks in. It seems to be a mechanism to maintain sanity. Upon returning to civilization the Voice soon disappears.

In my case the Voice is a film director, mostly Werner Herzog, who might say, "now the subject has finally lost his marbles and does not make bear-proof stash for his food".
If your only problem with a quantum computer is the energy required to run it, then you have a very good problem.

edit: it might make sense to be worried about the feasibility of cooling it, since I think the infrastructure required for keeping the quantum-y parts of the computer cold is extensive, but the actual energy itself is probably irrelevant.
The milestones specify number of physical qubits, and error rate of logical qubits.

Shouldn't they also specify how many physical qubits are needed to build one logical qubit with the given error rate?

Milestone 6 reduces the error rate from 10^-6 to 10^-13 while increasing physical qubits by only 10x. That doesn't work out well if you need 1000x more physical qubits per logical one...
Good for you; I'm ashamed to say that I've hurt my data sanctity far more than any criminal has, with 2am tinkering with my systems.

I have vaultwarden at home but I don't use it because I just know I'll fuck up my tunnel while I'm travelling or something.

This is my threat model: "hi mum. I need you to drive to my house and fish a keyboard out of the cupboard. Plug it into the big black box and type exactly what I tell you..."
Many LLMs are already linked to Python interpreters, but they still need some improvement with recognizing when they need to write some code to solve a problem.
Train a GPT-2 LLM, Using Only Pure C Code
I'm being a bit contrary, but: it sounds like 80% of your traffic was coming, for free, from Google. Is the claim here that if you killed SEO, some more equitable, consistent method of content propagation would spring up to take it's place? Because I have a feeling people - especially young people - are abandoning Google, but for more opaque, less equitable algos (like Tiktok).

Tl;dr Google is imperfect but for a while it was helping people find your site. I worry there are darker paths in our future.
Does it work with whistling? You could control your mouse like that character from Guardians of the Galaxy!
Actually the genre is called dungeon blobber.

Dungeon crawler is a much wider field than blobber is.
How do you know my cat isn't constantly solving calculus problems? I also can't come up with a "mechanistic model" for what it means to do that either.

Further, if your rubric for "can reason with intelligence and have an opinion" is "looks like it" (and I certainly hope this isn't the case because woo-boy), then how did you not feel this way about Mark V. Shaney?

Like I understand that people live learning about the Chinese Room thought experiment like it's high school, but we actually know it's a program and how it works. There is no mystery.
This might be a good candidate for Google's prize, unless I'm missing something?
Sorry to get stuck on your trivia note. What is the definition of a tracking shot? Russian Ark by Sokurov from 2002 is one continous 87 minute take.
> I believe Grimrock is "I move, you move" movement mechanics

But it isn't.

> Subtle but completely different gameplay as a result.

It's difficult to identify "results" of circumstances that aren't true.
I had to install a couple of alternative python versions on my dev machine at work and found it was easiest for me to just build from source and `make altinstall` with a custom prefix set. From there I just always work in virtual environments. This doesn't seem to have created any major problems for me, so something like asdf doesn't feel necessary. Is there something serious that I've missed or is this just a case of different preferred workflows?
I am curious about your paradigm and how you find it.
Websites are practically free to build and run (if you treat it as a hobby and don’t count your time). I agree on the rest though.
How should one use a book like this? Is it to get an overview of a topic before diving in? I don’t think I’ve ever learnt any mathematics from reference works, so I’m curious as to their intended audience.
From someone who had been lonely for a better part of his life, there is a solution that works.

Build a bit of confidence (gym being the simplest way) and get out there, because whoever you are, there is someone else out there who looks precisely for you. But you aren't gonna meet them if you sit tight, so get out.

Internalize this: you are attractive and you have worth, right now. You are good enough. And someone is waiting for you out there.
Pi Pico Gets a ZX Spectrum Emulator
From Feynman's 1982 talk on quantum computing:

"[N]ature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy."

0. https://s2.smu.edu/~mitch/class/5395/papers/feynman-quantum-...
I get the "the whole planet is my home". It’s just that to me there’s no reciprocity. It’s a one-way thing. And no matter where I am, I know I’m just passing through.
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