skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short on funds to provide 100% benefits:

> If Congress does not act by 2035, the trust fund reserves are projected to be depleted. However, the income from Social Security taxes would cover 83% of scheduled benefits.

[…]

> By the year 2098, when I will be turning 117, they project the tax revenue will cover 73% of the benefits. That’s a long runway to shore things up.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/05/is-social-security-...

It was never predicted to go to zero.
> it's possible for app developers to provide good defaults like wezterm does. It's also possible for distro's to break those defaults.

Absolutely, yes. No disagreement from me. I'm just guessing at why someone might choose not to for this particular case.
Sounds like you jumped straight into competitive?

In general, I would recommend spending some time playing casual to get an overall feel for the game - game/round format, weapon types, popular maps and their layouts, using sound, using the minimap, among others. Combine this with some YouTube videos and you’ll be in a much better place.

CS has such a long history, yet never really a good tutorial mode. I think partly because the core game loop is so simple, but also because of the wealth of knowledge and material out there. Of course, Valve’s online games are notorious for not having a decent tutorial mode, so that might be the main reason lol. I am a huge TF2 fan, and man does the “tutorial” sell the game short.
Most people who work at a startup have a decent chance of getting hired my Meta or another FAAG. Don't underestimate yourself!
The article should have expanded on those points knowing that the reader would likely question this.
> Counter-Strike is played by two teams with five players in each.

As someone who played CS from the first beta, this is a convention that started with certain competitive leagues but was never a hard and fast rule. Most maps don't play very well 5v5, but that format took off because it was harder to organize more people at once on IRC.

This could have been fixed with matchmaking, but I suppose the toothpaste was already out of the tube.
Just stop oil!
China and Russia didn’t force the Supreme Court to corrupt the political system with Citizens United or force politicians to spend all day taking bribes. They didn’t cause the widening gap between wealthy and poor in America. They’re not the ones gaslighting Americans into thinking they don’t deserve healthcare. Xi Jinping isn’t the one allowing data brokers to buy and sell bulk geolocation data to anyone that wants it. Vladimir Putin isn’t the one allowing private equity to strangle businesses across America. Erdogan isn’t the one saddling young people with student debt and causing home prices to rise.

The people who have lost trust in the ability of the American economic/political system to care about them, maybe foreign autocrats lit the match but the kindling was already there.
Players are bombing the CEO of Xbox's base in an MMO to protest
So, to summarize this article, it's a short piece about one specific couple. There's not a single piece of data about other people that might be in a similar situation, there's not a single piece of relevant data about the housing market, in fact, there's not a single solitary bit of input from the author. The entire story is 6 paragraphs that quote one person saying they're having trouble downsizing out of their home.

This somehow translates to a title with a broad sweeping statement about all older Americans? And how home ownership is a problem for older Americans? How is this journalism? How is this published in the New York Times? Did the author even fact check anything this couple told them? Did they research into their situation at all? Who knows.

Is there more to the article that I can't see because I'm not subscribed, and it's not making it evident? I just don't understand what this is.
I've been binging on https://www.classicalstuff.net/ this year.

It's not much more than pump priming for the topics on offer, but that lends itself to driving, as one doesn't want to get too enmeshed.

But they find the fun in dry material.
> If you assume that there's an even chance of getting caught (e.g., if searches are random based on the traveler) then fewer larger trips reduces the number of times your agent is caught.

What? No it doesn’t. It just increases variance.
On the other hand, there are a lot more competitive video games than there used to be, so the best competitive gamers are spread all around instead of just in Counter-Strike.
It's true, miscommunication and misunderstanding, as well as stigmatization can lead to situations where autistic people are hurt or even killed. This happened recently with Ryan Gainer, who was killed by police after he charged at them with a gardening tool during an autistic meltdown.

But as you said, we should ask people with milder presentations, and listen. While they may impact quality of life, I don't see any autistic people here or in my communities calling for a "cure" to deal with such problems.

We made a big deal of Autism Acceptance and Awareness Month, which was April. There is no autism prevention movement, unless you count Autism Speaks, which is considered a hate group within the autistic community.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/health/seniors-home-equit...
Why American Automakers Are Failing in China [video]
1. Right click on the app and choose open. When prompted, click open
2. https://github.com/rogeriopradoj/homebrew-cask-peazip/blob/m...
Vision transformers are essentially just JPEG but with learned features rather than the Fourier transform.
> We already require this for people with seizures, for people needing glasses to wear them, etc.

But then you have the same problem against something which is much harder to measure.

Many people have glasses even though their vision is mostly fine and it's perfectly reasonable to drive without them, the glasses just make things slightly more focused. Other people are effectively blind without corrective lenses.

ADHD is the same way only you don't have a nice mathematically precise lens prescription to tell you the degree of it, and with no objective way to measure the severity, just asking people a question that everybody knows can cause you to have a restriction placed on you is pointless and only invites people to lie. Which in turn may make them less likely to seek and receive medical treatment -- the thing you want to happen if they are a hazard without it.

This is further complicated by what the treatments for severe ADHD are. Can you imagine the headlines? "Government forces drivers to drive on meth."
The archive is still missing the whole article, it ends with "Thank you for your patience while we verify access."
It wasn't invented on the spot. In the past, I have thought extensively about what should be considered a disorder, if the concept of "disorder" is even coherent, and how this applies to what treatments should be performed, available, and researched.
How dare you question the TSA, the best and brightest of us. \s

As a funny counter, I recently traveled through 6 TSA checkpoints with a loaded magazine in my bag. I had it from when I was at my farm, oops. Was a little concerned because I was in Boston when they found it (I’m based out of Tennessee). But they let me go and confiscated it.

Point being, if they can’t find a loaded magazine, I doubt they’d be able to find money intentionally. Then again, might have more incentive to find the money
Plastic fluorination is common. Everyone is exposed
Canada has a very odd relationship with the environment. The apparent surplus of riches leads to it being taken for granted, and consequently you get crazy situations like basically every lake within 2 hours drive of the US border being polluted with something, even as mundane as leaking septic tanks.

One side effect is it is surprisingly rare to drink the tap water. Often it tastes horrible anyway, sometimes it is from a well, and if you are in a city there is a good chance it is loaded with lead.

At some point they will have a proper disaster, but the effects of it will be swiftly forgotten again.
https://archive.ph/DlCxi#selection-3999.162-4009.70

40% of Acquired’s listeners are C-suite or VP-level executives, they say. Among them are Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, who says it’s one of his favorite shows, and Eddy Cue, one of Apple’s top executives, who listens during his work commute.
Cue Stanford complaining about 64 H100s…
A nice way to render Markdown in React apps
I’ve been using DinoV2 for some months now. I’ve tried the models with 4 register tokens along with CLS + patch tokens. I’ve several embeddings (tokens) from previous model (no registers) which are part of my solution, so I didn’t adopt the newer “register” models because the CLS tokens are not aligned between 0 registers and 4 registers models. It would be nice if the CLS and patch tokens were somehow aligned between those models.
Appreciate the frank perspective. Understand that time is not our friend here.

I guess I'm just wondering / hoping if it is possible that the BigCo just hires our team? I understand that there isn't going to be a big (if any) pay out for us as the founders here. We've proven that we can ship product and work well together.

The interview process shouldn't take too long if they want to do it, right? Or am I being naive / grasping at straws here..
It isn't exactly obvious. They're set two decades apart, and the only character from Dennou Coil who shows up is Michiko, inside Second Seven somehow. Which does at least make me suspect that the Yuukos have been busy.

Though once I noticed the space station was getting entirely covered in Isako's scribblings, that was... a moment.
> I’m 40 and at no point in my life have I trusted that social security will exist […]

It will exist mostly intact, just not necessarily at 100% benefits:

> If Congress does not act by 2035, the trust fund reserves are projected to be depleted. However, the income from Social Security taxes would cover 83% of scheduled benefits.

[…]

> By the year 2098, when I will be turning 117, they project the tax revenue will cover 73% of the benefits. That’s a long runway to shore things up.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/05/is-social-security-...

It was never predicted to go to zero.
Humans can sense quite a few strange things. Like the smell of rain up to 100 parts per trillion.
If someone really wanted to slow illicit businesses, they would look at ones of the US's biggest exports: shell corporations. Delaware and South Dakota churn them out legally by the hundreds of thousands. This is how all that laundering, tax evasion, and worse is performed.

Tie then all to owners and halt much of this.
This article has a much more negative take on the rivers than I felt when I saw them. To me, they were one of the most special parts of the city. The houses and stores all right up against the river. The Meguro River with the cherry blossoms hanging over in particular was beautiful. But I really loved all the city rivers in general.
"Never take a pay cut unless you're unemployed. That line only goes UP."

This is terrible advice. You can absolutely take a pay cut for a lower stress job or better worklife balance. I've known quite a few people who go out of higher paying jobs because they wanted a better working environment. It's not always feasible to get higher pay and better conditions.
Paywalled, so I can't read the article, but a funny problem of Boomers owning expensive properties today is that a lot of them can't afford to sell because of capital gains on homes they may have bought 40-50 years ago for <$100,000. If they don't have much wealth besides their home (many homeowners) they won't have enough to move into a new place in their area because everyone else's home has shot up in value as well, and taxes just ate up a hefty portion of the sale from their previous home. So they make do with what they have, property values go up, and a lot of people are unable to buy homes because it doesn't make sense to sell.

I'd be interested in seeing, say, a five-year moratorium on capital gains from real estate to see if it helps cool the market.
I think you’re only seeing the intro to the article, and then perhaps your ad blocker is preventing the “subscribe to see more” bit from showing up. The actual article is longer than six paragraphs and has some statistics and quotes from more people, including a researcher studying the space.
Bolt: Privacy-Preserving, Accurate and Efficient Inference for Transformers
28,749 views May 6, 2024

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey joins Caroline Hyde for an exclusive interview to discuss the company's new product line leveraging AI and focused on electronic warfare. He also explains how AI is changing the game, why he is more worried about competition from Iran, China and Russia rather than in the US, and why he thinks the US needs to have the best warfare technology. He speaks on "Bloomberg Technology."
Okay, that makes sense to me. Thank you.
> The entire story is 6 paragraphs

There's more than 30 paragraphs in that story.
Every time I hear news about boomers not being able to downsize, I think “well isn’t it the good ol consequences of my actions”. The nimbys made it impossible to build and created a system where landlords benefited from just being born early. The rest of the generations have been dealing with this problem for years, welcome to the party.
Yes I've been very transparent with the team - everyone knows our cash zero day and knows that I am looking for a soft landing.
Good points, thanks. I will note that non-subscription friendships generally exist on the basis of donated space and goodwill, though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was taught to listen to the sound the water made in the sink to tell when the hot was ready. I had always assumed this was something most folks already knew about.
How can one not understand that their house increasing in value means the house they want to buy also (proportional) increases in value?! Are those older Americans represented in the article thinking that their house will increase in value to 700K while the apartments they wanted will stay at 100K for 20 years?
Do you have data to inform that belief?
> Perhaps this is my cynicism showing, but it's the Boomers who caused this problem. Let them suffer the shortfall as the natural consequence.

If you want people out on the streets, that would probably be a good way to do it:

> Nearly half of senior citizens receive 50% or more of their income from Social Security. One in 5 people 65 or older gets 90% of their income from the program.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/05/is-social-security-...

There are a lot of poor Boomers out there, and SS is the only thing preventing them from being completely destitute.
Yeah, as someone who grew up in ye old days of even pre-Steam CS, the skill level the "average" player has now is incredible. Hoping into a casual match of Counter-Strike you'd think you accidentally ended up in someone's scrim match.

I don't have the time or passion these days to practice, but even if I did, I'd imagine it'd still be a very difficult environment to just be somewhat decent.
"Thanks for use superfile!"
Thank you for sharing your story, that's heartbreaking.
A generic homomorphism does not induce any isomorphism to a subset of B that I can think of unless it is already injective. The isomorphism you’re after is rather from the quotient structure of A mod the kernel to the image.
Yes, that's what I understood your belief to be, right from the beginning of this thread. I just haven't encountered any reason anywhere among these comments to persuade me to share your belief.
Elon Musk is highly functional but he also has a wide and deep support network unlike most other autistic people. He self immolates all the time and he's propped up by his great wealth. He self medicates with drugs. He has a team of people who handle his every need. When normal autistic people self immolate as such, they are cast from society forever - fired, locked up, abandoned, or even killed. And just because someone is high functioning today, it doesn't mean they will always be or always have been.
Any solution to climate change needs to be, at a minimum, 4x more carbon efficient than gasoline.

There is no point in splitting hair - if you find yourself even having a debate about which is worse, it is already a failure.
All CPUs commit in order and except precisely, because most other options are insane, or would drive you to it. However: single thread commit order =/= observability order.

Observability order of memory operations --- which are the only operations that matter --- are governed by the memory consistency model of the architecture.
x86 has what's generally referred to as strong ordering on memory operations.

On x86, part of it means that stores from the same core cannot be observed out of order from each other, nor can loads.

So assuming the compiler does not move the `tail++` up, or move the assignment out of the if-statement (both of which are achieved by marking them `volatile`), the code should actually work on x86.
The `tail++` change cannot be observed before the write to the queue and the reading from the queue cannot be observed before the reading of the `tail` and `head` variables.

On RISC-V and Arm, you need more as they have substantially weaker memory consistency. The RISC-V specs have some examples of interesting outcomes you can have. Some of it involves time-travel.

But in the end: yes the reordering done by the CPU is the issue. The compiler can and does reorder stuff when it thinks that it'll unlock more instruction-level parallelism, but no amount of volatile is going to make that queue universally usable on RISC-V. No matter what the compiler does. Even perfectly preserving the single-thread semantics of the code, not reordering a single instruction, the CPU can move stuff around in terms of observability.
The alternative is that the compiler inserts a barrier/fence after every instruction.

There are trade-offs. Poorly written code for x86 can absolutely tank performance because of ordering violations requiring code to be replayed, though that is sometimes a problem in even weaker consistency models as well.
Before Minecraft came out, you'd be complaining about "Procedurally-generated slop", and saying there's no way a game like that would work.

LLMs won't generate items or houses (or at least be the primary source). They'll give the world agency, in a way that's straight up impossible now.

Like, maybe you screw someone over and they dedicate their lives to destroying you. Maybe you're just running around doing your thing and discover that the world has become embroiled in war all on their own. You can choose to join and fight, or play both sides, or just ignore it and keep adventuring. Maybe you're tired of adventuring and open up a flower shop, working your way up to creating a ruthless floral version of Standard Oil. Maybe you decide to kill the king and take his place, playing a game of cut-throat politics where people are constantly trying to backstab you. Then you decide, "Hey, I want to play as this other character and backstab my old self" and the LLM takes over your old character as you gleefully kill them off.

If none of that sounds interesting to you, then there's lots of other games to play and I'm sure you'll have fun. Those are all things that I can't wait to see happen.
I hope that this sets a standard for future textbooks/publications. I haven’t been able to grasp several concepts in math unless I was able to properly visualize it, which most modern textbooks do with a terribly compressed and unsaturated JPG.
I thought the prior generations all downsized to lower cost areas when they sold their home. Before it was FL and AZ, but now it’s maybe Ohio and New Mexico? Or are those low cost places really have no homes available? With the stair elevators and other modern retrofits I think most homes can be made accessible.
Starting January 1, 2025, existing companies will need to report beneficial owners to FinCEN, which may start the process of cutting down on shell company abuse. https://www.fincen.gov/boi-faqs#B_2
How does NY Times not shut this down / ban you for doing this?

Why don't they shut down the link after like 10 unique people visit it?
All I’ll say is, I’ll vote out any government that passes any policy that benefits only the boomers. Consistently influencing policy decisions that only benefited them at each point in their life is why we’re in the mess we’re in. You can’t just change the rules for the game every other generation has been dealing with just because you now have to play it too.
> I don't see any autistic people here or in my communities calling for a "cure" to deal with such problems.

Then you should step a bit outside of your bubble. It's very common in the autistic community - and the neurodivergent community at large.
I was in a place with fair amount of light pollution, and far from where the aurora would be strongest.

These two photos taken with my camera, are approximately how it looked to my eyes after they'd adjusted to the dark:

https://i.imgur.com/8OOiCgX.png
https://i.imgur.com/GCpyumd.png

As a comparison, this is how my phone captured the same scene with default settings:

https://i.imgur.com/FCvN3gf.jpeg
Really helpful to hear this from your perspective - thank you!

Couple of follow ups

1) What stage was your company at / how much had the startup raised when you got acquihired? Just curious about how this compares to where we are.

2) What was the interview process like? Any details would be helpful for me to get our team prepared
Boston is not a gun friendly town. You got lucky.
They can absolutely sell. The first 250k (500k if married) of *profit* is excluded completely from taxes. And then any profits after that are taxed at 0%, 15%, or 20%. If you're making that much money on a sale you're not getting my sympathy that you might pay < 20% of your PROFITS. Get out of here with the pity for the well-off.

If they don't need the cash bad enough to sell, then don't sell. If they do, they'll have quite a nest egg after.
I'm curious what policies are in place in those countries to make public housing not turn into a dystopian nightmare, and also whether those policies would be scalable from small, wealthy, low-crime countries to somewhere like the United States.
Interesting idea. Pair it with allowing older home downsizers to maintain their previous taxable value so long as the new property is worth less than the one they are selling. The interest adjustment will still be there but at least the taxes aren’t
>cool the market

Do you mean warm it up? It's currently frozen. Lower interest rates are the surest way to fairly warm the market up. Cutting capital gains tax makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. Warming the market won't increase supply though.
If it cools the market down it benefits just about everyone except the speculators.
Yep, doing something over and over again is how you get good at it for sure
“Let’s give away more money to people that have already gotten a massive windfall in homes some crumbs fall down to everyone else.”

Somehow I’m not enthusiastic about this proposal.
I think it’s pretty simple. To many people, $3,750 is a huge amount of money. It’s easily several months salary.

I think a lot of people would be relatively unaware of how illegal a given thing is and would instead see the amount of money being offered as representative of the risk. Too much and they would get suspicious.
I don't know but you can see that this misunderstanding is extremely widespread, bordering on universal. Name any American politician who does not agree with the idea that the way to help poor people is to get them to "build wealth" through homeownership, a scheme under which some future person must necessarily become impoverished.
Ancient Egyptian Stone-Drilling (1983)