skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So keep disability and aged care support, but drop all other welfare in favor of a UBI at around the poverty line or higher if budget allows? I can now see that working, and needing to pay care workers much more to get enough willing participants is probably a good thing.

I don't think we can rely on family or extended family any more. Even in countries with strong extended family and community support structures, people get left behind. And usually the people who need the most support, with mental illness or addiction or social problems driving others away.
Isn’t that a good thing?
Just found one.

Haven't been able to search Show HN in a thorough timeline, in order of submission, starting with current submissions going back very far at all.

"show" doesn't do it, "past" doesn't either.
Ah yes. The interstellar aliens want human slaves and cattle to compensate for their failure to invent bucket excavators and hydroponics.
Ok, how about if I'm a tenant applying for an attractive apartment. I would be incentivized to write a fake negative review about the apartment to steer competition away. The landlord would have no idea that it was me. Might even blame the existing tenant.

Or how about a neighbor who values quietness and doesn't want the landlord to be able to rent out the apartment?

Since it's "anonymous" multiple parties could have incentives to write negative reviews.
Each attendee gets their own guid introduction as usual, just by scanning a QR code or something, just before or after the talk. The same basic introduction protocol works here, the QR code just names a guid address that has constraints on it (time-limited maybe, or that limits introductions by number of attendees).

Corner cases like this have solutions, and even if they're a bit more awkward, who cares? 99.9% of people who suffer from spam don't encounter these corner cases. Should a solution solve the biggest part of the problem, or prioritize making the corner cases easy?
I'm from a place where Tesla had an early foothold and good following. There are many, many BYD vehicles on the road here now, and quite a few people I know are strongly considering them as their next vehicle. Some I know have made the move from consideration to purchase, and they all appear to be very happy with the decision.

Tesla should be worried. And quite frankly, BYD has listened to the wants of the market. Practicality, functionality, price point. You can't software your way out of customers wanting physical controls, for wanting a more compelling price point for seemingly quite good quality, or for other functions the market has been producing but Tesla has been cagy adopting.
Are you capitalizing it like EArth for a reason or just a typo? Just wondering as you use it a few times but are flip flopping.
Non-spinning and non-charged blackholes are called Schwarzschild or static black hole is a simple beast. You have a event horizon, a mass, and a slightly strange area near the event horizon where orbits are unstable, I believe within 1.5 times the event horizon distance.

Spinning blackholes (Kerr) of are quite complicated in comparison. They have an outer ergosphere, inner ergosphere, outer event horizon, and an inner event horizon. Also the singularity is no longer a point, but a ring.

A quote from the Ring_singularity link below:

An observer crossing the event horizon of a non-rotating and uncharged black hole (a Schwarzschild black hole) cannot avoid the central singularity

This is not necessarily true with a Kerr black hole. An observer falling into a Kerr black hole may be able to avoid the central singularity by making clever use of the inner event horizon associated with this class of black hole.

This is also explained in the Veritasium video at 1610 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6akmv1bsz1M&t=1610s

More info at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_black_hole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergosphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_singularity
> This is where China will win. They can out-produce the United States and withhold the components the US needs to build the swarms.

The US and allies can cut off or seriously curtail most of the raw materials required to run Chinese factories. China can stockpile raw materials but the US can stockpile Chinese sourced components. So that’s more like a Mexican standoff.

> The US needs to wake up that it's supply chain and manufacturing is not self-sufficient

Diversifying from Chinese production is happening albeit too slowly for comfort. The major problem isn’t the threat of war which may never happen, it’s China being unable to sustain its economy due to population collapse which is inevitable.
Gemini In, Gemini Out
>for reasons I am unaware, to hate on Sam Altman and OpenAI.

Maybe because they ditched the Open in OpenAI and sold out to MS and now Apple too.

For the benefit of all mankind was replaced by "Show me the money"
> Sr engineer roles is about 400k+

The variance varies widely, but you're incorrect according to my salary negotiator who has hard data in hand. I was an IC6 at MAANG and 400k was only attainable by the top end of IC6+. Most people were paid around 250-300k.

There are a few rare birds (ICs) paid 500k-1.2M, but they're either core contributors to a key tech the company uses, a main person of a core FOSS project, or some sort of tech celebrity. Managers also make quite a bit more. I recall a 2nd-level manager for some big Google product making 2.7M TC.
Well, VLB wasn't limited to graphics... it was just a fast bus. As opposed to the much later AGP that afaik, was graphics only.

But, MicroChannel was IBM proprietary. I don't know if anybody else had enough market or enough full stack to make a proprietary bus viable; IBM was making graphics cards and motherboards (and cpus, sometimes), and selling enough units that it was worthwhile for add-in makers to support MCA.
> you can't say for sure, from where we're standing now.

We can already see how LLMs can be substantially worse - they can cosplay human thoughts and sentiment in a way that wasn’t previously possible.

So much of this debate seems focused on this conception of Skynet-style murderous AI - or at least manipulative and scheming HAL 9000 types. But an order of magnitude greater risk has already arrived just from scaling existing harms.

Phishing schemes and pig butchering scams have destroyed countless lives. They’re now easier and more scalable than ever. As are fake news and disinformation campaigns.

Several companies are productising AI girlfriends with predatory pricing models, capitalising the human desire for connection and intimacy in the way slot machines and sports betting monetise our desire for a better life. That’s new.

It may not be an order of magnitude worse for everyone yet - but for certain vulnerable groups, that future has arrived already.
ESG which is used to enforce climate justice is a a cartel environment that creates a total top-down, public-private sector controlled by a Stakeholder Soviet that determines the parameters of doing business.

This model was pioneered in China under Deng Xiaoping. The ultimate vision here is that the West, after "Degrowth" (Communism), and the East/South, after the full implementation of PRC/CCP hegemony and the Belt and Road Initiative, will dialectically synthesize into a single global system. Both the CCP and UN think they'll control it.

So both China and western oligarchs behind this are interested in western degrowth through energy & food & job poverty as a tool to destroy individual liberty that holds capitalism up and introduce communist religious rule.
>In the United States, the power is almost entirely in the hands of the landlord. Maybe not for things that reach criminal levels of malfeasance but for your average renter with a crappy landlord there is zero leverage, it is particularly bad now because housing is so incredibly broken at the moment.

In California, the power is almost entirely in the hands of the tenant.
The default for Parsec is h.265, it's only on older machines that can't hardware encode/decode that fall back to h.264.

The reason they're likely seeing latency issues is that Parsec doesn't have the localized servers that GeForce Now has. Servers closer to your location will always have lower latency.

This is a simple case of nVidia simply having more money, more servers, and better infrastructure than Parsec. Which isn't surprising given the scale and cashflow difference of the two companies.
Cyan are still around and still making games[0]!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyan_Worlds#Games_developed
I think you are overestimating by many orders of magnitude.
Fun read. I loved these games as a pre-teen/teen.

Since I'm a cynic in general:

> Cyan was likewise disinterested in pursuing other solutions that would have been even easier to implement than panning rotation, but that could have made their game less awkward to play...

I disagree with this paragraph.

I think back then, I thought this was intentionally helpful. Thinking on it now, I also think it was part of the character of Myst that would be too risky to lose for Riven.
Believe it or not, California no longer allows blanket at-will evictions as part of it's recent rent control law. Landlords still have more leverage than tenants but it's a bit better.
They take the AI bus or subway.
The Iberian lynx doubles its population in just three years
Edit after-the-fact

P(success)*reward - P(failure)*penalty - opportunity cost (TCO)
Ha, as a longtime DFW fan I get what you mean! Glad you enjoyed it.
Been a while, but I loved them

The author is David Wingrove, whose incredible world building is on display in his Chung Kuo series. Also highly recommended: a future where China has dominated all the continents. Originally 8 books, now 20 due to books splits and additional writing.

Only complaint is he could have used an editor. Sometimes his writing could have used some corrections or better wording.

But the stories are great.
Anthropic just released a prompt generator this month: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/prompt-generator

Don’t underestimate how bleeding edge this all is.
There were three books in total, and I loved the first two. Particularly if you can get hold of the hard-covers, as they are beautiful.

As for the stories themselves, the world building and atmosphere are fantastic. As a teenager/young adult, they captivated me in a way that very few books could. I continued to read them about once a year up into my early thirties. And I never played the game!

Worth a read in my opinion.
Give the kid a detention? Send them to the principal? Use one of the other disciplinary tools that the teacher has available?

It's a school. The adults have authority over the children. If there's really no way to enforce the rules or punish bad behaviour, the entire institution is a joke.
Saying no does require honesty though. Signing a treaty, and then ignoring it, is always an option.
Stated dabbling with game dev very recently so I'm curious about this!

Couldn't we get the delta, or for some animations use modulo arithmetic? Maybe mix in some gradient noise into the animation to make it seem organic to break the looping.
It's meant to evoke the feeling of being in therapy. It started as an attempt to be an AI therapy company, and they pivoted to "github for AI" around 2019.
Will better superconductors transform the world?
You lose all your vested equity, which for people who've been at OpenAI for a while would be the majority of their comp.
Open Source creators: If your utility is a graphics tool, visualization library or anything related to images : for the love of science and all things holy, put screenshots on your repo.
It would be interesting to run this experiment on CS or EE students. I hope they would do a little better…
Which address are they buying? Every contact you know has a different guid address for you, and as soon as one of those is used for spam, you can revoke it. What value does such an address have to a broker or spammer? Addresses have value now because they are global, easily guessable and harvestable, and difficult for the user to change. The system I'm describing violates all of those properties, thus devaluing the whole spam enterprise.
I think for renewable energy to win it has to be financially viable on its own. If it requires carbon credits to get started, is it going to be viable without them?
Revengate Development Log
Aren’t those platforms for the dev machine on which you would write the code and build you app?

Edit: looks like it’s for the server machine
Yep. And in Texas, apartments don't charge much of a deposit because they can bill residents moving out for everything and anything.
For a single-family dwelling, 1000 sqft seems fairly normal in Japan.

It’s also fair to mention that the lot sizes are drastically smaller: 1/16 of an acre is on the larger size here, and you’d be hard-pressed to find anything bigger that isn't in the middle of nowhere.

For context, 1/16 of an acre is around 2500 sqft, so that's smaller than the average American house.

And, if you have kids and move to the middle of nowhere... great, now your kids have nobody else their age to play with.

Japanese homes typically don't have backyards, and the small yard you do have is typically not fenced-in, which kinda sucks with young kids.
> If you replaced your current mental model for mortgages with “it’s like a paper electronic flow meter for money, possibly with less paper these days”, it would improve your ability to understand the mortgage industry.

I feel even more confused
Lots of things are effective that are also bad solutions, especially in a different context.

So you’re right, shame works. But, for the sake of argument, if it leads people to suicide, eating disorders, or depression, while obesity is no longer technically the problem, you’ve just created another problem.

Shame works for Japan (for now, at least) because they are a wholly different society than ours, based on a wholly different set of morals and upbringing.

But is a Japanese salaryman happier than an obese American? Most are miserable, for most of their lives, and simply don’t talk about it to anyone outside their close circle, if at all. Remember that mental health in Japan isn’t really a thing that gets discussed very much, by doctors or anyone else.

It’s just trading one thing for another.

We’ve learned a lot about reinforcement learning from training animals, and specifically that positive feedback tends to lead to better results long-term, even if negative reinforcement may lead to quicker changes in the short-term.

I’m not convinced the same ideas don’t apply to mammals like us.

Moreover, what gets lost in the shame / blame game is the concept that people can work really hard at changing themselves and still have a long way to go. That is, if someone is 200 lbs overweight and has spent the last two years losing 100 of those lbs… someone who sees them in a “shame” society would still shame them, with zero context given to the fact that they’ve had a massive success over the last twelve months that should be celebrated even if they’re not where they want to be yet.

Without positive feedback, it’s exceptionally difficult to “stay the course,” and that is the point. Shame only gets you so far.

Supporting someone on their journey to a healthy weight gets them much further, and if you genuinely care about someone, that should generally extend to their mental health as much as their weight, imho.
These guys came up a with a "preprompt" for ChatGPT that does a decent job in refining your initial prompt and asking questions for clarification. Seems they mix some of the best practices like chain of thought, etc.

https://github.com/ProfSynapse/Synapse_CoR
Nice. That's the business Chevrolet is supposed to be in. "Basic transportation", their ads once read. The push for "more crap per car" and higher margins has gotten completely out of hand.[1] Detroit is abandoning the rest of the world to China and hiding behind US tariffs.

If it were were not for the new 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars, we'd have $25,000 electrics from BYD and Nio in the US now. Like the rest of the world.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/18/china-us-...
>"Netris delivers a zero-latency gaming experience that won't eat up your data plan." What does this mean? Wouldn't the latency be at least from my computer, to Netris server, to the game server?

I agree zero-latency sounds impossible. But why wouldn't the Netris server and the game server be the same machine? So that's 1 less latency hop.
One big harm is that GPT4 can trivially cheat essays in most contexts. OpenAI planned to address this with a classifier (https://openai.com/index/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai...), but it didn't work and they withdrew it without offering any better ideas - so now evaluations of unmonitored writing are indefinitely and likely permanently broken for everyone.
It's a pretty strong effect for me, but IIRC there are multiple causes, like that it's hot + acidic + caffeinated.
Tried to post it 5 days ago but it never went anywhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345656
singlefile browser extension is quite good in this regard
They've literally never made a budget sedan EV. Looks like they are happy to let Hyundai and Tesla take that market, while they churn out SUVs?

Also the 35k trim won't be available until later this year.
This guy is incredibly lucky. I hope that council worker was taken to task over it.

Delta-P is not to be messed with.

https://youtu.be/AEtbFm_CjE0?si=_NPIJFUWGYNb_Jx8
I said nothing about praying.

It is commonly accepted in our time that you're born with your sexual proclivities, and it is a sensitive topic, saying otherwise can get you into serious social trouble. So, the idea that "preferences and tastes" as you put it with regard to sexual orientation can change is widely a taboo in modern western society. To me, this directly conflicts with the concept that someone can develop a sexual attraction via exposure to pornography; the two beliefs are mutually exclusive. I'm just pointing out the difficult social consequences of investigating and confirming whether exposure can alter someone's attractions in that way.
I might've been a rocket scientist (like my dad), but I was a girl
The keyword is unambiguous here. Most rules have quite some leeway for the accountant/management to choose from.
btw... this url comes back as invalid in Safari on the iPhone, which kind of kills half the argument. I know it's satire, but to be true to the original motherf***g website, the claims on the site need to be true.

> What I'm saying is that all the problems we have with blogs are ones we create ourselves.

By making it plaintext instead of HTML you created a problem.
Where are they taking the AI bus or subway to? AI automation allows a few million humans to replace the billions that it used to take to make the movies, music, software, textiles, pick the rice and corn, etc, right?

Human productivity will have gone up another 1000x, in just the next 20 years, right?

What are the extra people going to do? We certainly can't just give them free stuff, can we? That would be against our beliefs!

Oh snap, capitalism was so successful that we are near post-scarcity society, good thing our politics are totally ready for that.
I remember doing this with my dad as well. I was maybe 9 or 10 years old and we were both equally clueless about what to do most of the time :).
I haven't been gaslit by someone in the medical profession before, especially one from a field arms deep in a replication crisis. But I guess there's a first for everything...
I am a huge fan. This is an amazing project. An absolute artifact of the Internet, as it should be.

I have lost many hours here, and have shared with many

I’m not worthy.
Because your therapist doesn't have a perfect memory and has dozens of patients. They rely on notes to remind them of what you've discussed in the past.
> Id be happy to see a tax on fat people due to the externalities they place on the healthcare system.

What about dumb people? Or people with Down syndrome? Or people who use a wheelchair? Or people who were born with a missing limb? Or spina bifida?

Why limit it to “fat people,” other than because society says it’s simply okay to shame them more than others?

And before you say it’s a choice: it isn’t always. Kids don’t get to pick what their parents feed them, and while you can make changes in adulthood, if you don’t have the tools or skills, good parents (or any at all), and so on, you’re in for a rough time.
I'm not the GP, but I'm sorry you felt gatekeeped. I don't think GP conveyed "real mathematicians should do FP", but rather something else, so I'll try my best to share what I understood from that comment. Hope this makes you feel better.

Even though the notation changed over the years, the paradigm of "numbers as immutable entities and pure functions" has been the dominant way that math is presented, compared to something like "encapsulated objects that interact with each other via sending messages".

I don't think this has to be this way, and I do think that "real math" can also be laid out assuming principles of OOP. However, I do suspect it's the way it is because the laws of nature are unchanging, in contrast to the logic of a business application.

Because Julia is a tool with the target audience of mathematicians and scientists, I think it's a sensible decision to embrace the usual way of thinking, as opposed to presenting a relatively different way of thinking which steepens the learning curve. Not because data and functions are fundamentally better than OOP, but because it's more pragmatic for the target audience.
“I see no identification of who runs it”

Sounds like it’s anonymous to me :)

That’s how governments like to run things: https://community.qbix.com/t/transparency-in-government/234
> What if you live on the Gulf Coast, exposed to hurricanes? [...] Sure, but there are a lot of disasters where the cables are fine.

You have to understand that this article was written by an European technologist worrying about a war situation. Sure, you can make a counter-point, but your counter-example is very different in many aspects: nature of the threat, jurisdictions involved, orgs involved, etc.
The securitization of mortgages, health care, and education.

All were simply fund-managers monetizing other peoples misery, and now many are realizing every party line is the same BS. People are angry, but often for the wrong reasons since wall-street washes accountability by design.

Unfortunately, ridiculous wealth and miserable populations seem a desirable trade in some cultures.

Thank god it is not my task to try and fix it =)
> a technological solution to many causes of aging and death.

I wouldn't count the cryonic freezing of a perfectly good brain (aka immediate brain death) among those, at least until there's a convincing solution to the teletransportation paradox.
I think you are presuming that the participants who failed were unable to solve the underlying logic problem, when it is entirely possible that they (eg) misread part of the problem setup.

(Likewise the paper seems to infer a difference in logical thinking rather than considering a difference in processing/interpreting the problem.)
And if the 2020 remake* is anything to go by, this should be amazing. If you want to play Myst, get the 2020 version.

*not to be confused with the 2000 Masterpiece Edition, the 2000 remake RealMyst or the 2014 remake realMyst: Masterpiece Edition.
Known Purpose and Trusted Potential
5 years ago after they cancelled the Volt, the Equinox with a hybrid voltec system would have been a massive hit. Perhaps they didn't want a hit because of the margins.
At this point after seeing them backtrack on great cars like the volt and bolt, and what happened to the Blazer EV that was promised??
Call me skeptical, on this.
Parsec doesn’t use their servers though. It’s peer to peer once discovery is done. So the “server” is likely elsewhere in your house. That’s basically as close as you can get.