skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that there are two different announcements today, and I need to clarify my comment above.

• One piece cited viewing 1.5 trillion stars in the Perseus cluster of galaxies, which is 240 million ly distance: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/first-pictures-from-euclid...

• The other cited spotted stars in galaxy cluster Abell 2390, which is in the Pegasus constellation, which is 2.7 billion ly away — an order of magnitude further away: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid...

If I am reading this correctly, it seems like Euclid was able to see the light from individual stars ripped from their galaxies in Abell 2390. Which is quite the accomplishment.

Please let me know if I am reading too much into this, or reading it incorrectly.
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Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago
Your link examines the purchasing power of "a dollar", not the purchasing power of the average person. Inflation is always supposed to be positive because deflation is far worse for the economy than inflation is. Average wages have also increased since 2019, hence average purchasing power of people increasing. Inequality has increased, but real purchasing power is still increasing for people at the 75th percentile, so generally almost everybody is getting more wealthy in real terms.

Housing and healthcare costs are outpacing wage increases, it's true. The CPI (which is used to determine real purchasing power) weights them at about ~44% and ~7%, respectively [1]. So together, these constitute about half of the CPI, and yet average real purchasing power is still increasing.

The big factor is where you live. If you live near a wealthy coastal city, you're getting railed by NIMBYs into far higher housing costs than the average American. You're also more likely to be in the minority of Americans who don't already live in a home they own (65% of Americans own their own home), so housing price increases are even worse for you. This group is likely over-represented on HN, but it's not exactly "average".

Cold comfort I'm sure... but migration is a potential solution.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2023.htm
see: https://archive.ph/jWsuE

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> Vast amounts of money are needed to encourage each extra baby. And handouts tend to go to all babies, including those who would have been born anyway.

> As a result, schemes in Poland and France cost $1m-2m per extra birth.

Note the wording "handout".

> Only a tiny number of citizens are productive enough to generate fiscal benefits to offset that kind of money.

Wealth is not strongly linked to productivity.

Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press.

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Then there's lovely line:

> Due to low social mobility only 8% of American children born to parents without bachelor’s degrees end up getting such a degree themselves.

"low social mobility". That is the most cryptic way I've ever seen to say "structural class inequality".

> High-skilled immigration can plug fiscal gaps, but not indefinitely, given that fertility is falling globally.

> Most economies will therefore have to adapt to social change, and it falls to governments to smooth the way.

> Welfare states will need rethinking: older people will have to work later in life, for instance, to cut the burden on the public purse.

And so, instead of addressing the issue of wealth inequality which underpins the class inequality, the people (via the government) will have to do something. Recommending austerity ("older people will have to work later in life"), which never works.

The conclusion of the article seems to be encrypted in statements like that. Decrypting the implications:

1) Poor people are the least likely to have children.
2) Low social mobility means only the wealthy have the luxury of having children.
3) As the wealthy are only a vanishingly smaller percentage of any population, birth rates tend to be smaller than they should be.
4) The wealthy are too powerful to tax and address the issue, and so they recommend pushing the problem onto the people via austerity.
> If the malicious operator has a superhuman advisor, that will increase their ability

Only when it comes to information processing. The inputs may (and will) be incomplete, incorrect, ambiguously formulated... The outputs may (and will) be misunderstood. And misunderstood instructions may (and will) be poorly performed.

> If the emulation gets connected to the internet, it can work way faster. Many jobs can be done remotely

What one man has connected, some other always can disconnect... And not anything is on the internet.

> abandon wishful thinking and actually consider the possibility of a worst-case scenario

The problem with all those scenarios is equating superintelligence with omniscience and omnipotence, which is plain wrong. Physics matters.
> its efficiency really depends on the expected input distribution. One glaring issue in this regard is that its 2-byte encoding is rather wasted

Yeah, and it's worth noting that this encoding is very close to just length then value. It only saves space for numbers up to about ±100. In a lot of situations it wouldn't actually do better than tag-length-value.
Very interesting, thanks. That would make my setup even simpler.
The probability of being hurt or even just disturbed by someone else due to them being high on cannabis is far, far lower than the probability of being hurt by someone due to them being high on alcohol.

Work in a public facing role, especially at night or on weekends. Or even just drive around at night to see the difference.
I definitely agree that it's not inherently doomed to failure, but I'm not sure the OP from the post would benefit from an external manager.

Fundamentally, small companies that accomplish things tend to have relatively strong cultures, and external managers (by definition) are not necessarily part of that culture.

I've seen an external manager cause loads of issues because of this, even when they come in with the best of intentions.

In smaller companies, you are almost always much better off promoting internally for a number of reasons. Firstly, it demonstrates (assuming that you make the right person the manager) that there's a path for people on the team to progress. Secondly, they are already aware of the actual problems with the company, and (importantly) the kinds of solutions that are acceptable.

I currently work for a small, fast-growing company and our external manager decided to rebuild a core system at the weekends and push it to prod. Now, the system is actually pretty good (I dislike it stylistically, but i have niche tastes).

However, what this person didn't consider (because they were new) that the org was not going to give much (if any) time to move stuff over to this new system. As a result, we're about 50% of the way done 18 months in, and in the interim, we've had to not do a bunch of stuff that would actually improve our product.

Like, I remember (and HN hate this company so it's unlikely to be listened to) when FB started getting really successful (2013-15), we ended up hiring a lot of Google/Amazon managers and leaders externally and probably through negligence, they ended up destroying a bunch of what made the culture great.

Hiring bad managers is much, much worse than no managers, but if you promote an IC then they have a valid stepdown path if it doesn't work, which an external manager is less likely to have (or indeed, accept).

And thus concludes my Ted Talk about avoiding external managers.
Part of living in a city is smelling a bunch of stuff you don't really want to. No need to special-case weed there heh :)
I wonder why the quotes around "count" are required.

> The crows flexibly produced between one and four vocalizations for corresponding cues associated with numerical values. Furthermore, they used different calls for different numbers.

Is this because the crows might just remember four separate stimuli, and did not demonstrate an understanding of integers in the Peano arithmetics style? I still think that producing a specific number of vocalizations, well, counts as counting.
A lot of "tech news" journalism is just copy pasting a press release. They might also be counting every single article they were on the byline for, but they might not have actually substantially written that much. An example is some review of the "Best Headphones" where the article is huge, but he only wrote a paragraph.

I think you might also be underestimating how easy it becomes to just churn out article after article if that's your day-job. You're not writing literature or a longform article in the New Yorker; you're just bashing out 2-4 paragraphs, then rinse and repeat all day.
Isn't because in Cars the character itself is the IP, not the actor? For example, if Owen Wilson started cosplaying as the Cars character and making money out of it, he could be sued.

Reminds me of an Archer bit: https://youtu.be/c9uuITbtl-g?t=2

- Oh my god, Slim Goodbody!

- No! No, this is absolutely not that trademark character. Just a unitard with the systems of the human body on it. On a guy.

- On a guy named TV's Michael Gray.
Apologies, I misunderstood your comment then. It really sounded like you were contradicting them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ2uMauyBow vs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8SdqOT_no0
The last podcast I heard this on was Slate Magazine's Political Gabfest. Hardly the kind of publication that's trying to scare people away from weed.

You are a pot smoker yourself. You probably are so used to it that you don't realise how incredibly pungent the odour is.
Tangentially related, but Warp (another terminal) also integrated AI. Looks like they recently turned on quota for free users as I started hitting a paywall.

I've immediately uninstalled it as there is no way to disable it.
I can't smell my neighbor's farts from inside my house.

Cigarette or weed smoke, though, is very noticeable and it tends to linger. To the point that I avoid opening certain windows because someone 30ft from it likes to smoke on his balcony.
Norfolk Southern should be put out of business.
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I keep seeing this point, in various forms, being regurgitated. The answer is: because it is OK with Owen Wilson is why. And likely stipulated in contract.
Did I explicitly deny this? By the same token, unless you are privy to the last 10 months of OpenAI's closed-door meeting notes you have no authority to assert it. But without those closed-door meeting notes, the evidence we do have isn't pretty unconvincing of any wrong doing. The time-frame is off and the voices actually don't sound alike if you compare them directly.

> but the obsession with namedropping Her among OpenAI employees feels like the final nail in the coffin.

I don't see why this the nail in the coffin. Why is this about the voice and not the technology involved in creating a natural voiced AI assistant just like was demonstrated popular movie?

Plenty of technologies have been inspired by science fiction including, most obviously, the cell phone. And comparing those technologies to the science fiction version is equally common.
People claiming that the negative response to OpenAI integration into iTerm is a knee-jerk reaction by a bunch of AI haters I think are missing the point.

a) Putting an LLM into iTerm introduces almost no benefit that I can think of, other than "shiny new technology", and is a waste of time and resources. I've heard some people suggest that putting an AI prompt into the terminal could be helpful for generating commands for difficult applications like FFMpeg, but you can also do the same thing by just asking ChatGPT in your browser and copying/pasting, which is what we've always done

b) More importantly, I absolutely do not want there to be any code in the terminal that writes commands for me or on my behalf. The command line is intimately connected to the OS and has access to every file, environment variable and socket on my system. iTerm just had to patch a bug where its URL handling and link previews was causing a remote code execution, so I would have expected this "feature" to cause security issues in the same way

Terminals are also just a fundamentally conservative application. Shiny new technology has never been a clean fit into terminals. Imagine if iTerm decided to integrate NFTs and crypto, or optionally link your Meta account so you can use your terminal in Virtual Reality, would probably draw a similar negative response.
I didnt specifically mean China in my argument, however it still stands:

China raised the standard of living of its people despite not only actual sanctions but even an actual grain blockade that was effected on them by the US via the UN, designed to starve them in the 1950s. The life standards rose in that decade too, not only after the 80s, and the US has nothing to do with it.

This is without saying that being able to trade with outside does not mean that the life standards of the people in a country will rise: The majority of the value from that trade would go to the minority capitalists in a capitalist country and a small percentage of white collars who do their bidding to run the companies owned by those, while the rest majority in the country can be living in knee-deep sh*t. We are seeing this today in various, formerly-prosperous countries even, including the US where a tiny minority takes the boon while the majority has to juggle multiple jobs to afford rent and food.
There are so many examples of this. It's been hard to express and advocate for my severe distrust of proprietary garbage (my choice of words isn't hyperbole in this case) to others around me. But with so much of this race to the bottom, I can't help but wonder: how much will consumers take?

I'll admit, my FOSS prefering, DIY leaning use of tech is tedious, but is it worse than dealing with the churn companies force you (and your wallet) to deal with?
> Cannabis psychosis is no fun at all

What is "Cannabis psychosis"?
I won't have any Last Thursdayists under my roof.
That guy in general was clearly just trolling. If you go further up, you can see that everyone's mostly happy with the solution to have a separate plugin for this but him. His first reason was that he just didn't want to see the other side win because it makes him "feel like a 2nd class community member." Then he switched his argument to that the new method would "have security concerns," again just to keep the whole thing going. It's terrible that the dev has to deal with this kind of thing.
Yes, that actually would be helpful. It'd also be a kind of guide for people like me who use screen readers, to show how we're supposed to find things that are supposed to be important on the app.
Replacing the battery on a phone would make sense if it was easy to do. But I can't get reasonable phones with a back that comes off intentionally to replace a modular battery. Which means I'm paying someone to unglue the back, replace the battery, and reglue the back. Their time costs money, so I'm thinking ~ $50 for the battery and ~ $50 for their time, plus my time to get there and back and wait, and I'm halfway to a $200 phone that's going to be way better than my 3 year old $200 phone.

I don't like how disposable everything is, but labor costs to repair are huge. I just got rid of a van because of a failed head gasket, because it's too much work to get to the not that expensive part.
I don't think people are scared about it, it's more of an annoyance. And it's not being wildly exaggerated. In NYC nowadays it's more common than not when walking anywhere to get at least one strong whiff of weed per trip, if not multiple. It's also become quite common for people to light up in subway stations. I'm a former user who's not offended by the smell but still find it a bit annoying, for fear of it clinging to me.
Making cement is a huge carbon emitter.

Making concrete often includes fly ash from coal plants (and the reduction of coal powered plants has increased the cost of fly ash and reduced its availability to the point where it was being rationed last summer <according to my relatives in the concrete biz>)
Of which the vast majority cannot consistently beat index funds.
I'm terrified that America won't be able to match Chinese industrial capacity for killbot type drones.

Does anyone know if anyone has stared the infrastructure to produce these things en masse in the US? If so, how can someone with heavy construction experience, CAD skills, and embedded experience become a part of that?
Here is the tweet:

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Act on press

This is a UI design hill I will die on, and it dismays me how often and hard I have had to fight for it.

Almost all interaction methods have a “press” and “release” event associated with them. Whenever possible, you should “do the thing” when you get the press event instead of waiting for the release event, because it makes the interaction feel substantially more responsive, and it reduces user errors by not allowing the focus to slide out of the hot box between press and release.

Even a “ballistic tap”, where your finger is intentionally bouncing off the button or touch surface, involves several tens of milliseconds delay between the press and release, and most button presses have well over a hundred ms dwell time. There is a delight in interfaces that feel like they respond instantly to your wishes, and the benefit to every single user is often more important than additional niche features.

Game developers, with simple UI toolkits, tend to get this right more often, but “sophisticated” app designers will often fight hard against it because it is mostly incompatible with options like interactive touch scrolling views, long press menus, and drag and drop.

Being able to drag scroll a web page or view with interactive controls in it is here to stay, and nets out way better than having to use a separate scroll bar, but there are still tons of fixed position controls that should act on press, and it is good UI design to favor them when possible.

In the early days of mobile VR, the system keyboard was a dedicated little OpenGL app that responded instantly. With full internationalization it became prudent to turn it into a conventional Android app, but the default act-on-release button behavior made it feel noticeably crappier. The design team resisted a push to change it, and insisted on commissioning a user study, which is a corporate politics ploy to bury something. I was irritated at how they tried to use leading questions and tasks, but It still came back one of the clearest slam-dunks I have seen for user testing – objectively less typos, expressed preference, and interview comments about the act-on-press version feeling “crisper” and “more responsive”.

So, I won that one, but the remaining times I brought it up for other interfaces, I did not, and you still see act-on-release throughout the Meta VR system interfaces.
Crows are intelligent, There are some videos out there showing crows playing simple games and stuff...

I wonder if crows being intelligent has it linked with them being ominous in many litrature
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that people had easy other options. I didn't mean "preferences" in the individual choice sense of the word, but in the network effects sense of the word. In other words, even if people generally didn't want to buy food that comes in plastic containers, there are vanishingly few alternatives, and this is driven by market forces that individuals have no control over.
I mostly agree with you, but would ask: Why are you here, reading this thread? This isn't, like, a thread about something interesting that is being tragically drowned out by all this gossip. It's just an entirely bad thread that we should (and probably do) all feel bad about getting sucked into.

But the tiny sliver of disagreement I have with "this is a bad thing to discuss here and we should all feel bad" is that some people who frequent this site are sometimes some of the people involved in making decisions that might lead to threads like this. And it might be nice for those people to have read some comments here that push back on the narrative that it's actually fine to do stuff like this, especially if it's legal (but maybe also if it isn't, sometimes?).

The way I see this particular discussion is: outside the tech bubble, regardless of the new facts in this article, people see yet another big name tech leader doing yet another unrelatable and clearly sleazy thing. Then what I see when I come to the thread is quite a few of the tech people who frequent this site being like "I don't get it, what's the problem?" or "this article totally refutes all of the things people think are a problem with this". And I feel like it's worth saying: no, get out of the bubble!
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The most expensive part of a device is the display. This is a bleeding-edge, first -generation, low-production-run display on top of an Android tablet. If it does what the demos show, it's the device I've been waiting a decade for and is totally worth $800, to me. Also, the price includes a Wacom pen. Hopefully they can get the costs down, but the price seems completely fair.
The font is too light and difficult to read.
So the scientific method is aspirational, a model to inspire. Like democracy, or fair markets: nice in theory, but rarely achieved (or achievable) in actual life. In that sense I guess it's good to teach kids about the idealized model.
Agreed, if you take each piece of the puzzle in isolation it sounds silly and totally not worth Johansson's time. But that's how most legal cases are: there's no one single piece of evidence that is conclusive proof in and of itself, there is a collection of facts that together form a reasonable basis for concluding a level of intent that meets the burden of proof.

I'm not convinced that the pieces all add up to a slam dunk, but you can't dismiss them one by one, you have to look at the whole.
I completely agree. We often forget it's not always about the technical details of the implementation. Its about the attitude of developers and their relationship with their users and those users expectations. Users are 100% correct to be skeptical or even worried when they hear "AI integration". Putting it into the "core" makes a clear statement about the projects intentions. The developer recognizes this by saying the plugin change was to put people "at ease".
People really underestimate how much time is available to qualify whether a feature that on paper that sounds problematic is benign or functionally helpless without $XYZ other things by a security team. Saying use MDM to 'fix' it is dev time they might not have, and the only ethical thing they can do is remove the new unknown risks from their list of risks.

Much like your SLAs are not my SLAs your risks are not my risks. iterm2 inserting a mechanism to talk to a new class of component is not a minor change.
I'm confused by this.

Haven't we had LiFePO batteries for a while? What makes this different?
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One other note about simulators is that they include PID tuning (at least Liftoff does), which can be an incredibly time consuming and tedious process with a new quad if you're new to it. It's better to learn that process in a sim where you can change values and see how the results affect behavior right away. In the real world, you typically have to fly back, land, plug the quad into your laptop/phone, change the values, sync, unplug, and take off again.
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