skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Amish community" is a general group with a specific heritage that follows certain principles. They live in many different states.

Actual Amish people do live in a communal way, share resources, help each other, have common church practice, etc, which makes their local communities (not "the Amish community" in general) communes.
The apostrophe key is also very useful, to jump quickly to a particular link.

Unfortunately a lot of websites have no searchable text on their links. Sometimes the problem is that it's an icon; other times the problem is that the text is not added in a way that allows search (I don't HTML enough to know all the ways). This is in addition to all the clickable elements that aren't tabbable, ugh.

I've also found a significant number of scrolling/sliding and menu-like elements where tabbing does weird things (partial scroll, not adjacent, etc.).
> Your comment boils down to 'all code should be perfect'.

This is clearly false from a cursory skim of the parent comment, which says

> All processes should be prepared for a sudden crash without corrupting state.

...which is leagues away from "all code should be perfect" - for instance, an obvious example is programs that can crash at any time without state corruption, but contain logic bugs that result in invalid data being (correctly) written to disk, independent of crashing or being killed.
Franco-Germanic, por favor.
I was stationed in San Diego when I was in the navy and loved eating at Rubios. I never missed In-n-Out because there are great burgers everywhere but there was never another Rubios. And yeah, somewhere between 1997 and 2019 when I went back to visit the logo, menu, and quality changed... I wanted to cry.
> it feels like the first sentence of your argument is more broadly a critique of the credentials of AI Safety proponents

It's a not so thinly veiled critique of Eliezer Yudkowsky.

> Maybe you are distinguishing between doomers vs broader AI Safety proponents,

I do. These are different classes of people. But many doomers mascaraed as AI Safety proponents. Just as many conmen mascarade as ML/AI researchers. I suspect distinguishing the groups is quite difficult for those without domain expertise.

> most people on the CAIS letter (https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk)

I don't care about the opinion of most of these people (there are some I VERY much do), nor do I think this is a meaningful letter.

Interfacing with a model does not endow one with any level of expertise. If this were true, the whole thread would be ill founded because people using GPT are interfacing with it. Instead, one needs to actually deeply study these models. There are things we know about them, and quite a lot. The term "blackbox" gets thrown around a lot, but that doesn't make everyone's expertise on the matter equally valid. In fact, the more complex something is to understand suggests the fewer number of people are qualified to have a reasonable opinion on the matter. My complaint is we often act as if the opposite is true.[0]

My second big problem with the CAIS letter is it means nothing. All it says is "I don't want to kill all humans." This is a fairly universally agreed upon statement and is in fact the default statement. It does not say anything about the potential risk. That's a completely different matter.

Worse, many of the people who have signed this are literally at the helm of the ships steering us into a dystopian future (which is not covered by this toothless letter). So I'm not sure what meaning this is supposed to have other than pageantry. Do not forget that these are the same exact people pushing and promoting abuse of these tools. I do not blame Average Joe for thinking that GPT is equivalent to Google (which itself cannot be trusted at face value, but this does not make it a useless tool) when that is often the way that it is promoted/advertised. So if you are concerned, I wouldn't use this as evidence.

[0] There's an added problem that you can become above average in any given subject relatively quickly. This is a double edged sword because knowledge is valuable but it often results in one being over confident. And the learning difficulty grows exponentially, which is why there are so few experts in any given subject matter. Because expertise is understanding nuance and complexity. The great irony of the doomers is that they fall back on "unknown unknowns" while not putting effort towards putting a bound on that.
Read the entire comment, and think.
> * Many mental health conditions, on the other hand, have unbelievably high placebo response rates over the duration of a short trial*

Probably how faith healing works.
The e/acc guy that drunkenly posts about how he wants his political enemies to die slow has decided that he’s needed in national politics? Color me astounded!

https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/garry-tan-death-wish-sf-sup...

https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-garry-tan-x-threat...
> Myers-Briggs is pseudoscience.

The inventors' theories were unscientific. But MBTI traits correlate moderately to strongly with Big 5 traits. And reliability is comparable to Big 5 when the traits are treated as scales like nearly all MBTI tests. Claims reliability is low come from treating the traits as dichotomies and any variation as failure. The same methodology would make Big 5 look unreliable.

But I agree interviewing skill is learned.
> Cosmic coincidence that time flows in the direction our brains utilize entropy to encode and retrieve information

Memory flows in the same direction as entropic growth. If time actually moved backwards according to an "outside observer" then they would see us remembering the future and holding the past to be unknowable.
Verizon users report blurry photos in Android messaging apps
I am glad this is mentioned since it is so helpful for screen reader use. It is very handy when using a screen reader to instantly jump to the body of the text with the most semantically relevant info. (So being able to skip certain headers, unnecessary info, navigation bars, etc.) Yes, you can also do this simply by jumping between landmarks but having the ability to instantly jump to the main content reduces friction for non-visual use or helps less-tech literate users who just want to get the main content read.

I think this survey is useful for looking at other preferences of screen reader users (even if it is just one survey)
https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/
so meaning+sound = well coded language system
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I am personally hoping we find a leader who values:

- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

- Working software over documenting everything

- Collaborating day-to-day with product/curriculum over building quarterly spreadsheets with them

- Responding to change over following a plan
meaning + sound = a well coded language system
Intel Unveils Lunar Lake Architecture
I was sad and directionless (sometimes angry) for a few years.

Then one day something sort of "clicked" and a new direction I wanted to go sort of crystalized, I pursued it and never looked back.

It helps that I can still pursue music as a hobby and don't feel the relentless pressure to be good -- so these days I actually get to enjoy many aspects of my dream when I feel like it and it stays fun.
Summary:

The paper presents a theoretical model for understanding the concept of time in quantum mechanics. It builds upon the Page and Wootters (PaW) mechanism, a proposal that suggests time can be treated as a quantum observable.

The Problem of Time in Quantum Mechanics

In the standard formulation of quantum mechanics, time is not treated as an observable of a system, but rather as an external parameter. This means that time is not represented by an operator in the theory, unlike other physical quantities like position or momentum. This has been a long-standing issue in quantum mechanics, often referred to as the "problem of time."

The Page and Wootters (PaW) Mechanism

The PaW mechanism offers a potential solution to this problem. It proposes that time can be defined operationally by using a quantum system as a clock. The idea is that the state of the clock system is entangled with the state of the system whose evolution we want to track. By measuring the state of the clock, we can infer the time for the evolving system.

The Model

The paper presents a specific implementation of the PaW mechanism. It considers two quantum systems:

The Evolving System (Γ): This is a harmonic oscillator, a system that exhibits simple oscillatory motion.
The Clock (C): This is a magnetic system, like a spin in a magnetic field.
The two systems are assumed to be non-interacting but entangled. This means that their states are correlated in a way that cannot be described classically. The entanglement is crucial for the PaW mechanism to work.

Quantum to Classical Transition

The paper explores how the quantum description of time transitions into a classical-like behavior under certain conditions. This is done by considering the case where the clock system becomes macroscopic, meaning it behaves more like a classical object. In this limit, the quantum description of time gives way to the familiar classical notion of time as a continuous parameter.

Key Findings

The paper's key findings include:

Operational Definition of Time: The model provides an explicit way to define time operationally using a quantum clock.
Quantum to Classical Transition: The model demonstrates how the quantum description of time can transition into a classical-like behavior as the clock system becomes macroscopic.
Energy Scale of the Clock: The model highlights the importance of the energy scale of the clock in its ability to accurately describe the dynamics of the evolving system.
Implications

This work has potential implications for our understanding of time in quantum mechanics and its connection to classical physics. It could also be relevant for areas like quantum gravity, where the nature of time is a central question.
Looks like grokking could give better reasoning and generalization to LLMs, but I'm not sure how practical it would be to overfit a larger LLM

See:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15071
How much you want to bet one or both of these folks saw patio11's Seeing Like a Bank here on Hacker News a few months ago, read it, then read Seeing Like a State, and then wrote this?

Because I did the same thing (my version for my problem still in draft)

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38180477

Also, Seeing Like a State seems to be something of an cult classic on this forum: https://www.google.com/search?q=seeing+like+a+state+site%3Ay...
I recommend reading "Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell" by Simon Marlow in which he explains that back in 1997 he decided to "build concurrency right into the core of the system rather than making it an optional
extra or an add-on library".
Is there a way to have these shipped to Canada?
I don't think it will. They can just make it generate more Corporate Memphis-y images so you will feel comfortable citizen.
> forgetting a library function name means you're completely stuck

Just let them use Google to find documentation, as they would in a real job setting.
> One doesn't need elaborate phase 3 RCTs to figure out if there's a good shot that a treatment is working....The existing system raises costs and causes people to die while waiting a decade or more for exciting treatments

The FDA often approves cancer drugs without a phase 3 randomized trial. In fact, most new cancer drugs are approved without a phase 3 trial.

Just taking a random cancer drug from this list: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/novel-drug-approvals-fda/novel-dru...

"The efficacy of IMDELLTRA was evaluated in Study DeLLphi-301 [NCT05060016], an
open-label, multicenter, multi-cohort clinical trial....A total of 99 patients received IMDELLTRA..."

This is a new small cell lung cancer drug approved via a phase 2 study that didn't have a control arm and wasn't blinded. This is pretty typical.

> one can see it in tumor response and comparison to known KMCs.

Anything measured by a human can be biased by knowledge that a patient received a treatment, including tumor response (often blobs on a screen from a FDG PET/CT scan.)

RCTs are the gold standard. We don't need to start chipping away at the rigorous standards we have in place to accurately measure the value that a medicine offers.

What we can do - and are doing right now - is do a risk-benefit analysis and allow drugs to be approved with a weaker set of data so that patients with a life-threatening illness can get access earlier.
exactly.. for remote workers this is even more important..

As a remote worker myself in the past i would often go weeks without nothing but my immediate family to socialize with..

It would even be a point of a little stress between me and my wife.. she is a teacher so her days a filled with social interactions, on weekends she would often want to stay home to recharge while i would want to go out an see other people..

now i have added a few activities that i do outside work during the week to allow some social interactions and it has done wonders not only for my mental health but has somewhat balanced the social batteries between me and the wife..
Good luck trying to get it in the Appalachians or like minded states. You’ll have to use some appeal other than science to get any traction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality
Anecdotally, I was in a fraternity many years ago and we were warned that forcing new recruits to perform tasks that aren’t the responsibilities of being a full-member could be viewed as “subtle” hazing.

Not that I necessarily agree but I could see how someone might argue that a coding interview that doesn’t test the actual duties of the position might also be “subtle” hazing.
The telescope photo: https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2024/glimpses-of-a-vol...

Stitched spacecraft photo: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/high-resolution-global-vie...

This seems awesome but I would say 'rival those' is a bit of a stretch
PCI Code Exposure Reveal US Developer Names in Code Involving Databreach
Async is a bless. So many language that claim to be "great at concurrency" don't even provide 10% of the async API.
I hope that long term the browser gets first class Windows support (currently it's via linux running under WSL), just because broad reach is best for longevity/sustainable relevance.

If you build for a particular shape/character of OS (linux/BSD as it currently stands) then a lot of the abstraction that would be needed for a truly "cross-platform" app doesn't happen.
Wow, that is a really generic middle-market PE pitch.

Glancing at Pitchbook, their Fund I (2006) had a 7.4% IRR (low-mid quartile) with a 1.46 TVPI and, somehow, 0.15 RVPI; their Fund II (2012) 3.3% (bottom) with 1.2 TVPI; and their Fund III (2019) clocks in at 19.6%, also low-mid quartile performance for that vintage. Looks like a lot of Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky and Maryland pension money, with some coming from a Texan teachers' pension, 3M's pension.
> You shouldn't build software based on what you're a fan of.

Why not? For a solo/passion/hobby product like this, I'd argue you 100% absolutely should build it based on what you're a fan of. My experience is people like Dave who approach things with opinionated laser focus and solve a personal/niche need tend to build things with much higher quality and better experience because they essentially build it for themselves. They are the customer.

> Very silly to limit the customer base so much to perfect something very tangential to the experience.

This presupposes the goal here is to reach the broadest customer base possible, like this camera+software is supposed to be a rocket ship. What if it's not? What if the goal is to build a high quality, highly-polished product? Focusing on a single OS (one that the maker is obviously a fan of) makes a ton of sense.

The style of the website and the focus of the product remind me a lot of the software company Panic (https://panic.com). They make extremely high quality software, with excellent design & experience, and a very narrow focus (unapologetically Apple-only). They don't make any concessions or sacrifice user experience to appease users of other operating systems. I respect them a whole lot more for that.
We started writing this essay about 3 years ago (and first read Seeing Like a State about 15 years ago -- it's a book that should be read and re-read many times). It takes time to write something this long, and if I could have I would have kept editing it for another year.
That's simply misinformation. The US government funds some of the basic research that produces candidate molecules. But the vast majority of the cost in drug development comes in phase 3 human clinical trials. Almost all of that is paid for by pharmaceutical companies, and many trials fail.
It seems you are under the impression that the venture capital firm cofounder by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz was created by a single individual.

If you can’t get basic facts correct no one is going to take your other claims seriously. A16Z has a diverse portfolio of investments and are as famous as they are because of how successful their companies have been.
What? Andreessen Horowitz isn’t a person.
> And then the RPi foundation knifed everbody in the shortage by shunting all the RPis to commercial companies like FormLabs.

The Foundation did no such thing because it doesn’t manufacture the boards and it’s not their decision.

The Trading company manufactures the boards, and it chose not to destroy its commercial contracts (all of which experienced limited stock too, particularly of CM4s, even though they were prioritising CM4s), which kept the lights on. They were already selling dramatically more units into commercial channels (Citrix for example) than to hobbyists.

The two entities also introduced the Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico W in the pandemic era, which were wildly popular and kept their educational goals on track, as well as giving suppliers like Pimoroni and Adafruit something to design absolutely amazing products around, with a microcontroller that wasn’t supply-constrained. IMO they more than made the case that most people don’t need a whole linux box to run a physical computing project.

I don’t get the whining. Do the little Intel boxes work for you? If so, use them and leave Raspberry Pi in the dust; there’s more than one way to add GPIO, SPI, I2C and PIO to your projects.

(Side note: the Beagleboard is a Texas Instruments product, is it not? I am not convinced its origins are all that different to the Pi, in that regard. If TI couldn’t compete on price and marketing, that is on TI, surely)
as much as I enjoy Patrick's writing, i was assuming it was solely a reference to Seeing Like a State. and yes it's a cult classic among the bay area rat/libertarian-esque folks, had never heard of it before coming here
I haven’t used Windows in over a decade and hate it but if you think Windows is not widely accepted for desktop users on planet Earth while Linux is, you live in an alternate reality.
> Which is what every language with an alphabetic writing does, and it works just fine. It is not "another layer of cognitive load",

Disagree. Once you get accustomed to reading kanji, and did not learn to visually parse (except very briefly as a young grade school child) nearly all of the words that you see regularly as logograms first, and groups of sounds second, the experience would be akin to reading English while afflicted with a strangely selective amnesia hole for entire words. Such that reading a word like 'shoe' would not instantly evoke an association with a piece of footwear but would have to be (admittedly very rapidly) sounded out letter for letter each time, instead of scanning the entire unit as a whole.

That's what reading a word normally represented by a familiar kanji character but "expanded" into hiragana feels like, and slightly more pronounced if it's, for some hipster reason, written in katakana.
I love these radial menus in games, specifically the non-hierarchical type best represented in the article via the “Grand Theft Auto V (2013)” example.

They are extremely common these days and I think for good reason, if you utilize multiple modifier keys for different wheels then you can provide a ton of options with two key combos (modifier + action) or one key + directional and they are removed from the UI when you don't need them.

I vastly prefer them over icons with hotkeys or other solutions.
Alternatively, put your main content above the fold and get rid of that uselessly large hero in the header which necessitates adding skip links.
Musk accused of selling $7.5B stock before releasing disappointing sales data
They exist purely to handle control pads imho and the article doesn't mention that. That's when they first started appearing, Secret of Mana, noted in the article was a SNES game.

They do not exist to benefit mouse+kb users. Mouse+kb users are absolutely better off imho with an always on and hotkeyed action bar down the bottom/side. If you don't know the hotkey you can still flick the mouse over and back faster than activating a radial menu.

When you see a radial menu in a PC game you can bet it's because the game had consoles in mind first and foremost.
My wooden boards always get black for some reason.
bear in mind that if you work fully remote you do not have coffee breaks or lunch time chit chat...

in those cases it is valuable to have a schedule 1:1 even if it is mostly chit chat..
"Assembled with the help of artists and experts..."

ALSO: Someone else creating a Top 100 list is hardly them being the arbiter of your taste. I'm pretty sure you can still stream whatever albums you like.
"We're sorry"

Timeless
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This is about the Segway, right?

I mean, small LiPo vehicles did take over the world, it’s just that they’re flying cameras instead. They even have some that can carry humans, so the jury’s still out on this one being false I think.
That isn't possible in any scalable way in any toolkit. There's a good reason all the major commercial operating systems basically only support light/dark mode and maybe a couple other theme variants/options and that's it. I think you are underestimating just how complex the style is for a non-trivial framework/toolkit/application and how it's full of interdependencies and platform quirks.
The best numbers I'm seeing for calcium and magnesium indicate that it's only about 10% daily recommended dose in 2L of tap water. I'm pretty confident I'm eating enough veggies to make up for that loss. Also I'm a salt fiend so I get plenty of that from my food.

I find the water from my still tastes actually really good. It's silky smooth, nothing like distilled water that's been sitting in a gross plastic jug for weeks.

So I'm not at all concerned there is any risk at all.