skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything is a little like this. You don’t have choice really. Couple cereal companies thats it. Couple car companies. Couple CPU companies. A couple political parties. Billions of people on earth and only a couple of choices on the marketplace for many goods and services. Cartels are both strong and invisible.
Yes hallucinating higher powers making contact with plans for the subject to make the world better is… a consistent but rarely encountered feature of the human brain. Go read the descriptions of angels in the Bible and it reads just like somebody tripping.

One of the reasons hallucinogens are dangerous is that there’s a risk that users will believe in their hallucinations and try to start cults.

Timothy Leary was one of these drug-induced zealots and he among others were the reasons LSD et al got banned in the first place. They wanted to overthrow society and implement a quasi-religion based on the drugs.
I don't know why there's such a big controversy around this. It sounds like any other feature that stores data on your device. How do you think your iPhone shows you screen time stats? It tracks every click every tap and stores it to disk.
If you don't like a feature you can turn it off. Personally it sounds interesting and I want to try it out to see if it helps me remember stuff.
Preprint here[1].

The headline seems a bit click-baity, as it refers to the Page-Wooters mechanism which was introduced 30 years ago, and as mentioned in the paper has been extensively studied.

A brief and accessible overview can be found here[2].

However this paper seeks to provide a more concrete and less constrained implementation of the Page-Wooters mechanism in order to connect it to our classical world better that previous attempts.

So while probably not a breakthrough paper, a solid step in an interesting direction.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13386

[2]: https://quantum-journal.org/views/qv-2019-07-21-16/
Yes, "bulk" was the fourth word of my comment.
Bitcoin miners sink millions into AI businesses, seeking billions in return
When the OP gives any kind of examples of interviews gone bad, maybe we can discuss something meaningful. But the moment someone says they object to programming challenges that aren't "practical", that raises huge red flags. Too too too many people call simple programming demonstrations "irrelevant" and "impractical" and "not realistic" and "leetcode" and then proceed to show that their brains are mush, that they lack the talent for understanding code and what it's doing and why it was written and how to write it themselves. It's a meme at this point for people who call themselves software engineers to complain about being asked to write code because they're above it while simultaneously being terrible at it.

> A far better approach is to talk through the design of a system - conceptual or previously worked on and ask questions about it.

Hard disagree. It's far too easy for people to talk about concepts without having a brain that understands code well. That's the difference between knowledge and talent. A talking approach may find knowledge. I'm looking for talent.
Cosmic coincidence that time flows in the direction our brains utilize entropy to encode and retrieve information
Changing tokens in a program is not differentiable. For me, the key idea is that you can train a neural model to suggest edits to programs by randomly mutating nodes. And when you run this neural model, you get to make edits that are syntactically correct (i.e., a number will only replace a number etc.) according to a context-free grammar.
Microsoft announces plans to invest $3.2B in Swedish AI
> Rubio’s was acquired by the private equity firm Mill Road Capital in 2010 for $91 million and taken private. In the fall of the first year of the pandemic in 2020, the company filed for bankruptcy protection and underwent a complete restructuring. Rubio’s attributed the problems to higher costs then as well, citing minimum wage increases specifically as a factor.

Private equity strikes again.
Toyota apologizes for cheating on vehicle testing
> If they flatten the income distribution then life will be better for the non-tech workers who already live here.

This, right here, is the crux of your incorrect worldview. No, a flatter income distribution is not inherently better. Which is better: 90% of people with $60,000 income and the top 10% with $600,000, or 100% of people with an income of $10,000? The latter is flatter, but even the poorest people were still much, much wealthier in the former than the latter.

> Suppose you lived in a place and a time with a highly-skewed income distribution with severe winners and severe losers and you're the loserest loser of them all. Suppose as luck would have it everyone else makes more money than you do. Evidently that would "just result in everyone being [better] off" even you, right? In that case, you should be thrilled with that arrangement. What do you say? Would you be thrilled to have the lowest income in your city?

Again: I care about my own material conditions. If a genie gave me the choice to double my income doubling (in real terms, as in the actual value of goods and services accessible to me doubles), while everyone else's income increases tenfold of course that's be a good thing. Why would I forego an improvement to my own conditions, just to keep everyone else's conditions from improving proportionally more? The fact that others benefit more doesn't change the fact that I'm left strictly better off. To do otherwise is the epitome of the crab mentality: It's better to harm everyone just to maintain your relative position.
It's a frustrating situation for employees (and their dependents) but the ability for self-funded employers to shop around and switch health plans is one of the only things that is preventing healthcare prices from rising even faster than they already are. Most of those "insurers" no longer really do insurance, they largely construct provider networks and administer claims on behalf of self-insured group buyers. Some payers drive harder bargains with providers and you can see significant price differences in the price transparency files.
But you can join and then quit. What does an “official” period get you that you don’t already have?
Firefox disables tab key navigation on macOS by default.

You can enable it via System Settings -> Keyboard -> 'Keyboard navigation' toggle

Then it works exactly the way the author described (which is also the default on Windows and Linux, I believe)
I'll just leave this here: https://research.swtch.com/zip
Say what now?

It's a gyrotron variation that requires tweaking to be useful in vertical and horizontal boring, currently supported with ~ $100 million raised from investors.

Ongoing development might well require that annually for ten years or so. It can likely kick along fine with that amount every four or five years.

This is easily within the envelop of currently ongoing development in both the energy and mineral resources exploration and aquisition domains.

When I worked tracking mineral resource development we looked at any and all mineral prospecting lease aquisitions and ownership changes globally, but for development we ruled out any intial prospectus for under $50 million as "too small to be of interest".

And that was just mineral exploration, O&G is where the big money plays.

Current drilling costs within Oil and Gas (and geothermal, a small but growing field) are huge, any work that can bring those costs down will be pursued and supported as long as some small glimmer of light shines ahead.

Eg: for a small example you could look to the R&D work being put in to reduce drill costs by 50% here:

https://www.power-eng.com/renewables/fervo-energy-claims-70-...

Fervo says it drilled its fastest Cape well in just 21 days, a 70% reduction in drilling time from Fervo’s first horizontal well drilled at Project Red in 2022.

Fervo says the increase in efficiency has resulted in cost reductions, with drilling costs across the first four horizontal wells at Cape falling from $9.4 million to $4.8 million per well.
> Consider this: From 1978 to 1985 (7 years), the federal funds rate was never below 8%, and from 1969 to 1991 (that's 22 years), it only dropped below 6% during the recoveries from recessions.

The difference then was that the government debt to GDP rate was much lower and relatively flat: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

Today public debt has ballooned enormously and it has a substantial effect on government interest payments: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA

That $1T and counting is pumped right back into the economy (M2 currently sits at $21T). CBO projects cumulative fiscal outlays of $20T over the next decade, and that's assuming no other recessions or wars. Not very sustainable at high rates.
>A commune is communism. The religious rationale for it is different than the Marxist rationale, but the result is the same.

A commune is a particular living arrangement. Communism can be applied to whole states, regardless of such a living arrangement.

On top of this, "communism" and "communist" has acquired specific meaning in 2024 and much of the 20th century, which is not the idea of communal living of early Christians, of hippies, or even that of Charles Fourrier.

Words are define by their use, not by their historical origins. This is just muddying the waters.

>That's the promise of communes.

Communes are neither necessary nor sufficient for this. You could have distributivism on a larger state that's not a commune. This wouldn't make the whole country "a big commune" without distorting the meaning of the term, and more importantly, how it's colloqually understood.

And of course you can also have communes with none of those elements, like people living together with high technology, a Star Trek like commune. Or a commune of people working their ass off and considering leisure a sin. Or a highly hierarchical commune. And several other types besides. Living together and sharing resources (the essentials of a commune) doesn't promise or guarantee the rest I've mentioned.
Yeah, this is true! These are more like expressions rather than programs. We were mostly following the language used by previous work, https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04604
Me: You think someone keeping track of their small child means they will somehow track their location when the child is 30 years old?

You: Oh, absolutely.

You: And my position is that yes, very many parents will do so

You said “a parent is stealing their 30 year old child's phone”, so consent is not required.

This is just a lie. I asked if that's what you were saying, which it seems to be since people switch their phones every few years.

I’m not “back peddling”, I’m conceding that the point is now moot and uninteresting.

I think you mean 'I realize what I'm saying is ridiculous and defensible'.

I’ve seen no evidence from you,

I certainly called this, the reversed burden of proof for your claims.

parents will lose the tracking anyway for technical reasons

Now it's 'technical reasons' and 'the point is uninteresting' instead of "parents that track their small children track them when they're 30 and very many parents will do it".

would continue to try to do so.

Now it's "try to do so". What does that mean? People turn into adults and get new phones. Now you're not saying they will, you're saying "they'll try".

This was ridiculous from the first reply, how many times are you going to shift these goal post, back peddle, lie and repeat yourself without evidence?
Virtual avatar generation models as world navigators
We introduce a novel video model simulating human movement in rock climbing environments using a virtual avatar. Our diffusion transformer predicts the sample instead of noise in each diffusion step and ingests entire videos to output complete motion sequences. By leveraging a large proprietary dataset, NAV-22M, and substantial computational resources, we showcase a proof of concept for a system to train general-purpose virtual avatars for complex tasks in robotics, sports, and healthcare.

Project Page: https://virtual-avatar-generation.github.io/

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01056
Companies adopting Nvidia platform for AI enabled robots
Works fine for me in FF 126.0.1 on desktop Linux.
Douglas Adams — 'Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.'

Adams was right all along!
Sure, if you never use unsafe, or anything that uses unsafe, transitively.
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2021/09/23/new-...

That's not a source. That's a cherry picked, politically motivated source about 400 billionaires? The average person getting a job at Tesla and competing for your apartment isn't one of them?

Want to try again?

> Except...that leaves the remaining 300 million with a per capita income of less than $1000 per year.

But that's not what's happening. What's happening is someone is getting a job paying a couple hundred thousand at Telsa. And as a result they pay more in taxes.

> "left unemployed" is not the only alternative.

It is in the example I gave. You stated that instead of "losing an apartment" you'd prefer that person never got a job at Tesla.

> Why did you stop beating your wife? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question

You refused to answer (you literally stated you won't answer), so I asked why. That's not a loaded question.
New York Set to Restrict Social-Media Algorithms for Teens
> in 2020, the company filed for bankruptcy protection and underwent a complete restructuring

Who owns it now? (EDIT: Looks like Mill Road still. The bankruptcy was to renegotiate a loan and trim leases [1].)

A Californian restaurant going bankrupt during Covid isn't a mark against anyone. Also, it looks like when it went public it was owned by a couple hedge funds, Farallon and Rocker, together with another PE firm, Rosewood. It doesn't seem like it's had operational ownership since its IPO.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-06-03/rubios-coa...
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle is a life changer. It’s more spiritual than scientific but I highly recommend it.
Thanks for mentioning this. Navigation now works as expected on Firefox, but Safari for some reason still doesn't do anything.

Now I am curious why Mac OS has defaults that seemingly break accessibility on some websites? This is the first time in recent memory that I've experienced a page not responding to tab keys at all. Your suggestion remedied the issue on Firefox, but not on Safari for some reason.
Can it though? What apps are people actually using?

Apple is very much not having an iPhone moment with Vision Pro: there is no explosion of creativity or a new market rush. And there may never be one.

Apple treated devs like trash for years and now they have a new platform nobody wants to build on. Oops.
They don’t expire
I read an essay long ago that suggested the Egyptians could have built gliders in the fashion of Otto Lilienthal out of papyrus. And that could have stimulated the idea of propulsion in them or in other subsequent societies.

EDIT: I wonder if a Rogallo wing could be made out of papyrus...I'm having a Thor Heyerdahl moment.
Here is Michael and Dalton talking couple of weeks ago about how new technologies create new businesses.

Basically starting with the technology and then finding problems.

The very opposite of what YC has been promoting all these years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxjPgGLVJSg
This is a good way of looking at it, thank you. I’ll probably put a few hundred dollars in it to test the waters!
> every access to a TLS variable involves a function call

I'm pretty sure I've taken a pointer ref to a threadlocal. How does that work?
I think it says bad things about the industry that so many people think you need to have seen them before to do them. Do you also memorize solutions to the advent problems before completing them?
Windows 3.0 brought "3d" styling to windows, actually - where available at least. Windows 2.0 had some simple shading or rather "complex borders" if you had colour display, but nowhere close to 3D shading of 3.0
https://email.faircode.eu/ is superior in all aspects. By far, the best android email client.
1:1 should be the moment for you to discuss with your boss what you should be doing to maximize the value you bring to the company.. those things often are not as black and white as they seen..

it is also the moment you share your career goals with your manager and for you two to discuss the goals you should achieve to be eligible for a promotion..

unfortunately more often then not promotions are the carrot that companies dangle in front of us to make us work harder with no intention on ever giving us the reward at the end..
Nice app!

The first three things I wanted were:

1. Monthly calendar view

2. Import from my Google calendar

3. Better formatting so it is easier to distinguish different days/times

- Grid-lines

- Alternating background colors

- Mark "Today" so it is more visible (both with text and styling)

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I personally don't care about these, but the HN community consistently demands these two features. They improve the UX and are probably worth implementing:

1. Ability to try app without creating account/logging in. I suggest anonymous "guest accounts" that can be upgraded to a full account after the user decides it's worth permanently saving the data they created.

2. Data export. So users can still access their data even if you shut down your app.

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Some other general wish-list items

- Markdown formatting (Github does this well)

- Add images via CTRL-V (Github also does this well)

- Text-based entry: If I type a date/time like "Jun 6 2pm," "Today," "6pm" the todo item is automatically created/moved to that date/time.

- I have noticed todo tasks and notes are very related. So it would be nice to be able to associate and search for notes (that aren't necessarily tasks).

- For example: when calling about an issue with a credit card I may add notes about the call with support (maybe they give me another phone number to call or other instructions) and add a follow-up task a few days later to confirm the issue was resolved
That's fair tbh, I agree there is an unmet need for something like this, so no arguments there. It is only fair that the users should have at least an equal say in keeping companies off of their search results. The search engines are making the choices for you because you're the product, not the customer.

The implementation details take time to get right. And getting this far in an afternoon as a non-developer is pretty respectable.

If you want to have the most reach / impact with something like this though, it will take consistent, sustained effort over a long period of time, and it will be a thankless job, at least for awhile.
Thanks, I'll get working on the git version of it.
Microsoft to lay off hundreds at Azure cloud unit
The one data structure that crops up again and again when looking at complex systems is the graph. Nodes on the graph represent the components and elements like state variables (e.g. population, resources, temperature, servers and clients, etc.) of the system, and edges between nodes represent interconnections, e.g. flows of matter, energy or information between nodes.

A good introduction to this way of looking at the world is "Thinking in Systems: A Primer" by Donella Meadows. Important concepts include analyzing systems to determine their relative robustness or fragility under stress, the nature of the feedback loops in the system (possibly some nodes are connected by partially directed edges, so flows in one direction are easy but not in the other), what kind of temporal delays matter the most (e.g. how long does it take between creating a change and seeing the result of that change), and so on.

Given the natural utility of graphs in modeling systems, it's really a bit strange that graph theory really only developed in the 20th century, with some minor exceptions like Euler and Kirchhoff. It's interesting to think about an alien civilization whose mathematics began with graphs and how it might have developed.
What makes you think they didn't know it existed?
The (Roman I presume) emperor in the ancient world would have bitten their arm off to get the industrial revolution. Famines were still a regular occurrence, and Rome heavily depended on the food supply from Egypt. Anything that could have increased crop yields (and agriculture was still thought as the most important industry and form of wealth) would have had massive political impact.
Plenty of candidates can't figure how to use a for-loop to iterate over input or even how to handle nested data (Trees).

If you're biggest worry about leetcode is does this language need a semi-colon at the end then I doubt you have trouble interviewing.

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Do you do much interviewing as an interviewer?
Good. DEI, at its very core, is a racist and shallow ideology
Richard Feynman summed that up well with “if it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong”: https://youtu.be/LIxvQMhttq4
And who he tracked down and paid a massive royalty from what I had read. Not because he had to: it was hardly a secret or patented recipe, but I had already heard he did right by her.
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State the different reasons.
The openai fund? I don't think you know what "own" or "controlling interest" mean.
And when you say that you include Italy and many other European countries that do the same. Correct?
Location: Portland, OR

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"The finest imperative programming language"
Happy to confirm current ownership with Mill Road Capital’s IR team in the morning. Their team is primarily Blackstone and KKR alum, which leads me to the copy paste PE thesis.

The pandemic BK was not a material concern in my thesis, the PE story was.

https://www.millroadcapital.com/
> RCTs are fine but the obsession with them is overwrought and counterproductive. My own drum to beat on this is regarding clinical trials for fatal diagnoses like cancer:

RCTs for mental health conditions are a completely different situation. The short-term placebo response rate for cancers is not high (obviously) though the influence of unblinded trial operators making subjective analyses can be a problem.

Many mental health conditions, on the other hand, have unbelievably high placebo response rates over the duration of a short trial. The magnitude of the placebo response is almost hard to believe in certain studies.

The placebo effect can be a problem for approving new drugs as some times the placebo group improved so much that there isn’t much room left for the active drug to improve beyond that. This is a problem of study design and rating systems that is difficult to solve.

Unfortunately, some study operators use this fact to their advantage by omitting placebo group. Without a placebo group, it’s not obvious that the drug is actually doing anything better than placebo, of course.
a friend of mine who grew up in argentina went for an interview at a university in brasil.

they reported that on the first day, portugese was just gibberish. on the second day they realized they could read a solid chunk of a portugese newspaper. on the third day they felt they were beginning to understand what people were saying to them.

obviously, YMMV (and does).
Surprised to see Stuart Russells name on this as I thought he was fully consumed by the doomsday cult. Although he's last author so he's probably only on it because he's the head of the lab
Most pages have so many clickable/focusable elements that tab navigation is next to useless.

There was a browser called xxxterm (later called xombrero) that did this pretty nicely. There was a hot key that showed a little overlay of a number on each link. Type that number and it clicks the link.

Sadly the project was discontinued. It was one of my favorite browsers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xombrero
Both healthcare and education are free in Russia. Healthcare needs improving but education is second to none. Globally.
> Did they edit their comment?

Yes.