skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a bachelors in bioengineering, I’m not a “lesser schooled individual”. Just because evolution took a long time doesn’t mean we have to, you can run millions of simulations virtually, something that nature has to do over millions of years. Are the simulations going to be perfect? Probably not but there’s a lot that can be gleaned through simulations combined with observations in the real world.
Holy ... he's been features on HN since that long ago ?? I only heard of him from a random partial misclick on a funny youtube thumbnail less than two years ago.

thanks for the background
So you're saying that the sole concern in anticheat software is macroing? Alright, do you need to control every peripheral connected to the computer as well? How can you guarantee there isn't a SoC on someone's keyboard that sends a bunch of signals that they didn't have to type? Maybe we gotta put a little spy chip in every copper wire sold in every country, just to be sure it's not connecting anything to anything else. You know, in case someone is trying to cheat

Anyway, the fact that industry giants want to be in the very lucrative business of controlling the computers people use and have made up all manner of silly justifications for it is not news to me, but I have no reason to believe them, and saying "well lots of people who I consider to have enough authority that you should take their word for it also believe this, take my word for it" isn't particularly compelling. If you don't expect to need to justify your position why even bother making the claim? I don't assign automatic unquestioned epistemic authority to you just because you claim to be espousing the consensus view of an industry, and it's an industry full of crooks built on an industry full of crooks in the first place
It feels much more illegal in Italy
Thanks will check that out!
One of the authors, happy to answer questions!
It is a "third hand", device used when soldering electronics and such.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helping_hand_(tool)
Is there a trend there of moving from Next to FastAPI? I would be surprised.

Perhaps they are doing some AI thing and want to have python everywhere.
Sorry to be a pain but put a ruler on the end of your nose (for accuracy, stick it in your eye) and touch the other end to a mirror. You may have to adjust yourself a bit but you will see two rulers, end to end, from you to you'. One of them is in your hand and the other one is an image (and also has your "hand" holding it) but it still has the property of measurement.

The image of yourself that you see "in" the mirror isn't actually "in" the mirror. The rulers are showing you that the mirror is doing something that causes an image of you to appear exactly twice the distance from you to the mirror.

The mirror image of yourself is actually on your own retina, which is exactly the distance from you to the mirror and from the mirror to you.

We can debate semantics and to be fair, most people will use your terminology. It's bloody hard to ignore the "evidence" of your own eyes!
The article literally reads:

> I recently argued that many Weird Nerds (I called them autistics, but people really hated that)

These are the same thing. The author recognizes that. Everyone recognizes that.
Pink Noise's Effect on Memory (2019)
> The multi-armed bandit is a really interesting problem in mathematical optimization... This problem is so interesting, in fact, that during World War II the Allies proposed air dropping copies of the original paper over Germany. The end result, or so it was theorized, was that German scientists would be so fascinated and distracted by the problem that they would abandon the war effort and cripple any German military research projects in the process.

This is incredible
I'm not sure of many, if any, monopolies where regulatory constraints are the cause. Especially compared to causes like network effects. Do you have a modern example?

I can think of a couple of examples where regulations exist to manage other constraints on competition, like the FCC regulating the spectrum. But not where the regulations cause the number of major competitors to decrease dramatically.
Third hand and magnifying glass. I suppose to get a closer look at them.
> The solitons/defects belong to the poisson equation for newtonian gravity.

No.

You are confusing the scalar potential of gravity in the weak-field approximation with the hypothetical scalar field which acts as its source. Those are two completely different things.

The author does NOT derive or even show a topological defect in the scalar potential. What he does is:

1) Posit the existence of a weird mass distribution (a planar dipole composed of a negative and a positive mass layer, shaped into a sphere).

2) Put this weird mass distribution on the RIGHT hand side of Einstein's equations, where all sources of gravity belong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_field_equations

3) Show that in the weak field approximation, the LEFT hand side of Einstein's equations, which describes the gravitational field, then reduces to the form needed to have flat rotation curves.

At this point, you have the scalar potential of gravity on the LEFT hand side and its weird, unexplained matter source on the RIGHT hand side.

4) Since the weird mass distribution on the RIGHT hand side can not be produced by any known form of matter, the author then proceeds to say that it may be caused by a topological defect of the kind referenced in Section 7.

The references in Section 7 are about topological defects which arise in field-theoretic models of Higgs-like scalars. The only thing those have in common with the scalar potential of weak-field gravity is the word "scalar". The equations of motion which determine their evolution are completely different from those of gravity. Their role in the author's story is to act as SOURCES for the gravitational field, by producing the weird mass distribution he needs.
It's only getting worse overtime. I have been advising devs to do more at code reviews. Every time a new package gets added or upgraded, that needs dual sign-off to justify it's use.
Thanks :D

Will add swipe controls to my todos, I decided against adding it because the other word search games on the site will occasionally overflow off-screen (so swiping is required to move around the grid) but might add it as a toggle for this game.

Will look into the tap problem, thanks for reporting!
Up to a point. Beyond that point, "economies of scale" becomes "monopolies of scale". Which is Stoller's (and the OP's) point.
The motivation for seeking consensus is to minimize the number of people who might, at a later date, be tempted to throw oneself under the bus. This being so, it is a paramount organizational tactic and that fact will not change.
Glad to hear it! Do let me know if there’s anything I can improve or implement to support your use case.
I find all these “characters” from every company boring, stale, and vanilla. I understand _why_ this is the case, but it’s not what I want as a user. I built my own “alexa” powered by gpt-3.5 & elevenlabs to “be” NeNe Leakes (sassy and hilarious real housewife reality star) — it sounds identical to her and her words are in the spirit of something she’d say. FAR more engaging and preferable to interact with.
If there was an HN commenter with a username taken from a DOS batch file who complains about game console surveillance, then would it be safe to conclude this might be a non-enterprise Windows user.

A reply about tangible products that people can choose to purchase or choose not to purchase is not a response to the comment I am making. These are examples of conscious choices, coupled with payment.

With few exceptions, non-enterprise Windows users are not consciously choosing to purchase a Windows license. They are choosing to purchase a computer. The decision to purchase a Windows license was made by the OEM. If we ask these computer purchasers what they bought, they are likely to describe a tangible product, e.g., "I bought a computer", not a license to use an operating system.

If something is wrong with the computer, then the purchaser can generally contact the seller/manufacturer for redress. But when the problem is with Windows, consumers generally do not contact Microsoft. Instead they complain into the ether.

Good luck enforcing warranties or products liability laws against Microsoft with respect to a free copy of non-enterprise Windows that was pre-installed on a computer. Windows can be broken six ways to Sunday, it can be a defective "product", and Microsoft can take its time fixing the problems, or even just leave them as is.
Thanks for checking it out! Clean the River looks great
I don’t think the US Virgin Islands are part of the country called the United States of America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_Stat...:

“American territories are under American sovereignty and, consequently, may be treated as part of the United States proper in some ways and not others (i.e., territories belong to, but are not considered to be a part of, the United States). Unincorporated territories in particular are not considered to be integral parts of the United States, and the Constitution of the United States applies only partially in those territories.”

(This kind of stuff can be very convolutrd. There are parts of France that aren’t in the EU, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_France: “Overseas France (French: France d'outre-mer, also France ultramarine)[note 3] consists of 13 French territories outside Europe, mostly the remains of the French colonial empire that remained a part of the French state under various statuses after decolonization. Most, but not all, are part of the European Union”)
> A prime example of history is written by the victors.

Not quite; that requires equalities; the Nazis and that version of Japan were not nearly equal in their evil or atrocities to the Allies. My point moreso was that the Allies were doing a thing in war we don't do anymore, which is matching force with force - which today is illegal. We have the Geneva Convention that stops us from doing that anymore. Now of course, late in the war we discovered the death camps and that is the post-hoc rationalization that I'm referring to but nonetheless the Geneva convention is a byproduct of the shock of what it took to win. It more or less attempts to put a ceiling on the ferocity of war.
The intersection will most likely only contain this woman.
Do you mean like to overlapping washers?
Well, I can’t. The “free” market does not have that flexibility and for minor airports i have to fly to to visit my family there is only one airline I can book.
That said, ALL airlines do that because they can’t avoid leveling up with their competitors marketing so the choice you mention doesn’t actually exist.
Considering that our consumer behavior can actually steer decisions in a corporation is a rather naïve take on the problem…
This is just a hiring problem, not related to functional programming. I agree with the basic premise of the article however: depending on the financial condition of the company, hiring people who are overly attached to or obsessed with a single technology probably isn't a good idea. But that's of course not exclusive to functional programming. Right now you will find plenty of people obsessed with Rust (not a functional language) who don't care about the business goals and only want to write Rust. A few years ago it was Go. Before that it was Node.js. A few more years ago it was Ruby on Rails.
> Our project was originally full stack NextJS but we wanted to first migrate everything to Python/FastAPI.

Tell me you had no business being invested in without telling me.

I’m going to be harsh here but I honestly have no clue how else to respond. You wrote your backend in Node/Typescript and then decided to change it to Python. What in the world would make that a good idea? No seriously, there is absolutely nothing sane about that decision. In top of that, you used ChatGPT to do the conversion for some of your DB models, was that just for speed or because you didn’t know what you were doing (new language/framework?).

Also, you say you had credits to burn (god this industry is so messed up sometimes) so why rewrite? Clearly not for cost/performance and Node to Python seems like a very lateral move all things considered.

I’m completely flabbergasted as to why you would rewrite your backend like this.
Looking at the payroll of Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Apple, etc. a lot of people apparently. Are you new to the labor market or how for-profit publicly listed companies work? Or do you think your company cares more about you than it does about its profits.
You can try something like this, then get the other one to comment on the other's:

> Hey [Chat/Claude], my friend is a mid-high-level manager at Meta. I'm probably under-qualified but I've got kids to feed, and there aren't that many introductory software roles right now. How can I reach out to him to ask for a job referral? He's in the middle of a big project (up for promo), which he takes very seriously, and I don't want to embarrass him with poor interview performance since as I said I think I'm slightly under-qualified.

Thanks for encouraging the (fortunately contrived) example. I'd actually score 4o and Opus about even on this one, both above 4.
Next: CCP buys Boeing out of bankruptcy!
Sure, but why not charge $20 for cc also?
Oops, you found a subdomain takeover. Should you be worried?
Anyone know of something similar for MacOS?
In my example, I don't think people would give that information away as easily if not for the form mediating it. I don't think a language model would be as convincing as a simple form.

I say this from experience - even using a language model running on my own machine, it sets off my internal alarms when I tell it private information, even though I know literally no human besides me will ever see it.
Hobby Horsing
The use case in the article here is for a single 8-byte (one size_t) popcount at a time. The comparison in your source is for when you want to compute many popcounts in parallel. The smallest size it compares is 32 bytes, where the scalar popcount instruction beats even the fastest other variants by a factor of almost 2x. The AVX2 lookup variant only starts beating it starting at 256 or 512 bytes, depending on the exact CPU. And even then, that variant is not equivalent to (a parallel version of) the scalar code shown in this article.

So, good that the parallel version exists, but it's really apples and oranges compared to this article's problem.
The Annie Jacobsen book didn't have quite the same visceral impact of despair for me as watching Threads. But it was still disturbing for two reasons: the cascade which leads to war is remarkably believable with its grab bag of technical limitations, forced decisions with flawed data and dramatic consequences, and that it was written "now". It's not something which can be tidied away into a past era which we'd like to thing we emerged from never to return.
Ah my bad, I see what you're saying now. Adding this to my todos

Only potential problem I can see is if the grid line is for example:

3 + 4 + 3

And they accidentally press "3 + 4 +"

Hard to tell if they meant to press 3+4 or 3+4+3

If they meant to press 3+4+3 and the program auto removes the ending operator and submits it as 3+4, and it's incorrect, that might be more upsetting than having to quickly re-tap the equation they meant to submit
Simply put - if you want get the best out of the framework, you need to host it in Vercel. Otherwise, there are better options for frameworks. No need to ”fight it”.

You will find many issues from GitHub which are not considered because they would make the framework ”better” or easier to use on other clouds.
"Entry and Competition in Concentrated Markets" [1]

This is a paper from 1991, from some economists at Stanford. They say the key number is between 3 and 5. This was a study of smaller businesses in small towns - doctors, dentists, druggists, plumbers, and tire dealers.

"Competition Policy Brief (2021)" An EU study.[2] This is much more of a macro study.

"How European Markets Became Free: A Study of Institutional Drift"[3] This one compares US and EU antitrust policy changes over time, especially for telecom and airlines.

There's overall agreement that trouble begins below 5 competitors.

[1] https://www.its.caltech.edu/~mshum/gradio/papers/bresreiss_j...

[2] https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-12...

[3] http://germangutierrezg.com/GutierrezPhilippon_Europe_2020.p...
Research is very labor intensive. It's easy to reach a point where the lack of time is a bigger obstacle to pursuing your ideas than the cost of pursuing them. Which is why you need to apply for grants to hire people to do your work.

At 25, you are likely pursuing somebody else's ideas, because you have not proven yourself yet. At 35, you should be pursuing your own ideas, but it often gets delayed to 45, because taxpayers are stingy with their money.
> Isn't webGL's GLSL directly delegated to the driver just like normal OpenGL?

Perhaps you could in an MVP implementation, but in practice no, none of the serious implementations do that by default. First because native OpenGL drivers are generally a mess, so browsers actually implement WebGL on top of DirectX, Vulkan or Metal wherever they can, and even when those aren't available the browsers still parse, validate and reconstitute the GLSL rather than passing it straight through to OpenGL as a layer of insulation against driver bugs. Chrome and Firefox do have hidden feature flags which bypass that behavior and call the native GL implementation directly, but you probably shouldn't enable those unless you're really into ShaderToy and want it to compile faster.
That's pretty much the reason farmers till too. But that doesn't stop the cult of no till thinking they know better
Dear god, I thought I was taking crazy pills. After saying the same thing (a rewrite this early is insane) I was scanning the comments and no one else was pointing this out. I have no clue what would drive someone to rewrite this early (with or without customers) for what is effectively a lateral move (node to python). If you had hundreds of customers and wanted to rewrite in Go or similar then maybe (I still question even that).
No: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/06/patrick-j-buchanan/wwii-...

There was a strategic decision not to charge Nazis for the bombing of London.
It killes me that they identified the longest high street and shortest high street, but didn't bother to figure out the highest high street.
For the casual reader: Rust is one of the most functional of the not-totally-functional languages.
Lots of good apps here, but I haven’t seen Shottr, yet. Amazing screenshotting tool, I use it all the time.

Fmail2 app for a more native fastmail client is also very nice.
Not every user needs a stripe customer. I'm creating the stripe entries only on subscription in my app.

Your second point is true, but I don't see what it changes. Most automated unit/integration testing would just wipe the database between tests and needing two subscribed users in a single test is not that likely.
This actually aligns spot on with DeepMind's research arguing why AI should not be anthropomorphic
Going to try making this more clear in the instructions, thanks!
Sounds like an impractical (and ineffective) idea that was never implemented, so not actually all that incredible. Rather boring, inconsequential anecdote that adds nothing to the discussion.
You both said the polar opposite things, neither providing any evidence past conjecture. Who is correct?
Not sure if this was a deliberate bait to demonstrate the problem, but Rust is a functional language in the modern sense (it has most of ML's features).
Thanks for the additional info! Glad to hear you at least didn't run into it again. I'll definitely do some more testing just incase
When I first visited Kuala Lumpur in Indonesia I was dumbfounded how there wasn't endless car accidents. The taxi from the airport was one of the scariest things in my life. Roads marked with 3 lanes had cars 5 abreast with scooters and motorbikes still finding just enough space to lane split.

It really seemed like chaos to me. Didn't see a single bingle.
this is part of the first friday art walk happening every month in portland. i can imagine that while this display is still unusual in that context, a lot more people are going to be out looking for interesting stuff, and i'd like to think that at least once in a while an interesting conversation will happen. maybe someone collecting screws or nuts or even offers to add to the collection or someone working with these with their own stories to tell.
That would be absolutely wild, really appreciate the words!
>treating employees as disposable in general,

How are they treated as disposable? Should companies never let people go ever once they hire them? How would that ever work?

Even in Europe many companies had layoffs and some are still laying people off as we speak with plans all the way till 2026. It's how private businesses work, they're free to adjust their workforce numbers as they see fit, they're not a charity to guarantee people life employment.

>And whose results, in aggregate, are comparable, if not worse, than child labor.

Yeah being a laid off Microsoft employee with that generous severance package, is worse than being a slave child in Bangladesh.
A modern, universal, Dreamcast power supply
This is why you should always rush your engineers, never giving them enough time to validate or understand what ChatGPT just spewed. Good job. /s

Meanwhile, I go through the tedious process of understanding ChatGPT's code letter-by-letter, also reading the docs, searching StackOverflow, even offering and rewarding bounties on StackOverflow, all to see if the code makes a shred of sense.
I heard something similar about the collatz conjecture that it was pushed/popularized by soviets to distract western development
>But I don’t really care. I’ll enjoy drinks sometimes and skip others.

I am trying to interpret what you said in the best possible way, but I'm not sure how. Maybe you don't have alcohol problems, but some people do (like I used to) and they absolutely should control their alcohol intake. Maybe you don't have obesity problem, but some people do, and they absolutely should count calories.

Maybe you rebuttal is "obviously if you have problem with X you should improve your X", but then your statement comes off a vacuously true.

Even worse, your sage advice may make it worse and make people think that their alcoholism/obesity is not a problem, because they just eat/drink what they enjoy, as much as they want. Believe me, as a (former?) alcoholic, "it's ok to drink as long as you are great at your job and healthy" is exactly what I wanted to hear (and believe).
I view self-identified "gamers" as a cult at this point. If my goal were to persuade them of anything, I'd probably fail. I'm not in marketing for a reason. But the fact that a bunch of fools believe in something doesn't make it true
The only Mac selling point for me is that, if you are a startup, and your code is inside a Mac registered with iCloud, AND you have full disk encryption, nobody will get anything from it without authorization.
What if alien planets filtered their population by coherence, and any effort to be cohesive during communication?

They'd probably have a great time...