skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those who can control your mind "meditate" continually. Indefinitely. They literally create compartmentalized spaces in their own minds, through which they can "holographically" observe and manipulate the minds of others (even multiple others) with greater perceptual detail than the subject's mind can even perceive.

As incomprehensible as that sounds, some can rummage through your memories without you even being aware that it is happening.
https://archive.ph/FzGtl
Wait wtf founders are taking liquidity in second rounds?!

Had I known this was possible I would have totally changed my strategy years ago.

I've founded 3 startups and always thought I could only take out whatever ramen salary I could defend to the most scrutinizing investors. I've given a heck of a lot more in employee bonuses than I've ever taken directly out of the investor pot, where was this "de-risk your own life" essay all those years ago!
I have just refactored a phone app to use SQLite from a previous in memory model and it is so much faster than I need. I could use a few more features, but already so amazing.
Class D is old hat. He claimed to have made them many times smaller or cheaper for the same power output, possibly by changing the material - don't remember exactly.
One under appreciated dynamic that has changed is that companies with limited revenue/PMF are raising more money at higher valuations. This mean that more early employees are being hired into less certain, less profitable situations, and the equity they are getting is a smaller percentage behind more liquidity preferences.

E.g. There are numerous AI startups I’ve spoken to in the past year with negative gross margins, 8 figure raises, and >100x ARR multiples. $1mln in paper equity in such a company is probably intrinsically worth <$100k.

Being an early employee at a startup right now is a really bad financial decision imo
I think occlusion was just per vertex.
IIRC, Unisys's MCP doesn't have directories, just very long file names with separators in them. It's up to the applications to present that as a hierarchical namespace.

Now that I mention it, it'd be interesting to play with Apple's DOS 3.3 (33 char file names) that way.
The entire system seems like a scam. Thankfully, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war have deflated startup valuations a bit. I believe another crisis is looming in the near future, and once it passes, we should be in a better place for the next 5-10 years.
> I think we learn fast because of stereo (3d) vision.

I think stereo vision is not that important if you can move around and get spatial clues that way also.
You could spend some working hours brushing up your knowledge about whatever tech stack companies nowadays ask for. You don’t need to become an expert in X, Y and Z, a bit of exposure and understanding of the fundamentals is enough to put it on your CV.

I have done this many times. For example, I didn’t know k8s, and I wanted to switch jobs: I spent around 1-2 months learning k8s at work and at home, I learnt the fundamentals and did some side project and then I put on my CV that I’ve used k8s in my current job (I didn’t).
I passed the job interview.
Thermoelectric Effect Seen in Liquids
It has taken over already. Sqlite is the most popular database for some time already.
The resiliency against crashes offered by it's SQLite file format is much needed. Because it crashes a lot.
...while he was getting loaned $200,000 a month for personal expenses by his billionaire buddies.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/27/the-crucial-decision-teslas-...

Also, that may have kept tesla and spacex 'afloat' but what really saved both companies was billions upon billions of dollars in government contracts, subsidies, preferential loans, and tax breaks. Nevada alone gave nearly two billion dollars to Tesla.
If you were already in on iCloud, that one residual distinction is moot.
Now this is outside my comfort zone but I'd expect that to include integers.
> Nuclear replaces coal or hydro.

There's not much hydro where I'm wrong, so I might be mistaken with this. But I always thought hydro was also pretty flexible, so it could serve as peak load? Like, you can even pump water up a dam if you have a surplus of electricity.
Some numerical context: current installed capacity 34.8 GW (gas), about 39 GW (coal), 170 GW (solar and wind). Obviously the installed capacity for renewables is only half of the story, the output depends both on the respective input and on the capacity of the grid to accept electricity. And since the gas power plants serve as peaker plants even now, they're running only at 15% load.

https://gas.info/gas-im-energiemix/strom-aus-gas/versorgungs...

https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...
I agree that it's a fun theory. I wouldn't discard it, considering mycelia are some of the strangest organisms we have on Earth.
So why aren't they complying?
And source code, for the love of god, give me source code so I don't have to guess what your underspecified description in the paper actually means.
Hardly. Visual acuity is quite low (limited to a tiny area of the FoV), your brain is filling in all the blanks for you.
SQLite is taking over?

SQLite has already taken over. <10 years ago.
Betting on WhatsApp
I understand, but there is no need to stabilize when you have big nuclear base load.
EU is just burning money left and right. The transition could be slower, more green and more cost effective and with less impact on industry if it just wasn`t driven by fake "green" ideology. And antinuclear fear mongering.
Yep...

But I still don't understand how the people (and opposition politicians, businesses, etc.) don't get mad with the government about the nordstream issue.... the destruction caused a lot of damage to the german economy, ecologically it was a huge disaster, and somehow there is no blame game, no consequences, no nothing... some fingerpointing, some "we don't know", some "yeah maybe it was..", and quiet. It's like a local kebab store burned down, "we don't know exactly what happened, but we won't use too many resources to find out, because it's not worth it"... except that it's literally billions of damage in this case, and 'noone cares'.
I learned this fact because I had a first date with a girl who suggested that place, knowing I'm a writer. Five years later I chose that same spot to propose :)
Which is about as realistic as the idea of fueling these new gas power plants with (green) hydrogen.
I disagree.

Qualcomm does not have any pull to make Google to make RISC-V Android a first class citizen. Nor do they have any pull to make Microsoft develop Windows RISC-V. They also don't have a presence in servers so they can't make Linux and server software like Kubernetes/Postgres/Redis/etc. optimize for RISC-V.

The actual entities that have this kind of power is Apple, AWS, Microsoft, and Google and some Chinese tech giants.
The problem is just that avocados farmed without regulatory oversight on illegally deforested (or otherwise occupied) land in regions with insufficient rule of law will be cheaper - same as with palm oil, marijuana (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-11/illegal-...) and several other products...
I am not sure about the speed, but the capacity is issue. It takes a lot of land to build a lot of hydro, damages ecosystems.
I still wonder, how come noone cares who did it... or why the ones that do, don't get mad at the government. It was billions of damage, a huge ecological disaster, and everyone acts as if nothing has happened... there should be daily questioning of the politicians (by the journalists, etc.) about who did what, and what the reaction will be.
> My annoying, uneducated and probably arrogant response

Coyness is a pathetic trait. A miscalculation, in which by trying to hide our ego, we let it appear stark naked.

— Marquis de Gramont
But that would be merely one instance per machine. The number of truly distinct usages of SQLite is probably an order of magnitude greater than the number of machines in use.
Right, the theory around large language models was already worked out by then.
For me the biggest limitation is replicating the SQLite across machines. If my app is running on multiple nodes, then we need to write/use some tooling to replicate the database file across nodes. With that comes the problem of figuring out how we want to handle error scenarios like failed replication, partial replication and such other things.

And these are all hairy problems. At that point it might be just simpler to use a centralized Postgres or a proper distributed database.
Musk is a case study in why PR has a purpose. It turns out if you do random stuff that annoys people, it may in fact result in negative outcomes.
"Avoid #defines for constants like the plague. Use static constexpr instead."

Pretty much every C textbook I can think of now is full of #defines for constants. I, too, am (de)formed by this.
Published the same day as https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-o...

> A parent asked a question in a private Facebook group in April 2024: Does anyone with a child who is both gifted and disabled have any experience with New York City public schools? The parent received a seemingly helpful answer that laid out some characteristics of a specific school, beginning with the context that “I have a child who is also 2e,” meaning twice exceptional.

> On a Facebook group for swapping unwanted items near Boston, a user looking for specific items received an offer of a “gently used” Canon camera and an “almost-new portable air conditioning unit that I never ended up using.”

> Both of these responses were lies. That child does not exist and neither do the camera or air conditioner. The answers came from an artificial intelligence chatbot.

> According to a Meta help page, Meta AI will respond to a post in a group if someone explicitly tags it or if someone “asks a question in a post and no one responds within an hour.”

"Dead Internet" is not a theory. It's an active goal for some companies.
I wouldn't be surprised if ALL German politicians were getting kickbacks for Russian gas. All politicians in power are very corrupt.
Gregory Benford at Nebula 2024
Germans have very weird relationship with russia. That we, east of germany and west of russia dont quite understand. They always think, that russia will be better this time. Quite naive. And dont want to anger it.
There are 100 tasks that is hidden from the public, that is only exposed, when running on an offline computer. So the solver has no prior knowledge about what these tasks are about.

Humans can try the 800 tasks here. There is no time limit. I recommend not starting with the `expert` tasks, but instead go with the `entry` level puzzles.
https://neoneye.github.io/arc/?dataset=ARC

If a model jumps to 100%, that may be a clever program or maybe the program has been trained on the 100 hidden tasks. Fchollet has 100 more hidden tasks, for verifying this.
There are days where I wonder why I don't grift on the internet for YouTube / Patreon / Crypto / ebook money.
"The city stream is redirected in an underground, invisible loop so that it flows backward, or upstream, for a short distance. However, the backflow is always just outflow in reality. This is because the watercourse has a continuous gradient." (translated from a Google result excerpt of this paywalled article [0])

[0] https://www.derbund.ch/warum-der-stadtbach-aufwaerts-fliesst...)
If it is built with web tech but is not available as a web app (only Electron), that presumably means it is using features that you can't get only using web APIs.

I also build a web-tech-based note-taking app, and honestly I resisted wrapping the thing in Electron for a long time for the same reasons HNers love to hate on Electron wrappers, but honestly people like having an actual "app" (even if it is Electron) way, way more than they enjoy using a web app, in our experience.

You can still access our app via web only, but almost nobody does because they like the apps much better.
Supply and fungibility is more for kpop idols
It wasn't, but also Germany's strategic options are limited. US, being its strategic ally, is also its economic rival, and will not hesitate using its advantage of having own energy source. Self-sufficiency solely on renewables is also not an option, at least short and middle term.
The nuclear plants were aging out anyway and nuclear power is not suitable for use as a peaker like gas or batteries or pumped storage are.

(it's technically possible to use as a peaker by throwing away power, but costly enough that the idea is overwhelmingly stupid, so it is not suitable)

The only reason any country builds it is to provide economic support for the military industrial complex. The cost even when not using it as a peaker is truly staggering compared to alternatives.
The issue with what you write is that it's most all nonsense. Your core thesis doesn't pass the smell test at all.

Because you utterly ignore Finland. It's less that it's not NATO and more that it literally can't be. Why would Putin drive them into NATO if having NATO neighbors (which, besides, was already a fact anyways) is such a threat?

He views it as his rightful property, and that's that.
Another interesting one:

https://manifold.markets/Tossup/will-the-arcagi-grand-prize-...
Torpedoes are commonly armed. Though windows are not common on submarines that are equipped with torpedoes.
Yes, that seems to be the explanation. I found a few pictures here: https://www.komoot.com/de-de/highlight/615007 but they also do not show how it works.
> They can because that statement isn't binding[...]

What do you mean? In the EU and the US, there is no law that allows you to say things, and then do other things, and be protected from having the difference mean something in court of law. A court can very well decide that what you provably said/wrote/claimed is legally pertinent, without it being part of any ToS.

Which I assume you understand, hence I am very confused about the confusion here.

If what you really mean is "nobody would care enough to take them to court", that's a different and somewhat ironic point, because if nobody takes legal action, it would not matter anyway where the violation occurs.

Any statement can be deemed legally binding by a court, which is the authority concerned with questions of legality. If you think in this specific case this would not apply, it is at least completely unclear, why.
It's not really compared to an average person's life, but in SV tradition never let the chance to subtly flaunt a wealth gap pass by freely

(This is the part where you say "Yes, having lived both <insert revelation>")
My workflow uses SFTP to upload to a cheap webhost, with cloudflare in front acting as a cdn. Easy peasy
Decades of fear spread by the Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and the media have made any argument in favor of nuclear power a waste of time in Germany. It's really sad that the party which stands for climate protection and the environment is the main culprit for shutting down nuclear power in Germany, thereby keeping coal power running for now.
I don't know if this is buggy or if the approach is just flawed, but there are a lot of missed opportunities for clearer mappings here. Another comment showed an example where 'response' maps to 'spahns' which is a correct USian pronunciation of the second syllable. But nowhere in the corpus is the word 'sponse' used - that would have been the natural choice here, surely? Nor is 'spons' used for 'sponsor' or anything else. So it seems like the random walk of the graph is being over-used here, even though the video talks of using substrings as a default. I think focusing purely on phonetics versus edit distance is a mistake and makes this less accessible than it could be.
I agree. And the best feature for me is "ATTACH DATABASE".
Then one can just join together tables from multiple files etc.
You don't need to stabilize a grid that has sufficient CO₂ free base capacity.

Making an inherently and unfixably unreliable source your primary and then trying to fit everything around that is...unwise.
Correct. However, some implementations actually incorrectly refer to the nonce as an "IV" (initialization vector), where it's not so obvious.

Also, it's not entirely clear just how bad a reuse actually is. For example, in AES-CBC, reusing the IV has much less impact than reusing the nonce with AES-GCM.
Only with a complete change in leadership of Russia - which doesn’t seem likely in the near term.
I keep posting LLM-generated replies on Reddit and getting upvotes for them. And it's not even a good LLM, like ChatGPT.
There was an illustration though :)
https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno... would be a natural starting point.
We can thank them for exposing the news equivalent of the dead Internet theory.
Dollar Dominance in the International Reserve System: An Update
Looks as if all the anti nuclear attitudes was inspired by somebody with a load of gas and 2 big pipes...
How to build a simple video editor like spilt video like that
> but there is no need to stabilize when you have big nuclear base load

Of course there is. What you're stabilizing is varying consumer demand, not the (quite long-term) shutdown of power stations.
Thanks for pointing out chemteacherphil, looks like the exact type of thing Im looking for to watch with my kids.
The reason isn't relevant.
Eu car companies and their stakeholders loveee regulation :) They hated electric cars for decade.
Germany had a reliable energy source with many sources of fuel.

And then turned it off for no good reason at all. (Lots of bad reasons).
Why is it insane? Some founders take zero salary since the start, and part of the reason for raising funds is that they have to eat too. Anyone who is an "early employee" usually get lower salary than market, and some stock. It's only fair they get to cash out a little early on, or hold on if they're liquid and think it's worth a lot more.

It also works well for everyone involved if they're selling their shares to the investors for Series A - investors get shares for cheaper, founders get paid based around the value of those shares, more cash & runway in the bank.
There is a lot of FUD around passkeys.

Think about all the regular (read: non-Hacker News) users out there who fall for a phishing email/SMS, or who re-use passwords and get popped by a credential stuffing attack. Passkeys provide not only massively-improved security (they can’t be keylogged; they are linked to a specific domain so can’t be spoofed by look-alike fake login pages; they’re protected from replay attacks even if the transport mechanism is compromised), but a much nicer login flow as a bonus.

Many people also don’t understand how easy it is to login from a different device: say an Android user created a passkey for a site with Chrome. Now that user needs to sign in to the same site on a Mac running Safari (where there is no passkey for the user). They can still use their Android device to login from the Mac by selecting “use a passkey from another device”. Safari will show a QR code that they scan using the Android phone, and verify with their screen lock. A one-time passkey signature is transferred to the Mac, which the website uses to authenticate the user. The two devices verify that they are in proximity with each other using Bluetooth. This cross-device, cross-operating-system mechanism of passkey authentication is standardized under FIDO; no additional work is needed by the website to enable this login flow.

If you are “anti-Apple” or “anti-Google” and have strong aversions to them securely backing up things like passkeys (again, think of all the non-Hacker News readers where this is not the case), then go ahead and continue to use passwords. But we should be encouraging our parents, grandparents, siblings, friends, etc. to embrace passkeys to make all of their accounts more secure and phishing-resistant. The more passkey FUD they see, the longer people will have to deal with annoying (and still insecure) SMS codes, the longer passwords will be stolen/re-used, etc.
I wonder why this got flagged...
Glad to hear that! I would say that the choice of Motion Canvas was motivated by their API for defining animations rather than the editor - we really like the approach of using generator functions and find the "procedural" API (the time of the yield corresponds to the time in the video) quite nice to work with.

Given that our goal is mainly to let developers build their own editors, the Motion Canvas editor is not that important for us - we only use it for previewing code changes, so merely projecting the canvas without any of the remaining editor interface would also be sufficient.

I also agree that interactivity is super important. We have not yet started to work on this, but something we definitely need to make easier with the Revideo player is building drag-and-drop editing features (i.e. moving elements around on the canvas to modify their position).
The government is expecting something in return for these breaks rather than them being some kind of gift, though.
I feel like the article contradicts itself in this point:

> Investors and founders both tend to think that if employees knew founders were getting liquidity that that would negatively impact employee morale (it wouldn’t)

> If employees realize they are taking more risk than the founders, [...] maybe they'll start yelling: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO BUILD A COMPANY, I DON'T EVEN HAVE ACCESS TO LIQUIDITY!!!". And maybe they're right.

How is "not impact morale" and giving an example of employees shouting as a possible outcome when they find out not contradict each other?
Yeas, Slovakia has big military industrial complex.
> If the application only runs on one server, then definitely SQLite. That means you do not need fail over, replication or other fancy features. Why not simple SQLite?

I agree. So many usecases require a bounded context, and even ephemeral data stores. Memory caches are all the rage but the cost of doing network calls to fetch data from a memory cache can eclipse the cost of simply fetching the data from a local disk.
That argument is popular among the 100% renewables crowd in Germany. I mean, achieving 90-100% renewables creates a problem you wouldn't have if you were just running on nuclear power, and now they portray it as a problem of nuclear power. If you're arguing from a dogmatic point of view where renewables are the absolute main energy source and you occasionally need to supplement it, gas makes sense. It's stupid though.
> Like, you can even pump water up a dam if you have a surplus of electricity.

only if you have two places where the water is stored, but pumped hydro is not the most common source of hydroelectric power in Europe.
> and nuclear power is not suitable for use as a peaker like gas or batteries or pumped storage are.

This is, of course, a lie. https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...

--- start quote ---

The minimum requirements for the manoeuvrability capabilities of modern reactors are defined by the utilities requirements that are based on the requirements of the grid operators. For example, according to the current version of the European Utilities Requirements (EUR) the NPP must at least be capable of daily load cycling operation between 50% and 100 % of its rated power Pr, with a rate of change of electric output of 3-5% of Pr per minute.

--- end quote ---

As the chart on the same page (page 8) shows, a change from 800 MW to 1300 MW was routine operation for German reactors
And what if it turns out that Germany is currently sending billions of euro to the country that blew it up? I don't think anyone in the government wants to answer this question
I was considering this just last night lamenting the state of my Twitter/X feed. The paid engagement incentive has had the unintended effect of ruining what’s on offer and clearly much of it is bot/AI created. Lots of threads of crap just to inflate engagement numbers. The funny, witty and sarcastic 140 char posts are still there but buried seemingly in a pile of templated and autogenerated junk.