skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon invested $4 billion into Anthropic [1], which makes Claude AI, the AI I use almost exclusively. Claude is being trained to be very human-like, safe and friendly and has improved very much in that area lately [2], so I assume the idea is that Claude will be Alexa 2.0. In my experience, even employees maintaining the current version of a product can be out-of-the-loop on the future of the product.

[1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-anthrop...

[2] https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-character
Checking a proof is much easier than finding it.
notably pigeons are feral and I absolutely was thinking the same thing here going off the headline.

I guess we don't need to rewrite the stones song though.
As someone living in France, there's something which doesn't get enough attention.

Everyone in France (okay, almost everyone) "does sport". It's drilled into kids that they need to have some sort of physical activity, and it's one of the things people getting to know each other ask one another - what sort of sport do you take a part in. There are "hype" sports like wall climbing, quite popular in some of the big cities; there are more communal (football/basketball/etc.) ones; there's swimming etc etc. But it's normal and expected that you do something.

IMO this is more important contributor than the cuisine, which although quite "natural", includes lots of meat, cheese, sauces (not American style sauce with sugar + corn syrup + a bunch of chemicals, more like blue cheese-based sauces) etc. which aren't the most calorie light foods.
Well, reading https://academia.stackexchange.com/ every now and then makes me pretty convinced this kind of behavior is not confined to China.

The "publish or perish" mindset does not seem to produce particularly healthy results.
check out where they're headquartered
I'm not sure the goal of this competition, in and of itself, is AGI. They point to current LLMs emerging from transformers, which in turn emerged from a general basket of building blocks from machine-translation research (attention, etc.). It seems like the suggestion is that to get from where we are now to AGI, some fundamental building blocks are missing, and this is an attempt to spur the development of some of those building blocks, but by analogy with LLMs, the goal here is to come up with a new thing like "attention," not a new thing like GPT4.
The 'boobs' could be just that, representing the queen.

That 'chess set' isn't even symmetrical! Two with triangular 'heads', one with 'boobs', one with a square projection!

Couldn't those two with grooves represent bishops? More typical of a mitre than a crown, but hey this was Germany, maybe that's correct there. And yeah, that last link to the early 'bishop' has a slot cut in it too.

Unless they found it with the board set up, then I'm gonna have doubts about any conclusions about correlations with modern chess pieces.
Compensation wise, that’s a great startup job, especially with such an insanely generous exercise window. Where I think you maybe went wrong is, if you are building everything, it’s not a collaboration with the founders, which is half of the fun of everything.

I suspect it’s more about the culture than the numbers. You say on one hand, oh I’d probably stay for 3% more, yet, you don’t see the point to earn another 1%. Your salary is pretty good man. Meanwhile they are burning $250K every month into smoke

10% is not realistic. That’s the whole employee options pool. I mean imagine if at your current job, someone worked there for a year before you, then walked away with more than your entire current equity grant, never to be heard from again. That’s what you’re describing.
Incorrect. See: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/facebook/salaries/software-...
Full Trailer #2 Breakdown of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 [video]
The room distribution was different. Smaller bedrooms and bathrooms, fewer bathrooms, larger public/shared spaces.
We also need reproducible results and well-annotated data. In life sciences, there are few to no incentives for making things reproducible. Reproducibility has the potential to expose lots of scams, perhaps even during review stage.

The typical scenario right now is that you get access to raw data, often through an application, that can take months and requires having an ethics committee to oversee your work. So, unless you are at an academic institution, you can't get access to any raw data that contains personal information. Raw data will be often poorly annotated and you will need to spend weeks to figure things out, and sometimes significant computing resources to preprocess it. Then, good luck running some badly coded scripts to get the results reported in the article.

Studies should provide preprocessed data that has been anonymized and can be freely shared, one-click reproducible results from preprocessed data, well-annotated raw data, and simpler procedures to get access to raw data. For example, a tarball with code, preprocessed data, and a makefile to turn preprocessed data into results reported in the article. Bonus points if dependencies are reproducible, with e.g. a Nix flake.
I mean, how is the intracellular space denser than the extracellular? That means they wouldn't float.

The stochastic nature of the cell, as far as I know, exists pretty much the same in and out. With more transport mechanims occurring inside to make sure things get to where they need to be.

It's not that the discarded ligands (for example) are really 'discarded'. There are a few instances I know of that use the 'waste' as a product unto themselves. The ToR network comes to mind here. Still, trying to really figure out what the 'intention' was all those billions of years ago is hard, and networks and feedback loops have been built up over the eons. Like, yeah, nothing is really wasted in a cell, per se. But it can seem that way in the chain that you're looking at.

I'd love to know more about the magnetic side of things here. Is it memristors as synapses? Because that is a criminally misunderstood area of neuroscience.
Three interesting part of the discussion:

(1) The opportunity cost to the founder of taking early liquidity:

If a founder cashes out 10% of their position for $500k @ $25M Series A valuation, that de-risks a lot of their personal life. But when the startup ends up selling for $250M, that $500k of 'early' selling would have been worth $5M (less any dilution between rounds) - hard not to regret the choice in that case even if hedging is going to be the correct choice 99% of the time.

(2) Meaningful vs. not-meaningful amounts:

From my prev example, the founder sells 10% of their position for $500k. Well, if all employees were allowed to sell up to 10% of their positions too, would that even matter to them? If you were an employee and had $200k total value in your options, and you could sell 10%, you're getting $20k. Not really enough to de-risk your life although still might be welcome (and employees would appreciate having the choice).

(3) Sellers need buyers:

In order for there to be a seller of shares, there needs to be a buyer. The founder is effectively choosing his buyer and future business partner by taking investment and choosing to give that buyer more control over the corp by selling him even more shares (his personal shares). The buyer wants to make the founder happy and de-risk their downside so they can be more aggressive or big-picture or whatever, plus is happy to own more of the company assuming it's a hot round.

But what does the buyer want to achieve by purchasing the employees shares? Just to own a little bit more % of the corp? For amounts that might not even matter for the employees and may de-incentivize them?

It's all very complicated and perhaps there are nuances that make every situation unique.
I suppose I assumed you were objecting to the article saying that PCs were not designed to run games. No one is disputing that games did run on PCs, but PCs did not have the kind of hardware nor the kind of architecture that computers at that time had which were designed for games.

If your argument is simply that PCs had games, then sure, and the article isn't disputing that. The article is explicitly saying that games were on PCs, and the way you got them to run on PCs was by making use of careful software techniques to compensate for the lack of hardware support.

If you still object to this, then by all means let us know what features did PCs have that supported gaming. I can tell you numerous features that other home computer systems had to explicitly support video games, but I can't name any that the PC had prior to around the mid 90s. Maybe the Sound Blaster?
Rolex? They take $10 of cheap metal, sell it for $10k, and use the profits to fund the charity.
Tesla pay fight tests power of Elon Musk's mystique
What about the universal shortcut for triggering 1P across the mac? And autofill within applications? I think the newest redesign is extremely powerful. I wanted to hate it at first but I give big kudos to the 1P team for how thoughtfully engineered the Mac version is. iOS and Windows not as much.
Western academics get the pressure too. That largely explains some of Fauci’s lies, as I understand he was concerned that being transparent about the source of the virus would antagonise chinese authorities, who would cut scientific cooperation on covid in retaliation.
What’s also missing is the near zero chance they close up notes.
levels.fyi says Google L4 in the Bay Area is 306k total comp on average.

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...
The thing this and MANY similar approaches take that rule them out for my use is they dont do drawings. I draw in my notes somewhat infrequently but when i need to I need to. I've been stuck with onenote for that reason.
What MVNO is that?
100M-year-old bones reveal new species of pterosaur
My sideline makes about $12k a year, costs around $200 to run, and has been running for 15 years. It's a room booking system for schools. I reckon I need to put in 2-3 weeks of work a year.

I haven't figured out yet if I am a rubbish businessman or an excellent sideliner :-)
Third Form of Life Makes Energy in 'Remarkable' Ways, Scientists Discover
Chemists Made a Compound Containing Mysterious Element Promethium
> Not to mention Indian food being extremely unhealthy in general across the board (save for some vegetarian cuisines)

So, except for the majority of it? A lot of Indians are strict vegetarians and even among the meat eaters, they still generally eat a lot of non-meat dishes.
AI Unearths Nearly a Million Potential Antibiotics to Take Out Superbugs
> That's an exaggeration

That's mostly only an exaggeration for games made in the last 5 years with the heavier concentrations of DRM, online-only, micro transactions.
I think the root question is whether someone should get punished for liking a tweet.

Many people may think that punishment should happen and thus the punishment is fair. Many people think that punishment shouldn't happen and thus the punishment isn't fair.

Most people believe both things but that it differs according to their ingroup.

Ultimately it is understanding and forgiveness that brings peace between people and groups and eventually dissolves the barriers between them.
How many obese people do you see on Fox News?
Why does every app need a menu bar? Why not just Cmd+Shift+Space to get the universal menu to open?
This seems like a super easy target for a foreign actor to sabotage and cause massive economic setback
If the ads are in-stream, it should actually make it easier to skip from a frontend interface. If you know or can figure out their length.
these exposés where famous scientists doctor their data are so depressing
Neural networks process in constant time per input/output (token or whatever). But some prompts could produce more tokens.

As you increase the size of the window, doesn't the size of the NN have to increase? So if you want to just use an NN for this, the bigger the problem it can handle, the bigger the window, so the longer per token produced; but also the more tokens produced, so it's longer on that front as well. I don't know if that adds up to polynomial time or not.

Note well: I'm not disagreeing with your overall assertion. I don't know if NNs can do this; I'm inclined to think they can't. All I'm saying is that even NNs are not constant time in problem size.
> I’m not talking about the the pandemic.

Then why even mention it?

> you got on that all on your own!

Me, and the other people who replied to tell you the same thing, and the countless others who downvoted you on the same assumption.

> A border guard searching your phone pre and post Covid is no longer the same.

They're searching for terrorists/kiddie fuckers/porn 'smugglers'. That's it. I think their approach is completely wrong, but that's what they're searching for.

None of those particular things has anything to do with the pandemic.

> God help you if he starts assuming wrong things about you now

Why? Whether I refuse to give him my PIN; or I give it to him and he finds nothing of interest; or he does find something of interest: none of that relates to the attitudes of people regarding the pandemic, because none of the things they're searching for are even remotely related to the pandemic.

> That’s the entire point. Covid is over, the animosities remain and run deep.

What animosities? It's like you've branched out from carrying on like a pork chop and decided to add a side of word salad to the conversational plate.
Both work via the public Internet, i.e. not a special APN, like MMS does; they use your regular data APN and accordingly also incur data charges. When you're on Wi-Fi, they use that.

As for who runs the servers: iMessage goes through Apple's servers.

RCS ostensibly goes through a federated network of telco-operated servers. But since almost none can actually be bothered to implement it (they've given up on trying to monetize it, so they have no incentive at all for incurring additional cost deploying and maintaining them), Google runs it for them, via a company they acquired [1].

> Also, if I'm in the SMS messaging app, I expect my messages to be SMS, not internet-based?

Is your SMS app actually called "SMS", these days? I usually see it called "messaging" or similar. In any case, assuming these apps do RCS, it'll be Internet-based.

[1] https://jibe.google.com/
you might find the answer to this when looking out the window of the train as you head to the yearly jazz festival by the lake
Sort of off topic question. But how would you get into the type of work that uses this tool? I've always thought this type of work would be interesting, but I have no ideas where to start. What are the job titles? Fraud Analyst? Thanks!
"their time frame is maybe a little bit aggressive" has to be the nicest way I've ever heard someone say "they're full of shit".
Yes... very close: It's bad production practices, not drilling practices.

After the well is 'completed', you move onto 'production'. The practice of using old wells as salt water injection points for production wells is practice that is relatively unscrutinized. Since said old wells are often miles away, often drilled into different formations, this causes problems ranging from earthquakes to repressurizing depleted formations (which I'm betting is what is bursting the half-arsed well caps).

Worse off, the salt water thats reinjected deep into the earth can take decades to migrate, leading to earthquakes 20+ years later.

The saving grace about this practice is that is truly is below impermeable rock layers (yes even fracked formations), so it's unlikely to ever reach the surface, except in the case where other mistakes were made.
Aren't all these contracts month-to-month anyways? T-Mobile can change their terms with 30 days notice and most if not all current T-Mobile customers can "just" leave.

The only special gag now is that the average consumer now has "device installment payments" that become immediately due in full when you terminate your side of the deal, and we now tie subsidies to "promo credits" on those payments.
Just like the covid "vaccine"?
I'm sorry, I don't understand what point you're trying to make here, it seems unrelated to Gleam.
> 280 feet long

There's no way the truck in the picture is hauling something 280 feet long!

The traffic behind it is closer than that!
They have been fined $38m for killing 8 people, which amounts to a tad over 1% of their 2023 revenue.

I'm very happy that an example is being made of them to warn other corporations that committing murder to protect your profits may cause a slight dip in your next earnings report.
Hybrid work is lose-lose-lose.

Working from the office or the home is fine. They have both their strengths and you can build on them. Doing both, it's just suboptimal.

I have worked with this model, and it's the most frustrating thing having to go to the office, only to be stuck in Zoom calls, because some people are away.
Our family and everybody around us (all middle-aged and living in a mid to low income neighborhood) have a dining space with a table that they use for most meals.
Yeah, if you're single and renting a small apartment there is no need. But if you are raising kids you need to have a space where you can share food, share ideas, and connect at least once a day.
At 64GB RAM, what you have is a specialist laptop where most of the work is happening inside of a shell environment.

I tried running Android apps on a Chromebook. Even something as simple note taking (Obsidian/Logseq) didn't work properly because it could not save a text file into local storage. That was over a year ago, so I don't know if things have changed.
Prince Edward Island is connected to the mainland with a two-lane 13.6 km bridge. There are designated times over the course of the day when the bridge is closed to traffic and oversized loads are transferred across.

Several deliveries are usually staged one after the other, so you get to see a variety of loads if you are unlucky enough to have to wait for 30-40 minutes. Most of the time, it’s pre-fab buildings and nothing too exciting.
Here's an image of the huge load:
https://www.truckersnews.com/news/article/15677391/expect-de...
> but thanks to Proton

I am curious how well proton works under ARM, both for apple silicon and whatever alternatives.
It's relatively rare to host anyone other than family in European countries. In asian cultures you commonly host people at restaurants / catering halls.
Hi, I've just renamed my kube-dialog project to short and powerful KUI (kubectl user interface)
Enjoi)!
One of the magical experiences growing up, with my mom working in a food safety lab, was playing with the different coloured fires (and the pipettes of course).

I only later learned about spectrometry: roughly, the flame's light is split into a rainbow with a diffraction grating and the colours become a barcode for the chemicals that burn.
(united states family, born and raised)

I don't understand the desire for a large bedroom. My parents use the largest "bedroom" in their house to hold their bed.

I use the smallest "bedroom" in my house to hold my bed, because all I do in there is sleep.

The larger "bedrooms" become office and studio spaces, since I spend remarkably more waking hours in these locations compared to where I sleep.
Well if they mean assemble instead of build the things change a bit, but anyway even when talking about big and complex things there are big and complex things that can be "easily" split into pieces and assembled at a later time and other things that cannot be split so easily so much more resources are needed to assemble the thing in its final form.

Just guesses it's not something I'm into.
I've used it many times. Not just for my changes, but over others' changes. In CMake, we rewrite branches heavily to keep a sensible history within MRs. Not all changes make sense landing commit-by-commit yet also work as a single commit. It also allows for much easier reverting of specific changes in case some part of a topic needs removed.

Some examples:

- https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/merge_requests/9486...

One commit to improve messages; another to add a test case that also uses these messages. Forcing separate CI runs for these dependent commits doesn't make sense, but they also don't belong in a single commit.

- https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/merge_requests/8996...

Adds two test cases for a regression and then finally reverts the specific regression-exposing commit from https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/merge_requests/8197... while keeping the still-good parts. If the 8197 merge had been squashed, one would have had to manually bisect the hunks to find out which one actually caused the problem.
Both sides annoy me.
I turned off personalization a while ago. I get ads for Mint Mobile, a local spa, an Internet fast fashion men's T-shirt company, dog food, and similar anodyne topics. It feels a little like watching 90s daytime TV.
It’s literally the opposite to what you suggest. Someone who hasn’t eaten for days isn’t thinking about eating healthy when they walk by a McDonalds.
>The part to me that I see as surprising is dismissal of the stress of taking VC money and being a founder. It is a job thats incredibly demanding.

Sounds like you're dismissing the idea that being an early employee is hard.
Using evidence rather than just "damn that looks like a bishop to me". There's lots of other old chess sets to compare to, and it sounds like these are from 11th/12th century which would be hundreds of years before bishops are thought to have been added to chess.
Or the Sloot Digital Coding System: an alleged data sharing technique that its inventor claimed could store a complete digital movie file in 8 kilobytes of data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
The first thing one sees when opening this article is a paywall. I really don't want to defend an AI-generated news site, but with reputable news sources regularly withholding information from their users, can we really blame these sites and people who use them?
Polio got reclassifed and the vaccines claimed a success. But keep the faith.
Note that MMS is extremely uncommon outside the US, so many people might not be personally familiar with it. I think the last MMS I sent must have been some time in 2004.

P2P SMS is also quickly becoming obsolete in favor of OTT messengers like WhatsApp.
WWDC24 Apple – New Features for Notifications, Mail and RCS
> memory access times were constant

My Symbolics 3640 Lisp Machine, a model introduced in the mid 1980s had 20 MB RAM and 200 MB virtual memory on one or two disks. The OS was already a 50 MB image. The memory used by Lisp was typically much larger than the available (and/or affordable) RAM.

Access times were far from constant.

A full Garbage Collection over virtual memory took 30 minutes. That's why it had extensive support for incremental garbage collection, copying GC, manual memory management, areas for various data types, ephemeral GC with hardware support, cdr-coded lists, various types of multidimensional arrays, graphics cards with special video memory, 36 bit memory with additional ECC, ...

Before saving a new Lisp image to disk, one was using a special command to reorder objects in memory to optimize access times. That command also took 20-30 minutes.

Lisp Machines like this were developed because Lisp systems on Mainframes or Mini Computers were thrashing the machines during GC and making performance hell for Lisp users and other time sharing users. Thus a personal machine was needed where the memory and CPU belong to one user. They were among the very first commercially available GUI based personal workstations in 1981.
>while your peers are all making ~$1M per year working 6 hour days at FAANG

I highly doubt ALL your peers are making that much. And I think the people making $1M per year at FAANG tend to work much more than 6 hour days. You have to be very productive to get $1M per year.
Apple surpasses Microsoft as most valuable company
Agreed, but I imagine the only setback is for the insurance company.