skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious about the lack of definitive evidence in this follow-up story. I would think they'd want to have some sort of fact-checking from an unbiased source. The tribe is saying it's embarrassing that people think they're addicted to porn, and they're the only source for saying that this is untrue.

What happened to the journalistic motto: "if your mother says she loves you, check it out"? [1]

1: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2003/if-your-mothe...
If LLMs start thinking, we should expect to see entire new industries that didn't used to exist because they required too much menial work.

But that's a big "if." They seem to be parroting stuff without knowing or caring what's true.
This happened to me as well, but even worse because they killed my equity by getting rid of me on month 11 of year one.

I joined a company as employee #2 (though, I started the same day as #1). I started working with the founder and co-founder in a We Work office that barely fit the four of us.

Within 11 months the company was worth over a billion dollars and my wife was about to give birth. At this time the company had around ~15 employees (mostly in sales).

I find a job posted on our site for a job that sounds an awful lot like mine. The founder/CEO is suddenly vary combative with me every day over nothing (shouting at me). I felt like he was trying to get me to react negatively to him. I just dealt with it because my wife was about to give birth.

One day I come in and I just couldn't deal with it anymore when he was shouting at me. I basically told him to stick it up his ass and he went ballistic. I was "fired" at this point and had to leave and leave behind my company laptop.

I get a call to meet with the founder the next day to discuss the exit. We meet at a cafe. He presents a folder with a bunch of "evidence" for why I was being let go. None of it was really damning in any way (he had private emails between me and an employee, Slack private messages, etc). He tried to spin some narrative as to why I was being fired and not given my stock even though the cliff was around the corner. I also had to return my signing bonus ($XX,XXX).

I told him good luck and showed him the job posting that was dated after he found out my wife was giving birth. I also had printed email exchanges proving the company was doing some less-than-legal operations.

Needless to say I got to keep my signing bonus, but not the stock. I also got glowing recommendations for every job I applied to after that.
> they’re invalid swift

If this isn't valid why are we even taking about it? The compiler should report syntax error or something
Angry San Francisco homeowners plot to kill city's rezoning plan
And relevant for public policy, as both SUVs and EVs (including EV SUVs) become more common on roads.
It's a pretty big governance fail to have a single point of failure for access to an island.
Disclaimer: I work for Inngest (https://www.inngest.com), which works in the same area and released 2 years ago.

The restate API is extremely similar to ours, and because of the similarities both Restate and Inngest should work on Bun, Deno, or any runtime/cloud. We most definitely do, and have users in production on all TS runtimes in every cloud (GCP, Azure, AWS, Vercel, Netlify, Fly, Render, Railway, Cloudflare, etc).
There is the Inkplate (https://www.crowdsupply.com/soldered/inkplate-5), which has an ESP32 and so should be just as hackable as a Linux system.
The parent comment specifically talked about prepayment of cleanup costs - i.e. taking their money before it's drilled, so that when companies go bankrupt, there is already money set aside to do the cleanup. The Alberta system does not do this.
Every once in a while an article seems to come out about declining sperm count. Or healthy count.

I don’t have the knowledge to dispute that claim.

But a curiosity I have, how long do we actually have data for to be able to accurately say one way or another? This article mentions 40 years but I would assume (if I am reading this right) that as we go farther back the sample size is smaller?

Are we also properly accounting for differences in technology to store and measure?

Even if all equal, 40 years with limited sample size without exploring other genetic differences seems limited?

Even this article that seems to try to say all those studies are wrong, to me glosses over something important.

Am I missing something for this to not matter?
> Are you still using your Vision Pro?

> [150 words about a totally different product and platform]

Vision Pro isn't something I would use regularly, but you're bringing opinions about a 14" CRT monitor to a thread soliciting opinions on a specific 30" 1080P TV. I think we are beyond the stage where useful generalizations about "the state of AR/VR" can be drawn from exposure to a single device.

The disparity in screen quality and OS sophistication between Oculus 3 and Vision Pro is enormous (and both platforms are self-evidently in their infancy).

Whether you think they have succeeded or not, and whether you think the price point is reasonable or not, Vision Pro is as different to Quest 3 as a BlackBerry Bold 9700 was to a Nokia 7650.
Another consideration is that employees are much less conscious of the real value of their stock than founders, and you don’t want to make the (lack of) value of their shares too obvious in the early stages.

If you tell them the value of their stock is $200k, and 90% of that is imaginary, then they might start thinking about that job offer with a 500k stock grant at a listed company.
There's not really too much need for caution; they are just saying the GDPR doesn't apply to them and they would rather not deal with any issues. I do the same thing with many sites I manage, it's significantly less potential hassle.
She turned back—-for a brief, brief moment—-and it felt like all the mad activity of the world stood paralyzed, save for a soft flutter from a single wisp of her hair.

“Target closes in 45 minutes and they still have that great sale on TVs.”
iOS 18 cracks down on apps asking for full address book access
First call: fetch a widget

Success! Your widget expires in 30 seconds

Second call: use widget

Failure! For some reason or another

Ok, so restart the flow…

First call: fetch a widget

Cached! Receive the same widget again

Second call: use widget

Failure! widget has now expired
I'll throw out one I expect I'll get lots of disagreement over. Firefly (the series, not the movie) seemed pretty "soft sci-fi" to me. They could have changed the setting to people in a Winnebago towing a trailer going from city to city on Earth and nothing would really have changed in at least the first 7 episodes.
> SpaceX is a mix of mindblowing engineering with sometimes baffling decisions. I can never help but wonder how much input Elon has, and if he is responsible for all those questionable choices, as he honestly appears to be a bit of a idiot.

Let me get this straight. You believe that Stoke space is somehow the near perfect design. The designer or Shuttle and Starship were probably idiots for not coming up with the same ideas as Stoke. But maybe the reason that they are so dumb, is simply because Musk is part of the design team.

Maybe you should consider, just maybe, that if Starship isn't exactly like Stoke spaces design, it could have actual reasons. Maybe, just maybe the most successful rocket company in history had actual technical reason for their design choices. But no that couldn't be it, could it?

But instead of asking the saying 'Stoke Space design seems really awesome, I wonder why SpaceX made difference choices', you just jumped to 'well Musk is cringe and therefore that must be the reason'.
It's also wrong because it's not the founders work in isolation that is providing the liquidity opportunity in the first place. The entire purpose of a joint-stock company is to align incentives for all shareholders to benefit from the value creation of the company. Founder secondaries are a work-around that hack money into the pockets of a couple people off the back of other's labor instead of collectively enriching the group performing the labor.
Shame. It's probably the only fund I would have liked to work with to get some investment.
A guaranteed, long, prison sentence is the only long term solution to avoid the problem

They cost society billions if not trillions of dollars in follow up research, industry investments and consumers spendings. Some of them cost lives. Some thousands if not much more.
Oracle is the best sales force in the software industry.

It's absolutely amazing how much money they are making with such little product.

Mysql is a great database.
How does hard fantasy which also sticks to it's own world rules tightly factor into this?
I'm curious why you think these employees -- who are getting the worst end of the deal -- are working for startups in the first place?

Either they have the skills to be a founder themselves or to work at BigTech... or they are financially ignorant/disinterested enough to not understand how equity in corporations work? Or is the charming and misleading founder who is to blame?

My point is that considering the high avg intelligence of the typical startup employee, there must be something else going on.

Clearly, people like working at smaller companies that have potential to grow - maybe that's because there's more interesting work, less bureaucracy, smaller teams, more of a sense of a journey, etc. Easy to devalue these things, but what else explains the fact that even when there's more risk and likely poorer financial outcomes these otherwise very intelligent people still choose to work at these companies?
I'm not reading it that way, I don't know where you are getting "AI will eventually replace..." from, if anything he seems to have the opposite idea: "even if AI can do the type of mathematics we do now, it means that we will just move to a to a higher type of mathematics".

The line I quoted is in response to "in two to three years mathematics will be “solved” in the same sense that chess is solved".

Unless my priors are dramatically wrong, anyone who believes that is indeed full of shit.
I think of it as building a staircase. If we need to hit 98% eventually, we need to make certain progress now. It is possible that a new breakthrough could appear in 2 years to spike that, but the safer assumption is that our near term progress will harvest the low hanging fruit.

Therefore, intermediate and measurable milestones are to derisk something. Even if you are doing a moonshot, there are still steps you can identify. The namesake, Apollo, didn’t try for the moon on the first launch!
TvTropes at it was first: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TinfoilHat

Feel invited to click around that site. It is a useful thing to be aware what "Tropes" are as they are fiction.
> ... it's basically the SAT problem.

I am reminded of this classic CodeGolf.SE challenge of "P = NP" https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/24419

The problem was set as:

> Your task is to write a program for SAT that executes in polynomial time, but may not solve all cases.

To which Eric Lippert wrote:

> "Appears" is unnecessary. I can write a program that really does execute in polynomial time to solve SAT problems. This is quite straightforward in fact.

And has a spoiler that starts out as:

> You said polynomial runtime. You said nothing about polynomial compile time. This program forces the C# compiler to try all possible type combinations for x1, x2 and x3, and choose the unique one that exhibits no type errors. The compiler does all the work, so the runtime doesn't have to. ...

Unfortunately the blog post which it was linked to that went into greater detail at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ericlippert/lambda-expression... is no longer available (even via wayback).
Exactly this. I've seen many EU folk assume if a site doesn't bother with GDPR it must be malicious. When really it's just easier to avoid the EU since they decided they think their laws can apply worldwide.
Then give us the option to hide it, don't take away one of the best ways to find new content.

This was already a feature for paid users, they could hide their likes, so if he really cared about privacy, he would give people the option, and have them hidden by default so that those who wish to have Likes can enable them. That way those less savvy or simply uninterested in going to the settings will have their accounts more private, and those who want it can have it.
Thanks for the link!

Still-- there's no indication that anything in that image is 280 feet long!

Maybe the container in the foreground is, but the part that's shown can't be more than 75 ft.

It's like reading a story about a Wooly Mammoth being spotted in the wild, but people are only taking blurry pictures of its rear end. :/
Very nice generations, but it fails the "nerd without glasses test"[1].

1. prompt: "generate an image of a nerd without glasses" https://imgcdn.stablediffusionweb.com/2024/6/13/d187f2f9-0e0...
This is my approach as well just usually without the news part. For local politics and court cases I get emails from the legislative bill tracker and my state supreme court has an RSS feed every time they make a ruling.

If it weren't for the fact that I read the opinion or the bill itself I would think I was going mad with how news outlets report on it. I swear we're reading two different documents.

I've pretty much given up on anything of the form "journalist reporting on primary source material" which is what the OP is about. They should have just linked to the guy's YouTube so everyone could see first hand what's happening. The average news article tells me more about how people are reacting to a thing than the thing itself.
San Francisco author and Salon founder suffers near-fatal stroke
If only there was a technology that understood unstructured natural language really well.
But are you capturing that 2X productivity increase in increased compensation, or is your company capturing all that value?
Using your analogy, this is Alice bought a cheap stretch of land in the middle of nowhere, and wanted to develop it, but she couldn't afford to pay Bob to develop it. Alice then offers to pay Bob a smaller portion of money and some of her land in exchange for developing it. Bob has other clients looking to pay him more money, but he decides to take Alice's contract because he wants the land.

Why is Bob not in the same situation? They both are taking a financial loss in the hopes of having more valuable land to sell. Why shouldn't Bob have the same right to sell his portion of the land that Alice has?
Cool indeed. A spin on it (also using POV-Ray), but using a photo (texture on an object) and animated (rotating that object, the texture, or the mirrors -- I forgot) in [0] and [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJaBspDXgzs
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc5uEwwr6S8
FIFY: Fascist Shareholders Are Going After Corporate Boards
The source did mention sharing of porn in group chats, and being not thrilled about that. You're right the source didn't say they were addicted to porn, which is a far cry from what he reported. However, people tend to downplay porn viewing habits, as with anything that they are embarrassed about. It seems reasonable to think that if someone tells a reporter that he's upset that porn is being shared in group chats, that there's a good chance the level of usage is in fact greater.
Fwiw, this is a fairly common way to increase sales, as a kind of social proof, and to say “wow stock sure is dropping fast!” I understand it can be annoying though, as a user I’m not fond of it either.
Uniquely identifying a database and its journal/wal files would prevent just one of the five mispairing cases they mention. And it's the least likely case.
Here's some light to make it appear less stupid:

He doesn't claim its not a design failure.

He doesn't say they sat down and said "You know what? Lets do beautiful minimal syntax but have awful error messages & really bad compile times"

The light here is recursive. As you lay out, it is extremely s̶t̶u̶p̶i̶d̶ unlikely that choice was made, actively.

Left with an unlikely scenario, we take a step back and question if we have any assumptions: and our assumption is they made the choice actively.
Some might find ending every last word in every sentence with an arbitrary number a bit strange.

If I had to guess it seems like they meant to cite their sources, but forgot to do so.
Agreed, it's very hard, I'd like to see how many orgs have actually done this successfully and what those shippable intermediate products actually were.
> It's more that nukes

I'm sure that this is part of "long peace" but we can't discount globalism. At the end of the day a lot of war is about economics. When countries become highly dependent upon one another, including enemies, it becomes much harder to actually go to war with one another. And as you point out with the nukes argument, that cost for going to war has also increased. So it's often far easier to war via economic means rather than physical.

There's also an (much more debatable) argument to be made that the so called "world police" does not have neighboring land that it covets. America doesn't have much need or want to grab land from Canada or Mexico, and doing so wouldn't have huge economic impacts on it. But such a situation is by no means true for Europe (and arguably Russia or China). I mean this is why Europe was fighting for the last... well however long humans have been in Europe (same being true for east Asia and really most of the Eurasian continent).
Wait what? In Haskell the types are usually directly inferrable from the arguments they're being used as, and when you put a type annotation it's usually not explicit types (Num a => a -> b -> c).

I almost never bother putting types in Haskell, unless I want to guarantee some constraint, in which case I typically use typeclasses. Maybe I'm just weird but I don't think so. One of the very few things I actually like about Haskell is how good the type inference is.
> also happens to not support Linux

What makes you say that? Nothing in the code jumps out as being platform-dependent, and the primary compilation target seems to be wasm.
It shouldn't be much more complicated than what we currently have with first-person 3D shooters. All devices in an augmented room would have some existing shared data that doesn't need to be transferred. It's only the updates that need to be sent over the network.
Luma's new Dream Machine could be the AI video creator we've always wanted
It looks to me like both definitions are widely used. The first paragraph on Wikipedia claims that the term "hard sci-fi" was coined first, then "soft science fiction" was coined specifically to make the distinction between hard science and soft science. That paragraph also notes that there is no rigorous distinction, and mentions Foundation as a classic example.
> But you can define one if you want

Something is harder to read if it takes more effort to read it. Reading code is converting it from the format it is written down in to the tree of invocations in your mind. Forth is more complicated to read because you must use the definition of each function to determine how many arguments it takes, and hold that information on a stack in your head. All you have to do in lisp is count the number of parenthesis. Reading Forth is O(stack depth) memory, where reading lisp is O(1).

Imagine you wrote some code and it produced an error because you didn't give enough arguments to a function. In lisp, you can look at the function and trivially see how many augments it has. In Forth you will have to scan the entire piece of code to locate the error.

Purely practically, I can almost guarantee that someone with no experience in either will learn lisp faster, and they certainly wouldn't need to write "training wheels comments" to figure out how the functions are called. In fact, the person reading the lisp code would likely understand instantly how it works, where the person reading the Forth code would spend a long time staring ant it and having to write stuff down to figure that out. It's just transparently obvious that reading Forth code takes more effort than reading lisp code for anyone who has spent equal time doing both.
Those are included directly in the PIP if deficient. And are always key parts of the job.

While there are plenty of incompetent (or just plain dickish) managers, no one who ever reported to me got a PIP for anything but being consistently ineffective or so abrasive they were causing more trouble than they were worth.

Ineffective could mean anything from couldn’t code effectively (compared to peers) to couldn’t design/figure out what to do to a decent enough quality, or wasn’t independent enough for the level they were working at, or unable to get peers to help them due to being a problem, etc.

Abrasive being picking fights with co-workers over things that didn’t matter, pointlessly antagonizing or scaring people, bullying co-workers, etc.

In all cases it needed to be a pattern of behavior (not a one off), they already had significant feedback/chance to improve and had not, and I have concrete guidance on what to do instead, why it mattered, and I would check in regularly and independently to see if there was improvement and give regular feedback.

And I made sure that the managers who reported to me (later) did the same. Which is why we had such good turn around rates. But ultimately, it wasn’t up to us - the most we could do is show a path. They had to walk it.

Anyone who didn’t think it was fair (but couldn’t articulate why in a way we could reconcile), or refused to understand and take ownership of the situation didn’t do well. Which was unfortunate. And did happen.

If they left without completing it, I would have understood and hey - better for everyone. No point trying to fit a square peg into a round hole forever.

But in all the time I was managing (over a decade, 200+ different folks, peak of a little over 60 at one time) no one ever did. Even though in some cases we offered them significant money to do so.

The case that tried to hit every button and blame/manipulate everyone else was particularly terrible, because I had to go into CYA/document everything mode while he tried to sabotage the team and anyone else he could get ahold of. Including false accusations against me, the HR rep, and several nearby managers who had nothing to do with it.

All because he got hired in to code, but near as I could tell literally couldn’t. He kept trying to make all his co-workers do it for him, which got old very fast. 3 months in, all his co-workers hated him, and that was quite a feat on that team.

He turned down a six figure ‘please stop already’ offer just to try to complete the PIP - which he didn’t, and everyone who wasn’t completely delusional knew he wouldn’t. And got fired.

So what are you talking about, specifically?
Perhaps I'm being particular here, but that wouldn't be a cocktail - it would be a mixed drink (and is called such in the article) based on the definition of a cocktail at the time:

"a stimulating liquor comprised of spirits of any kind, with sugar, water, and bitters included"
This is a very nice packaging of a kindle hack I've seen several years ago [1]. Previous discussion: [2]
You can point your kindle web browser at this website: [3]

[1] https://techni.gallery/literaire-klok-trekt-internationaal-a...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17688324
[3] https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com/
And they all work well to support the community, just doesn't work for landlords. So the land lords should get out of that game if they can't play.
It's interesting, this article largely shifts blame to the Post, while the leader of the Marubo seems to blame the original article.

>The Times article had overemphasized the negatives of the internet, he said, “resulting in the spread of a distorted and damaging picture.”
> we should expect to see entire new industries that didn't used to exist

Why would anyone need a human here when the AGI could do that too?