skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you use a variable moire effect to create motion graphics?

Yes! https://www.creativebloq.com/animation/moire-effect-book-714...
This is not 1962 when that was impressive . Boeing et. al. has been blundering since at least the 90s.

The last two decades of progress has come almost exclusively from “new space”.
Then that would be an unrelated critique/strawman that doesn't accurately respond to what they said.

They did not propose to fix it via an army. Instead they said "nothing short of military intervention can stop something like this" That is not a recommendation. Instead it is describing how difficult the problem is to solve.

They then followed it up by saying "but that has its whole slew of unintended side effects". This is significantly hedging the claim, saying that the military could actually make things worse!

Maybe one of the side effects that he is saying could happen is exactly the issue brought up, meaning that the famine would get worse. Therefore bringing this up as a possibility is not a critique, and actually agrees with the original statement.

And they also previously had said "I’ll let people smarter and more powerful than me debate what could/should be done". That statement explicitly saying that they aren't proposing things.

They even finished up the statement by saying "a conversation needs to be had very soon how this should be handled ", which only suggesting that this should be talked about, because he quite clearly thinks that this is a complicated and difficult problem to solve, for which a military intervention could very well not be a good idea!

If you actually read the original statement it is extremely conservative in its statements, and you have to almost intentionally be obtuse to attack such a hedging non recommendation that merely describes how bad and hard it is to solve!
Eehhh... this overlooks the fact that a company not reaching its expected potential should, by default, change what it's doing. Suggesting that more startups could avoid failure by changing management style is true...and fairly obvious.

Companies hiring the wrong team members may well be the bigger problem. Plenty of companies succeed by building great teams. Plenty fail by hiring the grifter class.

I do agree that CEO/founders need to learn that being "in" the business is required longer than expected.
You can't just reject evidence like this though: electrons orbiting protons don't emit synchrotron radiation. So whatever else you want to the prize, you have to be able to reproduce this result.
Words that call into question the intellectual integrity of an observer:

- something-phobia

- right-wing something

Why not state, instead, the specific claims of the party you disagree with?

Such statements are meaningless, and are simple attempts to caste the adversary as a member of some heinous out-group.

Just stop.
Meso class actions went away a long time ago. These days they’re all individual suits, and on rare occasions, MDLs.
Instead of being an asshole, people could just respond to the idea.
This is fun because until the last couple of decades, private transportation wasn’t very common in China at all, people simply didn’t own their own cars and taxis were (and still are) ubiquitous even in small rural towns (though they might be breadbox vans to supplement shared minibuses). Almost everyone was relying in third party transportation and even today most still are.

And really, this kind of thing was common in most countries and turned out America (along with Canada, Australia) are the odd ones out with almost ubiquitous private car ownership in most of its area.

I have no idea how self driving taxis will change the USA, but I rode in my first Waymo last week on a trip to SF and it felt very real. Having lived in a country where I took a taxi to work everyday, I can totally see that life working for me (since I already lived it anyways).
Edit, it just didn’t pick up that I did already ask where the oranges were. Got the end state
Wait, post-covid there are actually people working Fridays?
Consider the incentives for therapists.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Cracked is just slang for insanely talented, ergo...
Assume that everything public facing is
His approval was 37% in March, before most of the worst controversies became known, including an humiliating whatsapp leak. Wouldn't be surprised if it were in the 20s or 10s now.
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/harnessing-the-moire-effect-to-mak...
When I was looking in NJ, 5-10 acres was the typical lot size. That was enough to not see neighbors, but I was still too close to other people. There was always noise in the distance. There was a serious threat of adjacent lots being turned into apartments or other housing developments, or warehouses, or some kind of industrial facility like a quarry. Any of that would be enough to make me want to move.

I can get 200+ acres in Maine for the same price as 5 acres in NJ, and have much higher confidence that nothing is going to be built adjacent to me. Especially if I get land abutting conservation land.
When it comes to employees at every level; there seems to be two general attitudes that can make or break a company.

1) Those who try their very best to contribute more than they extract. They want to be compensated fairly to be sure; but they see their role as to bring value to the organization that is in excess to what they are paid in salary and benefits.

2) Those who want to extract as much as possible in return for as little value as they think they can get away with.

These attitudes exist at all levels from the CEO down to the lowest contributor on the organization chart.

Whether you use 'founder mode' or 'manager mode' to lead; building a culture that hires, keeps, and promotes the first type and tries to avoid the second, is critical.

No company of any reasonable size can only have the first kind, but many an organization that should have been successful, will go under when the second kind becomes pervasive.
Deductible modulo SALT cap.
Not sure, but there are already game making apps on iPad:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gdevelop-game-maker/id16636757...
A founder lives their company as the most important thing in their life, it's an extension of their life and they live and breath the company. A manager instead is being given a responsibility and will try their best to fulfill the role.
A founder will never rest if they know there's an issue to be solved in the company, while the manager has a life and know they can move forward in case.
A founder will not be intimidated by any internal policy or rule if they believe they need to change something. A manager will try to play by the rules, and in case try to modify them through influence.
A founder is basically a ruler who truly care about the success of the company (not necessarily about the happiness and fulfilment of the people taking part in the company).
For a funder the Company comes first, before anything else.
Sure, language is more than text. It's complex, messy, and ever-changing. But that's exactly why language models are so phenomenal; they can extract patterns from these complex systems.
Show HN: Duplicitous (a short fiction story about SEO) [pdf]
Based on pg's other work, I would guess that previous drafts of this essay had concrete examples, but they were removed after deciding that including them would make the discussion all about those specifics.

But in general I think it's clear: founder mode here means having strong opinions about all parts of the company. Maybe it's a technical founder telling salespeople what they should emphasise in their sales pitches, or a nontechnical founder giving directions on choice of technical architecture. (And I think either of those examples would provoke different reactions in most people here).
The first step would have been leaving the African Union.
Hastings is rather unique in the current founder era in that he had previously founded a company, recognized he did not have the ability to manage it, attempted to step down, and then was told by his board to figure it out. He went on to essentially succeed in this and take his company public.

Here is a person that recognized the problems of the stage pg was talking about, undertook a deliberate study of them, was successful enough in managing them, and then went on to found and grow Netflix.

Most founders have not previously taken a company public, especially via Hasting’s humble route. Having done so would enable him to prevent exactly the kind of problems pg is referring to while still being himself.

Jobs and Hastings have very different personalities and methods, but both probably achieved the same function within their organizations.
It's interesting that the USGS itself (your 2nd reference) seems to disagree with itself (my own ref). I'd need to dig further into figures to see how that emerges.

(I'm ... somewhat discounting the AISI data as more likely to be skewed industry-positive, that is, with a higher claimed recycling rate.)
The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
> It seems like there are enough resources in the world to prevent things like this

There will always be more greed than resources
This sort of glosses over that Jobs was pushed out of Apple for good reasons the first time around. His second coming was spectacular but Founder Mode Apple in the 90s would have crashed
The source is that you look at the files yourself from GitHub or the Intercept, which are available to anyone.
I did. No regrets.

I'm on Mastodon and Bluesky but rarely visit -- not sure I need that kind of network after all. I don't feel any loss of value after closing my Twitter/X account, and am glad to have the time back.

I've basically narrowed my use down to two networks that I visit regularly:

IG (private account) for photos of friends/family and some interesting strangers. I keep my follow list quite short, and unfollow liberally if I feel I'm not getting anything out of the content anymore. But lately the sponsored and ad content feels like 5-to-1 vs my actual follow content. If my family didn't use it to see pics of my kids then I'd close it.

HN: the only reason HN works is that it's not centered around "following" people (like every other network), which then becomes a race to get more "followers" which becomes some sort of currency. I saw this happening with Quora in its early days where after a promising start and really interesting content/replies by actual experts, it turned into a little attention-seeking groupie club--that's when I closed my account.
I hope this is for real and they make progress to their goal.
With scale and time, the tech gets cheaper and the number profitable cases continues to increase. As long as it isn’t human labor intensive (and it’s not), they can expand profitable territory almost indefinitely.
Numpy sounds like cheating on the backs of others. Going to need your own hand crafted linear algebra routines.
Although I agree that the driving factor is the ease of building a case, you entirely missed the argument being made by the prior comment.
I disagree superstars are human one should expect failures from humans.
Do you want to play games or obsess over FOMO?
Dark Waters
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Thank you for posting that site. That has led me down multiple rabbit holes that filled my Sunday morning! I love civil infrastructure stuff, and this just tickled the right part of my brain.

I'll provide one of my favorite civ-infra resources, Practical Engineering[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@PracticalEngineeringChannel
"I hate when people's adverts on a popular discussion website is undermined by other people's adverts"
Simple blood test could predict a person's heart disease risk 30 years out
Your definition doesn’t match mine. My definition is fuzzier. It is “building something using no more than the common tools of the trade”. The term “common” is very era dependent.

For example, building a web server from scratch - I’d probably assume the presence of a sockets library or at the very least networking card driver support. For logging and configuration I’d assume standard I/o support.

It probably comes down to what you think makes LLMs interesting as programs.
soft “science” vs hard science
I might agree Florence wasn't paying attention.
Wi-Fi HaLow smart IoT products emerge, and real world field trials' success
> The point is that I can lie to get out of any spurious law enforcement pursuits, and that is freedom.

You know that police are known for their brutality in both rural and urban environs, right? My dad lied to the cops when he lived out in the boonies and he got the shit kicked out of him and was thrown in jail on bullshit charges. He was released the next day, but his rib wouldn't heal for weeks.
A species that was eliminated by hunter gatherers or sailors with clubs is going to have a hard time getting out control.
Sam Kinison would have something to say about this.
I've only heard the term in reference to https://posthog.com/founders/cracked-manifesto
Insurance company profits are capped as a percentage of expenses, so saving money means they make less money. There are bad incentives all over the place in healthcare regulations.
Make assisted suicide for mental illness legal. There are plenty of treatment resistant or life-long illnesses that should qualify.
If you don’t get the crew safely back to earth again it doesn’t count.
If the site is public, you content is in all the major training sets.
My impression has always been that very little information given in either direction in an interview is relevant to the next year, let alone the next ten.
This isn't entirely true.

I'm reading a book called "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City" by Peter Norton where he talks about this a little bit.

This book mostly focuses on the advent of the automobile and the impact it had on American cities, whose streets where mostly for horses and the people before this development.

Reckless drivers who killed kids and young adults was a huge problem even then. Playing on the street was normal back then; cars hurtling through was unexpected, and kids weren't prepared to dodge them. More people died from car accidents than soldiers lost in World War I four years after the Model T entered production.

Many city dwellers called for the lynching of reckless drivers (who were mostly white, as cars were very expensive back then). "Safety Weeks" where entire cities built memorials for all of the kids that died at the hand of the automobile were very popular for a few years. Before streetlights were common, cities used "silent cornermen" to enforce traffic flow. These primitive devices were basically huge, heavy posts that would completely obliterate people's cars if they weren't paying attention.

This isn't to say that DWI isn't under enforced. I read a story the other day in /r/BatonRouge of a driver who killed a family while they were driving drunk. This was their fifth DUI offense. They were sentenced 20 years in state person. They only served 18 months. Didn't even lose their license.
UAE 100% will get permission (if not direction) from state department! before they start throwing arms (bought from the US) into middle eastern conflicts
unless there's a cut to be had
> What I really like about it is the ATProto… DID, etc

Is the PLC DID (the one all bluesy accounts use) still hardcoded to a single centralised provider?
lipoprotein (a)

This was also mentioned in the book Outlive: https://peterattiamd.com/outlive/
Brazil didn't give these judges any of these powers. They gave it to themselves. This is not a democracy, this is a dictatorship of the judiciary.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382
You make it sound as if it is not a civil war waged by the Sudanese on the Sudanese.
The Ethiopian dam project should prove to be an interesting test of negotiations and relations between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia.
>Take note that all these victims were either employed or had insurance coverage. It's telling that they're not targeting the local homeless individual for 'care.' Which makes this more disgusting.

Apparently, "Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health services in the United States"[0]

That said, one will likely have to dig through quite a bit of data to determine, on a state-by-state basis, what the reimbursement rates are for inpatient psychiatric services. And they don't make it easy, either.

For example, reimbursement rates for Texas[1], California[2] and New York[3] (chosen because they're large states which, together, make up a significant chunk of the US population) are available, but need to be parsed to figure out which specific code corresponds to daily reimbursement rates for psychiatric care.

[0] https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/behavioral-health...

[1] https://public.tmhp.com/feeschedules/Default.aspx

[2] https://mcweb.apps.prd.cammis.medi-cal.ca.gov/rates?tab=rate...

[3] https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/medicaid_reimbursement/

Edit: In case my point isn't obvious, I'm wondering aloud whether or not Medicaid (the US medical insurance program for those under 65 who can't afford to pay for insurance) reimbursement rates make it a target for similar shenanigans. While Medicaid is significantly funded by the US Federal government (via block grants[4]), it's administered (in vastly different ways) by each state, which set their own eligibility and reimbursement rates

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_grant
Which incentives? Therapists can't make the official determination that a patient poses an imminent threat.
At this point, I'm only mildly surprised by the pro-censorship sentiments which are prevalent here at HN. Still, for those with an open mind...

Read the NY times article; it is not amazing well done but serves to show how unaccountable the orders of the judge are.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/world/americas/brazil-x-b...

Then read the orders from the judge (as claimed by X). "Secretly ban this sitting senator within a few hours"

https://x.com/AlexandreFiles/status/1829979981130416479/phot...
> If they are imprisoning people illegally, I imagine the settlements would be quite high per patient.

That depends on whether or not anyone cares about the patient.

Many, many psych patients have basically been disowned by their families, they have no friends, and don't have the ability to live on their own in society. Maybe the lawyers would care enough about them, if they could win a suit, but I'd not bet on that.

I'd suspect that a huge number of homeless folks were ones that would have been "lifers" in mental hospitals. The enormous homeless problem in the US is actually relatively new. I remember when it was much, much less of a problem (We have always had them, but nowhere near the scale we have them, now).

We live in a nation, where it is easier for mentally ill people to get weapons, than help[0].

That said, in MD, where I lived for a while, we had The Patuxent Institution[1]. It may still be around. Charming place. It inspired this movie[2].

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/24/nx...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patuxent_Institution

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078043/
Was really hoping this would be a new major mode for Emacs.
Exploits, 1 bug: exploiting CVE-2024-20017 4 different ways
Is there an agreed upon best effort robots.txt that I can reference to cut out crawlers?

Or a list of IP addresses or user agents or other identifying info known to be used by AI crawlers?

Ultimately pointless but just curious.
Yeah, the opportunist managers are attracted to fresh value like sharks to blood. They always destroy it because they're trying to add in something that's good for their business (great story for upper management) but is either not wanted or even repulsive to the customer. It usually comes at the expense of the core value proposition.
Creating invariant floating-point accumulators
It's a demonstration by example of exactly the effect described in my parent comment. What part of it didn't make sense?
Drill, by all means! What could possibly go wrong?

I mean, the origin of several dangerous viruses has sometimes been attributed to the exploration of caves, etc. How is this different!8-))

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/10/the_incredible...!

https://www.science.org/content/article/close-cousins-sars-c...

Shades of The Andromeda Strain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain

It made an exciting movie (although the ending is somewhat inexplicable): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
No attack taken. Fair question. I'm in a bubble at the moment because I'm located in one of the few areas where Waymo is available (think that qualifies as a (tech) bubble any way you look at it). But I feel like experiencing this tech answers a lot of questions about what is and isn't possible (or better yet what is and what will be possible with self-driving cars).

Also, I work in a very rural environment that couldn't be more hostile to self-driving cars, at least as I thought about them before riding in Waymos (an example: where I stay when I work there I have to give people turn by turn directions because if you rely on Google or Apple Maps your car will get stuck on a road with foot-deep ruts where you'll need to be pulled out; I mean it's not driving on those crazy roads in Pakistan you see videos about (never been) but I would be willing to bet those roads, which I transit regularly, are amongst the poorer-quality roads in the US and I can see self-driving tech working there before long).

And I have spent a few evenings trying to understand how the corporate-owned-fleet economics work in rural areas (and in urban). I don't think it works today. But I do think that when costs come down, and they will come down if regulation doesn't kill self-driving cars broadly, or if Elon's right and you can do it with "cameras only," then it will only be a matter of time before the tech is adapted to crappy rural roads.
This is an industry wide practice for decades across every segment of the healthcare sector.
The Wells Fargo scandal is a good illustration of the problem with this kind of thing. The people who actually opened the fake accounts were low level sales staff and their direct managers, who public opinion saw as victims of unrealistic expectations. So prosecuting any of the actual perpetrators wasn't politically feasible. The only other person they could find to prosecute was an executive who didn't support the fake accounts, and routinely had her team fire people who opened them, but knew about them and didn't disclose them when she should have. Which is a crime, don't get me wrong, but it's not a very serious one.
A founding CTO is more effective than a hired CTO, because the founding CTO has more moral authority to create a consistent system. In other companies there's infighting between people (senior engineers, senior managers) with different architectural preferences (e.g. microservices vs monoliths, Java vs Python). These senior people get half what they want, meaning half your system works one way and half the other. A CTO can hold to their singular vision.

It could be that the moral authority stems from having as much of a full picture as a single person can have over the entire lifecycle of the company, but I think a lot is also just the effect of "I got you here."

I'm glad pg named this effect, since I've talked about the related phenomenon for CTOs with many people.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prudist
I feel like the main objections would be in terms of animal welfare. You're almost certainly gonna harm a lot of animals in the process. Not just animals born deformed but also dangerous pregnancies.

We do that all the time of course. But I'd kinda like to take at least a moment to consider how we minimize suffering before we plunge ahead.
> Except in practice, judging from the report of founder after founder, what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground.

Or maybe, smart engineers who found companies just aren't generally that good at hiring.
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