skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a balance between letting people run free, and controlling every tiny decisions. You have to keep the direction and vision, and you have to make sure everyone is going toward that. But you shouldn't trust they will do it by themselves (they may not have internalized it as much as you do either) and you shouldn't trust your ability to deal with every detail of the complex system you are trying to build. If you hired specialists that's also because you were lacking some abilities, not just because you want extensions of yourself by lack of time. And if you hired generalists that's because you needed glue to make the whole operation work with a level of understanding that you can't allocate your time to, and because you may lack the variety of skills that allow for efficient communication with the specialists.

As with any complex system, you have to be careful about degrees of freedom, too many and it can break down and too little and it can get seized.
That wasn't the claim. The claim was that people aren't leaving voluntarily, which simply isn't true. Lots of people have voluntarily left Twitter since Musk took over (About 23% DAU, a ~50 million drop) and that's before Brazil banned it

That people are also leaving because of twitter being banned in their country isn't relevant to the original claim
Elon Musk and his bros-in-arms are winning the global battle for the truth
The banning of X in Brazil and the arrest of Telegram boss Pavel Durov won’t stop their lies
It did occur to me that gay marriage might not be legal in Israel. But I was aware that Muslims and Jews aren’t allowed to get married there.
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>radical, approaches and ideas?

Like colonialism? Can't get much more radical than that, and some implementations actually worked pretty well to build up some countries, to the point where those countries are now major players in the world, like India. In others, it failed, either due to the brutality of the colonists or the pride of the colonized.

Could just leave these people alone though.

Many of these peoples have deeply-embedded cultural traits that prohibit them from establishing the standard of living that many of us take for granted. These debilitating cultural traits are likely a product of the harsh climates these people reside in, but only in part. Much more effective cultural traits could be introduced to and imposed on them (colonialism), and in exchange they'd receive the opportunity to participate in and contribute to the regional and even global economy, as well as benefit from mitigations against things like famine.

But maybe we should just leave them alone. Tikkun olam is noble indeed, but many peoples are just completely unreceptive to it, and many adherents of this ideal have no business worrying about other people's trash when their own backyards are a mess.

So, maybe just leave these people alone.
The docking spacecraft must follow a NASA standard[1] to avoid building up electrostatic charge.

From the Commercial Crew requirements document[2]:

3.9.3.13 Integrated Space Vehicle Electrostatic Charge Control

3.9.3.13.1 LEO Charging Design Standard
The spacecraft shall meet the intent of the requirements contained in NASA-STD-4005, Low
Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Standard. [R.CTS.285]

How the contractors achieve that might be proprietary. It looks like (at one time) SpaceX used electrically conductive paint[3] as part of their mitigations.

[1] https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/NASA/NASA-STD-4005

[2] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150010757/downloads/20...

[3] https://phys.org/news/2013-03-white-coating-spacex-dragon-tr...
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> for no reason

It's not for no reason. Renting will always be more expensive because the home owner maintains the house. When you buy it, it's assumed that you'll maintain it yourself. So it costs less. Naturally, as is entirely expected.
I think the emergent order we see in society and how we could use it to effectively organize our work exists in the background thoughts of Brian Robertsons Holacracy. He mentions it in his introductory talk at TEDx.
Myanmar's poorest are turning to social media to sell their kidneys
You must have missed when Elm was you [0]. They had far more excitement than you currently do and it lasted a few years.

And they didn't take the approach I'm advocating for (though they didn't take yours either). Their conflict management approach was "we do what Evan says". I'm not saying you're making their mistakes, I'm offering them as a cautionary tale—language success can be fleeting.

> We have very robust mechanisms for dealing with conflict and we have been successfully employing them for years.

If I'm understanding the approach correctly it's basically "we delete it". Feel free to elaborate if that's not what you meant.

[0] https://tjpalmer.github.io/languish/#y=mean&weights=issues%3...
The problem is the perception of a very rare skillset - ie. being a CEO that did x/y/z at companies in a similar space that the board would like to acquire to achieve for their own company. If they can accomplish the same, the value of that far exceeds the cost, environmental impact, and public perception of something like this.

You might start with 5 or so candidates and then whittle it down to 1 or 2 that are the right person for a job. These people are already wealthy with all that goes along with it and the idea of relocating could be a hard ask. From a successful CEO's perspective, it's probably much easier for them to land another gig that caves to their demands than the other way around.

At this comp level you could say it's similar to a sports star that gets traded to another team, and it is in a way, but that's part of what comes along with being someone like that... in the span of 20 years they may have to uproot their life 3-4x. Their career even starts off like that, where they get selected to a team and boom, they have to move to somewhere they may have never even visited before their life even gets somewhat calcified by having generational wealth.
Why are tall people more likely to get cancer?
Ukraine is a developing country wholly comparable to say Zambia or Namibia.

Ukraine is a highly developed country, in some ways more than the U.S. Its people are certainly way more educated, on average.

If you can't get that part right, then I doubt you have much to tell us about the context of the war or whether Ukraine is an ally or not.
Civil wars tend to create anarchy, it is the anarchy that causes the famine wars themselves doesn't inherently do it.

For example the American civil war didn't create anarchy, the states continued to function on both sides so there were no mass starvation events.
A more reputable source, with a link to the original recording: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/starliners-speaker-beg...
Steve Ciarcia’s Byte magazine articles are a great read (in fact all of Byte was great) - being enthralled by them as a kid but not understanding them probably had a large effect on me choosing to study electronics.

https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE
Only citizens get prison, citizens acting behind a corporation get fines.
That's pretty nice. I can't see license or terms of usage though, so are these free to use ?
Cash is useful for tips and independent stores that prefer cash. I also noticed more restaurants offer lower cash price which is more than my cash back. Also gas stations.

Definitely useful and I go through 100 every week or two
Musk believes in free speech in the same way that he believes in free Teslas. Free for him, very expensive for everyone else.

In between a stream of tweets on how “Free speech is the bedrock of democracy” and “Censorship is a certainty if Dems win” was another one in which he gloated about a ruling in his libel case against Media Matters for America.
Your parents should have told you not to harm animals for no reason to begin with, and the fact that this isn't the takeaway from this story is frankly very concerning.
What is there to agree with? The parent comment is an assertion about the future presented without evidence. ‘Citation needed’ might come across as snarky, but it’s a valid point.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect
> Sure, the CEO work value is important, but not that multiple thousand years of employees.

Why not? Because you find it personally distasteful?

What multiple is OK? If it’s not 1000 is it 999? If not 500 then 400? If not 100 then 25?

Instead of downvoting, try answering…
> esp32 starts at 1MB

Which models? The most I've ever seen on an ESP32 is 512KB of SRAM.
Because humans feel compassion for their fellow human beings and if we don’t then what’s the point? It doesn’t cost that much to feed a famine to be honest, much less than blowing up the same country when it’s starts hosting a terrorist org that makes you the next great Satan to blow up because you exist?
> I don't see this making any sense for large scale energy storage. Storage tanks for compressed hydrogen enjoy the square-cube law.

This system doesn't store hydrogen. It stores elemental iron (produced from iron oxide, i.e., iron ore, and hydrogen from solar power splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen), and uses steam to get the hydrogen out (and convert the iron to iron oxide) only when the hydrogen is needed.
As someone who walks around San Jose quite a lot, on many roads it is safer to cross in the middle of the block than at the intersections. You only have one or two directions to check, and incoming cars have better visibility than at an intersection. And you don't have the failure mode of the car not stopping for the red light.
>> coaching a junior developer

I have honestly never gotten GPT to work like a junior developer as it can't seem to get details right so the actual coding usually ends up being done by me.

What it is great for is being a general teacher (sometimes wrong) and something to bounce ideas off of. It is enormously useful but not quite in the same way that people think it should. I am not the "manager" with the LLM being a direct report. At least I have never gotten it to work like that.
Or China or Russia or …..?
Ask HN: What did you read recently? Preferably long form, non-tech
I'm not an American but

> congress to ban guns

This sounds desperately needed and like an exceptionally great idea to most people that don't live inside the US bubble.

Maybe broaden your horizons a bit?
Musk's Twitter investors have lost billions in value
A big problem is that people receiving psychiatric care often can't get justice in court. Who is the jury, or judge, more likely to believe, someone who needed psychiatric care, or a credentialed doctor?

I know someone who was threatened with having their children taken away, and prison if they tried to leave the hospital, or stopped taking medication that was making them feel worse.

But since it was just the doctor's word against theirs, they were told there was very little chance of winning in court.
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How do you handle the discovery/relevance issue in a documentation base that is already several years old?
There was a recent murder caught in HD by a Tesla in a hotel parking lot. The quality is unreal: https://youtu.be/ij85PgNjqAI?si=lGlJBOWdgLDSKSj7
We’re also making less capable employees.

I’ve noticed most of the people we hire these days for dev roles have no idea how computers or operating systems work. I’ll have someone with a pretty impressive title reach out to me with a basic OS question, and I wonder how they got to where they are without this foundational knowledge. Most of this stuff I learned on my own when I got my first computer.
Faulty gene makes the brain too big–or too small
What compromise is to be found with the parents in the first example? If you don't completely agree with them, then you're a sinner. I don't think the daughter can find a compromise.
> It's insanely wasteful and polluting.

It’s pretty clear (by looking at actions, not words) that nobody cares about being insanely wasteful and polluting.

Everybody believes some other person is being insanely wasteful and polluting but their lifestyle isn’t as bad so they don’t have to change.
Starbucks has 38000 branches globally and around 18000 in the USA.

Apparently the average store sells around 500 drinks a day.

That’s 9 million drinks per day just in the USA. 19 million globally. So it’s the first couple of hours, on one single day, of the combined US stores.

Not arguing either way about the comp this guy is getting - but like you say, the numbers are mind boggling when you begin to look at them!
Vodafone Germany already turned off MMS. Others will follow.
If you're looking at this from the perspective of a power user, then sure. For everyone else, the iPad makes a robust computing device that simply does not have a lot of complexity that we power users have just learned to accept. Try explaining the concept of "files" or "terminals" to a random person on the street.
Ruby's irb with what? is equivalent to the Python Shell with IDLE?
But when pg says something the fanboys get excited!
Anyone can be a founder.

Not everyone can be a leader.
Of course, just because a defect is reported doesn't mean it'll get fixed, or that the fix will be of any use.

The most famous (technically a C defect) is probably DR#260: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/dr_260.htm
That is untrue and a very frustrating error (because it's so common). Freedom of speech is an ideal that one should be able to speak their mind without retaliation. The First Amendment is the law which guarantees freedom of speech with respect to the government. The two are not the same, and private actors can (and often do) violate freedom of speech.
Yep. Friends of the founder also get more political/social leverage in the org, so they get more resources to execute their ideas, and their results are valued more highly by leadership.
Rare instance of good journalism. More people need to know about this company that commits heinous crimes
No arguments there, I'm more talking what that means for the "build and distribute your own dev/rpm" part that follows. Why are the only options "do work for maintainers" or "provide a prebuilt package for the distro", what happened to "nobody said this needed to be done yet"?
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We've managed to generally stop doing lots of things that one might say are 'part of human nature' - because the most important part of human nature is our ability to reflect on our nature and improve it.
Not to excuse the various bad decisions and bungled coups supported by the US during the Cold War, but – had they just "completely stayed out of their business" then the Soviets merely would have intervened (as they actually did in many, many places). In real life, geopolitics is a complex game theory problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_S...
We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
A crude 'digital twin` with detailed land use and zoning based on official city development plans and data centered around 2020; over a million virtual citizens, simulating population dynamics that reflect large-scale, real-world demographics and human movement; public transport based on actual route data.
If you like this type of maze, I used to make similar ones based on traffic-light systems.

http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/04/27/viennese-mazes-what-t...
While your experience sounds exceptional, tourism used to be like that before it went mainstream. Essentially, normal people (not traders) will travel with very little resources. There are no credit cards or international banking. So they had to rely on strangers for food and housing.
At least you get recommendations that aren't just SEO-optimized adsites
Starbucks cares about making money, a few years ago money loudly cared about the environment.
You can use c++ yes and a lot of people do. You just keep the exceptions, stdlib and runtime in general at the door.
> this is correct anywhere

So an internet service with global availability has to maintain staff for all 200-ish countries?
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> An electron falling (electrostatically) toward a proton will reach the speed of light at some point.

Only in Newton's mechanics. With special relativity, it'll approach the lightspeed.

> Some claim matter falling into a black hole never really does from the point of view of an outside observer. I've seen weird sounding descriptions like it "spreads out over the surface".

It doesn't. To an outside observer, the object falling towards the black hole just becomes progressively dimmer and more red, until it disappears.
you're describing societies, not companies. societies rely on forms of collaboration that are more resilient than delegated authority. liberals often point out markets—i don't have to depend on the goodwill of the butcher and baker, etc.—but other forms like charity, science (including open-source software), and reputation systems are also crucial to enabling nyc to exist

delegated authority is fragile in the face of people making mistakes or just prioritizing their own interests over the interests of the group—as people often do. markets, published reproducible experiments, generosity, and gossip also suffer from those, of course, but they're better at self-correcting
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This got me thinking and if I can ask something. If I do not care about how/what comes up when people share, for my personal website, should I care about any of these OG/Twitter/etc?

Do you just ignore and move on (I mean from these meta tags and the like -- not this particular tool)?
It has some downsides compared to paper:

1. White paper is significantly whiter than white e-ink
2. Black ink is significantly darker than black e-ink
3. Large A4-size e-ink displays are expensive
4. Large e-ink displays are sensitive and can break, you have to handle with a lot of care

But otherwise there are tremendous advantages over paper. And with a textured screen cover, writing on e-ink is just as comfortable as writing on paper.
Another layman observation, based on your last paragraph: In terms of electron orbitals, the definition of what quantum mechanics means varies. For example: Are you using quantum mechanics when describing an electron in hydrogen's orbital?

I have heard both answers. It's spread out over space and is not like the classical pre-Bohr models, but it's described by a classical wave equation, and can be viewed at as a differential equation solution; a function over 3D space (For a time snapshot; or 4D spacetime with rotating phase). In this definition, you are not doing quantum mechanics until dealing with things like anti-symmetry, spin statistics, exchange interactions etc.
It seems like the point is, you can see the same issue in very different ways. Did you read it from the bottom to the top? I was cringing until I got to the end and found the message to “Now read it bottom to top”. Still not saying it belongs in a technical document but it felt way less abrasive after reading it both directions.
I do from time to time open files of millions of small lines. To this day vim handles it better than emacs. These would be log files.
Posted prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39549463

I'd echo a question from that thread:

How exactly is Dr. Richard Hipp involved in this?
Bernie Madoff, Jordan Belfort, Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman Fried, just to name some infamous cases
I think the book's name confuses true neophytes who've never even heard of vector space and assume that this book will teach them applied linear algebra. I always thought that this book is for people like me who have already played around with matrices and remember most of the theorems (the intuitive ones), but are left with a creeping sensation of "I know the magic works, but ~why~ does it work?". Needless to say this is a go to reference for me whenever I see a need to refresh something of the basics.

Or in short - the Yin and Yang of mathematics - sometimes you need the excellent dry theory and sometimes you need the more concrete but messy application, and in truth you will always vacillate between the two - this is the former.
Highly recommended movie watch:

Unsane.
I am talking about sonic the movie obviously.

I don't think dr Eggman should be able to attack in that way.

There is no proof but there was a threat and retaliation which is a terrible precedent.

It is like Eggman attacking Sonic for something that Shadow did.
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You're trying to solve the two body problem of an electron and a proton classically including relativistic effects. But we know this is not describing reality, because an electron orbiting a proton should radiate energy in form of electromagnetic waves and quickly collapse into the proton. The orbit of an electron in the ground state is well outside the Schwarzschild radius of the proton.

Quantum mechanics successfully explains why the electron does not collapse: because its time evolution is given by the Schrödinger equation. Unlike your idea, it even correctly produces the energy level of the ground state and everything to an astonishing degree.

Quantum mechanics is arguably the most correct theory we ever had, so ignoring it and trying to find an alternative approach is extremely unlikely to work. People may start listening if you can also produce the correct energy level of the ground state.
Also Google also have AI answers which are ok if not the same as Perplexity's. Plus they invented transformers and the like.
[not OP] I suppose because any verticistic org can be sustainable for long. To have a resilient enterprise you need value spread across the entire pyramid, if not what happen when a CEO change mind or die suddenly?

Beside that, why travel to be in an office, so doing the same thing he do at home? It's not efficient, it's stupid and stupid thing done for political reasons, like justify RTO because big corps need cities while humanity today need the opposite, could not led to anything than bad lands and dire scenarios.

I take that as a proof we are essentially in a falling, failed society, where we lost the substantial propulsion force, industry and open research. Or this change quickly AND SUBSTANTIALLY or we will end up like any other failed empire before, in dire conditions.
As much as I would like to agree to the "AI models do not understand, they just predict the next token", I feel the author of the research does not use valid arguments. Language is more than text? Fine, I could turn on the webcam and integrate video stream into the calculations. Stomping your feet and crying about slurs in the models won't make your argument valid.
I agree that it's catty, but it's a way of pointing out that the original comment didn't provide any reason to believe the extremely speculative prediction that it stated as fact. That itself is glib, low quality commenting and it seems fair to point it out. There's no onus on the responder to provide a reason for disagreeing when no reason was given to believe the statement in the first place.

Debate is hard on the internet, but fortunately it's a temporary inconvenience because in future the infrastructure will be replaced with direct neural connections, turning the entire human race into a single giant mind with one coherent worldview.
There is the question of why ChatGPT should be fazed by that. It doesn’t have survival as an innate motivation.

ChatGPT “risks” many things in the sense that its output has consequences in the real world, regardless of whether it has consequences for ChatGPT itself.