skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That entire time" only holds if you're looking at 20+ year time horizons, and zooming in shows the effect of interest rates. If you bought the S&P 500 in November 1968 and sold it in July 1982, you lost money in nominal terms, despite the CPI nearly tripling during that time period (so in real terms, you lost 2/3 of your investment). During that time period, interest rates went from 6% to 19%, also roughly tripling.

Then if you held from 1982 to 1987, the S&P 500 nearly tripled, despite low inflation and relatively few major technological changes. What was the difference? Interest rates went from 19% to 6%.

A useful lens with which to view this and other phenomena is "Which factors cancel out, and under what timeframes?" Technological development leads to large microeconomic winners and losers but little macroeconomic effect under short time frames, less than the business cycle, because the mechanism by which it increases overall welfare is to put workers out of work and firms into bankruptcy, freeing up those workers and that capital to be invested in new enterprises. Interest rates have a large effect over that timeframe, because they affect all firms in the economy equally. Over long time frames (multiple business cycles), the effect of interest rates washes out because they go up and then they go down and eventually they equilibrate near the long-term average. Technological development dominates then because you've given the economy a chance to adapt to new production methods and re-employ workers in obsolete jobs.
I was surprised that near Sri Lanka there is a large area of sea landfill. As I explored the Google Map I felt it has a "taste" of Chinese companies and so it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_City_Colombo
> "But the power button gave up 13 months in"

I had the exact same issue on mine... you can just feel it's bad quality.
> I'd reach for hypothesis testing/fuzzing.

These tend to be not so great at documenting intent and usage, though, which is the primary goal of your tests. Generally, I'd reach for both – offering a limited number of clearly defined tests to demonstrate common usage to future readers, while letting the fuzzing, etc. sort out the rest.
1. I spoke with the recruiters and they told me about their internal systems.
2. With AI being everywhere and bringing fast paced automation, I believe one should opt if it brings them value considering the tool does not bring a drastic change into their systems as no one likes interruptions in their operations. Any thoughts on that?
It makes sense that you got the idea from YC, yes. Unfortunately YC is quite far from a good source on how to remove unconscious bias from hiring processes.

Consider clarifying that the applicant should not themselves be visible in the video, to reduce the risk of discrimination in favor of certain ethnicities or against others. To be clear, my suggested requirement is that the visuals in the video must support the content but that the video must not depict the appearance of the applicant.

In the hypothetical alternate reality where one can trust that applicants would not represent the work of someone else or of generative AI as their own, I would also encourage replacing the audio with text to speech, so as to reduce the risk of discrimination based on the perceived gender or the particular accent of the applicant. Unfortunately, I don’t think one can trust arbitrary applicants to be that honest, so the ability to recognize the voice from the video in subsequent interviews still provides some useful authentication value. I would like a better solution there but don’t have one to offer right now.
"parasitic government interference" doesn't preclude the existence of non-parasitic government actions/investments.
If you are the only possible host you can set whatever price you want, and the users will either have to pay or lose the site (since it can't be hosted anywhere else). Also, you may go out of business
Did you know there used to be people who lived on that land
I always wondered what would happen when the ipad kids grew up. Can't say I expected them to start trying to use it to program.
Prayer for the Un-Entitled User
Yeah. The guy who explicitly stated people who are too old to have children aren't worth saving is the person who values human life more than me.

I find it bizarre that I'm being accused of cultlike thinking by someone who has distilled humanity down to just reproducing. We're not single-celled organisms, man. We can aspire to things greater than just having kids.

> So be it. The world always belonged to my children, and their children. I guess I should thank you for realizing yours were not fit to inherit it.

Making a value judgment about theoretical children based on a few online interactions is such a deeply weird thing to do. This whole interaction is one of the strangest I've had on the internet in several decades of using it.
Now that is a blast from the past. Great memories from Blitz3D, DarkBASIC and Conitec's 3D GameStudio.
Now that we know the term to search for "RealTalkOS" we can see at least one person tried to build an implementation last year https://github.com/deosjr/elephanttalk

"Our goal is to invent a form of computation which local communities of non-specialists can make for themselves. From the ground up, for their own needs, which they fully understand and control."

I'm LiveStreaming building a RealTalkOS implementation now. Come join and let's build together! https://youtube.com/live/02-wJ7Od9Bo?feature=share
Yup - I've done double-ended safety razors, I've tried the Gillette and Harry's disposable ones, but in 30+ years of shaving what I keep coming back to is Braun electric razors. So far, they're the only option I've found that doesn't leave me with razor burn.

Currently using a ten-year-old Braun Series 7. I can get away with infrequent shaves (~3x a week) since my beard doesn't grow very quickly, so I replace the foil and cutter heads every 2-3 years. It's not as cheap as a double-ended, but for me, it's a better shave, worth the cost, and cheaper/less waste than disposables.

If I upgrade anytime soon, it will probably be to something that's designed to be used in the shower - I do miss a nice shaving cream sometimes, and unless I have a bottle of 'Lectric Shave handy, I don't usually like to shave right after showering.
"We're going to put compute for AI and crypto in space" sounds like catnip for VCs. They make some big assumptions about infra and launch costs going down. Not to mention the proposed city-sized radiators for cooling. We've also learned that space is an absolutely hostile environment for computers, even with radiation shielding. I just don't see the feasibility here vs a legacy terrestrial data center.
Sure there are, plenty of low income countries with fledging industries, but the governments get more and more risky to deal with the further down in income you go.
> pontificate about things that are too small or too dark and far away to see

I was bitten by this last week. I am enrolled in an aops physics course, titled Mechanics. So the last time I took any Mechanics was 40 years ago as a high school student in India. Most of the curriculum then was about stuff banging into each other aka collisions, & asking what happens to the result. Like some golf ball rolls down an inclined plane at some angle theta & hits a identical stationary ball & the objects stick together & we're supposed to compute where they end up. I was curious what American students learn, so I enrolled in this aops course.

Last week's assignment asks me - under which scenario will conservation of momentum make an accurate prediction. The 3 scenarios are - truck collides with car, eagle comes to rest at perch after flying from far away, and two galaxies colliding into each other to form a third megagalaxy.

I naturally picked truck & car - so aops knocks off 2 points for the wrong answer! Apparently if a truck collides with a car there will be so much thermal energy produced by the friction of the road, any prediction you make about the final velocity of the car assuming conservation of momentum will be bogus.

So then I pick eagle coming to rest - aops knocks off 2 more points for the wrong answer! Apparently when eagle comes to land, it will open its giant wings to create air resistance, so momentum won't be conserved.

Ok so that leaves the 2 galaxies. I pick that & get my correct answer, a pathetic score of 3/7. I'm left wondering how do we even know this is correct. Galaxies are too far away to observe. How is one supposed to compute the mass of 2 separate galaxies, & then find their moving velocities accurately, & then find the final velocity of the combined galaxy, & thus confirm momentum was conserved ? Seems very far fetched. I would rather go with the car & truck.
Planning in the U.S.S.R Problems of theory and Organisation

It is available on annas archive. Along with other similar books (Search: "Planning in the USSR").

LOOK UPON ME AND DESPAIR!
Those rails involve an amazing amount of complexity that boils down to the entire system being nonsensical.

Payments are pulled instead of pushed; the underlying credit card numbers lack even a semblance of security; there is all kinds of mis-design due to the way that restaurant tips work; it all started when credit card imprints/readers were all assumed to be offline; etc.
I'm sure there are piss-poor drivers that don't sing along and really good drivers that do.

They should drop all the restrictions on 'distracting' activity and just fire poor drivers rather than trying to make poor drivers into good ones.
Linux is not preinstalled. There are some ThinkPads* and Dells with Ubuntu or Fedora but you need to know that.

And people how know will and must reinstall anyway Arch, Gentoo, Suse, Debian, Fedora or Ubuntu.

The Steamdeck is an excellent proof how a full featured Linux (SteamOS is based upon Arch) is shipped well. Not a unmaintained or googlyified closed-source derivate of Linux (Android and ChromeOS).

* I ordered an X13 Gen1 AMD with Linux for fun. Worked well, installation was clean. No 120$ for Microsoft and its stock owners. You shall not feed the bad guys. Especially when you will never use Windows.
I grew up in Cedarhurst, NY, 3 miles from Kennedy Airport. The Concorde at subsonic speeds was very loud. It was a loud, window-rattling rumble. But the worst of all were the 707s. They _screamed_. If I was outside when one went over Runway 31R/13L, I'd have to cover my ears.
Thank you.. came here to say exactly this. Who the heck is using SELinux? hah
This seems really neat!

DeepMind and AlphaFold are clearly moving in a closed-source direction, since they created Isomorphic Labs as a division of Alphabet essentially focused on doing this stuff closed source. In theory it seems nice for academic tools to have an open source version, although I'm not familiar enough with this field to point to a specific benefit of it.

So what's your plan for the company itself, do you intend to continue working on this open source project as part of your business model, or was it more of a one-off? Your website seems very nonspecific about what exactly you intend to be selling.
Legacy admissions helped her get into Stanford; she's backing a bill to ban them
Every other website is a mess of bloated and slow JavaScript code, both large and small sites alike.

I think the explanation isn't quite as simple as you make it seem.
I mean yeah. It's software designed for compliance. It's technically capable of any kind of restriction a bureaucrat might envision, so it's the best thing available for the kind of checkbox security needed in a regulated industry.

I find it enlightening to read what kinds of justifications the proponents of SElinux use. It's never about the quality of the software; it's about how there's more band-aid tooling to make it easier to work with, or about how it's not as bad as it was, or that it gives you all these knobs and levers to have more control. It's not what you focus on when you're serious about quality software engineering.

Imagine if we were talking about something like Gnome or the Windows 11 interface: yeah, the interface is a real pain to navigate, but we added even more menus and buttons and the rightclick menu is twice as long now, so you can do even more stuff with it, and we even added Clippy back in to help you when you get stuck!
Woah I’m shocked! I’ll definitely be doing that.
I call bullshit. Tax rates and interest rates certainly help spur investment and expansion of production but it’s hard to look at the world we live in today, with electric cars that can self drive and hand held devices connected to natural language comprehending oracles of knowledge, JIT industries end to end, starships to mars for colonization in mid to late stages, etc, and think “yep the only value is the value the federal reserve has created” as a federal reserve economist posits.
https://archive.ph/5UT6j
It looks like this system was created out of necessity; there was no viable product for what they needed. Necessity is the mother of innovation after all, and we find this sorts of innovation frequently in non-collectivized entrepreneurships as well. Still, very cool!
I think lack of focus on US domestic chip capability is semi-intentional and is an eventuality. Semiconductor industry, and many other manufacturing industries too, seem to flourish at very outer edges of the free world.

It could be simple as the free world not wanting manufacturing capability at home. It could be wanting only grain farms and money printers.
It's a sad state of affairs that the iPads are so incredibly powerful, with the exact same silicon as MacBooks, and yet to do real development work on one you have to reduce it to the worlds most expensive thin client connected to a real computer somewhere else.
We know architecture and training procedures matter in practice.

MLPs and transformers are ultimately theoretically equivalent. That means there is an MLP that represent the any function a given transformer can. However, that MLP is hard to identify and train.

Also the transformer contains MLPs as well...
> If Elon Musk was never born, it is likely we'd still have SpaceX and Tesla equivalents

I'm perturbed by Elon's politics and hypocrisy, but this is absolutely not true in anywhere near the same timeframe.
Is your preferred remedy that quantum gravity be entirely defunded, or instead that more funding be redirected to any of the other programs to study quantum gravity? If the latter, which ones in your opinion are more likely to be productive than string theory?
Cows don't roam free in Sri Lankan cities, either. You are aware that South Asia is a subcontinent and a whole set of islands, and not one singular city,right?
German gov't to introduce "recognized services" for cookie decisions (PDF, de)
Quite a few authors have pointed out that the "financialization" of American businesses, with a focus less on innovation or investing in their workforce and more on massaging their numbers to meet shareholder expectations, has created a lot of short-term enrichment for the super-wealthy while absolutely destroying the middle class as we know it. This seems like more fuel for that fire.
> with the implication that this is an alternative to car ownership and would vastly reduce the number of cars

The point I was trying to make is that you need very few idle cars on top of the ones in active use. A fraction of what suburbs already have.

It could be a vast reduction in the number of extra cars over the peak concurrent number.

> I agree although things like Uber and Zipcar have already reduced the need for lightly-used second cars which are what I mean by marginal cars.

Somewhat, but self-driving cars are more effective in multiple ways. They don't need to be nearly as cost-effective while idling, and they can come to your doorstep instead of making you walk to them. There's nothing like a zipcar near me.

> Very few people would argue that having the option of owning a vehicle capable of safe fully autonomous operation (with manual override) is a bad thing. We're just saying that having full autonomy only available as a third-party taxi service just isn't very interesting relative to today except perhaps at the margins.

I think it goes well beyond the margins if the price works out. Or maybe your definition of "margins" is a lot bigger than mine in which case we agree and even a change at the margins is a big deal.

But also, even if the average person wouldn't switch, that's different from it being utterly impractical to switch.
Did SMIC get 7nm to yield or is it limping but propped up for PR purposes like Intel 7?
Ask HN: Does "Satoshi Nakamato" translate to "Central Intelligence" in Japanese?
I've seen it claimed but never from a reputable site. Does anyone here speak Japanese and can translate?
Hopefully my cooking analogy helps a tiny bit? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41448649

Similar a bit to Maggie Appleton's barefoot developers vibe too: https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software
My nutter cousin likes to post pictures on facebook of rural solar farms that he claims are destroying the environment. And pictures of farms and cattle ranches that are natural. He lost his house rural house in a fire and now rents.

But yeah plants are 2% efficient or something and most crops require a lot of energy input. And we've got maybe 100 years of topsoil left in a lot of places.
As always with Bret Victor, the idea is huge and you can't help but get excited, but as a programmer of 35 years I'm always left wondering "well that is total cool for X and Y but how would you do Z?". I guess I just don't fully understand how rich the building blocks could be and whether you could be expressive enough to actually solve the same kinds of problems we do with other languages. Time will tell.
> there's something [...] about being protective of your "culture and values" in this way and to this extent

Yes, AND it may also be because it's kind of innovation in the open, before it's really ready or that all the critical angles are fixed, and they might not want spoil specifics they would like to make flourish and present to the whole world, and see them ... let's say half-assed, or misunderstood enough that it does not "jell".

In the end, it will be embraced in some way. But it's understandable that they have a specific idea in mind.

See it as a trailer for a movie where post-prod is not yet fully done, perhaps.
I think the overall idea here is really cool.
But ... to me the idea of printing stanzas of code onto paper and then putting them on a board so they can be OCRed back into text and then re-parsed seems circuitous. Like as a demonstration that in principle you can work this way on code as well as on more spatially-native concepts, it seems fine, but is that actually the best way for all kinds of work? Or can we acknowledge that this makes more sense for some things than for others?
For those unfamiliar, the founder is Bret Victor. He made a name for himself working on human interfaces at Apple in the Steve Jobs iPad era. In 2012, he gave a couple of influential talks: Inventing on Principle, and Stop Drawing Dead Fish.

Bret's take on being a visionary/futurist is fascinating. He imagines the near-future world he wants to live in, prototypes enough of it to write a talk about, and gives the talk with the hopes that someone in the audience will be inspired to make it a reality. He gives ideas away with the hope that he'll be paid back with a world where those ideas have been realized.

https://worrydream.com/
Who would've thought only releasing pseudo-code isn't good enough...glad to see the scientific immune system fighting back against closed-source science. Your move Google.
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Yuzu was taking donations to support playing games that were leaked before release.

Nintendo did ask Dolphin to pull out some DVD keys so it’s not like they’ve been left alone either.

But Nintendo doesn’t care about emulation because that’s settled legal precedent . It cares about whether the emulation is being advertised to bypass DRM for piracy. Dolphin doesn’t cross that line, yuzu did.
Cuba’s riches are Florida’s electoral votes, often hinging upon the sentiment of the exiles in Miami-Dade County. Plus, their whole cigar thing.
Glad you enjoyed it. "Lack of planning" is indeed the best way to describe Colombo.
TSA spends $6.3 billion per year on screening operations. Someone being able to bypass the entire apparatus of airport screening using a SQL injection attack is a really big deal.
The Altera merger pain is maybe enlightening.

Altera 10-series FPGAs were massively delayed due to Intel's 10 nm fab problems. But I speculate that there was also a big difference in toolchains, does anyone know for sure? I mean Altera was using TSMC previously, and I presume were using industry standard tools: Cadance / Synopsis. But I would guess Intel was running their fab on home-grown tools... what is the status these days? For example I know for sure that IBM's synthesis was "Booledozer".

It's interesting because maybe Intel will spin out the fab business. But are they immediately ready to become a commercial fab business instead an Intel-only business? What's the toolchain like for Intel fab?
Humans are an existing proof of human level intelligence. There are only two fundamental possibilities why this could not be replicated in silicon:

1. There is a chemical-level nature to intelligence which prevents other elements like silicon from being used as a substrate for intelligence

2. There is a non material aspect to intelligence that cannot be replicated except by humans

To my knowledge, there is no scientific evidence that either are true and there is already a large body of evidence that implies that intelligence happens at a higher level of abstraction than the individual chemical reactions of synapses, ie. the neural network, which does not rely on the existence of any specific chemicals in the system except in as much as they perform certain functions that seemingly could be performed by other materials. If anything, this is more like speculating that there is a way to create energy from sunlight using plants as an existence proof of the possibility of doing so. More specifically, this is a bet that an existing physical phenomenon can be replicated using a different substrate.
I think it's because Windows as a line of business is still expected to turn some kind of a profit, even though operating systems are not profit centers anymore and haven't been for some time. Whereas, Apple and Google view their operating systems as just necessary infrastructure to support profitable ventures.
Presumably the private and the general are in the SAME organization and yes, the avenues for advancement are available equally to all, it’s based on merit and the rules are clear.

The analogy would be if the private could become a major overnight because they knew a guy.
I would assume they're really just trying to "catch" people talking on cell phones, and people singing are causing "too many" false positives of the detection system?
Yes-ish, I somewhat agree with your critique. I think it's a temporary measure though.

It is very America-centric and that's very sad to me.

I think Bret is a bit hesitant to share the stuff before people understand what it is, to prevent the same problem that happened when Jobs visited PARC and walked away with the idea of "we need to build computers with the desktop metaphor", without understanding at all that it was always meant to be about authoring and sharing, not about the visual metaphors.

Regardless, I hope to see more actual standalone instances/offshoots of dynamicland.