skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At what weight though. Eink devices are super light.
Ten years ago I agreed. I also thought that the USA should stop making paper 1 dollar bills and just dollar coins.

Now? I use credit cards almost exclusively and I if I get $100 in cash out of an atm, I regularly go a couple months or more without having to get more cash.
Sometimes people overrate "marginal value" and underrate "average value"
NASA does does not trust Boeing to return those astronauts to Earth alive. That is pretty devastating.
A shortage of video game consoles helped prove that gaming boosts mental health
For what it’s worth, Axler’s book did help me considerably.
We Can Predict the Future
Logged in to comment this. Very much agree. It's crazy (to me) that books like this gets so much hype on HN when there are much better videos that explain these topics better.

Most of my math learning starting in high school all the way through undergrad was done by watching YouTube videos. I used books to practice problems, but when it came to understanding topics more deeply, it was always some random person on YouTube who did it better.

I hope in the future, all math (at least applied math) is explained using nice visualizations + videos instead of books like this.
Perhaps. But equally, even if they don’t know how to build one, they might be able to work through the steps, iterate on their ideas, and eventually figure it out. The hypothesis is that, by modelling language they have essentially modelled the underlying human abilities of logic and rationalism.

Let me put it another way. If you put a thousand human researchers in a room with all the existing data and came up with a process to assess their outputs and iterate on their best ideas, how long before they built an interstellar transport beam - fifty years? A hundred years?

Now do it with a thousand AI researchers, and feed back their test results to them and allow them to iterate. But this time, assume they can work maybe a million times faster than the humans, or maybe ten million times faster. They’re limited only by the time it takes to build and test their prototype hardware.

Now how long does it take?
The Less-Efficient Market Hypothesis
> I don't think ChatGPT is more likely to harm a person with misinformation than just plain Google or YouTube would.

When Googling I immediately see alternative sources, which makes it simpler to see if it is a solitary opinion or at least a repeated one (which doesn't say it's true, but better than LLMs, which jsut "invent" it) and Ingot a source I can verify, by looking at other articles from the same place, judging their argumentation (is it consistent?) and so on which helps a lot to verify.

With ChatGPT I only get some text, which I can't judge for autneticity in any way, without other domain knowledge.

That said: These days I often start my research on some LLM, collect things I can base further research on. (Finding out, what even to Google for)

YouTube is a very different beast and with few exceptions useless for deeper research (but good for some light high-level stuff)
I'm not surprised this theme would be popular with founding CEOs but not really sure what the promised "Ground-breaking Management Mode you Won't Believe!" actually is. Is it take your favourite employees on a retreat, don't worry about the message this sends? Stop hiring mediocre middle managers and do... something else? Run a giant public company like a 20-person start-up, only don't? Delegate yet stay in control of everything?

Sharing how impactful the event/talk/whatever was, without the actual content, lots of name-dropping to build credibility, selective repackaging of conventional, well-known wisdom and a conclusion that fits nicely with exactly what SV executives want to hear == every Paul Graham post in the past 5+ years.
Doesn't this already exist? There are weaker forms of the EMH
Comparing top-tier athletes and top-tier musicians against average knowledge workers will lead to this sort of result.

I suspect that top-tier athletes at least are not spending 40 hours a week on training and performing. Writers, too. Musicians I am not sure about.
Holy crap, the Chipotle CEO? He ruined Chipotle, if it's the same ex-taco bell guy.

I haven't eaten there in...Six years now? Maybe once and I used to be multiple times per week.

Get ready for enshittification, Starbucks customers
>The famine in Gaza generates a lot of outrage because there was a line of trucks loaded with food rotting outside, as there is an apartheid system in place actively withholding food to generate said famine.

That sounds... pretty similar to what's happening in Sudan? From the OP:

>[...] Some of the shortage is down to theft and damage by the RSF and other militias. But much blame lies also with the SAF, which is loth to allow food into areas, including most of Darfur, under the control of the RSF.

>A single convoy of aid trucks can wait six weeks or more in Port Sudan to be cleared by the SAF for onward travel. Even then, almost all of it goes to SAF-controlled areas. Only a tiny fraction has reached Darfur. [...]
yes, because historically, food has been so scarce that we never evolved a shutoff mechanism on our own.
“The author and his cat Moon”

More authors should include pictures of their pets with their work.
I'm sure can arrange to go to Europe "for work". A site visit in London to check on the UK's facilities.
Thats no loonger the standard since many have done that by now. The standard is now manned cost to orbit. The race to the bottom in cost to orbit will inspire the next round of awe inducing spin off whose race to the bottom will then do the same for the next round... we are capturing the ripplesin the pond of capability improvement right now that has been held up for fifty years by space trvel being stuck in the realm of government (computing advancements held us back too so maybe only the last twenty years is attributable to the gocernment).
Other countries didn’t exactly stay out of their business - the WW1 allies were demanding unsustainably large war reparations paid in gold, rather than a currency they had control over the supply of. My understanding is that this directly led to their hyperinflation, massive amounts of resentment, and the eventual fall of the Weimar Republic. And everyone knows the rest.
Is that some catty way of saying you don’t agree? Maybe you should say why you don’t agree. Hacker News encourages a slightly higher quality of debate than glib remarks like this.
I had a e-reader, it's just to slow to run anything except reading books. Not sure if the new color screen will improve the experience.
You keep same IMSI but want to rotate IMEI??? If you want to change just IMEI just once, there should be plenty of phones reprogrammable through malware-included leaked manufacturing tools. They're not interested in locking that part down.
"Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge, without recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition

I don't think this is what you meant to say - have a partial understanding of something is not the same thing as intuition which is more like a "gut feeling".
My wife is a nationally recognized expert in elections in the US. The combination of FPTP and politically controlled district geometry (gerrymandering) explicitly creates a brittle system that engenders extremism. It's well understood to be both the cause and a reinforcement mechanism. The mechanism we have now was left in place in the early 19th c. explicitly to allow a small minority to be able to control their individual states. The main change since then has been cross-state unification of the party system. To give an example: here, in Texas, the most volatile Federal district was won by a representative who received only 10% of the votes in his district. Some districts were won by reps with as few as 1% of the total votes (that's total turnout). (This is due to the primary mechanism and gerrymandering.) If you can win by harnessing just 10% of the electorate, you're shopping around for the ironclad voters, and they tend to have weird views (left or right).
The French Detention: Why We're Watching the Telegram Situation Closely
I think electrochemical polishing[1] of the discs on both faces could be done without killing anyone. Since everything happens in a liquid, no vapors should evolve.

A VERY flat surface might greatly increase the bounce.

A surface coating of BAM[2] might also help, by increasing the hardness, and lubricity.

I think there's a lot of room to go in increasing the hang time of the bouncing bearing.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_magnesium_boride
Common English Lexicon: Common Words for Word Games
Have you been frustrated seeing Scrabble games using words that seem barely English? This list attempts to fix that.
I guess the problem is nobody wants to "own" countries anymore. Probably for good reason, colonization caused a lot of evil. However if you want to make a country do what you want, you can't just blow it up and then expect them to listen to you. Controlling people requires actually controlling them, and that is icky.
See https://isocpp.org/std/submit-issue
'individuals who consistently meet expectations' is not only not the same thing as 'superstars', it's nearly the opposite. doing the unexpected is a defining attribute of superstars. an individual who consistently meets expectations is incapable of simultaneously being a superstar. they must exceed them, and to an astounding degree, to qualify as a 'superstar' by any normal definition of the word

many superstars aren't even good at doing the expected when it would be a good idea, often because of drug addictions

this happens for two reasons. one is that if you're selecting people along two axes, the more harshly you select on one axis, the less candidates remain to select along the other, unless the axes are perfectly correlated. the other is that, whether you're a candidate selecting strategies or a judge selecting candidates, two axes along which you can select are mean and variance. in any event where you take the best of multiple trials, the top performers will almost always have high variance, not just a high mean
Or how some windows don't receive a resize signal when you disconnect from a USB-C display and they get resized without being redrawn (Firefox and Chromium for instance), and you have to resize them which is never trivial if they were full screen or taking a half screen (not all borders are draggable or something of the sort).
You should spend a few years in a third world country. Your righteous liberal rage will evaporate as quickly as your feeling of safety (which you take for granted).
People Differ in Learning Speed, Not Learning Style
LLM's can tell the difference much of the time. The deranged stuff on the internet is rarely consistent or well formed so is not a good source for predictions. More factual writing tends to be more consistent with other writing and becomes a better source for predictions.
Show HN: Bin-graph: Visualize binary files
This program provides a simple way of visualizing the different regions of a binary file. Written in C, depends only on libpng.

Currently (commit 1dd42e3) it is able to generate PNG images that represent various aspects of the binary:

- Grayscale: Byte values, 00..FF.
- Ascii: Printability of each byte.
- Entropy: Of a "block", changed with --block-size.
- Histogram: Bar graph of the byte frequencies.
- Bigrams: Each point is determined by a pair of bytes.
- Dotplot: Measure self-similarity. Image width/height is N^2.

In the future, I plan on adding an SDL version that allows the user to view a section of the file interactively (sections are currently supported with --offset-start and --offset-end).

More information on the README.
For someone to be complicit, the other party had to be instigator of the crime, right? Poor Greeks, forced into corruption, they would NEVER do that by themselves!
Used an HMD Nokia 6 for a while. Phone was stable, a bit trigger happy with killing background apps but very usable compared to my current phone (different brand) that has experienced several significant bugs (for me) upon major updates. No bullshit app pre-installed was a strong plus. But the autofocus was not working properly sometimes and I needed to physically shake the phone to make it work again. This was 2017, they may have improved since then.
> at this point it's mostly a laptop.

Exactly, it's mostly a laptop, so it's my main driver when at home. No inconvenient keyboard in the way when consuming media on the couch, but very productive when coupled with a (mechanical) keyboard, mouse and external display. Getting my ipad is no bother, getting my laptop is.
There are many games coming out for the Switch still on top of the huge library already available, many of which are now discounted because they’ve been out a while. Iirc they’re not even going to announce the successor until 2025, meaning it may not arrive until 2026. They’ll prolly aim for it to be on shelves in December 2025, but the OG Switch was released in March so who knows.

Anyway, does your kid want a switch? By the time the second comes out they may have decided they’re a PC gamer. Hell by the time you get back from the store they may have decided they’re going to play guitar not games. Kids move fast.
Getting things into orbit is table stakes. Boeing needed to prove that they could build a reliable crew vehicle on a reasonable budget, and by that measure they have failed.
Apple Succession Strategy: Keep the Old Guard Around as Long as Possible
Greeks are also kings of faked misrepresented data so that doesn't mean much.
Intuition is a vehicle for understanding. "Determinant says how much the matrix stretches things if treated like a function" is an intuition but doesn't give full understanding of the determinant.
Loose/missing door bolts?
Fast high-current initial charge boosts lithium battery lifespan by 50%
After 30 years, a renter has $0 in equity and Mr homeowner has a $400,000+ home he can keep or sell and which has been either appreciating or keeping up with inflation.

In many parts of the country, taxes, insurance, interest, and principle total a couple hundred dollars less than total rent, leaving money left over for repairs. Repairs aren’t always needed as some people are better at not buying a money-pit than others.

In many states, at least the ones that care to protect their middle class, there is a cap on the max yearly percentage increase in property tax on one’s primary domicile only. Commonly this cap is 3%. $3.6k per year property taxes are pretty common (that’s $300 per month). In some cities, that’s just a single rent payment now. Wherever you rent, that tax bill is passed along to the renter anyways.

Keep spreading that gospel. I would be happy to rent to you. It would be nice hearing a thank you for paying off my mortgage for me.
Yep, we do. It is part of the process just like testing. For the most part, it is not painful - most features are variations on existing patterns, and don't need updates. When we do code up a new pattern, we update docs.

And you are correct - we use consultants on the team, and hire in gig workers for small tasks on a regular basis. When I worked on a small core team without much churn, I did not do any of this.
we will take this excellent marketing advise under advisement, thank you for your consideration
> Completely stay out of their business and let whatever emerges from the chaos develop on its own?

This simply never happens. The developed world is constantly putting its nose into everyone else’s business, and through globalization and industrialization, there’s nothing on this world that the Western economy doesn’t touch.
I remember Animats mentioned a naive, execution strategy of another project. Seeing two articles, I wonder if anyone made a list of many implementation strategies for bytecode interpreters with links to examples.
> Not sure why this is such a big deal or any different than the thousands of c-suites that commute this way.

Starbucks pretends to care about the environment and sustainability much more than most. Or at least they used to, he may dial that back since his commute will be mentioned in news articles for at least the next few years.
If a normal employee claimed to still be working full time while on vacation they would call it "quiet vacationing" and probably fire them if they found out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41416872

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How a leading chain of psychiatric hospitals traps patients
I do think sometimes reading books about coding might actually make you worse since you might misunderstand the rules gained from there and try to use them everywhere even if they don't make sense.

So you need some sort of built experience that will allow you to consider those rules critically, and only add them to your toolset if it does seem to make sense for you and you understand why, you have past experience where you think "oh - that would have helped me a lot".
Regarding Germany and their nuclear power situation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany#First...

France is shutting down 14 plants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

Belgium was also on track to close down all their nuclear plants by next year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Belgium

Not fantasy world stuff at all. You can find a million sources for EU hostility to nuclear power, especially prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
> Gleam's community has grown much faster and larger

I hope I’m the anecdotal exception then! I personally watched this exchange happen and left the community within 24 hours. I respect your right to run your community how you’d like, but I unfortunately didn’t experience any “good vibes” from how you handled this situation.

To me a good moderator handles situations without patronization or condescending, is respectful but clear, and doesn’t care how people feel about them.

Keep up the excellent work on Gleam.
100% as I'm exactly like you. But such as Apple and many other companies, these approaches have created incredible products... at a cost that's for sure.

But ask Woz - he openly said multiple times he would do it all over again.
Sound of Boeing's DoD money train coming to an end....
I think a good project-based way to learn about linear algebra is to build a 3d scene rasterizer from scratch. Once you get nested transforms and projection matrices figured out, you are probably going to have a much deeper sense for what these things actually are than someone walking out of a typical college course. The 4x4 homogenous transformation matrix sort of tricked me into learning about things I didn't originally intend to. I spent a solid week watching videos (such as the exact one you linked above) to reach a more satisfying understanding.

I vividly recall manipulating matrices on paper for weeks in college. Absolutely none of it had any real meaning to me. Very little of that education helped me as I got into actual projects, other than some vague awareness that there are these things called matrices and something about system of equations. Having something to pull me towards a specific objective has always resulted in a much more substantial education. Learning about some of this stuff in isolation is really quite painful. Learning about painful things to get to the fun bits seems more tenable.
https://paulgraham.com/hijack.html

> By promoting themselves from data to code, hijackers on September 11th promoted box-cutters into 400,000 lb. incendiary bombs

Published September 2001
Different to https://www.opengraph.xyz ?
> intuition which is more like a "gut feeling".

That's what I meant.
related: https://moreprideemojis.com/

you don't need to be pro LGBT to agree with the logic lol: 29 clock emojis, 2 sexual/gender flags
Maybe instead of just green marks and black marks, we need, uh, brown marks too.

For producing b.s. that doesn't quite rise to the intentional fraud level, but, on balance, detracts from humanity's wisdom and knowledge.

We may call it with some other term than retraction, in order to be clear about the difference, but without "brown marks", there is nothing to stop entshittification of science.
I use a big boox for sheet music. It works well and supports a rather good app for the purpose (mobile sheets)
those scrolling brand logos with 0 context are a bit weird.
The Mars Volta Drummer Hears RUSH for the First Time [video]
Protective actions are required by the docking standard so it’s taken care of at docking but I find it very hard to find detailed information about implementations. It’s either very niche or considered sensitive enough to not be published widely.

I guess they use the same solution than during EVA which is running the Plasma Contactor Units to dissipate any buildup.
Assange was killed with polonium or thrown out of a window? I think you have made your moral condemnation variable of Boolean type, rather than the more realistic float.

I think also it is worth distinguishing between corporate surveillance, where there are very few limits on what they can do with the data, vs government surveillance where we can exert some power over the government by electing people to pass laws that reflect our desire for privacy.

As well, I am surprised HN has not internalized Brin's essay "The Transparent Society." Privacy is going to be deeply reduced by the ability of all
curious 13 year olds to launch insect sized drones. The question is how to handle - let only the overseers have the data or insist on public right to access data. Or something else; like laws forcing personal ownership of your data (although how things like being in the background of your neighbors cameras as you walk down the street should be handled there I am not sure.).

I would also point out that freedom and privacy aren't identical - one may have freedom via privacy or via less intrusive laws. (Ed: deleted incomplete thought).
> Will die out naturally as boomers trained in that kind of thinking pre-globalization die out.

I don't think it will. There will always be powerful people who want to maintain that power, and wannabe powerful people who want to get that power.

So long as that way of thinking leads to power, there will be people who will follow it.

The problem is not that people are tainted by colonial thinking - its that humans are tainted by ambition.
They did get a manned crew to space, yes. But the foremost expert agency on spaceflight, NASA, does not trust that craft to get the crew back down.
That’s personal use, his commute doesn’t count though does it? Doesn’t read to me like it does.

"You will be eligible to use the Company aircraft for (i) business-related travel in accordance with the Company’s travel policy, (ii) travel between your city of residence and the Company’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington and (iii) your personal travel in accordance with the Company’s policies, up to a maximum amount of $250,000 per year, which amount will be based on the aggregate incremental cost to the Company."
So I sat down and watched the entire thing. I didn't find it awesome or magical. Just annoyed that he stretched a concept that could be explained in 60 to 120 seconds into a whole lot of unentertaining, onanistic nonsense.
In my experience a more appropriate title for this book would be: 'Linear algebra done ok if this is your second time doing it'. I have seen way too many students who, after having taken a course that used this textbook, could not give an example of a linear operator (yes, I literally asked, show me an example of a linear operator in R^3) because they literally do not have the language for it (because 'matrices are bad').
I feel like this article is reaching towards similar conclusions:

https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/08/30/when-the-mismanageri...

Trained managers have learned how to continue to extract value from some discovered market, rather than create new value chains.