skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon Muskollini is working on it. Imagine a subscription service 1000€ for another month to live. Living as a Service. The shareholders are ecstatic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink
I am also puzzled by this example of utility. It would be easy for the identity provider to separately sign all properties, assign each a unique identifier, and then return them to the users to use the signed identity properties as needed.
WeWork was a finance concept. Lease commercial real estate in bulk long term, subdivide and sublease it short term, and borrow medium term to finance it.
That's a speculation on interest rates and short-term commercial real estate rents.

The CEO got a really good exit package from Softbank.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Neumann#Business_career
Most SUV’s aren’t that heavy.

I used 4,000lb for the car, a 2024 Chevrolet Suburban which is huge only clocks in at a 5,824 lbs. Load another 1,000lb for passengers etc and (6,824/4000) ^ 4 = 8.5x a car or 0.5% what I calculated for a full 18 wheeler.

Sure there’s more cars than 18 wheelers but 7,000lb is a rather extreme outlier in terms of SUV weight.
Regarding Boeing, it's true that the principal-agent problem and misaligned incentives are issues. However, you must also consider the impact of promoting business school graduates and McKinsey-type consultants—who often believe they are the smartest people in the room, despite lacking operational expertise beyond making slides—to leadership positions in a company driven by engineering. Naturally, these business types will focus on short-term revenue and stock prices, as they have been trained their entire lives to optimize for vanity metrics like GPA, company prestige, and strategy over operations. This mindset is ingrained in their identity, leading them to undermine the engineering culture. For instance, Boeing's CEOs reportedly referred to engineering leaders as "retards" and "losers." Now, we are witnessing the consequences of these actions.
I work in HPC, and for all the Python programmers I come across, I'm surprised at how few of them know details about package management etc.

Of course I'm quite a bit biased because the majority of these people are coming to me for help...

Back to Anaconda. It's great system, and the problem is people learn how to use ML or whatever using Anaconda, and then when they get into the workplace, you need a license.

I really wish organizations would just buy licenses for the users that want them, it's so much of a pain to work around not having Anaconda. Their prebuilt packages are pretty helpful and time-saving, even thought you "don't need it" and you can get along with using just pip, but you'll have to provide workarounds for projects that use Conda.
In a hypothetical pure GR universe what you're saying is correct, but our universe also includes QM and that makes BH physics much more subtle, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(physics) and we can't state things with such certainty...
on the note of the essay, it's pretty cool that Paul had its reviewed by Elon too! I hope this continues, instead of the sensationalized head butting.
Your way of thinking is so... polar. Does everyone need to be sorted into progressive or reactionary? Could concern for the state of youth be simply a humane reaction to the doubling of teen suicide rates [0]?

Are you really going to ignore the calls of 'fire' just because some reactionaries cried 'fire' in the past?

I think the political right likes to quote Haidt slightly more than the left because the right is slightly less prone to blindness about this issue than the left—their priors line up. But that doesn't exclude willful blindness on the part of the left—sometimes the youth really are in crisis, and there's a lot of evidence that our natural antifragility is the problem.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db471.pdf
Yeah, there is. It's called everyone having an automated driving system like FSD. The NHTSA is too concerned with me taking my eyes off the road for 2 seconds while FSD is enabled versus getting manufacturers to actually implement this stuff.

Why can I take my eyes off the road with FSD off and not with it on? They should mandate driver monitoring in every car when you're not driving with an autonomous system. As a motorcycle rider also, I'm telling you that everyone is literally on their phone when driving. I can see it all because I sit higher than everyone else. That's what the NHTSA should focus on.
> That’s not up to you to decide.

It's not up to anyone to decide. Facts are facts and until anyone knows for sure. I'm simply stating I'm putting all my money behind one particular theory.

> It is demonstrably and unambiguously debatable because, well, psychologists are debating it and disagreeing on what is true.

Sure, but by that reasoning whether or not the earth is flat is debatable.

When I said, and generally when people say something isn't debatable, they are not saying that it isn't literally debatable, but rather there is sufficient evidence that counter-arguments can be dismissed.

> But there is no question that we don’t have proven consensus at the moment.

We do though. We know it's true for some people. There's no shortage of data corroborating that.
That's some serious...multithreading!

(I applaud others for resisting such cringe, but I just couldn't help myself.)
Sagan was political, more so than Tyson. Sometimes science intersects with politics in ways that can’t be avoided. Nuclear proliferation, land management, etc. So how can you just turn off any scientist who touches politics? Or is it just a certain kind of politics that turns you off?
> It can do things I don't know how to and that would have taken significant time to learn. All I know is it works

Until it fucks up and you have no clue how to fix it, and either does the LLM.
Anyhow I eat a lot of yogurt and love kimchi, but to be kombucha is only slightly more palatable than battery acid. (e.g. heartburn in a bottle)
Did Pinot replace Clickhouse at Uber or is this a different team/dataset?
> without blowing anyone up

Not for lack of trying
Never while turning right on red. I was rear ended once by a fellow who was looking at his phone and did not notice me and the line of stopped cars waiting at a red light. But sometimes what can you do?
Such as?

I can think of a few cases where the crotchety old guy poured absolute shit on the new guys who came up with radical new theories that turned out to be correct. But in both cases (Linus Pauling with respect to quasicrystals, Eric Thompson with respect to Mayan script decipherment), the field moved on long before he died.
I’ve long considered “hard tech” (semiconductors, high end manufacturing, aerospace, etc) to be the embodiment of our culture, because it’s not something you can just start doing, it takes generations of improvement to make anything worthwhile.
I think retries are sketchy. Sometimes they really are necessary, but sometimes the API can be designed around at-most-once semantics.

Even with a retry scheme, unless you are willing to retry indefinitely, there is always the problem of missed events to handle. If you need to handle this anyway, it might as well use this assumption to simplify the process and not attempt retries at all.

From a reliability perspective, it is hard to monitor whether the delivery is working if there is a variable event rate. Instead, designing it to have a synchronous endpoint the web hook server can call periodically to “catch up” has better reliability properties. Incidentally, this scheme handles at-most-once semantics pretty well, because the server can periodically catch up on all missed events.
Institution for Savings. They use an app/webapp built by a third party that covers loads of small banks.
What about when an apple falls to the ground, is the apple magnetic?
If you drove 150 MPH on an American road you would end up 100 yards into the woods flipping over 90 times, after hitting 1 of 65 potholes that are 4 feet deep on the interstate.
It's worth noting that unless the roads are degrading and not being repaired, those costs are already being paid. It's just a question of who is paying it.
Because every option sucks for teaching.

C/C++? Full of footguns. Java/C#? Too complicated for beginners. Pascal? Outdated. Etc.

I personally prefer C to teach first-year CS students but just as the lesser evil. A good first programming language is sorely lacking.

(Note that I'm talking about the imperative programming paradigm. The debate on whether one should start with functional programming is outside the scope of this comment).
Surely you’re not a US resident, because “covered by insurance” is definitely not a good enough reason on its own to not consider this here. 30 days of CGM device coverage from our insurance costs more than this.

That said, one actually legitimate reason a T1D may be better off with their prescribed device is if Dexcom doesn’t readily replace the OTC versions the way they do for prescriptions.

This happens way more often than I imagine most who are unfamiliar would think. Anecdotal from an internet stranger, but just last night, we had a third G7 in a row fail well before the 10 day timeline. And speaking of insurance..they wouldn’t cover the early refill we tried to get a week ago when we hadn’t yet received replacements from Dexcom.
Gravity is one of the fundamental forces, there's no recursion in it's definition, indeed we don't "define" it we describe it.

The actual description of gravity isn't hard to understand, it's just really strange. There is no good reason to introduce confusing and intrinsically incorrect models.
monetary policy is what central banks do
I still don’t understand how they make any money from this, who wouldn’t immediately dispute the purchase if they put the CPU in their PC and it doesn’t boot? As a customer, I don’t really care what happened to the product before if it arrives and it’s broken. I ask for a return and if the seller gives me trouble, I do a dispute with PayPal and get my money back. I don’t even have to diagnose the issue.
I've also had a couple brushes with vagus nerve stimulation. While in a specialized chiropractor's office undergoing traction to correct an old neck injury, I passed out. Apparently this is quite common, especially when blood sugar is low. The vagus nerve does all sorts of weird stuff, including acting like an off switch.
there are standards for "verifiable credentials" and "verifiable presentations" so that digital IDs can be issued and displayed (using a model analogous to web pki/SSL certs), done in a decentralized and privacy-preserving way without ZKPs
In a subtle way, I don't think so.

When trying to quantify such a subjective characteristic we end up with a "Wittgenstein's ruler" situation where the question tells more about how the interviewer envisions someone programming from a young age rather than the interviewee past programming history.
He only jumped the trump when prediction markets guaranteed him winning (after shooting).

I can understand musk tho - current president propping up legacy auto hence oil industry is just not fair to tesla.
On the flip side you can hire Michael Jordan and screw everything else up and still win. Then go on to write a business book that’s completely misleading because you never realize that you did only one thing right, and that was enough.
No problem at all, great question because, as you know with your own pain, complex health problems are difficult to solve.

Actually yeah, have been basically eat a low-ish inflammatory diet for ~25 years. Ever since in my twenties, realized that I had some major health problem, took my general health very seriously, and have been eating healthy since then (eating a lot of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and only eating meat/fish once per day). In addition, have been exercising regularly too. This definitely all helps, because I would have felt completely miserable if my general health was also bad.

But seems like when it's a damaged nerve, then diet, exercise, and massage/accupressure can only do so much. The nerve is always firing and basically an electric circuit that is always on. The method that was worked in my case is to find a way to shut off that circuit.

And glad you found a low inflammatory diet helped you:)
> None of that happened, and not because all the bugs were fixed.

No one is in a position to assert that. We have very little idea how fragile our civilization is. Perhaps it's pretty robust, and networks of interconnected problems (like Y2K) stand no chance of snowballing out of control. Or perhaps it's really, really fragile, and surprisingly little stands between us and a profound collapse.

It's very difficult to be certain, because it's such a complicated system, and one that we can't really test to destruction.

Would all the Y2K bugs have caused a widespread systematic failure if they'd gone un-fixed? Probably not... but maybe? Just like all low-probability, high impact risks, it's very hard for us to reason about.

How much money is it wise to spend on averting the risk of giant asteroid impacts? Hard to say. Probably more than you think, though.
Low dose Xanax (alparazolam) and meditation helped me through a flare up of tinnitus. I’m not sure to what extent amplified sound and amplified pain are similar though. I found that I could eventually calm down and ignore the tinnitus sound, but I’m not sure I’ve ever felt that way about pain. Maybe something to think about.

But, this is how tinnitus is handled. You have to relax and not be hypersensitive to it, because there is a feedback loop, and you don’t want to contribute to it.

Best wishes. Pain is a difficult thing to have to deal with.
Lisp – A Language for Internet Scripting and Programming (1999) [pdf]
Ok, but then what game is being played according to these metrics? There is no game of "code" like there is a game of "football" or "golf".

Perhaps these metrics matter in some small fields but overall most places that need software could care less about most of these, as long as the business objectives are reached. And the business "winning" relies on more than just the code running its software.
One of the best use cases for "serverless" functions like AWS lambda is easily proxying around web crawling requests from the comfort of your codebase. To the developer, it's just a function in a file, but it runs in isolation from a random IP address on each invocation - independent of app state. Like Puppeteer, one of Big Tech's little gifts to indie hackers.
It’s not just the packaging situation that makes Python a bad first language. Whenever I write in Python, I find it completely impossible to stop myself from constantly making basic, beginner-level programming mistakes. Every time I miss having a compiler and strict typing that will yell at me when I’ve done something stupid.
Programming is a fractal of tasks. There's big stuff like how you architect a program, then down to how you write functions, and then down even further into grit below that.

And one of the joys of programing is that at each level, there's not one right answer. But even with there being different things you can optimize for, there's also a ton of poor choices that could be made as well.

Practice lets you focus on one aspect at one level, and improves your ability there. If you were to practice writing a function focused on correctness, another time on readability, and lastly writing the function based on performance optimization, you would almost certainly be able to write a better function later. You've expanded your tools, you've learned new techniques, and you've consciously evaluated your work from different perspectives.
A Lot of 'Unskilled' Workers Aren't
You’re off by an order of magnitude.

There’s ~165 million males in the US, but many ex professional football players still alive and some kids who will eventually become football players. I doubt 10% of boys try out for high school or college football, but let’s say 10% make even some vague attempt.

Many people play professionally for a very short period, but arbitrarily suppose 1/7th of men are in the age range to play professionally. 165,000,000 / 2400 / 7 / 10 … So something like 1 out of 1,000 guys who make even a vague attempt end up in the NFL.

More realistically I doubt even 1% of boys ever approached football with serious intentions. Still horrible odds, except there’s a lot more athletic scholarships than openings in the NFL.
MySQL with .NET instead of MSSQL?
+1 for hard columns. I can't stand fluid web interfaces, it makes it really hard for mind my to remember the placement/visualize the words I've previously read. I did not have this problem with text books.
One usually begets the other.
I wonder about the sibling comment about survivorship bias.

Specifically, I wonder if the reason "founder mode" strikes singular founders as a resonant story, is because it's representative of a story that can even have a singular narrative. The alternative (what pg calls "manager mode" of hiring the best people and letting them work) is perhaps one where there's more narratives unfolding and exploring the space. This could lead to either success or failure. Some spaces have less of a singular story, because they run and persist and thrive based on having multiple stories working together. Sometime the stories are dissonant. I've been in companies where the strength felt like it was in how a balance of things existed together, without the need to collapse them into a single totalizing narrative. This unresolved dissonance in a community can be either a weakness or a strength. The ability for a place or an organization or a community or a culture to hold contradictory truths, this allows a culture to hold within arms-reach an archive of more tactics and strategies (some useful in the current moment, some not), from which to call on when the environment changes, and new needs arise. That's how vibrant ecologies work.

Anyhow, this is a bit of a riff, and I imagine some people might be strongly opposed. I am not saying it's good or bad to be in founder mode. I'm saying it depends. But founder mode will tend to create singular founders who have a loud story to tell. The story is maybe less clear and loud when the other mode prevails and leads to success. It looks like a hundred ppl succeeding together, and no one person has the answer as to why, nor do they all agree on what that is. So it means that narrative will be more diffuse and less boosted.

Maybe more holographic in a metaphorical sense, where the information is encoded throughout a social fabric like a diffraction pattern, and no one person holds the whole narrative or truth, which emerges from the interaction of many narratives, both aligned and opposing (likely in small ways below the surface).

Context: I co-founded a tech community in Toronto (now ~7000 people), which for almost 9 years has run weekly participatory civic events (50-70 attendees), literally without ever missing a week yet. To put it lightly, we've learned a bit about distributed leadership, and my comments comes from that experience. It's very different from company modes, but some companies run on principles I feel quite aligned on.
Does science advance, one funeral at a time?

Pierre Azoulay, Christian Fons-Rosen, and Joshua S. Graff Zivin

https://assets.aeaweb.org/asset-server/files/9157.pdf
Too true. Also, you can't delegate your own responsibility.

That doesn't stop people trying.
"Windows optimizes for time to fist UI,"

I'm going to apologise right now for giggling at your typo. Microsoft have done some horrible things to UI.

The start menu - yes they created the fucking thing, yes it is now called start by everyone - own it (think Biro and co and stop being dicks) and it belongs at the left hand side. "We" know better than you, lets put it in the middle and surround it with weird shit and lets make it odd and put fucking games controllers on a corporate laptop and other wankery that we can't be bothered to curate because we are so poor but if you love our weather forecasts and shitty ... whomever will pay us .. whatever thing.

I think that Microsoft have lost interest in humanity as anything than a pool of subscription slaves to contribute to their bottom line.

That is some pretty aggressive fisting.
hot take: i find it a little irresponsible he put this out there without properly defining it / expanding on how it should be implemented. i already see people on twitter construing the concept to however they see fit.

though, to be fair he said it would take a year to do so:
https://x.com/paulg/status/1830300111232188626?s=46&t=8sSeDI...
And where exactly does it show your hostname there? And are you sure you never used it as an account name or something like that? I can’t imagine they can access the hostname from JS.
For anecdotal data, I'm a big fan of Apollo Neuro. It's a small band worn on the wrist or ankle and vibrates to stimulate the vagus nerve. Similar effect to tapping on your wrist. The sleep mode seems to improve my deep sleep scores on my Oura ring. I haven't done any proper data analysis to confirm.

Apollo Neuro claims to have lab data proving efficacy: https://apolloneuro.com/pages/science

Even if it's more of a placebo effect, I still enjoy the benefits of devices like this.
Not sure if COBOL is actually 'stigmatized', but it definitely doesn't match the experience requirements in the job postings for most places where young programmers want to end up.

It might well make a "second half of a career" job for not-quite-so-young programmers looking for an alternative to the tech-stack-of-the-month carousel. But the jobs tend to be with big old orgs (so, start with banks and government), which might not seem so attractive.
The 30% starts off as a publisher/retailer's slice of the fee, for which 30% isn't a bad fee. But Apple has extended its 30% take from "this is what we take for people who buy stuff on our store" to "this is what we take for any transactions within applications buy from our store." This is (very weakly!) justifiable if you're looking at microtransactions as buying-on-an-installment-plan, but Apple is going much further and demanding 30% on what's effectively regular credit card transactions.

And if people consider American credit cards' 3% fees to be borderline usurious, think how much outrage a credit card with 30% merchant fees would create. And that's basically what Apple is trying to push now, a credit card with 30% merchant fees. No wonder they're desperate to prohibit apps from telling people "you can buy it cheaper anywhere but Apple."
You could say something similar about most books. But padding isn’t totally pointless; longer videos are probably more memorable in the long term, and so are longer books that repeat themselves ad nauseam.
hmm, I've always had issues with my tongue, it does not extend very far out of my mouth and my tongue is always clenched and pulling down and left as well. But it's hard to tell if this is because of tongue-tie or because if my throat muscles are tight.

I'll look more into both these, Thanks!
I have had a couple of bouts of very painful trigeminal neuralgia, which was successfully treated with carbamazepine (an anti-convulsant). The latest bout was most likely caused by Covid.

I just wonder if there is a drug which can reduce nerve sensitivity, although I guess this is a well explored topic for you.

I have not continued the carbamazepine. In both cases, I used it for about a couple of weeks, and then stopped using to test if there would be a flare-up (and there was none).
Looking at the determinant section... I am so glad I got to learn linear algebra separate from matrices because oof this is hard to grok for me.
Real "makes esnse if you already know the thing" stuff. But interesting to see that form of determinant definition!

https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/determinants-definitio...