skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, no. It's at least a > 1x return to make the investor whole.

Here's why: a dollar invested today has an opportunity cost for the amount of time it's not available for another investment. And the longer that dollar remains locked up, the bigger the cost.

If an investor chooses to invest in another investment--let's say a money market returning 5% annually, compounded--then anything less than that after N years is a bad investment. This is the calculus that investors make with every investment.

I know we aren't likely to agree about the ideology of capitalism, but consider that in a free and open market, investors are free to pick and choose the opportunities they want--including young, talented individuals with good ideas.

In a controlled market, investors would only be able to invest in what the "controllers" choose. By "controllers" I mean those who would be in charge, e.g. the government.

How many "controllers" do you trust to do the right thing and identify the young, little guy who has a great thing to share with the world?

Anything above a 2x return is necessary, because investors will have an entire portfolio of companies. About 66% of them do nothing at all. But a few will do well. And that results in a modest return, on average. Make your own simulated portfolio and do the math. You will see.
Exactly. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
If you want to submit a personal essay, please don't use alt accounts to upvote it. Anyone can click on this site's submission history and surmise where the 3 upvotes come from.
The manifold geometry kernel library is a truly impressive piece of work imo; well worth checking out;

https://github.com/elalish/manifold
Really the only flaw is trying to mirror a conventional car headlight design; if they went with something a bit quirky like an LED grid covering the entire front or something it would become something totally unique.
Nope that's how CAFE standards work. You can thank the EPA for that!

Instead of building more efficient small cars it becomes impossible to make them meet the efficiency requirements without making the car cost so much extra through fines. So instead you just get more "trucks" and SUVs. No more sedans! Those are the vehicles killing the planet!
Well, tell that to Elon Musk, who folded to the Turkish and Indian governments (both right-wing and aligned towards Musk I might add) and removed content worldwide on orders from the Indian government.

Suddenly when Brazil wants censorship, who's not bending the knee to Musk, it's a whole problem for him?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235213/x-brazil-suppress...
> I've never met a humanities PhD student without funding who should've been pursuing a PhD

1) In your entire life, how many humanities PhD students without funding have you met? Perhaps you think that, somehow, you've magically met most of them, since you seem to believe there aren't that many.

2) It's just your opinion whether an individual "should've been pursuing a PhD".

> if the department you were in was so poorly funded that it couldn't give out stipends, then it's likely that you would've never found a job in academia afterwards anyway.

My former department has placed many tenure-track positions.
The situation hasn't changed at all. There are tons of compliance auditors, and they can write all the policy they want, but they can't audit the day to day.

When I was at Facebook, there was a very strict official policy and warning in Bootcamp that "The security team knows when you impersonate a user, and you will be fired if it's not for good reason". I still saw people impersonating their girlfriends, their ex girlfriends, their crushes; None of them got noticed or even fired, and there was tacit acknowledgement that it was widespread. This was the same company that encouraged people to install their root certificate so they could MITM your connections[1].

You need to be worried about both. There's probably more banal evil than there was, but it's not because the assholes with petty power have disappeared.

All that said; The BOFH stories were never about the kind of evil you actually find in technical circles. There were juvenile power fantasy about being an evil trickster god; They were catharsis about all the times you are angry and frustrated at your coworkers; Yes, you want to hit them, shock them, throw them down the stairs - The same way that you wish you had a rocket launcher to blast the car ahead of you off the freeway. It's ridiculous power fantasy, and it's kind of shameful that tech has so many people that view it as "unhealthy" rather than crass for the sake of being crass; It is over the line twice.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/29/18202880/facebook-researc...
> Why can I not put an abstraction layer that provides me with the illusion of exactly-once delivery?

You can do that. You can implement a video conferencing system ontop of TCP, and it will even work, technically. It will just have terrible performance characteristics that you'll never be able to fix. You might even call it fundamentally broken.
Well, sure. So how much do you now spend on reputable private security and how many restrictions do you place on the movements of you and your family?
> put form over function here

Surely you meant "function over form" here? I'll assume you did, and yes I can agree that delivering mail doesn't require anything pretty. Apparently the cartoonish height came from USPS requiring that anyone as short as 5'2" can see over the hood and someone as tall as 6'8" can stand in the vehicle. Still doesn't look that great or practical (for narrow or rural routes) to me, but I guess we'll see.
The New Science on How We Burn Calories (2021)
The examples in this book are extraordinarily simple, and covers material that many proof assistants were designed to be extremely good at expressing. I wouldn't be surprised if a LLM could automate the exercises in this book completely.

Writing nontrivial proofs in a theorem prover is a different beast. In my experience (as someone who writes mechanized mathematical proofs for a living) you need to not only know the proof very well beforehand, but you also need to know the design considerations for all of the steps you are going to use beforehand, and you also need to think about all of the ways your proof is going to be used beforehand. Getting these wrong frequently means redoing a ton of work, because design errors in proof systems are subtle and can remain latent for a long time.
Best posts in the thread. You're dead right on all of this.
My girlfriend has long, vampy, very pointy, totally annoying nails by her own admission, and loves them.
According to the linked proposal, these implicit capability parameters are lexically bound, not dynamically bound.
Pretty easy to install on a ThinkPad T480s. I had to disable Secure Boot and switch the boot type to "Both" instead of "UEFI" or "Legacy".

Trackpad/TrackPoint works.

LAN works.

Wifi works.

Graphics are accelerated (integrated GPU).

Some function keys work.

Speakers work.

Didn't try suspend/sleep/hibernate, HDMI, Thunderbolt, headphones, SD Card.

WebPositive seemed to hang when I went to SoundCloud.
Bitcoin is not anonymous. Should one be able to link a wallet to a real name (like, for example, phil21), they can then follow each transaction that wallet makes, and where every coin ends up.

Once you know phil21's wallet is empty, those looking to heist anything would look through which wallets the coins ended up in, and start linking identities to those wallets.

If a criminal knows to look, they see the risk no longer matches the reward. If they don't know to look, odds are they weren't involved enough to have followed phil21's coins and wallet back to a street address in the first place.

Sure, the risk isn't zero, like you're implying, but it's dramatically lower.
kinda like automatic fallback or other automatic help/fix features.

they sound like something that would be helpful but in practice they just end up being a massive violation of the principle of least surprise.
Beautiful, it is such a shame Douglas & Pratchett were both taken from us far too soon.
Ok but humans aren't being hyped as this incredible new tech that's a going to lead to the singularity.
Could you add Discord to the socials?

The format for a Discord user URL is like this:

`discordapp.com/users/<User_ID>`

where `<User_ID>` is an integer. (People can copy the user ID when signed into Discord.)
Show HN: Right-click and save directly to Google Sheets
Scientists figured out why some people don't lose weight even when they work out
The author of the post, Ian Betteridge, makes this statement:

"But the other reason why the whole founder mode is a hot mess is that Paul Graham is entirely wrong about management and leadership. Yeah, I know: Graham has been involved with building more companies than I have."

However, the about page on his blog and his LinkedIn indicates he has zero experience running any companies, small or large. Am I missing something?

https://ianbetteridge.com/about/
Yeah I have been using them to help with learning graduate maths as a grad student. Claude Sonnet 3.5 was unparalleled and the first quite useful one. GPT4o preview seems about equal (based on cutting and pasting the past six months of prompts into it).
Things popularised or started by Gruber

USB-C Invented by Apple.

AirPod selling at cost.

Apple invented big.LITTLE core. ( He later retract that ).

Probably more than I could remember but those three were some of the worst because his reader would then go and spread the gospel.
This is the way. I feel there's an evolution of small business self-employment that can achieve scale without falling into the trap of the current finance-focused corporate approach. Spending my time and energy to focus on building out what this model is.
Tencent's GameGen-O: open world game generation
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/opinion/addiction-dopamin...
It’s coming eventually, once enough of the cars are EVs, flat fees aren’t going to be very viable if they don’t want people to game them. It’s not hard to read an odometer, it is hard to say where those miles were accumulated f you want to be really fare and get tax revenue to the state/place you were driving in.
Remind your mind to 1850, imagine seeing a lightbulb.
I feel like asking on Quora what the astrological implications are.
I wonder what the chances are that asteroids such as these will actually collide with our moon one day - and what it would mean for the planet.
many of these services do not exist anymore (chip mixer) or increased security (sanctions on Tornado cash, more KYC, better chain analysis).
McDonald's Extends $5 Meal in Battle for Cash-Strapped Consumers
Then let's get this thread good and Godwined.

Hitler thought Germany should have good roads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsautobahn

Hitler also thought Germany should have good railways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitspurbahn

Nothing extremist in that, not even in the slightest.

It's just a shame about the rest of it.
Still, an easy footgun to stumble into if you weren't mindful when setting up your spreadsheet
That is really cool. I've been threatening to do something like this for years. Thanks for this!
DeJoy was a Trump appointee. As witnessed by other such appointees (education, EPA), I was concerned DeJoy would gut the postal service. Sounds like that isn’t the case.
Probably, especially with the taller spherical-dished SA keycaps.
Why does phil21 necessarily have one wallet?

I find it doubtful that the majority of these heists follow anything like the pattern you've described. I think much more likely is just something simple along the lines of "xyz was active in Bitcoin in 2011, they're still using exchanges as of 2020 because we have a leaked email database, they probably have either nothing or a metric ton of coins, let's give it a go".

If anything I think that someone shouting loudly "I have definitely sold it all, I promise" is a sign that they probably haven't.
The amazing thing to me is that PythonSCAD is useful just for allowing access to variables and being able to write out files --- and it allows encapsulating those capabilities in "normal" OpenSCAD so that it is then possible to use them in a supporting tool such as:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

see:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/mai...

and the matching:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/mai...
I use two side-by-side browser windows, so there's no room for a sidebar.
> HN, and the internet in general, have become just an ocean of reactionary sandbagging and blather about how "useless" LLMs are.

Now imagine how profoundly depressing it is to visit a HN post like this one, and be immediately met with blatant tribalism like this at the very top.

Do you genuinely think that going on a performative tirade like this is what's going to spark a more nuanced conversation? Or would you rather just the common sentiment be the same as yours? How many rounds of intellectual dishonesty do we need to figure this out?
> makes you wonder how many cryptocurrency influencers are in the pocket of sanctioned nations

That's a wild thought that hadn't occurred to me.

With increased KYC and tamp down, where does this money go next?
That’s kinda the point.

It’s totally possible, even in America, to have pleasant government services at both the state and the federal level.
No but at least they have good bread.
I've actually been curious about that. For all the zillion things I can configure in my Honda Passport, I can apparently not turn that annoying feature off. It's OK. I just reflexively hit the button when I start the car now. But I assume having it non-configurable factors into some fleet MPG calculation.

(It's annoying because it interjects a slight delay when I make a left-hand turn.)
Love a meet tab. I once tried to arrange a meet up in Hong Kong but then real life and work got in the way.

Would love an easier and semi official way to get things started.
From TFA:

> Lenders keep issuing loans without regard for the borrower’s ability to repay, knowing the debt can’t be discharged. ... Meanwhile, lenders—both government and private—keep the money flowing. Why wouldn’t they? With loans that can’t be discharged in bankruptcy, they’re guaranteed a return, even if it takes decades to collect.

From the first chapter of David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5000 Years".

> “But,” she objected, as if this were self-evident, “they’d borrowed the money! Surely one has to pay one’s debts.” It was at this point that I realized this was going to be a very different sort of conversation than I had originally anticipated.

Sounds like the perfect way to create a system where the only way out is some kind of black swan bubble burst. I (genuinely) wonder who will be protected from the shockwave when it does: the number of people on the debt side is presumably enormous.
I see this theory a lot but mostly from people who haven’t tried pair coding with a quality llm. In fact these llms give experienced developers super powers; you can be crazy productive with them.

If you think we are close to the maximum useful software in the world already, then maybe. I do not believe that. Seeing software production and time costs drop one to two orders of magnitude means we will have very different viable software production processes. I don’t believe for a second that it disenfranchises quality thinkers; it empowers them.
I never heard of the ACE score, I just took a quiz and I would score a 6. I am a failure since high school, never went to college and had a period of 12 years of scraping the bottom of the barrel but I got a tech support job through a friend after not touching a computer for 15 years and then retaught myself programming after not doing any since middle school. managed to leverage that into a job at a quant trading firm by luck. I am still a failure but I have used my ability to learn and absorb information to build a stable life. success is always just beyond arms reach but luckily success doesnt matter I am just happy to be alive able to keep learning and making things. and now I have LLMs to help me
Are you kidding or being serious? Most business owners are just regular people. Have you ever worked in a small business before?
Firefox has a local AI translator, AI isn't all low-effort third party services.
The BOFH is soon to be replaced by the BAIFH.
I definitely see that! Lightning McQueen vibes.
Spreadsheet are wonderful and powerful, Excel is ass. Love the concept, hate the implementation.
How sure are you that humans don’t also “simply produce plausible-sounding text”?

I’m watching my toddler learning to speak and it’s remarkably like an early LLM that outputs gibberish with nuggets of sense.

Conversely I’ve seen middle-aged professionals write formal design documents that are markedly inferior to what GPT-4 can produce. This is at every level: overall structure, semantics, and syntax. Diagrams with arrows the wrong way, labels with typos, labels on the wrong object, mixed up icons, tables with made-up content, and on and on.

Aren’t we all doing this to some degree? Half way through a sentence do you known ahead of time exactly what you’re about to say three pages later? Or are you just “completing” the next word based on the context?
Very interesting and looking forward to trying this. I am a big fan of SFB for this type of stuff but haven't seen anything in distributed space that's beyond a science project. Would be great if I can use it on my 10k+ user web site.
It looks like a Pixar character that's about to teach me a valuable lesson.
A majority of them are full electric.
My pleasure!

I just hope we can get more folks using PythonOpenSCAD (or ideally, get it merged into the main branch).

Just finished up unit tests for the current state of gcodepreview:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/mai...

as part of my reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of... and applying what I learn from each chapter to it --- a bit more than a third of the way through, and it has already helped immeasurably.
Strange that Amazon can make Rivian trucks work but not USPS.
Hmm, I think I tried this a few times, but I could never get the right magical combination of dyn, Box<> and & to get it to compile.
It seems great for like straightforward linear code, elisp functions, python data massage scripts, that sort of thing. I had it take a shot at some new module for a high volume Go server with concurrency/locking concerns and nil pointer receivers. I got more panics from the little bit of code GPT wrote than all my own code, not because it was bad code but because when I use dangerous constructs like locking and pointers that can be nil, I have certain rigid rules for how to use them and the generated code did not follow those rules.
I don't have nearly as sophisticated setup as [Gwern](https://gwern.net/archiving), but they provide an overview of how you might go about it. Right now I manually use the extension on as as needed basis, but I would like to get it to the point where I can point a script at a list of urls and both run SingleFile and also upload to the Wayback Machine
There never were many successful college startups in the first place, and here's why: successful businesses are started by people who have domain experience and expertise along with some business/economics training. These folks also have life experience and the financial wherewithal to take a risk at no salary income for some period of time. And, perhaps most importantly, they have a big network of colleagues who can help with partnerships and introductions.

Here is an article by Forbes on this topic:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kmehta/2022/08/23/older-entrepr...

In college, you should learn about entrepreneurship and get excited about a future in business. But coming right out of school, you need to spend some time in the trenches and learn how things work.
From the “Dirty Comms” episode of Darknet Diaries, a SIM swapper being interviewed describes how attackers will use breach information from other crypto-related sites to credential-stuff Coinbase. That doesn’t necessarily get you very far because of MFA, but there was seemingly a brief window when Coinbase had a vulnerability for checking account balances without triggering MFA, so attackers were able to identify tons of email addresses associated with large crypto holdings. I imagine this information is available if one were to seek it out.

> DREW: I don’t even know if you’re gonna believe me whenever I tell you this, but there was an exploit in Coinbase for about one month where you could check the balance of any valid password and username. You could – no matter what. You didn’t need to have any sort of access except username and password. So, you didn’t need to SIM them to see their balance. So, people just ran millions upon millions of combos, combo list through Coinbase, and just found the millionaires of Coinbase. There’s obviously millions of those.

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/112/
Maybe if your money is not on a public blockchain you don't have to worry about chain analysis.
So if I understand correctly, you create a network of fractures that connect to two boreholes and you pump water into one and out the other. Won’t the fractures erode significantly over time? Do we know what happens when we continuously erode a network of fractures deep underground? And won’t the amount of water that’s required to stay pressurized get larger and larger as the fractures erode?
This industry is so fucked for so many reasons. First, impoverished postdocs pay thousands to publish their own research into $MONOPOLY. Second, the people actually reviewing this shit on the committee aren’t even paid.

Source: academic
I work with this type of scientists, supporting them in an IT capacity. Many of them do try to learn Python, I've been quite impressed by it, but realistically Excel isn't going away any time soon regardless. Sometimes it's the right tool for the job.
Yeah it'd be good to be able to create a separate user name. I like the anonymity of HN
> There is a such thing as a TCP packet

In what way is that a falsehood?
Sounds like a missed STTNG story line. I can imagine that such a “Data,” were we ever to build one, would hallucinate from time to time.
I'm also in HK and happy to meet for coffee and whatever topics come to mind.
This squeeze for efficiency is killing society fast, mark my words, no one but the most desperate will be willing to play that game to the end.

It will of course also increase desperation, which will make it seem like it sort of works all the way until it obviously doesn't.

Humans have to be put back at the top of the priority list, your line of reasoning is one better left to computers.
ZFS is how.
This is the way.

A friend of mine became insanely wealthy just off of Bitcoin. Immediately went off the grid a few years (back in 2017). Now owns a precious metals mining company in South America. Still holds Bitcoin, lives comfortably to a point, changed passports to evade sanctions (he was Russian), and even has a kind of his own private army, that's mostly involved in the mining business.

You wouldn't figure all of that out by simply looking at him, but strike him now and you'd have to contend against a few major governments at this point.
And if any of them even realize it.
Put it on a physical drive in a safe deposit box.