skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are the key points outlining why thewanderer1983's response misinterprets noch's comment and contains inaccuracies:

Misinterpretation of the Original Point:
Intelligence vs. Moral Superiority: Noch discusses the intelligence level of a mediocre graduate science student compared to the general population. Thewanderer1983 misreads this as a claim of moral or inherent superiority over "the rest of humanity," which was not implied.

Conflation of Educational Levels:
University Graduates vs. Graduate Students: The response conflates undergraduate university graduates with graduate science students. Noch specifically refers to graduate students who have pursued advanced degrees, which typically require higher levels of specialization and intellectual rigor.

Incorrect Assessment of Intelligence Measures:
Graduate Studies as a Measure of Intelligence: Successfully completing graduate studies, especially in science, often requires significant intellectual capability. Dismissing this as "not a good measure of intelligence" overlooks the challenges inherent in advanced academic work.

Irrelevant Focus on Credentials and Industry Practices:
Credentials vs. Intelligence Discussion: Noch's comment centers on intelligence levels, not merely on holding credentials. Bringing up how industry values experience over degrees shifts the focus away from the original discussion about intelligence.

Unfounded Assumptions About Noch's Background:
Ad Hominem Attack: Suggesting that Noch hasn't been to university is an unfounded personal assumption that does not contribute to the argument and detracts from a respectful discourse.

Introduction of the 'Elite Class' Notion:
Straw Man Argument: Thewanderer1983 introduces the concept of an "elite class," which Noch did not mention. This misrepresents the original comment and argues against a point that wasn't made.

Overgeneralizations About Academia and Industry:
Academia's Recognition of Intelligence: Claiming that academics don't consider intelligence until one has a Ph.D. and years of work is an overgeneralization. Intelligence is recognized and valued at various academic levels.
Industry's View on Graduates: Stating that industry only uses graduates as an entry requirement ignores the significant roles that advanced degree holders often play in innovation and leadership within industries.

Ignoring the Core Benefit Highlighted:
AI as a Life Upgrade: Noch emphasizes how access to AI with the intelligence level of a graduate student is a substantial benefit for most people. Thewanderer1983 fails to address this key point, instead focusing on unrelated issues.

Misunderstanding of the Value of Graduate Education:
Work Ethic vs. Intellectual Achievement: While a good work ethic is important, graduate education in science also demands high intellectual capability, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

Logical Fallacies:
Red Herring: The discussion about industry preferences and academic credentials diverts from the main argument about the intelligence level of graduate students.
Ad Hominem: Attacking Noch's presumed lack of university experience instead of addressing the argument presented.
But why oh why can't you disable automatic date reading? Put something in settings with a checkbox that I, the user, can tell excel to F-off with that nonsense.

Is there anybody who can argue the 'for' case for having this on all the time without recourse?
Show HN: I made a digital circuit drawing and simulation game
Inspired by games like Turing Complete/Virtual Circuit Board/Logic World, I tried to make a mix of aseprite and wiredworld/wired-logic, the idea being the user can build a digital circuit using a "fullstack" pixelart creation workflow.

The circuit is just an image. The primitives are (i) connected wires which have undefined, 0 or 1 state during simulation (displayed brighter or darker in function of the state) and (ii) NANDs, which are little pixel triangles. During simulation the user can interact with any wire by clicking on it, toggling its state, which is cool for messing around when learning. The simulation uses a unit-delay event driven algorithm.

Then, on top of that there are little wire interfaces on the left side of the image that communicate with an external system. This external system is defined in lua and is simulated together with the main circuit (they alternate until convergence). By default there's a sandbox mode with a clock and a power-on-reset signal. The user can choose other "levels", where the API change and there are some problems to solve, from finding if a number is multiple of 3 to solving hanoi tower to finding if a number is prime. The idea is that if the user want to learn but not sure what to do they can try to solve these puzzles, or they can change the lua scripts to add their own stuff/interface for a custom project.

I've also included a small wiki (circuitopedia) with some basic digital concepts to guide those who are new or are a bit rusty. It's not super detailed but I guess it can at the very least present the concepts so the user can dig further on more serious material if they want to.

I developed the game in C with raylib, with scripting in lua/luajit. I've put the game on steam (for windows) and released the source code on github under GPLv3. There's also a web demo version on itch.io, even though it's a bit laggy: https://lets-all-be-stupid-foreva.itch.io/circuit-artist-dem... .

Feedback is appreciated!
This is my new favorite quintessential HN comment.
Each of the pixels is actually a little shining eye which watches your every move. When the pixel’s eyelid closes, that pixel turns black. That’s why they call it putting a display “to sleep.”
It's not intended to help anyone who runs ads.
> You are still responsible for what you do regardless of the means you used to do it. And a lot of people use this not because it’s more productive but because it requires less effort and less thought because those are the hard bits.

Yeah, that's...the whole point of tools. They reduce effort. And they don't shift your responsibility. For many of us, LLMs are overwhelmingly worth the tradeoffs. If your experience differs, then it's unfortunate, and I hate that for you. Don't use 'em!
What do you do with, say, an article linked from HN that you want to refer to in future?
the "manifold" renderer makes possible some stunts that couldn't be done before. for example, i made this "usa counties" outline from a png: https://www.printables.com/model/895723-usa-counties

its under the "features" preference, doesn't work for everything yet, but is worth investigating if you haven't.
Post training includes mechanisms to allow LLMs to understand areas that they should exercise caution in answering. It’s not as simple as you say anymore.
Complaining about annoying ads while having ads literally every paragraph.
“Las Vegas” means the meadows. The Spanish were usually pragmatic when naming locations on their maps, e.g. Del Rio, El Paso (de Norte), and Presidio in Texas; Salida, La Junta, and Pueblo in Colorado; the Sierra Nevada in California; and El Camino Real’s everywhere.
Correct, but irrelevant to the question. The usual rules of math require it to be parsed like -(3²), so there are only positive numbers being multiplied.
The dream would be a planet-sized optical telescope, but even a European country sized 'scope would have trouble with your idea.
We are more limited by our emotions, and then our skills in learning and acquiring knowledge.

Intelligence is probably a distant third.
Inferred implicit parameters for ergonomic object capabilities
> No, really, cut it out. If you need to make fun of a language, do it with your own language, inside your own community.

Agreed. I have nicknames due to some of the diatribes I've gone on regarding C#/.NET but it's what I do and I am always willing to be challenged.

> JavaScript is really good at this, because they’re trying to help people write better code within JavaScript.

Now now we all get to pick on JS

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Also, I just really feel the need to throw out the statement, you can still have contempt out of a 'language', even a 'circle' you know about, for extreme derp.

I.e. if it becomes obvious talking heads are just doing what the salespeople Gartner led them down the path towards due to a magic quadrant and are thing both too big and too small for your org, it's OK to have contempt for that too.
Falsehoods programmers believe: the OSI model is useless
The only surprise is that the number is that small:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...

Lizardmen gotta live somewhere.
Denominator error. “Close to 90% of that fentanyl is seized at ports of entry.”

52% of Tucson’s Border Patrol seizures were on the field. Like, 100% of the wine I drank this afternoon was delicious; that doesn’t mean there is no terrible wine.
Or the whole atlassian suite, github and teams + a single linkedin tab.
I guess that makes sense. Safari iCloud integration is super convenient for syncing everything to my phone etc.
>Plenty of smart people who get liberal arts degrees from top schools do just fine.

There's research that also shows smart people who get degrees from "non" top schools do just fine as well. They studies those who got accepted to top schools but went to "lesser" ones. Implying top schools select people who will be successful regardless, rather than helping make people successful. It's important to not confuse the causal relationship.

* It's also worth noting the authors of those studies found a caveat with people on the lowest ends of the socioeconomic strata getting more benefit from the top schools.
something something falsehoods about addresses
With low frequencies, directionality is negligible, so it's not about turning it "toward" the wall, but about placing it against the wall. I suppose it's possible that the sound radiates more from one side than the other (possibly the side with the cone, or maybe the side with the port if one exists!) so turning it can result in effectively moving it closer. Or maybe you were listening to a more directional frequency range than I'm thinking of. Anyway, why does closer matter?

If you suspend a subwoofer up in the air so it has no boundaries, its sound radiates in all directions (full space). If you put it on the floor (let's assume all such boundaries are infinitely dense and thick, for simplicity) its sound now radiates only upwards/outwards (half space). Now push it up against a wall: quarter space. And finally, put it in the corner of the room: eighth space. Of course for a few millimeters it goes toward the boundary but then is reflected back, and so long as the distance isn't so significant relative to the wavelength that destructive interference (cancellation) occurs within the audible range, all interference is constructive (additive). The SPL in the listening area increases by 3 dB for each of these boundaries/halvings, although in practice it's slightly less since typical boundary material is a little bit acoustically absorptive (sound converts to heat) and acoustically transparent (sound is transmitted through to the other side), but even complete absorption isn't any worse than complete transmission to a place with no listener (i.e. the absence of a boundary): the sound goes unused either way.

Fun fact: typically half-space is used when citing the efficiency of a speaker in terms of dBSPL/Watt, since the vast majority of the power is for bass, and it's considered rare to emit bass against fewer than one boundary (the floor).

The next time you are deciding where to position your bluetooth speaker, if it's lacking in bass, boundary-load it.

But this is all about turning non-directional sound into directional sound (through boundary loading, which is a very close cousin to horn loading, as a sibling comment mentions with folded horn cabinet designs). TFA isn't about that though, it's about sound that's already directional! So I doubt any of what I've said is relevant to this mysterious effect.
Yeah Volvo is great at safety. And reliability too. I owned a 10 year old one that cost me a couple thousand, drove it for years without notable maintenance except the usual oil change and it kept going <3

So much better than my Skoda where half the dashboard fell apart and the gearbox suddenly just "crashed"

If I ever own a car again it'll be a Volvo :) won't be an EV for sure because I always buy old cars, i just hate spending a lot on a car. It's not important in my life and the past 6 years I haven't even owned one and rented one only once.

Ps totally anecdotal evidence obviously
Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
For various life reasons, I developed depression, and I am autistic and have ADHD (diagnosed, treated). I didn’t get treatment for my ADHD till after college.

The point of this Ask HN isn’t to start a pity party, but I am just getting some data on how others like me are doing.

I have an ACE score of 6. Currently, I look accomplished to people, but I don’t feel accomplished. My estimated networth is maybe 300K or more with home equity. My biggest concern with my quality of life is I don’t feel safe (don’t ask).

So what’s your ACE score, and how satisfied are you with your life?

ACE quiz: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/3870079...
At 1.5%, you should strive to make the absolute minimum payment on your loan. That is pretty much free money.
In grad school. I was alone and miserable. Another grad student (who is an A.B.D. but became famous on Quora and then got kicked out because of his conspiracy theories) said “you should get some weed Paul, my roommates have weed and they always have girls coming over.” I turn to another grad student, Harry, who I called “Rush Limbaugh” at the time because he was conservative and had a radio voice and say, “You’re always talking about weed, you must know where to get it right?”

The next day Harry comes around and asks “Were you serious about that?”
and I said yes because I had nothing left to lose. He introduces me to his dealer who later became my wife.

Funny Harry was sitting on the other side of the couch when I started tapping out this message.
This book burning vibe is pretty extreme. I wish there were a reliable way for everyone to write pseudonymously. (I don't as a reminder that legal action against an employer could baselessly unprotect the whole team.)
nonsense.

I learned the arch linux installation from the arch web page. I've stepped through it probably 50 times over the years to install various systems.

It becomes this "choose your own adventure" style installation, and you quite quickly get worn down by the branches and start making expedient choices over more involved choices.

So many of my laptop installs have had simple partitions, systemd boot, and on and on and ending with a text login.

Each choice for a more capable system would require extensive learning and the risk of having to start over.

These instructions take you through complex choices like secure boot, LVM, choosing a desktop, a graphical boot and more.

This installation guide gives you a fully functioning system (like you would get with a full distribtion).

The author had to learn from a fully-functional manjaro install, and then walked us through the same thing with arch.

Having a full desktop os with arch in the end is a really wonderful goal, and might be worth the risk of having problems with the install (which I seem to get with arch anyway)
English major eh?
Managing runoff is a factor in any vehicle fire, secondary to immediate protection of life, of course. Runoff is contained in binding, by digging ditches, etc. Contaminated runoff may then need to be removed by a specialised hazmat crew, depending on what’s in it and where is draining to.

Australian here, but I can’t imagine there’s much difference on this issue.
Agreedish. In the US I don’t think I’d support higher taxes for non EVs because cars are unfortunately a necessity here and EVs are (mostly artificially through govt policy) expensive.

But yes to your point of ICE cars suck. They’re so much more impressive engineering than EVs but that complexity is also their downfall imo.
Remind me of indiehacker meetups
I didn’t claim that?

Just that the other racers will nonetheless still compete to increase their share, likely with even lower scruples with Apple out.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=-3%5E2

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

Parentheses, Exponentiation, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction

-3^2 would then be correctly parsed as -(3^2) which is -9.

Parsing it as (-3)^2 would require the addition of parentheses.

This gets to the special case of the unary minus sign... which the Wikipedia article specifically calls out.

Special cases

Unary minus sign

There are differing conventions concerning the unary operation '−' (usually pronounced "minus"). In written or printed mathematics, the expression −3² is interpreted to mean −(3²) = −9.

In some applications and programming languages, notably Microsoft Excel, PlanMaker (and other spreadsheet applications) and the programming language bc, unary operations have a higher priority than binary operations, that is, the unary minus has higher precedence than exponentiation, so in those languages −3² will be interpreted as (−3)² = 9. This does not apply to the binary minus operation '−'; for example in Microsoft Excel while the formulas =-2^2, =-(2)^2 and =0+-2^2 return 4, the formulas =0-2^2 and =-(2^2) return −4.

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Digging into this a little bit more...

https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/html_mono/bc.html#TOC...

The expression precedence is as follows: (lowest to highest)

|| operator, left associative
&& operator, left associative
! operator, nonassociative
Relational operators, left associative
Assignment operator, right associative
+ and - operators, left associative
*, / and % operators, left associative
^ operator, right associative
unary - operator, nonassociative
++ and -- operators, nonassociative

This precedence was chosen so that POSIX compliant bc programs will run correctly. This will cause the use of the relational and logical operators to have some unusual behavior when used with assignment expressions. Consider the expression:
...

This brings us to the POSIX specification for bc https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition...

This also shows the unary - having higher precedence than ^.

https://github.com/gavinhoward/bc/blob/master/manuals/develo...

This document is meant for the day when I (Gavin D. Howard) get hit by a bus. In other words, it's meant to make the bus factor a non-issue.

This document is supposed to contain all of the knowledge necessary to develop bc and dc.

In addition, this document is meant to add to the oral tradition of software engineering, as described by Bryan Cantrill.

... now, it would be interesting if gavinhoward could clarify some of the design thoughts there (and I absolutely love the oral tradition talk).
> I’m always a bit puzzled why people stress the importance of these “needle in a haystack” tests where the model has to find one specific thing in a huge document. That seems far less relevant to me in terms of usefulness in the real world.

How do you mean?

Half of writing code within a codebase, is knowing what functions already exist in the codebase for you to call in your own code; and/or, what code you'll have to change upstream and downstream of the code you're modifying within the same codebase — or even by forking your dependencies and changing them — to get what you want to happen, to happen.

And half of, say, writing a longform novel, is knowing all the promises you've made to the reader, the active Chekov's guns, and all the other constraints you've placed on yourself by hundreds of pages or even several books ago, that just became relevant again as of this very sentence. Or, moreover, which of those details it's the proper time to make relevant again for maximum impact and proper first-in-last-out narrative bridging structure.

In both cases, these aren't really literal "needle in a haystack" stress-tests; they should properly be tests of the model's ability to perform some kind of "associational priority indexing" on the context, allowing it to build concepts into associational sub-networks and then make long-distance associations where the nodes are entire subnetworks. (Which isn't something we really see yet, in any model.)
I don’t care that much that all my past follows me. But the latest trend appears to be to visit my sins upon my children. Given that’s the case, it’s better to appear squeaky clean later on. I’ll CCPA HN and ask them to clean up.
it is still alive yes the repo is active.
The same is true of search engines, yet they are still incredibly useful.
Well you can try listing the top dozen or so for both and see the difference?
What is your suggested economic model for internet content? Do you prefer paywalls?
> humanity collectively hallucinated the importance of disinfecting groceries for awhile

I reject this history.

I homeschooled my kids during covid due to uncertainty and even I didn't reach that level, and nor did anyone I knew in person.

A very tiny number who were egged on by some YouTubers did this, including one person I knew remotely. Unsurprisingly that person was based in SV.
An excellent example of an LLM (or an imitated LLM output) that fiercely defends the status quo, is overly verbose, does not come to the point, makes incorrect assumptions and lectures from a high horse.

LLMs are good for mediocre poems and presidential speeches that have no shame.
It does definitely read a bit strange, but you seem genuine which makes up for that.
If you couldn't be bothered to write this comment, I can't be bothered to read it.
> publicly accessible world knowledge graphs never took off

Huh? What's wrong with Wikidata and the Linked Open Data cloud? These seem quite real to me.
What are people's thoughts on CAD generation with LLMs for OpenSCAD and other proprietary GUI-based softwares? I imagine soon we will also be able to "autocomplete" or "semantically edit" feature trees in SolidWorks, Fusion, etc.
>so breaking even is bad all of a sudden... and who needs a return greater than 0-1x when everyone's getting paid and you have a little on the side for emergencies?

I can give you $1M and in 6 years you give me $1M. Or I can put $1M in S&P500 and get back 2 million.

VCs aren’t just good guys who just like entrepreneurs. It’s an investment vehicle that competes with other investment vehicles. Anything less than a 3x return is “I went through a lot when I could have just put my money in SPY and slept soundly”

I think the most important thing a founder can learn before taking VC is understanding their business model.
Half-fact is being too generous, in my view.

Remember “Chrome is bad”? (As proven by the empirical method of “I deleted a bunch of Google named things and now not only does my laptop run cooler, my laundry uses less water as well!”)
Oddly this is one of the things factory farms try to do better. From what I have heard, because they don't have time to deal with spooked cattle when killing so many of them, the whole killing area is designed so they don't know what's coming until the last moment.
OpenSCAD has been great for simple projects. It’s very easy to get productive with if you know basic programming concepts. However, I’ve run into frustrating limitations on more complex projects. The core geometry engine is skittish.

I still use OpenSCAD, but I’m diving into the OCCT ecosystem. It has a steeper learning curve, but seems to be significantly more robust.

https://dev.opencascade.org/
I think for Toyota's main market the hybrid model still makes very much sense. EV is still a huge premium. Nice if you live outside the city and can charge your car with your own solar panels. Too clumsy to deal with in the city with the scarce public charge points.

And Toyota is a budget to mid range brand. For high end (the customers where the premium doesn't matter) they have lexus.