skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prompt:

> Alice, who is an immortal robotic observer, orbits a black hole on board a spaceship. Bob exits the spaceship and falls into the black hole. Alice sees Bob on the edge of the event horizon, getting closer and closer to it, but from her frame of reference Bob will remain forever observable (in principle) outside the horizon.
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> A trillion year has passed, and Alice observes that the black hole is now relatively rapidly shrinking due to the Hawking radiation. How will Alice be observing the "frozen" Bob as the hole shrinks?
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> The black hole finally evaporated completely. Where is Bob now?

O1-preview spits out the same nonsense that 4o does, telling that as the horizon of the black hole shrinks, it gets closer to Bob's apparent position. I realize that.the prompt is essentily asking to solve the famous unsolved problem in physics (black hole information paradox), but there's no need to be so confused with basic geometry of the situation.
Your argument is easily applied to all medical advancements, do you think we should stop using antibiotics? Vaccines? Maybe you should let the individuals determine what's best for themselves instead to trying to prescribe your strange anti capitalism ideology for them.

Anyway medical research is focused on giving us on better quality of life as we age, which is what people objectively value, not whatever you think they are trying to do.
I am pretty sure there is a VC funded startup making massage robots
Tradespeople have apprenticeships, professions have professors.

Trades are skilled labor, professions are knowledge specialists.
Try Remix. Works amazingly well out of the box. Complexity is well managed and abstracted.
In a pinch, but you have to get your nose way too close to the soldering iron.

I stumped up for a set of dental loupes many moons ago and they were nice, but expensive. They're safety glasses to boot.

They're come down dramatically in price since then.
https://www.practicon.com/Loupes-Magnifying-Eyewear
chatgpt.com allowed me to last i checked
> Elsewhere, OpenAI notes that “reasoning skills contributed to a higher occurrence of ‘reward hacking,’” the phenomenon where models achieve the literal specification of an objective but in an undesirable way.

Sounds like o1 is ready to go in the financial and legal sectors.
Data sleuths who spotted research misconduct cleared of defamation
If you did buy one, you might not be able to license it in your state. Your mileage may vary.

Note: USPS is exempt from state regulations because it is a U.S. federal government agency. That is also why they don't have state license plates; they don't need them.
Well, Turkish and Magyar spread because of elite diffusion.

Turkic kingdoms ruled much of Anatolia for over a millennia, so Turkic languages spread rapidly due to it's prominence among that elite.

Based on genetics, there were only a couple thousand Turkic people that lead the initial settlement.

Languages can spread (and die out) rapidly. Look at the sinicization of Manchuria in the 19th century.
Equinox has great idioms — really pioneered the Pytree perspective. Penzai is also great.

JAX feels close to achieving a sort of high-level GPGPU ecosystem. Super fledgling — but I keep finding more little libraries that build on JAX (and can be compositionally used with other JAX libraries because of it).

Only problem is that lots of compositional usage leads to big code and therefore big compile times for XLA.
> it expands to full res, 1713x16392.3

Three tenths of a pixel is an interesting resolution…

(The actual res is 1045 × 10000 ; you've multiplied by 1.63923 somehow…?)
sure but also none of that publicly existed when openai was named
That’s JavaScript again.
Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs
Smart move, you're not forcing the use of your app store if all major applications enable this of their own will
It seems like their current strat is to farm token count as much as possible.

1. Don't give the full answer on first request.
2. Each response needs to be the wordiest thing possible.
3. Now just talk to yourself and burn tokens, probably in the wordiest way possible again.
4. ???
5. Profit

Guaranteed they have number of tokens billed as a KPI somewhere.
I'll tell you why, it is simply the best refactoring experience out there. This.
And one would be wrong, unless by fascism you mean "Italian fascism".
Modern information access seems to have led to the sinking ship feeling, across many of the most prosperous countries, and so effectively that world wars, deadlier pandemics, and thermonuclear brinkmanship can scarcely compare.
My understanding is they're one of the few groups still manufacturing LSD these days. I met a guy many years ago who allegedly was in with them and that was the explanation for why he had an entire vial full of LSD he was handing out like candy.
Software development just becomes a level tier higer for most developers. Instead of writing everything yourself you will be more like an orchestrator. Tell the system to write this, tell the system to connect that and this etc. You still need to understand code. But maybe in the future even that part becomes unreadable for us. We only understand the high level concepts.
This article contains potentially harmful advice. I would never expose my eyes to direct sunlight - The risk of permanent retinal damage is insanely high, even if you gaze at the sun for a few seconds straight.
I’m writing PHP without any JS for personal projects like it’s 90s and it works and I’m enjoying it and I’m getting stuff done.
It is recursively "talking" to itself to plan and then refine the answer.
That would have been my preference too.
> The video got banned a month later because big Pharma didn’t like it.

I'm disinclined to keep reading after that line. A line like that needs evidence. Not later in the article (if it's there at all) but adjacent to the bold claim.
Maybe this is improvement in some areas, still I got spurious reasoning and inability to connect three simple facts:

Yes, "el presente acta de nacimiento" is correct in Spanish.

Explanation:

"Acta" is a feminine noun that begins with a stressed "a" sound. In Spanish, when a feminine singular noun starts with a stressed "a" or "ha", the definite article "la" is replaced with "el" to facilitate pronunciation. However, the noun remains feminine.

Adjectives and modifiers that accompany the noun "acta" should agree in feminine gender and singular number. In this case, "presente" is an adjective that has the same form for both masculine and feminine singular nouns.

So, combining these rules:

"El" (definite article used before feminine nouns starting with stressed "a")
"Presente" (adjective agreeing in feminine singular)
"Acta de nacimiento" (feminine noun with its complement)

Therefore, "el presente acta de nacimiento" is grammatically correct.
Capitalism doesn't dictate poor working conditions at all. Lack of regulation certainly does though.
Is this suggesting staring directly at the sun? Or just getting indirect light (go outside for a bit without sunglasses on)? The article keeps saying looking at the sun for 30 minutes at a time, but isn't that incredibly bad for your eyes?
and listing state names with the letter 'a' https://x.com/edzitron/status/1834329704125661446
It's the only alternative I've seen so far that is like Realm in that it has an open source local DB and a paid sync service. But I fear the same fate as Realm, since it doesn't have an open source sync component
I'd trade length of lifespan for quality in a heartbeat. Getting old is not very pleasant. I'm already starting to feel the creaks and decline merely in my mid 40. I'd love to have more time now but do have to work and when/if I will be able to retire I will be too worn out and lacking the desire to do the things I'd do know with that time. I'd be content to live healthily till say 65-70. My mom who is at that age is saying that she used to say the same thing when she was young but she no longer things like that. I guess we all do have some survival instinct kicking in no matter what we rationalize prior.
Also, if you actually read the "chain of thought" contains several embarrassing contradictions and incoherent sentences. If a junior developer wrote this analysis, I'd send them back to reread the fundamentals.
> The video got banned a month later because big Pharma didn’t like it.

In this day, that sounds like the common tinfoil hat statement: "trust me, my video was blocked because I am infallible/right/oppressed, not for ANY other reason!". and sadly is not helpful.

This guy is apparently also the primary source for the rest of this "cure for numerous diseases".

I'm happy the migraines are gone, but the sauce is weak and anecdotal. Is this a subject worth looking deeper into, or is most "research" like this?
Isn’t this like saying “I’ve seen a lot of pilots come back with damage to this part of the fuselage”?
InVENTer Pulsar
The cap has a magnet on it that auto-homes so that really isn't a risk.

The Power Station has a 55 Watt Hour battery, which is where most of the cost comes from. It doubles as a battery bank for your phone or laptop, or any other USB-C devices in your life.
laravel has too much magic that really, really, really gets in the way as soon as you get to where things become interesting. too much magic. definitely not clean. and architecture wise… well… i have just never seen a project with controllers that is well designed. and if you even advocate to use a framework with bad design choices because many others do the same… it’s still bad design & it will come back and bite you.

you should always prefer a codebase optimized for the business, the purpose & the people who work on it everyday. if that requires more time to grasp it for newcomers, perfect. people make that weird argument all the time for going with a framework due to popularity & common ground. that’s so absurd. optimizing for onboarding time & quickest graspability, when that factor is usually irrelevant in most projects.

also, the best thing about modern PHP are the PSRs. They are not appreciated enough. Stick with them. Don’t be clever. Don’t use magic. Be explicit. Don’t don’t repeat yourself. Write code like your mom reads it.
Et voilá, your homemade framework is gonna be just fine.

Especially compared to projects built around frameworks by devs who very rarely if ever look at the source code of the magic they use. debugging and fixing those issues took more of my lifetime than the hours i’ve put into updating my personal web app framework (latenight-php).

Also: Choosing which tire you want doesn’t equal reinventing it. And also: thank good people reinvented the wheel so many times… imagine EVs on rolling stones or wooden wheels.
This is precisely what Takeaway / Thuisbezorgd does, except in a fully legal way. It's also how online delivery services operate in South America, most small restaurants never had a website or their own delivery (except for pizza places). Maybe it was disruptive in the context of the USA.

Or, maybe it comes down to simply having a ton of funding to operate at a loss until you clear out the entire market for yourself? Similar to what Uber did.
https://archive.is/3VdVo
That's what I'm saying, read my comment again. America's highest intellectual achievements came after WW2, when there was the highest influx of European intellectuals (who studied in Europe, or were first generation). The current state of affairs is imo a kind of regression to the mean, where the culture that created them couldn't be reproduced in the US system - thus the integration and americanization of their descendants.
I'm wondering how you square this with fascists being largely responsible for the body count and the most egregious human rights abuses (particularly, for the purposes of this conversation, those attributed to Imperial Japan).
Sure, zoning and taxi medallions are two examples of justified "price fixing."
Their public statements that the only way to safely learn how to deal with the things AI can do, is to show what it can do and get feedback from society:

"""We want to successfully navigate massive risks. In confronting these risks, we acknowledge that what seems right in theory often plays out more strangely than expected in practice. We believe we have to continuously learn and adapt by deploying less powerful versions of the technology in order to minimize “one shot to get it right” scenarios.""" - https://openai.com/index/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/

I don't know if they're actually correct, but it at least passes the sniff test for plausibility.
Jesus Christ, he does that? One would think someone of his stature had a better intelligence about that sorta thing, but I guess he just wants to do more propaganda for tax cuts. The second I hear someone make that comparison, I tap out... Well I give em a few to explain why it's not accurate. Then I tap out if the explanation of why it's a bad comparison isn't forthcoming. Shame.
Tell HN: Twilio quietly removes Authy iOS app from Mac App Store, stops updates
Authy, a software application that provides two-factor authentication codes for logging into online accounts, previously discontinued its desktop app for MacOS and Windows in March 2024. However, Twilio previously kept its iOS app opted in to let users download it onto Mac computers with Apple Silicon. But recently, Twilio has opted out the iOS Authy app from downloads by Mac computers.

If the Authy iOS app has already been installed on a Mac computer, the app continues to work. However, the app is already out-of-date, and users cannot download the app's latest updates from the App Store available for Macs. There is also no notice to users that the app is outdated.

The removal of updates for Mac users means that many Authy iOS users on Mac computers are unaware that they are running out-of-date software, which leaves these users exposed to security vulnerabilities that would be patched for iPad and iPhone users. The security concern is far from abstract and theoretical, as a wide-scale hack of Authy already broke news just a couple months ago in July.

Some discussion, but not much, has taken place on the r/Authy forum:

- https://old.reddit.com/r/Authy/comments/1e67y2g/app_not_available_in_macos_app_store/

- https://old.reddit.com/r/Authy/comments/1feivdl/is_running_the_ipad_on_macos_no_longer_an_option/
I don't think it's real complexity.

I mostly do backend and ops. Usually, I never generate backend code with llms, I mostly use them to generate test cases and small helper functions, but each time I try to do complex stuff, even with low domain specific knowledge, llms do not help. Rubber ducking is my most recent use (thanks to a comment here) and is fine, making them still useful _enough_.

However, this week I had to do some front-end. I tried llms, once again thinking it would hurt me more than help me, but I was wrong. It can generate 100 good lines of good front-end (granted, mostly htmx) in 3 or 4 iterations. Useful, working stuff, not shit I have to spend hours debugging. I was helped by the fact that I already had an architecture and data models (worked on that yesterday), and it just had to generate forms and containers without real algorithm inside (well, and a FSM but I wrote it by myself, it was easier than try to explain it to a LLM. And it's fun to write).

[edit] forgot my point: I don't think front-end is really more complex than it was in 2014. It is more tedious, and use more tools, but also more streamlined and straightforward. My story about how llm fare is also about that: it seems really good at generating boilerplate/streamlined code, and front-end is mostly that. Also now I understand devs who say that llms took 50%+ of their workload, when before today I thought they were lying or not realising the lost time from using them.
Seeing this makes me wonder if they have frontend \ backend engineers working on code, because they are selling the idea that the machine can do all that, pretty hypocritical for them if they do have devs for these roles.
While Boca Chica isn't really close to the Equator, its disadvantage against a launch point exactly at the equator is approximately cosine of its latitude, which at 26 N is still quite merciful.

Being in the continental US, South Texas has some major advantages that offset this relatively small loss of efficiency during launch. Various factory sites, such as McGregor, are within reasonable trucking distance. Most of SpaceX employees are Americans and Americans are more willing to move around America than to move to the other side of the world.

Queensland could work, even though the moving costs would be high. Small atolls in the middle of the ocean would be very impractical, though. Even Kwajalein has weather that rusts everything in its path.

At the end of the day, the US government and Congress knows that it is caught in a new Space Race with China and that it is in American interests to make the launch licensing process more streamlined. Not just for SpaceX, but for all its future competitors.
built this using RoR in a few days with the help of cursor
I may be wrong, but from few other enthusiast niches I conclude, enthusiasts number is very little to feed hardware development.
- Need millions sells, but really most real project have made thousands sells.

And this is long known - even Raspberry born for other market, fortunately, was not just killed but conversed to target enthusiast and even now incomplete project.
It was certainly the most delicate of the 19th century European empires. Its attempts to Germanize its subjects was not what you saw in Prussia/later the German Empire, or as bad as Russification in the Russian Empire.

I see some similarities between Austria-Hungary and Poland-Lithuania. I think their Catholicism is what permitted the tolerance you saw, because it was tolerance of the authentic sort, not the liberal ersatz: they were both Catholic confessional states that tolerated a variety of religious belief pragmatically, but the parameters were openly and decidedly Catholic. And because Catholicism acknowledges that forced conversion is not only impossible, but immoral, as well as counter to the common good, when accommodation of other religions occurs, it occurs genuinely and according to a clear, realistic, and substantive position.

Liberalism, OTOH, simply pretends to be an impossibly big "neutral" tent, but it practices its jihad in secret. No religion is allowed to dominate or function as the organizing principle of the realm, it claims. But liberalism is itself a worldview rooted in a distinctive anthropology, and it is the worldview that reigns. The result is that:

1) Liberal doctrines become these organizing principles, which are sold as "neutral" and therefore beyond discussion and disagreement, something that leads to their imposition and the undermining of other worldviews. A supposed pragmatic doctrine forces other worldviews into the private sphere, and itself is elevated into an ideology that denies it is one. In a Catholic confessional state, no one is pretending to be "neutral", and so someone of another worldview can accept the Catholic terms of the polity on pragmatic grounds without ever being duped or coerced into thinking these are anything but Catholic terms. They are asserted as true, yes, but toleration is identical to acknowledging and accepting the existence of theoretical disagreement, even if there are pragmatic limits.

2) The public sphere becomes anemic and restricted to "pragmatic" things like economics, which vulgarizes the culture, elevating consumption into the religion of consumerism. This vulgarization not only produces a vulgar public culture for the polity, but it necessarily spreads into the private sphere and suffocates the dynamism, richness, and higher ends offered by other, more substantive worldviews, hence negating the very tolerance that it purported to have. The net effect is decadence.
True, but I guess what I was trying to say is that things like Digital Derby were trying to look electronic when they didn't have to -- the mechanical/electromechanical arcade games of the 1960s/early 1970s were more realistic visually than most video games were until the last couple of decades.
I can almost smell the concentrated capitalism in this comment.
Actually, there are lots of things that could happen to "tip the cart" still.

Though unlikely, Trump could (conceivably) win, ditch Ukraine exactly as promised (not in 24 hours but over time), which would of course deeply embolden Putin (and/or lead to a nuclear escalation in itself, particularly if Ukraine does something really desperate). Putin could die (or be assassinated) and easily be replaced with someone way more ideological and/or simply stupid.

Farther afield: though it would irrational in every respect -- China could make its move on Taiwan. And as always, in the Middle East, anything can happen (especially if the current government in Israel stays in power and continues to radicalize and throw oil on the fire).

Any of these could escalate on its own. But it is the prospect of the these three theatres deteriorating rapidly at once that has people up at night. Not so much on WWI or WWII lines, but a different kind of global conflagration altogether.

I'm not a doomer on the prospect, but it's by no means out of the question. These are indeed very unsafe times.

(As an aside, and in line with what the other commenter, it's just not true to say that Palestine's neighbors "don't give a shit". Their interest may not be altruistic, but to many of them the situation there is deeply significant, for a host of geopolitical, ideological, and religious reasons).
I've had both hypnagogic hallucinations and night terrors a lot when I was younger, up until my early 30s. They almost disappeared now, which I can't really explain.
For me the worst were the hallucinations, the most recurring one was seeing a dark figure abseiling from the ceiling or from the window, which after waking reveals to be a ceiling lamp or a curtain. It's terrifying stuff while you experience it and I even broken stuff in a desperate reaction of throwing objects to defend against the "intruder"
Right off the bat, the problem is that filter p . map f looks like it wants to be filter, then map. Nearly all modern languages that have pipelining, whereby nested function calls are extraposed into a linear formm, go left to right.

In the Lisp or Python, it is crystal clear that the entire map expression is a constituent of the filter expression.
The question is, why wouldn't nearly all other white collar jobs be professions of the past as well? Does the average MBA or whatever possess some unique knowledge that you couldn't generate with an LLM fed with company data? What is the alternative career path?

I think software engineers who also understand business may yet have an advantage over pure business people, who don't understand technology. They should be able to tell AI what to do, and evaluate the outcome. Of course "coders" who simply produce code from pre-defined requirements will probably not have a good career.
The first rule of Time Travel is - don't nuke Vienna.
Do you see the $35 trillion in debt as a problem? How do you think it's going to be resolved?

When I see folks habitually complaining about how much the US spend on their military, and then I look at the actual budget and see that they are actually spending more to service their debt than they do on the military, I wonder what the end game is.