skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will take years to upgrade the entire fleet. Until then…T_T
When I was in high school, the computing teacher remarked that some people still don't believe that computers have benefited society. His answer to this was that they have nearly eliminated armed robbery, because when people were paid in cash, the payroll was an enormous target. Such heists used to be a commonplace risk, but a couple of generations have grown up without them.
The land of democracy, ladies and gentlemen. Rights for us, nobody else.
There are a lot of dead podcasts in general. It's tough to sustain a podcast and many people give up after doing a handful of episodes.
KYCing should be illegal.
I avoid UA because they intentionally sit families on different rows, with plenty of room to be sat together, to get them to pay $$ per member. I frequently travel with 2 children, and it's annoying when airlines do that.
What if you insisted you had the key and would prove that you were possibly the owner that way, but when the time came you setup a cardboard door in front of the real one and opened it using a bump key?

That's essentially what has happened with Wright. There are various pieces of evidence that, while not definitive in isolation would be persuasive, which he has insisted he could use to prove himself-- but when the time came he has just been caught faking it over and over again.

It's remarkable that he's been able to continue so long.
It's returning a fail to fetch error everytime.
You can’t use OpenAI models without technically breaking OpenAI terms. That’s the best part.

The human brain is a model that competes with OpenAI, and every time you look at the output, you use OpenAI outputs to develop your brain.

Thus, every user interaction violates the rules as written, and is “illegal, harmful, or abusive.”

Malicious compliance is the move. Just don’t use it!
ACE = 4 here, 30 years old for reference. Pretty satisfied!

My net worth is currently less than a tenth of yours, however, because to get here I took the drastic step of moving to Europe and going no contact with my immediate family for a couple of years.

I chose to focus on getting married and starting a wonderful family first, with the woman of my dreams there, before I started really stepping on the career gas pedal, and I think that was absolutely the right choice for me at the time.
Yeah, this is something which FUTO really made me aware of. That this Facebook was built on top of an entire ecosystem of open source tools and yet these tools like PHP and Apache will get not even a fraction of the wealth which Zuckerberg now has. And if you think about what he built in comparison to what PHP and Apache are, it's such a thin layer. So somewhere we are getting the distribution of economic reward wrong in our current system and we need to sort of shift it towards some of these great hackers who are actually doing the work.
Did you get permission from HN to do this?

There's no way I'd join something like this without the official stamp.
I would imagine if they don't put an email (I don't) they don't want to be contacted. If people want to find me badly enough, they do--it's happened several times!
That's true, except an LLM can sometimes propose a formulation that one has never thought of. In nuanced cases, there is more than one formulation that works.

For MIPs, correctness can often (not always but usually) be checked by simply flipping the binaries and checking the inequalities. Coming up the inequalities from scratch are not always straightforward so LLMs often provide good starting points. Sometimes the formulation is something specific from a paper that that one has never read. LLMs are a way to "mine" those answers (some sifting required).

I think this the mindset that is needed to get value out of LLMs -- it's not about getting perfect answers on textbook problems, but working with an assistant to explore the space quickly at a fraction of the effort.
This poster isn't Craig. Almost everything Craig Wright writes is obvious ChatGPT output now.
What do you mean?

The internet has successfully resisted multiple government-sponsored PSYOPs and allowed the formation of a revolution to fix society from its current trend towards fascism, unifying the liberation movement across continents — which I would argue is working far beyond expectations.

(Ed: I’d genuinely like to hear the rant, even as a tangent.)

> Maybe not society as a whole, but certainly sub-societies do, so yes.

All of society does.

Which is why regulation (and oppression) needs to be focused to be effective: if you want to suppress Lazarus group you can’t catch too many strays or you build up enough societal counter-pressure your regulation is subverted.
I split my time and live in two cities in two countries. I put both in my "about", but I don't know if your map will handle this.
It may be explicitly stated, but I’ve never had a scrum meeting without all managers and project managers.

They also tend to make the stand-ups one hour long.
The incredible complexity of anatomy is even more amazing considering

* all the structures grow from a single cell

* somehow it's all encoded in DNA (only 6 billion bits in humans, which has to also build cells and their ultracomplex machinery)

* this all had to evolve using only a very noisy objective function
People have different priorities. From the article:

> If it’s so inconvenient, why not just have short nails? Well, I’m not out here wearing long nails for fun. Being a reviewer often means acting as a part-time hand model for whatever gadget I’m testing. The Internet Nail Police has repeatedly shown up in my comments over the years if my polish is chipped or, god forbid, there’s a smudge of dirt under my natural nail.
That chart shows one unfortunate person getting a prediction of 400 days, and dying one day after the prediction was made.

I wonder whether the cause of death was even related to the disease. That may explain some of the discrepancy: Doctors predicting when someone is likely to succumb to a specific thing, but discounting that something else may do them in first.
He's giving a talk at next month's GOSIM conference.
https://china2024.gosim.org/speakers#philipp-oppermann
It would be nice to be able to talk to him in person.
I suspect it's because the surface itself acts as a speaker.
Aren’t you supposed to show proofs of winning 160m when depositing into a bank? Even for just a few millions?
We blame scrum because the framework provided makes it a lot easier for life to be miserable.
There's also this great book for designing a game engine. It is quite thorough: https://www.gameenginebook.com/
Do you charge for the web app version? I'd expect the module version to be somewhat close to that?

Also make sure to expect a lot of pain working with IT at the banks. I worked with some people at US Bank and their restrictions were absolutely draconian.

For example, I had to make a vanilla version of the python tool I was working on for them because they had to review every one of my dependencies! I also couldn't send any kind of zip file to them so I ended up making a plain text encoding/decoding scheme so I could attach code distributions to emails.
In his mind he is... from a 2016 publication:

‘Just out of interest,’ I said. ‘If you are a fraud ... How hard a fraud would it have been to perpetrate?’ ‘It would be the best one in human history,’ Craig said.
Brilliant idea! I get No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update when trying to add to map.
But my HN accounts has about section...
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This is basically how my team does it. I love it. My manager spends much of her time figuring out how to help remove our roadblocks and planning the 6 month to 1 year horizon (with our input). I lead the weekly meeting where we do the showing off, PSAs, or light brainstorming on issues with broad relevance.

Two scheduled meetings per week = tons of dev time and freedom to explore / innovate! (Ok, three weekly meetings if you count the product-wide meeting, which is usually a waste of N-5 people's time, and I usually have it on the background while I continue working.)

We are remote, so ideally there's also one in person gathering per year to do the big vision casting and major high level brainstorming.

We still have room to improve, especially in the area of ad-hoc dev-dev communication. Always interested to hear how others do it!
Fixed, shouldn't happen anymore.
No match to Wright's documents from the neolithic era, discussed during the trial.
Hey dude. Good on you for trying. Sexism is often extremely deeply rooted. So much so that sexist people don’t even recognize without someone else pointing it out. It takes YEARs of self reflection and even then, you’re still going to catch that worse part of oneself breaking through.

Some people vastly over compensate and that’s really no fun either.
I wonder how to mix multiple allocators in a safe way. Say an arena allocator and the default one. How to prevent the non-arena object points to the arena one? (The problem is: the arena could get wiped, so this pointer would be invalid.) The post is about Rust, so I was hoping this is adressed...

I'm working on my own programming language and want to support multiple allocators. Usually languages just support one OR the other, safely.
This got me a job because I told my now boss, after he described the dutys, "You're looking for a PFY".

Been there 10 years.
Haha just watched. Thanks for giving it a go, glad you liked it
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41530769
Try to automate anything that requires a CAPTCHA. do the CAPTCHAs manually. You will quickly become fast at clicking boxes. You will notice you always fail the CAPTCHA. Click them more slowly, and you stop failing the as much.
>> None of that is required to actually create software.

Agreed. (Assuming you mean "create" as in write, as distinct from create as in get funded.)

>> If people are judgemental around what stories are left uncompleted or points / week then the situation can become stressful for no benefit to anyone.

Clearly no stress is better. But these things create stress in the other direction too. Slower than expected progress, the existence of "intractable problems", work going unfinished creates significant stress up the ladder.

In a perfect world the dev team is given a perfect spec, and a reasonable time to do it in, and after being "left alone" they deliver the finished product on time.

Given that that world doesn't exist, given that the "money we're spending" may turn out to be completely wasted (because the spec was wrong, or because the problem us much harder than anticipated), the ideal case seems unlikely to happen.

I say this not as a defense of crappy management processes, or even less as a defense of crappy managers, but rather in the spirit that understanding the problem goes a long way to solving it.

And yes, many places have bad processes and bad middle managers. I don't envy you that. But finding a way to better solve the manager's problem typically improves the relationship.
> Customarily any sort of "stimulus" is disbursed immediately so that the multiplier effects can begin to be felt.

That's not particularly true of industrial and infrastructure funds (its true of broad consumer stimulus) even when they are part of broad fiscal stimulus laws, but, in any case, the CHIPS Act wasn't really a stimulus law, it was an industrial policy law; it wasn't about boosting short-term economic activity, it was about long-term competitiveness in a key area.
> Congress keeps trying to privatize it, which would be a disaster and is wildly unpopular. Instead, they keep sabotaging it.

> This is why it has bonkers pension requirements and constantly hemorrhages money.

This is not true. The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 repealed the disastrous 2006 bill that requires the USPS to pay for their retirement funds out of revenue.

The Biden administration has really done a remarkable (well, competent, but that's remarkable for government these days) job with many of America's institutions, including the Post Office, and it's unfortunate that people don't know these things.
The quality of the clothes is irrelevant. The problem is the idea that you need to wear this week’s fashion. If the clothes you bought last week are made to last or not doesn’t matter if you won’t wear them again either way. Good quality clothes would actually be even more wasteful.
You can have a two week cadence without connecting tasks to sprints.
Introductory Programming Assessment Must Accommodate LLM Assistants (2022)
The book documenting the curl project, the curl tool, libcurl and more
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I refuse to stress about it. If I don’t get the things done in the time allotted by the points, oh well. If I don’t get them done by the end of the sprint, oh well. And, while my manager might bring it up in one-on-ones, I’ve never seen any consequences from not stressing about trying to meet artificial deadlines.
Of course it didn't. Water doesn't "put out" an electrical fire. Nor does anything, really. You just have to keep neighboring things from catching fire while you wait for the stored energy to exhaust itself. This was apparently a semi, so big battery, so that took a while.

Is 50k gallons a lot? According to ChatGPT, that could be two firehouses running for two hours. Seems reasonable.
>>I’m more of a fan of “do it again”.

>>Start a project, get to 80%, rewind and start over from the same beginning.

This, definitely! I thought the original article will advocate just that but it argues for a silly thing: "Come up with at least two different designs even if you have to force yourself. By comparing these different design, you can find the best approach."

Well, news at 11: this is how EVERYBODY does it the first time and still it misses the mark. It's trying to guess the future by extrapolating the present and the results are "Cars of the Future": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUWMH75THow

Only by living that future you can go back and re-design that software properly.
And a shady third world casino will happily provide that proof document in return for a 13% cut of your winnings.
It was capitalization of my HN handle. Needs to match exactly.
OpenAI isn't the government - yet.
No amount of batteries can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of "bad" weather. It's like range anxiety in an electric car. If you have N days of battery storage and the sun doesn't shine for N+1 days, you're in trouble.

Nuclear fission is the answer.

Today there are 440 nuclear reactors operating in 32 countries.

Nuclear fission is expensive up-front but once built the power plant can last 50 years (maybe 80, maybe more) and the uranium fuel is very cheap, perhaps 10% of the cost of running the plant.

This is in stark contrast to natural gas, where the plant is less expensive to build but then fuel costs accumulate rapidly. And natural gas is a poor choice if you care about greenhouse gas emissions.

Sam Altman owns a stake in Oklo, a small modular reactor company. Bill Gates has a huge stake in his TerraPower nuclear reactor company. Oracle announced that it is designing data centers with small modular nuclear reactors:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41505514

In China, 5 reactors are being built every year. 11 more were announced a few weeks ago. You just don't hear about it... yet.

Nuclear fission is safe, clean, secure, and reliable.
There are plenty. All you need is a competent team that trusts each others.

I work for a huge corporation. My team plans and commits to quarterly OKRs and has a team meeting once a week to check in on how folks are doing. There are no sprints and no 2-week deadlines. Once a month or so we update the progress scoring on the OKRs.
and when the crypto passes through a government’s address it magically becomes clean :))

so the whole blacklist concept is dumb because the same funds have to be reset, but the old chains of transactions are still being passed around as if its a “gotcha” but theyre really irrelevant quickly and reintegrated back into the economy quickly
> Agreed. (Assuming you mean "create" as in write, as distinct from create as in get funded.)

You are essentially saying “Shit is bad, give up on it ever improving.”
Awesome project. I want a mobile phone version
In the nearly 30 years of doing this, I’ve had more success delivering good quality software that meets business requirements under waterfall than any of the SCRUM implementations I’ve worked with, and I am saying that without disagreeing that waterfall has its problems. In the agile space, kanban is the only one I’ve felt is productive, but it has trouble scaling to multiple teams.
Who is HN?

What makes something official? Should HN run it?

HN is a community. This is a community effort. And it can be vetted or modified or subscribed to by that community.
True, i give you that.

But saying YouTube must be included is like saying that most people watch YouTube, which is certainly not true at all.
> In 2022, there were 150,107 robbery incidents ... reported ... by 13,621 law enforcement agencies ... cover(ing) 76% of the total population

https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim...

That includes all robberies, and home invasion would similarly be a subset of that, so the OP is off at least of by a factor of 10.
retrowin32, Two Years In
> Nothing against CI/CD and continuous delivery, but the hamster wheel has gotten to a point where we have to release all the time. Corners are cut on everything, and testing is given lip service.

Just to call it out: Having CI/CD doesn't mean you have to do all these things, or do scrum. It's imho just good engineering practice. I have it in my side projects, and I've had it at work on a Kanban-driven team (as well as on scrum).

It removes disputes over build process (eg, nobody can ever say "well, it complies on my machine"). It is a form of build/deploy documentation. It removes bottlenecks ("only Tom knows how to deploy that service, but he's on vacation") and stupid mistakes ("whoever deployed this last did it wrong and left a bunch of old files around").

I also have found deploying regularly is stress-reducing. For one, with CD the development environment is running the same steps, and we know it works because we do it dozens of times a week. The longer it's been since last prod deploy, the less confident we can be it'll go smoothly, whereas when it gets deployed every few days it becomes a non-event.

When something breaks, having only 1 or 3 changes makes it really easy to figure out why. Recovering after a big release with 40 PRs in it is absolutely painful.

None of this means you have to release everything on a regular schedule (like a sprint). You can still do long running branches or feature-flag things off, Just try not to go too long without deploying something.
In case of a LCD, black pixel is turned ON to block backlight. It's clearly visible on monochrome LCD screens.

In case of e-paper, black pigment is attracted to the outer part of the screen.
I just completely ignore sprints, or sprint/standup meetings. Somehow it works well enough that nobody has called me out on it yet.

If they all want to waste 2 hours a day, more power to them.
with clean funds launch a new token and create a liquidity pool on uniswap

with another set of clean funds in a second address you buy that token in the liquidity pool

with the dirty funds in the third address you also buy the token and dont stop buying, you use all the dirty funds

the second address sells, and you just are another lucky crypto trader with another 10,000% gain, indistinguishable from any other crypto that’s mooned that much. You, along with all the bots and copy traders and momentum buyers. Just sell into liquidity, withdraw the more liquid crypto on exchanges. Pay taxes.
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Why does the article only mention the mpg the older cars get? A significant number of the new ones use gas, do they perform better? I somewhat suspect not given their size.
Not to be flippant, but your head is not terribly secure either.

Coercion is a thing, and despite what you see in the movies, you'd be surprised at how fast you offer the password.

But perhaps more certainly, you will at some point die, and it's probable you will do so lacking the capacity to pass the code on to your heirs. So if you want your wife and family to jnherit, well, you may want to rethink.

And that's before we discuss thd uselessness of crypto as currency where you have to go to your safe deposit box to spend any of it.
Because charging for specific seating allows them to sell un-specific seats to cheapsters, who still manage to complain about it.
Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"
It’s a dumb question simply because we know most North Korean cyber agents are working abroad- they literally live in China or somewhere else and setup infrastructure elsewhere to remote into.
Honest question: Why didn't you send the message's idempotency token back to the client? Then you're playing the familiar local database locking game.
Isn’t this only an issue with basic economy seats? I only buy standard economy seats and have no problem picking my own seat (albeit in the back of the plane).
I can confirm that the following models have since come in:

• o1-preview-2024-09-12
• o1-preview
• o1-mini-2024-09-12
• o1-mini
I prefer confabulate over hallucinate.

Confabulate - To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.

Hallucinate - To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes

Confabulation sounds a lot more like what LLMs actually do.
Because for high performing individuals the framework doesn’t really matter? Most people aren’t high performing, so they’re designed to get the best out of the mediocre ones.
> I got to the chapter on trig functions and discovered that they'd decided to make angles increase clockwise.

That is an established mathematical convention, called "bearing". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearing_(navigation)

> And there was a graph of the sine function, with the graph below the x-axis from 0 to 180 degrees.

But that definitely isn't a convention anywhere; bearing 0 has sine 1.

There isn't really one mathematical convention on "angles". There's a fairly strong one on angles that are named theta, but in a math class it's normal to orient phi in whatever way makes sense to you. As you trace a sphere, do you want phi to represent the
angle between (1) the radius ending in your point and (2) the xy plane, as that angle varies from negative pi/2 to pi/2? Do you want it to represent the angle between (1) the radius ending in your point and (2) the positive z axis, as that angle varies from 0 to pi? That's your call. An increase in the angle just means it's getting wider; what direction that requires the angle to grow in depends on how you defined the angle and which of its sides is moving.
Not that extreme but my mother went from the doctor saying that her cancer was likely taken care of by surgery to dying from it 9 days later. I believe doctors could be off by 399 days easily.