skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should surprise no one that quantum software companies that *do not build hardware* will flop. It does not matter if it founded by famous Harvard scientists.

Hell, even quantum hardware companies are having a really hard time building a functioning quantum computer, let alone a useful one. Setting aside whether it's worth investing in "Quantum" stock at all, it is quite simply silly to invest in anything "Quantum" if they aren't building actual quantum hardware.

Zapata's PR stunts like "Quantum AI" race cars looks all the more comedically delusional now. Though I'm sure no one's learned a lesson from this. No I am not joking, I wish I could make something like this up:

https://www.digitalengineering247.com/article/zapata-ai-andr...
There is. It's chemistry and physics, even basic reactions have equilibria. There's multilayered homeostasis mechanisms interacting around the world. It's a large part of weather. You should read up on it, it's interesting.
Reminds me of magic mirrors of Japan and China.

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/magic-mirror-cincinnati-ar...

https://www.greenshinto.com/2014/02/16/magic-mirrors/
I'm surprised they pick their conkers out of a bag. The whole fun when I was a kid was competing for who could find the toughest conker. Common cheating methods included putting it through the tumble dryer to dry it out (Mum didn't love that) or soaking in vinegar. If you're pulling conkers out of a bag I think each match is basically a coin flip, unless there's much more technique I'm missing?
Fair enough that's what I did previously.

But I'd rather delegate mundane cognitive effort and prioritize spending it on more important uses.

Come to think of it, I'll write a bookmark or Tampermonkey script to summarize pages according to my prompt.

edit: Here we go! A bookmark to open a new tab asking ChatGPT to summarize current tab URL:

javascript:window.open('https://chatgpt.com/?q=summarize this page in 2 paragraphs%3A %27+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href),%27_blank%27);
I can think of at least a few:

1.) Cost (mostly in the labor rather than materials, and because of less standardization probably)

2.) [1]Earthquakes. Unless you do extra steps (which add more cost), it's much likelier to collapse in an earthquake.

3.) Harder to tear down for new construction. (More of a city-planners nicety than a homeowner's consideration, but still there.)

Probably a couple other points I'm missing.

[1]https://www.earthquakecountry.org/step4/urmwalls/
> Rent-seeking is derided behavior by basically everyone who isn't rent-seeking.

Rent-seeking is something specific. If we can't get that right we're not going to get far into the discussion. Not all rents are the same.

Hotels rent rooms. But they are not the same as rent seeking.

If you're not creating new wealth/value add, and instead exploit rents by mere virtue of owning, then it is rent-seeking. If you're adding value, like providing a service or other additions, then no it's not rent seeking. The 98 year old lady? Probably rent seeking. The couple doing AirBnB? Probably not.

Why?

AirBnBs, like hotels, tend to provide a genuine service that adds value. The listings are in a competitive market, where people need to improve the living spaces in order for them to get rented out. This doesn't take into account the various hospitality businesses that have emerged in various rural communities because of AirBnB. It's an entire industry.

That is Hotels/Hospitality businesses are NOT rent seeking just because they rent out rooms or provide services on land they own.

Who is Rent-Seeking?

The people preventing new housing/infrastructure from being built are the ones rent-seeking. They artificially manipulate market conditions by restricting supply, driving up land value, and thereby generate unearned income. Income that isn't from productive improvements on land but from mere ownership of land. That unearned income on land is rent-seeking behavior.
Well except for the diagnosis. So much the same way a cancer patient doesn't have a reason to claim they have cancer and someone else doesn't?
I guess Cursor.ai is an assistant. 10X productivity
People cheat on online cooperative computer games like Helldivers with almost no rewards for being performatively better other than a few imaginary in-game points. People can be weird about the smallest things
I agree. Also, especially in the extremely crowded and noisy context - what would have been the chances to have the demo working so well?

In fact, even if the robots worked very well autonomously, you would still have wanted a way to ensure that the demo is successful - the same way Steve Jobs did with the iPhone demo, Larry Ellison did with the Oracle servers demo, etc.

So many stories like that in the history of famous product launches.

The one thing that bothers me a little is that if you look at the robots dancing, they are only moving the upper body; their feet are always on the ground. I would have liked to see them having enough ability to dance and move the legs too… then, again, maybe the gazebo they were in was just too space-constrained, or it was just too risky to do that in the demo - given the crowd, and all the chaotic party context. When you set up a demo, you have to account for the edge cases where your product glitches, not just for what it mostly does very well.

Anyhow, these are all AI issues (as opposed to mechanical ones), and, at the pace AI is evolving, it is not hard to see how these types of issues get ironed out over the time horizon leading to the launch.

The Optimus demo did do a great job at actually making people see a world in which robots just roam around and interact with humans everywhere. .
> Natural gas is a great solution. It's why we're using it. But if your focus is decarbonisation and electrification, nuclear is better. Even if it's pricier.

If you come up with some combination of carbon-free energy sources and storage that covers 90% of grid energy needs, and you need to fill in the gap, and that gap is a whole lot of power but only for a handful of days a year, then I don’t think nuclear is a good option at all to fill in the gap. The capital expense would be absurd.

Decarbonization is great, but in the real world, decarbonization per dollar spent is what matters. Instead of spending a zillion dollars on nuclear peaker plants, spend a lot fewer dollars on gas peaker plants and the the rest for more effective environmental improvements.
I think you need a larger picture - think system theory, and think about multiple overlapping equilibrium biochemical reactions going on all the time. Even in your own body to maintain homeostasis. That's scaled up on a global scale.

How key are coral? Do you know? If you don't you probably shouldn't mess with it. Heh! :)
I assume he wouldn't cheat everytime and instead would only do it to reduce the overall wear on the chestnut over many matches?
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> can someone explain how payment dates can be arbitrarily accelerated?

It's never arbitrary. When a company sells stock it has a fiduciary obligation to its shareholders. With a loan, however, the relationship is adversarial. (EDIT: this is a loan disguised as a stock sale, so what I say below technically doesn't apply.)

A common clause in loan documents is acceleration [1]. The most common trigger for acceleration is default; the easiest way to do this is not make payments. But there are other requirements in a loan, called covenants [2], that a borrower must adhere to. (Think: a mortgage requiring you maintain insurance.) If a borrower breaches a covenant, the loan is in technical default and the lender may accelerate.

There is a third possibility, the callable loan [3], but that wouldn't make sense here. (When you deposit money with a bank, you're lending it money on callable terms.)

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/acceleration-clause.asp

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loan_covenant

[3] https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/commercial-l...
You are confusing the assessment of an acute condition with a chronic one.

There is a huge difference between assessing and treating an acute elevated BP and chronic hypertension. ERs don’t treat or admit to the hospital for chronic hypertension.

As I said, you can’t assess chronic hypertension by only evaluating in idealized circumstances, however this is a fine enough way for ruling out hypertensive emergency which is all an ER cares to do. And yes, you want to idealize conditions if you’re considering aggressive emergent treatment protocols that can have serious side effects.

Like I said, the best option for evaluating chronic hypertension is 24 hour ambulatory BP (which of course would include quite a bit of resting time) - usually 15 to 30 minute intervals. Why? I think the first two sentences of the prior comment are pretty intuitive.

And truth be told if the reading comes up 160/100 they’ll still send you home and tell you to follow-up with your PCP. There are of course other factors (like say having heart failure, symptoms other than headache), but usually it’s BP north of 180/120 where the ER starts getting concerned, and even then you will likely be released for outpatient follow-up +/- some oral medication.

In the public, hypertension is primarily a chronic condition and a slow killer. There are only a few circumstances where rapid control of blood pressure is not counterproductive since over time your body compensates while your organs (primarily kidneys, heart, and brain/eyes) slowly worsen in function.
There's a step change difference between industrial exhaust and changing the source code of a 'program' in the Earth system. We can alter our industrial practices, as they are within our control. Once a GM organism gets out, it could be like an out of control program running rampant on your servers. It's too much power to wield while we don't have the knowledge.

I'm not saying we shouldn't attempt to modulate our effects on the environment, I'm saying let's not make it worse doing so. So we should be strategic in the tactics we employ.
Looks like her website has been hijacked or something. Lots of links to pages about drugs, seemingly AI generated.
You could always somehow make the vibration motor a "movement feature", and call the phone a "remotely controlled vehicle"

;-)

Chatgpt- Yes, using the vibration motor to make small position changes on a remotely controlled vehicle would fall under the category of controlling the vehicle. If you encrypt the control signals that dictate when and how the vibration motor activates to achieve those position changes, it would be allowed under the FCC rules for encryption related to remote vehicle control.

Since these encrypted signals would only be used for the vehicle's movement or positioning, this approach aligns with the regulations permitting encryption for controlling remote vehicles. Just ensure that any non-control communications remain unencrypted to fully comply with ham radio rules.
Haskell piece is fascinating. iirc, they have been using Haskell for many years for content moderation.
He was said to have nuts of steel, but the claim wasn't taken seriously, or literally.
Very interesting. Definitely got me thinking. What's the workflow like when these issues arise? At what point in that workflow would a possible generative ai be of help?
I'm not impressed. I can totally imagine single person building the app under 5 months.
Well, of course, it will not have the best UI or recommendation algorithm or marketing stuff, but I don't think those are in the critical path on the building of the app. I expected that a company like Meta can build apps like this in weeks.

It got me thinking that, in terms of building software 0 to 1, maybe the scalability of head count is surprisingly low.
nothing here is how this author describes it
Thank you kindly!

It seems that WolframAlpha is venerable and stable. I first heard of it long, long ago. (Was it only released in 2009? Seems older.)

It must have amazing staying power. It seemed like a quite powerful tool. Why is it such a well-kept secret?
The conkeror this year is from Indianapolis! She only learned about conkers a few months ago.
Cheating at a PvE game like Helldivers is basically a victimless crime (I don’t do it, but I can see why people would).
Fair enough. People cheat at chess too which makes absolutely no sense to me.
It's encouraging that people are starting to think critically about energy usage in the US and worrying about LLMs is as good introduction as any.

The main problem is that US needs to ramp down fossil fuel extraction and usage, and bring down per capita general electricity usage to levels resembling the rest of the western world. See eg this map: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use
An abnormal percentage of your HN comments are anti-ADHD/treatment.

What’s the reason for this? Why do you have such strong feelings on the topic?
Considering that it's called a world championship, someone should study the sport in-depth! Are the players allowed to swing the chestnut in a circle like a sling? Can they use carbon fiber strings, or maybe some sort of elastic string to build up more energy? Or can the player use a heavy string so it can crack like a whip? Fancy arm/wrist/fingers movements to accelerate the chestnut in the last moment? What's the optimum strike angle to crack a chestnut along its natural cleavages? This could be so exciting!
I'd also be curious if there's any research on a new ranking system that's not only based on 5 stars. Something where it compares your reviews to other reviews you have made in the past and get some type of relative score?
The best recommendation I have for anyone trying to learn a new programming language is to try and program a board game.

There will be clear rules (business logic), UI, etc.

It's a confined enough problem that you can implement it without too much effort but deep enough that you can get a feel for how that programming language, framework, whatever works.

Plus there's a near endless set to choose from and it's easily scalable to the level of complexity you want. If it works add AI players, network play, etc.
I don't understand the Gettier problem. The example of the cow for example: You do not have a justified belief there is a cow there, all you can justify is that there is the likeness of a cow there.

To be able to claim there is a cow there requires additional evidence.
Apparently they pick a new one each round.
Context is described in Zapata's 8-K filing[1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1843714/000095017024...
Maybe a smaller issue than wind, but something is wrong with this claim:

"If you can pick up goods directly from a customer on one side and deliver them directly to a customer on the other..."

How do you handle customs inspections and duties on imports? As TFA states, in current air freight, "there is a trucking company, a warehouse, a customs broker..." Freight has to go through the warehouse on arrival in-country so the customs inspectors can look at it and assess duties. The article seems to envision the airship dropping down directly at the destination address, which would be that nation's customs agency's worst nightmare.
if you don't like it. And people are also telling you they don't like it, then why do you insist on having it be an acronym?
Just so people know, if you sign up you go on a waitlist which is basically specified in the 'not what to do' section in the ShowHN guidelines.
not as a w2, no… but as an hourly contractor it’s often required, even if you bill by the day or week.
Solutions to major mathematics problems generally require the creation of entirely new objects and the appropriate machinery to analyze them. The behavior of said objects generally ends up providing the solution to the original question as a special case. A new architecture is required but one that is probably not far off from the original transformer in nature.
I think Japan Railways figured out that a car full of passengers is worth a lot more than a kitchen/restaurant for the other 11 cars.
Running x86/x86-64 applications on Fedora Asahi Remix
No need for doubt. There's no reason to remotely operate the van since it's a vehicle like the car, and it is already known that they have mostly functional FSD from the many owners driving Tesla cars these past years.
Vinegar makes it stronger? I would naively expect the opposite.
I am not sure I would say it was "pretty obvious", but it is certainly likely.

Regardless I don't see why sigmoid10 was downvoted.
Huh. So Sandia gave Zapata cash in exchange for shares to be delivered no later than March 2026. Sandia had the right to demand its cash back if Zapata's stock fell below $1/share. (Simplifying.) The stock fell below $1. Sandia exercised its right. Simple enough.

Clever way to deny the borrower interest deduction in exchange for giving the lender long-term capital gains. I've been out of the game for too long to understand why one would structure a loan this way. Poor man's convert?

EDIT: I'm struggling to understand this. Sandia gave Zapata cash in exchange for future delivery of shares, the number of shares to be based on the future price of the shares. Also, if the price goes down, they get their money back. So far, we have puttable shares. But the put amount is "a cash amount equal to $1,250,000 (less the number of any Unregistered Shares) multiplied by the volume weighted daily VWAP," which makes no sense, because you're taking a dollar amount, subtracting a number of shares, and multiplying it by a per share price. I assume the underlying agreement knows how to do basic dimensions. (Also, VWAP means volume-weighted average price, so whoever drafted these defined terms is a numpty.)

EDIT2: Oh, it's a SPAC. They already had debt [1]. The agreement still looks overly complicated [2]. Given it's a SPAC it's safe to default to the assumption that any inexplicable financial engineering is solely devoted to putting money in sponsors' pockets.

EDIT3: Love that on page 6 the font randomly changes.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1843714/000119312524...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001843714/0...
If you can pick up goods directly from a customer on one side and deliver them directly to a customer on the other, you can actually beat today’s air freight service on delivery time.

I didn't understand this part, specifically how you could beat today's air freight. Why wouldn't airships be subject to the same (ahem) overhead at either end?

Competitive enough on speed while being less expensive makes sense, though.
> Anywhere outside of Scandinavia, the socioeconomic label would probably have been ‘poor’, but Danish safety nets and support systems did their best to suspend the facts and offer better.

> But don’t worry: This isn’t a rags-to-riches story. I loathe the I-did-it-all-by-myself heroic myth mongering. I got where I am thanks to government-sponsored maternity leave, child care, health care, education, and even cash assistance. I grew up in housing provided by AAB, a union-founded affordable housing association. And my mother was a damn magician at making impossible ends meet without belaboring her tricks (like biking an extra 15 minutes to find the lowest price on milk).

I think the best entrepreneur funding that a govt can do is to help people in lower income brackets. It looks like it worked in this case.
I dare say that if they were close to a practical capability, there is no way the Chinese government would allow them to publicise that fact.
Veblen called sports Conspicuous Leisure. The goal is not fun but that everyone sees you win. So Stakes are Status. And Status gets people things in the same way Cash does.
yes. to cover the other loans he has.
I only know of the game because the Conkerer web browser was named after it. http://conkeror.org/
I'm not sure if this is technically possible, but can this plug into the OS’s Alarm? The alarm would set off even when I'm on Do-Not-Disturb (Focus Mode).
Must've been a great night for the bulk of Hollywood's mocap actors!
Buulding a VM is not a beginner task. You can get going if you have some basic understanding of various things, but getting anything half decent tends towards being a research project.

e.g. Scheme, Lua, etc.

AI, as it stands, screws up the basics, let alone something if this scope. It has no formal reasoning. A virtual machine is a formal reasoning engine.
Less lazy than a dancer in a skin tight robot suit. Progress!
It isn't. Instagram logo and urls still show up in all kinds of random places.
Moderation has been a disaster (my account got banned for a week twice for some random person not liking what I wrote. So that's not conducive to being a 'discussion' platform).
And now I am starting to see tons of shit Russian bots ("0 Follower accounts with right wing views"). Same as Twitter really.
Cheating with only your friends - yeah, mostly. Cheating with randos sounds like it would lead to boring gameplay.
Sure. That's why Brazil fled to Bluesky instead of Threads when Twitter was blocked. It's probably successful among boomers and whoever already has another account with meta.
If they can miniaturize the re-entry vehicles enough to make them undetectable, or if they can leave them "parked" next to larger satellites so as to hide them, then having such hidden orbiting warheads would seem to allow for plausible deniability in small nuclear bombings. But since everyone would know only we have this capability, the deniability goes out the window. Also, re-entry vehicles get very hot and are visible, and their trajectories could get plotted, thus providing evidence of whodunit. Plus the x-37b can't possibly carry very many warheads and re-entry vehicles.

On the whole I think it's very unlikely that the x-37b is placing nukes in orbit.
> Well except for the diagnosis. So much the same way a cancer patient doesn't have a reason to claim they have cancer and someone else doesn't?

Are cancer patients diagnosed via multiple choice questionnaires?? Please tell me more about the rigorous testing process for ADHD diagnosis.

ADHD diagnosis is nothing like a cancer diagnosis. I can’t tell if you’re trolling.

Edit: My bad this is pretty low level bait looking back
The ultimate nimby
I don’t want to hear it. I’d posit I’ve been working with WP longer than you.

Ask yourself: why did WP engine come into existence?
To be fair, the difference of the remaining classes in the Netherlands is mostly density of people, there is no functional difference.
It’s easy to build something and get started if you don’t shoot for the moon right away and try to only build something if you think it’ll be a unicorn. If I want a product for myself badly enough, there’s a good chance that others around me want it to. It might not be a unicorn but I’ll still be happy about the 10 customers that love the product!

This exactly what I had in mind when I launched https://rockyai.me/ - chrome extension that lets you chat with any webpage using LLMs. I built it for myself and now a lot of friends and friends of friends use it :)
Fast internet won't help you build houses or sell rocks to China.
> date specified by Sandia after the VWAP Price (as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement) for 20 trading days during a 30 consecutive trading day-period has fallen below $1.00 per share (a “VWAP Trigger Event”).

> Because a VWAP Trigger Event has occurred, Sandia has the right, but not the obligation, to accelerate the term of the Forward Purchase Agreement at any time

ie. The share price tanked below $1 and that was the condition.

Lookup ZPTA; the price has been below $1 for 6 months.

Presumably the announcements recently did not excite investors and they pulled the plug.