skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that was the whole point. You never had any visibility into their roadmap.

You only evet had visibility into a daydream that changed. What good is, no scratch that, there is no good in knowing something that you only think you know. It's negative value. It's worse than knowing nothing at all. It doesn't matter how much you want to know, and how good it feels to have that want pacified.

Similarly, this is also why even if someone does publish a road map, you should ignore it and only deal with whatever exists as it exists right now. Make all decisions, including looking ahead, based on nothing but the current state.
Fun fact: a "learning curve" was originally statistical evidence of a system getting better at something. It used to indicate that there can be improvement over initial performance when a process is repeated. I find it interesting that the meaning has shifted now to "this is hard at first" or "it takes a while to get results".
I assume it's orders of magnitude better than asbestos obviously, since flour is organic and decomposes, but it still doesn't seem great. If the particulate is this small, it can probably get pretty deep into your lungs and just sit there for a while. I'm no expert, but I don't know what would decompose flour in your lungs, especially if it's going to get deeper being so light and tiny.

Like it's not asbestos, but it's also not air. So maybe nanopasta comes with an MSDS binder.
Fair enough.

Perhaps better stated as "adult human height is approximately Gaussian for a given biological sex", with an asterisk that environmental factors stretch the distribution.

I love the anecdote that people born in the American colonies came back to England to visit family, and were remarkably taller compared to their cousins due to environmental factors.
SimpleStats v3 – a lightweight analytics tool for Laravel applications
Hi folks,

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* Defer function: Simplifies setup by making queues optional.
* Visitor payments: Payments can now be linked to visitors (for apps without user accounts), introducing a new metric: ARPV (Average Revenue per Visitor).
* Bot filtering: Client-side bot detection reduces API calls and improves performance.
* Faster browser/bot detection: Now uses caching for better speed.
* Social login: Added Google and GitHub login support.
* UUID and ULID support.
* Timezone fixes and lots of small bug fixes and performance tweaks.

You can check out SimpleStats at: https://simplestats.io

Feedback and questions are always welcome!

Thanks for your time,
Zacharias
Not sure if you're in Canada, but all our national governments, and the current one explicitly, has made it far less attractive to try to build capital outside your home. The only thing protecting homes is the instant political death that would result from those who vote in volume. You could make real estate a far less attractive financial investment if you don't tax the stuffing out of every other type of wealth accumulation. It's just so much easier and more politically lucrative to increase the captial gains tax on those "fat-cat doctors" and give everyone else a "tax holiday" with their own money, suspending one of the fairest and most effective taxes.
Managed k8s is great if you already in the cloud, selfhosting it as a small company is waste of money.
“Little browser apps for phones” are a trillion-dollar industry
I will look for more watchmaker examples. I read ?Boorsteins? Discoverers, it had a long chapter on the discovery of time as a human invention
Spaghetti thumbs up
What to think of the Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment 21 years later?
I often stumble across YouTube videos or blog posts that talks about the "paperclip-maximizer" thought experiment by Nick Bostrom [1, 2]. Basically, it’s the idea of a superintelligent AI tasked with creating paperclips, which ends up turning the entire universe into paperclips and wiping out humanity in the process. It’s often used to explain how AI could be a threat to humanity, based on the idea that “AIs are goal maximizers” and that hardcoding human values into an AI is really difficult. The concern is that the AI might optimize its goal in a way that’s dangerous for humans in ways we didn’t foresee.

This thought experiment felt relevant back when Reinforcement Learning (RL) was seen as the most promising path toward building more powerful AIs. In that paradigm, we could often see RL agents hack their reward functions. For example, if you told an agent to "maximize velocity," it might find some unintended and weird way to do it that we didn’t predict. [3]

But now, with LLMs, I feel like the situation has changed. We’re not training AI to achieve specific goals directly anymore. Instead, we train them on subgoals. First, something like “predict the next token,” which just happens to be a really effective way for them to understand language. Then, we refine them further with more specific subgoals like “generate tokens that best answer this instruction,” often using RL. At that stage, we try to teach them what not to say and align them with human values. That part is still really hard and can fail spectacularly, but that’s basically it. We don’t hardwire absolute goals; we train them on subgoals and then use prompting to get them to do all sorts of tasks.

I’m not saying LLMs or future more advanced AIs are already safe at all. They’re definitely not. But I do think the paperclip-maximizer feels outdated as a thought experiment. It imagines AI as having a single, direct, absolute goal, which made sense in the RL paradigm but doesn’t match how we’re building AI systems today. In fact, we often end up with the opposite issue: LLMs refusing to do what we ask because they think it’s bad or harmful.

The paperclip-maximizer may still useful for introducing basic AI risk concepts, but to me it feels disconnected from the challenges we’re facing now and will likely face in the future, and may distract the public from the real challenges we face with AI today and in the future.

What do you think?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

[2]:https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

[3]: https://openai.com/index/emergent-tool-use/
Well they aren’t really subsidizing based on having everything you need on shore. They still specilize into a few monocrops and have to trade to fill the rest of a balanced diet for the population. No one is calculating how much butter would be needed to last a multi year siege and dolling out subsidize to the dairy farmers on that I don’t think.
The problem is that intellectual productivity is generally not possible to measure directly, so you instead end up with indirect measurements that assume a Gaussian distribution.

IQ is famously Gaussian distributed... mainly because it's defined that way, not because human "intelligence" (good luck defining that) is Gaussian.

If you look at board game Elo ratings (poor test for intelligence but we'll ignore that), they do not follow a Gaussian distribution, even though Elo assumes a Gaussian distribution for game outcomes (but not the population).
So that's good evidence that aptitude/skill in intellectual subjects isn't Gaussian (but it's also not Pareto iirc).
I prefer to split work and personal repos into ~/dev for work and ~/src for personal.

# file ~/.gitconfig
[includeIf "gitdir:~/src/"]
path = /Users/metabeard/.config/git/.gitconfig-personal
[includeIf "gitdir:~/dev/"]
path = /Users/metabeard/.config/git/.gitconfig-work

and

# file .config/git/.gitconfig-personal and .config/git/.gitconfig-work
# both are very similar with different email and signingkey
[user]
name = Meta Beard
email = email@metabeard.me
signingkey = ssh-rsa xxx==

[gpg]
format = ssh

[gpg "ssh"]
program = "/Applications/1Password.app/Contents/MacOS/op-ssh-sign"

[commit]
gpgsign = true
To me it says that our system is built on a reasonable but untested assumption (performance is a gaussian) and by replacing it with an equally reasonable assumption (performance is a pareto), suddenly our system looks stupid. It isn't really offering a solution but a new perspective
since publicly calling out "this smells like a robot" just makes the robots sneakier... what's the alternative? :ponder:
I know that book well, the first chapter starts with "The first discovery was time." Great reminder.
Nvidia Fugatto 1 – Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus 1
Craig Newmark gets way less attention than he deserves (which is probably how he prefers it) for being one of those few California tech billionaires (or now maybe only former billionaire after such persistent philanthropy) who seems genuinely humble, decent and morally sturdy about how to use what he's built and his own money.

Craiglist is hardly a flashy company, but in today's world of almost universally parasitic, mendacious, user data-selling, spying, prying businesses involved in tech in nearly any way, it's something of a rough and unique little gem.
> Most of these people have debilitating mental illnesses and/or drug addictions.

Do they, or don't they? If that's true, the article was misleading.

I mean that's the standard trope, sure, and it makes homelessness into an intractable problem about needing hordes of social workers and clinics, but there's a lot of implication here that these particular homeless are mostly people who can't afford the available rents.
I was a math major before switching to cs. I’d say algebra/algebra 2/trig are the ones you need to be most skilled at the start.

Linear Algebra was quite possible to learn while in college as it wasn’t needed in the first few cs classes (useful for ai/ml/graphics)

After that my favorites were game theory and discrete math. They are quite practical in a way that fills out the way you can reason about the world. Again, definitely not needed before you start school.

I’m still waiting for calculus/ to be useful day to day, but then again I’m not doing engineering/physics simulation software where it is essential.
Wholeheartedly agree with you on team composition mattering a ton, but how often do you have such an abundance of engineers and tasks that you can match them up the right way?
Good thread showing how this works: https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1861079762506252723
Like Synapse, this sounds like the "put all your eggs in our digital basket" style of fintech "disruption" is bound to blow up in the faces of everyone involved.
> All my hobby coding in C++ makes use of modules.

Do you have an example (of yours or others) that you could link?

I've been trying to get this up and running myself, but can't seem to whisper the right CMake prayers.
Sure buddy. Nothing suspicious at all about the man who became a billionaire thanks to government spending go in and rip it all apart after the fact.
Thank you for the links and clarification, it makes more sense now
> so you instead end up with indirect measurements that assume a Gaussian distribution.

100%. I was going to write something similar.

> If you look at board game Elo ratings (poor test for intelligence but we'll ignore that), they do not follow a Gaussian distribution, even though Elo assumes a Gaussian distribution for game outcomes (but not the population). So that's good evidence that aptitude/skill in intellectual subjects isn't Gaussian (but it's also not Pareto iirc).

Interesting, yeah, Elo is quite interesting. And one can view hiring in a company as something like selecting people for Elo above a certain score, but with some type of error distribution on top of that, probably Gaussian error. So what does a one sided Elo distribution look like with gaussian error in picking people above that Elo limit?
This is at best wishful thinking when 2/3 of the federal budget are medicare/ss/military. What exactly will get cut?

The efficiency cuts they are talking about will barely make a dent while making services worse for everyone. Good luck next time a disaster area needs FEMA assistance.

And not unlike a business when you have a deficit you have two options: cut cost and increase revenues, this incoming government will very likely decrease revenues through tax cuts, making the deficit even worse.
All polygenic traits would be Gaussian by default under the simplest assumptions.

E.g. if there are N loci, and each locus has X alleles, and some of those alleles increase the trait more than others, the trait will ultimately present in a Gaussian distribution.

i.e. if there are lots of genes that affect IQ, IQ will be a Gaussian curve across population.
There’s also being funny not quite for attracting others, but for avoiding alienating people one has already attracted. As someone surely autistic somehow, I find myself making frequent jokes because I know my interlocutors don’t want to hear about the subjects I’d really like to talk about, so joking seems the least-offensive and least-effort part I can play in socializing. When I saw Mike Leigh’s 1987 short film The Short and Curlies, about a young man who reacts to every single thing with a little joke, I very much recognized myself.
Writing like this makes me sigh, exhaling air, the omnipresent chemical stimulator, which holds significant relevance in the human experience, as it continually engages our biological and mental faculties.
Pricing the anonymity of banknotes
My understanding of the post I was replying to was that the compatibility issues were due to different versions of Linux having different clang versions. If I've understood correctly then Docker is highly likely to be a good solution.

> any open source project should consider docker not an option to solve their problem

That's generalising far too much.
That is just not the case. Try doing some illegal drug or something.
Given we are talking about jamming a repeater in a rather extreme orbit, you have to account for the speed of light delay. By the time a bad actor gets news that a message they don't like is being transmitted and starts up the jammer the broadcast may already be over (assuming its a data transmission that comes in bursts of packets)
Carbon taxes are by far the most effective way to get down CO₂ emissions.

But I'm doubtful that implementing them only for one industry in one small country is very helpful.
I think it's less that than I thought that primary problem was just insufficient housing. Of course, both things can be true, particularly on a local scale.
> Twitter became toxic / suppressed speech dramatically

But what kind of speech is supressed nowadays on X?
what about Bluesky?
does Bluesky not supress any speech?
I feel the need to point out that `const` is a viral annotation in C++
the emotional part of my brain is aligned with you, but the pragmatic part knows this is an extremely expensive way to solve the need. Aside from the massive operating costs, what happens come spring - release them back into the wild?
School is important if you want to join the ranks of the 'elite'. It is not important to live a good life.
Macy's says an employee hid up to $154M in expenses
Yes, I think it is quadratic. I don't claim it's practical (the original isn't practical either though), but just that the dependency on filenames isn't fundamental.
Denmark has had massive erosion problems for decades to the point there used to be signs about it when I used to go there as a kid in the 1980's.
Looks good, similar to https://github.com/sourcegraph/conc which we've been using for a while. Will give this a look.
I would support this in my neighborhood given some kind of recourse for problematic repeat offenders in the community the same way we have for our housed neighbors.
They probably cut it in half, stuffed it with some prosciutto, some gorgonzola, cherry tomatoes and rocket, and washed it all down with a glass of prosecco or an espresso. Delicious. Served using a piece of slate for a plate.
Still work in progress, and I'm a noob, so will take a little while.

I'm scraping the posts every 30 minutes, and categorizing according to whether it is just a link to another page (a), or if there is actually content(b).

a => open link, and scrape said content
b => is scraped from the beginning, open and scrape links if possible.

This effectively gives me an "enriched" database, so each week, I can use the "extra" data to do a "semantic search" like: Submissions that talk about Beauty, Spain, and Beauty in Spain, or different combinations of the topics.
(RAG https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8868588-retrieval-augmen...).

The problem with only doing this once per week, is that content, that is within a niche topic, that didn't get sufficient upvotes, gets lost. But, I want to add the "weight" of upvotes and comments.

What do you think?
How much of software architecture is required because of the architecture? If your program has types that are the possible states, and functions to transform between those states, what architecture is needed beyond that? A grouping of related types, perhaps?
I agree 100%.

I've kind of standardized on Bose headphones because even though I hate crap like that, they're so popular that there's a big ecosystem of replacement parts, batteries, etc.

It helps that the earpads have been unchanged across multiple generations: QC25/35/45 and I think their new ones as well. Everything but the Ultra and NC700. So I expect replacements should be available more or less indefinitely.
German steel giant ThyssenKrupp to slash 11,000 jobs
My countrymen as well :). I am appalled of what's happening.
> Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC

The sad thing is that no one's heard of the actual prestigious ones: Bain, McKinsey, and BCG. I sure hadn't when I joined Bain & Co, but all the rich kids were doing it.
Can you give an example?

If your claim is that sites that use cookie banners don't understand the law, I don't know how we square that claim with the European Commission site's cookie banner. Certainly, the government itself can interpret the law successfully, right?
Yes, you're not wrong. It's just not the same and unsure how to explain it. Consoles had love, warmth and now they're cold and sterile as I said before. They were a lifetime purchase and now you're expected to buy each new revision.

It was different and you felt it. As the old internet to the new internet. Something the new generations won't understand.

Consoles have always been about the games. It was the dedicated hardware for. So my gripe is not that it can't do what a PC can do. I own a PC for that.

Games were creative, imaginative and this was before "AAA" was a thing.

There is no magic to be found.

I find more enjoyment playing old DOS and Amiga games. Which luckily there are sites for that.

The playdate is a thing and true but it's a device i've not used but know I'll use once and put down. It's not in the shops where I can try before I buy.

Indie games are cute. However what I find with indie games, which I own more than a dozen on my steam list are fun for the while and then never get touched. Not my thing.

It's not about the game play, it's about the hardware.
It is more complicated, but I find it hilarious people are trying to find utility in metastability problems on modern architectures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability_(electronics)

Arguably, the concept is the ultimate reduction of the absurd claim 'It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature.'

Seems some crowds sell the facade of repeatable correctness, rather than acknowledge their design is fundamentally an unreliable Beta. =3
Probably, yes! You could imagine building an MCP server (integration) for a particular piece of legacy software, and inside that server, you could employ Computer Use to actually use and automate it.

The benefit would be that to the application connecting to your MCP server, it just looks like any other integration, and you can encapsulate a lot of the complexity of Computer Use under the hood.

If you explore this, we'd love to see what you come up with!
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42230355
Warren Buffet (as Berkshire Hathaway) bought Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) for a reason - it is very profitable.

The merger of Canadian Pacific with Kansas City Southern is even larger, and is now a railway that spans North America from Vancouver to Veracruz.

The freight railway system in North America is massive.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Kansas_City
Pretty decent 2 minute video detailing the ship more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dftaWQLtPQ
Eliza – Social Multi-Agent Framework
For 1 have you looked at test containers?
That heavily incentivizes me to advocate against any such law.
I implemented an academic paper (join tree) in C# here https://github.com/zvrba/Pfm

It provides the opposite: a mutable CoW data structure that is extremely cheap to "fork" so that all subsequent updates occur only on the new "fork" and are invisible to the old "fork".
If your solution fails on the large majority of computers, can it really be called a solution? 'All the world is my language' blindspots are nothing compared to 'all the world is GNU/Linux' blindspots.
Its low on informational content, but as an introductory sentence seems fine to me.
Nonono you.missed the part where you add Infra as Code, with requires another 2-3 fulltime yaml engineers to be really vendor agnostic.
C++ is still important in domains where performance is really critical.

I also think there's a place where it can easily be supplanted, but currently cross platform native software has Qt and bindings for it in other languages are mixed.

In performance critical things, Rust still doesn't feel like the final answer since you end up cloning a lot and refactors are very painful. Go obviously has it's issues since SIMD support is non-existent and there is limited control over garbage collection, though it works well for web APIs.
Directory of 250 LLM Agents On X/Twitter
$300B pledge at COP29 climate summit a "paltry sum"
A small comment that will probably go mostly unnoticed, but this question has always bothered me too and it's a second opportunity inside of an hour to talk about working at Disneyland post 9/11. We instituted bag checks at the intake turnstiles for the first time after that, and the result was enormous lines that backed up all the way to the streets. It left me wondering why nobody just detonated a bomb or fired the entire magazine of an Uzi into the crowd waiting to get into the park. You could still kill anywhere from hundreds to thousands of people, it's still at Disneyland. What were we really accomplishing by making it less likely to happen in the park, but possibly making it even easier to happen right outside, given the gridlock, how tightly everyone was packed, and the impossibility of hiding anywhere or running away?
Replit (YC W18) Is Hiring Software Engineers in the Bay Area
Lichess has public population data (they use a modified version of Glicko-2 which is basically an updated version of Elo's system): https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz

It's basically a Gaussian with a very long right tail.

Big caveat here is that these are the ratings of weekly active players.
If we instead include casual players, I suspect we'd have something resembling a pareto distribution.