skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how I feel, and why I'm stuck.

I have a pleasant little workflow maintaining a content-based website. I'd like to hire help, but offloading work to a first employee feels like more effort than just doing the work myself.

How do I transmit 7 years of tacit knowledge, principles and best practices to someone else so that they do good work? How do I teach a writer to use my elaborate static site generator setup that was never designed for other users?

Then comes the paperwork, and the inherent difficulty of working with other people instead of having full control over everything.

So far, I have just accepted that my work has a limited scope, and that as long as I'm satisfied with my income I don't need to change that.
I think the minimum amount of understanding needed to grasp MWI is understanding the double slit experiment. The interference pattern is real, thus the waves are real, but we only experience one measurable outcome where a photon lands in a specific location. The probabilistic part is not which outcome happens but which outcome your reality follows.
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I don't know about the US, but in Sweden scores are dropping because mass immigration. Native swedes do better than ever but the immigrants does very poorly. I would assume the same would be true for basically every western country that have been taking in massive amounts of people from third-world countries.

Even more interesting is that there is an anti-education sentiment from muslim minorities. I think our leaders that force mass immigration on us will be looked down upon and hopefully punished in the future.
Yeah, I'm gonna need a citation on Google's usage of ElectricSQL, considering that the link points to Firebase Data Connect.
You still had the copyright warning:
"this video could be a fake, mum the quality is all fuzzy, check for the shiny sticker thing" on Disney movies.

But at least you could skip past it.
> The next big job killer is always 5 years away, apparently

It really is, and really always has been. At least, when it comes to software.

What's always been hard, is knowing which of the many predictions about the real job killer will be correct, so that you can train for it.

In 2009, I was expecting that by 2019 the world would have widespread availability of self driving cars without steering wheels, and not just some geofenced examples and a promise of more "real soon now honest" as we're still at in 2024.

In 2019, I wasn't expecting LLMs to be even remotely as good as they turned out to be by 2022, let alone 2024.
I think it's still unlikely. In the case of the Manhattan project, the USA government wasn't racing against private companies but against other governments. Therefore, all advances in the field where highly secret. In this case, the CIA would be racing against private companies as well, which are hiring the best physicists and engineers too. So, while it's possible that a governmental agency is ahead of what it is publicly know, I doubt that they would be dramatically ahead. This is similar to part of the argument I would present if someone asks me why I believe cryptography in general is secure.
mmm didn't know about that, but my server may have big latency so it could happen. I see there's a reproducer in the issue, I'll take a look.
> Citing laws of physics won't help you because any claim to have made a perpetual motion machine is implicitly claiming to be a proof by counterexample that one of those laws is wrong.

Citing the laws of physics in this case is the shorthand way to point the overwhelming number of proofs by example that the laws are correct.
I'd like a rebate on my taxes then.
The complaint is mostly about JSON parsers, not the JSON spec itself, which as other comments have said works quite well in practice.

In .NET land the most popular JSON library is Newtonsoft which plays fast and loose with the JSON spec and makes a lot of default assumptions. A couple of years ago Microsoft rolled out their own first-party JSON library, which is a lot stricter and requires the developer to explicitly configure the parser instead of making assumptions.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serializat...

But some developers still instinctively reach for Newtonsoft, even when working on brand new projects. In practice, this sort of ingrained habit is far greater of a problem than the JSON spec itself.

The author says that Protobuf makes all of JSON's problems go away. I don't know enough about Protobuf to confirm or deny, but I know that it's not tested 10 trillion times a day like JSON is.
Omar is a fanboy yes, but AIDRIVR and DirtyTesla have been openly criticizing FSD for years and show all the problems openly, now waxing lyric over the latest version. Omar, while sometimes cherrypicking videos, has reportedly had 1 safety critical intervention in over 1000 miles of driving in SF and LA.
Bonus Framework Laptop spotting :)
I care about getting things done but don't want to take on the risk of an encumbered license and the volatility that comes with license changes.

To me, these products are booby traps that are more likely to need replaced in the future when something changes again.

Put another way, it's a sign of an unhealthy ecosystem.

There's so much gray area in these terms you have to keep the lawyers involved not only in the initial indentation but product features in the future to make sure you don't accidentally cross a very poorly defined line.
What a nonsense - Poland actually had full lockdown and did close schools during the pandemic (the English word is not pandemia but pandemic BTW).

From Wikipedia:

On 10–12 March 2020 lockdown-type control measures were implemented, closing schools and university classes, offices, and cancelling mass events, and were strengthened on 25 March, limiting non-family gatherings to two people and religious gatherings to six and forbidding non-essential travel
I remember enjoying this video essay on the shining and the spacial anomalies in the overlook hotel. It contains snippets of a recreation of the impossible hotel in a Duke Nukem 3D map.

https://www.collativelearning.com/the%20shining.html
It is basically a certainty that the CIA and NSA have their own projects, and also keep very close tabs on those outside - it is their exact remit.

The great quantum computing nightmare, from the NSA point of view, is someone sidestepping out of nowhere with a viable machine that works in an unexpected and easy to reproduce way.

Edit to add: see also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing which while bounded in the same sense as conventional machines would still be a game changer.
Its especially pertinent here that a lot of the countries that outperform the US have significantly higher percentages of immigrants, yet they don't seem to be failing them in the manner that the US education system is:

Switzerland: 30%
Sweden: 20%
Canada: 21%
Germany, Austria etc.
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There are places that still let you download movies like iTunes. They are of course riddled in DRM so it's not much help...
Section 230 of Title 47 says no.
yeah...I just want to pay for a DRM-free copy so I can play it and own it forever. That's it. No streaming accoounts, no tracking, no plastic packaging, just the file in exchange for money. I paid for Sublime text that way and it's a great model.
Obesity causes epigenetic changes in fat cells that make it much harder to stay lean if you’ve been obese before.

So it’s not the fault of the drug or the people using them that they balloon back up. The exact same thing happens on diet programs.

The only long term options right now is to stay on the drug, or to build very strict habits and a system for sticking with those habits. But I’m not sure there exists a program that can guarantee that it’ll build such good habits that anyone will stick with them even through stressful phases of their life.

In other words we don’t have a great solution yet. Cheaper and better drugs seems like the only thing that will finally solve the epidemic
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The problem with this is that the vast majority of such brains would be a mess. Their experience, cognition, etc would be completely incoherent. Only a teeny, tiny, minuscule fraction of them would have coherent experiences that make sense.

So if the argument is we're most likely to be such brains, then we are most likely to exist in a haze of incoherence. We don't. Right now I have an experience of a coherent historic memory, intentionality, sensory experiences, all of which make sense in the instant. If I am a random Bolzmann brain none of that should be true.

So we'd have to have a reason to suppose that the minuscule fraction of coherent, consistent random Bolzmann brains are more likely than the occurrence of environments that generate 'actual' brains, each of which may generate many, many such brains.
Having been in a Tesla in FSD mode recently, it felt quite a lot like Waymo's car did about a decade ago. That's a purely subjective opinion taken off the cuff.
In particular, grid decarbonisation means that distance to break even moves after the car is manufactured.

If you live somewhere that mostly burns coal to make electricity, your break even is determined based on the higher efficiency of electric motors and of the (energy efficient but filthy) big stack coal generators compared to the relatively clean but inefficient gasoline ICE.

But if they start building wind turbines and solar farms, because those are just cheaper and easier - suddenly that distance shrinks rapidly (maybe half) even though for you as an end user nothing changed, because electricity is fungible so you charge a car from the solar farm just the same as from a coal power plant.
Infant Screen Use, Electroencephalography Markers, and Cognitive Outcomes
> However, educated index investors typically hold a total market index fund.

Has this outperformed the S&P 500 index in the last 30 years? I doubt it. Also: what percentage of profits from S&P 500 are int'l? Much more than people think. It is already int'l.
This description isn’t how science has played out. When the scale changes often the model gets simple again.

Think about how complex friction is at a molecular level. But a single coefficient is a good enough model for engineers and a continuous 1d graph is incredible.

There is also no evidence that general AI models like multilayer perceptrons are good at constructing physical models from phenomena and lots of examples where they aren’t.

The opposite seems to have had more success. Someone who understands a system constructs a model and then lets a computer determine the actual parameter values.
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In many worlds, he certainly does.
Yes: Only Tesla is willing to sacrifice human lives today for the dream of robo-driving in the future.
> Can you clarify what you mean by “leads” here

Not GP but leads in this case were people that found their websites on Google and showed interest in buying their product.

> I only get the slightly passive landing site approach or cold calling

what would you expect to be a lead that would be different than that? A lead goes through steps of qualification until it becomes a customer.
Pretty sure bluray did something like this - some sort of java app definition that gets executed to display menus and the like.
>selfishness

towards whom?
I love that the desk in the shots is a coffee bar. Thinking of how customized my coffee setups are it is a clear analogy for ergonomics. Adapting an activity to one's biology.
That's not been my experience. My limited experience at a large corporation was "throw money at vendors for enterprise support"

The bigger issue was startups and small/medium sized companies with limited technical support and limited money to buy enterprise support or in-house experts. These are the same companies heavily leaning on managed services from vendors like AWS.
I love Crafting Interpreters, it's a fantastic book, and is on my desk beside me right now. Everything about it is just so well...crafted!

I know Amazon is a must for authors, but as an Amazon avoider, I was delighted to able to order it through my local bookshop.
No, won’t all your stocks and financial information be gone also?

Also Willow can’t even factor 15=5x3 you are good for a very long time.
I think not much more chaotic, but more stuff is happening, and it's happening faster (maybe not as much as it feels, because the internet amplifies visibility a lot more than it amplifies the actual rate of notable events).
No that's just a fact. It's the same ideology, trying to be sold under "more acceptable" terms. The BS part is people trying to make it sound milder than what it is. It even wants to deport German citizens who they claim to not have integrated well. More details on similarities: https://www.socialeurope.eu/when-never-again-becomes-again-a...

I don't support any forced relocation of groups of people and find even very long prison sentences debatable. I'm also a big proponent of forcing Turkey to recognize the Armenian and other genocides. Nice try to poison the well though.

People build their lives somewhere, relocating them usually means many steps back. If you ever migrated into a complete new country with different values and language, you would understand.
Sorry to be "that guy", but where and why do you draw a line between social media, Reddit and HN?

I do the same, but I don't like it. I "don't use social media", but I use reddit, and I'm commenting here too. I think I'm deluding myself, and I think you might be too.

I'd guess what you come to HN and Reddit, and what you get from them both is no different to what a daily Facebook user goes to Facebook and gets.

For some reason, because the content type here is slightly more intellectual, slightly less emotional (generally...) slightly more focused on what I'm proud to call my interests (tech), I somehow feel like it's more justified.

If it's justified for people to use sites like this and claim it's not bad social media because it's related to our tech interest, I feel like we must accept people who use Facebook daily and claim it's not bad social media, because it relates to their interest in social stuff.

Practically, they have the same features and problems: a constant stream of information on which we can passively extract and offer views on.

Sorry, I don't mean be disagreeable, I just wish people would call this (including me) out more. The more I think about it, the more ridiculous it is that there are supposedly educated people like me and you claiming they "don't use" and have "ditched" social media to each other in the comments section of a media site. What do you think?
> A good brand would buffer compute and memory capacity by a decent factor at time of sale in order to support future codecs needs...

The problem is a physical media format absolutely cannot afford to gain a reputation for not playing.

You see, if stores accept returns for opened DVDs? People can buy a DVD movie, watch it, then return it for a refund.

But if stores don't accept returns for opened DVDs? If I paid two hours' wages for that DVD, it doesn't play, and they won't give me a refund? I'm going to be mad about being ripped off, and I'm going to complain a lot.
How would that work? DVDs are playable on hundreds of devices with different architectures and capabilities. You could play a DVD on your MIPS based PS2, x86 based Xbox, PowerPC based Mac etc. And early on a hardware card was necessary for many devices because they weren't fast enough to decode in software.
Yes, most people can predict weather in the dessert. But why do you claim this is what happened here? Or was it a joke? Because people took it serious.

Neither the article, nor the linked paper state that. But they have all the details on precision and condition.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9
Must be nice living a life free from the constraints of time.
That's exactly my point: You're deliberately installing Google software on your LineageOS device, so it's not really that different (from a supported apps or data privacy perspective) from a stock ROM.

GrapheneOS and /e/OS are trying to solve different problems: producing a usable Android operating system that isn't tied to Google.
It feels more like the time to develop the tech has outlived the hype cycle around the tech, perhaps moreso than usual. That doesn't mean it isn't going anywhere, just that it's still slow (and in fact, after the hype cycle, the average press release is more likely to be substantive than during it, even if it's still incremental).

(From my reading/understanding of it, for a while there's been little point in trying to make a quantum computer big enough to do such work, because the individual parts would not work well enough for it to have any chance of success, while this result primarily is showing that they're now at the cusp of the predicted tipping point where the qubits have a low enough error rate that building a larger system out of them has a hope of working. That's the big news in google's recent announcement, not them pushing up the numbers in this somewhat contrived benchmark)
You will be suprised how quickly people learn and delegation is a forcing function to make things simpler. If they are good they will help you figure out how to make things simpler.
Any idea how they manage to get clearly defined nebulae in the skyscapes? I've never seen it before; is it a new technique, filter or a composite of smaller angle shots?
I saw the same thing in Poland as well.
The only thing that makes this time seem chaotic is that you see more of the details.

The US was almost overthrown by a Coup in 1933.[1] There were huge civil revolts in the clashes between organized labor and the Donor class since the start of the Industrial Revolution. There have been organized systems of repressing most of humanity for all of recorded history, and I don't expect it to change any time soon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
The problem is about physics, not Turing machines. You don't need to make a random choice as part of your physical model, the model only makes predictions about the distribution. You can't represent the continuous dynamical manifolds of classical or quantum mechanics on a TM either, but that's ok, because we have discrete models that work well.
It was part of a tech demo for a research computer, in 1956, intentionally designed to show an easily visualisable problem domain - road connections between cities. That’s over a decade before ARPANET existed.

There’s an interview here with more: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1787234.1787249
Anecdotal data from Estonia: I just checked what's the level of maths we have for the 3rd grade (which here corresponds to 9-10 year olds):
(Google Translate):

* reads, writes, sorts and compares natural numbers 0–10,000;

* presents a number as the sum of units, tens, hundreds and thousands;

* reads and writes ordinal numbers;

* adds and subtracts numbers mentally within 100, and in writing within 10,000;

* knows the multiplication table (multiplies and divides by single-digit numbers mentally within 100);

* knows the names of the members and results of four arithmetic operations;

* finds the numerical value of a letter in equations by trial and error or by analogy;

* determines the correct order of operations in an expression (parentheses, multiplication/division, addition/subtraction).

So you have elements of pre-algebra but actual algebra will be covered only in the 4th/5th grade (10-12 yo).
I think this is much less straight forward when the OSS is glued to a commercial company.

Giving money to a competitor is different than giving money to an open initiative.

Does Redis Labs give back to the Linux Foundation and OpenSSL?
Obsolete Occupations from the Middle Ages
Well I learned that the default memory ordering in a std::atomic<> is memory_order_seq_cst. That really surprised me. I had previously imagined that if I'd wanted memory barriers in addition to atomicity, then I'd have to ask for them.

Seems like a strange default to me. Obviously it helps out people who aren't really aware of the problem, but then... surely those people won't think to use an atomic operations library in the first place?
I don't think they "shot the PoW", and I don't even know if they emprisoned them. Feels very weird how the original comment put it (why link the Swiss to the Germans like this?).

But I know that German planes ended up in the Swiss airspace. The Swiss told them to land (like "we will now escort you and you will land on our soil, and if you don't comply we shoot you down"). They refused and got shot down.

But it's very different from shooting a pilot that would be in a state of PoW.
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Nah it's unsustainable, right now it only works because of the hype. AI doesn't generate nearly enough value to be worth what it's being sold for. And it costs even more to run.

What will ads even do in that context? At the very least you need to get your users to accept that all of their data WILL be used for analytics and sold to 500 different companies. And it might not even be enough to pay for the cloud costs
The paper seems quite readable to me and I also lack the training. But this point is adressed in the beginning.

"The highly non-linear physics of weather means that small initial uncertainties and errors can rapidly grow into large uncertainties about the future. Making important decisions often requires knowing not just a single probable scenario but the range of possible scenarios and how likely they are to occur."
txt.dev: a writing tool that deliberately stays simple
A friend of mine, Cambridge graduate, a day or two ago needed to read about normalization.

We looked at the Wiki page.

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

A huge page, and for someone who doesn't know what normalization is, totally and utterly useless in every possible way.

Hell, I've been using computers since I was a child, read the Date book, wrote my own relational database from scratch, and I don't know what some of the stuff on that page means. Explaining everything in terms which themselves need explanation is not useful, and it is the absolute hallmark of science wikipedia articles.

So what I would say is this : you can't learn from Wikipedia articles. They do not teach. Which makes me question their value. What are they for?
People get the Tor exit node list and block their IPs, I think.