skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0. an app where public ideas don’t require a login so I could have posted idea #1

1. an app where you can point to a body and it will show on the TV so the person behind you knows where to massage
>It seems that he is spending a lot of his time & effort on maintaining his hair (huge kudos for admitting that!). If his body was functioning like an 18-year old he should not need to do that. If Bryan really set back his true aging clock he probably would not be battling with ongoing hair loss (as he most likely did not battle hair loss 20 years prior), or at least it would stop (which does not seem to be the case).

Androgenetic hair loss (what Johnson has and what the medications he takes are designed to treat) is caused by genetic sensitivity to DHT and DHT levels in the body, not aging. People who don't have the genetic predisposition to AGA or who have very low DHT levels can often make it to 60+ with no visible hair loss. It's not like they're "not aging," they just don't have the combination of genes and DHT levels needed for significant hair loss to occur.
You site is insane! I clicked the keyboard as a lark and it totally got me intrigued about the entire rest of the site. I was smiling as I read the explainations.
Is Healthcare a Human Right?
This gets tricky. Once you look into your past, you're presumably looking at data that was used to generate your training corpus. So you would expect better accuracy on that than you would find on present/future predictions.
I suppose we don’t really care anymore about WebScript[1] the scripting language of Apple’s old WebObjects framework[2].

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Le...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects
Is "getting Luigi'd" becoming a thing?

For the most part, I'm not in the loop as cultural phrases come into being, and I'm often not aware of the references. I'm conflicted by the fact that I find this phrase both tragic and funny as hell. I can't get Nintendo's Luigi out of my mind.
Maybe I'm missing something but are there any current regulations that make it difficult to operate?

My understanding was that in many states, it's mostly just paper requirements and not any strict testing, etc.
The MB Drive Pilot only works at ridiculously low speeds (under 40 mph), on select highways, no sharp turns, no weather, no construction zones, lanes clearly visible, etc. It's laughable to compare it against FSD which works everywhere. FSD has been flawless when driving on such easy conditions for years.
Not just US, I read this about Germany and Australia as well.
Might or might not be true
Ah, you're misunderstanding me.

In the course of preservation, the Rule That Shall Not Be Violated(tm) is that anything which would lead to significant and irreversible damage or destruction of the artifact is off limits. Especially if the artifact is irreplacable.

Recording the audio off of those disks should not have happened if it was already understood or reasonably expected that doing so would lead to their destruction. Whoever gave the OK on that exhibited a critical failure of risk assessment and management.
Not just New York, but also California and parts of the North East.
Turbo Morphing Woes
My dealer experiences have included hours to swap out a dome light under warranty, 1+ hours to do a software update, and a dealer trying to claim that the manufacturers automatic engine warranty extension didn't apply to my car. Also, misread a code and tried to charge >$1k for a repair that was actually part of the same warranty repair. These were separate brands and different ownership.

On top of that, one offered free oil changes for 12 months, IIRC. They'd regularly try to sell unneeded services on top of it (alignment after <12 months of ownership without even checking it first, for example).

My experiences with Tesla have been imperfect, but vastly better by comparison. There are issues, but I'd take them over the dealer experiences 100% of the time.
At 4th grade I totally and definitely wanted to be a military jet fighter, and stayed in that phase for a solid 3 or 4 years. I'm pretty glad I learned other things as well.

Sure, making a decision is possible, and parents have the authority to deal with the aftermath. The same way some decide their kid will be an elite pianist and commit 100% to it as soon as they can.

But I don't see it as a sane path in general.
Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world
If prostitution were ever legalized and regulated (which is not entirely implausible), this could be a viable idea.

I woudn't work on it though.
I’m not saying no one will be willing to pay for it, but rather that the number of people willing to pay for it will decrease when the prices start to reflect all the costs necessary to become profitable. A lot of investor money is currently keeping those costs artificially low for growth, and to find product market fit.

In my opinion the number of use cases people (and especially businesses) will be willing to pay full price for are not yet obviously large enough to dominate global compute.
TAO tho...
> is caused by genetic sensitivity to DHT and DHT levels in the body, not aging

Is the formula something like: DHT sensitivity * time = hair loss ?
> a company could expand their offerings with a less robust safety record

But would people take it?

I mean, if one service is 25% cheaper but there are a bunch of horror stories of their vehicles crashing into highway barriers (like this past October), I'm not sure people are going to get in.
> Not in my opinion. These kind of companies ask you to give 100% of yourself every single day.

No, I understand can understand how someone would come away with that conclusion based on common patterns in the industry, but I think you're conflating two things.

First, companies want teams that deliver value. If evaluation is based more on vibes than actual output, that's a management failure. Its nuanced, because bad vibes can really hurt teams a lot, so it's not that vibes don't matter, but if the source of the vibes is that management is clueless and doesn't understand the pain points on the front lines, then that's the bigger issue. As a junior engineer it can be hard to distinguish, but just understand that good management exists and is out there, it's not all pointy hairs (even if the language is sometimes the same, after all pointy hairs have to cargo cult off of someone).

Second is how much a company asks of you. Once you rise up the ranks in any sizable company you'll realize an incredible amount of effort is wasted just due to the overhead of coordinating many individuals. In these types of environments it's more about focusing on the right things rather than overall effort. As Steve Jobs said, "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do". Entire teams can be net negative because no one calls out the elephant in the room. While it's true, that if you are successful in a high performance org, more will be asked of you, it's also true that good leaders value solid contributors even when they set some boundaries.

So there are really two strategies in a large org: one is to do the bare minimum and keep your head down, in that case avoiding high performing orgs is probably a good idea. But at the end of the day your entire job and career is at the mercy of the beancounters waking up one day and realizing you are dead weight. Alternatively, you can adopt a growth mentality, do your best every day, and see where it takes you. The latter path does mean you might need to set some boundaries and say no to people at times. Sure it's awkward, but in the grand scheme of things this builds a stronger network and sets you up for long-term success far better than playing defense because you see the employer-employee relationship as fundamentally adversarial. I think that worldview makes sense from a physical labor workforce, but it's really self-defeating for software engineers because at the end of the day our output is what our code does (hence every IC is "managing" the tech output), not how much time we put in creating it.
This is somewhat relevant for DRM. All those downloads from netflix/prime/disney plus depend on breaking into a TEE and retrieving decryption keys.
Trump names Andrew Ferguson as next chair of Federal Trade Commission
Eh, Tesls's FSD and Autopilot as well as GM's Supercruise are all classified as SAEJ3016 Automation Level 2.
Love it, and I very much understand the level of work that went into making it (beyond your initial landing page). Good way to test the water then build the full product.
Sure. But as I said to another respondent, it's a much weaker claim than those which already exist in the philosophical literature.

That doesn't matter if BB is just a bridge for physicists to a deeper understand of philosophy. But I have a sneaking suspicion that BB is part of a basket of ideas in a kind of bubble category of "Philosophy for the Scientist." Similar to those "101 Jokes for Golfers" books-- I mean, fine, but if those are the only jokes you know you're probably insufferable at parties.
Based on https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/351.pdf it would be about 1900 core hours (but I'm pretty sure optimized implementations could bring it down a bunch). No extra properties needed and moderate probability is sufficient.
I really like the overall design of the site! I'll probably inspire from it for some of my future projects.
>Consumption without reflection or doing is mostly entertainment, like you would do with a novel or a movie.

Maybe you do do this and were making a sweeping claim-understandble. But if not, try inspecting the themes and topics brought up by the novels you read and movies you watch?

Almost all media has something of value to dissect and discuss if you are willing to do so.

Your last sentence reminds me of when I shat on the first Transformers movies as a teenager thinking they were nothing more than trite Hollywood cash grabs but, my professor nudged me to think about the movie again beyond my assumptions and ego.
Councils won't be able to block loft extensions, extra floors in anti-NIMBY push
Hey - thanks!

For your specific example, this is how the math works out:

- Browser hours: 10K hours * 60 minutes per hour * 1 credit / minute = 600K credits

- Proxy usage: 10GB proxy data * 1024 MB / GB * 6 credits / 1MB proxy data = 61,440 credits

The scale plan includes 60K credits for $100/mo and overage credits are ~0.2c each, so the total would be $100 + (601.44 * $0.002) = 1302.88

Sorry about the confusing pricing btw! As I wrote this out, clearly we have our work cut out for us to simplify pricing - we'll try to make it simpler over the next few days and add a calculator that let's you see how much this would cost.

Feel free to email me at shri@hyperbrowser.ai if I can help with anything!
Are you assuming MB Drive Pilot couldn’t also work pretty well outside of its design domain?

This argument is always so silly because it’s just an argument about the correct way to build a safe control system (i.e. with guaranteed performance characteristics in a defined operational domain) versus the incorrect way to do it (just kinda work over an ambiguously defined set of conditions and hope you don’t kill too many innocent people to cripple your business).
It can be an entire franchise, hawk tuah children's books, baby clothes, etc.
There's no need to apologize. I didn't take your statements as criticism I simply assumed you were confused as to what I meant. "Fictionalized" often has a negative connotation, and I only wanted to clarify my usage of the term was in the strictest and most technical meaning.

Nevertheless, It's certainly a show worth gushing over. It's a well-done work of art.

> Acc to reddit, the show's characters are proxies for famous scientists of the era, like Kepler, Copernicus etc. Not their lives, but they seemed to be mapping their theories to characters in that way.

The relationships between some of the characters are reminiscent of the real-life relationship between Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler as noted in a biography called The Nobleman and the Housedog by Kitty Ferguson. You might find it interesting.

If you like this anime, you might enjoy Spice and Wolf. Although, since you're on Reddit, you might have already seen either adaptation.
That's a "GM's business model" problem, which is again a GM problem.

The top-selling EV maker in the US doesn't have any dealerships, so clearly it's not an insurmountable problem. GM just hasn't prioritized surmounting it.
Local changes can spread like a virus.

San Francisco Unified School District implemented math sequencing changes that failed. District Leadership claimed they worked. Those changes were then cited by the authors of the latest California Math Framework.

Because California is a big state (and with some popular state universities), the California Math Framework will influence curricula and teaching methods far beyond California.
Or, how about the people who make websites go right ahead and fold business if they can't stop crying about others not being forced into tracking to fund them. Nobody asked for any given website to get built or to deliver content, and its owners having decided to do so does not at all in any way give me or anyone else the obligation to let ourselves be pervasively, almost parasitically be tracked in all our activity across the web.

Avoiding said tracking is not in the least bit "unethical" and digital media sources can find other ways to make money, or just disappear if they don't like being circumvented in their ad tracking efforts. Only a badly distorted SEO/ad bro mind would consider users avoiding tracking to be somehow immoral by the users. Should then it also be unethical to not view ads on video media too?
Patch Tuesday, December 2024 Edition
> It's hard not to see this as personal, not financial.

Despite not needing the money, Matt seemed to be very upset that WPEngine was making money.
Not quite 500$/month, but my book https://www.handsonscala.com/ is still making 300-400/month 4.5 years after releasing it. Not a lot of money compared to silicon valley FAANG salaries, especially given the amount of effort that went in, but it's a nice feeling to see the dollars trickling after so long
I am a little unsure of how it works, but it is very intriguing. Can I order a book on Writing Effective HN Comments from you? Who would be listed as its author? If I wanted to be the author, would I have to pay you? Is there an option not to have the book listed on your page? Do you have an FAQ? : - )
Very possible, but first you've got to ship.
Finally some common sense. Hopefully Matt will let it go now.
> particles deciding to spontaneously just up and teleport to a nearby location

that all but guarantees that it would never happen imo... and also shows that we have no clue how the universe actually works, and likely never will
Radio astronomers hate this 1 weird trick: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/its-the-microwave-h...
Debugging is a pretty vague word. I know a LOT of api endpoints with shit documentation. Could Devin generate documentation for a vast number of api endpoints that could have theoretically taken a hundred hours to write?
Some people see it as obvious that hard science and politics have glaring differences that makes the meaningfulness of an award for being very good at one or the other very different.
I was laid off at the start of 2024 and built https://interviewsolver.com which is an AI copilot for helping you with your leetcode interviews. Doing about 6k/month, though the space is becoming fairly crowded.
:) Yeah
That is a 10-year old UI based on their even older designs from their ICE vehicles. The newer UI for the Ultium is much more modern. Not as severely styled as some other companies not not as overdone as that old UI.
Thank you!

Regarding reverse billing: I don’t know much. I am not myself billed by Moya, although they do bill some of their partners. Please see https://datafree.tech (that’s quite specific to Moya / South Africa carriers, I guess)
Arguably, it would be a better comparison if the Tesla was restricted from highway driving. I understand the letting the car figure out its own route, but I’m more interested in seeing the Tesla navigate city streets.
> 4th and 5th grade math are for teaching the earliest elements of pre-algebra

at one large public school district -- 80 elementary schools, middle schools and high schools -- almost half of 8th graders cannot do basic elementary school math problems.. (edit) official estimates are that about 13% of the students do not finish high school at all.. that is the local school district here in a crowded port city in California near San Francisco. also note that more than forty unique non-English languages are spoken at homes existing in this school district.. also a non-zero number of homes where serious drug abuse occurs.. things like that..
I can't find the book. It's called Sideways?
Yes. Saved everyone a click.
Wow this was the explanation that made it all click for me. Thanks so much!
Global plastic talks collapse
Using a separate processor (eg HSM or hardware wallet) is still the only secure enclave that hasn't been broken, and even some of those have been broken.
I wonder if the new medicines are a factor on your project (from sponsorship to new treatments)
Is this supposed to be impressive? Rebranding function calling and moving that code to a different place?
You've done a lot of work, and this seems like an excellent way to ensure events run smoothly! Great work in building a useful service for festivals & vendors and reduce the transaction fees to ... well ... as low as they can realistically go given the payment rails :)

Can I suggest you add a marketing video or some graphics to explain how easy it is for the festival company and the vendors?
Awesome learning about the potential for this feedback loop in highschool chemistry back in 2005. Sadly I think my chemistry teacher cared more about this stuff than the people running the country.
https://archive.is/NKPrR
You've been downvoted, probably due to the opinions/hopes in the last sentence. Many people strongly believe that government-funded education must be government-run.

I won't comment on those opinions, but what you've written earlier in the paragraph is broadly correct, at least in San Francisco.

However, private schools are not a panacea. Most of them still group kids by age and do not tailor content to each kid's level, or even do single-subject acceleration.
Let me be the first to say; wtf
Informing recent podcast episode with the Electric SQL founder, https://www.localfirst.fm/18.
Science could solve biggest problems. Why aren't governments using it?
> The first round of test results should come in Friday or this weekend. The longer it goes undiagnosed, the more we tip into categories 2 and 3

The Friday/weekend she referred to is in the past. Although... from a different article:

> On Monday, a WHO spokesperson in Kinshasa told USA TODAY that initial samples collected in Panzi weren't in optimal condition for lab analysis, so medical teams had to collect new samples.

So still no reason to panic.
But that's 1% per instruction. It compounds, exponentially. Can ML and quantum chemistry take a 99.5% error rate? Bacause with 1000 gates deep circuits that's what they'll get.

I can't talk about chemistry, but I've studied those quantum ML algorithms. I even designed one, a variant of the QSVM that I tested on IBM's computers when they were state of the art. They're all useless. There's just no way they'll compete with clusters of GPU in this century, I'd bet my hands on it.

First you'd need good hardware that doesn't just output noise for long enough circuits to do something interesting. Second you'd need computers fast enough to be able to run many experiments one after the other, so you can do actual training (Alas, speed is antithetical to adiabatic operations). Third, you'd need to prove your quantum AI actually has an edge over classical ones to justify cooling down this much hardware to 0.01K for months at a time.

I simply don't buy it.
Yes, the two are not identical - in the former, increase is not the part of the closure, in the latter it is.

Test:

increase = True

adjust1 = (lambda x: x + 1) if increase else (lambda x: x - 1)
adjust2 = lambda x: x + 1 if increase else x - 1

print(adjust1(42))
print(adjust2(42))

increase = False

print(adjust1(42))
print(adjust2(42))
They stated a hypothesis and asked if anyone had collected data that could support it. You responded by asking that person if they have any data. Perhaps you scored poorly on reading comprehension.
To gain an understanding of the implicit definition of his use of this word, I suggest you go read some literature. There exist a whole host of literature that are witness to a broad and eclectic vernacular. :)
If you need me, I'll be arranging deck chairs on the Titanic...
Parent specifically said “shooting deaths”, which technically includes guns shooting the person holding them in any country.

Gun suicide specifically affects white conservatives males and their kids more than any demographic. Either it’s access to guns, or conservatives are particularly more depressed (or maybe they lack access mental health services?). Having a friend die this way when I was in high school (and knowing no one who was shot and killed by someone else), it’s particularly real to me.
Not to take away from the depravity of Japanese violence in WWII, but 300,000/7,000≈43. The rate was either higher, or “a matter of days” is probably the wrong term.
Dude, that's cheating!
I gave a plug for this yesterday, but if you want to try the Quantum Katas from Azure Quantum, it runs in the browser and covers this stuff. See lesson 3 for linear algebra. <https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/tools/quantum-katas>

One thing I did forget to mention is that you can play with this stuff in a "familiar to software developers" way in our VS Code playground at <https://vscode.dev/quantum/playground/> . This is a 'code first' approach familiar to software developers leveraging VS Code integration. The playground is pre-populated with a bunch of common quantum algorithms.

You can also install the extension in VS Code directly (<https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=quantum....>), you don't need to run it in the browser, but even in the browser it has a fully working language service, debugger, evaluator, quantum simulator, package management, etc. It's all written in Rust and compiled to either Wasm for the browser and VS Code extension, or native code for the Python package. (I'm thinking about doing a video on how we build it, as I expect it will interesting to this type of crowd. Let me know if so).

Disclaimer: I work in Azure Quantum on the product mentioned. AMA.
I buy & sell pixels (hats) in a video-game - Team Fortress 2.

I'm currently making $10k-15k per month; I'm one of the largest sellers on the game's main third-party marketplace (https://marketplace.tf).

Less of a side project and more of a part-time job, since it's ~4-6 hours of work per day.
Huh? Cruise was paying $400k+ for like 3YoE. I don't think China is paying more than that.
> Aren't these parallel universes running the same computation at the same time, and thus also "farming out" part of their computations to us? If so, it's a zero-sum game, so how could there be an overall performance gain for all the universes?

The result is the same in all universes. There's a kind of scatter-gather/map-reduce feel - each universe computes part of the problem, then you add up all their results to get the final one (in all universes).

The argument works for me, although I already believed the conclusion so I'm biased.
Quick, nobody tell them about cruise control. ;-)

> Chrysler was the first manufacturer to implement the device in 1958. They called it “Auto-Pilot” and it appeared in their luxury model as an upgraded option. Soon after, General Motors installed it in their Cadillac vehicles, naming it “Cruise Control” which has stuck to this day.

https://www.folsomautomall.com/blog/2022/november/21/the-his...