skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that someone else does that you don't understand or can't do always sounds super important, impressive, and enviable. Usually. But you have to realize that he spends his life doing and thinking about this. And will stipulate he's gifted in this area. I've never heard of him but managed to download his CV.

I will also note that sometimes when I read HN links and think one thing then read the comments and people know enough to take issue with what is being said and even call it out.
The End of Stealth?
I've learned that most people don't consider themselves to be "bad" or "malicious" overall. People will earnestly espouse opinions of arbitrary quality, with unknown justification and intent, and expect others to agree with them. They don't consider that they may be speaking out of severe lack of empathy or knowledge (Gell-Mann amnesia!). We're extremely limited and oftentimes we don't even recognize it.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Like they could be biased about certain parts in one direction but the other direction in another.

I think we humans have the unfortunate tendency to view things as binary - you are either biased for one side or another. However when we are talking about something like wikipedia with lots of authors or even something like bbc where different articles are written by different people, i think its entirely possible for it to be biased against both sides (and for both sides) in different aspects.
When taking the entire universe as a quantum system governed by the Schrödinger equation, then ψ is the universal wavefunction, and its state vector can be decomposed into pointer states that represent the “branches” of MW.
Love this, putting in my back pocket for future Kubernetes integrations.
I run https://getloaf.io/ an app which lets you customise SVG animations that are built into the app. Constantly plugging away for 4ish years now!
Great article. And he’s 100% spot on.
It could be simply to prevent forks, but if it really is 100% branch coverage, why do they still have memory safety related CVE coming out? With asan turned on, and full static analysis, that should make such errors exceedingly rare. Part of the benefit of rust is that it makes coverage both easier to get due to its type system, and less necessary because of the guarantees it makes. But if they really went all the way to 100% branch coverage that should be almost as good if all the samitizers are running.
Ironically, we don't call his people by their own name (Navajo is what the Tewa people called the Dine')
> in such a way that could be construed as reneging on your promise

Nothing could be construed in such a way, because such a reneging is not possible.
> (2) conversational casual chitchat : "open source" includes "public domain"

it's wrong though. like, can't be more wrong than that. you can't do whatever you want with open source software, the license tells what you can and cannot do.

with public domain software you can do most things.
It can work with any language, as it interacts with the VM and can read compiler messages.
Pppphhh we don’t make video games anymore. We just get the latest LLM to boil a lake so we can aimlessly wander an incoherent fever-dream! It’s the future of gaming!!1!
How do you enforce the blockchain on Valve?

If they go into the Steam server code and add:

if username = 'dingnuts':
return 403

How do you get your games back?

(Hint: You don't.)

So now you're back to "a database hosted at Valve" with extra steps.
Start small, get the GPS co-ords of those markers, and create your visualisations, etc.

Then share them with family/friends

Then they'll start collecting marker co-ords for you

THEN worry about how to get strangers involved (using/submitting/etc)

Facebook started with a single University...
>How does AI attend meetings, ask questions of local officials or bodies, provide in-person reports and original fact based copy?

I suppose when we give it a robot body?
Supposedly this is the real one: https://t.co/fbjBtDDIkS
ChatGPT Canvas can make API requests now, but it's complicated
Perhaps Ainu[1]? Biggest problem there is that after 600+ years of contact with Japanese, a lot of vocabulary is common between the languages.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_languages
You’ve described an individual instance (“your IQ”) while considering a population variation. You’re right in the first instance, individual 2 point variation between tests, say, no big deal. But the second, yes, you would be concerned if the population’s mean IQ dropped 2 points over some period.
> courtesy Steve Sailer, who is an immigration restrictionist

That doesn't make this argument credible. Is there any credible source?

> rather than that they’re blaming immigrants, which I didn’t see in this post

We know well that the talking points of racism are formed to create ambiguity and use dog whistles. That goes back half a century and probably much longer. These are the talking points.
The falsifiable part of something like the simulation hypothesis has to do with nested sets. If the reality we exist in is capable of producing everything that would be necessary for a conscious being to experience a convincing reality within its available resources and computational power, then the fact of consciousness is not sufficient to conclude that the reality in which we operate does not exist inside another reality with the same capability to produce an internal model of reality sufficient for supporting consciousness.

As you said, it does not definitively tell us anything about the reality in which that simulation exists other than that it has the same property that we experience of being capable of hosting a nested reality sufficient for supporting consciousness.

Although we can't specify particular aspects of that reality, we are capable of mathematically representing potential properties of universes that have the capability to host a nested simulation. None of this provides certainty, but it provides a basis of exploring possibilities, and actual understanding requires methods beyond the hypothesis of a larger reality.

Physics provides us a lot of ideas about the potential for the nature of reality and methods for testing and falsifying them but is not in itself sufficient. We don't need to find all the answers in one line of inquiry. The holographic principle of string theory is one example of a type of simulation existing inside a larger reality but far from the only one.
> I can't even imagine why I should bother trying to understand it.

Well, maybe you should just try for the hell of it and see how far you get? Becoming fit seems impossible to a morbidly obese 45 y.o, and it is if that person's expectation is unreasonable, but if they just change it to be more reasonable, break it down into manageable
routines, then they can get somewhere eventually.

Find some papers, fill many gaps, dedicate a few years in your spare time, in 6 months you'll be 6 months closer than you were.

Whether there's a reason or not, idk, it's something to do, be curious. Don't forget that by dedicating their life to something, they're naturally not dedicating their life to other things, things that you might be able to do, like climbing mountains, making pizza, or coming up with witty banter in social situations.
There is no use case for NFTs at all. The "verifiable ownership" is pointless when you could just use a traditional database, as every individual game has to respect the blockchain - they could just respect the database instead, and not use the power consumption of Belgium to do it.
In Praise of Records
Hi - copy aside, you can upload a billion row CSV and analyze it in Sourcetable.

Excel and Sheets cannot do that.
Iready was horrible
> companies who use sqlite in production

It's not just old Nokias or desktop phones, nor just embedded sytsems. sqlite is almost everywhere. Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla and many other companies use it in very widely deployed software.
Self-identification on the basis of race is not objective. Races do not exist, it is a scientific fact. There are many other more reasonable ways to cluster American population. Ancestral angle is important, but only from cultural proximity perspective if you talk about people who are 5-10th generation Americans. Black Americans that are descendants of slaves may have higher proximity to Europe than to Africa, so they should be included in the group that you compare to Europe and anyway that comparison must be based on some theory, otherwise it’s just cherry-picking for building a convenient narrative.
I'm ruffled by your repeated dismissals and arrogance BUT now I really want to name a pet redis so maybe you're coming out ahead in my personal calculus.

You taking issue with my "extreme interpretation" seems like a bad faith statement. Perhaps you really do feel mistreated by it; if that's the case I'm sorry because my intent is directly addressing the language you're using but not you personally.

To ape some of your phrasing, I advise against taking offense when others disagree with your approach or severity when you are attacking strangers, dismissing their reactions, gatekeeping who should get to care, patronizing them about personal growth, and calling them foolish at best.
I'd change "thousands" to "millions" and keep all the rest. Very well said, thanks for taking the time to state it!
Absolutely real: focus on the community, merge things that were now in payed versions of Redis into the core, so that everybody can benefit, contribute positively to the clients space, improve the documentation, and so forth.
I find it disturbing how many people allow apps to access their location 24/7.
How do you figure “blue and yellow” instead of “blue and red and green” or “magenta and green” or “red and cyan”?
I didn't say they didn't. SMIC is a state sponsored company. Their objectives are different than an American company like Intel.
I am a legitimate user of this website and it is my honest opinion that this is one of the best things ever posted on here. It is exceptionally well made and it makes the world a better place. thank you for sharing OP!
This. All the socialists and collectivists complain all day that healthcare is too expensive, even though the government literally pays for it if you're poor enough that it matters.
NASA Artemis Moon Missions Delayed Until 2026 and 2027
It's awesome! It's so accessible, from now on I'm gonna send it to my non-musician friends whenever they show any interest in music.
> If that was true as we'd like to believe for most of us HN would be more of a retirement community than a startup community.

There’s a difference between saying “something like this will exist” (internet, cryptocurrency) and “this particular implementation will win the market” (www stock picks, coins). People here saying crypto isn’t going to take off (as a currency) mean the whole concept, not just one particular implementation.
We've been over this before - unless that satellite is generating a radar lock it's generally not a huge advantage. Modern electro-optical systems have been tracking stealth jets since the 80s and it's been a known disadvantage to the system. That said, the advantages of stealth still apply.

Detection is not the same thing as tracking, and even tracking is not the same thing as locking.
Not sure why you jumped there. I was thinking more like ‘make it look like Bladerunner if Kurosawa directed it, with a score like Zimmer.’

You’re really failing to let go of the idea that you need to prescribe every little thing. Like Midjourney today, you’ll be able to give general guidance.

Now, I don’t expect we’ll get the best movies this way. But paint by numbers stuff like many movies already are? A Hallmark Channel weepy? I bet we will.
I will refrain, unfortunately. Have a good day.
Are you suggesting online communities should resolve disputes through lawsuits? That sounds terrible to me.

Imagine if on hacker news, if your comment broke a rule, that instead of dang deleting it, you got sued! I don't think that would make a good community.
I think it does.

How did you get your farmer network set up?

Reminds me of https://www.vidaliaonions.com/. The guy who started that bought the domain before he knew what he was going to do with it.
> All three steps are competitive, and athletic participation and achievement and physical fitness scores are major inputs.

Are they? Why? I don't want an athlete next to me in a foxhole, but someone who can stay calm, think clearly, and make good decisions under extreme stress.

Edit: Sports are the opposite of warfare: Games, where the only consequence is 'points', where the losing team at worst buys the beer, and where participants follow rules and require fairness.

Warfare is the opposite in every respect. You die, your country is overrun and your family dies and home is destroyed. Generations pass before you recover, if ever. There are no rules or fairness; quite the opposite - the participants look for every advantage they can.

> agree that that's true of all SOF selection

I said/meant that SOF does not select for athletes.
Why the down-votes? Are people specifically opposed to gambling or is it something else I said? I'm just wanting to write a hobby slot machine because they fascinate me but the mechanics of a slot machine UI are quite different than a 2D scroller or a 3D game engine.

I do appreciate the author answering. Thank you.
Awesome - subscribed!
> When jobs security is decoupled from productivity, the winds of the company can and do change frequently.

But that is always the case, and the "productivity=security" environment is artificial and unnatural.

The large forces beyond your control dominate the world, and the whole companies get hit by redundancies because the market changed, AI ate some section of the market, or the banks were too busy playing with mortgages and collapsed the whole global economy.

My experience indicates that it's more important to be working on the right thing, than to be super productive working on the wrong thing.
I'm not buying the rationale in the "async IO" section.

First, there's no need to rewrite anything to add an async interface to sqlite if you want (many clients do, whether local or remote).

The issue with sqlite's synchronous interface is leaving a thread idle while you wait for IO. But I wonder how much of an issue that really is. sqlite is designed to run very locally to the storage, and can make use of native file caching, etc, which makes IO blocking very short if not zero. You wonder if applications have enough idling sqlite threads to justify the switching. (It's not free and would be at quite a fine-grained level.)

The section does mention remote storage, but in that case you're much better off with an async client talking to compute running sqlite, sync interface and all, that is very local to the storage. AKA, a client/server database.

Also, in the WASM section, we're still talking about something that would best be implemented as a sqlite client/wrapper, with no need at all to rewrite it.
That’s great but it’s not going to scale to the level of detail that makes this better than traditional meterologist models
Everything old is new again :) It's like a renaissance DOS!
De Broglie–Bohm doesn’t remove anything from the wave function, and thus all the pointer states therein contained are still present. The theory basically claims that one of them is special and really exists, whereas the others only mathematically exist, but philosophically it’s not clear what the difference would be. The Broglie–Bohm ontology is bigger than MW rather than smaller.
>building it's human capital. For a government that should be the primary "decent outcome

>Province in China with developmental indicators comparable to Ecuador, Cuba, and Peru

Disproportionate resources was concentrated to built Hefei, Anhui, new tier1 city with ~10 million people and per capita income of ~$20,000 build off 2600% growth in last 20 years because local gov focused on making it tech/innovation centre. The one elevated by Western Development Strategy, that built out industrial clusters and R&D hotspots like USTC to raise and retain human capital. The entire point is _UNEQUAL_ development so a few 100 millions of disproportionately affluent / educated urbanites with $20000+ income can buy high value goods that would have no market if everyone was elevated to 10000 per capita doing less advanced work, they already sell enough 老乡鸡. Still waiting on OLED panels from Ecuador, Cuba and Peru.

E:

And as I've responded in the past, you don't get to decide what I reply to. This is the internet, you are not the only audience in a conversation. I make effort to ignore you posts, and have, but when it needs to be called out on, I will. And again, my custom HN CSS doesn't even display screen names, but your identifiable writing pattern and questionable use of stats makes it obvious.

Questionable in this case, as in the past, you're using selective stats and omitting useful context to insinuate Anhui is somehow cuba tier shithole (no offense to fellow Cubans) who failed to develop / exploit human capita. An claim that can only be made by dancing around the development AND mere existence of Hefei, Anhui, one of PRC's innovation hubs that specifically and successfuly developed on the back of building human capital and high tech, which makes comparisons to Ecuador, Cuba and Peru even more perplexing. One simply doesn't drop stats about Anhui without knowing Hefei. You are not a stupid person. Your omissions in these arguments can only be interpreted as intentional by me, and while I try to avoid interacting with you (rather comments that reads like yours), I'm still going to call out bad analysis/arguments. I will edit original response for tone and stop relying here. But I encourage other readers to look up Hefei and how it grew in last 20 years, and understand that is the deliberate result of industrial policy (not just semi, but high tech).
Sweden had these issues before migration, yet not the same disastrous societal result.
I went to it on my Android phone and it worked fine.
I didn't say a law needs to be created. however if there is no enforcement of this header it is useless. Law is the only way I can come up with to enforce this (courts just implies there is some existing law - would this header field be considered a contract for example?), but if you can come up with something else I'm open to that. However so far is has not been enforced to do what it claims to do and nobody is making progress on changing that.
They have a test suite that is part of SQLite3 then public domain product, and they have a much bigger and better test suite that is proprietary.
Your argument is that the reason they were not paying out more claims is because they had to compensate their CEO?
Why the placebo effect works, even when you are expecting it
i think the impact of COVID lockdowns and de-SAT-ing would be harder to reverse than to build logical and mathematical reasoning into ChatGPT. The former is political and the latter is technical problem. Our whole industry, great at solving technical problems, is throwing tens of billions today, and it will be hundreds tomorrow, to solve the latter. So the math skills for the majority of the population is probably going the way of the "paper map" skills, etc.
What reason do we have to believe that this is real? Does anyone know?
It would be great if these questions also included a sub-question on distribution strategy, that's one of the hardest things to visualize as a developer from $0 to $500.
Our language centers evolved to build our "natural" languages and our "natural" languages evolved to take the best (most?) use of our language centers. Whether or not it is ambiguity or simplified context or some other "complexity mechanism", if you agree with the Chomsky hierarchy that our "formal" languages are pure subsets of our "natural" languages, then that alone would imply we use only a smaller subset of our language centers when working in "formal" languages.

Though yeah, that does feel awfully reductive as an argument, and leans on a lot of assumptions in Chomsky's theories. I know that there are axes where "formal" languages feel more orthogonal to "natural" languages than "pure subsets". Some parts of "formal" languages to me feel a lot more visual like poetry than linguistic in the same way as prose.
Blockchain helps none of those things in the slightest.
It does matter, because it is in fact how the system works, and that system constrains banks. You can be mad at the system and prefer a different system; that's fine. But once you recognize it as the system we do in fact have, you've conceded Patrick's point.

As the article points out, when you scale this problem up to business bank accounts, losses from bad credit decisions to customers can erase all the gains from the entire commercial account line of business at a bank; in other words: to factor risk and credit out of business bank accounts, you're essentially demanding that banks be insolvent.

Checking accounts are credit products.
Huh, I wasn't aware that Java was initially open source
Nikon Small World Microscopy Winners (2024)
Well, it kinda is. Anyone can create a browser over the weekend by using Chromium or Gecko. Brave and Arc and DDG did.
It probably varies by grade and locale.

My oldest is in 4th grade now, and the most relevant maths are from 2nd and 3rd grade. Basic division, multiplication, and fractions matters (3rd grade) - but so does adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers (2nd grade) because multiplication/division is now multiple digit (which is the actual, new, 4th grade material). Interestingly, she used almost no adding and subtracting in 3rd grade, to the point where the teacher supplemented required coursework to help stave off attrition, so you could actually get by 3rd grade while being terrible at adding and subtracting.

Her covid year was kinder. It made her cohort pretty bad at writing. But that seems to have largely worked itself out over the past 4 years.

It's not clear to me when these tests were taken, and that kinda matters - were they by people who were starting 4th grade, finishing 4th grade, or completed 4th grade?

It matters because it tells us what they missed due to COVID - if these 4th graders had 1st grade for COVID, I'm not sure if that would be a huge deal. The most relevant bits are also taught in kinder, and they cover adding and subtracting again in 2nd. But if their main COVID year was 2nd, I could see 4th being a huge problem, especially with the general lack of adding and subtracting in 3rd grade.