skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If time is infinite then the argument from exponential complexity doesn't really work as a counterargument to Boltzmann brains. It might take Rayo's number of years plus five for a good measure but it is still bound to happen with absolute certainty.
> A Broken what?

> [...] It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.

> I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.
That’s a good question, in that there’s a valid incentive for companies (including Pence) to send you emails for promotional purposes. Marketing emails do correlate to brand image and therefore sales, and that is no exception for Pence. We will send you occasional emails (one email per week) to remind you of the offers you might miss, but nothing more than that.

However, Pence exists because we want you to never have to open your inbox ever again for non-communication emails, including going into it to manage them (automatic unsubscribe and deletion is part of the product roadmap).

If you care about the technical aspect of why we do what we do, email is a messaging protocol at the end of the day, and we are using email at a too low-level way (imagine reading your WhatsApp messages in a spreadsheet. Yes, that’s how absurd Gmail currently is). We deserve better and I think Pence is a good hypothesis to start with.
Both are politically fairly aligned with Jones. They sometimes half heartedly pretend it doesn’t, but it clearly significantly steers their actions.
I mean, they have charts showing exactly what they say, so they’re definitely not reading it wrong. Who knows what that’ll cause is though.
Having faced some personal chaos in life I don't think its more or less chaotic.

Its just the information overload environment produces more triggers. Reduce news and social media off consumption and it feels much less chaotic.

Info overload especially constantly looking at problems above the pay grade/skill level are just going to screw with the head.

Think about your first job, did you try to understand or solve everything the team faced when there was chaos? Initially you might try, but over time you settle into a role where you fit and tune other things out.

These days whenever I feel the urge go down some social media/news generated rabbit hole, I just open Khan Academy or ChatGPT and start talking/looking up some solved problem. Not the unsolvable stuff. It turns out more satisfying than consuming news or social media stuff. Other option is a good game. Changes my mood a lot.
"When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."

-- Hannah Arendt
You can use the add-on Docs to Markdown Pro to export the Google Docs as a Semantic HTML without the additional span tags that are included when you download using the native download option. https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/docs_to_markdow...
No daylight saving time? See how early or late you would be in the dark
The last hidden layer outputs a vector which is then used to predict the probabilities of every token in the vocabulary, by a single layer (and, in practice now in llama models, this layer is the transpose of the embedding layer).

That vector has a lot of information in it, it's not a debatable thing.

As noted above in parens, look at the llama 3.x models. The space is already shared in some sense. It's called "tied embedding".
I guess he did succeed into enrolling more people into his narrow crusade.
Discussion (31 points, 14 hours ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42379078
How about making FUSE overlay which does the limiting? As a prototype at least.
Ah, Verso looks nice and active, that wasn't on my radar. I kind of lost hope after a lot of embedding tracking issues and meta-issues over the years (the ones you linked is the third one I've subscribed to I think).

As for the Qt side, "ongoing effort" is quite a stretch for something that was made as a conference demo and not touched again since April: https://github.com/KDABLabs/cxx-qt-servo-webview/commits/mai...
Honestly not anymore than we have in general been. There really isn't anything that much more special going on in the word.
To play devil's advocate, even though I'll probably never write anything remotely close to as popular as Redis, if by some cosmic accident I accidentally make something open source with enough popularity that it could be made into a business, I wouldn't have any desire to be the one to do it because I have zero interest in owning or running a business in the first place. I don't think it's really that bizarre or hard to imagine that someone like making things that people find useful but not want to have to spend the immense time and emotional energy into being in charge of turning it into something that makes a profit. Some people are genuinely not motivated by money beyond enough to be comfortable, and I firmly believe that's not a bad thing!
I mean, at the end of the day it's all flavours of machine learning ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think the "silent majority" is just fine with this change. The OSS "extremists" will certainly be the noisiest about this - everyone else will continue on with life as usual, especially if they have an understanding of the concept of business pressures.
One thing is the normal user concerns, that are granted, and I understand and respect them. Another thing is forking, that in the specific case of ValKey was an effort whose impulse was provided by companies having an economic damage because of the license switch. So I think those are two orthogonal questions.
When someone puts a significant and useful software under an open license (like BSD) and nurtures a vibrant open-source community around it, sure, everyone else can definitely take it and use it for free. But nobody serious will use it just because it is free. They will consider other intangible but critical aspects like risks to themselves w.r.t future viability of the project, ability to get custom work done to it or around it, keeping up with hardware and software ecosystem trends etc. These things have second order implications – how healthy the broader developer ecosystem is, is there a broad base of core committers we can hire, how easy it is to upstream our changes, who else is using it at similar scale, criticality, cost efficiency; is commercial support available (sometimes 3rd party commercial business support ecosystem is essential due to regulatory/compliance reasons), do hardware vendors actively participate in the open-source community and ensure it runs well on their hardware etc.

Apart from free users, even the contributors have very similar considerations for their participation.

But the starting point is the license – it has to be a clear and unambiguous open-source license that is widely well-understood – especially w.r.t the blast-radius or infection radius of the license. Does it infect the library code that is linked/loaded into it? Does it infect the independent binary/processes that scaffold around it (say, control-plane, orchestrator, proxy etc)? What are the obligations if it does?
If we have to get lawyers involved to answer these questions because it is a custom license that is vaguely written or it has never been challenged in a court or the license holder is of unknown reputation, these are huge red flags.

Another equally important consideration is the motivations of the stewards of the project. While this isn't explicitly stated, one cannot be naive about it. Contributors and users will have to consider a gamut of scenarios – best/base/worst scenarios and make their judgement. With smaller steward organizations, there are one kind of risks while with larger organizations open-sourcing there are other kinds of risks. If they are competitors in some way that's another challenge. If there is no natural alignment of use-cases functionally or non-functionally, that's another issue etc.

With recent changes in Redis, all these things have become less clear and straightforward.
> Of all my peers you could pretty much identify their academic ability at age 8.

We're not funding education so that the talented ones can be identified and elevated. We're finding it so that the others can be helped to grow. Latent academic ability at age 8 is a pretty small slice of the task.
> it adds closing, minimizing and quitting

How is that not a thing is beyond me. I tried to do exactly what your app does multiple times and didn't understood how it's not a thing.

Recently I'm trying to start using an old mac. Never used it before and almost none of my friends and colleagues did.

It's a journey of multiple awe and teeth grinding moments, one after another.
Cool. Lets move on now. I found Quanta's developments in computer science article more interesting.
llama 3.x is already sharing the last layer with the embedding layer, it just uses the transpose in the last layer operation.
So there’s a hard border somewhere between 90 and 330 million people? But per-state would work in your opinion?
The thing is, you have to start somewhere and then you can go backwards. And putting a price on what people should shoulder for other is the main job of insurance companies.

Now you can hope for a state owned one which would have "everyone" chipping in so you should be able to cover more extreme cases. Or you can (and should imo) criticize the algorithms used by the current companies. But you cannot expect society to pay for anything, you have to do some triage.
It’s a one man company run by Richard Hipp.
> because the OP said

And the whole point is nonsensical. If you discussed whether it would be ethically acceptable to canaries it would make more sense.

"The database is losing records...!" // "Also people forget." : that remains not a good point.
Vaccines were invented before 1920, surely they had everything they needed back then?

It’s like saying that modern healthcare was invented in the 1800s and therefore there was absolutely no meaningful progress since then. How does that sound?

> created post-1970s

Digital cameras?

Personal computers? Note that by your bizarre standards fridges were invented in the 1830s and microwave ovens in the 1930s so innovation stopped long before the 70s or 60s..

BTW would you also agree that computers were invented in the 1830s as well?

MRI was invented in the 70s but practical devices weren’t created till years later (due to advances in other fields)
that just means they will be prisoners in their own lives. no more just walking down the street, exploring places by yourself, meeting friends at small coffee shops at short notice - now they need to spend on security, always wait for them to check out the place first, always looking over their shoulders for traitors. it's the sort of thing that's driven kings mad.
> Not to be morbid, but…in 6 months you’ll also have 6 months less of your life left to do those things.

The time passes anyway.
100%.

To be clear, the "no longer relevant issue" is safety regulations designed to protect citizens from getting killed.
This is how miracles work. They are just physical laws fast forward, I like how this explains the ancient miracles. So maybe our previous generations had access to these things and it was lost along the way.
> Trump just got voted in.

So? You'd be surprised by what many of them think about insurance companies CEOs.
> 80% of the time, the WeatherMan is right every time!
Dark mode on old reddit is gated behind premium at this moment. That's the only monetization I have.

I'm probably not explaining what's behind premium correctly though. Happy to send over a free AppStore code and chat about the onboarding experience if you're so inclined. :)
Tired of All these AI Agents that look the same
Every day, it feels like there’s a new AI product hitting the market. Whether it’s called an “agent,” “assistant,” or “tool,” they all seem to follow the same playbook.

The formula? Foundation model + prompt engineering + API function calls.

And that’s it!

No groundbreaking ideas, no true innovation just the same technology repackaged with a shiny new label.

For anyone keeping an eye on the SaaS space, it’s hard not to feel fatigued by this repetitive cycle.

Where’s the creativity? Why does it feel like most of these products are chasing hype rather than delivering actual value?

The AI boom is undeniably exciting, but if this trend of churning out similar, uninspired solutions continues, we risk losing the momentum that makes AI so promising.

As builders, we need to do better.
As users, we need to demand better.
As consumers, we deserve better.

AI is a transformative tool with the potential to reshape industries but that potential will only be realized if we move beyond endlessly wrapping existing technologies and start delivering real, innovative solutions.
Disagree. They are exactly what makes them desirable and useful. If you don't think so consider yourself lucky or ignorant.
I do a couple of bucks on digital marketing
Depends on how far back you zoom out to see. 20, 30 years or so? Definitely. A couple of centuries? Not particularly.
Agreed -- I think things would have gone much better for them if they had been upfront and transparent about the incident, instead of the sketchy cover-up.
To put it one way, some mine blocks as art, some carve sculptures as art. Some build walls as art, some build buildings as art.

The ones building buildings and carving statues want machines to do the work of gathering the resources. Those who make games and movies want graphics and audio.

To the pixel artists, getting their drawing in a game is part of the art, but to the game dev, working with a pixel artist may be a chore.

We'll see a lot of reshifting of these forms of art - the pixel artist will be able to use AI to make games or variations and such, and may find art in becoming an art director instead.
Peacetime CEO doing peacetime things when war is about to hit them while they’re asleep.

That being said it’s usual in US for CEOs to be rewarded in short time with stock raises when they cut costs.

Innovation is not a game for the light hearted.

Google is playing that game with Waymo and ploughing billions every year. GM doesn’t have the same risk bearing culture.
It's a premade design that I edited quite a bit. The landing page is important but at the start of a project, spending a ton of time on it isn't worth it. I used to work at an Australian (unofficial) unicorn where we sold these designs so I just bought one directly.
This is what you get if you shun uncomfortable discussions, try to shirk finding explanations in problematic cultural practices and promote right wing idiocy by running around with a half collapsed air-castle of comfy half-truths, kept propped up only screaming power of the civilized half of society.
Because you picked that metric.

Of course well-working graphic designers of the time measured their effort on the final result in the intended medium,

but of course they were also compromising on the amount of information they could throw in, and there exist (formal and informal) studies and work towards information augmentation, regardless of the medium. Or, because the original medium is largely unavailable and you want past work to look well on current media (so you try to augment information to make old works look better on LCDs and similar).
It becomes more and more interesting
Make Humans Great and Smart Again
That only shows that word prediction isn't necessary, not that it's insufficient
Right? and the app has existed for 5 years already. Plenty of time for Apple to Sherlock it.
There's a little cautionary story I like to tell about predictions and probabilities

There is a man living near a volcano. He has put up a sign outside his house for travelers, proudly declaring: "Will not erupt today. Accuracy: 100%."

One night, after thirty years of this, the volcano erupts for a few hours at night, oozing magma on its opposite side.

The next morning, the man is grateful that his house is fine, but feels a pang of sadness as he replaces the famous sign with a new one: "Will not erupt today. Accuracy rate: 99.99%."
This is so absurd. If they could accurately predict when their system is so reliable, they could get it certified for Level 3 use in these conditions. That's not a gimped version, that's strictly better than the product they offer.

They can't though. Mercedes-Benz can. To pretend that Tesla doesn't offer a better product because they don't want to is...
Took me a couple of minutes, a google search, and then another couple of minutes to understand what a "rolling joint" is. (not native English speaker)
All these "trusted" environments are meant to be used by DRM, copy protection, manufacturer backdoors, etc, so it is only better if they are compromised.

Regarding processing sensitive data in the cloud, just don't do it.
Dwingeloo telescope receives signals from Voyager 1
I understood that.
My point is that they aren't irrelevant, they help drive the new theory forward.

Galileo's initial results could not predict many things that the old geo-centric models could predict for centuries.

This is almost inevitable with a groundbreaking new framework, but the skeptics aren't wrong to point it out, it's up to the supporters to show it can do what old model can do and more, which Galileo was never quite able to show in his lifetime, if I recall correctly.

Again, it's easy to look back and talk about how these "irrelevant nitpicks" of tectonic plates and helio-centrism were "wrong" or "irrelevant", but that's just not how science works, you don't get to skip over the details when you present a theory that undermines everything we know, that's just crackpot behavior.
Superwall – Arguing in YouTube comment that I should break Apple dev. agreement
Yeah, this is one of the most compelling landing pages I've ever clicked on. Actually dropping me straight into the first lesson before I hit the paywall is very effective.
This is what.. the 3rd submission in the last 20 minutes. Why do you keep deleting and resubmitting?
There is a book about effect of keto on the brain: https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Energy-Revolutionary-Understand...

Not sure how much evidence is for claims, but sounds somewhat reasonable.
It seems wild to me since linear algebra is at the heart of basically all modern mathematics (alright maybe not all but so many things exhibit linear behavior, that it's still useful). Don't most CS majors require some math today? Linalg is like first year college, right?
I'd also like to know that! I have some ideas, from less shady to more:

- Payment for order flow

- Interest on sweep accounts

- Upsell to more profitable products (first party ads)

- Payment for order flow, but structure your orders so the spread is really attractive to market makers (unfortunately you might be doing this unintentionally)

- Third party ads

- Sell your customers' data

There's also the possibility of not doing any of these, losing money in the name of customer acquisition, then selling to someone who will monetize it better.

I find it a bit rude to ask a company their exact business plan, even on Launch HN, but maybe I could ask - are there any of these monetization strategies you disdain and would specifically rule out? And if you do have one or more of these in mind, is the $1 really important, or is that a marketing trick where people wouldn't trust you if it was free?
> While US has excellent education

The US has absolutely abysmal primary education while spending eye watering amounts of money on it. This is plainly obvious to anyone who has ever lived abroad with kids.
I'm a similar age. I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago. Things got a lot better after my diagnosis.

Firstly, work with your health care providers. ADHD medication works well, even though it doesn't really feel like it works. (Even now I feel like my medication doesn't really do anything but if you compare my life before and after it's night and day).

Reading your post, it looks like you're having a rough time. Job hunting isn't easy, especially when you have ADHD. Rejection hurts for even the most well adjusted people. When you're feeling low it's very easy for your thoughts to spiral out of control. Try to notice when and how this is happening. For example:

Me: "I'm 36, I'm too old to ever get hired!"
Also me: "Is it true that no one over the age of 36 gets hired for jobs? Do I know anyone in my life who got a job over this age? Oh, my uncle was laid off 5 years ago and he got one."

There are many different cognitive distortions like this. You can google to find examples of them or work with a therapist to help notice them. Try reading "Feeling Good" by David Burns, he has lots of good examples to draw from.

It might seem a bit counterintuitive, but being kind and forgiving of your shortcomings can often make you more effective and productive. Imagine procrastinating for 4 hours in the morning and getting nothing done. It's easy to think "Damn, I'm worthless. I just can't focus. I can't stay on task. I'll never get a job at this rate." Now you feel awful. When you get back from lunch, you're much more likely to procrastinate to distract yourself from these negative thoughts and feelings.

Instead, try accepting and forgiving yourself: "I didn't do anything this morning. It happens sometimes. I'll try to just doing a little this afternoon and see how it goes.". It's true, you might still procrastinate, but you have a better chance of getting to it now that the negative emotions are smaller and more manageable.

I also recommend Taking Charge of Adult ADHD by Russell A. Barkley as a good handbook, especially if you've been diagnosed recently.
I really can’t tell if you’re being obtuse? Since this is getting really silly..

The only reason I mentioned fax is because that’s a thing that only became widespread after all innovation had supposedly stopped. BUT it already has been obsolete for decades and replaced by more advanced technologies.

> the authors of the book do say

That’s like saying that there wasn’t much innovation in the late 1800s besides electricity.. Yes if you exclude the area there has been the most progress in your point might have some very superficial merit

Computers and internet transformed plenty of those devices that were apparently already perfected by the 70s.

Except devices like TVs have almost nothing in common with their equivalent from back then besides the name and the fact that they show pictures. So television and CRTs weren’t real inventions either? They are basically the same thing as film projectors and those were a thing back in the 1890s. Really if we think about it almost nothing worth mentioning was invented after 1899..
Learning for the sake of learning is a good thing
I've built https://cophone.io - your online smartphone, complete with a phone number. It is an Android system running in the cloud that you can access via a browser, even on mobiles. Things like microphone and webcam work nicely, so you can even have meetings on cophone.

After iterating on it for a while, customers seem very happy and now growing day by day.

No marketing so far, just being out there and posting on various channels once in a while.
I sell 3D laser manufactured maps - themapsguy.com
“They’re in trouble”

Did you not understand my post, or do you not believe my claim?

The objective facts (as established by a body cam) matter very little, only a good faith belief that “I feared for my life or the life of someone in the public”.

Why? The burden of proof is “Innocent until proven guilty” and like I said, the onus is on the prosecution to prove that the officer’s statement that “they feared for their life” was a lie at the time of the incident. That’s extremely difficult to prove, especially when an officer has been on the job for a while and has been conditioned to use the right words to CYA.
Yes, I believe that is accurate
Keynote: Advent of Code, Behind the scenes – Eric Wastl, 2024 [video]
> Tesla FSD is practically perfected, with no accidents whatsoever, under such conditions already

Disengaging 2 seconds before an accident leads to a perfect driving record