skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Everettian multiverse is a bit like seeing some bubbles and foam in the surf and concluding that there are "many oceans." Yes, there are many surfaces of water, but calling each bubble an ocean is a bit disingenuous.

Like the bubble analogy, new Everettian universes are local, small, and the total amount of probability density (water in this analogy) is conserved.
People sign up for (or are tempted to sign up for) Medicare C because traditional Medicare is too complex and bafflingly bad. Traditional Medicare requires paying for your Part B premium, a separate Part D plan and premium (from the private insurance companies), likely a third “Medigap” plan and premium (also from the private insurance companies IIRC) and then separate private vision and dental coverages.

And for all of that, you’re stuck paying at least 20% of everything, on top of separate deductibles for each part and no out of pocket caps at all (meaning Medicare isn’t even an ACA compliant health care plan). Part C simplifies this for so many people by rolling all of Part B, Part D and usually vision and dental into a single premium and puts out of pocket caps on the amount of money you might need to shell out. Is it any wonder people keep choosing Part C even if it means their providers have to fight the insurance more?
it's not, it's been years since, it's not a mystery
It has the nice feature of marking whoever says it as a coward and a sheep.
> How does AI attend meetings, ask questions of local officials or bodies, provide in-person reports and original fact based copy?

I noticed that most of the journalism that I care about ~drifted~ from the writing to non-structured media (e.g. podcasts, videos), where in writting we have only things oriented to the SEO and future reference and historical purposes, and the actual red meat content comes in "conversations" or in aired media in youtube channels.

Back in the day, a journalist could sit in a hearing or in an audience, and you could read at the weekend a deep dive with key points in the trial, points made by the prosecution and defense, the verdict, and the entire trial dynamic and buildup. Currently you have in writing only some high-level summary with no specifics and maybe some journalist opinion, and the entire breakdown you can have it on Youtube.

For me, this is one of the two saddest trends that I see in modern journalism (another one is the lack of investigative journalism revealing political corruption), where you can only get in the depths by going to the prolix audio and video media formats.
It does indeed work! I've been meaning to instrument a food stimulant mass to determine how the chaos is effected my mass offset vs speed. I think due to the under-actuated nature of the system you're stuck with a balance between cg-offset, gravity and input rotation on the first axis
Also sounds like Canada isn't paying their doctors enough, which isn't to say America's healthcare is better, but it is something to take into account.
although these things are impressive at writing hello world in a bunch of ways, I've really found them pretty useless inside any sufficiently complex codebase. Am I just incompetently using them?
No, no, no. We can't be in 2024 post COVID and wondering why we can't just say "Oh look, a laptop and world class pedagogical videos, go ahead." Because every other educator, administrator, parent, and entrepreneur has tried this.

We all know that Khan Academy is top class material, but it's not even close to enough.
I don’t disagree with you just replied that by logic it is indeed possible to gain or lose weight depending on the type of calories you ingest
the larger the devices we are able to build where quantum effects still dominate, the more it hurts any notion of a 'physical collapse' suggested by some copenhagen branches.

Other, weaker forms of Copenhagenism scarcely even qualify as a real metaphysical interpretation of what is going on. I do think building big things in superposition does seem suggestive that there is no 'collapse upon interaction with observer' effect in metaphysical reality.
Sure, we can quibble. If they are intending on paying competitive bay area salaries they'll be paying much more. Or maybe they can build the bulk of their engineering team in Warsaw or whatever and pay less.

I picked a number on the lower side to be generous. Whether this pays for one developer, half a developer, or a quarter of a developer doesn't fundamentally change the big problem: you need a lot of users to cover even a small team and the total addressable market here is small.
No. At least according to the Open Source Initiative, public domain is not open source: https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
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> The company, which is backed by startup accelerator Y-Combinator, sells what it calls “AI Employees” or “Artisans.” What the company actually sells is software designed to assist with customer service and sales workflow.

More fancy chat AI bots.
To add to this, expressive power also makes it possible to communicate nuance and discuss biases and fallacies.
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Maybe our consciousness also branches, and all branches are approved.
Yes of course. All of this seems to me totally psychotic and not at all a dystopia I want to live in. Which is why I lived in an area with almost no government, very weak police services, little to no code/zone enforcement, weak environmental controls, etc etc.

I pointed it out largely because I find the drug laws to be particularly strange.
I'm wondering if there is another significant variable here. I'd assume there that most of the other countries on the list would also have kids that have youtube and and increased screen times for kids.
What are the lessons from America's great cannabis liberalization experiment?
I started a mini-SaaS focused on identifying what content/scripts are blocked on websites by AdBlockers, Firefox Tracking Protection, and similar tools.

I initially aimed for an cheap monthly pricing plan and many clients, but that strategy hasn't been successful so far.

However, in the process of finding clients, I found two 'enterprise' customers. I built a custom on-premise version for them and charging $300 per month for each, which technically sums to over $500. Not sure it is what I wanted )
C'mon its funny, no?

I would have gone straight for "Destroy all humans" just to hit it
outa the park on the first ball.
It's a poor slant on what's been the case for many years. What did robots do for assembly lines?
That's the biggest reason to keep it - the more user agents support this standard, the easier it would be to write and push legislation backing it.
I will just say, that as a user of both Robbinhood and Double, Robinhood feels more like gambling while Double feels like strategic management. Great product.
> public domain software may be free software but is not certain to be.

Open Source relies on copyright and contract law (which are somewhat standardized or at least understood due to their importance in commerce). Public domain relies on other laws that can vary significantly.

https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
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January 6th showed that at least the far-right is OK with political violence. Lynchings show that racists are OK with political violence. Anti-Semites burning synagogues shows that they're OK with political violence. The government has never had a problem with political violence against minorities and people pushing for a more socially supportive system. But somehow when average people are OK with violence against a greedy CEO whose policies lead to thousands of preventable deaths it's a step too far.
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That sounds like you having a narrow understanding of git - there is no way it is not continuous.
I use claude every day to help me write code. I doubt it's incompetence, but maybe a lack of trust. Cursor + Claude does great and I use it to do real work for my business.
it only took a week to catch him. this is not unprecedented in murder cases
Yo glommer, I am ... very surprised to see any benchmark beat the micro-tuned sqlite so early, congrats. Where do you think rust is picking up the extra 100ns or so from a full table scan?
My impression is that `tcc -run` is a trivial wrapper to the tune of `tcc && ./a.out`, which... actually I guess there could be a security sandbox that prevents you writing a file and then immediately executing it, but I'd expect it to be rarer. What I had in mind was that there have been true C interpreters, which are... weird, frankly, but whatever... but I could easily see one of them using a real JIT that could get tripped up by a sandbox. But this is just my incorrect first thought, obviously it's not really what's in play.
Yes, Wikipedia has rules.

But how many paid wikimedia employees are involved in the governance/moderation of the platform? How many times have admins and established editors bullied or banned new editors needlessly just so their own work can stay up?
Small discussion yesterday (14 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372076
https://github.com/gregrahn/sqllogictest
Show them the movie _Idiocracy_ at a young age?

Maybe set up a society where intellectual effort and achievement is rewarded and teachers get paid well enough to make being knowledgeable seem a laudable thing?
So this is a clear case of this, right? https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

(No shade to the company, good on them for getting coverage!)
All the conversations about SSPL seem to go the same way:

- Someone complains about the extra restrictions imposed on AWS (lets be real, it's basically just about AWS)

- People point out that SSPL is basically AGPL+, and that for the vast vast majority of people it doesn't make any difference

- People counter that the SSPL is written ambiguously/untested in court, and so while it might seem like it's AGPL+ and doesn't matter for most users, you can't rely on that

- People complain about rug pulling (valid, IMO)

My question is this: Can there be a AGPL+ that is OSI approved? Could there be a "AAGPL" that GNU releases that covers this (very common, and IMO valid) "need" for open source companies to not be cannibalized by cloud providers?

Is this conceptually unacceptable, or is it just that the SSPL is poorly executed?
yeah, he didn't go into hiding, which would have been the smart thing to do (Except also not killing people)
> I bet there's a good alignment between people making outrageous LLM claims and people who shilled for those other things too, for how they were "right around the corner".

I'm still waiting for NFT's to take over the video gaming space, its just around the corner!
Ignoring it means you need to get explicit consent, which is what the websites are already doing.
git branches are not continuous
Honestly, probably not. It's about software architecture for games, and not about game mechanics specifically.
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Why not do both? Release as public domain or MIT license. Take your pick.
Have you considered selling at a bulk discount to local merchants? They have the physical presence and would remove the hassle/danger of people coming to your house. Keep your digital presence and just point people to the local shops or accept orders for the shops and send them there.
Is their product good enough to back their hype? Probably not. Most of these "customer service" systems are only slightly smarter than "Press 1 to pay your bill, press 2 if your item hasn't arrived..." menu systems.

Edit: It's worse than I thought. It's a spamming system.

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Like most chatbot companies, their own sales effort does not use their own chatbot. When you go to their site, you don't get to talk to their chatbot about their product.
https://blog.labsbell.com/blog/SkippiesPart2 selling 4.99$ shoes, strangely fun to see the inner workings of ecommerce. I dont understand how amazon sellers make any money.
Hi adblock user here, who uses adblockers for 2 reasons: 1) Security, because ad networks can't be bothered to properly vet the stuff they shove down everyone's throats and 2) On mobile at least, its impossible to read most websites due to the sheer number of overlaid videos and other such BS.

That's it. That's not entitlement. I just want to actually read the stuff on a website. If websites could do ads that weren't trying to monopolize attention and/or trick me in to downloading malware, I'd definitely think twice about my use of a blocker on that website.

Sure there are some that feel like because its on the internet that's its free and they are entitled to it. But I'd wager most ad block users fall in to a similar camp as me.

Plus most adblocking extensions these days are also tracker blockers as well, so there's some element of privacy protection in play there as well.
Seems to me that what Andreessen was really mad about was the CFPB forcing his portfolio companies that committed consumer fraud to return money to their customers. He also lied about the CFPB doing debanking, they don’t have that power.

While debanking may be a problem, there’s a false populism in these disingenuous VCs, pretending that their troubles are the same as everyone else. These guys want to operate in grey areas that enable laundering, illegal gambling, buying/selling contraband, and straight up rug pulls, and not be subject to any risk or oversight.
“… What if we burn all our funding to create a shocking antisocial marketing campaign that gets the press to talk about our unknown startup, because the air is already saturated with breathless AI hype”
SQLite is in the public domain (i.e. not copyrighted), so a clean room implementation is unnecessary.
People are saying it’s apples and oranges, but with Computer Use taken into account, this seems like a fair question.

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/compute...
I think acknowledging the problem is one of the key aspects of focusing on the solution, maybe even the most important one. Writing it down in a concrete way that defines and explains it made me realize the issue. My next plan is to sign up for the gym :)
I’d argue the causality runs the other way. The popularity of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and casual games is a consequence of declining literacy, not a cause. The real cause was the abandonment of phonics in favor of whole-word approaches to teaching reading in the early 2000s. Those kids are now in their mid-20s and making their own purchase and usage decisions; with poor reading skills, is it any wonder that they prefer video and image forms of media?

The timing doesn’t really line up for the screen time hypothesis. Tablet mobile games became mainstream in the mid-2010s; the kids who grew up with them are now about 15 and younger. We’ve been seeing an inability to grasp complex written discourse and perform critical thinking since about 2016; the kids on tablets would’ve been in elementary school then, but the first cohort of students who grew up with whole word reading methods was just entering adulthood.
You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed them. :)
Profit is not income. That $18B could be spend on salaries, bonuses, company assests, etc, and I'm not an accountant but if it's getting spent on the business it doesn't have to be included in their income reports.
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Economically Russia is irrelevant (a.k.a puny).

So any country at or below Russia's GDP ranking (11th worldwide) is "irrelevant" and "puny".

Is that what you're saying?
I might be missing something—is there a reason why rewriting it in Rust would be a prerequisite to adding these features, vs just starting a fork?

And in this case the project intends to be fully compatible, so they wouldn't be able to unilaterally adopt or drop features anyway.
> Yes, but it's not a CapEx investment (as in upfront capital taken out of a treasury and invested), and is subject to public notices so there at least is an auditable trail. And unlike China, municipalities and States in the US can directly raise capital via bonds.

This is also true for Anhui. Out of the ~5 billion about 2.6 billion was in direct funding, the rest is in debt/equity swaps which aren't going to be upfront costs.

Similarly in the US, for this kind of project you can expect about half of the funding to be a direct grant and the other half to be deferred.

> Because that stake in one venture is 10% of Anhui Province's entire Revenue in 2022 - Anhui's total revenue was only $49B in 2022 but it's expenditures were $115B in 2022 [0]. And that's just one venture.

Ohio's situation is similar, with ~8% of yearly revenue spent on that one single TSMC building. Ohio's direct revenue is only around 25B/yr, with the vast majority of the budget being funded by the federal government (mostly pass through, for example Medicare)

> It does though. Even though YMTC was under the Tsinghua Unigroup umbrella, it's primary capital came from a separate government and remained autonomous of Tsinghua Unigroup, and Unigroup's larger failures impacted actual deliveries and roadmap items for YMTC [1]

Again, the argument from the start was about outcomes in funding for the industry. I have not argued anywhere that Unigroup's leadership deserves any credit, just that some of the funding allocated to Unigroup - chiefly the one earmarked for YMTC - ended up with decent outcomes.
This comment kind of nails it. I don’t have any social media at all and often my friends tell me I live under a rock for not knowing the latest meme. The decision is trivial, I just don’t have social media (except Hackernews which does waste a disgusting amount of time).

Anyways - people gravitate toward the simple and assume the difficult is impossible. I’m training for a marathon with some friends and some are already making excuses to do as much as possible that _does not_ involve running (weight lifting, biking). I think humans just do the easy thing and complain about their situation because it’s.. well easy.
Step 1 - Shoot insurance CEO
Step 2 - Escape from the police by reversing a binary tree
Step 3 - ???
Step 4 - Profit!
With open-source software, a license is as much a social contract as it is a legal one. People contribute because they want to be part of a community building something which is beneficial to everyone. Everyone contributes where they can, and in turn takes what they need.

Redis Ltd. broke the social contract. They decided that the short-term profitability of the company was more important than the project as a whole, the community which had grown around Redis and the future of the software. Probably a wise decision from a business perspective, but that doesn't make it any less of a rug pull from a community perspective.

You're right that no pre-relicense code was lost. People could and did fork. But something far more valuable was lost: the community's trust. First they relicensed the code solely for their own benefit, now they tried to take over third-party libraries and started behaving in a hostile way towards the community forks. Why would anyone volunteer their time and effort when it is mainly going to benefit a company which is so openly antagonistic against its volunteers? After all, what's the next shady move going to be?
I was thinking suckers, but I guess it's the same thing.
That's what the author is saying. Researchers in this field should, for credibility reasons, be solving test problems that can be quickly verified. As to why this isn't done:

(1) They're picking problems domains that are maximally close to the substrate of the computation device, so they can hit maximum problem sizes (like 10^25). For many (all?) fast-verifiable problems they can't currently handle impressively large problem sizes. In the same way that GPUs are only really good at "embarrassingly parallel" algorithms like computer graphics and linear algebra, these quantum chips are only really good at certain classes of algorithms that don't require too much coherence.

(2) A lot of potential use cases are NOT easy to validate, but are still very useful and interesting. Weather and climate prediction, for example. Quantum chemistry simulations is another. Nuclear simulations for the department of energy. Cryptography is kinda exceptional in that it provides easily verifiable results.
1. What languages do you think are good ones for HPC?

2. Re GAs, Koza, and cost:

In Koza's book on GAs, in one of the editions, he mentions that they scaled the performance of their research system by five orders of magnitude in a decade. What he didn't mention was that they did it by going from one Lisp Machine to 1000 PCs. They only got two orders of magnitude from per-unit performance; the rest came from growing the number of units.

Of course they couldn't keep scaling that way for cost reasons. Cost, and space, and power, and several other limiting factors. They weren't going to have a million machines a decade later, or a billion machines a decade after that. To the degree that GAs (or at least their approach to them) required that in order to keep working, to that degree their approach was not workable.
Profit without a qualifier is assumed to mean net income, which is all revenue minus all expenses.

But even supposing that the business earns $18B from Medicare Advantage after all is said and done, it doesn’t pass the smell test because at that level of profit, these businesses should shut everything else down and just do Medicare Advantage.
It's that but even more so: you aren't writing for a single human, but for the superposition of all possible readers of the book.

It's sort of like trying to write a program that is simultaneously valid Perl, C, Ruby, etc.
Except this is not true: I mean, I asked to rejoin, not because I evaluated the situation of the company, but since I wanted to do more hacking / community stuff. So you see what happens trying to read too much between the lines? That you invent what satisfies your needs as a reader, but drives you away from what actually happened. P.S. at Redis they didn't expected this at all and were really surprised.

And about switching to a more open license, who knows? Maybe we will be doing that as well if it offers enough protection - I'm not in charge for such decision but... I can suggest things -, so thank you for the idea (kidding apart, I was already talking about this possibility inside the company).
clearly nobody else has spent all the time i have integrating really old mortgage software :(
> Over the course of the last decade, a seductive idea has conquered the discourse: the notion that the sudden surge in political instability in democracies like the United States has been due to “elite overproduction” and the subsequent formation of a “surplus elite.”

The evidence for that is non-existent. How many MAGA and Tea Party voters are trying to be elite and how many hate "the elites"? Discourse is about immigrants, imaginary crime waves, corporate greed, "wokeness", etc.
Any definition of open source that doesn't include the public domain is out of touch with how real people use the words "open source" and is therefore useless. You can make up any definition you want, but if you insist on calling elephants "bananas", I'm not going to take you seriously
But that is really bad, no? I am not a user so please enlighten me on the ergonomics, but I understand that to mean I have to check and correct everything.
I don't care about it potentially being a real name, because I doubt it would be a household item, but somehow the name itself for this particular product seems offputting.

If it had to be a name for a product, it seems like to give me some sort of cheap male grooming or AXE body spray product vibes.
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