skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Senior" software engineer salary in NZ is maybe $120k NZD (about $70k USD), median house in Auckland or Wellington (which is where you need to be to earn even that much) is about a million NZD. Cost of living is very high.

Maybe f*cked is hyperbole but if you don't already own property it is quite difficult to sustain a reasonable standard of living (let alone "get ahead") as a wage earner.

I love NZ but it didn't make economic sense to stay.
> Once the results were assembled, the information specialist conveyed all this information to the executive, cutting from one video feed to another, guided by the executive’s interest and direction.

Anyone else reminded of A Deepness in the Sky?
i'm not a big fan of this space ship design.
> A broken society

I don't think this is necessarily broken by any reasonable standard. If no medication exists, that's not "broken society". Nor is there not being money to give a bespoke treatment to everyone, no matter how expensive it is. If that's broken, no society in history has ever not been broken. Which is just a poor definition.
Not particularly important, but it is 'balkanization' with a k.
The most relevant thing about this article to me is the continued need for editors, and for people to push back on articles like this before they see the light of day.

This article is dead on arrival unless you start with explaining when in US or global cultural the general trend was individual distinctiveness.

Visual examples of sameness could be assembled from practically any point in human history.

Where's the evidence that this is a new trend?
I don't think its really fair to call this site "poorly designed".
> My question is how can we test which of the 256 rules are reversible and how do they pair up?

I wondered this too. It feel like a generalization of the well-studied deconvolution problem, but thankfully without noise.

I haven't had my coffee yet, but some quick googling any thinking didn't deliver an answer, so I'd just try enumerating all the rules and seeing which ones invert each other.

Or, take all permutations of five bits, and find the central three bits in the next generation. If-and-only-if all patterns resulting in the three bits have the same central bit in the original pattern, then the rule is invertible.
You might be an exception. I, as a developer, really want "thin and light" laptop to make it as efforless as possible to carry it around and use anywhere. I've made the mistake of buying a heavy powerful one, and I basically never carry it around, because it's just too impractical.
If they're doing that they're not targeting people who would actually buy what they sell.
Are LLMs capable of non-verbal reasoning?
Isn't basic research always like that? According to Wikipedia[1]: "aim of improving scientific theories for better understanding and prediction of natural or other phenomena". There is no implied success (it's only an "aim"), or utility, beyond that for science itself.

How much we want to support that (financially, socially etc) is a question a bit like, how much do we want to support children playing. Some disagree such should be supported at all, others are indifferent about such, yet others take pride in supporting or having supported such. The answer, to both of those questions, does have a large effect on how our societies look like. However, answering in the affirmative to support does not guarantee any positive progress. Likewise, answering in the negative, does not prevent progress, or basic research or children's play from happening.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research
What kind of format (how much text, how many pages, should there be descriptions of the illustrations or does your app make those assumptions based on the text?)?
Recently I listened to a 25 year old episode of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on the BBC (fantastic series btw, still going). Medical Ethics and back then, amongst other topics, the option of assisted death did already crop up. Unless medical treatment not only prolongs a life but also maintains, or towards the end of a long life realistically it has to improve, the quality of life, the idea of an early death will enter the mind of a lot of people.

Christiaan Barnard gets quoted with "The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped."

The relevant part starts at 24:40 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005465c

The program also mentions doctors limits in regards to genetic conditions which not only affect their patient but might also affect the patients relatives. I don't see that discussion ever, even though it turns out to be relevant for my ADHD.
No, I am not an expert of 4-manifold theory and would not really understand most of the chapters. If this book fixes some of the literature issues in that field that is amazing! Does it finally resolve the issue of nobody understanding the construction of topological Casson handles?

Edit: I see from the MO comments "The fully topological version of the disc embedding theorem is beyond the scope of this book, since we will not discuss Quinn's proof of transversality."
If you're actually part of a community like a run club, the communities feature is pretty nifty. It's the typical "I have no friends and thus am not using social media and don't want to integrate into social circles at all" HN response I guess.
Great work! Always fantastic to see works of love of passionate people, who want to challenge the status quo. That's what it's about!

The "see more" link on the grinder page is not working, https://velofuso.com/oculo
Wow, just incredible.

We have the Story of Mel from the 1960s, but this story of saving Voyager 1 is hard to beat and will hold a special place in programming lore.
This is so myopic. I feel it's similar to the scrapping of Philosophy from the common high school curriculum here in Spain. It was thrown away as the uninteresting rants of beardy old men, to make space for things like some trite dabbling with Word and Excel billed as "digitalization".
So now things like History, Literature and many STEM subjects feel completely ungrounded. When my kids have some trouble understanding things and they ask me, the answer is very often something I learned studying Philosophy.

So now let's also not do any research on for example... Social Networks. It's not that they are a relevant aspect of modern life worthy of careful observation. Don't dare look closely into what the overlords are doing.
One thing you could do is use different axes. A two-color pattern where the pattern would be religion, the hue of one color language, the other family structure, etc.
Some ideas:

Highlight the advantages of your service over DIY solutions prominently on your marketing site. The site looks great! but I think it could better focus on convincing developers to adopt your product vs just listing features.

Consider reaching out to clients to quantify the time saved using your service. Emphasize how it eliminates the hassle of setting up custom background job processes, proxies, and other complexities that can snowball into a full-fledged project.

Good luck on your journey!
A testament to the sheer power of memory, dedication, and pattern recognition
Are the tweaked reduction rules what you have on this website? I might be misunderstanding, but rule 3 certainly looks different on your website than in Barry’s book.

Could you link typed_program_analysis.pdf? I can’t seem to find it.
When I saw "HamsterSpeak" I laughed out loud. Then I researched and found this gem: "HamsterSpeak is the scripting language used by the OHRRPGCE." This caused a second laugh.

Kudos to all HamsterSpeak programmers!
This was mentioned in a thread a few days ago, and I was most curious
to check it out. IIRC someone mentioned it was a PhD thesis and
somehow sat in the space between Faust and Chuck. Very
intriguing. Sadly the website returns nothing informational for me at
all, just a link to some offsite js that I absolutely refuse to run.
I'd love to see this do well, so my gentle advice is to create a
simple html-only website with basic information, maybe some links to
things like your thesis, a few simple .mp3 files (easily playable from
your host) for folks who want to hear examples, and code snippets.
Hope to see more soon, best of luck.
It really challenges the assumption that language mastery is only about communication
A study[1] was recently posted[2] which found that for lithium-ion batteries, dynamic use lead to much better battery life compared to fixed-current discharges which is typically used in labs to determine battery life.

From the paper: Specifically, for the same average current and voltage window, varying the dynamic discharge profile led to an increase of up to 38% in equivalent full cycles at end of life.

This tracks well with actual real-world data on BEV battery performance in cars with decent battery management.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01675-8

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42370438
Consume is for data dependency, loading through a pointer is the obvious one, but there are other variants (using the loaded value as an index for example).

Acquire is also not about pointers but about independent reads: reading a flag and then reading data protected by that flag for example.

Consume exists because it can be implemented cheaply on some platforms with relatively expensive acquire barriers (ARM, POWER). Alpha didn't respect load dependencies, so consume is as expensive as acquire.
By what definition? It's certainly possible that some kind of societal bell curve or other distribution can just keep getting wider without meaningful movement of the relative positions of individuals. I don't understand why you assume the most likely behavior is regression to the mean. Especially on short terms that seems weird to assume
I just need a story line. Write as much or as little as you'd like.

Describing the characters helps making it more personal... and the result will always be more impressive in that sense.
Well, you could ignore the naysayers and divert hundreds of billions of dollars into funding a vast social science apparatus for decades, and then see if the results have clearly made people happier in ways that couldn't have been done without the state.

Which is what has been done, and why NZ is defunding it.
Prime numbers are used in cryptography. Public-private key cryptography is based on the fact that is hard to find the original two large prime numbers that were multiplied together from their result.
Example you see written 721.000.165.331 . It's hard to calculate that is the product of the two prime numbers 730487 * 987013
So if they can calculate bigger prime numbers with a new faster method we can know larger prime numbers and have safer cryptography.
(That's the simplified version that I remember as a software engineer)
Probably for the same reasons humans adopt, since we are animals, too. Just ask people who adopted for their reasons.
Here in the UK, I only know one person who has a boiling water tap (they've been renovating an old cottage and are a fan of tech) though I wasn't a fan went I went to visit and tried it out (not why I went to visit). I'm more of a fan of the Unix/Linux philosophy of "do one job and do it well" as appliances are more likely to break when they have multiple jobs to do, so I was slightly against the idea of it anyhow. The main criticism I have of it is that it's far more likely to cause scalds/burns as you have to bring the container to the tap (specifically an Aeropress) and it's more difficult to control the flow of water. With a kettle, you can move the kettle to the container and it's far more controllable in terms of water flow. I'm also not a fan of the tap needing to keep pre-heated water in an insulated container all the time - only a small use of energy, but it seems unnecessary to me.
I wish there were more products like this. Just straight up build quality. I'm not yet talking about the product quality or performance, but if someone puts in this much work in building something, I can trust them to iterate and commit to its overall quality.
What on earth do you mean by: "One of the richest people on the planet"?

National have started an "austerity" programme, tens of thousands of civil servants have been laid off, housing is disgustingly expensive (and the quality of it is awful as well), the price of goods and food is pretty expensive (even dairy products that are produced here are often more expensive than in Europe).

The location's only great strategically if you ignore the (huge) future earthquake potential.

Cities like Wellington have also had a chronic lack of infrastructure investment, so there are HUGE issues with water / sewage leaks - pretty much every week there's a new water main leaking somewhere in the city.

(Have lived here for 10 years, and am looking to return to Europe - things are going downhill pretty fast here IMO).
It’s normal for entities owed money to be able to use that debt in these kinds of auctions. They still need to cover whatever fraction of debt is owed to 3rd parties with actual cash. This is a backstop as auctions often result in far lower values for assets than a longer sales process can provide.

It also results in debtors getting out of more debt.

> I understand that InfoWars is likely being sold at auction because no buyer was willing to purchase it for a price that would satisify the debt before bankruptcy, but there is a nomzero chance that some buyer shows up and is willing to pay more for it than someone else specifically to keep it out of that particular buyers hands. Strange. Farfetched. Buy possible. And it wouldn't be fair to allow preference by those owed the debt as it defeats the fair market price process.

A blind auction happened and if someone had offered even 1% of Alex Jones debt for info wars they would have won. The specific deal setup by the Onion provided 1.7 million dollars to satisfy other creditors, but the Texas families are owed 49 million. So even if the Connecticut families agreed to accept nothing any deal handing more than 1.7 million to the Texas families would have won.

Further, while it seems impossible for Alex Jones to ever get out of this debt, the Onion deal got him closest to that possibility.
Thankfully it's quite difficult to grind and brew coffee dangerously.
Cold Brew is glorified filter coffee, especially when made with ultrasonics.
It can even simulate the feeling you get when you go back to work while waiting for your coffee to be at drinkable temperature only to find it cold an hour later.
> Entire countries default fairly often, the USA is no exception if such a fate befalls us. We've already had our security ratings dropped once before.

The funny thing about this is how little happens to them when they do. Like Argentina's supposed to be the worst case scenario? The country best known for eating a lot of beef? You don't see them being sold to Brazil or anything.

> These crazy numbers must be balanced sooner or later, and the costs to do so will be cheaper the sooner we do it. Every single part of the government needs to be cut and likely in most cases eliminated outright, that includes Social Security and Medicare and the military.

Even if you want to be a heartless economic optimizer, your goal should be aiming to make the economy bigger. Making old people starve isn't going to do that. Neither is letting Russia conquer Alaska.

Austerity like this is European thinking - and its result is those are poor countries, whereas we're #1 because we don't do that.

> Meanwhile, we are $35.46 trillion dollars in debt.[2]

That's not the number that matters. You want this: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYOIGDA188S

It's basically the current cost to us to borrow money. It's up a little, which does need to be dealt with, but it isn't historically high.

The way we should deal with it is a VAT or DBCFT. (And that's a Republican proposal from 2016.)

> The bottom line if we are borrowing money to make ends meet is: We. Do. Not. Have. Money.

We aren't borrowing money because we have to - we do it because it lets us sell bonds to other countries, which makes them subjects of the US financial empire; they have to use our banks. It's that global reserve currency thing.

But if we had to for some reason, we can simply create more money (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin) or just order people to produce things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950). The cost to this is inflation, but that's a benefit if the alternative is deflation.

(Technically, inflation is caused by the Fed, if you believe Milton Friedman. But printing money requires the Fed to raise interest rates to match. So either they raise interest rates and cause unemployment, or they don't raise them and cause inflation.)
I think you’re missing their very good point. ”Social science” is how you get the evidence.
A "higher" end home grade espresso machine, that is also a huge gunk of plastic and prone to issues/expensive maintenance is over $700 alone.

So for a self made, low production run of quality components, this is not bad.
It’s certainly an amazing feat and it demonstrates what humans can actually do if they set their minds to it.

Just a pity that there are so many regular humans.
For this price, these are both great if they work well. It's very much the lower end of pricing for espresso capable equipment.

I look forward to seeing some reviews.

That being said, while you have increased the burr surface area, it feels like the grinder design would lead to a lot of re-grinding. Also, there is a reason decent espresso uses vibratory pumps to great effect, and its not because they're cheap or because they output a noisy flow of water.
just cant wait for LTT or someone to do a proper review on it
An argument can also be made for a similar effect on language. In the UK in recent decades I've noticed a trend towards young people from various regions adopting a specific south London accent or dialect. Ironically although this seems to be part of adopting the culture of south London, it is also abandoning the dialect of their region which traditionally in the UK has been a very powerful source of identity.

In the town in England where I grew up I could easily tell if someone was from the nearest town (<10 miles away) within a few sentences, or the city a similar distance in the opposite direction. I suspect that won't be possible once the current generations have died out.

Homogeneity is just a natural result of more effective mixing.
There’s no right way to enjoy words... Whether it’s through playing Scrabble, writing poetry, or diving into etymology
I hear you have to be pretty tall to be able to do it right. [1]

[1] https://bholley.net/blog/2015/must-be-this-tall-to-write-mul...
Get a solar panel for your balcony now
> What features are you seeking that aren’t available? There are many powerful, heavy laptops. There are many 16+ inch form factors. My current laptop has dual screens!

Sure, there are many powerful, heavy laptops. Almost none with a HiDPI screen, though. And almost none that lack a numpad (and off-center trackpad). And almost none with half-height arrow keys, even among the ones without numpad.

To find one with all three of those? You may as well not even try. I have more requirements, but nobody really cares even about the most basic ones, so there's no point in hoping for the more complex ones.

Even among laptops with 4K screens they're bound to have "full-size" keyboards with a numpad. If no numpad, the arrow keys are still likely to be full-size, and there are probably dedicated Home/End/PgUp/PgDn buttons, which are always stupid compared to putting them into Fn+Arrows.

I get it, portable workstations are designed to be desktops in a laptop form factor. They're not designed to be laptops. But maybe something out there should be. Maybe there should be even a single laptop on the planet that is actually designed like a premium laptop, with workstation-class power inside.

There probably won't be, though - far more likely for everybody to tell me my expectations are completely unrealistic. (It'll happen any second now, probably.)

> I agree it can be frustrating when the mainstream focuses on things you don’t like, but that doesn’t always exclude the things you do.

The Framework Laptop 16 is one of the first Windows laptops I have ever seen that checks many of those boxes, but unfortunately it's still thin and light (and also AMD).

I recently got a Apple 16" MacBook Pro and it's okay. Really many of my requirements were inherited from the Mid-2015 MBP being possibly the best machine I'd ever used, but then Apple became terrible for a while, and nobody else (not even Razer) did a good job of replicating what I liked about that machine.
I turn on Verbose logging sometimes, to get more info.

Error logging can be set to either spit out the error and continue, or to stop processing, which is very useful.

Warning and error messages come out in their own colours automatically, which is nice.

And sure, you can just have them all come out to the same place. But having the options to configure them is very handy.
Implicit in the request for research with social impact was that it should be positive social impact, as perceived by most people not just one partisan wing.

> As politics change the response should be to change the criteria and agenda of funding to make it less radical

If it were that easy it'd have been done already. You can't tell radical activists to just be reasonable.
In my defense, you have cut off the second half of the sentence when quoting me. Which is not the sort of thing I'd expect to happen around here.

I hope this provides some context: what I mean is "poorly designed" in the context of the product, which is in the second half of the sentence you omitted. There’s a mismatch between the product quality and the website quality. You’re right—it’s a 5 or 6 out of 10 website. Not a bad score at all, certainly not poor. I would enjoy and not comment on most other content using this design style. However, a 10/10 product (let’s assume it is) should not have a website that looks like this. It damages the brand. And that, I think, justifies calling it poor. (But what’s the worst that could happen? Fewer sales? It’s fine, really.)
On the contrary, after the scalability patches got through, the performance impact of exceptions even at high failure rate is in the noise.
> Generative AI can be used for copyright infringement - just like any creator technology could be.

And yet, all generative AI services are pretty confident that copyright infringement is not something you should worry about when using their outputs.

For a example, this FAQ from Cursor:

> Who owns the code generated in Cursor?

> You! Regardless of whether you use the free, pro or business version of Cursor, all generated code is yours and free to be used however you like, including commercially.

Note how it's specifically not saying "it's up to you to determine if the code infringes on any of the million codebases we trained our models on".

The difference with video and Sora is that it does this with properties of entities that actually have some considerable legal departments behind them.
If you lost last Christmas, you are already burned out. Have a break, and don't lose the incoming one.
Silicon ?
I've been burnt crispy by too many deadlines that didn't matter.
They're gonna steal from optimization. Are we going with an explore vs exploit strategy? We need to get this project into the annealing stage and slow down on big changes. What's the shortest path to an MVP. We need to branch and bound on different features in the prototype.