skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to what the sibling comments have said, the "axiom" is actually the term in the equations. That is, fundamentally, where this all comes from. "Stiffness" is just a word coined to help describe the behavior that arises from a term like this. Everything flows from having that piece in the math, so if you start there and with nothing else, you can reinvent everything else in the article. (Though it will take you a while.)

You might also ask where that term comes from. It really is "axiomatic": there is no a priori explanation for why anything like that should be in the equations. They just work out if you do that. Finding a good explanation for why things have to be this way and not that way is nothing more and nothing less than the search for the infamous Theory of Everything.
Unless the original commenters sneak-edited their comment, they included the word "whites" specifically to not ignore the non-whites and point out that universal literacy was not "universal" in the early US.
The author describes how his code reviews that he gave others are successful from his own point of view.
https://cobalt.tools/ is also pretty good
My understanding is that every manager at Google has had one of their quarterly goals be to integrate genAI into their team's product (regardless of whether it makes sense to) for the past several years already, so you're not wrong.
Why then do countries with socialized healthcare have linger life expectancy than countries with capitalist-only healthcare system?
It's not a "fantasy" at all. That's how Google was for me circa 2008-2009 when I joined it and until I left in 2015. In fact this made it difficult for me to accept anything less than that. There was so much opportunity, it took me about 6 months to get used to working there - I came from a rather rigid, large company where everyone just stabs each other in the back for scraps all the time.
Asking if the implication is true that having more dependencies is on net bad for security for a complex system. The alternative being reimplementing whatever you would otherwise pull in a third-party dependency for. On the one hand, you reduce the attack surface in your supply chain. On the other hand you run the risk of introducing security bugs in the code you write that is outside your domain of expertise. It's not at all clear to me which one would be more important.
More Elon hit pieces. Last one was one hour ago. Also substack.
This one is from "The Concerned Bird", registered 5 days ago on substack, and has one post.

Points for being clever. The big reveal is a screenshot from the github.io documentation of a bot/agent platform called ElizaOS. The documentation actually has an example agent configuration for a "trump" bot, presumably for generating fake content on social networks.
Location: South Western Ontario, Canada (EST time zone)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C++, C#, Java, Github, Selenium, MongoDB, Express, React, Node, EJS, API, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ryiblscQvWuW3Yns9E1r-oV3jyX...

Email: rlindeyer@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Reyndert Lindeyer. I'm a junior software developer looking to break into the industry with over three years experience in relevant software testing working with TCS Canada.

I'm currently based out of South Western Ontario in Canada and am 100% ok with moving for the job if it's hybrid or fully in-office. I have a background in C# and Java, with some previous experience with C++. I've also done a few small projects and courses using React, Node.js, and Python.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN.

You may not owe shitty little client states (or whatever you feel is one) better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thankfully I'm not working with you
Tiktok has access to photos and videos on the device, and user data on interactions. This was seen as a vector for compromising the individual's integrity via embarrassment and blackmail.
Python's Poetry has poetry audit as well, and there are third-party tools such as Safety (Python), Nancy (Golang), etc. Lots of languages have something like this.
Show HN: L2E Llama2.c in a PDF in a Polyglot PNG
Uhh, has your head been in the sand? Look at the average output of your industry without ai. It gets things wrong. It misleads. It hallucinates. It has incentives that fundamentally differ from what the readership seeks in news. The fact that your industry took so readily to the technology to output ever more garbage says it all about the state of the industry vs any condemnation of the fundamental technology.
Have they made a better internet? Many would say that made it worse.
You can create portable apps on Linux that will work for years to come. Bundle everything except for very core libraries, even libstd++. Things to NOT bundle would be glibc and any opengl implementation. To make apps backwards compatible with older versions of Linux, compile the app on a system with the oldest glibc you wish to support (because glibc is forwards compatible, but not backwards compatible).
Things can both please share holders and create value for users of that thing.
Yeah, it's bad here. My health insurance premium (family of four) went from $3,000 US/month to $3,600/month on Jan 1. That doesn't cover everything, either - there's a deductible, and then there's copays, which means up to $9k/year out of pocket on top of those premiums.
Orange fanta is not really a good example because they are totally different flavored drinks. It’s less about chemical rules than the flavor design
Yeah, I saw the 4o with Tasks today, tried it and asked "what is 4o with Tasks", it had no idea. I had to set it to web search mode to figure it out.
I take it then that we agree that for profit health insurance companies profiting from denying care is immoral. That there are other immoral actors is not germane to the discussion.
> Dismiss away, you do you.

With, as I said, good reason. That's important.

> I don't regard this as a "strong claim" requiring "extra-ordinary proof".

Not extra-ordinary proof, proportional proof. For a strong claim, strong evidence.

Saying the US has more loopholes than other developed nations that exploit and bypass the legal system and checks and balances in place compared to other developed nations is indeed a strong claim.

> Technically it is a claim, I suppose. Many statements are.

Many statements are opinions. Many are speculation. Some are claims. Some are strong claims, like this one.

> I strongly disagree that it any of "speculation" or "Ameriphobia".

Ameriphobia is a possibility, not an accusation. Until you are willing to support your claim, it's entirely reasonable that I should only take your claims as speculation.

> And they are, yet again, dismissive.

Because there is reason to dismiss, because you don't want to support your claim. Even though it would have been less effort than typing your last reply, and less effort than typing your reply to this comment, especially since I'm sure you'll respond to each individual point.

> "All countries are the same" Is quite a claim though.

That was never my claim. That's a strawman fallacy and nothing else.

> You seem defensive.

Just not a fan of wild claims that lack evidence.

> "require" makes it seem like I'm obligated though.

In the sense of any obligations inherited whenever implicitly agreeing to engage in civil debate, it is.

> Counterpoint: as the wise man said regarding when someone disagrees with you online and demands you prove your point: "I've known you for ten seconds and enjoyed none of them, I'm not taking homework assignments from you."

Supporting a claim isn't homework. You calling it homework is you attempting to shift the burden of proof onto me, which is dishonest.
Google Workspace still seems like an amazing deal compared to Slack (for example) which is $15/month.
I mean, he says "Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is, like, just poison" on a podcast, and a couple of days later he's looking unhappy eating a mcds burger with trump in a very publicized photo.

Eating a cheeseburger is one thing, but he literally calls it poison.

Anyway, I hope he does succeed in pushing more regulation on what chemicals we have in food. I'm pro regulation for things like this - the market's always going to go to what's cheaper so regulation is needed to prevent companies poisoning consumers. I'm glad the republican party has come around to this point.
Sometimes things are just truth?
I'm 95% sure my college would have just handed me a degree after the first quarter if they'd let me type my essays instead of writing them by hand.
A bunch of entities have perpetual promises for specific amounts of water, and sometimes the promises are too big and can't be fulfilled, or a city needs some water and can't get it allocated, or stuff like that. So, shortages.

Add in some market mechanics and that problem disappears. The only entities left without water are the ones unwilling to pay a small fraction of a cent.
The two almost-contradictory takes I hold about this are…

- Java is cool, actually

- Java would be just as uncool even if people weren’t required to use it in school
The problem for Java's "uncool status" isn't Java as a programming language, the JVM or its academic use IMHO, it rather is a consequence of large-enterprise culture.

Large enterprise doesn't value "creativity" or any deviation from standards, but it does value plans and estimates - hence clueless, brainless "managers" and "architects" forced programmers to do absolutely insane bullshit busywork that a gang of monkeys on LSD could do, and that culture spread throughout the large-enterprise world.

On top of that come "design by committee" stuff like CORBA, XML, SOAP, Java EE, Enterprise Beans and everything associated with this particular horror show, JDBC...

You can do absolutely mind blowing stuff with Java and the JVM. But fuck corporate for torturing Java and the poor sods tasked with the busywork. Java got the image it has because programmers want to be creative but could not be so because their bosses were braindead.
Show HN: I build a zero-instrumentation CUDA runtime monitoring tool using eBPF
this is a good service for those who cannot use yt-dlp on the command line. However I am turned off by the AI generated images, they are very odd and have nothing to do with the website. Also some of the text reads like AI marketing speak
ABI-DOS
I never said the marriage satire was normal. (Although, in that fictional world, those two fictional people seem to be surprisingly satisfied with their choices of language.)

Just that "simple" is deceptive, non-universal, and sometimes contradictory.
Sure fair enough, I wasn't trying to narrowly hone in on writing, if you want to make the case for more instrumental education I'm on board with that too. And someone recently actually asked me "where have all the high school bands gone?". It seems like (passive) digital entertainment is eating into all of these activities.

I'm just broadly in favor of incorporating physical development, because who knows what it does to your brain if all you do is push buttons on a screen, as I said anecdotally I don't think anything good. The easy thing to writing about me is that you can basically incorporate it for free. People learning Kanji or math on paper, for one is likely better for retention but also even cheaper practically. As far as I can tell buying students tablets just cost a bunch of money.
How can one proof/reject authenticity of this article?
Not just easy to get done, but has a positive impact greater than you'd expect based on how easy it is to get done.
Take it a step back further, and you will see that the media landscape capitulated to Big Anything a long time ago. For probably generations now, if we consider people like william randolf hearst and other newspaper men.
Lost opportunity to say "Would you accept a merger?" instead of marriage.
> Anonymous read access to a rsync server... such as on a public mirror

I did not know people did that.
We'll see I guess. Trump at least got us out of Afghanistan. There are early signs that he managed some kind of a (temporary) settlement in Gaza also, even before inauguration. Will he wind down everything? Probably not. But by god, someone should at least try. We can't keep spending trillions we don't have on killing millions of people halfway across globe for no good reason.
Do not see any hard evidence in the article to back up the claim of election interference. Without it, just a great story and nothing more.
Elon regularly reposts (often with a one or two word response like "true") some of the most batshit stuff you can find on the internet. He's like that uncle that fell down the Inforwars/Drudge Report rabbit hole and now you can't invite him for Thanksgiving. He will believe any lie as long as it aligns with his worldview, which get shifted slightly with every lie he sees.

He absolutely needs at least a month or two Internet detox. Go offline entirely, travel the world, talk with real people, go cold turkey on any performance enhancing drugs, pop the information bubble he has surrounded himself with. He has capable CEOs at all of his companies, he clearly isn't spending that much time at any one of them given how many hours a day he spends on Twitter/X.

I'm not saying he will come back a changed man like Ebenezer Scrooge, but I think it would do wonders for his mental health. Sometimes you don't even realize how deep you are until you look up.
American eyeballs are worth more than other countries' eyeballs.
this would be a game changer if done right. All good voice actors can carry a dozen different 'voices' for characters
The Problems in the European Digital Identity (EUDI)
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-l...
to fool people that do not read the ingredients?

I say if your product mentions strawberries and you get dyed apples instead the problem is not the person failing to read the ingredients list, something has gone wrong at the legislative level.
I built my website on Cloudflare Pages and ended up using basically their entire suite of tools - Pages, D1, Analytics, Rules, Functions. The DX was pretty good because all of these features worked well together.

Cloudflare offered all of this for free because it gets them positive mentions (like the one you’re reading right now) and they’re educating a bunch of developers on their entire product portfolio. And what does it cost to host my blog that 1000-2000 views a month? Literally nothing.
Slightly related: what did Zuckerberg a few days ago reveal again about manipulation on his platform in 2020 and forward?
Very cool! I actually considered implementing the Compose Build spec this way for compose2nix, but instead opted to just use Docker/Podman directly.
This is one of the very few that I'm a little -- a little! -- sympathetic toward. I don't know its origins, but to me, "lessons" can sound kind of harsh, like in the sense of a parent wagging their finger at a child, "I hope you've learned your lesson!" In contrast, "learnings" sounds quite a lot more friendly and less charged.
Isn't that the whole industry right now?
"Shared everything", is exactly what's undesirable about container tabs and what makes them a non-starter. I'd like to keep work actually separate. I don't need work tabs, or work history, or work downloads polluting the "main" profile. I don't need work extensions to be active outside of work. (there's just no way to make some extensions to work with just specific containers, so that's a dud.) All of that stuff can be in it's own space, and it would also make switching a bit easier - open profile, resume tabs, close profile, things stay put and ready to pick up where you left off, without needing to juggle tabs within the same profile and having them be an eyesore, be it work stuff on a regular profile or vice versa.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/is-h...
(Father of children ages 7, 5, and 2.)

3 thoughts, ordered from most concrete and practical to most speculative.

Concretely, how do I do this? My kids go to a Waldorf school. (waldorfeducation.org) Is it expensive? Yeah. But, among many other benefits, you're automatically joining a conspiracy of parents dead set against tech-ified childhood. (A HUGE number of whom, you know, _work in technology,_ which tells you something.)

Second, and more reflective: I find that as a general matter, I spend more time thinking about how to call my kids toward things rather than away from things. Yes, social media and TV and video games will fill attention voids. But only if there are voids. The stereotype is that a parent will try to keep kids from doing 12 million things, but really you spend your best parenting effort trying to get them to love or value about 4 things. If you succeed, avoiding destructive habits and behaviors is much easier.

Third, and most speculative but most optimistic: I think we have hit peak social media for teens. It feels a lot like that point with cigarettes where everyone was still addicted to nicotine but nobody was pretending it was cool or sexy anymore. If you don't have kids yet, then society has 10-15 years to get its act together on this stuff before your kid is in the really dangerous age range for bad mental health outcomes from being drowned in tech. Could it remain this bad? Sure. But it's (literally) a generation from now in every respect: culturally, technically, politically, and socially. There is momentum for reform at many levels: legislative, private, school-level, and social. You have time for several of those reforms to fail and iterate. Someone will have figured it out by then. You may have to move—or join a cult—but I promise your kid will be worth enough to you to go find those people and live among them.
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-l...

And yet…
> I have never seen anyone abbreviate it like that before.

When you phrased your original post like this, I thought that meant you were familiar with the common phrase but somehow missed the abbreviation. So bullet point 2 was not an argument, but context.

Here’s an argument though: being part of the ongoing process of negotiating word use usually takes the form of choosing which words and phrases to make part of your own vernacular and which ones to omit. Nobody wants to hear “let’s not do that” nor “don’t do that”, especially over such a mundane abbreviation.
The 'fan' in this very video is pretty dangerous, even ignoring its cobbled-together nature.
Ok. What if I think nobody should have that power?
Not a teen since recently, but got to know it earlier, so ... untrue.
Fair enough, but I personally consider it a problem regardless of the gender of the victim.
Sure. All you need is evidence. A brand new Substack account with no real attribution and zero pedigree is not "truth".
For point source astrometry, there are a few ways to beat the diffraction limit. For instance, some observers will purposely defocus their optics to spread the target photons over a larger number of pixels, which with sufficient SNR lets you gain a better lower bound (from a Cramer Rao perspective) on precision. I think Gaia actually does something similar to this but “blurs” through time, rather than across space, by purposely not perfectly tracking stars so that they drift at sub-pixel rates across the FPA.
Ask HN: What are the most valuable skills in our industry going forward?
I was born in 1990. Got my first computer in 1995 and wrote my first line of code in the year 2000 in Visual Basic. I discovered the startup world after watching Steve Job's commencement speech and not long after Hacker News became a daily read with my coffee.

I am 35 now and live in Kauai (moved here after the Maui fires). I am a 'creative developer' with an agency where I help good people doing good work make great impact. It's a solo operation because I wear multiple hats and am starting to leverage AI to do more faster.

I am thinking about applying to YC with an app I building. I am a solo founder but will definitely find a co-founder one way or another. I am starting to get the feeling that AI is getting so good that if I focus on designing, marketing, and sales with enough understanding of product development, all I would really need is a small team of engineers (with equity) to make sure everything is functional, secure, and scalable.

Am I oversimplifying this or missing something? I believe what I am building is very unique, has great potential, solve real problems for the entire biosphere, and FEELS GOOD as a brand, a way of life. It would challenge the current paradigm to think bigger and feel deeper about many things.
I wonder a lot about this argument of private health care vs state funded health care. I have libertarian leanings and so would prefer a truly free market, because I would like to believe it would lead to affordable levels of health care for everyone.

But I don't know that it's true. My questions regarding the US system and health insurance: Is it a truly free market or does the state regulate in ways that make it difficult for competition?

In Australia we have heavily subsidized healthcare, but it's not great. If you've got something life threatening then you'll be OK. If it's not life threatening, but just really difficult to live with then you'll wait. Sometimes years. No choice of specialist or hospital either. So many of us get private health insurance of one level or another, in order to have more choice and better, more prompt care.

So, how free is the US system?

Also, here's an X post from a guy called Devon Eriksen on the topic of socialized healthcare and free markets.

[https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1865932424376377833]

PS: Devon wrote a great debut Sci Fi novel called "Theft Of Fire" (Orbital Space #1). It's a great read, with endorsements from John Carmack, "Uncle" Bob Martin and ESR, among others.
yeah it's all rhetoric
On iOS it is the same voice.
I have no idea what the actual science referenced here is on this but I'm sure whatever they used to convince people to spend that much money is based on science that isn't just "the tests go better" but actually "the learning is better".

And spaced repetition has been part of education since forever hasn't it. Yes it's slightly easier with a PDF. But you'd have to assume they thought of that too...
Does this apply to the legacy free edition? I suspect not, since that edition is now only available for personal use and they mostly focus on Business and Enterprise use cases, but their public guidance isn't very clear. If it does apply, would we legacy free edition users be receiving Gemini under the Google Workspace Terms of Service preventing them from using our data for general AI training, or under the regular Google Terms of Service which might allow this?

(Tangent: I say "might allow this" because I don't know to what degree EU law requires some additional level of consent beyond accepting the Terms of Service for EU-based accounts like mine currently is, or requires them to give me an AI-specific opt-out despite having a free account. But this announcement doesn't change whatever EU law does or doesn't require, so that is unrelated to my main questions about which Gemini features will apply to the legacy free edition under which Terms of Service once this change rolls out.)
We can't have people doing things like searching for Tiananman Square or Mao Zedong or talking about how Taiwan and Hong Kong want complete independence from China.

I'm sure a big part of the cost is the additional infrastructure and manpower to implement all of China's censorship, tracking, etc.