skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It also sidesteps another important distinction: why the past is the direction we can form memories of.

That much is very well understood.

Order from the past is what we harness to make memories. That’s why you can’t have memories the other direction.

Think of a computer. It takes ordered energy, organized as a stream of electrons, which end up in a less energetic form we can’t use and heat we can’t use.

But in the eddies of that entropy, the computer calculates a few things. Uses up that order to store a few things.

The net is massive loss of order. One electron can go either way on a wire. With (usually) or against (mostly) voltage. (Because we randomly decided electrons are negative.)

But a trillion electrons statistically can only go one way.

The order we build in our minds and computers is a fraction of the order from the past. Which is just saying, we get order from the direction there was more order.

You could set up a tiny few particle experiment, shield it from interactions, and operations can randomly go either direction.

But our neurons and brains are built out of countless particles. We can only do ordered things with them by consuming order from the direction there was order.

A windmill can do work, but only if you let higher water push the wheel. If the river stops from above, no amount of water below is going to power it. Statistically to the level of certainty.

The order in the universes origin, statistically cascades away in all directions. And all those directions, radiating from order, away from order, are what lets us think, store memories, and have an experience we call time.

But with a constant total net loss of order. We are just those eddies that defy the rivers flow, but only fractionally, by harnessing the rivers flow.

(For how there can be places where order “first” appears, see my other comment. Unlike this one, it is highly conjectural.)
If there’s only finitely many states, they will eventually — unless something prevents it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincaré_recurrence_theorem
You forgot: rub your head clockwise, and your belly counter clockwise, while repeating "I am master of my notifications". ... /sarky

I get all this, but I'm starting to see things the way that that my friends who have no smartphones or other distractivices do.
yeah and the time before GOOG bought yt.

I tried to upload some vids, gv asks for submiting paperwork to prove my real identity.

Shit product designed by lawyers.
It has nothing to do with CSS. An image, encoded using the CMYK color space, will display just fine in a browser (and pretty much any image viewer). It's just that it needs to be converted from CMYK to RGB in order to be displayed. And each browser (rendering engine, really) uses a different algorithm to do that conversion. So the same .jpg/.png/whatever (that uses CYMK) will look different in different browsers.
I don’t think so.

Being lazy and never developing foundational knowledge is different.

New devs are expected to have experience using AI coding tools.
If they’re expected to have that, why wouldn’t they trust it?

If you trust a code generator, why dig deeper?
The platform: Sezzle

Related: Sezzle: A Failing "BNPL" Platform Playing Short Term Tricks as Insiders Cash Out (4 points, 2 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453631
In 1875, the American Express Company established the first private pension plan in the United States.

I can also see a situation where the SSA recipient in 1940 was born in 1875. The recipient age 65 could have married someone very young for 10 years. That younger person could be on survivors benefits and continue receiving payments.

Here is an example:
https://www.ssa.gov/history/idapayroll.html

On January 31, 1940, the first monthly retirement check was issued to Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont, in the amount of $22.54. Miss Fuller, a Legal Secretary, retired in November 1939. She started collecting benefits in January 1940 at age 65 and lived to be 100 years old, dying in 1975.

https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10084.pdf

https://www.ssa.gov/survivor/eligibility

So if in 1965 this retired person married someone age 18... Then that person at 18 never remarried. Could they end up in a situation where they receive survivors benefits from the original applicant?

The recent spouse would be born in 1947 and marry in 1965 for 10 years until their spouse's death... not have remarried or worked, then at age 60 in 2007, derive survivors benefits from original applicant?
... and maybe that's OK?

I've been reliant on GPS on my phone for probably over a decade now. I'm probably lost without it. But... I explore way more of the world now! I'll quite happily bounce around to random parts of a city that's completely foreign to me, safe in the knowledge that I'll always be able to find my way back again.

(I don't know if this analogy will hold up for AI-assisted programming - I still think programmers who actually understand the details will be a whole lot useful in the long run over programmers who don't - but I'm definitely not going to ditch my GPS in an attempt to improve my sans-GPS navigation skills.)
Thank you! You just sold a kobo :-)

I have a remarkable 2 and really like it, but my wife needs a new "Kindle" and I'd rather cut my finger off than pay Amazon to abuse me. Looking forward to trying out the kobo
I don't get the crime part for the most part.

If you know the rules of the game and you willingly participate, then how is it different from any casino?

I don't buy into any of the people that claim they were scammed, they knew the rules and they tried to make money out of nothing. Other than perhaps trading unregulated securities, I don't see the actual fraud.

To be clear it is distinct from pretending to be a security for an actual productive company, that is actual fraud, but usually the coins are very transparent about having no underlying value.
A working solution for me was to deploy a little website to organize both my physical and ebooks in the same place. For physical books, it tells me where they should be. For ebooks, I can download the file, the website is light enough that it works fine with my ebook reader.

Surely there are bugs, but here it is, if you'd like to give it a spin: https://github.com/seanboyce/ubiblio

Interestingly enough, I had tried to find a way to add an 'email to my device' option, but it was too fiddly. I got it working with OAUTH + gmail, but setting it up was not exactly user-friendly. The simple download option worked much better.

Anyway just a weekend project I extended a little. Don't expect much polish :D
The issue comes 5-10 years from now when there’s a serious shortage of senior devs.

I mean… as a senior dev now, I’m not complaining, but it can’t be good for the industry at large.
Maybe the reason we don't see aliens is that the first ones to break physics restart the universe [1].

Fragile universe hypothesis [2].

[1] eg. nucleate vacuum collapse

[2] cf. fragile world hypothesis
The six connections thing is just a default that you can change in about:config. Really it should probably have a higher default in $currentYear, but I don't expect major browser vendors to care.
A lesson to take from this is, "if a post expresses strong opinions, and you believe AI was involved in it's generation, then they probably used AI to edit, not to generate whole cloth." A hallmark of ChatGPT is an unwillingness to take a position, and instead to describe what positions it's possible to take. By the time you've prompted it enough to take a strong position, you've probably crossed into "editing" rather than "generating".

You can disagree with someone's view, but editing their words with AI doesn't make them wrong or disingenuous any more than asking another human to critique your post would be. And to imply otherwise is, itself, disingenuous and disruptive.

The exception would be if you thought there was no human involvement in the account at all, in which case, as another commenter noted, the appropriate thing would be to email the mods.
That's a key learning from this discussion.
They can be forcibly given if committed with a judge's order.
Or the average human mind is fully equipped as is — seems like that has been proven over the millennia
I revived my old kindle pw7 using this a week or so ago. If you have an old kindle lying around, you can use it as an e-ink weather dashboard (or anything else for that matter, as long as you can convert it into a 8bit greyscale image).

https://terminalbytes.com/reviving-kindle-paperwhite-7th-gen...
Am I missing something? This is a color palette for a website? Is there something special going on here?
The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016)
Ha, wow I’ve seen plenty of SAR images from MUCH more expensive systems that don’t look nearly as good. Incredible stuff here.
This is the problem. We use “healthy” interchangeably and it really depends upon your goals.

For example, I would label peanut butter as a healthy snack, but you really need to keep an eye on your portions because it is wildly calorie dense and excess calories is usually unhealthy.
People who studied computer science, even on their own, are going to do just fine as long as they don't turn off their brains. I am not losing any sleep over this.
Have you hired junior engineers in question? so you're bad at hiring? what's the post history here? what are you trying to sell? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nmn.gl.
Indeed, PE+Wine is the most stable Linux ABI.
Todays junior dev that is copying AI code without understanding it, is the same as the junior dev several years ago who did the same with stack overflow code.

This is a mindset, and I don't think AI code is changing the number of people with this mindset. What it may be doing though, is letting them get away with it for longer.
Flat tarmac, GP5000s, no wind or a tail breeze and it feels like you can go forever.
I love grabbing a wheel and switching in with someone of a similar pace. The combined effort boost you both so much.
As you say, the sound a nice pair of wheels makes is unbeatable.

You weekly distance is excellent. Work and life get in the way of me exceeding 300 regularly, I sit at 250ish.
Yea, they should at least get credit, if not an ongoing donation. AFAIK SomaFM runs entirely on user donations, so rebranding their service without even mentioning them seems kind of crass.
While a trope, it is also statistically proven that the youth of this generation are doing worse, by almost every metric, than prior generations; including but not limited to achieving adult milestones years later than normal, record high percentages of medication distribution, and (for what it’s worth) a historically low percentage of young people that could even enter the military if they wanted to, at just 1 in 7.
Great take regarding 1 and 2.

Regarding 3 it seems clear to me that he was not an insider, but he was scammed into spending his political capital and reputation.

As a whole, it's classic cargo cult situation,imitating what a more powerful country is doing without understanding the nuances.
There’s no real connection to junior developers in this article. It’s a piece about how the author feels people are using AI and how the author feels people should use AI.
The quick fix vs deep understanding positions are mired by many factors; two of the big ones being time and how much one cares none of which are actually discussed.
The implication that Stack Overflow was somehow the only way you'd ever find a solution to a gnarly problem (back in the day) seems weird to me. I mean before that (even during that) there was the alternative problem solving technique of, well, rolling up your sleeves getting stuck in and figuring out the problem yourself without asking anybody. By doing some reading. Or by reading source code. Or disassembling code when there was no source code. Or by using a debugger. Or a logic analyser. Or by doing experiments. Or some combination of some or all of these and other things that didn't involve being spoon fed.
That's not what I am observing while running a number email servers which having both IPv4 and IPv6. Spam is only on IPv4 and about 80% of legitimate email is on IPv6.
> shepherding him through what one Recreation and Parks Department official described as the “arduous and achingly bureaucratic tasks” necessary just to be eligible for housing.

I'm going to risk a political statement and say that this is why I'm mostly hopeful about DOGE, even if parts of it are a shit show.

Building civilization comes with a hefty dose of institutional entropy, which keeps accumulating, despite (or often because) good intentions and competence. Everybody is improving their piece of the map, but this means you get stuck in a lot of spots of local maxima. Some can be fixed from a level above, but some need a round of creative destruction every 10 years or so.

I've read this yesterday:
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-japan-succ...

It's a good read and a good blog for many reasons, but the relevant part to this conversation: Japan managed to keep a very high level of living even through decades of economic stagnation and aging population in large part by having a sane zoning system. Yes, that simple. They have 12, nation-wide, mostly inclusive zoning types. This means the permitted building types carry over as you move up the categories, allowing mixed-use development by default.

And indeed, you can actually go to Japan and buy a house for about the price of a decent car - which coincidently used to be the case in most of the world, before the double pressure of zoning/coding on one hand, and migration towards urban centers on the other squeezed the housing pricing way above what actual costs would have it be.
When I was in Shenzen recently, I was shocked at how modern it is. It truly felt like a city in the future and many years ahead of any city I've ever been to.

It's also very livable. Sub way. Driving, Walking, Biking, Small electric vehicles for short distances. Clean air. No petro smell. Clean streets.
I did a tour in OIF with Aussie air force troops. I love that about Aussie culture. That and the drinking :-D
I love how ten years ago it was folks complaining about juniors using Google to code, this articles first suggestion was juniors need to Google more. Twenty years ago it was that Python was not as good as learning C or something. Thirty, it was probably folks lamenting juniors can’t code x86 asm.
When I was younger people derided us new junior developers who relied on compiling and running their code to see what it would do, instead of thinking deeply about it. Using a REPL is a sure sign of a weak mind.

I feel like every 15 years or so you can just find-and-replace the name of the tech we decide is only for Not Real Programmers.
Technique is a big part of it. There’s actually a specific way to fast running engaging your core and making sure all parts of your legs are used in a way most suitable for them.
This site [1] has pretty approachable content generally, though it looks like the SAR page is pretty short.

I find it easiest to understand in the context of a conventional phased array, but that might not help if you don't already know how those work.

[1] https://www.radartutorial.eu/20.airborne/ab07.en.html
Please don't forget to tell us about them in great detail, Socrates and all that. After all that supposed counter-argument to anything and everything only gets brought up every single time when anyone suggests something got worse.
Nah, they are still whining here, on Hacker News, about how a 91 KB webpage is too large to be considered disciplined. (Literally saw that comment earlier today.)
Do you think this would be the top comment were it not manipulated with AI? I don't think so.
People said similar things when C compilers became decent.

Turns out that we still have people who know how to write good code, even good assembly code.
This really is one of the best color pickers I have ever come across. It breaks out the relevant axes such that is is really easy to understand what they mean and also how the color space bumps up against the limitations of an sRGB calibrated monitor.
Fork it then.
I don’t think it’s a great analogy, and here’s why:

When trying to get from point A to point B, there is a clear, well defined goal.

Streets (paths) are also clear and well defined (within reason on most popular GPS direction software).

An expert in city streets may get you there a little faster, but the end result of both GPS directions and city street experts is the same; getting you to B. What’s more, once you’re at B, the route you took probably no longer matters.

The only side effect of taking different routes is the time involved.

Coding is different. There’s a combinatorial explosion of different paths to get to any step of any problem. Each path has consequences which can be very difficult to understand at the time. (for example, the classic of-by-one error always causes some strange behavior)

Also, the code is an artifact that would need to be understood, built upon, and changed in the future.

It’s just a different beast than getting directions.
The lack of information on how it /feels/ is telling. Feedback is important for safe driving.
Indeed. I had an original Kindle fire (back when it was still "Android") and I loved it great device for the money. It saddens me greatly how they've locked everything down. They could be the premier builders but instead I know then as grotesque authoritarians.
Apparently Protonmail have been cozying up to Trump as well. I've heard Tuta to be a good alternative I'm trying out. They are also encrypted but I think they also spam you with their "plans".
> he is more intent on building his subscriber count than actually asking tough questions.

It's quite a sad indicator of the state of knowledge in the world where Fridman is considered the more "intellectual" of pop podcasters when the most popular podcasts are crap like Rogan, Shawn Ryan, Candace Owens, and Call Her Daddy.

Because Fridman will literally have a guest with platform A, like Netanyahu, and agree on 95% of his controversial points with little pushback. And then immediately after have on Yuval Harari, with the opposite opinion on those controversial points... and agree with 95% again with little pushback. Fridman softballs and is almost useless except as a megaphone. You'd rather have him cut out and have Netanyahu and Harari debate on their own merits.
'Like an underwater bushfire' images as heatwave bleaches Ningaloo
But steam has higher entropy than water has higher entropy than ice.

I’m not sure I follow your description: as the universe empties, aren’t we at some point left with less and less happening per cubic meter?
I had a boss who could program machine code directly into memory using the switches on the front panel

God knows what he thought about me
Using C-r is a little too much navigation overhead for me personally. For things that I'll need long-term, I just use a pair of aliases to add a new alias to my .bashrc and source it (alias vib='vim ~/.bashrc' and alias .b='source ~/.bashrc'). I also have 'vit' and 'viv' aliases to do the same thing for my .tmux.conf and .vimrc.

For short-term stuff, I use https://github.com/dp12/fastdiract to save frequently used commands and run them instantly with a two-key combo (f0-f9).
it would be nice to be able to open papers in a new tab or window on Firefox instead of this thing hijacking the standard user interface.
Yes exactly! (Great answer!)

And this is why when the universe has a temporal entropy gradient, the direction of decreasing entropy gets labeled "the past". It's not because the past is the direction of "-t", but because the past is the direction of "-dS/dt". Otherwise we wouldn't form memories of it.

This dissolves the mystery of why the past has lower entropy than the future despite the laws of physics being time-reversible, and replaces it with the question "why does the universe have an entropy gradient at all?"
MLM schemes and affiliate marketing businesses will have, or be related to, underlying businesses of selling products which generate revenue, and they'll have some level of expenses related to producing these products. These are components of an operating cash flow. Businesses, whether private or public, are expected to either have healthy cash flows, or would be expected to grow their cash flows in the future in the case of a startup, to support the share price. Also, shares don't necessarily "entitle people to dividends" as shares often have no dividends. In the case of cryptocurrencies, there is no underlying physical product, nor underlying debt, nor a cash flow generating business.
I remember opening a copy of PC Gamer in the early 2000s. I was totally taken aback that they had moved Half-Life from a sci fi New Mexico base, to some sort of weird Eastern European dystopia.

It was all thanks to Antonov. And Half-Life 2 was (aesthetically) so much more memorable than the first game thanks to that influence.
I've done this kind of thing for a toy VLIW processor. In some sense it's the most obvious, naive way to write an optimising compiler: just generate all the possible combinations and then pick the fastest. I kind of assumed it wouldn't scale up to full size programs of the kind people write these days, but who knows.
More likely a dropbear.
Link to the ToS https://www.hiya.com/legal/terms-of-service

Overall you aren't incorrect. However to point out, you don't have to pay for the service if you're ok with what comes with the free tier.

For me, I rarely use my phone for the purpose of phone calls. 99% of what Hiya gets from me are spam calls plus my current location. (Wooo I'm in SF, such a big data loss). Occasionally my mom calls me, though we're usually on WhatsApp. (Yes FB blah blah).

Make your own choices. When/if Apple implements actually high level call blocking I'll switch to it (goulash monster willing). For now I'm personally ok with Hiya. If you want to build another service that addresses your privacy concerns then I'll check it out and consider switching.

For me the utility of not getting annoyed all the time is greater than the lack of important data any 3rd party might be collecting.

Actually to address even that, go into the Hiya settings and just turn off things like geolocation sharing.
I would say, just go and compete with his stuff,.. invent some shitty things and then let musk buy it ... win .. then have a good life. This one has soo much money, why not grab some pieces from the cake as long as you can.
Show HN: Feedback to Me, 360° feedback powered by AI
Hey HN, Feedback to Me is a personal project I've been working on for the last few weeks which I've started to "soft launch" with a few people.

A few years back, my employer paid for all middle-management to get a full "360 feedback" process done - an external consultancy came in with a bespoke platform to let us send feedback questionnaires to lots of people we worked with, and after they'd made sure nothing identifiable was in there, they created a report on strengths/weaknesses... in the end, it was useful, but also time-consuming and expensive, so we never did it again.

Feedback to Me is my attempt to automate much of that process using LLMs (in this case, Gemini): they extract themes from your feedback, ensure it's all anonymous, and then use a big reasoning model to bring it all together into feedback you can hopefully use.

The code base is open-source (<https://github.com/AndreasThinks/feedback-to-me>) and mostly built on the very cool FastHTML framework - that means if your employer wants to run something similar, it should be easy enough to run this on your own cloud environment.

In the meantime though, I hope it's vaguely useful to others! Feedback very welcome - you'll need to register to try the full process, but feel free to use guerilla mail or equivalent if you just want to give it a go.