skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some interesting tools in that video I never heard of. Thanks for that. Definitely will try LookAway. I've tried some other apps, but didn't like them.
It is trivial to prove the earth is round though which makes it trivial to prove the earth is not flat (which does makes it impossible to prove the earth is flat).

Travel to any large body of water. Mark a boat with lines showing how high above the water each line is. Have somebody else pilot the boat out to sea. You observe that the lines show the boat as if its sinking. They observe the lines staying at a constant height. It's because the earth is curved and the water between you is blocking sight of the lines.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43110539
"There was a risk that such a single-minded pursuit of so difficult a problem could hurt her academic career, but Späth dedicated all her time to it anyway."

I feel like this sentence is in every article for a reason. Thank goodness there are such obsessive people and here's a toast to those counter-factuals that never get mentioned.
Two-server approach sounds similar to ProtonVPN "secure core" feature:

https://protonvpn.com/features/secure-core
Great read. How does it handle out-of-order events or scenarios where events need to be processed in strict order across different partitions? Are there built-in mechanisms to enforce global ordering when needed?
Gooning?
I'd rather the people casting the votes have (on average) a decent amount of institutional knowledge and skills. Otherwise, they either end up leaning on others to inform their decisions, or (worse) they end up making decisions that aren't informed at all.
So what the McKay conjecture is saying is this.

Suppose I'm interested in representing a Group as matrices over the complex numbers. There are usually many ways of doing this. Each one of them has a so-called character, which is like fingerprint of such a representation.

Along another line, it has been known that all groups contain large subgroup having an order which is a power of a prime--call it P. This group in turn has a normalizer in which P is normal--call it N(P).

The surprising thing is that the number of characters of G and of N(P)--which is is only a small part of G--is equal.

*technical note in both cases we exclude representation the degree of which is a multiple of p.
I think things like the Slack conference call integration depend on this. In fact that’s the only use outside of the official client I’m aware of.
Everything everything else is worse at.
I think you misunderstood me, perhaps I didn't express myself well. You said the slugs were not a necessary casualty. Growing the acres and acres of grain and pulses necessary for a vegan diet necessitates the killing of way more animals (insects and rodents, etc) than the few cows, chickens, or pigs necessary to feed a carnivore. Every kind of agriculture requires killing. There is no other way to do it at scale.

The real problem is the sheer number of humans we have to feed. Hopefully another couple centuries of low birth rates will help.
In order to make more money?
In that case, can't the next president just illegally imprison Elon or trump or whoever for their entire administration, ignore supreme court rulings or lawsuits or whatever, and then issue themselves a pardon at the end?
We should celebrate this for what it is: another brick in the wall that we’re building to achieve practical quantum computing systems.
> So you can live without eggs, but when you have no other food, you can’t.

If you don’t have any other food except your backyard chickens, chances are you won’t have those backyard chickens for long.
Bonus points if it had been accurate.
replace the old system with what exactly? and why does it have to be done quickly?
An actual implementation of Memex. That is, a web browser that records everything to a local cache, so that at any point later, you can annotate it, and give full and complete copies of what you've seen to your friends.

After a set period of time, things without annotations could roll off into the trash bin, waiting to be purged.

Given the size of modern disk systems, it should be no problem to store everything someone watches, reads, listens to, and decides to keep, for as long as they like.
> I am entrepreneur based out of Toronto, Canada. It's 12:35 am right now

Just go to bed, the itch will stop. No point staying up late nights.
>Sam is just one of the few large company CEOs to tweet in the style other Twitter users usually use.

Just looked at the algorithmic feed on Twitter to makes sure trends haven't shifted overnight, and zero people in that sample of hundreds of tweets used all lower case in the tweets. Not in science. Not in AI. Not in maths or politics or entertainment or media.

Sam is trying to bE dIFFERENT. He isn't adopting a norm but instead he's trying to make one. It looks ridiculous.
Better link: https://obsidian.md/blog/free-for-work/
Really? How short are your interviews, and how big are these Real Problems such that you can't get a sense of how your candidate would start to tackle them?
How do you control for confounders and small data?

For data size, if you're a medium-ish company, you may only hire a few engineers a year (1000 person company, 5% SWE staff, 20% turnover annually = 10 new engineers hired per year), so the numbers will be small and a correlation will be potentially weak/noisy.

For confounders, a bad manager or atypical context may cause a great engineer to 'perform' poorly and leave early. Human factors are big.
There isn't, you're creating a situation where the doctors have to worry that offering care too soon could lead to their arrest.

This exact situation was the final straw that triggered a referendum in my country to legalize abortion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar

Imagine if we made it illegal to stop early cancers and required doctors only to treat it when it's terminal.
You should really preface it disclaimer your comment so that the reader knows you are pitching your startup up front.

If you did that, I think your comment would be pretty interesting. As it stands now it leaves the reader feeling deceived and misled when they realize you're doing a sales pitch rather than a friendly conversation.
Until the mid-late 1800s, abortions were legal, and even allowed by the Catholic Church until "quickening" (when you were able to feel the fetus kicking/moving).

Abortion became illegal and started to get "theocratized" for business interests by the American Medical Association for regulatory capture of "physician services" and push out homeopaths and midwives where were the administers of abortion drugs. The AMA lobbied congress and Congress passed the Comstock Act of 1873, and finally made abortion illegal in 1880.

Prior to these, abortion was not only legal, but it was not even considered immoral. It was just a fact of life.
I'd assume they would have a record of the user in their database. How else would they earn money from the data harvesting their app is a cover for? For the small number of apps that aren't solely data harvesting, surely they still have records of their users in a database as well? This question almost reads as if you're assuming the only record of an app would be through the store and not by the app developers themselves. I would find that truly shocking and quite comically sad if true.

It seems like it would be trivial for a user to login to the app acquired from a different store to be able to display a "welcome back" or even something along the lines of a "restore purchases" type of thing.

This can't be reinventing the wheel kind of a thing.
These occur within two protonvpn servers themselves whereas obscura work b/w two different servers owned by two different entities (one obscura and other exit node of mullvad)
"Those who study education quickly realize the surprising shallowness and inaccuracy of existing knowledge and practice: the curriculum and research output of education schools are driven by ideologically driven visions and fads. Most of the best information is found on isolated blog posts, within neighboring disciplines like cognitive psychology and behavioral economics, and in books written decades or centuries ago. As our project develops, we will organize and expand this knowledge to create a framework education schools have not."

This is absolutely true. I worked as a secretary at a university that churned out teaching degrees. It took 2 years to finish the degree (which was in addition to a bachelors) and was almost entirely non scientific fluff. I wish more educated, experienced people could become teachers without the beaurocracy of being certified. I think many people would choose to serve their communities as teachers for a few years, especially in retirement. A lost opportunity.
It's my understanding that the majority of people who want alternative app stores for iOS don't necessarily want something like an Amazon App Store, but rather something like F-Droid.

I would love to be able to install weird, open source apps on my iPhone, the same way I could on my Android phones.
In C, implicit type narrowing/widening behavior stumped me as a noob working on noob problems. “Deep C Secrets” was a revelation when I finally found it.

Then again, that’s C.
Look at AOL Instant Messenger in 1999 and this is how everyone in school wrote.

Guess what… the people who used AIM in 1999 are now middle aged…
It is possible to do legal audits of secret data. DOGE is not doing an audit.
This is a silly take. You mean to tell me that government workers support government work?

Resignations won't be seen as a step back by conservatives up until their septic system fails and shit bubbles out of the ground or planes start falling out of the sky.

The rest of us think that it's actually hard to run a government and you need armies of qualified civil servants to do that work. We see layoffs for ideological reasons as the poorly-evidenced power grab they are.
Until we get robots with really good hands, something I'd love in the interim is a system that uses _me_ as the hands. When it's time to put groceries away, I don't want to have to think about how to organize everything. Just figure out which grocery items I have, what storage I have available, come up with an optimized organization solution, then tell me where to put things, one at a time. I'm cautiously optimistic this will be doable in the near term with a combination of AR and AI.
Big news if fifteen years ago
I can't confirm it, but the current situation of progressive or "far-left" pushing toxic policies which then pushes people to the alt-right feels like a good cop-bad cop dynamic at play. Even with trade, it's China that's primarily exploiting USA, but now Trump is looking for a "deal" with China to "peacefully coexist" while putting tariffs on close allies?

Both of these agitative forces are opposed to Liberal Enlightment principles, to the legacy of the West, and have sympathies to Russia and China, and their policies in turn act to continously corrode the center moderates who genuinely believe in America.
James Bond's long-serving producers give control to Amazon
> When the couple announced their result, their colleagues were in awe. “I wanted there to be parades,” said Persi Diaconis (opens a new tab) of Stanford University. “Years of hard, hard, hard work, and she did it, they did it.”

That sort of positive support was one of the elements I really liked in working on combinatorial problems. People like Persi Diaconis and D.J.A. Welsh were so nice it makes the whole field seem more inviting.
> Bureaucracies are a “common good” because of their human element

This is a joke --right?
Imo, the Terminator movies would have been scarier if they moved like these guys - slow, careful, deliberate and measured but unstoppable. There's something uncanny about this.
Why do they make “eye contact” after every hand off? Feels oddly forced.
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https://github.com/lox-space/lox/blob/main/crates/lox-space/...

The example code is helpful for seeing how it'd be used (might be cool to link to it from the README while the docs are still todo)
i like to ask those people “fine, but do have shades on your windows? i mean if you have nothing to hide…”
>The showstopper issues with tokamaks are size, cost, reliability, materials.

Plasma runtime in not a showstopper then?
(To be fair, though I'm not in USA / an American, if we're going to stereotype and generalize unfairly, it seems it's largely the "Muh Guns" folks you refer to that support/vote for Trump and the like).
I used TI99/4As at school in the Isle of Man at age 16 or so. I thought they were sad, rather crippled things then. Horribly slow, limited BASIC, and the school didn't have Extended BASIC cartridges.

I still wonder... Could TI have made a non-crippled TI99 at the time that wouldn't have been vastly more expensive?

I know there was the planned, prototyped, and cancelled TI99/8:

http://www.99er.net/998art.html

http://www.99er.net/998.html

64kB RAM, Extended BASIC as standard, expandable to 15MB.

But that would have cost a fortune at the time.

I'm just wondering if a TI99/4 with 32kB of RAM attached directly to the CPU and maybe a better BASIC would have been achievable for not much more?

The 99/8 never shipped but the Geneve 9640 shows what the architecture could do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneve_9640
I knew it will be bad when I seen "by the developers of Gatsby", but this is pure comedy.

JQuery plugin for LLM.
Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
Do I? yes. I also teach my students that the goal of an interview is to convince the interviewer you are a good candidate, not to answer the questions correctly. Sometimes they correlate. Give the customer what they need not what they asked for.

Do I see others doing so? sadly no.

I feel like a lot of the replies to my comment didn't read to the end, I agree the implementation is bad. The whiteboard just isn't actually the problem. The interviewers are.

Unless they change mentality to "did this candidate show me the skills i am looking for" instead of "did they solve puzzle" the method doesn't matter.
It's that trimodal-comp thing. The 6-hour leetcode gauntlet is only the overwhelming norm in the top hump of that graph. It's not normal in the other two (not that it's never seen, but the companies dumb enough to do it without offering FAANG-tier comp are shooting themselves in the foot). I've had, IDK, ten plus tech jobs and have been solidly in the middle comp tier for most of those, and have exactly once encountered anything resembling a leetcode question in the wild.

I've also done hiring, and have no idea what good leetcode would do me. I'm convinced these people thinking they "dodged a bullet" on "fakers" either spotted a real faker who they would have caught with a normal conversation anyway, or else are assuming someone with a good resume who failed their test did so because they were lying and not because they choked under the unique sort of pressure interviews present when you turn them into a dancing-monkey routine (it's approximately the same kind of stress as doing an open mic night or karaoke in front of a crowd of strangers—most people have trouble with that and lots of them fall apart at least some of the times they try it). Meanwhile, anyone who can talk about the job and their career in any depth, convincingly, without giving away that they're actually either very-green or have no idea what they're doing, while in fact not knowing how to do the job, possesses a skill at least as valuable as programming, and I find it hard to believe most such folks haven't figured out they can apply that skill directly in exchange for money instead of trying to fake their way through conversational tech interviews.

I do see how leetcode is valuable if you want to ensure that most of the candidates in your pipeline would do fine before you even evaluate them, because you offer high comp and need a way to discourage candidates who definitely can't make it before they even apply, and/or if you want to make job-hopping painful as a wink-and-nudge collusion way to keep comp suppressed. It makes sense for FAANG, in a certain way, but not because it's a good way to evaluate candidates per se.
So, there's no way you can have fully actuated control of every finger joint with just 35 degrees of freedom. Which is very reasonable! Humans can't individually control each of our finger joints either. But I'm curious how their hand setups work, which parts are actuated and which are compliant. In the videos I'm not seeing any in-hand manipulation other than just grasping, releasing, and maintaining the orientation of the object relative to the hand and I'm curious how much it can do / they plan to have it be able to do. Do they have any plans to try to mimic OpenAI's one handed rubics cube demo?
> a 7-9Hz 7B vision-language model, and a 200Hz 80M visuomotor model.

huh. An interesting approach. I wonder if something like this can be used for other things as well, like "computer use" with the same concept of a "large" model handling the goals, and a "small" model handling clicking and stuff, at much higher rates, useful for games and things like that.
Setting politics aside for a moment, I find it fascinating that an audit of this scale is taking place within the government. Has there ever been a historical precedent where an external agency thoroughly reviewed all departments, published its findings for the public, and then based decisions on that analysis?

Is it really possible to root out governmental fraud using this approach? Fraud and theft exist at every level of government, but if not through a drastic measure like this, what else can be done?
Relying on the status quo, the courts, and current processes hasn’t yielded substantial results—if it had, corruption wouldn’t persist.

Still, I can appreciate the creativity here. Sometimes it takes an outsider to think differently.

That said, I’m not naive enough to assume this is done entirely in good faith. The prevailing opinion—both in this community and the media—seems largely negative; I’ve yet to see a single positive headline. Even so, I find it intriguing.

So here’s my question: if you were in charge of addressing this problem, how would you tackle it differently?
This is not about the C programming language.
HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls
You can't prove it.
Apple isn't open source.

And with the recent Debacle of Snooper's Law apple e2ee backdoor.

Let me tell you something. A company is asked for a backdoor and they are forced to not tell anybody about it.

The only reason why it was leaked was because of whistleblower. And so , who knows if they have already signed such thing with the NSA or UK already but for their mac's and other devices
But the users are not. The app and the AppView can be bought and then you are in control of what people can see. Good luck trying to move them to the alternative.
I'd be fine with term limits of 15-20 years. Most implementations tend to be much shorter than that.

While we're at it, let's put terms on the Supreme Court, too: rather than for life, make an appointment last 18 years, staggered every two years.
TypedAI looks solid, was not aware of it! Bookmarked for further research.

Personally I am not fond of the decorator approach and decided to not use it in pgflow (my soon-to-be-released workflow orchestration engine on top of Postgres).

1. I wanted it to be simple to reason about and explicit (being more verbose as a trade-off)

2. There are some issues with supporting decorators (Svelte https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/11502, and a lot of others).

3. I decided to only support directed acyclic graphs (no loops!) in order to promote simplicity. Will be supporting conditional recursive sub-workflows to provide a way to repeat some steps and be able to branch.

Cheers!
> My family photos, my markdown notes, non-DRM music and ebooks, proper applications.

There's no guarantee you'll be able to easily use an ebook in today's formats 50 years from now.

Same for applications.

You're really that confident in 50 years you'll be able to easily run x86 applications written for Windows or Mac?
Your “unless” covers a huge swath of this industry, at the low end and at the high end. Excluding places that do that leaves you with what exactly? Boutique shops filled with 20 year veterans?
sure - the extreme left voices have definitely become louder, because this kind of emotive argumentation is wildly successful.

But they are following the path blazed elsewhere. The primary source of griping and emotion have been owned by right wing media. It’s their whole shtick.

The statement itself, is because tons of research comes for universities, which the conservative news and opinion machine are dedicated to denigrate and demolish.

So you see reality have a left wing bias, because conservative information providers have to reduce support and credibility of science.

See creationism for an example of how far this has been taken.
This talking point keeps blowing my mind.

They occasionally make minor mistakes! If only voters had known that occasionally minor mistakes (in reporting of all places) might be made, they'd have insisted we stick with the bureaucracy they know and love!

But hey, I guess it at least did happen. It's better than the grasping-at-straws "they'll probably leak your SS number" talking point. And the "he'll redirect treasury payments to himself" talking point.
>The problem is: there is a very negative incentive to give honest answers. If I were to answer these questions honestly, I'd bring up some very interesting theorems (related to some deep algorithmic topics) that I proved in my PhD thesis.

This is unfortunate that you would get that response. FWIW, I would be interested in hearing all this in an interview and I would look at it favorably.

>What I want to point out is that this topic is much more subtle than a "one sentence answer".

Yes, you would definitely get bonus points for nuance. The one sentence answer was minimal. What it filters out are people who don't know anything about Delphi but applying for the job with highly embellished resumes hoping to get lucky. This was for software used in hospitals, so bugs or errant code could have pretty drastic consequences.
Vance doesn’t have Trump’s sway with the ‘base’, or mob. Vance can have all the dictatorial aspirations in the world, but he doesn’t have the popular support or influence, like Trump does, to act on them.
Is that artificial?
Everything biological is going to be eaten. Your dog or cat would eat you if you were dead and they were hungry enough. I am not saying we shouldn't evolve past eating meat, it would be great for the environment. But to say that one biological creature eating another biological animal is unethical is an indictment of nature.
The appropriate restrictions are relative to the size and momentum of the organization. It's easy to spend months setting up safeguards rather than working on product development that won't proportionally return.

Of course, this involves being honest with yourself about risk and reward, and we all have implicit incentives to disregard the risk until we get burned and learn to factor that in.
Perfect use case for customer side voice AI to make the call and ring the user when an agent arrives on the line. “Adversarial integration.”