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In my thesis many years ago [0] I used EAs to build bicycle wheels. They were so annoyingly good at exploiting whatever idiosyncrasies in my wheel-simulator. Like, the first iterations of my simulator it managed to evolve wheels that would slowly oscillate due to floating point instability or something, and when applied forces to it would increase and increase until the whole simulator exploded and the recorded forces were all over the place, of course then out-competing any wheel in at least some objective dimension.

After fixing those bugs, I mostly struggled with it taunting me. Like building a wheel with all the spokes going from the hub and straight up to the rim. It of course would break down when rolling, but on the objective of "how much load can it handle on the bike" it again out-competed every other wheel, and thus was at the pareto-front of that objective and kept showing up through all my tests. Hated that guy, heh. I later changed it to test all wheels in at least 4 orientations, it would then still taunt me with wheels like (c) in this figure[1], exploiting that.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10410813
[1]: https://imgur.com/a/LsONTGc
> Even if I don’t get any customers I’ll continue developing it for my own needs!

That’s the spirit! A buddy of mine created a tool/API to solve his own problems, opened it to the public and launched it, but he got very few sign-ups, so he just continued to use it for himself. Recently, about two years later and out of nowhere (without doing anything other than the original bit of SEO he did), he started to see a bunch of sign-ups (including paid) and then started receiving feedback and support request emails from customers. Most folks would’ve just called it quits on the product at least a year ago, but he just kept using the product for his own projects and left it open to the public just in case it was helpful for anyone else. Obviously, YMMV, but good luck with this!

I’m on mobile right now, but I think I’ll give it a try when I’m back at my computer.
The Bluetooth app thing is just an example of LLMs helping me build something I don't have beyond-basics knowledge of.

For other stuff, I still find it very useful because why would I bother to code something non-novel when I can just tell the LLM what I need?

For example, if I need a code that finds the device that given characteristics belongs(bluetooth stuff, again) to I can just tell the LLM to write it for me. It doesn't take a genius to write such a code, its elemental stuff and I would rather not spend my working memory on remembering the structures and names of variables. I copy+paste the current class that handles the bluetooth comms, tell it that I need a function for sending data to the printer and it gives me back the result. There's no art in writing such a code, its standard code for an API and I would prefer not to bother with it.
In other words, optimization algorithms in general are prone to overfitting. Fortunately there are techniques to deal with that. Thing is, once you find a solution that generalize better to different chips, it probably won't be as small as the solution found.
Never apply

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Only take offers

If that doesn't work for you, then maybe it's a good time to do something different or better. It's an employer who must find your ad and hire you, not the other way around.

There are two kinds of companies: the ones which need someone, and the ones which need You. I advice to look closer for the latter.
We can also just keep them powered off you know, it's still not too late :)
> Take a look at the structure of something like CMOS and you’ll see why running transistors in anything other than “on” or “off” is definitely not energy efficient. In fact, the transitions are where the energy usage largely goes. We try to get through that transition period as rapidly as possible because minimal current flows when the transistors reach the on or off state.

Sounds like you might be thinking of power electronic circuits rather than CMOS. In a CMOS logic circuit, current does not flow from Vdd to ground as long as either the p-type or the n-type transistor is fully switched off. The circuit under discussion was operated in subthreshold mode, in which one transistor in a complementary pair is partially switched on and the other is fully switched off. So it still only uses power during transitions, and the energy consumed in each transition is lower than in the normal mode because less voltage is switched at the transistor gate.
This is some bizzaro world logic, as if causality stops when a new generation is born. Europeans waged total war and stole resources for themselves, directly benefiting their ancestors. So the rule is - theft is ok if you wait long enough and give it to your children?

White Americans want it both ways: keep the stolen treasure but take no responsibility for it.

If I stole your car, then gave it to my son when he turned 16, would you just sit back and say "Oh well, his son didn't do the stealing so I guess it's his now"? No, you'd demand the car back.

That's exactly what's happening here. The privileged ancestors of thieves may not be thieves directly, but they don't get to claim ownership either. You don't get to nullify a crime with the "I didn't personally do it" defense, knowing full well it was stolen while refusing to give it back. Insisting on hoarding the stolen treasure is indistinguishable from theft.
There's been no indication of that yet.
Or just … enjoy your cash business? Be your own boss, make a good amount of money, do it as long as you can.

Seems aggressive to look at a 5-6 person agency pulling in $1M a year and give the advice “now it’s time to start your _real_ business”
I think it’s half-guess and half-hope but I imagine we’ll spend centuries building really dumb mechanism, then suddenly be completely left in the dust intellectual. I guess that’s what you’d call the singularity. I don’t know if that hypermind will bother designing circuits for us.
Show HN: I made a site to track graded Pokemon card sales
Hey everyone, this is my side project that I’ve been working on during my evenings and weekends for the last few months.

I got tired of constantly checking ebay sold listings just to figure out what a graded card was worth, so I built chasecard.gg. Other sites just show a basic trend line, but I wanted deeper insights so this one includes things like moving averages to help spot momentum shifts like golden crosses and death crosses. Plus, it has card comparison and portfolio tracking.

I have lots of ideas for other things to add, but I’d love any feedback for things you think I should add!
Agreed! There is a proposal for something like that in the WHATWG repo: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/8538
Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique
Possibly, but that's a very different scenario to a database of cleartext passwords (which is what I assumed was meant), as each device would have to be identified and compromised to access a password to a device which at that point is already compromised...
That was basically my reaction to the whole thing - I was expecting some amazing exposé of More but it was ... More being More.

And 1+ billion Catholics believe that the specific institution of The Church, which is made up of fallible humans, is never wrong on matters of doctrine and morals - because it is the Body of Christ and cannot be wrong.

They may get into major arguments and quibbles about exactly what that means but the concept of infallibility is pretty well cemented.

Wait until the author digs deeper and learns that many, many intelligent people of the time and before thought burning at the stake was the best option for the burned - and really, truly believed that, and had deep arguments for why.

Also I have to love the recency bias, clearly Henry VIII can only be understood through the lens of a recent and current president!

To further confuse our friend, he can visit the Church of England's website: https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-t... and search "Thomas More" finding July 6th.
It requires programming in a language specific to one little known db product, in an extremely brittle and spaghettified code base . There's exactly one person in the company who kinda knows how to do it, and they're unavailable for the foreseeable future on higher priorities. We don't have the money to throw at new hires or huge porting projects.

Imagine software that has been in production since the 80's, was written by a very inexperienced dev and has since been continually "organically" upgraded to handle any new promise that a nontechnical product manager feels is necessary to solve the immediate problem of an angry customer. It's a Jenga tower with a reset button.
It feels like whomever wrote this doesn’t know about the fun human interactions on HN or Nostr and needs to find these to get joy out of life again.
There is a rather important distinction, in that Papal infallibility and the patriarchs and ecumenical councils all apply to very narrow circumstances.

The Church is a duality that mirrors Christ's dual nature: as both mortal man and God the son, so too is the Church made up of mortal people and God the holy Spirit. The divine part is infallible, the mortal part is still very much human.

All of which is to say that yes, Catholics and Orthodox Christians both agree that the institutions can get things wrong, most especially when people in power fail. After all, the Pope was once one of the patriarchs of what is now the Orthodox Church. It is impossible for the two to be in schism if the institution was infallible prior to the schism itself.
lulo not lulu. sorry was using voice recognition.
My experience with LLMs has been that they’re good at lifting you from “incompetent” to “somewhere near the middle of the bellcurve.” So, this result is not surprising. When I have expertise in a topic, I have not found them useful. When I’m incompetent at a topic, they are a real timesaver. It’s a bit like Gell-Mann amnesia; when you’re talented in an area it’s easy to spot the poor quality of the LLM’s output.
I actually used the 1.0 version of Netscape Navigator, and did some web development on it back in the day.

Originally, _blank, _new, etc. weren’t special. A target ref to a name which wasn’t used would open a new window. If it was already used, it would take you to that open window.

People started using _whatever because just ‘blank’ would almost always cause a collision. Eventually it got standardized that it would always open a new blank window.
The trouble, I think, isn't that the left is worried about government power. It's that they're infatuated with its potential to dole out all sorts of entitlements and welfare. It's not so much that you won't want it to have the ability to limit protests, it's just that you want to make sure your guys are in charge first and that they're limiting protests you dislike.

>I’m really exhausted with this sovereign citizen crap,

I couldn't ask for a better example of my assertion above. For the moment, ignore their lunatic legal theories (rarely can one win cases in court by insulting judges and dismissing their powers to adjudicate). Their sentiment, at least, should be something you're sympathetic for. These aren't people who are disposing of liquid mercury in the local river or selling children to the coal mine as slaves. They're goofballs who want to drive down the road with their own homemade license plate. Rarely, if ever, do you read a story where they're doing something dangerous or harmful. Instead, it's always about them flaunting an attitude that the government shouldn't have power over them in the mundane activities of daily life. Despite that, they're among the most-hated of outgroups among the left. Why? Because when the fringe left is in charge, someday in the near future, it will be just as embarrassing to them that the sovereign citizens give them no respect as it is currently to the not-leftist-enoughs in charge now.
This is very cool. Congrats!
I love it when apps force you to step outside. Pokemon Go was such a brilliant game in this regard! Wish we had more apps like this.
Doesn't need a supermind to prove this is possible. Mere mortals and simple compilers can inline functions and trade abstraction for performance.
What's the story behind Ai16z? I don't follow crypto, but that blew up from nowhere.

Who launched it? What are they doing? Why did they make so much money? Memes?

I didn't think the general crypto investing market knew about a16z.
I've been working on an app that will use ai to decorate my Anki cards with audio/example sentences/images. The more I get into it though, the more I think I may just end up writing my own flashcard app. I feel like most of the project has been spent wrestling with AnkiConnect, while the fun stuff has been fairly simple.
Super interested in this! I spend two or three days a week exploring the Rocky Mountains via mountain bike and backcountry skiing. I'm still not able to find a tool set that I love - my favorite still being CalTopo.

Any way to follow?
Much respect for a Pope who said: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=who+am+i+to+judge
Lessons from the Pre-LLM AI in Observability: Anomaly Detection vs. P99
I mean its hard to beat the pricing model of vroid studio + vseeface (both are free) or live2d (several free editors)
Recruiter relationships aren't marriages. It's speed dating. A good recruiter is organized, honest, accountable, and respectful. Understanding the industry is a plus but not really necessary. Some of the best recruiters I have worked with have been very unassuming types who simply understand how to respect people and grind on placements.

Anyone trying to wow you with their hair/makeup, car, suit, watch, etc, is someone you want to avoid. Anyone new to the industry is probably going to be in the industry for a very short time. If a recruiter disrespects your own intelligence, integrity, or time once, they will do it again.

Recruiters understand the employee/employer relationship better than anyone else; because of that, or aside from it, recruiter turnover is very high. The two top independent recruiters I know are at new companies every 18-24 months.
Most other characters you would use aren’t valid HTML, and originally you could say things like target=foo (no quotes) and it would work.
If you need to be a paid member to download csv file, then it is not free :) lol
What does the US Department of Education do?
It is good they acknowledged it. Questionable things happening without proper process seems to be a common thread for Elon, X and DOGE.
It is likely they all converge as countries develop and become wealthier and women empowerment increases (with the caveat being anywhere with strong religious fundamentalism that isn’t chipped away by secular mechanisms).

The tipping point is roughly $20k income per capita.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-money-more-babies-whats-the-...
Reproduction of "Improving Women's Mental Health During a Pandemic"
I wouldn’t say it’s a “holdover”, it continues to be a common convention for marking internal or reserved use.
Eh, LithTech was fairly impressive for the time, but I wouldn't necessarily call it good. It is incredibly fragile. I've been working on creating a library of games that works on modern platforms. LithTech games have taken at least 3-4 times longer because of frequent crashing.
I'm having trouble understanding. Chips with very high transistor counts tend to use saturation/turn-off almost exclusively. Very little is done in the linear region because it burns a lot of power and it's less predictable.
> Actually, frames were ugly, limited and not really ergonomic but they weren’t a wrong pattern.

They were. The most fundamental part of the WWW architecture is the URL. URLs are more important than even HTML or HTTP. Without addressability, the web doesn’t work.

Frames break URLs because you can visit a site that uses frames, navigate around the site, and the URL won’t change. You can’t link to the place you arrive at. Frames break addressability and this makes them go completely against the grain of the WWW. Flash and Java applets were fundamentally at odds with the WWW architecture as well for the same reason.
Interesting, but I believe Stephenson is completely wrong about the motivation. Thomas More, as his writings in Utopia make clear, was most worried about the all-against-all that comes from anarchy. Moreover, in some sense, he and his fellow anti-Reformation thinkers were correct; the Reformation did lead to enormous trouble.

The Wars of Religion, from Luther's 95 Theses to the Treaty of Westphalia, lasted for 100 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion). The anti-Reformation thinkers could see perfectly well that they would be the near-inevitable result of letting just anybody set forth their own interpretation of Scripture. From our own vantage point, the Reformation was undoubtedly a good thing, even if you are Catholic, because it established freedom of thought (relatively speaking), but it was several generations of conflict that was often vicious even by the standards of war.

If More had had perfect knowledge of the future, looking at the Wars of Religion that the Reformation would lead to, he would not have been at all surprised. If he thought that burning half a dozen heretics was preferable to several generations of civil war, well, he might have been incorrect, but it doesn't make him a monster. It makes him a man afraid of the storm that's coming, and desperate to avoid it by any means possible.
The tone of the article is unprofessional to say the least. You could remove the argumentative tone, vitriol, and insults and have a more impactful article that reflected well on the author while appropriately warning people against this company. Please, don't choose team troll.
All the way at the bottom after all the amazing claims "many of the designs produced by the algorithm did not work."
This looks closed source, am I correct?
Those elite universities are less like schools and more like towns, so the focus is not just on teaching students but on maintaining a community. Sometimes that means protecting the people you have at the expense of people you haven't met yet. In many cases, "more administrators" translates to "better town services", so it's nor surprising to me the preference to cut enrollment.
As an aside, the "inversion of A Man For All Seasons" aspect is brilliant. The scene of More and Cromwell together in the Tower of London has this incredible exchange where Cromwell predicts that their dispute will be replayed throughout time and he fears he is being already typecast as the villain. I don't have the book in front of me, so I'm likely misremembering it. But the way that it tips its hat to the play was really moving to me.

I'm obviously preaching to the choir, but damn, Hilary Mantel was brilliant.
I've been working on improvements on a couple of shipping apps, by improving the main app UI, and adding things like widgets and Apple Watch companion apps.
UK now has full fibre available to 3 out of 4 properties
Unless you have done refactoring of large legacy systems... you probably wouldn't understand fully.

The reason I don't understand fully is because you don't explain yourself. I'm not convinved it has anything to do with my work experience.
The <blink> tag needs to make a comeback; I'm so tired of having to write my own JavaScript to get annoying flashy text.

In all seriousness, I'm not entirely sure why so many features in HTML are eschewed in favor of a slow JS mess. It doesn't feel like bolting on an entire relatively-slow programming language is going to make your code more organized than a relatively easy to use tag.
> If there's no government intervention, then monopolies, incumbents, and rich and powerful people in general take their place.

Historically, if there is government intervention, then monopolies--created by governments--incumbents, and rich and powerful people run things.

Of course if you take a society which has managed to regulate some aspect of all that using government, and then take away that particular government regulation--while leaving all the other ways the governments puts its thumb on the scale in place--then things will get worse, at least in the short term.

But that in no way shows that the absence of a government's thumb on the scale in every aspect, long term makes things worse. Historically, there have been societies that had little or no government intervention in things (for example, saga period Iceland, or some of the American colonies before the British tried to tighten up on them after the French and Indian War), and they did not have the bad things you mention; they had the opposite, people being able to run their own lives and getting along just fine, precisely because there was no government that could force them to do stupid things because of some government granted monopoly or incumbent, or because rich and powerful people were using their wealth and power to co-opt the government--the way they do in societies that do have government intervention.

> The point of having democratic institutions intervene in the market instead is to keep the intervention under control and in check.

That's the ostensible purpose, but it doesn't work. Giving a government the power to intervene in what would otherwise be a free market just means the rich and powerful use their wealth and power to co-opt the government. Having a government actually makes their job easier: it's cheaper to buy a government than it is to buy an entire society.

> there's a lot of hypocrisy on the Right in general

There's a lot of hypocrisy on all sides of the political spectrum. I don't think the Right is any worse than others in that respect.
Is it just me that finds the angle here odd?

"The cost of treating illnesses has gone up due to X" rather than "more people are getting sicker due to X".

Makes it more of a detached conversation about pricing than about how something is hurting actual people, who perhaps have value beyond a purely economical one.
If you'd like to read something that is less detailed, I4R (Institute for Replication) posted threads on X (formerly known as Twitter) and Bluesky about their investigation into this paper.

X (Twitter): https://x.com/I4Replication/status/1893842119594258913

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/i4replication.bsky.social/post/3liv...
I'm working on re-writing Partizion to be faster, easier to use, simpler, and more beautiful (beautiful is good design — https://paulgraham.com/taste.html).

After the chrome MV3 migration which was an absolute rigmarole, I lost my taste for beauty. I want to get back to making beautiful software.
All of https://www.reddit.com/r/propagandaposters/ ; I love to see the modern-day ones on there too.
Coffee Prices at a 50 year high
Yes, politics was a blood sport back then for sure. Both sides absolutely hated each other, the Federalists were trying to rebuild the British federalist system (sneak peek: they were proven correct by history) and the Democratic-Republicans wanted to maintain the southern slave economy. Washington was attempting to maintain the coalition in any way possible ... a hoop for 13 staves. He recognized how Adams and Hamilton were just as bad as Jefferson and Madison, but he sided with them because he recognized they were ultimately correct. (And have been proven by 250 years of history to have been correct. Without federalism we have no modern banking, we have no strong federal government. We have no industrial economy. Fun fact, without it, we lose to the Axis powers! Why we continue to debate this is completely beyond me.) Yes, Washington was sometimes imperfect, because he had to make tough choices, like keeping us out of the French revolution. And remember that ultimately Hamilton supported Jefferson over Aaron Burr, that villain.
i very much don't use "autistic" as a slur, my comment was a riff on how Muskites tried to defend the salute https://time.com/7208614/elon-musk-nazi-salute-reactions-deb...
When I see something I don't understand I use AI to help me understand it.