skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who plays a lot of board games — particularly heavier board games — and hopes to do even more of that in retirement, I’m wondering if/how that is helping/will help fight cognitive decline.

I can imagine at the very least it won’t hurt, and intuitively it makes sense. But I’m not sure studies have been done specifically to understand how board gaming — or the problems being solved with board gaming - helps with cognitive skills.

Curious if others that are closer to this field have thoughts.
Yeah! I liked your blog post :)

We can all be 100x programmers, if we look at a broader timespan.
It does surprise me that our President, the great deal maker, shut down the semaglutide knockoffs like Hims.com without negotiating a deal on the namebrand version for the American people.
Helpful summary, thanks.
There's also the shady components of discord. All manner of illegal activity thrives behind custom access control.

The most notable instance in media is the leaking of classified materials, the creation of swatting/ddos communities which gave us the 'BigBalls' hacker employed by doge,

But more sickeneningly recently it allowed this doctor to successfully target countless children, including convincing a 13 year old girl to hang herself in a live discord call. [0]

There is a problem with too much protection of freedom and secrecy.

[0] https://youtu.be/GgfGhzkq8FE?si=nFahQlTUTsY5WEuI
PrintSteal: Exposing Unauthorized Websites Engaging in KYC Document Fraud
If life is chiral it weakens the hypothesis. If life is not chiral it changes nothing.

Nonzero-weighted sum of something and nothing is something.
You took my argument and basically butchered the main point.

Everyone and their brother knows what "vi" is. Many (presumably millions) use it.

How many people would know what Lynx is. My guess is very few.

> Is a program like lynx which offers better accessibility features than mainstream browsers not worth distributing because it's niche?

Its trivial to understand why this is a bad argument (appeal to emotion)
In my experience, you want to advise, but not insist or work as a reminder. Tell everything not more than once-ish from "if I was you" perspective and whatever they pick up, the rest will be wolves.
https://archive.ph/sqYQx
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/i140b
(Leaflet cofounder here) - thanks so much for the detailed feedback here, this is great context and appreciate the specifics on CSS intricacies / naming history I was not aware of! We'll take a look at improving our scrollbar handling. We like the minimalist look without but have gotten used to it and I hear you it breaks a useful and expected affordance. I think we might be able to strike a balance with just vertical scrollbars in pages + maybe eventually do a custom indicator for multi-page columns (more obvious b/c you see them open side by side, and global horiz scrollbar is a lot uglier than per-page vertical ones!)
This speaks to a greater problem in the way we treat university in the US. It's not supposed to be a place where you're trained to do a job, it's supposed to be a community where you are exposed to new ideas, so you can become a more well-rounded individual.

But then university is so expensive, and you need it to get a halfway decent job these days. So now you're paying tons of money for a class you didn't want to take in the first place, and you come in with a chip on your shoulder already. And then these classes typically have a very high workload, with extremely strict grading requirements (ESPECIALLY mathematics), and they end up becoming sort of a filter, which does a disservice to the students and to the instructors.
> it seems impossible to me that some people will ever understand this, especially and shockingly, those who need it the most.

After many years of denying it, I've come to the realization that to solve social welfare in the United States we need to first solve racism and religion. So I agree it seems impossible.
> Toyota meanwhile have made a point that all the front styling grilles in the Mk5 Supra can be opened up and used to house heat exchangers for tuners.

Heat exchangers don’t modify emissions performance. It’s ECU tuning that they’re worried about.

Toyota has actually gone to extremes to lock down the Supra ECU to prevent tuning. Last I checked, only one company in the world had figured out how to unlock the ECU and you have to ship your ECU around the world to have them unlock it.
Bitcoin Plateaued in 2022 and has been Running on Momentum Since
But even this case doesn't make much sense. I expect that instead of adding the secrets inside the binary you will go through to the more traditional ensuring that the client is logged in and that the secrets are stored in the server.

Unless you want your app to be used anonymously, but then why have secrets?
:)

This was the story: https://www.voxnews.al/english/kosovabota/qeveria-po-e-plani...
for anyone who enjoys stories like this, I'd recommend the Failure To Launch podcast
A Bear Case: My Predictions Regarding AI Progress
Alzheimer's could be treated by enhancing the brain's own immune cells
I don't think that's an inherent notion of Discord at all, although it is a case of poor defaults. I turn on most of the muting settings immediately when I join a new server (notify for: nothing, suppress @everyone and all role @mentions, etc). Throughout the day, I'll mainly click between the 2-3 servers I actually care about, and every few days I'll go through some of the others. New messages are still marked once I click in so I know where I left off, pings are still highlighted so they catch my eye as I'm scrolling through, but if I don't care about a conversation in a channel, I can just scroll to the bottom and it's all immediately marked as "read."
Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers by David L. Parnas is an excellent compendium of Parnas' papers. You will find more wisdom here than most books on "Software Engineering" being published today.
US indicts 12 Chinese nationals in hacking-for-hire scheme
Distributed Systems Without Raft
We are currently working on two "backends" where recording works in different ways.

For the scripting languages and smart contract/ZK languages, we instrument the interpreters using high level hooking API-s or direct patches, and we produce a trace.

For system languages, we directly build on top of RR[1] recordings for now: RR can record multiple processes, and it works in userland. IIRC it doesn't support modifications of shared memory outside of the recording. It's very well documented in their paper: Engineering Record And Replay For Deployability: Extended Technical Report[2].

1: https://rr-project.org/

2: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05937
I guess my point is, do we as a society want our children's Roblox communities to share a platform with virtually every cyber criminal, behind security and secrecy measures completely at the will of arbitrary discord owners?
It's a really interesting car. Right there with the Honda S2000 one of the most interesting cars in the last 25 years. Sadly, both Nissan and Honda have failed to create a saga.
Nicotine is cheaply available in pill, patch and gum form.
I think we need something like samurai/ninja for terraform, that would be sweeeeet
Selenostationairy seems to be impossible. It would be too close to earth to fly undisturbed. Orbiting the moon is hard because of the moon's uneven mass concentrations, the gravity is not as uniform as here on earth. An space-based LPS would be pretty hard to build out. Star trackers alongside GNSS would provide a better system for positioning.

However, building out a ground system using towers on the moon would work. With the low gravity of the moon and no wind, you could build pretty tall structures with beacons for positioning. You'd need line of sight so it would be costly to build out this system across the entire surface.

A 1km tall tower built every 58km would give you similar positioning as GPS (three intersecting circles). But also, the moon is not terribly interesting so the few long trips that would put you far from base wouldn't require instant positioning. A star tracker and an hour of watching GNSS would work just fine. If there ever was a significant population on the moon, they'd have the lunar equivalent of busses (traveling over marked paths) or light rail to get them in-between facilities.
Please, anyone reading this: don't do it.
Sure but the burden is on the company to understand what skills they need to hire for well enough to hire for the role, not on the candidate to just prepare for everything and roll the dice in a 9 hour interview

This is where interviews can and should be done differently. In my career some questions I’ve been asked in interviews are: serialize and deserialize a binary tree, create an in memory cache from scratch, design an elevator system for a building, sequence DNA strands together using dynamic programming, build a flight control system for an airport, recreate atoi function, etc…

Sure enough, none of these interview questions had pretty much anything in common with what work I would end up doing at the company, so this was an inefficient way to hire that wasted a lot of my time.

This would be like trying to find a plumber to fix my sink by having them come over, showing them the sink, then sitting them down to grill them on the theory behind some thermodynamics, Bernoulli’s principle, maybe throw in some design questions about how to redo my sink. This is surely how you find the best plumber because only the best will take the time to really understand what they are doing when they fix a sink right?

Like it or not the vast majority of work in the software industry is e-plumbing where you fix sinks and connect pipes together to start the flow of CRUD from one end to the other, which is why our way of interviewing people is insane.

As an exercise for the reader, see if you can figure out which interview questions I listed above were asked to work at a FFANG company vs small startup companies that are all bankrupt now. Pretty hard isn’t it?
Have you ever heard the term voting with your wallet? Well, you're not only voting for the company whose product you're buying, you're also enriching the country that houses them. People in Europe are increasingly worried about hostility from the US and many people are rapidly trying to reduce their support for and reliance on the ruling regime.
NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument
The problem here is that the Plaid is not the fastest car. On Nürburgring Nordschleife, GT-R (2013) is faster than the latest Plaid record(2023) by 6 seconds, top trim Taycan by 18 seconds, slower than the fastest on Wikipedia by 56 seconds, etc etc.

It's just not that fast. Most people here wouldn't know that, after hearing 2.1 seconds 0-60, "the fastest production EV", so on. No, Elon just never made that work. literally couldn't beat 10 years old car.

You can buy the cheapest R35 used, and theoretically faster on the ring than ANY Tesla.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nords...
Being a developer is not necessarily a life-long goal of ops people. I like playing with all the toys in the toybox - sometimes I need to write code to make things play the way I want. I went to school to become a programmer, and discovered that while I enjoyed programming for myself, I hated doing it for others -- otoh, I had been working as an ops guy to pay beer money, and found that it was a lot more aligned with my interests.

Most of these tools though, are written by engineers who don't want to understand the tools they were given, and want to write their own. Even the vaunted pulumi's 'aws-native' package is just built on top of cloud control which is built on top of cloudformation which is often cited as the reason terraform (which pulumi is based on top of) was created: "eww, I don't like that tool".

Which is all to say - people write code because they have a problem - engineering, operational, it doesn't matter. Assuming an ops person wants to become a developer is akin to assuming all developers want to become managers, and that all managers want to become TV stars. The logic presumes a viewpoint that simply isn't true.
I love me some board games, but I prefer depth and decision space to complexity -- and the industry is dominated by stupendously complex beasts full of unnecessary mechanics that slow things down or extend setup without adding too much. A perfect example is TI4's expansion Prophecy of Kings, nearly all of which I despise for bloating a beautiful base game. I'm also always flabbergasted by how starved and railroaded I feel in games like Dune Imperium or Cole Wehlre's collection. Despite a wealth of mechanics, my choices are few and far between.

Complexity has its place, especially for engine builders like Terraforming Mars where complex interactions are the point. Many designers seem to be throwing in the kitchen sink arbitrarily. We're in a "bigger is better" paradigm.
Yeah I was curious about this as well. I really like the DSG gearboxes that are used in the Golf, maybe the tech is/was older?
I think "deep research" is a misnomer, possibly deliberate. Research assumes the ability to determine quality, freshness, and veracity of the sources directly from their contents. It also quite often requires that you identify where the authors screwed up, lied, chose deliberately bad baselines, and omitted results in order to make their work "more impactful". You'd need AGI to do that. This is merely search - it will search for sources, summarize them for you, and write a report, but you then have to go in and _verify it's not bullshit_, which can take quite a bit of time and effort, if you care about the quality of the final result, which for big ticket questions you almost always do.
Two Frameworks for Balancing AI Innovation and Risk
> Why won’t Apple add a disappearing messages feature?

Because iMessage frequently falls back to SMS, which means there's zero ability to implement it on the receiver's phone.

I don't know if it's more to do with my phone's reception or the other person's or what, but I have text chains that are full of a mix of blue and green bubbles.

The idea that blue bubbles will get deleted after a period of time but green bubbles won't would be deeply confusing. Especially when you don't even know what color the message is going to turn out to be until after you send it.
The Value of Nothing: Capital vs Growth
> Of course they caused a ton of damage to trees around the trail, though whether that's good or bad depends on whether you were attached to those trees or not.

I've encountered relatively few people who were concerned about the damage to trees. The typical concern is over damage to land. Any animal than engineers their environment, including both beavers and humans, has a disproportionate ability to alter land use. That includes humancentric development and natural ecosystems.

I am not going to claim that beavers are either good or bad. I am going to point out that humans are as much a part of nature as beavers, so preserving natural ecosystems is almost always in our favour. Yet there are circumstances where managing is likely a better approach than preserving, simply because nature can throw nasty things our way too. (We are, for example, not to eager to let rats thrive in our cities.)
I don't really know how to tell you this delicately, but you're in an information bubble.

If you have to go reaching back 30 years to a jobs program for an example of a sham social protection program, they are probably in great shape (a jobs training program isn't even really a social protection).

I know some unions have nepotism problems with jobs in the union (which is different than union jobs). I wonder if they are particularly worse than other political arenas though, where many value loyalty and control more than merit. And, of course, unions are not social protection programs. They are a response to the lack of social protections.

School funding isn't even tangentially related to social protections.
I've never really done it at any advanced level, but I think good "science communication for the masses" is just a really hard problem. I say that because it seems like there's an overwhelming amount of really bad science communication out there.

You have creators like Veratasium on YouTube, who I think do really great jobs making a lot of science and mathematical topics interesting to nearly everyone, but there's also a lot of articles that are either very boring, incorrect, overpromising, or some combination of the three.
Could be chrome vs safari or ff
>So if you're as clever as you can be when you wrote it, how will you ever debug it?

LLMs do not write very "clever" code by default. Without prompting them continuously to make it more "clever", they tend to write lots and lots of simple code, vs writing "clever" code that reduces redundant code, improves performance, etc.

What I am curious about is if these slop-filled codebases will be a problem or not in the future - traditionally it's been bad practice to have duplicate code everywhere, but with LLMs it feels like it matters less, as long as the code is simple and readable.
Telegram is the undisputed king of shady shit, at least insofar as centralized services go.
> One friend of mine wrote code that was 1000 times faster than the people in the next cubicle over

And did that 1000x speedup make a difference to users? Are we talking about an on-click event that now took 10μs instead of 10ms? Was this a 1000x speedup in a hot critical-path bottleneck, or was it an already quick in-memory post-processing operation that fired after waiting 30 seconds on a sluggish database query?

Sorry to doubt so much, but the vast majority of times someone boasts about a speedup like this, it turns out to be done for bragging rights rather than for the benefit of the project. A 1000x speedup is only impressive if you can show that the time you improved upon was actually a problem.
When you say you integrate with EHRs using RPA or API, are you using FHIR for the API connection? Or what interop standards are you using?
We're also introducing GoStringUngarbler, a command-line tool written in Python that automatically decrypts strings found in garble-obfuscated Go binaries.
I don’t think there are any fanless x86 but I had a system76 pangolin for work. It was quite well built (I bought the next gen one for myself). They OEM the notebooks though, so the quality is decent (I’m coming from a 2015 Mac book, pretty much the gold standard of Macs)

https://system76.com/laptops
The point was that knitting needles are not implements of violence, yet groups using them for the group's explicit purpose can have very bad and harmful takes. One does not need to have a weapon to be harmful. Our Dear Leader has proven that many times.

It is a good idea to stand on pro-gun rhetoric when you want all the guns on your side and not being pointed at you. You use confusing double-talk to trick them into believing you are on their side and you fight for them. In the US, there is the added benefit of poor education, which cripples critical thinking.

Also, the claim that melee weapons are somehow comparable to modern firearms is quite laughable. Where are you getting your data?
Hmmm, running out of people to fire, need fresh blood (even if its old)?
In order to save, you need to earn enough to do so.

The average salary in the U.S. is $66,622, and the average household income is $80,610.

The average housing cost is $2,715 per month, or $32,580 a year. Average food costs for a single person are around $9,000 a year. Average total utility costs are $7,200. Average healthcare costs per person are $14,570. Average car ownership costs are $12,182 per year.

These average expenses total $75532 per year, meaning the average single person with an average salary is $8910 in debt. You can do the math for the average two-car household yourself.

And we haven't even accounted for taxes. Or the costs of raising a child.

Now, admittedly, this average person/average houshold most likely does not exist. But simply looking at averages points out the problem that most people are already stretched financially too thin to stock away something for retirement.

Over half the United States population earns less than $100k a year, and the median income for all earners (the middle point, right smack in the middle of all earners of all ages and genders) is roughly $40k.

I'm sure all you folks earning over $150k a year with stock options are doing fine, but realize you guys are in the top 20% of income earners in the U.S. whether you feel like you are or not.
We've moved the goalposts. 0.5% here, 0.5% there, what's it matter, it's very impressive that it's so low. I mentioned the SSA budget errors because it's $15,000,000 five thousand times over.

I still have to pay for that 0.5%. A nickel here, a dime there. Maybe it can be argued that spending $15,000,000 to "own the CCP" is worth it. After all, it's only a dime per taxpayer.

Harassing the CCP (and any other government we "owned") means that we also need to spend 800 billion on Defense.
I think you're missing a key point, which is that by extensively reading the R1 outputs, I'm able to observe how R1 thinks about things, which I can then replicate.

There are good ways and bad ways to think aloud, R1 just gave me a large set of examples of doing it the "good" way.

It's uncommon to read hundreds of paragraphs of a smart person's internal reasoning process. Usually we're only able to read the final results of their thoughts.
> meta: a bit confused about people comparing a muscle car to a japanese sports coupé.

Your concept of a muscle car is probably outdated if you don’t think they play in the same space. The American sports cars are very formidable

> there's more to a car than price and performance benchmarks.

Those of us who actually get on track do care about this stuff. I’d happily drive an ugly tin can from some obscure country if it performed well, was the right price, and was reliable.

The whole muscle car versus imports debate is more for the armchair car enthusiast and people who hang out in parking lots with their hoods up.
Well, since the president very publicly sides with Russia, it's only right to hurt America. This is what you voted for.
Diaconis-Holmes-Montgomery Coin Tossing Theorem [pdf]
We still have free trade, we're just choosing to exercise our freedom as consumers.
Yep. I like to post my learnings, learning processes, distillation of life experiences. My only criterion is "This feels like a good blog post".
They verified my jobs over the past 5 years.

Job 1 was hard to verify because my company used a PEO (https://www.adp.com/resources/articles-and-insights/articles...). It’s basically Corporation as a Service. Where you are “co-employed” by the PEO for purposes of health insurance, payroll management, taxes, etc. Bit for everything else the company is your employer.

That means IRS statements and your W2 show you working for companies like Insperity or Rippling (a YC company) even though that’s not the company you worked for.

The company I did work for had been acquired. Luckily, I’m still friends with the CTO of the startup even though he had moved on. I sent the background check company his LinkedIn profile and phone number.

The next company was Amazon and they use TheWorkNumber.

The next company I could verify by doing some type of OAUTH between the background checking company and my company’s payroll provider.

Previously, I’ve been able to log into the IRS website and get old W2 information to verify employment.
Whose money would you give, mine or yours?
I’m self employed and this is “for fun.” My wife is a professor in another department and I’ve got a tuition waiver.
To this day, it rarely to never gives me the chance to moderate, even with excellent karma. That’s its biggest flaw imho, and a major reason why I rarely visit.
The Age of Vibe Compute
Some people are just learning pills are not a single solid block of pure active ingredient.