skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hear about this, it stinks and you don't deserve it.

One thing that we don't talk about is how adversity changes us and pushes us forward. Not that it is easy or fun, but it does help us focus on the future.

Let me give my personal example --

I started back in the job market in 1994 after a stint in the US Marines and things were very, very, very bleak (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1990s_recession ). I was planning on getting a college degree and was living at home with my parents and planning on working part time, likely for minimum wage (then $3.25/hour) in a two-bit town in Arizona.

In my job search at the local unemployment office I found a post for a job that paid a whopping $7.25 an hour, doing telephone technical support for a little startup by the name of America Online. I was discouraged from applying as I didn't have the skills and should focus on something like security or food service. To be honest, I had no degree but did have PC skills, although no telephony experience. So, I went out and bought one and started learning as much as I could in a short period of time. I got the interview and the job, and about a year later the company exploded and I got to ride the wave into a degree in math and career in tech.

Now, I am not a boomer saying that "you need to try harder." I am also not saying that you just need to find the next hot startup and everything will be fine. Neither of these are true and it sucks that you are in this crisis. I was insanely lucky multiple times.

However, what I will say is that when the current economic model isn't working you have the rare opportunity to take a risk and move towards the future. Desperation doesn't feel good, that is why it is such a good motivator. Take advantage of it.

All the advice around here about networking are spot on. What you need is a job or a degree program that will keep you pointed in the right direction. I don't know if you are an international student or not, but if you are then the only thing that matters is getting a work or study visa. If you are lucky enough to be authorized to work in the US then any job that will keep you fed and in a single room in someone else's apartment in Boston is great. Or, find ANY graduate program ANYWHERE in the country that is vaguely palatable to you. Don't go back to a place where you don't want to be.

Again, this sucks, and I am so sorry that you are caught up in this. Your feelings are justified and valid. But you are caught up in this need to accept where you are and move forward. You will have an Engineering Degree from MIT, and that means you are smart and motivated. This is the definition of "grit", and it will be the next step into your future. You don't have anything to lose.
There's a difference between what you call DPI (which I called payment system) and central bank money. A CBDC is both, Pix and UPI are only DPI sans central bank money (so neither is a CBDC). My point is that you can get all of the benefits of having DPI without needing to incur any of the headaches that come with central bank money (financial stability risks, holding limits, private sector opposition,...). I'm all for DPI, I'm just questioning the bundling with central bank money.
Shit changes. You can either let it roll off you or over you. Alot less painful rolling off.
Let me get this straight…

> That’s part of the intention. Europe specifically is underproductive and the hope is that these tariffs and the change of tone for defense agreements will bolster Europes domestic industrial and defensive capabilities

So, rather than sell Europe weapons that we create in the United States, part of the “intention” of this policy is to cut off the European demand for our weapons systems and cause them to manufacture their own? How is that helpful to the United States and our bottom line? How is that at all in the US interests?

I agree that’s what is going to happen, but I see no evidence that it was part of the intention.
And streaming services. People really thought streaming would be the end of TV commercials. Ha!
As pointed out somewhere else, coal adds around $20 billion to the United States' economy. Broadway adds around $15 billion to New York's economy. Snowsport tourism about $20 billion. Massage therapy around the same. Crazy how much focused attention coal and coal jobs get from the United States government when all of the above are at the same level and provide way safer jobs with much lower long term health costs (both to workers and the US government).
Either local solar panels, grid power, or a combination of both, yes. And of course solar panels can also indirectly "store" power by simply reducing demand on hydro resources during the day, allowing water to back up for night-time use.
Domestically, neither China nor the US leadership can afford to be seen to have lost. In part, this is why win-win outcomes are so fantastically useful in trade negotiations, because they respect the difference between each states presentation of the outcome to its voters. "we won" is a better message than "we lost" for everyone.

You would think the author of "the art of the deal" would understand when the best option is to give your opponent the appearance of a victory to sell to their community. You would think they would recognize when you also needed the same outcome.

(since we know he didn't write the book, this is a rhetorical device)
Clearly the energetic cost of having large brains was worth it for humans from an evolutionary perspective, or else we wouldn't have them. But 20% of your energy budget is still a very large cost, so if there's a way to accomplish the same brain stuff for, say, half the cost, you would expect that to be very strongly selected for (caloric scarcity being the norm throughout human evolutionary history).
There's also "Pix Copia e Cola" (Pix Copy and Paste)
i have an idea for a game but i really dont have enough time to implement myself. it would be a MMORPG but with discreet time steps, so every hour or so all the players would get a message that contains a picture depicting the point of view of their player character and a list of actions/options that they can take. rendering the game out of real time would allow hyper-realistic graphics and also physics simulation or environment destruction/modification. it would also allow for many, many more concurrent players in the same game world than other games and would allow for a much larger game world. and taking one "turn" only once every 30 minutes/hour would lend the game a special character that might be highly appreciated by some people in the context of todays popular games. my vision for the game is being able to peer into a vast, photo-realistic world, buzzing with a hundred thousand people trading, mining and fighting, one picture at a time.
It makes no sense to pay $200 billion to support $20 billion worth of jobs.
This assumes a level of both rationality and omniscience that don't exist in the real world.

If a company fails to compete in the market and dies, there is no "autopsy" that goes in and realizes that it failed because of a chain-reaction of factors stemming from bad AI-slop code. And execs are so far removed from the code level, they don't know either, and their next company will do the same thing.

What you're likely to end up with is project managers and developers who do know the AI code sucks, and they'll be heeded by execs just as much they are now, which is to say not at all.

And when the bad AI-code-using devs apply to the next business whose execs are pro-AI because they're clueless, guess who they'll hire?
That is a pretty hyperbolic paragraph only to imply that we as a nation would loose out on innovation by doing so; nowhere do we want to isolate as a country. Look at all the jobless Americans in once thriving industrial cities. Generations left without pensions or skills all because we outsource our workers to other countries. That’s one of the many problems that need to be solved and by manufacturing here in the USA it may help resolve or alleviate that problem.
Unless we're just waiting on someone to figure out another genius workaround, that's the case, yes. Macs are not Linux, for better and for worse.

To be honest it seems crazy at this point an overflow for menu bar items isn't built into macOS, especially now that all their laptops have this notch that can hide menu bar items if you have too many. Plus it competes with space with the dropdown menu items on the left since if an app has too many they'll wrap to the other side of the notch.
Haha, fair point! I guess i was going for simple Wikipedia rather than deep academic journal. Maybe next time i'll throw in some fancy words just to spice things up.
The background is not solid black. There is a very subtle background image that is most visible on the top right corner. The contrast is so low though that it's very hard to see.
So NT from VMS is not true as pointed out above. However a funning one that is suppose to be true is from the 2001 Space Odyssey series. The name of the insane AI was H.A.L.

H>I

A>B

L>M
Shopify CEO: "AI usage is now a baseline expectation"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613079
Kagi is a very good alternative to google. When you're actually doing some research and have an exhaustive look at search results, kagi provides much more detailed results than google.

I'd rank kagi > chatgpt > google any day.
I built a simple tool to track real-time crypto rates
Hey HN,

I’ve always found it annoying to jump between exchanges just to check live cryptocurrency prices—especially when I just want a fast, clean view of the top coins without distractions.

So I spent a few hours building a minimalist site that shows real-time crypto rates with no fluff, popups, or login walls: https://CryptoRates.info

It pulls data live and focuses on simplicity (no ads, no widgets, just raw numbers). The idea is to have something you can keep open in a tab and glance at throughout the day, or even use as a lightweight reference when building something crypto-related.

Would love feedback if anyone finds it useful or has suggestions!
> More likely trade secrets, NDAs, non-competes, and increasingly invasive DRM.

These are all also creatures of the law. If there was no copyright there would be no Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In many cases they can't work, e.g. because of the analog hole or because the mechanism of operation is observable to anyone who buys the product.

The incentives to uncover those things are also much stronger in modern day because of the connectedness of the world. If there were two wheelwrights in your town and one of them had a secret process, no one but the other would have any use for it and if they found out they wouldn't even have any else to tell it to.

If someone had a secret video encoding strategy today, some hobbyists would reverse engineer it and post it on the internet.

> Patents, for example, ensure that at least some minimal description of the process gets published for others to take inspiration from.

Have you read a modern patent? They're inscrutable, and to the fullest extent allowable attempt to claim the overall concept of doing something rather than describing a specific implementation.
It also “can” also do absolutely nothing, or “can” introduce false sharing in multithreaded code.

Lots of things are possible - but speculating on every possibility as though they’re equally probable doesn’t provide any value. Actors in unreal are a fairly low level item, but most games aren’t going to have 25k actors in a world, and if they do, 10MB of memory usage fragmented across actors is likely the least of their worries.
Nice robot demo. Here's another one:

https://youtu.be/03p2CADwGF8?si=BXeWXqu1_3WMS4yy

A robot assembling a puzzle with machine vision!

And it's only from the 1970's.
And the LLM won't be necessary either for the common search case of "dc plane crash" or whatever, but increasingly that will be asked of general assistance agent, and it will dispatch an internet search of some kind, and return the result. Even if it provides 0 additional benefit over google, switching the default search location might still occur, especially if it does provide some benefits (such as summarization)
I don't think the MAGA crowd is prepared for the quality of goods produced by a country at the early stages of relearning manufacturing. American made, for at least 5 years, will be synonymous with poor quality, just has made in ___ has been synonymous with poor quality for any country at the early stages of industrialization.
> They're not CNCF Kubernetes, CNCF Helm, CNCF Jaeger.

Maybe they should be?
>> Fold clothes -> clothes are folded.

>> Take children to school -> they safely arrive on time.

>> Autonomous driving -> arrive at destination without crashing.

>> Call centre -> customers are happy.

Define a) "folded", b) "safely", c) "destination", d) "happy".

Also define the reward functions for each of the four objectives above.
Banco Rendimento supports it, I believe.
I can confirm that kenrose is an actual human being :-)
I know laborers that make well above most “software monkeys” and don’t even get me started with how much heavy machine operators make!
Globstar: Open-source static analysis toolkit
A Brief Introduction to AI
https://tailscale.com/kb/1369/taildrive
I agree with your skepticism about CBDC, but it takes little to no effort to implement your own CBDC, and in the small chance that they did somehow take off, then you have a platform you can export to other countries.

> I'm just questioning the bundling with central bank money

In most countries excluding the US, EU, UK, and Canada, the Central Bank also sets financial regulations and provides the infra backbone for fintech, and in some cases still own commercial banks.

By having central banks attached to these projects, it helps build a testbed so private sector players can then extend on.

Most countries aren't like the US where private sector investors are open to investing in innovations, so it would fall to the Central Bank to begin testing and implementing these products.
It's both, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking

> NDN has its roots in an earlier project, Content-Centric Networking (CCN), which Van Jacobson first publicly presented in 2006.. NDN applications name data and data names will directly be used in network packet forwarding.. Its premise is that the Internet is primarily used as an information distribution network, which is not a good match for IP, and that the future Internet's "thin waist" should be based on named data rather than numerically addressed hosts.

NDN talk by Van Jacobson at Google (2006): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM
Freelance Blues: James Baldwin in the Magazines
> The net benefit for humanity may turn out to be positive or negative - it's too early to tell.

It's just a tool, but it is unfortunately a tool that is currently dominated by large-sized corporations, to serve Capitalism. So it's definitely going to be a net-negative.

Contrast that to something like 3D printing, which has most visibly benefited small companies and individual users.
Consider the challenge being: how to get from here to there.
It may or may not but the cost is definitely huge and it's already arrived. Would you build a new factory, spend a huge amount of effort marketing, hire workers, incur large debts, if you knew that in three and a half years the presidency may change and it would not be competitive again.
Heading to ig-nobel I would think.
> There’s no way to use “rules and facts” to express concepts like “chair” or “grass”, or “face” or “justice” or really anything. Any project trying to use deterministic symbolic logic to represent the world fundamentally misunderstands cognition.

Are you sure? In terms of theoretical foundations for AGI, AIXI is probabilistic but godel-machines are proof based and I think they'd meet criteria for deterministic / symbolic. Non-monotonic and temporal logics also exist, where chairness exists as a concept that might be revoked if 2 or more legs are missing. If you really want to get technical then by allowing logics with continuous time and changing discrete truth values, then you can probably manufacture a fuzzy logic where time isn't considered but truth/certainty values are continuous. Your ideas about logic might be too simple, it's more than just Aristotle
It’s wildly and hugely unrealistic.

The rule of thumb that employees actually cost a business roughly twice their salary is based on two things:

1. Retention. Hiring costs are “huge”, and so if you have a higher or lower average retention, may make up a disproportionate cost compared to salary. Ramp up time and institutional knowledge loss is no joke either.

2. A spread of average wages. 500k is not average, and a huge number of the costs are relatively fixed. $1,000 a month worth of software licensing isn’t an uncommon number and is fully 1/3 of the salary of a $3k a month or $36k/year junior clerk. It’s peanuts when you look at it next to a $500k/year salary. It may be that the clerk is, all in, costing the company 3x their salary after indemnity insurance and so on. The dev will never reach 10%.
you should see what happened to the rodents in the lab
I note that that thing is not "abide by the law"
The WWII POW camp paper discussed is a lot more interesting and worth reading than this article winds up being: https://gwern.net/doc/economics/1945-radford.pdf
Maybe if multiple people are asking for clarification on a comment it’s your comment.

I happen to like it with the photographic backdrop because it sets the scene and places the motorcycle in context.
> don’t even get me started with how much heavy machine operators make!

$40 an hour in Austin Tx, a city with construction going on in every corner.
I actually have read a chunk of the relevant TAOCP, but didn't mention it because the comment was already kind of long. I remarked to a friend the other day that it's kind of funny that we've a little bit come full circle on asymptotic analysis in that we are now counting FLOPs, and it is not a little bit like what Knuth does here. :)
In widescreen, the UI is unusable and gets very small on a video page for some reason. The overall design is genuinely overwhelming and feels like a bunch of components pasted in without any thought put into layout or scale.
I am reminded of Lenin's dictum: ‘The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.’ -And wonder if it applies to populist leaders as well as the soviets.

I think about Musk/Bezos/Zuckerberg quite a lot in this context. They hitched their wagon to the Trump train, and now they are hoist on their own petard.
Other way around. That disables the AI chatbot monstrosity at the top of the page. But only if you're logged in and/or don't clear your cookies.

The AI word salad summaries for each individual page have no toggle (unless you count !g).
Beautiful art and book, but what a unfaithful travesty of a production that absolutely trodded on the original work.
Mizzou researchers discover natural compound may slow ALS and dementia
No you wouldn’t. The trades will take your body. I work with field techs who are close to 50 and they tell me their bodies are not going to make it past 50 and not even close to retirement age.

Office work is so easy on the body compared to almost any job.
Why is it that apps in the US are not as (overtly) commercialized or gamified (like Temu) as some of their chinese-counterparts? Is american culture just less tolerant of it? You would think there is more profit to be made by doing so which would be very capitalistic in a sense.
It's also just practically not possible: the distribution of resources is that it is, and for the expense of conquering and securing an expansive empire to get them, strategic alliances and diplomacy will be cheaper (not to mention that just because something is within your empire, it hardly means you necessarily exert any real sovereignty or control over it - the conquered peoples will hardly feel like citizens).
That argument would hold a lot more weight if Cyc could fly. But as this article points out, decades of work and millions of dollars have utterly failed to get it off the ground.
Well run services don't step outside the boundaries of their authority willingly. They demand a paper trail of justification, lest somebody come looking for the reason behind the action. You would think the US Marshals are a legally constituted body, with regulations over entry, arrest/detention, evidence collection, rights to arms and legal constraints on their use. A budget even, demands a line item, and some accounting.

So if its well run, we should be able to know how this was authorised, on what basis. And if it's not well run, isn't that a major issue in itself?
Yep, That's exactly why we moved to asymptotic analysis. I was just hoping analytic combinatorics would help us move back to something like this.
And techies face the prospect of becoming obsolete, with ageism rife.
Salt is painful and I believe the risk with sugar is that it can be metabolized by bacteria or fungi, so the remnants of it can make conditions better for microbes (although I haven't googled to confirm this)
The payoff for this kind of creation needs to be evaluated over time. The creator not only makes money for the puzzle, but they also gained e.g. a worldwide audience and a great resume booster. In the future, if they want to launch another puzzle or write a book or get a job doing this, the door is wide open. There is no such upward path as an uber driver, unfortunately.
So You Think You Can Scroll
China has nothing to lose, they remain committed to exporting to the global market. The US quality of life was built on deflation from importing inexpensive goods at scale. China’s pain will be temporary as they reconfigure their export system, US pain will be permanent. There are not enough US workers or time to build what is being parroted to replace imports with domestic production. Xi is sophisticated, Trump is not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617956 (citations)
I think it's early to tell. But generally tariffs = more uncertainty = tighter capital. If a startup raised high before, it might have to do a down round in the future unless growth is real.
This has the makings of the largest tax hike on Americans in history.
Daily. On top of general search engines, I have a bunch of custom ones added to Firefox so I can skip the Google/Bing/Yandex step.
This game is used to benchmark scrolling devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqJ1rJURgs
America is the richest country in the world. Guess you won’t know how good you have it until you destroy it.
Yep, I mentioned this elsewhere in the threads—Knuth does do this quite a bit in TAOCP. I think in a lot of ways we've ended up completely full circle, in that we are now counting FLOPs. This time though I think we have very little hope for something as nice and pretty as asymptotics. At least ones that are useful.
It’s a super-interesting idea, but GoT seems highly cherry picked: the vast majority of all works would never leave copyright if the requirement was that they clear even $1000.
Saying this as a user but especially as a central banker and financial economist: Pix is truly amazing, and in fact an inspiration for many other countries. Beyond the payment sphere, we are only now beginning to scratch the surface on the effects Pix (and fast payment methods in general) can have on the economy.
That depends entirely on how you raise the funds. Yes, you can say "Here's the growth rate we'd get without your money - based on that, this investment gets you an ROI of x%."

With x% high enough, sure, you can get VC money without too many strings. (Also, reading the Series B post, they were planning to invest - just in organic growth instead of the usual growth hacking)

And if you read the Series C post, you'd know what they're spending on - GPU (and general) cloud interconnectivity.

There's really not much need to guess, Tailscale's financing announcements are about as open as you can get.