skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend checking out the Samurai Collection[1] referenced here, if you can get to one of its showings – it travels around quite regularly. The exhibit is great, both in size (good, but not overwhelming) and presentation details. Especially the full (O-yoroi) armor, which is in transparent cases that let you get up close on all sides to see how the armor is constructed, and the many levels of artisanship that go into each piece.

Also, the exhibition venues will often do things like find local artisans to demonstrate related skills. E.g. I demoed making the armor lacing braids (as much as 200-400 yards, in reeled silk, per suit!) when the show was at the Portland Art Museum.

[1] http://samuraicollection.org/aboutus_history.html
The citizenry should make it policy to assume police are lying about any interaction where they are not recording.

If you're ever on a jury, reject police testimony as a basis for determining guilt!
All I'm saying is that the Infocom Imps developed on a computer that was plenty big enough for comments and readable names to be no extravagance. The sources above show it happened in practice and not just in theory. The company started after they'd been used to this kind of environment for years. (And they were at least adjacent to actual literate-programming pioneers.)

I'm not saying they were into literate programming, I'm saying it's misleading here to talk about what coding on the C64 was like.
A lot of things! I really liked working with the VIC and SID chips, I really enjoyed how utterly hackable the system was in terms of adding custom-made hardware or modifying the board, and so forth.

But I think what I liked best about it was the memory banking. There was RAM installed in the same address space as the system ROMs. You could always write to the RAM, and could choose whether reading would happen from the RAM or the ROM.

This meant that you could easily modify the system by copying the ROM contents into the underlying RAM and then edit them to your heart's content. Or just turn the ROM off entirely and write machine code utilizing the full 64K.

It was tons of fun.

Also, although this is not C64 specific, I loved the floppy drive because it was a real standalone computer in its own right, which you could program. This let you do multiprocessor stuff back when multiprocessor systems were expensive niche things.
I'd say the idea that we need AGI for all the "problems" that come with AI is a problem itself.

Humans aren't AGI, they usually focus on one area of knowledge.

Myriad AI's each doing non generalized thinking but still all the things humans do today is the same problem.

And it is inevitable. It cannot be stopped. We do not need to achieve that which some believe is impossible for society to provide for itself without needing humans.
Not sure why your voted down its common usage now - being older it struck me as odd 20 years ago first hearing a female colleague use it in this way.
The Well of Random – Five wonderfully weird [audio] documentaries to download
I still use my 800. Not every day, but probably three times a week. It's a great personal e-rolodex. I also like to paint with it. The games are just as fun as anything current, and the power usage is low.
It has survived for many years. Steam sales are a huge draw, I doubt EA will ever sell games for less than the max they can charge. And to be honest, the only reason I played Borderlands 1 and 2 was because I got them for about $2 each on sale. Sure gearbox games can be fun, but the last game The Pre-sequel was just OK and didn't get good until the ClapTrap DLC. And That I got on steam sale too. Steam has a lot of Goodwill and EA has zero because EA always acts in scummy ways, like locking down content to their store when they weren't involved at all in the development. It is an old business model, there was a time when a company had market share in USA and not in Europe, so they flooded the EU by selling at a loss, their competitor bought up all their stock and resold it in the USA cheaper than the USA company, and they won the war because they had so much cheap product to under sell the USA company. Long term EA will have to sell games super cheap, or they'll miss out and that isn't in their SOP.
Really have to call into question the ethos of the author. Former gawker writer.. no psychology credentials to speak of. These are just results from an N=1 experiment.
Sigh…

When I was talking about «really narrow ideological view of money», here we are.

Edit: I'm especially referring to the narative against keynesianism, when it even goes against the neoclassical/monetarist view of money.
Exactly what part of it was editorialized?

Is getting $500 million dollars a year from Google not a sweet deal?
I believe Turing's argument strictly is that 'can imitate humans' -> possesses intelligence, not that all intelligent agents are capable of passing as humans, although this distinction does get muddled quite a bit.
This maybe? https://hbr.org/2013/03/the-ideal-praise-to-criticism

And it references Gottman's research also.
I never know what to do about titles like this.

But the documentaries are good.
(Note: Disregarding the possible negative outcomes of general AI on humanity for the sake of this comment)

While I completely agree with you that we don't want machines to make these human-like mistakes, wouldn't you agree that it would be ideal for a machine, when it makes mistakes, to do so in a human-like manner, rather than not?

One thing that appears to separate humans from AI is that, even as an AI may increasingly become better on average than humans at problems, games, etc., an AI seems to always occasionally make some absolutely terrible decision that we can hardly even understand the rationale behind. This is a huge flaw. In the rare instance an AI makes a mistake, it's completely out of its mind (at least to our knowledge) and off-base. When a human makes a mistake, it's one that's closer to the mark.

Is this not a valid reason to make AI more human-like in its mistakes, assuming it will have mistakes of some kind?
Buddhist interjection: realize that there is no self (and no free will), and wonder in which century will people stop talking nonsense like "be yourself".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta

Edit - Kierkegaard's rambling quoted in the article points to the difficulty of pinpointing the "self", the essence of a human (where's the essence, the self, the soul of a car - a buddhist would ask?):

> Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self.
I'd say it's much harder to stay perfectly motionless while standing than while sitting. Subtle shifts of weight from one leg to the other are enough to stave off DVT.
CEOs aren’t flying Vision jets. The ridiculous attitude that general aviation is somehow a class issue is getting old. Cessna Mustangs and other similar types are used frequently for air ambulance operations as well as plenty of non-CEO uses. General Aviation is a lot more than Sergei flying in his Gulfstream. Look at the 1989 earthquake for example and how GA was a huge part of delivering relief supplies to Watsonville. Look at Angel flights and the value that brings to people. GA is also essential to organ delivery.
> ... unreliable ...

I'm sure that machine will still power on after in 20 years. Try that with today's flimsy throwaway junk.
"This let you do multiprocessor stuff back when multiprocessor systems were expensive niche things."

I did that! Got a trip to the International Science Fair for it.
I wouldn't set up a corporation until you have either a reasonable amount of cash coming in or someone ready to give you a check. After that, I'd start with an LLC in your home state, unless you think there's a chance you'll take outside investment. If you do, conversion to a Delaware C-corp costs around $10K in legal fees.
Partly because you can't store helium long term, it escapes from any known container.

There are probably individuals that have tried to store large amounts, but are going to have a sad feeling when they try to let the helium out from their million dollar bunch of tanks.
Look up setting up a single-member LLC in your state. It's usually fairly simple and cheap (but state dependent).
>Time to time, I see review like: "This is confused to me" and the person who write that code explains a lot but refuse to make chances...I think those don't assume good intention in code review.

The flip side to the coin is that "This is confusing to me" is not particularly useful feedback. It reminds me of my days in academia, where professors told students they can't help them if they come to them and merely say "I don't understand this." You have to give more details.
> Is that a relevant question considering that Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization?

Yes. Absolutely.

> Probably, but that won't stop them from doing what they're currently doing. Also, Google doesn't "fund" them so much as pay them for search integration.

It's 97% of their income. I think things would change a lot.

> The question was not presented in good faith.

Yes it was.

> In fact, it's clear that you weren't actually asking a question at all. You were stating your opinions sarcastically in the form of a question

Nope. I'm actually wondering if anyone has some insight as to whether Google intends to stop funding them.
The copy protection on many games would cause "head knock" and force the 1541 out of alignment after a while. :(
It means exactly what the license allows. Mostly proprietary seems a lot better than totally proprietary in the absence of open source alternatives.

It’s bizarre to me when people complain about things like “tivoization” or “open core”. These are by design or they are solved problems if the creators care for the trade offs.

That is the Mozilla community’s issue. They chose the licensing. They have revised the strategy a number of times. I remember when code was tri-licensed.

Or it’s also a consumers issue. Money talks.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrS...

This is a really interesting series that I've been getting into. John Varvaeke is seriously underrated on YouTube and this series about awakening from the meaning crisis explains a lot about how modern society is focusing on the wrong things. Highly recommended!
20m? That's a fatal fall...
Just use Stripe Atlas. I've been very happy with them.
If you're concerned about ethics when you go to sell, you can confirm with the buyer that they have owned one previously and know what they are getting into. That way, you're in the clear.
This is one phylogeny. What is it built on? The problem is individual haplotypes have complex histories of their own which recombine sexually to form diverse mixtures which flow across "ethnic" groups.
I've known lots of great, kind people that were shy, or scared to be made fun of, or just lacked confidence. "Be yourself" is great advice. It means, I know you and you are a great person, you just need to be yourself. No one ever told this "loudmouth" to "be yourself". We tell those people they need to be a better self and go to therapy.
This is why you rebase and test before each feature branch is to be merged to master. The only issue comes up when someone decides to merge while someone else has already rebased and is running their tests... but when they try to merge to master they will see their branch is out of date and that they need to rebase again. For small teams, it's easy enough to let everyone know that you're merging and not to merge anything else in the meantime. In a larger company, I've seen queue tools that give teams a 'ticket' for their turn to merge into master. It's a little clunky, and probably wouldn't scale to huge engineering teams... but sometimes low tech solutions work just as well.
> that's unlikely given that the payoff is very high for defecting.

Trade policy (e.g. through the WTO) can be designed in a way that allows countries to internalise the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions by imposing higher tariffs on countries that do not cooperate.
LOGO (which is really Lisp) on a TI 99/4A changed my life. It was where I had that first epiphany that software is just "castles in the sky." It can be anything you want.
As best I can tell it means, "I'm naturally good in social situations, the point where I don't have to think about it. If and when I do, that just makes things worse because then I'm noticeably self-conscious. I'll assume you're just like me and need to do the same, because I don't know what it's like for that to be different."

The most charitable interpretation I can give the advice is, "Yeah, you're not skilled at this, and there isn't much I can do to help. But there are likeable aspects about yourself, and they don't shine through if you're constantly focusing on imitating some external model of how to do it right. The best you can hope for is not to have such unforced errors, so that at least you can keep whatever wins come from the real you."
Also used Clerky, it's great. Just fill out a form and give them a credit card and it handles all the paperwork, generates incorporation documents & bylaws, files with the relevant secretary of state, and gives you instructions for what to do afterwards.

I've talked to a couple lawyers since that are familiar with the Clerky paperwork, and they said that legally it's pretty solid as long as you're doing something fairly standard. If you've got complicated ownership structures (converting from an LLC, founders quitting or joining after incorporation, spinning off IP that might not be yours) you probably want to talk to a lawyer, but for the standard situation where a bunch of friends get together, can all agree on ownership percentages, and start a company from a clean slate, Clerky's great.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/chemistry/wasting-helium-...
The GP is making a thinly-veiled racial argument--the U.S. is supposed to be uniquely bad because of its minority population. You can see similar rhetoric employed on neo-Nazi websites regularly.
Commodore 64 > Atari 800
Hope it works out for you!
In even the classic theory, when the Swartzchild radius of the gravitational wavelet exceeds its width, wouldn’t it naturally form a black hole and end up a cusp?

Like a gravity Kugelblitz.
Here's an attempt:

Quantization is an important detail, but a bit of a red herring. The main idea is that the same system could have different effective/useful descriptions at different scales of observation. In principle, the idea of renormalization group flow is to be able to go from one description to another, up or down the abstraction ladder. Perfect abstractions might correspond to fixed points of RG flow (I.e. conformal field theories), but the game is all about using the leaks in the abstractions to be able to understand what might be a better model at a different scale.

With specific regards to field theory, this scale dependence becomes much more obvious because we expect the same parametric model (but with different parameter values) to be valid over an enormous range of observation scales. So, we talk about RG flow preserving the model structure, but the couplings/parameters "flowing" or "running".

Almost all the hard/tedious RG calculations are about how to take a description at one scale/abstraction and compute higher-order effects which can be abstracted as a simpler model at the desired level.

Now, in practice, this is very important whenever one has a model with many degrees of freedom (eg: a PDF over image pixels, or a field theory of protons where the pixels roughly correspond to spatial locations). The challenge is to effectively reduce the number of degrees of freedom and derive a useful abstraction to understand (as a scientist) or influence (as an engineer) the system. If this coarse graining / compression is lossy then the transformation is hard/impossible to invert.
Especially when you first get into VR, your arms get tired, and the periscope stance can't be good for much playtime.
I made https://kernl.us solo and it's making ~$1100 MRR and growing.
perl is hard only if you come from a certain point

trust me, if you have no apriori regarding what a programming language is, perl will make a lot of sense
That further dissuades me from liking anything in particular.
عايز تعرف لجنتك الانتخابيه فى الاستفتاء على الدستور بالرقم القومى
I actually ignore unreleased features about ads because it's not something I personally find exciting
The only meaningful distinction is between mainland Chinese vs Hong Kongers/Taiwanese/Chinese Diaspora. There's no ignoring the damage done by the Cultural Revolution. The old honor code that used to govern social relations just isn't there anymore. Mainland China is a complete wild west where anything goes. Cheating. Stealing. Stabbing friends in the back.
The most memorable IF I’ve played through was one[1] in which you were a captured spy being interrogated in semi-linear fashion. The game was a retelling of your capture, where every wrong choice amounted to ‘It could not have happened that way, go back and tell me what you really did.’

The only way to win was to slip one lie into the retelling, and then when the game catches up to the present moment...

[1]Spider and Web
50 here.

Married, 2 teenager kids, all in excellent physical and mental health, extended family and friends, no mortgage, good savings, own a profitable company, running a small offshoot startup, Angel co-invest in a handful of startups, chair a veteran support charity, and still serve in the military in a limited specialist capacity.

Beyond my family, I tend to swap around with the above with 1-2 of the above list “deep” and the rest of the list “shallow” in terms of my time/attention.

So my life is like my kindle reading list and podcast queue, overflowing and growing faster than I can ever possibly consume it.

Whack-a-mole comes to mind.

But I’m smiling while I’m playing this chaotic game I created for myself.

Happiness is in my life, but so is melancholy.

I’ve climbed some mountains(literally and figuratively), regretfully abandoned a few peaks, but remain focused on the mountains yet to climb while I am still able.

I view happiness as the pursuit of it, journey towards it, and the memorable idiosyncrasies of life discovered along the way, rather than the temporary arrival at a destination called happiness.

So journey over destination.
Specifically, white people have been stealing research and claiming it as theirs for decades. We give them Nobel prizes when they do it really well.
You get bottlenecked on I/O eventually, and that is the factor that creates jumps to new platforms. Even with modern devices, I/O is a huge point of contention: we argue for our serial ports and 3.5mm headphone jacks, but we upgrade for the newest USB or DisplayPort iteration.

When I started viewing computing in terms of connectivity, the device categories and developments made a lot more sense. We were fine with switches and printouts - except that we wanted to input and retrieve things faster, so we ended up with display, keyboard and mouse, storage media and networking, etc. The Turing Machine parts are important, for sure, but they are most important in pushing the I/O to capacity, and only sometimes get to exercise abstract computing prowess.
If you don't want to buy a FitBit, Workrave[0] is great computer software for this. Runs on Windows and GNU/Linux.

I know I should take breaks, but never end up doing so - the desire to just keep sitting and working is too great. The reminders from Workrave have been effective at actually getting me to stand up and move around.

The only issue is that if you are sitting at your desk but not using the computer, it will detect you as taking a break.

[0]: http://www.workrave.org/
Wasn’t the National Helium Reserve[1] just that, a long term helium storage facility?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
I won't show you my pipe library then
I would expand the Asian designation to include southeast Asians as well (Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, etc). Though maybe that’s just a west coast thing.
Granted those "duck and cover" films were rather hilarious as if a nuclear fallout just causes some mild sunburn.
I run two SaaS products. Both are entirely my work and both are modestly profitable.

I split my time about 50/50 between the the SaaS side of my business and consulting. The consulting revenue stream is much larger than the SaaS one but it's growing.

https://takehome.io

And

https://clubman.app
Ask HN: How do you balance code reviews and your own deep work?
Lately, I've been struggling with how to best balance code reviews and doing my own work, especially when my work is thinking-intensive. When I have some difficult proof-of-concept or research to do, it can be tough to get in the zone if I have to do a lot of back-and-forth with someone when reviewing their code.

I tried to batch this work into certain time frames, but that was bad for both me and the author of the PR - if there was a large amount of discussion, I'd be slow to respond if I had passed my pre-determined time to do that work, and this problem would compound as PR reviews started to gather in my inbox.

Today, I tried something totally different - attack every review as soon as possible, and look at each new commit submitted to each review as soon as possible, and respond as soon as possible to threads, which was good in that my queue stayed clear and I didn't have to reload the context of the PR into my brain.

This was possible today because I was doing some work where I'd already figured out the tough parts, so I'm just gliding through the implementation.

I'm curious how other people think about this problem, and if anyone has some suggestion for a middle ground here, and maybe for different kinds of schedules depending on the nature of the work I'm doing at the time. Thanks!
yeah but haskell would use ///

at least
They say that "mathematicians are people who like calling the same name to different things". Category theory generalises and abstracts many different concepts and shows that they are actually the same thing in categorical theoretical terms.
My primary mechanism was reaching out to recruiters and people on LinkedIn that already had the jobs I wanted. I found that just applying through the job site almost never went anywhere. It comes down to a numbers game, so I would sort your hypothetical list of jobs from "dream job" at the top to "I guess" at the bottom, and then start applying from top down. You should absolutely take job postings and required skills with a healthy grain of salt. These are almost always generic, copy/paste artifacts.

An exception might be if you see "Publications in top-tiered journals" as a requirement. Those positions likely actually target PhDs with relevant publications. They might overlook a lack of a PhD if you're a recognized expert in the field, of course. But I interpret this requirement as "we want an academic", and there primary job is likely research and publishing papers. A Research Scientist at AWS is not an academic, as someone at Google Brain might be, but rather someone building applied ML solutions.
I agree that you can't expect anything. The job is the job, you're there to give value, not take it.

But, if you end up at an org that has their stuff together - if you're coming from nothing maybe you show a high aptitude for programming - it is something that should be an aspect of the experience.
A very poorly managed one

https://earthsharing.org/a-comedy-of-errors-how-the-us-gover...
"hole-in-the-wall.... museum"

My interest is piqued.

I'm inferring that they're just very small museums? Do they have any essential characteristics?

Google isn't being very helpful.