skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here — me and a friend have been working on Brick for the past several months.

It works like Notion as in "all your edits are instantly visible" — from experience, this feels very different from blogging on Wordpress or making a static site in a git repo.

I love static sites but I'm not going back to them. I can experiment much more easily with Brick.

You can do something similar with Notion, but Notion is aimed at management or personal knowledge-bases, and it shows. We have a different focus. E.g. Notion is unlikely to ever have email subscriptions or ways to let people pay for your writing, while we very well might in the future. Notion also doesn't support custom domains out of the box, or custom CSS.

Try it out! Brick is free and has no ads. The only thing is that you need a premium plan (less than $2/mo) for custom domains.
> And your conscious mind can still go back on the decision and "change your mind".

No, that's not possible. That's what those experiments are showing, you're just failing to grasp its consequences.

If later you report "changing your mind", that will also have happened unconsciously, and you wont' even know why in your conscious experience: but you will be convinced you chose that - when you really haven't.
Hi, can you explain what a ' Yudkowsian self-optimizer ' is? I've googled it and the only page that it comes up with is this one! :-)
Agree partially - however, comparing games to books is really apples to oranges. Games are a high degree more addictive, and the major problem are not the artistic story-driven games but the engineered-to-addict AAA’s.
Yes. It is like with anything else - fun for some time is good for you.

When you become so obsessed with fun that you pull multiple all nighters, are failing in the school due to no effort spent on it, are unable to relate to non gamers or worst are getting moody irritable and yelling around, then it is no longer good for you.

Duh.
I believe notion used to do something similar with one time passwords but they seemed to have dropped that.
I can sit on a porch drinking without improving anything. Where is the crusade against men sitting on porches?
> That’s a really harsh and unfair statement

I think it's unfair and harsh that life or death are in the hands of private held companies that profit from people desperation.

> The doctors and nurses care tremendously and want to help everyone

But US as a society doesn't.

As an Italian I am heavily taxed just so everyone can benefit from free universal healthcare, regardless of the amount of care doctors and nurses put in their work.

In US people simply don't want to do it.

It's a fact, not a judgement.

To have access to medical attention not having to worry about your finances is much more important than relying of the goodwill of those who work in the healthcare system (and BTW my parents worked for the Italian healthcare their whole life, so I believe you when you say that medical personnel do care).

If sharing is caring, not wanting to share the tremendous amount of wealth produced in exchange for something that would greatly improve the life conditions of large segments of the population, what is?

US has the highest healthchare spending per capita in the World, but the lowest life expectancy of the entire west.
for certain kinds of TV the analogy might hold, for film or reading it's harder to see.

As the article points out games fit very well into what it calls 'limbic capitalism', using reward mechanisms of the brain to keep people engaged in repetitive tasks. If you go through the list of the most popular games, very few are artistic in nature.

This isn't really true for reading. Okay, sure you can write erotica or fan-fiction, but culturally everyone knows that this is garbage essentialy. Going and picking up a (challenging) novel is relatively hard work, which is why reading that kind of fiction is on continuous decline.
www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-helicopter-crash-2018-3
My monolith doesn't fit in your serverless
Anyone know how to get around the paywall? Private tab doesn't work.
I wonder if you tell prospective candidates this? If you don't, it's just another random element in the application process. How do I know you're the guy who wants a one page CV, or if you're the guy who will reject me because my CV isn't detailed enough?
Wtf you talk about. The gaming is considered the boy masculine thing and majority of games are masculine fantasies.
For what it's worth, HN might be interested to look into how programming a simple WebGPU calculator works. I worked on one some time ago: https://laskin.live/

Source-code is here: https://github.com/Laged/laskin.live

This way you can use some "better" API like Vulkan to run programs that are written in the new SPIR-V intermediate representation. In general, if you are interested in GPU programming, I would definitely look into WebGPU. The API is much easier to get started than Vulkan is, and achieves the most basic things required for simple GPGPU tasks (despite the fact that WebGPU can use Vulkan as the GPU API driver).

Note that WebGPU needs a browser flag to be enabled, and is generally very dangerous. It's possible to kernel panic operating systems on web page load, despite the fact that you are using a web browser.
And how do you intend to find out what your government does without reading the news? Do you get all of your "information" from bloggers? Social media? Hearsay?

What an excellent way to end up watering plants with Brawndo - because that's what plants crave.
“MMA fighter claims that martial arts is not a waste of time and that other hobbies are.”

What’s the discussion to be had here? Just one biased talking head trying to raise the way he spends his free time above others.
Adding a not supported message is a design choice. The parent did not say that the library should not make a CPU implementation, just that the fallback should not be automatic.

For some applications, it might be appropriate t fall back to the CPU, but change the problem resolution, for some applications it might be appropriate to not event attempt the run the software, and for some applications it might be appropriate to just run in CPU mode if GPU mode is not available.

But I completely agree with the sentiment, that this should solely be the developers choice.
Who said a hobby had to be useful? This self-improvement cult is really annoying...
If the BIOS EEPROM chip is not a socketed DIP-8 package, often it uses a surface-mount SOIC-8 chip, which can be easily programmed with a SOIC-8 test clip and an I2C/SPI programmer. In case you don't have one, you can also use any single-board computer, like a Raspberry Pi and flashrom for the job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNf7huwox6E
The foundational work of western philosophy was done by a bunch of Greeks sitting around on someone's porch getting drunk.

Your wins in Call of Duty only last until they shutdown the servers.
When men done it a lot, there were multiple strong anti drinking campaigns. Some succesfull leading to prohibition.

I mean come on.
I’m not saying Linus isn’t extremely competent, much more so than I and probably anyone reading this will ever be, but in general terms I think anyone arguing against complexity in software design, while in a way “doing the Lord’s work” even in my own opinion, will never be wrong: in the cases where their prophecies never come true, the opinion will still be considered by most to be “correct in theory”, and if something does break down the line, the opinion can be referred to as prophetic.

So, while I agree that we should keep things simple and modular, it’s a thankless job trying to solve issues and being forced to add complexity. Nobody defends complexity, and maybe we shouldn’t, in order to stay on our toes, but defending simplicity is also about the safest thing you can do.
As a counter-argument, have you seen come people's romance novel collection? They can be absolutely addicting as well; fulfilling an instinctual need.
We had a guy who, after a month of sitting smack-dab in the center of the IT department being busy on his new MacBook, got caught with his pants down because he finally asked for help, and me and a bunch of other devs stood behind him watched in horror as we discovered that not only did he know nothing about programming, he didn't know /any/ keyboard shortcuts.

When we asked him to copy some code from one file to another, he'd click on 'edit' and 'copy', struggle to get to the other file, and then click on 'edit' and 'paste'.

How it went unnoticed is that we were all busy with our own stuff, he was put on some small project that none of us were working on, and we just assumed that nobody would be stupid enough to hire someone without at least /some/ vetting.

He slipped through the cracks because he got hired into another department, and when they found out that he'd worked as a 'developer' at Microsoft they figured he'd be more useful in our department.

In hindsight I feel I should've known something wasn't quite right when every time I walked past his brand-new MacBook, he seemed to /really/ be struggling with something and it never looked like it was code. I imagine he spent the entire month figuring out how to deal with not having a 'start' button.

EDIT: I'll add that while this was in my top 10 of worst situations, there are many others that, for me, provided a convincing argument against the idea that corporations are somehow more efficient or whatever than the government.

My experience with both the public and private sector, beyond a certain size at least, is that they're largely similar in wastefulness/inefficiency/idiocy/etc.
(1) Interesting connection to the original story. This is the sort of not-exactly-an-ad-because-it-is-related mention that I find cool about Hacker News.

(2) Let me see if I get this right: you offer a service that simply monitors deeds and mortgages recorded against a specific plat and sends an alert to to the subscriber if something is recorded (which is an extremely rare event). And you charge $10/month/property for this service? What about the problem makes it so expensive? Why aren't you likely to be disrupted by someone like Zillow offering this $10/month service for FREE (and making money off the address list they develop from it, plus advertising to all the homeowners)?
It takes a certain individual to persist through hours of head scratching to figure out you're missing a semicolon, derive pleasure from it, and then coming back for more.

We're all a bunch of borderline masochists, if you think about it...
> boy masculine thing

Your use of the word "boy" explains everything. All of these anti video game articles are basically accusing gamers of never growing up to be good providers, which is the social expectation for the male gender.

The games certainly appeal to the masculine fantasy, but the people who play them are hardly considered masculine.
It's an interesting comparison but I'd also like to see how safety systems in other cars compare - i.e. Subaru Eyesight system. Anyway less accidents is always good news.
Video games offer a safe space for healthy aggression. Testosterone levels are insane in teen years and it seems that every other healthy outlet for aggression has been discouraged in society. Games are fine as long as they do not become an addiction. It's too easy to get sucked in and get used to a safe environment where mistakes have no downsides, zero physical activity is had, and a somewhat toxic culture can exist.

I feel that maintaining a balance of physical activity can help temper young men in those years. For my own experience wrestling and MMA were a good outlet for those feelings. Of course the micro concussions probably didn't help me out much, but now I at least know that getting punched in the head regularly is a bad idea. Which, on paper, should have been more obvious.
I have heard about experiments related to free-will wherein the brain already made a decision even before the conscious mind became aware of it.

You are thinking of Libet's famous experiments.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet#Implications_o...
The difference between games and everything else you listed is that games are interactive. This has a huge impact on how powerful the psychological rewards are. The point is that games offer simulated experiences that give a false sense of accomplishment.
What a great article. It points out that the horrifying diseases of that time were rationalized as being bad luck or divine retribution. People didn’t have any particular desire to get to the bottom of it. Germ theory earned its advocates public lampooning. The things is that it’s exactly the same today. I was reading about how Botox injections have been observed to reduce depression. Doctors claimed that it was because of a feedback loop between frowning muscles and mood. Modern, certified doctors grasped onto this theory with white knuckles, that “frowny face bad.” It’s unbelievable. Obviously follow up studies showed the the location of the injection makes no difference in the anti-depressive effect. It just blows my mind. They always create a theory that does one thing: terminates the line of inquiry. Yes, it’s frowning so there’s nothing more to be seen or done with this. I think subconsciously, it is too emotionally upsetting for them to have to basically go back to the drawing board, rewrite a bunch of basic biology and medicine. There is some kind of mental block there. And just think that thousands and thousands of things like this are around — clues being ignored that could literally save people’s lives and prevent unimaginable suffering. I had psychosis and keto cured it. My doctors literally ignored me when I told them. I asked, should this be looked into? Shouldn’t you be raising the alarm about this weird thing? Shouldn’t we see if it works in other people? No no no... always talking in circles without ever addressing what I’ve said. Science will vindicate me eventually... but in the meantime a whole lot of people will suffer needlessly.
Well this is a surprise; I thought Rogan was marketing primarily towards the young man demographic?

Per other comments, lumping an entire medium "video games" into one and trying to label it "good/bad" is the laziest possible form of cultural criticism. Criticise individual works, or patterns of behaviour instead. You could target gambling/gatcha, or the abuse that players hurl at one another (also a problem in traditional sports!)
I think he's saying that's the issue. Some men might escape to video games because it helps them feel more masculine.
Unfortunately I have not. But makes sense, I suppose both serve as a strong mechanism of escape to their respective core audiences.
really a bummer that they require function keywors so that the gpu function can access this.threads ! Would have been cleaner IMO - and more modern ideomatic - if the callback would have a parameter that would refer to the gpu.

otherwise this stuff is AWESOME. it would be great if we could reduce our dependency on python
You get exercise and some level of mind-body training. That raises it above the most frivolous of time wasting at least. I think you can get a lot out of most media as well, but it doesn't necessarily have the same default utility as physical activity.
The best part there is that even the intended code is probably insecure, since == will likely open you to timing attacks and should be replaced with a secure comparison function.
If digitally induced dopamine spikes are a concern, why isn't porn at the forefront of the discussion? Erectile dysfunction has roughly doubled in young men over the past decade and some research attributes it to online porn. https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/
I don't know why this has become such a hot-button issue. I figured it was quite well established that video games are synthetic goals, and have always been tied to escapism. That is not to say that they are inherently wrong. Unless you are playing competitive games on the highest level (Dota, CS:GO), your charisma and looks are a greater predictor of your success in YouTube and Twitch than anything else.
As a reply to the main quote: if we are talking in absolutes, then yes, playing video games could be a waste of time as you probably won't gain any skills that are useful in the real world, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have fun and unwind in a fantasy every now and again, as long as you realize that it's just that - a fantasy.

> For some young men, gaming plugs a psychological gap left by the loss of a certain kind of masculinity, a loss sometimes blamed on feminists, who are accused of creating a feminised society that leaves no space for men. But in fact, the so-called ‘crisis in masculinity’ is a consequence, not of feminist campaigning, but of societal affluence — a miracle of the modern world, but one that has inadvertently produced a lot of frustrated and aimless young men, now directing their pent up energy towards a hobby that offers fake fitness but which, unfortunately, given the addictive nature of ‘limbic capitalism’, is more likely than other hobbies to become all-consuming, damaging the gamer’s health and repelling potential sexual partners.

This article definitely needs a bunch of [citation needed] tags. I'm a gamer myself and know plenty of gamers, but none that play video games to feel more masculine or which blame feminists in some way for this alleged "crisis in masculinity".

From my experience, these fantasies that the article mentioned: "a soldier, gunslinger, warrior, gangster, or heavily armed survivor in a post-apocalyptic hellscape" are more about us being able to live out fantasies without consequences the same way we would live them out by reading a fiction book, and not necessarily to somehow prop up our masculinity through them, though there might be some men that need that.
Actually, that's probably a Western generalization. In reality, it depends on the market.
It is a bit like saying playing chess doesn't get you better at anything but chess.

There is a bunch of aspects to video games, that you improve e.g. hand-eye coordination, strategical thinking under pressure, team play and just general reaction time to name a few that come to my mind.
That too.

Teetotalers have spent a lot of history trying to stop men from drinking on their porches.
While I largely agree with your post, you are forgetting about the total return, yes the S&P was like for like on a net basis, but dont forget about dividends in the intermediate period.
Rogan needs to do a podcast with Tobi Lutke (Shopify) and talk programming, gaming and Starcraft in particular.
Can you point to any recent philosophy books published from men sitting on porches? Most of those conversations die as soon as everyone goes home for the night.
Agree. Same for SIMD instructions, and video decoders.

Too many libraries/frameworks are trying to software emulate what's not supported, and fail miserably because the emulation is not remotely fast enough.
Why it's a good filter. It deters a large portion of those that attack someone based of silly jokes the authors may have made in the past or present and would judge without speaking to the person before hand to get a better view of who they actually are.

Judge the code for technical merit and not the assumed character of the author. Denying work based on social correctness only curbs engineering and scientific progress in the long run over bikeshedding matters.
Sorry for the late reply. Been Saturday busy...

I think what you're missing here, is a bit of tongue in cheek. I, too, did not present my case as universal, yet you took effort to point out it wasn't.

Tit for tat, and all that...

That said! I think you have it a bit reversed here. At least, what I read as you (paraphrased) said is "Do you think people wanting to check product, will shift an industry?"

Yet, that question is a bit flawed, as I see it. This is because the industry isn't shifting because a person might want to check a tomato. It's failing to shift.

The inertia, the default "People who want to check produce, have always bought in the store." and "Further back, people could only buy in the store."

Now, you seem to be under the belief that everyone is buying online. Using home delivery. Not going to the grocery store. Yet when I go to the grocery store? When I visit?

You know what I see?

People! Lots of people!

Take me, for example.

I received poor service, and as a result, have not used online grocery shopping. I've gone to the grocery store weekly, as I did prior to COVID.

So from where I sit, the industry isn't shifting in my case, it never changed. And from the numbers I see at my grocery store, this seems to be common.

And this is because I've always cared. I cared before COVID. I care now. I'll care after.

I think you're literally dismissing my experiences as if yours are the universal! Or, if not, as if yours are "clearly what is happening in most cases".

Yet I disagree here.

Let me put this forward.

How many grandparents shop online? I'm not talking about in Palo Alto, but all over the US and Canada?

And to answer that, let me mention something. Grocery stores have always offered home delivery, for a small fee.

Why did most people not avail themselves of that? Why do you believe online shopping, is so different from phone shopping? Or fax shopping?

Both of which always existed.

Anyhow.

I have a feeling we're not going to agree at all here.
what's funny is you're ignoring what the experimenter himself concluded about the experiments. he concluded that we have free will to veto these choices, its always rich to see his experiments so badly misused.
What's up with that weird tangent about feminism? It's not like no feminist ever noticed the bottled-up toxic masculinity in some gaming communities and started analysing that.

Do more sports is definitely one of the more naive "solutions" I've come across.
My problem is that Kindles of late are slower than earlier Kindles, not against non-E Ink devices.
Great, let me know how it goes :)
Agreed, I remember at Univ in a different degree my classmates were playing games for fun while I was programming for fun. Turns out you DO get somewhere with programming though, chances look like 9 out of 10 people who program for fun can do it professionally, while only 1 in something like 10k-100k who game can do so professionally (totally made up stats, just want to show the order of magnitude I feel of "getting somewhere").
> “MMA fighter claims that martial arts is not a waste of time and that other hobbies are.”

> What’s the discussion to be had here? Just one biased talking head trying to raise the way he spends his free time above others.

Being good at killing people is very good skill to have if somebody else is trying to kill you.
Yes, mostly useless. Though from my perspective, as a young male that has played video games quite a bit, it has made me curious about certain useful skills. At some point, you'll start playing with the game, modding it, or hosting servers for your buddies, or making cheats. I've learned scripting with Lua because I wanted more. Sure, you won't become a linux admin by hosting a Teamspeak and WoW server, but it will get you closer.
Ok then. I ran 30km today, I can play some video games if I want.
Most people who like books, films and TV, consume these media types passively, i.e., they are less immersive and hence perhaps less dangerous. With _creating_ music, I'd argue the situation is similar to martial arts: it requires discipline, and actually social skills if you want to be relevant. The same is true for many "e-sports". However, I agree with Rogan more or less, because there are just too many games that are too dull and too many young males who waste their time with them. Based on my personal experience, I would say most of my time spent gaming as a teenager was wasted, but playing music actually taught me important lessons for life. For me the social aspects, as well as the "mastery" aspects of gaming were just too simple, too simulated.