skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scrolling mechanic was great for communicating scale!

The coolest thought this gave me, that I'd never really considered before:

How little life must have changed in the past 3000 years in the deep ocean? Have we even been adjusting the atmosphere for long enough for the circulation currents to take pH changes that deep?

We've essentially remade the surface of the planet, the lower atmosphere, and the top of the ocean. But in the depths... little of this actually impacts them.

From time to time, a single ship dropping down and coming to rest on the bottom. But those are a drop in the bucket compared to the ocean surface area.

Other than that, life is probably very similar to what it was 5,000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000, 10,000,000 years ago. Before modern humans existed, and certainly before industrial civilization. And probably before our species even existed. Mind bogglingly constant.
UBI

Really. Just give people money. It generates more benefit than it costs. Look how well billionaires did when unemployment benefits were buffed up. Now imagine if they were taxed reasonably to capture some of that toward covering the cost. People still looked for work, but they could afford to hold out for better jobs.
From what I heard, Adobe couldn't even standardize Flash internally. Flash player was apparently internally a dozen or so Flash runtimes that everyone was afraid to touch except to cut a new version on top of the others.
It's been an interesting ride the past few years as a software engineering manager: many junior engineers have never developed or deployed anything that requires Apache httpd.

Some have never even heard of it, or seen it in the wild.
I would imagine, distance aside, that sitting on a bicycle and moving is actually easier than sitting on a motorcycle and being mostly stationary. Whenever I would get off a motorcycle after a long ride I quite literally have to unfold in stages until I can even walk normally again, I have never had that kind of problem on the bicycle, even after lots of hours in the saddle.
The thing is, our current understanding is that such a weather machine doesn't exist so it isn't necessary to design around it.

In the cyber security world such machines absolutely do exist so we should be expected to design around them.
Staccato Espresso Is Better Than Regular Espresso
Strictly speaking, I have never been a gamer, although I enjoyed in the past playing games, either alone or with friends; back then the hardware was the C64 and later the Amiga. I still have memories of epic tournaments, one of which brought me and a friend to an actual physical fight:^)
After growing up a bit, and as a formerly avid SF reader, I started enjoying immersive games with actual plots. I liked a lot Half Life 2, although it didn't really have a fully developed plot, and later fell in love with the Mass Effect series, which to me is a kick ass TV series waiting to happen.
I have considered multiple times getting a console, but always chose the PC. Actually I still have my old Wii which I use from time to time to do some exercising at home, but for serious gaming, today I'd get a PC. My current machine is too old for anything serious, so I'm planning to get soon an upgrade with a Ryzen G series CPU which would work for light games.
The choice IMO depends on what the user might do (or plan to do in the future) with the device. A console is a much simpler device one can turn on and start playing in seconds, while a PC is more time consuming (installs, load times, fiddling with drivers or other issues, etc.) but is also on a whole different league wrt features and use cases. I left out small devices like tablets and portable consoles because to me they're too limited, and also I can't feel immersed in a game if it occupies just a small screen, but since you mention them, I would suggest a look at the Steam Deck: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/
I've been a Lagrange user for about a year and it is absolutely phenomenal. I know everyone getting into Gemini is building a server and some are building a client and it's a fun project to build, but as far as practicality goes, from an end user perspective, Lagrange is far and away the best user experience I've found in a client. Now granted, I haven't tried desktop gemini clients much since finding it, but the point still stands. If you find yourself wanting to read a lot and you find the content available over Gemini enticing give it a shot.
Sometimes that behaviour can be the result of a poorly written interrupt service routine that isnt reading the encoder pulses correctly. Ive found it to be a surprisingly common issue regardless of how new an item is.
We have superhuman performance at most narrow skills; the exceptions seem to be object manipulation with limbs/digits and semantic/logical thinking and planning. Given the advances by Boston Dynamics and others with limb-based mobility I'm guessing that's not too far off. With recent models proving a significant subset of the Metamath theorems, that doesn't look too far away either. Google/DeepMind are playing around with sparse model combinations of many useful superhuman domain models with additional layers to determine which domain to use for particular inputs.

The last and most difficult step in safe AGI is moral/value alignment. That is unfortunately probably last on the timeline of likely achievements because it requires general solutions to both planning and reasoning, and also an accurate world model and understand of physical actions and their consequences.
Notifire – open-source Notification Infrastructure
My guess is as good as any other layperson's, but I don't see much work being done for it, and no real good definition of what it is so we could plan how to create it.

OTOH, we see specialized intelligences do all soft of superhuman feats, all the time, and more impressive abilities join these all the time. These, however, are not human-like intelligences. They aren't even bee-like. They are so alien we don't see "general intelligence" in them.

So, my guess is that we'll have some extremely complex and capable systems that are extremely alien in nature well before we can have a conversation with a human-like intelligent system. They'll be useful and treated like oracles - we won't be able to understand their reasoning, but they'll be right most of the time.

It is, however, a matter of time and desire. There is nothing inherently magical in our mammalian brains and our organic bodies that can't be simulated by a sufficiently capable machine and technology for that will, eventually, become possible, then available, then practical, and then ubiquitous.
Ha, JEdit, good memories ! I used it for all my Java development from around mid 2000's to early 2010's. Then I didn't touch Java much, stuck to Python and C.

I was very comfortable with JEdit, it was never on my way to bother me when coding. It was working as intended, with no bugs or quirks. I preferred by far to the then fashionable Eclipse IDE and IntelliJ IDE. With JEdit, you made your own IDE by choosing your plugins.

JEdit was and still is an example of good software. Than k you Slava.
Is that talking about my computer or his computer?
I spent two weeks out there and had the same experience with vulnerability. I was a very experienced backpacker by then, but that was a a different experience in terms of wilderness.

Where did you go in the park?
I assumed you worked in infosec, so no surprise there. What is surprising is that you're essentially claiming clients primarily need only take a couple of measures that you imply to be trivial, so they are negligent if they are breached.

Aside from the obvious wrongness of that mind-boggling assertion, it raises the question for even the uninformed as to why there would be a multi-billion dollar infosec industry--that includes your company--if security is as trivial as you suggest here.

Of course, the answer is that it is not and that you should understand better than most the complexity inherent to infosec, else you wouldn't have a business. Perhaps that's why, of the people I know who work in infosec, not a single one is as cavalier as you appear to be here.

But, here you're again underscoring my point by focusing solely on the victim's "culpability" and now even claiming that they are not actual victims.

Victim-blaming is a standard propaganda technique propagated by the criminals and their sponsors. Why are you working so hard to oblige them with these odd false narratives?
> What happens when interest rates are unable to fall further? Are we already at the end of the ball? How much higher can it go?

One interesting option is different policy rates for different sectors of the economy. Last year during the COVID markets crisis the ECB used[1] this type of mechanism to keep a wide availability of credit.

[1] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/implement/omo/tltro/html/inde...

> How do they work?

The TLTROs are targeted operations, as the amount that banks can borrow is linked to their loans to non-financial corporations and households.

In TLTRO III, similarly to TLTRO II, the interest rate to be applied is linked to the participating banks’ lending patterns. The more loans participating banks issue to non-financial corporations and households (except loans to households for house purchases), the more attractive the interest rate on their TLTRO III borrowings becomes.
I'm not afraid of having to do stuff in the CLI. And of course there are a ton of ways to solve it. None of them would be as straightforward or as elegant as having one partition that just contains all my user data and both of the operating systems I need to boot.
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I’m not really implying ‘fault’. Who the hell has the right to criticise Einstein! Certainly not me and probably not any other mere human.

Just pointing out that he fought hard against a new idea (that did turn out to be right) - with, as you say some really helpful consequences!

Maybe he will still turn out to be right in the end though and some grand unification theory is eventually found that is beautiful and simple!
There are benchmarks you can consider (with your use case and setup in mind of course)

http://ann-benchmarks.com/
So fun to see Gold Miner mentioned! I built the GameRival.com site where it and many other flash games were hosted. The game was so popular it led to an integer overflow in the (unsigned) int32 primary key column of our logging table (SQL Server).

I didn't realize how insanely popular the game was until I was in Las Vegas about five years ago, and a Gold Miner rip-off game was available while drinking at the bar.

Fun story - GameRival.com actually started from an advertisement game for NASCAR on Fox. We built this silly little Flash racing game that let you "challenge" your friends to beat your high score at the end. It did so well, we decided to double down and and licensed games to launch a new property to compliment our network of original Flash animations (sites like FlowGo).
Is this what you mean? [0] It’s actually a “crate engine” sold by Ford. Awesome concept.

These ThinkPad mods are pretty much all about the keyboard and overall form factor. The display has to be swapped out for something more modern, the batteries should probably be upgraded, obviously the entire motherboard is being replaced… It’s getting close to a ship of Theseus scenario. A lot of old 90s laptops have pretty brittle plastics too. ThinkPads in general seem to fare better than say PowerBook G3 display hinges. It’s a heck of a long road to go down for a sturdy laptop with a great keyboard and a ton of ports. If the motherboard could be made for under $500 with open source hardware I’d be tempted.

0: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2021...
True, at a high level I think the central issue is what kind of curve we're on.
Hum... Both P and NP are within the set of algorithms you can run when the computer is on. When it's off it's a different set, so it proves that OP=NOP (where O is for "off").
In case anyone is wondering, we have made zero progress on anything even remotely resembling Artificial Intelligence. Zero.

Unfortunately of course, the people who might have some of the skills needed to actually build such a thing (at the bricks and mortar level anyway), are nearly those people whose understanding of what intelligence actually is may be less than ideal. As a hint, it has nothing to do with passing tests or other such mundanity.

A more interesting approach would be to consider language - if cooperating entities can be constructed that (eventually yet spontaneously) created ways to communicate between each other, then maybe some progress has been made.

Further, if we appreciate that any idea, discovery, anything, can be communicated to even the most recently discovered humans in their own language (though we may need to build up the various concepts from basic terms), and that no such feat is possible with the other animals, then we might wonder if another intelligence (artificial or otherwise) might be able to encode concepts that are unreachable in our (any of our) language and thus thoughts - or, alternatively, that our (any of our) language is conceptually complete in some fundamental sense, and so there simply cannot be such 'higher' intelligence (artificial of otherwise).
I think LeBron James and John Cena come close.
The article is even more insane. He was trying to do that on rice cakes. Eventually the calorie deficit got to be too much and he had to switch to brownies.
They’ll get there in a few years. If you fire up some of their apps, like News, that have a premium Apple subscription component they try to gently upsell you. Expect that to become more aggressive as they taste more of that sweet sweet high margin service revenue.
Covid Sure Looks Seasonal Now
The other issue with buttons is that typically buttons are flush-mount. That inevitably means you need to look at the button to press it. So it’s not just that you have awful feedback, even starting the process of engaging with the controls takes longer and requires eyes. Knobs and sliders can typically be found with muscle memory getting you first close enough to feel the “landscape” around the control, then use touch to find it exactly. Flush mount buttons almost completely prevent this.
Incredible what corporations can accomplish for humanity when they are unhindered by their government.
> Why is it that if I work on a Monday, but you don't pay me until two weeks later, why do you get to hold the interest?

Because that is the agreement you entered into when it accepted employment.
Sagemath provides a python interface to maxima and uses it for some operations behind the scenes.
There's a huge difference between doing some discovery and using a vendor's own coupon codes versus affiliate codes automatically applied by a browser addon masquerading as a virtuous aid. This distinction seems to be have been lost on you. When you use affiliate codes that didn't actually earn your conversion, you are screwing over the company while rewarding corruption.
> I wouldn't believe that this is a reasonable hypothesis. The implication of this would be that straight men are spending _so much_ time trying to get laid that it hinders their level of education as a demographic, and this just seems to be absurd on its face.

As someone with quite a few gay friends and am straight - can say that my life would be 100x better if I was gay. All my gay male friends agree. Straight men have it incredibly difficult as far as dating investment goes. You can spend all your time in the gym, work, studying, improving personality, etc. and it can go entirely unrecognized by women for some minor reason like you’re not tall enough (not tall == short, mentality is very prevalent). On top of this - you’re gonna have a real bad time on dating apps whereas gay men will literally meet up with anyone who is at least in modestly good physical shape (even then - plenty of those who will meet up with you). After that, it’s up to you to figure out how to lock it down if that’s what you want. Whereas a straight man can receive nothing for years online - I mean I’ve never been on a date in my entire life from online interactions!

If I was gay, my life would’ve been much better. I spent so many hours out of my day doing things just for women for so long and still do. Whereas I would not have to do this for gay men because I would’ve been accepted from the start - and I could’ve gone on doing more while feeling good about being accepted instead of going on and doing these things feeling rejection the entire time.

I can say that at least from my gay friends - it seems like the community isn’t perfect but at least they accept you. And at least there’s a community - holy shit.
My first thought is that it looked close to 1-e^-1, but that doesn't seem to be it.
(author here) If you've been following the project and are interested in getting involved, now is a good time as I'm helping new contributors get up to speed. This post describes recent efforts, which I want to expand on.

If you know Python and shell, or C/C++ and shell, you can almost certainly contribute something!

I should add that if you've gone through Crafting Interpreters (https://craftinginterpreters.com/) like I've seen so many people do, Oil is nearly identical architecturally to the first interpreter in Java, even though it's written in (statically typed) Python. The ideas apply directly, but this is a bit more "real world", with more detail, and with the addition of about 20 syscalls to implement a shell!
I recently found about "Aesthetic-usability Effect" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetic%E2%80%93usability_ef...
People find sleek looking things more usable even when they are actually not.

There are no visible left/right click buttons on modern laptop touchpads. You get a sleek looking touchpad. Tap bottom left side harder to left click, right side to right click. There are still buttons beneath, but no, to designers eye they are somehow uglier than a flat broad spread out touchpad.

It reminds of the Norman Doors ("Design of Everything"). Designers made the doors in a mall so sleek and plain and 'beautiful', there were no handles or boundaries between doors. And people would get stuck trying to push the wrong side. So much for 'beautiful' design.
Interesting, I’ve never been asked for food etc. I don’t typically really bushwhack or go off trail a ton, but I guess I also don’t frequent really popular trails for the thru hikers.

There have been my own times where I’ve gotten very close to asking for help, but haven’t had to… yet

And I agree that fast hiking and making miles isn’t really my style, but it is fun to do 20+ mile days every now and again.
> It's way different than the FF we used to know.

I've been using Firefox continuously since v0.8. What do you mean by this?
>you can always choose a different bank not blocking crypto purchase.

Until there are none left. Reports on reddit suggest most are affected.

Remember UK doesn't have a bunch of small regional banks like the US
And does copyright prevent someone from sharing a link to someone else’s work? If so, someone should tell Google.
The Jewish Talmud discuss a more extreme situation where someone squats in someone else's yard and then leaving it intact. If the owner just found about it after the fact, does the squatter have to pay? Regarding loaning light or even fire it was pretty obvious that it is allowed.
I hope they have signs telling out-of-towners how to use them, i.e. yield to cars already on the roundabout, enter the roundabout without blinking, and just before your turn-off, blink right to let others know you're exiting there. IMO The best would be signs several hundred meters away, maybe with 1 "lesson" per sign.

Even in Europe the rules aren't consistent, the French think they have to blink to indicate their turnoff as if there's no big circle in the middle of the road, but the issue is if there's a roundabout (counter-clockwise) with four exits and entrances (say north, west, south, east) and I'm waiting to enter from the north end, and I see a car blinking left, how do I know if that car came from the west wanting to exit north (which would mean I'm free to enter the roundabout because I'm not going to cut it off) or if it came from the east wanting to exit south (which would mean I have to yield to it). If someone else is going south to north and isn't blinking at all, how do I know if he maybe is going straight east to west, or is too lazy to blink? North me would have to wait until it exits (or pass me) before I can enter, wasting my time.

My other pet peeve is people who don't blink as soon as they can: if you want to exit north, once you've passed the east entrance you can start blinking, this lets people waiting at the north entrance know they're free to enter the roundabout. There's a major road I sometimes drive through, and they have 2 roundabouts where there's always a wait because idiots blink a millisecond before (or in a BMW or SUV, after) they've turned off the roundabout, making people wait.
Tax the zillionaires, pay the individuals more, and the executives less. "Robber baron" used to be an insult and a sign of disapproval. It was a popular term.
> If you click an "https://" link, you don't know whether or not it'll work in your minimal browser

Interesting point, it would be unfortunate not to be able to distinguish web links from links that commit to using only the subset. It doesn't strike me as insurmountable though. Off the top of my head, file-extensions and/or MIME types might work.
We don't need the first AGI to be human efficient. Nobody would mind if it would require 10 data centers and a nuclear power plant to run.

ENIAC also started big and slow. Now it fits in a microSD card.
> If you click an "https://" link, you don't know whether or not it'll work in your minimal browser.

Thats not what they are talking about. They explicitely said using existing browsers, not making your useless html4 only browser.
>What % of social media posts are museum oriented? We are talking 0 percent.... it's only a matter of seeing what's the first decimal point.

I don't go on social media so I can't really comment on that. That said, I do see a lot of people taking pictures of paintings (mostly famous ones) at museums. What gives? If they wanted the best fidelity recreation of the picture, they'd be better off going to wikimedia commons and getting something that a professional photographer took. Maybe they're after the sentimental value, in both the case of going to the museum in person, and taking the picture. It's definitely not for the remaining 0.0000000000001%, especially when you consider that you need x-rays or radiocarbon dating to tell a fake from the original.

>Regardless, it seems to me that there is a lack of common sense among the NFT crowd, and you seem to be somehow on the same wavelenght.

What's your point? That because I'm "somehow on the same wavelenght" as "the NFT crowd", that I have "lack of common sense" by association?

>The vast majority of people who right-click an image of the Mona Lisa do have a desire to one day go out and see the painting in person as they think it would be a cool thing to do and would pay for it.

>There is a clear difference, at least for people who have common sense.

>Given that museums have existed for hundreds of years and have generated trillions of dollars in revenues, the burden of the proof is on NFTs, not the other way around.

So your point is... that NFTs are a bad investment if you plan to start a museum and charge patrons? I don't think that's really controversial, or anywhere close to what we were discussing. Are you trying to use "can charge people to see it" as a proxy for "has value"? While I do agree that's one way to objectively value works of art, it isn't hard to see that's not the only source of value. Like I mentioned before, private collections goes totally against this.
"Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is undefined."