skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which, to me, it’s Doubly sad: for the reason that, at the beginning of computers (less than a century ago), the dream was Already to reach full automation. AI was Always the plan. What happened to that?

The goal of out right automation has been consistently taken backseat to the advances of augmentation - tracing back to Englebart's lab at Stanford vs. SAIL and all of the other AI research labs. One laid the foundation of personal computing, the other, umm, surely some important things, but nothing nearly as radical.

It's a subtle difference between automation and augmentation. Both are rooted in eliminating labor, but that does not necessarily mean replacing people. Despite tools like compilers, databases, and frameworks having eliminated plenty of programmer labor, there are more programmers than ever. Very few need to write machine code or implement a b-tree though.

Copilot and AlphaCode can easily be viewed as extension of that. Much like an IDE can fill in the blanks while refactoring, copilot can go and fetch a method implementation from the hive mind that's been written a thousand times before.

Like you said, the end goal is automation, not writing software. Writing software isn't a goal in and of itself.

Of course you could say these tools will reduce demand for software developers but you could have said that for just about any other advancement in our tooling. You could have called the top of the market for software and developers in the past several decades and you would have been wrong every single time.

As our tools solve our existing problems, we focus on solving new ones, and as long as we have problems we'll need problem solvers.
On one level this is subjective, but even to the extent that I might grant the author to have a point about current film having a “subconscious level of fakeness”, it is only in contrast to older film persistently hitting you over the head with fakeness.

If you grew up with it, sure, you learned to expect and accept it and so maybe it didn't break immersion most of the time, but not because it wasn't obviously unreal, but because it was obviously unreal in a way that you expected in cinema from experience.
Mac malware spreading for ~14 months installs backdoor on infected systems
> Isn't modafinil a stimulant?

It's... stimulant-ish? Nobody seems to know exactly how it works.
After reading the post and comments, it feels more like the author (Jeff, maker of the Avernum series) is cautioning against too many of us moving too far away from life-sustaining activities like maintaining infrastructure (and I would add: teaching and parenting effectively, farming, using our bodies to do most of our work, practicing being more in tune with other life on Earth).

I’ve been escaping into videogame-land during most of my free time (I’m a homemaker & parent of a disabled kid), and while it’s helped me get along with my spouse (release valve, maybe?), it is not the healthiest solution in the long run. Okay for now, and I understand I have a lot of work yet to sync my real and ideal selves (where I know in the moment what I’m feeling and have agency to decide what to do next, rather than picking up the pieces later).
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Sure, but it damn well "appears" that we are. I think this the fundamental issue that the internet causes.

Humans are very well tuned to equate occurance/mention of a thing with prevelence of that thing, so because the internet amplifies provokative thoughts/comments/ideas and buries concensus/1+s/me toos our colletive sensibilities are being thrown completely out of whack. Add in that there's no feedback mechanism to chastise undesireable opinions (or even actions), as there is in in-person communication, and you have a recipe for the chaos we are seeing.
yeah he got the money, he can take apart his yatch then instead of wasting people's time

but who am i to complain when there are plenty of people ok with such behavior..
No, it's never been plausible for a person to consume all new films, games, and especially not books. I suppose you could use some list, say the NYT Bestseller list and strive to read all those, which is somewhat plausible, but those lists are still around and probably more people now strive to do such things than in the past
Waving your arms around after spending a day sitting at the PC is a really good thing to do though, just saying :)
But this was not a re-adaption or a re-interpretation, this was the only version available in the US, and marketed as the same game, only translated.

I honestly don't see how one could in good faith mistake a translation for a re-interpretation. What's next - because translation is somewhat subjective, that means anything goes?
Excellent analysis, thank you, but this line is a little strange:

> The reason fuels are so good is that this release needs a second component (oxygen) that is kept separated. This makes high energy densities safe.

Don't fuel tanks (for internal combustion engines, for example) typically also contain oxygen? You make it sound like a full tank is safer than a half-empty tank.

I assume you're actually saying that for safety we want the reactants to be stable at common atmospheric temperatures and pressures, and we don't want reactants that spontaneously combust on contact with air or common materials (including each other).
Interruptions are a good theory, but it seems unlikely they would have people use their own phones for the experiment, as that would introduce as many variables as there are participants. I would think they just hand everyone a 'clean' phone with no apps on it.

I'd love to see the difference between someone reading a phone-sized piece of paper, a phone, a non-touch LCD that only shows a block of text, and a similarly sized e-ink screen.
The cert error is news to me.
I use Vercel which should handle https with let's encrypt by itself.
Can you please provide more info on this cert error by any chance?
Sure I'd be interested! Let me know if there's contact info on your site or some other method of contact. I'm fine with Email or Matrix.
Growth is plateauing looking at earnings and guidance, so their market cap will reflect fair market value. Growth stocks need to accelerate to maintain high valuations. That and the market is extra sensitive right now IMO. Their numbers are staggering, but earnings and guidance isn’t.
Crawling noob here: what's a good strategy to crawl these websites?
Reddit is huge, how does one efficiently crawl it? Search API for Github links?
I think the key is that youth are going to TikTok and not Facebook.

They lost the next generation of kids!
Apple IIs are still out there. Just takes $s to get the equipment.
just because you can value cryptocurrency doesnt make its value any more real
I don’t want comments, I want commentary. Every time I’m confidently wrong in a commit message - anything from the wrong bug ID to declaring victory prematurely - I wish I could go modify or amend it.

Commits need to be in a separate version tree from their commit messages.
Because they paid him to do that
With a $22B run rate, does it matter if Google Cloud still loses money?
Surely you mean duplication here.
I would like to try something novel (and not really art based) with NFTs. Ideally using Cardano and/or Ethereum (basically want Ethereum since it's the most authoritative source, but want something green/low cost, maybe L2). If anyone knows much about the blockchain and wants to try something out, email me.
there will always be someone who tells the computer what to do

Until the computer starts telling people what to do
It's theoretically true, but Tether at least don't seem to be doing that. They don't even claim to be backed by more than a few percent of cash, and they have never been audited. Imagine a multidecacorn startup that never had submitted to an audit.
Very low, or they'd mention it
It’s not surprising to me that people underestimate the complexity of fields not their own - I do it all the time myself.

What I think would be more interesting is the question: when are outsider critiques or suggestions likely to be valid? To stay with the construction example, it is clear that construction in the US is more expensive than it needs to be in many cases - railroad construction costs are famously many times higher in the US than in other industrialized countries. Is there insider knowledge I don’t have that would make this observation fallacious?

And what about cases where one isn’t simply pointing to a counter example? Are there cases where outsiders have made arguments from first principles that were correct, despite their lack of expertise in the field?
Millenials are almost 40 years old
Yes exactly as you said.
A demo page would be really nice to have as soon as I have some time. Thanks for the suggestion.
Apple's moat is much larger. The costs involved with hardware manufacture, and the need for a deep software ecosystem are challenging.

Meanwhile Facebook is "just" an app. It's pure software, and doesn't have the same ecosystem tie in. It's not a platform in the way that android/ios/windows are. Starting a new social network is much cheaper than creating a new mobile platform.
I felt that way about 8 years ago and stopped using it then
How could anyone ever forget flying penises pelting Anshe Chung in the face during a CNN-sponsored Second Life ‘town hall’? Anyone expecting something different from the ‘metaverse’ is living in a fantasy world.

Porn companies and sex workers will make money in VR environments, whether mainstream companies can remains to be seen.
ImmersedVR can do multiple virtual monitors. But I think the real step forward is dropping the desktop metaphor and having windows floating free in VR, like Simula are doing. They whole concept of a monitor is more constricting than useful in VR.
I am surprised a scholar would take these reports without a massive grain of salt.

> In this study, all disengagement events listed in the company reports were included in the analysis. It is likely that in some cases, disengagements occurred as a precaution by the safety driver, and no adverse event would have resulted
if the AV continued in autonomous mode.

Take a look at [1]. It says that:

> Waymo has developed a robust process to collect, analyze and evaluate disengages for this report. We set disengagement thresholds conservatively for our public road testing. The vast majority of disengagements are not related to safety. Our test drivers routinely transition into and out of autonomous mode many times throughout the day, and the self-driving vehicle’s computer hands over control to the driver in many situations that do not involve a failure of the autonomous technology and do not require an immediate takeover of control by the driver.

> To help evaluate the safety significance of disengagements, Waymo employs a powerful simulator program. In Waymo’s simulation, our team can “replay” each incident and predict the behavior of our self-driving car if the driver had not taken control of it, as well as the behavior and positions of other road users in the vicinity (such as pedestrians, cyclists, and other vehicles). Our engineers use this data to refine and improve the software to ensure the self-driving car performs safely.

So effectively, Waymo has secret process, which may change all the time, to decide which disengagements to report and which not to report. There is no way to tell whether the car would have slightly bumped into another car, or killed a child if not disengaged.

Their reports to the DMV do not constitute data, they are PR.

Not trying to single out Waymo, they all do that.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190531071448/https://www.dmv.c...
> game development companies are much better positioned to make compelling social VR experiences like this.

I don't think that's true. Game developer company culture is heavily oriented towards making and selling products to consumers. They know how to make games people will pay for, and the entire business and culture revolves around that.

With Meta and other ad-driven companies, the people aren't the consumers, they're the product. The whole incentive structure and architecture of the company is fundamentally different. Think about how a company like Facebook or Google has an entire army of sales people and enormous apps like AdWords and Facebook Ads Manager that are how the company actually makes money. Game companies don't have that kind of stuff.

What they have is a bunch of programmers who know 3D rendering and networking. But Meta can simply hire those people—and game devs are used to bouncing around every couple of years—and they are. Several of my old EA coworkers are at Meta know working on it.
Google / Google+ === Facebook/Metaverse.

They can change their name all they want, they are slowing turning into the AOL of our decade. I'm willing to take bets on where this is all going.

I own an Oculus - it sucks. The founder of Oculus admits it sucks. Instagram sucks more than it did last year. I dont have a FB account, but it sounds like it's an ad-driven hell-hole.

Eventually FB will lose because their entire business model is based on outrage, and that cant last forever. It's very clear it is having catastrophic consequences for societies everywhere.

What is the saying .. ?

"The chickens will eventually came home to roost"
Perhaps allowing the user to specify a word list, and defaulting to some value would be better than suggesting symlinks.

On Tumbleweed, I have no /usr/share/dict/words, but /use/share/dict/american. Allowing the user to set would also be useful if multiple languages are installed, and doesn't change the number of lines of code.

I changed the first line to:

words=$(grep -Ex '\w{5}' "/usr/share/dict/${wordlist:=words}" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')

so I can invoke it

wordlist=american wordle.sh

You can also replace it with $1 (or any other positional parameter):

words=$(grep -Ex '\w{5}' "/usr/share/dict/${1:=words}" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')

And invoke it with

wordle.sh american

In either case, it defaults to /usr/share/dict/words if no list is given. Personally I'd go with the first as you use $1 for guesses, and higher numbered parameters get messy.
There is no shortage of engineers to begin with. I have interviewed enough in my life to be certain about it. Curiously, it's not even about the alleged higher compensation required by senior engineers. I never asked for too much and was either rejected or given more than I had expected. The world is crazy and leetcoding is the only game in town. Just live with it.

America is _very_ different from the EU. Ideally you want to be here until you get about 35 yo. And move back after that age. Compensation packages in CA are certifiably insane. Many of them don't require anything special in actual day-by-day work. Passing the interviews is the hardest part by far.

But when you get older and decide to start a family your compensation won't buy you much, from houses to decent schools. And those 44% stolen by the government become 33% with a wife and a child. And provide you with some really nice things not easily bought for money in the US.

I have heard people saying that programmers won't be necessary in such numbers for 20 years. I have personally thought that Bay Area compensation is unreal for a decade. With your DL/CV expertise you are perfectly positioned for the next 20.

In summary, treat CA as a gold rush. You come here to strike rich or die trying. There's no middle ground here.
I think one of the subjects killed themselves due to participation because of the deep inner tension caused by our struggles with obedience versus conscience. The results of the studies bear that out - people largely obey authority unto causing serious harm, that's what the studies tell us, and it's not an inordinate stretch to say that this dissonance causes a person to feel an urge to commit suicide such that, if few people obeyed authority giving malicious orders, they would feel little dissonance and would be way less likely to off themselves. And that's the connection between the results and the ethics. It may not be awfully scientific of me, but I'd yell you out of the quietest room on earth for trying to claim the results have no bearing on that.
I believe there will soon be another FFVI Steam port, in line with the recent 1-5 releases.
I get your point, but I'm also not obsessed and railing against shitty translations.

To me this example is much more closely aligned with bad localization than actual censorship.
The 93% highway driving figure, which is used to normalize Tesla numbers, and then compare agains the NHS dataset, is coming from that 28 Tesla cars study from 2018, or did I read that wrong?
No but streaming services specially for VR are starting up already.
Except few people would spend 6 figures on lotteries, but 10000 people own bored apes. Yes, a lot of them didn't buy them at that price, but they are keeping them, which is actually the same thing.
270k
I remember this start with me in about 2009... used to watch movies all the time, now i can hardly finish 1.
time 1634 PST, I'm hanging out on in this coffeehouse thing. Bueller? Bueller?
good list

the following addition is gonna sound weird, but here it goes :) one thing that was recommended to me and which worked is eating a handful of sour cherries before sleep. don't get ones in a jar (contains added sugar). instead get frozen ones and defrost them so they are ready before bed

also here is a great podcast about topic of sleep by the author mentioned in advice #7:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbQFSMayJxk&t=5768s

"Dr. Matt Walker, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and the Founder & Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley"
Creepy Edgar.
Ah the good ol' carrot then stick tactic.
Where's the incentive if people can't afford them?

You're thinking too small if you think capitalism is the only system with incentives. You're locked into the idea that capitalism is the only possible economic system, and you can't see that there can be alternatives (a.k.a. "capitalist realism").

Why do you think it's reasonable that we could fix a problem created by capitalism by doing more capitalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
I've built a custom engine to achieve that (Elixir/Phoenix). It uses a simplified version of the Aho–Corasick algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aho%E2%80%93Corasick_algorithm to match all mentions of subscribed keywords/URLs. I use the same engine for SaaSHub, too.
Indeed, temperament is its own technology. I assume that the music, technology, and culture co-evolved. And nothing stays constant for a millennium. Temperaments were developed and refined as music began making fuller use of the available scales and chords. Yet each system had to be within the capabilities of musicians to tune their own instruments. A harpsichord had to be tuned before every performance. Equal temperament had to wait until instruments (the modern piano) were stable enough to stay in tune between visits of the technician.

To make just temperament sound "good" even relative to the ears of another time period, probably required playing music written for that particular tuning.

As a double bassist, playing pitches repeatably enough to claim any specific temperament would be a lifelong challenge, if it's even attainable. Most of the time, musicians don't think about temperaments. We try to play in tune and sound good.
It's probably not a coincidence that fewer settings means less complex software, and less costly to produce
Wow what a depressing article for me considering I just lost my job and I was wondering if I should get into what he calls 'art' for a new path in life.
By the time I deactivated my account all I had in my newsfeed were posts from groups I joined when I was a teenager and the occasional news channel post. Friends had steadily dropped off over the years, which made it very easy to pull the pin in the end.

There one or two days where you get the little ping in your brain to check the app (as an ex-smoker the sensation is not at all dissimilar to cravings), and after that you wonder why you spent time there in the first place. I can’t leave WhatsApp or Messenger because I have too many people I have on both, but that’s a different issue as far as I’m concerned.

Now I am spending some time on TikTok - but I’m get content from there that I actually generally enjoy, so that’s a net win as far as I’m concerned.
I ask because I've never seen a company employee a software engineer for 3 days/week, at any price, but I've seen them pay a lot for contractors with 20-30 hours of availability per week
We have a clue as to what it is (these are just functions at the end of the day) but don't know how the model's learned parameters relate to the problem domain. I saw a talk (maybe of Jeff Dean?) a while back that discussed creating models that could explain why certain features weighed more than others. Maybe with more approaches targeted towards understanding, these algorithms could start to seem less and less like a semantically opaque computational exercise, and more in line with how we humans think about things.
I’m assuming you are using a Pi-hole to block the ads? From my understanding that is becoming less effective with companies like YouTube and Facebook since they serve ads directly from their domain.
Gee, I pulled out many years ago. Sounds like FB is going the Yahoo route, just down, trying to catch up to others.
App quality can make or break your product
Current steel production is pretty awful too - radioactive materials in atmosphere via coal, leachates from additives, etc.

Microplastics haven't been proven to have much damage other than triggering karentils (karen's on lentil spectrum).
Copilot actually knows a bit of Lean and can be helpful when formalizing stuff. But it does not get the critical feedback we get from the formal systems (as it's not designed for formal systems).

It would be interesting to eval copilot on the same benchmark as I'm pretty sure it can close some of the proofs still.
Was it already frozen when you transferred it to the fridge? That kind of sounds like it was supercooled and it happened to crash out while in the fridge. Once it freezes that's as high as the pressure will ever get, thawing it will only allow more CO2 to redissolve and lower the pressure.
There are X bitcoin and Y ether out there in circulation at the moment. All are currently owned in a definitive sense because blockchain ledger.

When someone sells fiat and buys crypto, that implies that at the same time there is someone on the other side of the trade buying fiat and selling crypto; right?

You can't have more of one than the other.
I use home assistant to create my list of "entities", then I do all logic/automation in nodered, but this could easily be bash if you really wanted. This allows me to leverage the communities work on integrations for stuff (python libraries interfacing with xyz hardware/api/cloud/local device), and then put all of my automations in one place (nodered for me)

If I add new "stuff" I add it to home assistant, if I want to do things with my "stuff" I do it in nodered.

Also, if the "stuff" I want to add is a little sensor or arduino or esp8266, I can just have it send MQTT messages, and then all of a sudden without touching anything in home assistant, I have access all the way in nodered to use these messages to do anything I want.
Yeah something like that, I think it could be a body clock thing or dry eyes in the winter by the time is around 6 the dryness wakes me
Considering the amount of gov-relations it took for Giphy acquisition https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/metas-acquisition-giphy-... it just seems very likely that a TikTok purchase would be blocked by at least one regulator.
I'm sorry, but a "cyclical trend" that lasts nearly the length of a human life is not a cyclical trend. What this is is the tendency for the rate of profit to fall coming home to roost. These are probably the last days of capitalism as we know it.
This is untrue in my experience. The people who want to work at FB & Google are often just not going to be a good fit for early stage startups.