skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the benefits of running (open)BSD on a workstation? Especially a laptop?

Edit: this could of course also be used for running a server on a M1 mini!
China's population growth is about to flatline too.
You all but said that a nuclear war is an acceptable choice. As for wishing your death, I literally did the exact opposite. It is you who considers a few million deaths acceptable, what I'm saying is that you should try to understand that you might be included in the statistics.
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Ever heard of a Second Congo War? Of course, not. Who ever cares about what happens in Africa, right?
There has been some effort to quantify "AI scaling laws": ie how much performance increases as we scale up the resources involved. See section 1.2 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361.pdf

My main takeaway from that paper is that a 2x increase in training cost improves performance by 5% (100x by 42%). I only skimmed the paper though.

To me this says that model scaling will not get us very much farther: we can probably do one more 100x but not two.

I talked to someone working on model scaling and they see the same numbers and draw a very different conclusion: my interpretation of their argument is that they view scaling money as easy versus finding new fundamental technical advances.
475/500 in Brooklyn, which I will consider a total success. Neat game!
In a sort of backwards way, it's almost like people in their 30s need to be offered a secure mini-retirement to feel like it's reasonable to have kids. (Not to mention housing being a pain.)
When the cosmonauts were able to talk to family back on Earth, Artemyev was asked about the suits. He said every crew chooses their own.

“It became our turn to pick a color. But in fact, we had accumulated a lot of yellow material so we needed to use it. So that's why we had to wear yellow,” he said.
There are set of popular books that turn people ready for it into assholes. They also have value if they don’t do that to you and you apply a certain skepticism to them, but still often a risk.
Atomic habits. Last year I had just came back from 3 days in Hospital for extremely high blood pressure. I took up walking as a daily workout and listened to Atomic Habits audiobook. It provided me enough motivation to continue and build a new habit which has not become a part of my daily routine. I am healthier and in a much better space mentally as well.
Yeah, this framing was taken in a piece a few years ago about the failure to revitalize a rail project [1] in New York, which ultimately pinned the blame on tipping the balance too far in favor of private property rights. A single person/holdout can grind a project valuable to millions to a halt. It's the most compelling explanation I've read.

In short, if private property has absolute veto power, you can never get big public projects done. (This is why eminent domain exists) There's a balance between private property rights & public good; in the times of great public works, the public good was given more sway, while recently private property rights have been given more (and stifled public works).

[1]: I think it was https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
How is this any different from the NYT running the entirely fabricated story that Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't authentic... Other than that the NYT kept running with it for 18 months, while Axios has apparently already corrected a story?
I would argue that they need to by definition, and that if they don't then they are no longer the negative numbers
changing cloud providers is not a small task
> Have them early if possible.

The two most important factors in having successful children are: 1. having two parents and 2. having older parents at child birth.

There’s a ton of data on this. Maybe it’s correlation only, but it also makes sense. Parenting is too difficult for a single person. And waiting until you’re established and stable will give your kids a better environment for growth.
I read the magnum opus of Marathi literature ’Mrityunjay’ as a teenager and it really helped me understand the world view.

Mrityunjay is a story of a great warrior who by sheer chance of luck ends up being a lower-caste charioteer.

The book showed me that life is not black and white, talent is not all that’s needed to succeed and how luck and pragmatism plays a huge part in your life. It also helped me understand what Krishna stands for and what Dharma is. Fascinating theme that is still relevant today.
Widening Circles, memoir by Joanna Macy.

I picked it up as I was becoming interested in Buddhism and felt it would give me insight into from a “western convert” perspective (it did).

But it also opened my mind to environmentalism—not that I had been closed to it as such, just less interested.

More unexpectedly, it opened my mind to unconventional romantic relationships. I remain, in principle if not actively in practice, polyamorous to this day. Even since, I’ve realized that I’m demisexual (which is on the asexuality spectrum), and the same part of the book which helped me embrace poly also helped me embrace demi and reconcile the two.
Warning: whining ahead. What are countries really doing to promote "fertility"? The impression we get is that it's difficult, tiresome, thankless, expensive, and opens you up to systemic abuse from schools (especially pre-schools and post-secondary education), healthcare providers, and various other institutions designed to suck money from your pockets. You get to live isolated in single-family single-generation households with little to no help from family and friends; the only help you get is what you can pay for. Anything that goes wrong is Your Fault. And no one cares if you are struggling. It's Your Fault for choosing to have children. Why should your elite hyper-intelligent childless megabrain coworkers take on any burden to accommodate your needs? Children are a luxury, after all.

Isn't it a wonder why we can't get fertility rates up?
Blindly attacking one side or the other, further creating a rift between the left and the right (or any groups within America) is the thing that Putin really wants. So congratulations.

I'm not a right-winger, but I live in a very right-wing county, and talk to a lot of folks who are hardcore conservatives.

Aside from Tucker Carlson, nobody on Faux News is pro Russia. Most of my conservative friends have labelled Carlson a traitor to America for his pro-Russia views and have proposed boycotting Faux News until he's removed. (sad overreaction, IMO, but whatever)

They are so pro-Ukraine it's not even funny. And they point to Russia and China as the #1 reason why everyone in America should be investing in assault rifles.

As far as they're concerned, the left is responsible for:
* Wrecking the supply chain (via reactionary, and overly aggressive anti-work measures during the pandemic)

* Causing rampant inflation (via ridiculous spending and quantitative easing)

* Ruining our ability to manufacture goods domestically (by making it literally impossible to manufacture many necessary components such as fertilizer)

* Driving widespread monopolization and centralization of industries (by making it impossible for small businesses to remain solvent during the pandemic (or previously))

* Making it impossible for people to defend themselves for no good reason (banning assault rifles, when they are responsible for 1/1000th of the deaths of handguns)

So according to them, Left-wing means weak America, and Putin loves it.

I think I wrapped up their current platform in a nutshell. I think most of those bullets are over simplifications, but my point is that is that both the left and the right have legitimate concerns and they both want what is best for America. It is important to remember that before blindly attacking a group of people.
Yeah, this is killing me. NORTH WOODWARD AVE turns into WOODWARD AVE turns into NORTH WOODWARD AVE turns into SOUTH WOODWARD AVE turns into WOODWARD AVE turns into NORTH WOODWARD AVE completely at random, and none of them count as each other. And sometimes multiple parts of the same road show up in the same quiz.

I know this is fundamentally an OSM data problem, but it's also your UX problem now. (N 42.5, W 83.17 if you want to have a look.)

Also it was quizzing me on park trails. And I just got an underwater tunnel at the zoo. I guess those are technically named ways in some manner of speaking, but they're definitely not streets with signs.

All that aside, this is really fun! Personal best 470/500. I wish I could make it longer; n=5 is a small sample and my scores vary tremendously from one run to the next.
A four-word story: Knot now; knot ever.
While I found things to like in the article, the comparison to ‘Children of Men’ is very strained. In the book women couldn’t get pregnant for unspecified reasons, but they desperately wanted to. The world the article refers to is one in which people choose not to have children generally for economic reasons.
I'm guessing what they mean is that it removes some of the financial barriers to parents during early childhood: they can return to work because their child is in school/daycare for most of the day, at limited to no cost to them.
We draw the line where there's an obvious problem. For every reductio ad absurdum looking at slavery and trying to put down another country's citizens at the benefit of our own, there is a counterexample looking at how ridiculous it is we have ultra-rich deciding their little game of looking at numbers going up and people living in McMansions just to show off being more important than a giant middle class unable to afford housing where their grandfathers and grandmothers could living a lower class lifestyle.

Surely somewhere we can accept that a bunch of wealthy playing the investment game on very limited resources instead of the realm of producing solutions or improvements isn't the way to further society as a whole. We don't have to put down those already in the ditches further, we got a swat of people above to look at.
Because we are a civilization in steep decline, and this is just another symptom.
How to be a 3% Man by Corey Wayne [0]. Really helped me understand women, dating, and relationships in way that's so simple and clear. It has profoundly made my relationships with women better in every way.

[0] https://www.scribd.com/doc/33421576/How-To-Be-A-3-Man
Coincidentally I've been supporting trying to keep around a local golf course over letting a local private school expand athletic fields on it in my area. In my eyes the golf course is better for the community. People from all ages from the local area come there to play cheap golf or tennis and get reasonably priced lessons. Meanwhile if this plan were to go through, suddenly that area is private and reserved for rich people who can afford tuition at this private school, and all those opportunities for local people to get some activity outdoors vanish for good. Plus that school in question already has athletic facilities, these would just look more collegiate looking I guess...
Dune. Specifically the parts about how a human can choose their reaction to an external event. And the ability to overcome fear.

Man's Search For Meaning. Again, overcoming the worst situations and finding joy anywhere.

How to Practice. Understanding what you are feeling and why you are feeling it.

Emotional Intelligence. How the amygdala sends signals to the brain, why it does that, and how to recognize your negative reactions.

And all the Discworld books, to find joy and humour in everything. GNU Terry Pratchett.
No matter what they meant, the point is that the idea of putting an infrared telescope anywhere that's not permanently dark and cold is a nonstarter. So it would only make sense to build one on the far side of the moon if it were actually dark.
There is a balance between letting a single individual stall progress for all of society, and respecting human rights. A single individual certainly should not be able to block the construction of a public transit system that will bring jobs and improve the livelihood of millions. At the same time, the government can provide reasonable alternative accommodations or pay market value (not decided by the individual in question.)

Eliminating NIMBYism and individuals' selfish obstinacy does not need to lead to a global hegemony enslaving billions.
Oooo.

Longer roads should score more points because they're more important / you're a bigger idiot for missing them? ;)
This is a take that I hadn’t really thought about, so thank you for writing this.
Watching a playthrough is the easiest optionalest option, also one that is doable from start to finish by the largest number of gamers. Such an extra-inclusive option, all games should feature it. "Watch the bots play".

With your philosophy, you get games with pointless difficulty systems like Skyrim & co. Sliders that range from "enemies die in one hit" to "you'll spend half an hour hitting this boss before it dies because now it has hitpoints defined by your_level * 9999999999". None of the bosses in Souls games take half an hour to fight unless you do something exotic like SL1 runs, if you're not done with a boss in a couple of minutes chances are something's wrong with your build, because otherwise your skills are good, else you wouldn't survive for 2 minutes with a Souls boss.
Hi Ted
I’m the same. I love the look of it all but I can barely manage to make progress in something like Hollow Knight never mind Souls games.

With work and family and ageing I don’t have the time, patience or reflexes for this type of game unfortunately.

I really enjoyed Jedi Fallen Order, which is ostensibly a Souls type game. I managed most of the game on regular difficulty before one boss bested me and I was able to drop to easy difficulty.

I get that the desolation and feeling of hopelessness against insurmountable odds (and finally overcoming) is part of the gameplay loop. I just can’t do it.
Because now government know exactly how many kids it has to fund daycare for and where the facilities should be.

I’d even go as far as parental leave should be completely covered until there is government provided daycare, so as the decision to have kids doesn’t carry too much of an economic burden.
The following have all had a significant effect on my worldview. You can find more information at [1].

- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

- Thinking, Fast and Slow

- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

- Crime and Punishment

- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

- The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

- Franny and Zooey

- Master of the Senate

- Atlas Shrugged

- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

- Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

- The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

- The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

- Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

- Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter

- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

- Humankind: A Hopeful History

- The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

[1] https://jacobw.xyz/books/
Yep, if you look at their comment history, you can see it case in point. Rants about how fiat currency are the biggest fraud in history, etc. Every talk of government is using the phrase threats of violence.

Another one talking about the virtues of Trump government. Its kind of surreal in its divergence from reality.
Related: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-ridicules-idea-t...
Apparently, even vacuum is not a fundamental constant.
It's less "how well states are run" and more that some states just get way more money. Delaware gets approximately 50x as much money as California or New York does from the federal government on a per-mile basis.
Yessss, this is what I imagined from the headline. But I suspect the data quality is trash...
Is innovation slowing necessarily a bad thing?
And if you are a man, your balls - which must be kept below body temperature - even raising them to 37C/98.6F will reduce fertility - heating them with microwaves goes far beyond that modest risk.
It’s not just public transit. Walkability. Bike paths. High density - potentially mixed use types. No emphasis on lowering noise. Etc.

Basically anything you’d normally see in a Not Just Bikes video…

It’s not cultural btw. It’s corporational. It’s corporations which are driving these things - which don’t seem to have as significant of a voice in other countries.
As a former Mormon myself, I appreciate where you are coming from.

I plan to read the recommendations folks made here, but due to the proselyting culture and the mystical emphasis Brighamite Mormonism puts on the Book of Mormon I want to offer a more substantial and impactful recommendation. In its place, I recommend Sagan's Demon-Haunted World.
“this geek does not exist”
I have just finished reading this book (English translation) and was blown away by how relatable a lot of the characters and the flaws in their relationships are. At some parts it was like looking in a mirror and not in a good way.
Personally I'm rather skeptical that this was intentional. I could obviously be wrong, but I feel it's probably more of a coincidence than anything else.

You don't exactly sneak something like this aboard unless you have a lot of people in the flight prep chain who will turn a blind eye.
The point is that Russia's fertility rate is particularly low, and Russia can't really afford a long term compounding effect of their already low rate, with the loss of a significant number of young men. While that is unlikely to affect their thinking about the war in the short term, the article has a point that the perceived impact may well be higher when families are generally smaller.
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Of course "sweeping generalizations" aren't always right. That's obvious.

It doesn't mean that generalizations themselves aren't worthwhile, and sometimes accurate enough to frame a problem. Exceptions to the rule shouldn't completely invalidate the rule.

In this case I also never said anything about them working hard per se. No doubt they work very hard, but seem to accomplish nothing. Working hard, not smart.
You might never find a shorter book that will turn your worldview upside down. Even if not, the first hand stories of Hans Rosenberg are a great read.
Innovation exists because of a need to find a way to support a growing population. We don't need to be continuously innovating. It's OK to take a break.
That seems... implausible.

There may be a mundane explanation: https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1504953365196943367
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I feel productive with my Alacritty + Fish (with a starship.rs prompt) setup. I can even swap the shell, and I get the same user experience.

It's consistent and blazing fast, and that's all I ask.
My understanding is that part of this panic is due to how society is structured somewhat as a pyramid scheme. Social benefits to retirees are expected to come from the economic productivity of a younger working class. Large businesses which are designed to make high-level execs wealthy at the expense of their lowest-level employees require a steady stream of fresh meat. I think some of the economic changes we're seeing is related to declining fertility rates.
First and foremost: The Bible. Not the watered down "everybody goes to heaven" theology that most people subscribe to, but rather an evidence based approach that uses the Bible to interpret itself as it was designed to do.

Secondarily, this book saved my life in the sense that it helped me understand my depression, a clinical depression so deep that my psychologist had never seen such a thing previously:

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Stephen C. Hayes https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0054M063A/

Its scientific approach to understanding our own thought patterns gave me control- coping mechanisms- for dealing with my own feelings instead of ignoring ("Burying") them and letting them slowly destroy me from the inside out.
>"But in fact, we had accumulated a lot of yellow material so we needed to use it. So that's why we had to wear yellow,”

Sure, sure ;)

>"Despite all of that, up in space, we can have a cooperation with our Russian friends, our colleagues"

They're just being professional. I am pretty sure they would sanction them out in no time if it was not presenting big problems.
Now as part of your analogy, imagine the United States is a brutal, repressive dictatorship and what it finds threatening is democracy. And Mexico is becoming more democratic....
If you make something compulsory, a whole system springs up around meeting that compulsion.

If the government mandates kindergarten attendance, well, now it's much more important to put funding for kindergartens in your next bill.

If every parent of a three-year-old has to think about finding a kindergarten, that's a lot more political clout behind getting better kindergartens.

And so on and so forth.
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We have so many people who's ability to contribute is under utilized. Surely elevating these people is a more efficient way to capitalize on the resources invested.
> "I would counterargue that corners are often cut just as terribly in the US."

I would agree with you. The bay bridge had issues with the steel[0]. The millenium tower[1] also has corner cutting problems. The question is the frequency. I believe corner cutting happens far less in the US than say China.

As a Chinese person in the US, I would bet dollars to doughnuts that people in China would prefer foreign products over Chinese ones across the board. The last time I was in China, my friends tell me that they prefer products from Korea over ones in China. The problem is the cost.

> "Within our culture in the US there is a clear and comically obvious problem of bureaucracy and broken red-tape."

People often complain about bureaucracy and broken red-tape in the US but after thinking about this deeply, I'm beginning to suspect that the US government is one of the more efficient governments in the world:

1) How many people in this world can honestly say "Wow my government is so efficient that it's more efficient than the corporations in my country."

2) The US has some amazing departments. National parks, military/CIA/FBA/NSA, federal reserve, state department, FDA, CDC, DOD (research), public universities, community college, consumer protection, USPS, etc. What they actually accomplish is amazing and is at the top of the world or near the top.

3) The US accomplishes so much while maintaining a democracy. The US pioneers human rights around the world.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2015/06/mystery-brand-new-bay-bridges-...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/10/san-francisc...