skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never seen "learned helplessness" linked to "technical progress in a scientific field" in such a way. Has anyone written about this analogy? It sounds super interesting. Like a nontrivial insight into how people approach open-ended problems.

(There's that one quote from a startup founder, "we did it because we didn't realize how hard it was", or something like that. From a pg essay maybe?)
Your "siccing a mob" rhetoric is bald-faced anti-democratic. Prof. Nelsons actions are what the public square is all about - expressing your opinions and criticizing things you think are wrong.

You are dressing up your argument with all these "anti-woke" signifiers but your claim boils dowj to Prof. Jelani was somehow wrong to express his opinion about actions of the government in a public forum.
How is Scribus with footnotes, endnotes, and cross references (forward and back)? I need this for book work, and this is the one thing keeping me in InDesign. For everything else I have been using Afinity.
Similar experience with chrome cast, the Samsung app was slowly dying and cc mostly fixed it. Don’t mind the occasional hard crash though.
This is a good reason to look for real problems to solve, and work on solving those. This could be non-profit or for-profit.
Hmm, do they have any significant sales directly to Russia or Belarus? I assume they still ship to manufacturers somewhere else without requiring that the resulting computer must not be sold to Russia or Belarus.
> I love reading textbooks to learn basic concepts and looking through academic titles just to swim in their ideas.

Keep doing this! It’s more fun to learn a little about a lot than a lot about a little. It’s easy, feels good, and is a good way to pass the time.

Why change?
I don't think I really agree about tags just being links to a nonexistent endpoint. I feel like there is some value in the curation of tags. And tags as a navigation mechanism are useful on their own.
UI looks great to me too. Thanks for the comment, I'll skip on downloading this though because of the outgoing requests
Google cloud print.
To share physical printers on the cloud.

Google reader.
For RSS with blazing speed.
There is a section about being required by the EU to determine location for VAT collection purposes. If their payment processor can’t determine your location sufficiently, then they have to collect data identifying your location and store it for tax/proof purposes. That’s something they don’t want to ever have to do, obviously.

Here’s a link to the policy: https://www.obdev.at/privacy/index.html
Yes, you are very clearly not a lawyer.
They're probably not worth it for most people. They may have enough utility to make it worth it if they're combined with other purposes (eg tornado cellar made out of block and reinforced door). They don't have to be extremely sophisticated, and they could be relatively cheap if one does it themselves. Sort of like the backyard bunkers during the cold war - they were obtainable for a middle class family if they built it themselves.
You realize they sell those tv spots and/or share ad revenue. Every 5 minutes a 1 1/2 minute ad appears.
I still have a 1970s model head unit that sounds just as good today as when my dad passed it down to me as a teenager in the 90s. The thing I loved about it so much is it had A, B, A+B mode so that it could drive 4 speakers. It wasn't quad, but I could put 2 sets of stereo speakers in different rooms.
Hmm. It sounds like Prozac helped you and then you stopped taking it.

Depression sucks. If you ever need someone to chat with, DM me on Twitter.
I would highly recommend starting with Unity instead. Unreal is more powerful but it also requires a much steeper learning curve. And 99.99% of games don’t have the budget to take advantage of the extra power.
Having to sign on/sign up with Github and agreeing to send usage data and other telemetry is just a nonstarter for me, as I imagine it is for many other developers. I do basically everything in my terminal, there's just no way I can agree to beaming any of that back up to some server and essentially trusting there's no fuckery going on.

Looks like a cute terminal though.
I feel the same way as restraunts forcing menus to be QR codes. Now, instead of anonymously reading a menu, you now are forced to read a menu with who knows what kind of tracking enabled to order. Such a stupid stupid thing
Update: ‘Fast’ one-click frictionless checkout shutting down after 2 years
Jelani Nelson himself is probably a better alternative and does much of his work for free.
> GPU interconnects for direct GPU to GPU communication

Note that nvlink is also available on the 3090, which does also have the same bus width as the A6000.
I've researched custom earplugs and you don't need them for sleeping. The point is more to have a flat frequency response.

Nothing beats some 3M E-A-Rsoft FX.
If you want typescript on the BE then you at least need a build step.
At the rate we're going, google will eventually be forced to open its index to competitors just like how telecom companies were forced to allow competition.
1) doubting yourself is what pushes you to learn new stuff, leave room for others to express and learn from them. I've had a fairly rapidly progressing career and I attribute a large part to that. Don't lose it.

2) at some point you start realizing that you are not the imposter, everyone is mediocre and just ignores it. You have been blessed with not being oblivious with your shortcomings, and even if you are doubting things you should not, even if it might seem like a curse, you're an improving human thanks to that.

3) when I freak out about whether I'm doing my job, at some point I usually realize that I am freaking out about whether I'm doing my job. When this happens, I tell myself: stop freaking out about whether you're doing your job and just do your f-ing job. It seems like you are very conscious about that so this might help

3.b) this is one of "the four agreements" which might help you: "always do your best". If you did your best, by definition there is nothing more you could have done. And therefore, no grudge you can hold unto yourself. After all, you did your best! What more can someone ask?

4) people are way, way more tolerant to failure than we give them credit for. I have been with companies that have very high standards and even there, screwing up is accepted as a fact of life as long as you learn from it. Just assume you're allowed to fail, with the current market, worst case scenario this will help you get another job in a better company

5) saw a tweet the other day of someone who changed their perspective from "I'm an imposter" to "of course I don't know what I'm doing, and I'm the freaking best con artist there is! I'm just faking all of it and no one has any idea,I'm so good at it!". Maybe that helps, at least it made me laugh.
You seem to be missing the point. Cults thrive on manipulating social interactions and slowly chipping away at others' boundaries. No cult pitches the shadiness up-front for the incredibly obvious reason that it scares away targets; instead they slowly coax people into taking one "reasonable" step after another until they can't recognize the shadiness for what it is in the moment. The compelling conclusion is that people who think they can easily spot cult recruitment tactics are in fact perfect targets for cults.
I’m not accusing GP of this necessarily, but quite often the view “since we can’t know everything, we can’t know anything” is considered wisdom.

To the GP: we all understand that your experience isn’t the same experience of everyone, but it is AN experience, and would be useful to us who don’t have any experience.
How Can We Create a Manual for Civilization? (2017)
I might have to check this out. Im skeptical of it being a strength in today's world. So far, it seems to only be a weakness for me.
I don’t know what you hope to accomplish by saying this, but it’s not having any effect. Trained medical professionals have to handle thousands of pathologies, each with dozens of possible treatments. The search space alone should make someone at least question whether their Zocdoc is really giving it their wholehearted effort, or if they’re just doing a day job like all of us.

I agree that someone should go to the doctor. But almost everyone agrees on that, and yet very few actually go. I didn’t, for a decade, and mostly out of laziness (not going is after all the default option). Going around commanding people not to do X is only going to make them X.
I do not have chronic depression (what you are describing) but I know many people who struggle with chronic anxiety or depression, so mental health is important to me.
I spoke with a colleague who admitted to dealing with anxiety for two decades, which I recognize is not depression but there is some overlap, and the best summary would echo jemfinch's comment if you can find it below. It's really good. In more detail, here's the jist of the conversation I had with my colleague:
It is lifelong, but not unmanageable. He tried to "solve" it for 15 yrs before he accepted that it would be lifelong. It is lifelong because anxiety (or discouragement in your case) is a combination of genetic and environmental factors, and your body is genetically programmed to overproduce the chemical in charge of misery. But you have a little control over environmental factors, so you can mitigate the extremely of it. The things in your environment that you have direct control over are your sleep patterns, eating habits, and exercise (with exceptions depending on certain disabilities, but you can try to work around those) These are the long term solutions but they don't remove the problem, they just reduce it. Sometimes you need a now solution when it still is too much. My colleague's now solutions are specific for anxiety, so I don't have a good answer for this, but two friends of mine who have chronic depression go on walks a lot when it's too much.
I don't agree. I've used other CI platforms that get UX a lot more right.
Default Grid, filled all 9 cells, and hold undo until all clear.
I'm on Firefox 99.0b8 (64-bit), 4 GB RAM. I said it's slow but it's not really, it's like 200ms lagging for each undo.
Sure, except for the fact that he didn't, and none of that information is non-public.
> All GD learners are interpolators (cf. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152) ,

If the paper is substantially correct I concede the point. But what I've read of reactions leads me to believe the conclusion is overstated.

Regarding compression vs intelligence, I already believe that intelligence, even human intelligence, is largely a matter of compressing data.

Regarding "knowledge is deterministic", ignoring the fact that it's not even deterministic in humans, so long as GPT can instantiate agents I consider the question of whether it "is" an agent academic. If GPT can operate over W_m and H_n, and I live in W_1 and have H_5, I just need to prompt it with evidence for the world and hidden state. Consider for example, how GAN image generators have a notion of image quality but no inherent desire to "draw good images", so to get quality out you have to give them circumstantial evidence that the artist they are emulating is good, ie. "- Unreal Engine ArtStation Wallpaper HQ 4K."
Imagine a commenter in a walled garden complaining about the walled garden's audience. "Facebook's audience is extremely skewed toward..., but that's not what...." How long before some Facebook reader asks, "Then why are you using it?"

If one dislikes systems that allow tinkering then why read and comment on HN. I do not understand.
Here's an example I remember from some Vinge novel ("A Fire Upon the Deep" maybe) I read decades ago: some ancient species/entities were supposed to have transcended a long time ago. What did that transcendence consist of? Where did they go? What's their life like after transcendence? Vinge gives the reader nothing. I call that a failure of the imagination.

Yes, I get that the post-singularity world is supposed to unpredictable/unimaginable in principle... but it's the author's job to imagine it anyway, else why am I even bothering to read his books on the singularity? If he doesn't/can't imagine it, I judge it a failure and a disappointment.

I don't remember details about Egan's work, except that nothing in it seemed particularly interesting and nothing wowed me... hence I really can't remember much about it except the premises of some of his novels, like Permutation City.

This is contrary to works by authors like Gibson, Herbert, and Dick, for instance, which I'll never forget. They're just leagues ahead of lesser authors like Vinge and Egan.
E-paper is a pretty similar experience in my opinion and personally I've read more books on my e-reader than I have through physical media. Love the little thing, I have a jailbroken Kindle Voyage with Koreader and it's the best e-reader experience I've had in years.

But to stay on topic, if I were to give you a wild guess, I think it might have to do with the sort of feedback you get form reading physically compared to digital. The mere act of turning a page might trigger positive feedback loops in your brain that you don't really get with the sort of instant-page turning from e-readers.

It might also have to do with people just not being used to the medium, I got my mom an e-reader and for a while it worked for her but eventually she went back to physical books, she's just much more used to them.
First thing to try is exercise in particular running. 4 -5 days a week. Cycling is also good

Another this is taking a big break and spending whole time in the nature, even just a week or two will help. For me even 1-2 days in the mountains hiking hard tends to fix a lot of issues. Nothing gives as much joy of life as sun rising in the mountains when it cold and you woke up 2 hours before and been hiking up.. those first few rays of warmth are special. I guess the advice is to have joy as the animal in us wants. I never feel depressed in the mountains angry, tired, cold miserable, paranoid etc but never depressed.

Good luck
We switched our monorepo from yarn classic to pnpm and the install speeds have been night and day. Sometimes it feels like I ran the wrong command because its so fast.

pnpm also helped us solve issues with packages in our monorepo importing dependencies declared in other packages because of node_modules hoisting behaviour with yarn. With yarn, all of your packages' direct and indirect dependencies can be resolved from any package in your monorepo. This makes it hard to isolate packages from each other. For example, this was causing issues when we wanted to generate docker images for some of our packages since we only wanted to copy specific directories into the image rather than the entire monorepo to avoid having to bring the entire monorepo to the image. pnpm also allows us to use features like git sparse-checkout because we can be confident there are no implicit dependencies between packages.

pnpm makes this possible by only exposing in the node_modules direct dependencies. In monorepos that don't use pnpm, you can remove a dependency and your monorepo can break in unexpected places because other packages in the repo implicitly depend on this dependency. This is more common than you think because people tend to rely on IDE auto-completion when writing imports and IDEs just tend to read node_modules instead of package.json so its very easy to take on an implicit dependency when all directs/indirects are hoisted into a root node_modules.

Yarn supposedly fixes this issue in their newer releases with Plug n Play but from from what I understand it basically monkey patches Node's require statements with its own behaviour. This just didn't feel good to me from a tooling compatibility perspective which is why I went with pnpm and I'm glad I did. I'm honestly puzzled at Yarn's popularity and why pnpm isn't as popular as it should be.
I can empathize exactly. Trying to do a bit of research on an upcoming trip seems like something that should be fun or at least not feel like an overly burdensome exercise. But as you point out it's a giant time drain filled with frustration. Everything from the booking sites that create a high pressure experience("3 people are looking at this room right now!") to the influencer chum pages that seem to be more about marketing their brand than providing practical information. You can lose two hours trying to research a trip and still not got anywhere. A service where you could talk to local people would be great. That's a service would be worth paying for, like a travel advisor.
I just bundle everything except binary dependencies. Faster deployments
How long until people realize sites like Twitter are actively hostile, and embedding their scripts is equivalent to letting the Trojan horse through your gates?
The alternatives to Plex are like comparing Linux to MacOS as a desktop OS. If you want to put in the work, you can probably make something work, but it's not going to be a plug and play experience.

On the other hand the amount of crud the app has just for streaming movies from my NAS is ridiculous. All I really want is a prettier interface to DLNA.
@dginev, as you guys upgrade arxiv with HTML5 tech, keep in mind you may be in a position to further implement some of Brett Victor's thinking on "explorable explanations":

http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/

http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/

http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt...

etc.
Thank you. I apologise I was skimming and missed the later comment.
FYI if you block their JS on third-party sites, it works fine:

https://i.imgur.com/cb5Lyd5.png
Does this resonate? https://wildcardpeople.com/what-is-a-wildcard-person
I can only speak for myself but it's far easier, psychologically, for me to go out and walk somewhere when I have a goal besides just walking. While a destination is not necessary in the strictest sense, not having a reason besides exercise is a substantial barrier.
You didn't explain how it refutes the argument.

It's pretty obvious from the report that ceasefire violations as defined by OSCE SMM are down to one third to one fourth of years 2019 and prior.
I feel your pain. I've made multiple websites that are designed as broad-based solutions to things I observe. It can be a bit frustrating finding a specific interest to dive into.

At least in my life, I've discovered that it's important to NOT identify with your interests. While this is a generally important rule, broad interests are toxic to the psyche if you declare your worth by them, since the implementation will vary (e.g., your psych and history may be spot-on, and you might suck at understanding philosophy).

I've read a few Paul Graham essays on the subject, and they're worth poking around. My takeaway is that you are free to do what you love, but find a day job in the meantime. My bias is to steer clear of academia, but you may fare better in that group of people than me if you're not the out-of-the-box thinker type.

And, for your second question, find a way to create. You're clearly hitting up against the wall I've hit against: how do you make an "original thing" that thousands of other people haven't done already?

The answer to that, put very simply, is that you are a unique person. Your personality, sure, but whatever we philosophically represent as the "soul" is the thing that fuels all your creative endeavors, and it flavors everything.

For example, I used to be a fan of the Myst computer game, and have recently been poking around with its sequels. You can actually feel over the series the dilution of original "spark" that the two brothers had in the original.

So, find an expressive form to make what you want. It doesn't have to be fancy, but once you incubate a vision of it, you'll naturally fill in the blanks of what it would be. Off the top of my head, building out an LMS using existing information would be a good start, or finding a way to index/archive more finicky aspects of large repositories of information (such as associative keywords toward economics).
Having worked for a semiconductor startup (Transmeta) that raised $500-ish million, I can assure you they spent plenty on marketing.
Corporations will never love you. No matter how much they say they do, they never will. Individuals within the company will intend to do good, but they will be required to do more than just good things.

Take care of yourself.
I've used many systems over the years from PS3 Media Server, to XBMC, and finally landed on Plex and loved the simplicity of it just working and happily paid.

The past year or two on Plex has been super annoying unfortunately. I have been getting lots of transcoding and caching issues.

I've reached the point where I will be trying out some alternatives again when I have the time.
What scares me to no end is foreign interference by intelligence agencies in domestic affairs done via social media. That is the real danger here. We are seeing the destabilizing effects of that since 2015.

I also just don't see the widespread censorship of conservative opinions that you do. JK Rowling is still there with her TERF views (which I actually largely agree with). Jordan Peterson is still there denying the predominant view on human-caused climate change. r/conservative; nobody wants to censor this or anything like it. Bret Weinstein is still there spreading his Covid vaccine misinformation. Donald Trump got kicked off after repeated ToS violations. Far-leftists also get kicked off (I know they recently shut down a bunch of far-left subreddits) and you don't see that because of your echo chamber.
wrong. unless these search engines have an ad play, they aren't the next google. More like the next internet explorer if anything.
> innodb global lock architecture has improved greatly since 5.1. ancient bug report from harrison is not indicative of problem here.

No, this performance cliff does still exist in the current mysql 8.0 branch. The Contention-Aware Transaction Scheduling added to 8.0 doesn't help the queuing problem with hot row at all. So facebook either doesn't suffer from the problem, e.g. all their writes are append-only so there is no hot row, or prevents the problem from happening, e.g. with API rate limiting built on top of something like memcached.

The improvement in innodb lock architecture mostly comes from splitting the locks into more granular levels. However, updates to the same hot row would require the same lock at the page-level. It is already as granular as it can be. So the tag of the bug report is correct, this is a problem of "lock queuing".
Don’t forget that Twitter likes are also soft retweets.

When I follow you and you like a tweet from someone I don’t follow, the Twitter algorithm may show the tweet to me in my timeline, marked as “X liked this”, even several days later.

There’s a lot of interaction models built into Twitter that assume immutability.
Am I crazy to think there’s something wrong with the amount of engineering effort going into these startups? When you have engineers working into the wee hours of the morning because you don’t want a cursor to blink on a text field, I can’t help but feel that’s an enormous waste of energy and effort.

Since I first used Airbnb 7 years ago, the only real change I can think of is when they added experiences (which is awesome don’t get me wrong), surely at some point you begin to wonder if we are utilising this talent effectively.
The universe has a strange way of putting the pieces together eventually. It will make sense looking back on it. Continue to follow your intuition. I believe it is your higher purpose.
The existing replies to this are disheartening.

Regardless of what you think of the merits of Jelani's critique, it does not justify calling the cops on him. "Siccing" a twitter mob (something I question whether he really has) is not nearly as bad as "siccing" the government gun guys.
It took me too long to realize this. Actually managers will respect you for having this attitude. There's a certain liberation in accepting it