skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but now I see life as tumbling down that slope, and making use of it. There is a synergy, as you say. We must land with a thud, but we're throwing off new forms of order.

Absolutely !

I think the saying "Necessity is the mother of all invention" is equally true for AGI :)

> We must land with a thud:

Can't help but wonder what would "Terry Pratchett's" thoughts be on the matter of intelligence, AGI and the origin of it ! That man had a unique way to look at the world and how it came to be.
I think we can safely say that desktop open source applications are never going to have the polish of their commercial counterparts. None of the things you asked for are hard but the volunteer labor you are relying on is interested in other things.

The only time open source really works is where it happens to intersect with some commercial interest.
Hmm, interesting. Thank you. Is that true that "system Baskerville fonts" don't have them? I never encountered this in my LaTeX documents, but I suppose it's possible my LaTeX distribution is shipping its own Baskerville-like font. I'd need to look into that. I am trying to come up to speed about font sourcing (right word?) on the web. It's also somewhat unfortunate, because as far as my research can tell, I am unable to configure MathJax to use a custom math font.
I already have more than one. It is easier to find or create alternatives when the focus is not on graphics.
For a site that lists its #1 principle as minimalism, it sure has a lot going on at all times.

Multiple menus all over the screen, many different kinds of links with distinct underline and icon suffix, popups within popups that reinvent OS window functionality, historiated initials, graphical horizontal divider with hidden links, a recommended articles carousel, and a very (visually) busy comments section.

Minimal it ain't.

If you want to see a professional minimal design, check out mine:

https://hypertele.fi/ec997be8c5933e87
I feel that you can assign a separate IQ-like score to many different components of human intelligence. I score badly on book comprehension relative to other components.

I find it easier to concentrate for an hour or two on a video than a book. I'm probably slightly dyslexic or something. At university I made sure I never missed a lecture but hardly ever read a book. I did above averagely well.

This is a disadvantage though. I have friends who can read books in a couple of hours and absorb the content. I'd have to sit through more hours of video to get the same content, even watching the videos at 2x speed.

Wild speculation: being intellectual used to require being good at book comprehension. Maybe only 10% of the population are good at that. Maybe some of the remaining 90% are still clever. If so, video content could allow those book-comprehension-limited people to become intellectual. That'd be nice.
Yeah that’s called the control. We have very sophisticated automated systems for measuring all of this
Mainly Wordpress and Tumblr apparently.
I'll never understand why the content-farm-crap site content is allowed on HN.

Only ONE submitter submits for this site, and essentially does so daily.

This article is not only crap and full of obsolete sites, but most of it it directly plagiarized from popsugar: https://www.popsugar.com/home/Craigslist-Alternatives-Used-F...

The same sites are listed and in the same order... and most of them don't even exist anymore! Move Loot has been dead for almost 6 years!
I've come to see medication as just one part of the path

I used to view taking prescribed drugs as a weakness, mostly due to how my mother viewed them as moral failing or something. I needed more God :/

They won't cure you but they will help you do the other things to make it through the day. For some, like me, depression can be a lifetime affliction due to brain chemistry.

I saw a quote the other day that seems cliche but still relevant.

"It's ok if you can't make it yourself, store bought is ok too"
I just scrolled back up to the title and realized that my argument is totally wrong. They weren't trying to say "it is". I was wrong.
Not great. Indesign scripts and hacks are still only way to do more advanced stuff. I am in same boat with Affinity and i hope they add scripting one day.
Fixed. Thanks for letting me know. Restored a database from backup that was taken two days prior to me adjusting something on the server, and the "wanted@" email address wasn't part of the original backup. Oddly it was working yesterday, prior to me doing the restore operation so I was kinda confused at first. My first thought was "No, you're wrong, it works fine" and then my second thought was "Lemme just check the server." /insert Drake & Lil Yachty computer GIF
I've never understood why people even wanted to use this. For the styling? So you can just copy some random stuff from Twitter and it looks like Twitter but is also interactive?

Just with the Facebook like-Button, you're exposing your visitors to the tracking of Twitter.

For what? Just so you can quickly copy one snippet and be done with it, instead of manually copying author name, content and link and spending 10 seconds to format this yourself.

I wish I had something constructive to say, but this always seemed like a totally unnecessary "feature" with a lot of downsides. Instead of embedding 280 characters in your website you make it download an order of magnitude more from somewhere else and then execute code to display those characters in a way someone else deems appropriate.
We as human beings should always strive for the better, to improve, to do the best we can within reasonable bounds.

It's imo not about pettiness, finding errors of others to shame them, or holding others to a bar set too high, but rather, if we don't, we start tumbling towards lesser good things as a society and community and humans.

Not to say that it's not ok do make errors (it is, and it's human), but if we spot one and can easily correct it, we should.
It opens and renders the page, but nothing more. I'd never use it of course, but it's still very impressive.
lol this thread is cancer.

a bunch of wiki-google-doctors that think they know more than the people who actually studied for at least a decade; get away while you can.

> These drugs are very powerful but have really bad side-effects for most people that take them.

This is bullshit. Antidepressants have mild side-effects for most people who take them. Some people have bad side effects and then they try a different one with a different side-effects profile and that usually helps. The only thing I have on Zoloft are annoying night sweats. Without it I was unable to function and had chronic anxiety and panic attacks.

> Is my utter terror of these drugs warranted or should I just bite the bullet and try them?

You said it yourself. You tried therapy, you tried all sorts of coping mechanisms and nothing helped. So yes, find a psychiatrist and talk to him about taking drugs.

There's absolutely nothing wrong about drugs. Some people need blood pressure medication their whole life; the brain is just another part of you that responds to medication.

It is a fact that the mechanism of almost all of these drugs are not completely understood, but fully understanding the mechanism of a drug is not a requirement for it to be therapeutic. Sometimes you just find that stuff works and then you spend a whole lot of time trying to understand why it does.
There are sleep versions of customs as well. I originally got them for working at home with two kids in lockdown: the combo of Airpods Max, rain noise and custom earplugs is a godsend.

For sleep they weren‘t quite as good as they were too hard for situations when I was laying on that ear. I got new ones from the same molds with the softest silicone they had and these are better.

All in all, it was worth it for me. They clocked in at a third of my Airpods Max and while they don‘t make a big difference in sound to soft silicone, they are much less of a mess to remove and clean. I can pull them our in order to listen to someone and put them right back in.
Well, it doesn't look like they will be giving back. They will open source some things yes, but it doesn't look like it will go back into alacritty.
That’s concerning - I am also wondering if iTerm too sends this data…
Aren't boxes, like, the easiest of all things to rotate convincingly in 2D animation? :D
> If you are an engineer, your total comp is easily north of $200,000. At that pay scale compared to other careers, I expect (and I did) to burn through the night as needed.

How are other careers relevant? You take the best offer you can get in the (SWE) market, and if avoiding burnout is a choice criterion for you, you avoid the corresponding companies. Many of them are willing to pay the same compensation or more with a reasonable work-life balance, especially once they realize that they also benefit from it one way or another.

One benefit of a free market is to help optimize resource allocations, and telling yourself "it could be worse" rather than asking "could it be better?" is counterproductive.
>Have you tried to price out a comparative PC? Because there aren't many that will take as much RAM as that $50K Mac Pro and when you do find a PC that will all of the sudden you realize there isn't much of an Apple tax at all for the equivalent hardware

You're deluding yourself with your claim. If you would have done 30 seconds of googling, you would have found out that Dell, HP, Lenovo and Puget Systems, all sell workstations that can beat the top spec Mac Pro or can build one yourself for way cheaper than them but as a business you want the support and no headache so it makes sense to buy prebuilts.

So yeah, there's an Apple tax on it.

https://www.imore.com/53000-pc-competition-apples-53000-mac-...
As long as someone else is paying the bills, health care will remain an exercise in extracting as much from the bill payers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728864
Sorry, didn’t mean to sound bitter. No offense really, bad wording, please take excuse.

My point being that lack of profound/scientific knowledge cannot be just bypassed in any area.

And while trying to skip education many end in childish pursuit of difficult or impossible goals.

The author of the article states that physics can only be learned the hard way, and from my experience he’s right.

The same is true for informatics and its application in software def. and I know so many ppl that can right code, but are absolutely illiterate about asymptotic analysis, discreet math, and relational algebra. Missing these all they miss the real picture and very often try to invent half-baked solutions to already known problems.

Regarding the social benefit - it can be gained or not depending on how good one is with social work.

I doubt that Mark didn’t apply what he learned in the university. Even though I also used to think it’s bollocks since I already knew x86 assembly, C, basic graph theory and some Perl when I got into university. I nearly dropped out.

But in reality classes I had to take about Functional programming, Design of FSM, Logical Peogramming, data mining and software requirements analysis helped me form a much better understanding. Also some of the people I met there really helped me be on track with where things are going.

So you cannot just skip this with few videos and tutorial. It is childish to think so, as it is childish to think you can invent the next general theory of everything while you don’t even have a clue what the precious theory was about.

People like to tell the story of how Einstein was not good with math… we’ll, he had a PhD from Zurich, so he must’ve been good about something to gain it. Or the story of Apple’s Steve Jobs who dropped out of university. But then he actually attended classes and Wozniak took an university degree.
"If you aren't bored, you aren't boring." I really love this advice. Thank you.
Yeah, I took up a cause that I was passionate about a little too quickly there, and realized that I was fighting for the wrong "it's". It's past my bedtime here...
Don't [i]frames solve this problem? They can use scripts, sure, but those scripts are contained and cannot reach outside their box.
The headline of this alone is horrific
(Totally agree!)

You mean "disagree" here though - "digress" means that you step away from the topic for a moment.
lol that sounds like a comedy sketch
Maybe they could buy our that successful Formula 1 NFT game? "Official Formula 1 NFT Game Shuts Down, Tokens Are Now Practically Worthless" https://kotaku.com/f1-formula-1-one-delta-time-nft-crypto-cu...
> I recall Guido van Rossum stating once, that he got convinced of the necessity for type annotations by JetBrains explaining to him how hard it was to provide good code completion.

What a weird reason to decide type annotations are useful, but I suppose I am not surprised. And is that really even true? Code completion works fine with Elixir and ElixirLS in VS Code and is seemingly independent of whether typespecs are present or not.
Yet again, this is a website that has clearly only been tested on a hiDPI screen.

At 100% scaling on Windows, the serif font used doesn't kern or render properly; crossbars in letters such as 't' and 'f' are overweight compared to other strokes, and makes the font look uneven.

Designers all seem to think we use 4k screens at 200% scaling, for that ultra smooth look, when in reality, that's far from the case[1].

Edit: Example of what I'm seeing: http://www.jaruzel.com/files/fonts.png

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[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/w...
I will put a reminder for myself to come back and test this in about 6 months. I hope by then I can pick and replace iterm2, for long I have been looking for a replacement.
Sure – so when somebody asks what your business model is, do like mojombo did and say there’s no model and there’s a patron instead of doing what thedavidprice did and say that it’s not a typical for-profit model but they are sustainable. One is a clear and simple answer, one is a weird dodge.
I'm glad the author is introspecting, but I think this is a bit of a misdiagnosis, or maybe an incomplete prescription. First, being boring to others is nothing to worry about -- let them attend to their own likes and dislikes -- it's not your job to thrill anyone. But the author seems to be using boring to describe being limited by fears of various kinds. Well, that's right, it's not good to be bullied and caged by fear. But it's not enough to just say you should banish fear -- you need the stuff that will banish it. You do that via, for lack of a better term, spiritual cultivation, i.e., you learn to recognize the goodness in yourself and protect and nurture it consistently so that it can grow large and strong. Fear and many other unhelpful states of mind cannot exist in the presence of your goodness, if it's strong enough.

Here's my favorite method of self-cultivation:
https://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/the...

Do you think HN provides more benefit to its users by hiding this comment from everyone except the brave who enable showdead?
I think the reason a lot of people have heard about the one-click-patent is that it has served as the poster child for frivolous patents for the last 25 years.

So yes, your outrage is shared by most people. I stopped holding my breath for reforms though.
Seems like most advice here is to secure some kind of financial future for yourself first to be able to follow your passion.

But I think many here will never find the fulfillment you feel when you study new topics.

I think cultivating that passion should come first.
This whole page reads like an argument by anti maskers on facebook. It's terrible

The number of people shouting "Doctors don't know what they're doing" is stupid
You would also see such 1% or 2% significant improvement in the AdTech being quite crucial. I worked at a local AdTech company where we were able to see real money coming in, not just metrics like CTR etc increasing.
One thing that bugs me to no end with Android (don't know about iOS or various tweak android builds), is that it is sooooo hard to restrict basic things. I don't want random apps to start on bootup as an almost-invisible-service, instead I don't want anything to do with that app until I explicitly start it and use it.

Revoking permissions should be supereasy - like remove any and all network ability (eg camera or flashlight apps), start on bootup (don't need a service running for app X until I start it), clipboard snooping (ok to read clipboard if I tell the app to, but otherwise it's just creepy and a risk).

slash-rant
You should have stood up like "Dammit, I'm looking to join a cult. Sorry for wasting your time."
I got a 8T and they botched the android 12 Update . Overall it's a huge downgrade in usability . I dont want to downgrade and stay on an older version with no security updates .

So I'm taking a look at these roms and they are not as bad as the early days of roms
(i can relate), you sound younger than me, so here is my life-hack tutorial I wish I could send to myself:

welcome to the life of the autodidact, sounds like you are well on the path towards being a polymath in a plurality of subjects. without formal degrees in subject matters people will NOT take you seriously, so it's best if you can connect with other people who are credentialed - there are several ways to do this, best case see if you can get your name on a few papers in the field(s) you are interested in. there might be conferences, reddits, or discords on subject matters that interest you - look for those to network.
you will need to continue feeding your curiosity or you will probably become depressed. having a wife and kids, try to always put them first to be a good father! (note: i wasn't, and that scar doesn't fade - so kids are the priority once you've got them and you'll probably need to wait until they're off to college before you really get any free time to pursue your own interests).

someday, it's possible (although semi-unlikely) perhaps you might find or discover something that nobody else has figured out or bothered to do yet - but don't try create and do anything that requires a seed capital because few will understand wtf you are talking about most of the time and with no degree nobody will take you seriously making fund-raising an exercise in futility unless you literally get a patent - if you can build/demonstrate a prototype/mvp then it might be a different tune -- if you can sell/license something you make in the field, then you can pay yourself to pursue your passions and that's "living your best life" (where I am now) but until then you're probably going to be living a lonely life of solitude with regard to your academic pursuits. cheers.
Posting the screenshot of the tweet as a link to the tweet doesn't seem like an awful solution to me. Additionally if the tweet gets deleted or the user gets banned there is still some record of it and the page doesn't have a weird gap where a tweet should be.
> came with Half-Life 2

I think mine came with Vietcong, which was... underwhelming.
Wiper malware deployed in Russian Federation could be useful.
Nice article, but that's a chinchilla! To be fair, way cuter than a mouse.
"Functionality aside embedding random scripts from twitter seems like a big risk for security and privacy."

When I started blogging again, I wanted to render my Twitter feed on the homepage, as a sort of bitesize alternative to the regular content, but I too have a deep aversion to allowing external scripts on my websites. So I added some code to my Hugo theme that pulls the tweets from my profile via the Twitter API and renders them statically.
This algorithm would have an extremely bad discoverability an would be extremely susceptible to platformization. How would you find Melcher writing about car engine maintenance on Bent Piston forum when you yourself rank KingsEgg on Vroom forums as the authority on engine maintenance?

Which article do rank higher: one by Melcher that is highly ranked by large number of "random" individuals or the one recommended by KingsEgg?
Bleh, Imperial measurements (and how confusing is it to refer to ‘mils’) and the conclusions are hidden away in a PDF.

Not a great read.
Thank you. I gained perspective from this passage.
Only for poor souls that never discovered macro assemblers.
For your sleep issues you can try seeing a sleep doctor and maybe getting a sleep study done to diagnose sleep problems and get assistance.

Look up things around the term “sleep hygiene” if you aren’t familiar with it. But if there is something physical going on then you’ll need more assistance.

If you’re going to take medications, probably work with a psychologist in conjunction with the psychiatrist to have the greatest effect. You can ask one to refer some names for the other. Talk with a few different ones for the first interview to find one that hopefully fits you better. Some doctors are better for some patients than others so find one that is a good match for you.

It’s a journey and takes exploration, iteration, and practice to make incremental improvements.

I like the Rick Hansen Foundations of Well-Being program. But it seems each person’s depression is different and what is helpful is also different.
I recommend writing too. It clarifies your thoughts, bringing you closer to the insight you want.
Nature is advanced technology. Look at the trillions of micro-machines that operate inside of us - we're full of nano-bots. Obviously I'm taking liberty with the terms machines and bots, but ever since I started thinking about nature as technology it's made me appreciate even the dullest looking moss, a tiny ant carrying a crumb or weeds sprouting between cracks in the pavement.

If anything, the smaller an organism, the more it can take advantage of Van der Waals force, static, bioelectromagnetics.

Slightly related to the article, I watched a jumping spider crawling on my bench jump off the edge and curve its trajectory to land on my stainless steel dishwasher which was to the right of its initial jumping arc - I wonder if it was able to use the hairs on its body to create a static response or even as control surfaces.
his, hers, theirs, ours, yours,... it's? It is just egregiously wrong.
Divorce doesn't mean regret though. You can have a wonderful time with a partner and then decide the you want something else later, at a different point in life.
There were still some users with a Voodoo 3, and some (few) poor people with a non-AMD and non-Intel x86 CPU...
Back in the eighties I remember visiting a lot of clients that had an Apple Mac, Apple LaserWriter and Aldus Pagemaker on their desk. I suspect Apple would have failed if it wasn't for their success in this niche.
dosemu2 is perfect for old software like this, it's not just an emulator but has a mode that translates VGA text mode operations into terminal operations so becames almost like a native application in your terminal

I did this with WordPerfect for DOS thanks to a guide posted here years ago https://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2020/09/finding-console-word-proc...