skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I agree with the lifespan information you've laid out.

There has been a misconception amongst laymen that our lifespans have become longer for a number of reasons because it is usually framed in a way that bolsters the notion that all those who came before had shorter lifespans than we are likely to enjoy.

That isn't really the case because obviously if someone mentions an average lifespan or a median lifespan then that is the number that sticks in the memory and most people whiff on the fact that with any average or median, around 50% of the people lived longer and 50% of the people did not live as long. No upper bound is given and the lower bound is intuitively occupied by those who didn't survive infancy.

In hindsight, I should've framed that differently. I was attempting to illustrate that it doesn't take much time at all to cover a lot of ground and if you are motivated by the need to feed yourself or your family or if you just feel the unshakable need to see what is over that distant hill then a short lifespan still offers plenty of opportunity to see the world and scratch those itches.

I spent several months when I was younger living on the road and in the back-country. I knew every morning that my primary goal needed to be locating drinkable water for myself, my traveling partner, and our horses and my secondary goal was finding food. We carried our shelters and implements that we would need to keep all our gear in order but water and food were paramount concerns. We were young and totally not clued in to all the planning that would normally be involved in undertaking a multi-week, multi-state trip so inaccurate assumptions were made about accessibility, cost, and availability of necessities. We had fun, we survived our own incompetence and we moved on with new skill-sets and an enhanced appreciation for how the real world really works.
yes, among other things.
I'm wondering if this counts as fission: East Village Opera Company, "When I am Laid in Earth Redux", the key shift(?) at 2:22.
Close. The federal reserve (or any central bank) will lend money to other banks at a rate just below the target rate, and it will borrow from other banks at a rate just above. Because banks can borrow and lend largely risk free at those two rates, banks will transact amongst themselves at a rate in between. This is how the federal reserve makes banks transact at the target rate.
The billions of images and its software determine its outputs right? Is there the same analogy for humans?

I don’t think so. It’s much harder to imagine a deterministic story of how we developed set theory for example. Nothing empirical forces us into set theory. It’s not needed by physics for example.

The billions of images and software plus the entered phrase fully determine the output right? What possibly similar story gave rise to things like set theory?
Discussing whether it is art or not is completely useless and irrelevant for me. I get it that there are people with different opinions, but I just don't care, it would be fighting about a definition and feelings.

What I care about is that if I need a sweet little drawing for my presentations, some cool painting that I can get printed and hang in my kitchen, a cute gift idea, or as a book cover, I can describe what I want and, at least based on the images that I have seen so far, I can start generating pretty good images, and stop when I found something that I absolutely like. I can be ready in minutes.

The cheapest alternative for someone without artist friends would be going on fiverr, browsing artists for maybe hours, check their rates, hope they are actually good, hire one, wait days or weeks to finish the job, feeling uncomfortable when asking for changes, and hopefully not having to do this one more time because the first artist was crap.

The difference is gigantic.
This is by far my favorite CAD program for quick engineering-oriented designs.

But it's not without its bugs, and frankly the performance seemed to steadily deteriorate as more of the code was "cleaned up" to use more modern C++/STL stuff over the years.

I use a local fork from an older release that instead diverges even further away from using C++ crap in a very performance-sensitive area (the IdList indexing is done ad-hoc) and it's been far more usable for the large-ish models I tend to work on (designing sheds/roofs and cabin structures). The same models I work efficiently on are basically impossible to work with in current upstream releases (when I last tried them, admittedly pre-pandemic so years ago), almost every operation becomes a many-second stall.

Edit:

My local fork is based on Alexey Egorov's changes @

https://github.com/Evil-Spirit/solvespace-master/tree/id-lis...
I'm just a lurker on crypto issues, but if you're avoiding transaction fees by trading on a company's private chain, aren't your assets also held by that private company?

So if you wanted to redeem your assets from a private chain, wouldn't those trades need to interact with the company's holdings, rather than the wider marketplace?
From the point of view of a digital artist, one thing this article fails to consider is how the software itself is a creative work of art. Instead of fixating on the artifacts it produces, it’s kind of amazing to see that someone made a magic paint brush that can mix other artworks. I’ve exhibited at art shows and listened to people dismiss my work as “computer generated”, when I wrote every line of code and used and refined the software for thousands of hours to instill my intentions in the images I make. I can’t blame people for not understanding the work, but it’s funny to watch them make incorrect assumptions and stick to those assumptions fiercely.

The author is also glossing over the fact that the vast majority of art produced by humans is iterating and riffing on and mixing other pre-existing artwork. Almost nothing is pure originality, even the mechanisms we use to produce art are largely unoriginal. Oil painting & sculpture are not the only ways to make art, yet like the 4 piece rock band, the formats have become canonized and very few people work outside the framing of their predecessors.

The intro says the rock faces are not art, which feels to me like the author doesn’t really know what art is, nor of the history of debate over what art is. The author argues later that art is not in the eye of the beholder. The author claims there’s no intention in the rock faces, and that it’s a “joke”, completely ignoring the intention of the person who collected the rocks and put them together. What exactly is the difference between finding rocks with faces, and, say, photography? Good photographs are are nothing more than existing images “discovered” by the photographer. People argued for a long time that photography was not art, but it’s rare to find someone today who can say that seriously and compellingly that photography is not art.
Classic paid prop piece-style review.

It would be a failure to read The Verge, or other Vox Media properties, as journalism.
I try to tell people, dont judge your insides by other peoples outsides. It is so easy to think that you have a shitty life because all you see are the catered and edited and posed "best" moments of someone elses life.
“what do you want here? What’s the right thing?”

Parts, and not having the thing artificially brick itself.

These tools do no harm other than the indirect and unprovable sort of harm suggested by the article, but they do no good either. They are irrelevant, in that lack of these tools is not what prevents repairing Apple products.

What prevents repairing Apple products is Apple using the US government to seize harvested 2nd hand parts they no longer have any moral right to control at the border by lying and claiming they are counterfeit, forcing component makers to exclusive deals where they are not allowed to sell custom chips to anyone but Apple, and Apple doesn't sell them, and no other manufacturer can make them since they are proprietary without published specs. And artificially bricking devices for no actual techical or security reason.

No one makes Apple do those things, and it costs Apple nothing to simply not do that. Well, nothing they have any right to in the first place.
That's a lacking comparison. The Gamestop stock has not been specifically created for this kind of "investing", neither does it not have fundamentals behind the value.

Of course there's going to be speculation going on with any asset, but GME is not a purely speculative asset, and is not purely based on possible future application which isn't even known yet. There's a corporation behind it, which generates revenue, which provides services, all of this has real value, which then serves as a valuation.

A stock is a small share of a corporation. A token could be comparable, however, if the only purpose of trading this token is speculation, the value of the venture itself is speculative and the value of the token is based on the speculation itself, it's nothing but at best high-level gambling.

If you then factor in a deflationary nature of the asset, and the requirement for constant influx of new buyers to even hold the value with yield farming going on, it quickly becomes a Ponzi scheme.
> I have serious trouble seeing how “collective agreements” has any intrinsic value.

Then you probably don’t see value in any form of cryptocurrency. I do, because I think collective agreements are at the heart of how society functions. Fiat money is a collective agreement that works by the backing and enforcement of a central entity (government). It’s at least interesting to me to experiment with a collective agreement that does not have to be backed or enforced by a central entity (bitcoin).
Or just stop having a phone on you when you aren't expecting an imminent call. Knowing the correct short sequence of digits shouldnt be a pass to monopolize your time, attention, and priorities.
Airbnb is really a hybrid. For example, the property page is really an spa on its own.
> I for one can not eat lettuce that has been on the fridge for more than 3 days.

Maybe you refuse to, but you could. An organic head of lettuce easily lasts a week or more in the fridge. Anyway, the extent to which produce has been "designed" is greatly overstated. Two hundred years ago people used to store apples in barrels for weeks if not months.
Most of those deaths probably had a positive or null effect, since they primarily occurred in the 65+ demographic.

edit: It is interesting to contemplate the possibility that the death of so many seniors exacerbated the inflation problem. That's a lot of assets that were previously tied up in retirement accounts and real estate that suddenly flowed into the hands of middle aged people.
Here it’s entirely about the source. Fred Wilson is an unusually smart and honest investor, and has experienced more market corrections than I have. So I weight his opinion higher than mine.

I also weight his opinion higher than my favorite financial columnists because he’s the man in the arena, and focused on the part of the economy I care about — startups — while columnists have to think about housing prices and other stuff.
A bike helmet has literally saved my life in multiple such occasions.
This is probably a part of stalking. You learn a lot about someone who doesn‘t care or even know about you.
Michael Schumacher had a GoPro on his helmet that punched through.
The thing about Warhol's "Factory" was that it wasn't really a new thing. Most pieces of art even from the Renaissance that we think are made "by an artist" are in fact made by a collaboration of an artist with their apprentices, much like how most science is done by a primary investigator and their students/postdocs.
The article may be conflating inflation with economic growth though, hoping that inflation comes under control merely by slowing down the economy.
I'm trying to get away from a DB-based CMS for some company web sites. Static generators won't do for a number of reasons, so a flat-file CMS seems like a good fit.

Currently I'm looking at GravCMS [1] as an alternative. It's free initially, but it can become somewhat expensive with many official plugins. But it's file format is Markdown, and one can combine multiple files into a so-called modular page. It has a backend for editing, forms and e-mailing of form submissions. Seems perfect for small and mid-sized company web site.

Another option I considered was Kirby [2]. Its backend UI is configurable. That's nice in theory but the documentation is somewhat lacking, in my opinion. I've used the starterpack and it took me hours to find the one command to be able to add new pages. Its content format is also custom, not Markdown. Finally, it's €100 per site.

Also, a few days ago, I stumbled upon Typemill [3] which I will check next week.

[1] https://getgrav.org/

[2] https://getkirby.com/

[3] https://typemill.net/
But what if the human is tasked with creating an image that looks like it was created by a machine? If you gave human artists the same taskings (X and Y in style of Z) then they would also create a bunch of purposeless images. That is the dataset I would create if I wanted to promote my AI project.
Almost every line of this does it for me, every time.
Of course you do, that's called ego.
You can redeem $0.30 worth of tether right here:

https://trade.kraken.com/charts/KRAKEN:USDT-USD

There's very good reason to do a lot of KYC and set limits on people who want to get USD for their USDT. The last person who tried to operate such a business was locked up in a US prison for nearly a decade. Good motivation to not deal with retail customers and the slow burn US justice system don't you think?

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/us/liberty-dollar-creator...

What you want to happen to void this criticism would get the Tether execs put in prison. Though I guess that's what some people here secretly want anyway.
Sometimes limitations do foster creativity. Drawing a card and following the statement can help put you in a different mindset and try new things. It’s quite effective.
> Be wary of anyone making firm statements about the future of anything. This article doesn’t do that.

Although the article does not state anything firmly, the last line of the article, as quoted below, is still an indication it predicts something:

> I would be planning to ride this thing out for at least eighteen months or more.
Your ideology =/= reality. Goodbye.
Between the steam engine and the telegraph it's fair to say it was the biggest step change over a hundred years in the history of humans so far.
> I also weight his opinion higher than my favorite financial columnists

I don't think he's saying anything that you couldn't find in Barron's or FT.
Why not? DALL-E can already emulate comic book style. With more tweaks and training I imagine it could be made pretty good at it. DALL-E2 is much more precise and coherent than DALL-E1 was, and I see no reason why we wouldn't get an improved DALL-E3/4/5.

I bet it's only a matter of time when it can create an ok-quality full comic book based on a textual script. And perhaps the script could even be generated by GPT-like AI too.
One thing I learned is that many jobs that are considered essential are also considered dead-end. I assume that's pretty demotivating for anyone doing such a job.
"This is why Perl was commonly panned as a write-only programming language: It had so many features that you could not be up to speed on all of them. Each programmer at each point in time had a set that they used, but no one could ever get proficient at working in the entire available feature-set."

I do not think the author has ever written Perl.

This statement from the article undermines its credibility. Perl is no more complicated than Python or Ruby.

"It had so many features that you could not be up to speed on all of them", is just false.

"In Perl, the features were syntactic, so the programs would be unreadable at a line-by-line level."

Again, has the author ever read any Perl programs?

Lots of sample Perl programs:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Perl
I'm going to explain what has happened so far. What happens next entirely depends on how inflation continues and the feds reaction.

1. We had zero percent interest rates. This causes the value of assets with cash flows out into the future (think speculative tech, Tesla) to accelerate.

2. We had massive herding in megacap tech. These valuations are high in part because for a decade you would not have beat the index without having these names in your portfolio.

3. These valuations blew up even further because of call squeezes during the 2020-2021 bull. Tesla even managed to get itself into the S&P.

5. Then in December, the megacaps we're squeezed further until the S&P 500 had a negative return relative to price!

A lot of this occured because people remained under the impression that bond yields would never normalize. Now that they have, there is a risk free alternative to stocks.

Now for the next complications: Ukraine + Russia, economic war with China, inflation, how the fed will respond, gas prices.

If inflation continues and the fed becomes aggressive with hiking, all assets are dead. Bonds will be wrecked, stocks will be wrecked, cash is wrecked, even gold (depending on how aggressively they hike) will be dead because it's actually a really good deal to buy bonds when they yield north of 10% (if we get there).

Say the fed decides not to hike as aggressively and inflation slows, then you'll be holding the S&P 500 likely for yield than growth. In the case of a recession or further inflation, that yield may be at risk depending on the sectors you're invested in.

In this context the correction in names like Target make perfect sense. The dividend was near zero at it's price before the cut. Same thing happened in a company like Newmont mining.
the sad part about DALL-E is that it is going to be used extensively to sell NFTs.
Before the pandemic, we carefully limited device time. My kids only got an hour and it was easy to keep that limit. There weren't arguments about it.

During the pandemic, the combination of our own struggles to find time to work, our own issues with depression, and the fact that the kids were often trapped inside without access to friends, meant their screen time exploded.

My kids don't have phones but even access to iPads, television connected to Netflix and a PC with Minecraft installed makes me worry. To be sure, there are good things like prodigy for math and i like the problem solving of Minecraft. But, there are so many leaky gaps where other things sneak in.

It's a terrible battle. It feels like there aren't options. Going cold turkey feels like the only workable option but even that sounds incredibly hard. I'm at a complete loss and feel like I'm watching my kids fall prey to some really awful predators that are commonly known as big tech.
DALL-E demonstrates a lot more creativity than Banksy, in my opinion.
Its a really good OS, and the quality of care is unsurpassed. I have yet to find an uninformed or unprepared support specialist. Their turnaround time is great, and they seem proactive in wanting things to work properly even if it means they hold your hand through things. They also handle volume licensing very well.

Who else aimed for that concierge support segment of the market? Maybe Cygnus? SuSE? VA?
Is this a bad thing to though? The pilots are doing what they eventually wanted to do. Hopefully they are happier.

As for the shortage in general: economies have to adapt. Maybe that means more robotic flown aircraft. Or train travel increases. Or people stay at home and do more virtual visits.

When you said “0 to 100 back to 0” I think that applies more to existing business models rather than how workers perceive / enjoy / want to their jobs.
Not sure if it's public domain but I found the Farnham reference photo on image search, complete with the polka dot bowtie. A strange use of an artist's time
It's gonna be part of a benchmark for how long until "engineers" realize they're stupid.
> Markets have already corrected and I think that public tech stocks have already
seen most of the damage they are going to see.

but then (and in the very next sentence no less):

> I don’t know if we have hit bottom
I don't have any startup worthy ideas.
How to create and deploy an Express.js app to Vercel?
>I wonder how much irreparable damage the lockdowns did to the economy as we knew it before the pandemic.

You can also look at it the other way round:

The lockdown forced companies to establish home office, something that was overdue for up to 20 years.

This can enhance the economy much more in the long run than it harmed during the last two years. Maybe the productivity gains are big enough that they outweigh the amount of artificially generated money. Then there shouldn't be much of an inflation.
I feel as if I just read an article from an 18th century cobbler complaining about how only humans will be able to make shoes because of their innate understanding of the human experience of making and wearing shoes.

1. If 'art' is expression, then it should be judged by the 'quality' of the expression, not the tools used to make it.

2. Most 'commercial art' is made to a spec generated by a customer for a specific need, not for 'expression'. Future DALLE variants will do it faster and cheaper (arguable even better) so that will be what is used regardless of the philosophical implications. Artists are not going to be needed to same extent as today (we already saw this with clip art, public font databases, and gig sites). The economic impact will be the same regardless of your interpretation of 'art'.

3. I am sure There will still be famous and acknowledged 'artists' known for their ground breaking work regardless of what tools they use. As an analogy, There are still companies that make shoes by hand, they are just an expensive luxury.

I am guessing we will next see article from a translator about how automated translations system lack the innate 'sensitivity' to the human condition to be used in professional translation (it's true to a certain extent - for now).
I had that OA moment. I loved it and they cancelled for no apparent reason when there were so much more to be told. It made me wary of getting involved in a Netflix story again.
I agree we are working through an asset bubble in tech and housing - P/E's went quite a ways above the historical line, as did housing prices.

But think about the chip shortage (automotive, consumer electronics) - raising interest rates does not "fix" supply and make prices lower. Think about oil & gas markets. Think about labor shortages.

When supply is broken, it's not only a monetary policy problem. Most of these things are "U-shaped" and not "V-shaped" - they will take longer to come back.
Yeah. But the family of the rider probably wishes she wasn't a statistic.
Now I'm sort of curious how they died, and whether their personal automobile had any modifications to the interior.
I feel like all jobs suck, so I might as well stay a dev.

Edit: why disagree without replies? All jobs have their problems. The ones that pay well do so because people don't want to do them without the pay. The others don't pay well. At least I can make close to $100k as a dev even if the job is frustrating and I'm not good at it.
Art is just supposed to instill an emotional or intellectual reaction. Pretty pictures can convey beauty found in nature and do that.
Even 10 daily users must be acknowledged as a big milestone
I have a similar experience in my neighbourhood. I live on the corner and have no privacy across my backyard. I spend a lot of time playing with my young kids. Needless to say all the boomers ‘round here know everything about me.

My advice is to accept it, don’t “over mask” but don’t forget that there are a handful of benefits to the situation. Lean into the benefits.
I believe a key component of fuzz testing is randomized input. I’m talking about recording live usage of an application and capturing the observed I/O. Like Playwright, mentioned above, but applied to unit testing rather than E2E.
lots and lots of $$$
And if it’s too humid to cool off with sweat, you just die