skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your assertion about “The Mac Way” is simply false. The VP in charge of macOS is an ex-NeXT person; a lot of ex-NeXT and Apple people still work on it.

macOS user experience continues to be driven from the UI design group and executives, as it always has been.

Feel free to criticize the design direction, but understand that it’s fully top-down intentional, not something that just happens because individual software engineering positions are suddenly filled with non-Mac people. That’s not how it works.

macOS is designed by UI designers.
Meanwhile, Apple collects the same types of user data as Google [1], and wants to grow its advertising business [2].

[1] https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...
In theory, I like the mindset of unitarian universalism and would like to be part of a community based on the their principles, however, but these basically do not exist in Europe in the wild.
Though many want to educate. teachers seem to be a new breed these days.
I like to think of a helpful ego and an unhelpful ego. My helpful ego allows me to function in society with others to get my needs met and help the community I am part of be successful. My ego in this case is my interface to the world and this "personality" is how people know me. I know I am more than this and there is a mysterious self behind this mask that I'm trying to understand.

I think the unhelpful ego is thinking I know things without evidence through faith and belief. Then judging others on how closely they align with my beliefs. My unhelpful ego sets me apart from others and sometimes causes me to circle the wagons with like minded people in opposition to others. Life is a competition for survival, so even this ego is helpful in some circumstances, but is often problematic and starts wars, murders, lawsuits and other hostilities.

I don't know what happens after I die. I don't know where loved ones who passed went. I don't know why I was born or what I'm supposed to do here. I don't know that if I wire up enough transistors that my machine will become spontaneously conscious. I don't know that God exists or has a plan for me. I don't know if I am an individual with free will who acts independently from others. I don't know if I am living in a simulation. The list of things I don't know is immense.

When I start pretending I know things is when I start getting in trouble.
This one is. A legal fund cannot be aimed just at the most simple cases.
Musk must be getting pretty desperate as his lawyers tell him he is going to have to follow through on the Twitter acquisition and his financial analysts are predicting the market will not be where he was hoping when it happens.
There was a lot of talk about conscription being gone in Europe, up until 2014.

Then that whole Crimea thing happened.

Since then, no European country had dropped conscription, and several have re-instituted it.

The West is not uniform. Some parts of it are far enough from serious threats that they don't need conscription. But this is only possible because there are other countries to serve as a buffer, and they generally do have conscription.

(Well, or you're on a different continent entirely, and that is your primary defense.)
Creating fragment shaders from scratch
First, what are the goals you mention, and if you left your job, what specifically would you do to work toward those goals? Figure that out before you do anything. You may feel creatively stifled now, but once you leave, you may find the "blank canvas problem" is even more stifling.

Finally, a provocation. Starting something new is unbelievably stressful and terrifying—and the odds are against you—but even knowing that, there are some people who can't NOT do it. They don't ask "should I go for it?" Nothing can stop them. Just my opinion, but if you have doubts, you're not ready.
> Between the low reliability, low build quality

FWIW we have a 2018 Model 3 and a 2022 Model Y and both have had very minor or no manufacturer issues. Both have never needed anything other than minor, at home service from Tesla (mostly tire swaps).
You’ve got great intuition: https://youtu.be/SpgBkpb7xlU
Passenger jet engines, nitrogen fixation, silicon fabs -- these don't just magically appear. It takes careful reasoning and years of exploration in the vast ocean of ideas. Most places in this ocean are not useful, so it's helpful to sail faster.
Again, it would be also great if we have a user's personal API to get our private info either.
Buying all the apps is an additional factor to be considered.

>There is’t much lock in with phones or tablets as people go back and forth between iOS and Android.

It still complicated to transfer all data and settings from one Android phone to another Android phone.
I highly doubt it's simpler to transfer all data from iOS to Android or vice versa
Also related:

Curable: https://www.curablehealth.com/

The Way Out (2021): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50021854-the-way-out
Incredibly well produced video
You are correct. You play minesweeper with a Navy requisitioned battleship. Currently it appears that the Sandown-class minehunter is the most recent model. Then you need to find a place with mines and probably right now the Black Sea is your best bet. Who play's minesweeper with a joystick. Or even a mouse?!
In addition, once you did that (tuned your hardware to a matrix size) it can be inefficient to use smaller matrices. So even if you can make a network that uses smaller components the HW will not gain the corresponding speedup.
Elon really does believe in a utopia where no public transportation exists and everyone drives around I, Robot style.

We really need competition in this space (FSD) if we want prices to go down.
I don't propose anything. I'm just pointing out that the point that kicked off this line applies to charter schools too.
To some buyers anyway. It's not really clear that a higher price ends up being the revenue/income maximizing price (if the cost is minimal and many buyers value it much lower than the high price).
Is this expected to be a read only api, or is write planned for the future?
Zoom and Slack do not work fine.

Zoom just sits around devouring CPU while it's not even on a call.

If I ever walk in and my MacBook sounds like a jet trying to take off and is hot enough to cook dinner on, I know it's because Slack wants to update. I have no idea what it's doing to show me that "needs to install a helper" dialog.
Hey now, with a wider roll out of their beta at least it does _something_.

Before ~6 months ago it was literally vaporware with an nontransferable license.
While it is nice to have a platform to explore ideas and talk about them, your point is very accurate.
Is there any evidence to show that these people make good teachers?

You don't need to be a genious to teach. You need to have good social skills with kids, care about doing a good job, and a mastery of the subject matter (which not very demanding for even average-intelligence adults, at least until the latter part of high school).
Wait, Chobits?
This is so awesome. I like very much the spirit of giving access to the api as-is. With no fuss.
M2 supports CXL?
Plus there are a lot of books, where one version is a high quality scan, but no OCR, and the other is OCRed scan (with a bunch of errors, but searching works 80% of the time) and horrible scan quality.

Also, some books included appendices, that are scanned in some versions but not in others, plus large posters, that are shrunk to a4 size in one version, split onto multiple a4 pages in another, and one huge page in a third version.

Then there are zips of books, containing 1 pdf + eg. example code, libraries, etc (eg progrmaming books).
I don't think you're alone in this. That seems to be about my limit as well. If one is focusing as hard as they possibly can on a complex problem, I think the limit is more like 25 hours a week.

I have been wondering whether there is any psychological research on this. I imagine that it would be hard to do since focus and productivity are difficult things to measure in a way that would be externally valid.
Oh for sure! Humans are smart. Collectively we figure stuff out.

I think a reasonable example might be mountain lions. There are specific humans that know lots about mountain lions. Generally people know about mountain lions, and to avoid them. But every year a few hikers get picked off. If it's bad enough, we go kill the mountain lion.

A mountain lion isn't AGI. It isn't alien. I believe people would agree they're cunning. But there's no treaty to sign to protect humans from mountain lions. There's no counterparty to discuss things with.

We, humans, get great advantages from working collaboratively and collectively. I hope we can build good models, I hope there is opportunity for working with an AGI counterparty. But it's not a given. it's an alien. and all of that work _may_ have to start from scratch.

We can't know what we have to work with till it's here. Maybe it'll be very easy. And that would be great. That's not a given.

To be clear, I'm a wide eyed optimist. it would be fantastic to not be alone, the dream of Star Trek or Ian Banks's Culture would be awesome. But, it might not work out like that. I have high hopes. But they're just hopes.
I always thought it was a lead in to expanding your tribe. If you love your neighbor as yourself they become friends and maybe family. Group animosity and violence is much less likely if we are in the same tribe. With globalization we are all neighbors in some sense.
Also, according to the article, Google trained the AI on nude bathtub photos so that they wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) get flagged.
> Mark and his wife gave no thought to the tech giants that made this quick capture and exchange of digital data possible

Well... here we are, normal people don't think it's possible to transfer an image over the internet without a megacorp being in the middle of it. Pretty strong sign something has gone wrong.
> low reliability, low build quality

These are improving at an astonishing rate, like a Web app rather than a car. Yes, this means the first ones were so bad they really shouldn’t have been shipped. But the newer models (of Y especially, X hasn’t been redesigned) are really a different world.
On a tangent -- You might want to look into Guix (at least just the package manager, if not the whole system/distribution); it seems quite popular for similar use cases. See, eg: https://hpc.guix.info/about/

Also, with regards to linux, what stops you from making that the default that students onboard to? I would imagine that something like this becomes quite easy if you have a culture where group members help onboard the new ones into the ways of doing things.
I suspect it'd be hard to find a tether material that could take that kind of force without breaking. There could also be some strange dynamics as the projectile and payload would become like bolas[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolas
Things are different now. I spent my intro class constantly correcting the instructor.
I think of meaning in terms of Saussure's sign and signified. "The Earth orbits around the sun" for example, is literally a string of characters. As a sign, however, its correspondent signifier could be a diagram of the solar system or something like that.

In general meaning is the parts of an experience that are salient to its representation as a sign. It's a sign's signified.

Robots lack an embodied experience that would be necessary for them to understand human meanings. They don't know what it feels like to step on a Lego, so a whole class of memes and meanings are unavailable to them as a result.

There are probably things that we, as humans, don't know that we feel but still impart meaning. It would be very hard to get a robot to say something like "as the blood rushed to my ears" in a truly meaningful way. Most who end up using that phrase in a sentence don't use its full meaning when thinking about it (so there's higher than normal pressure in the head, etc) but if pressed can expound on it in a way that would be obviously different than a robot's (GPT3 would say, the meaning of this sentence is [0.5435, 24.2352, 1.3245], nearby sentences I've seen have embeddings [1.5532, 0.3552, 4.2442])
Most webapps have a need for transactional messaging of some sort. But even putting that aside you’re missing TOS support. Every TOS is going to have conditions that define scenarios where you need to communicate with users. Including changes to the terms of service ;-). Or for breaches of data, you’ll want/contractually need to communicate that to your users.

So yeah you could build different options for all of these things, and maybe snailmail users of these TOS occasions. But the system of doing this over email is so standardized that the possible friction of one-time setup pails in comparison to the alternatives.
Yes, many of us care.
Wish API would show comment votes instead of only showing them up until 8 years ago when displaying them was turned off on the main site. Aside from allowing users to enable them via their on interface, do analysis, etc — it broke HN’s comment search based on comment popularity.

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32535637
This problem has been predicted from the start of the pandemic. It's a multifactorial problem, it's global so is not just limited to the NHS and UK.

We are watching in real time what runaway amyloidosis looks like. It's not lock downs it's exposure to weaponized biology via pathogens and medical counter measures that cause protein misfolding disorders, explained here.

https://wtyl.live/play/840?startTime=884.684708
You will loose lot of energy on bungee cord aerodynamics, heat, etc
This is probably the most simple way for you to get my IP....
I'm glad you're not blackmailable. Many people are. It's a national security threat for people with secrets to have those secrets compromised by a foreign power. E.g. it's discovered that someone working with classified information is having an affair. Big vulnerability there if a foreign government happens to have access to what goes on with a dating app.
My anecdata- friend last year just crossed $100K in about her 15th year teaching in Boston suburbs. She didn't have to do any of the "add-ons" like sports team coaching, curriculum work, tutoring, etc. to get to that number.
>it is a vice at any amount consumed

Sounds like you're evaluating it through a moralistic/religious lens as opposed to unbiased scientific one. Vice is such a preachy way to frame it.

>You do not need to defend an industry of billions for free.

I don't buy from the giants. 90% of my consumption is locally produced beers from small businesses in my community.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. Learned something new.
Can they act on estimates? Can they take resources ( like gas, copper, electronics, etc... ) from one private company's storage and give it to other (more critical) company?

For example: take gas from paper-clip factory and give it to fertilizer factory?
Regenerative agriculture is a great way to build soil while capturing massive amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, and growing food.
I've partially written up how I use rust for server side full stack web development.

https://rust-on-nails.com
> I never got used to macOS’ alt-tab when I switched more than a decade ago, but now that I’m back on windows I find that their behavior works even worse. So maybe that’s a “don’t ever try to learn another alt-tab behavior than what you already do now”

I think the one big benefit I notice of OSX style program management vs Windows style is: with OSX, you have have a program open, but without any windows. Whereas with Windows, if you close all of a program's windows, that typically kills the program.

Really, this mostly shows up when I want to create a new incognito browser window when I don't have any browser windows currently open. On OSX, I just tab to the browser and open up a new window. On Windows, I have to start a new regular window and then open a new incognito windows. It's pretty annoying.
Annoying how it doesn't show the text or anything for dead items.

Is there any way to query this API as if showdead is switched on?
Agreed. An read only API for my upvoted stories and comments would be great so I can preserve this data and use it outside of HN.
What difference would exposing counts make? Why should this data be mineable?

We're already helping to create a training set of slightly above average English speaker discourse for free.
> Treat others the way you want to be treated.

Wouldn't it be better to treat others the way they want to be treated?
Whilst I can agree that overspending is an issue, I don't believe the cost of the "fancy" architecture is a major contributor to the costs. What's more, it's nice to have some beautiful public works. Obviously, we want punlic infrastructure that works well, but beyond that, it should be a joy to use.
>Would a global "internet" run by the phone companies be better than what we have? Discuss.

A global network run by The Phone Company (TPC) was the subject of "The President's Analyst":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President%27s_Analyst

The President's Analyst - The Phone Company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2NNZdigSXg

The President's Analyst - Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V63yeIIEd6k

Murder of a Movie - How J. Edgar Hoover Killed "The President's Analyst":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwM4Solrzes
Because: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
Lode Runner for Atari 2600 Coming at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo
Also be nice if per private user behavior, that a user was able to authorize API access to it without risking account lose.
Wow, you are not wrong. What kind of weird homunculus is that?
> Tesla has a media problem, where every little problem gets reported as if it's systemic and unfixable.

Similar to Apple, people expect more from them than anyone else. Minor issues on Apple products are always scandals. Remember Antennagate? People were sure that it would sink Apple, because "they don't know how to make antennas". People and media handle Tesla similarly, and minor issues are blown out of proportion.
I figured, after all these years, the JVM would switch to a sane default for DNS caching. Sadly that is not the case...
I'm not a lawyer, but if this is in international waters, what's the harm? They're just fish, despite the scary name.
And when you have a heart attack in the street, who's responding?

In this scenario, why should an NHS ambulance pick you up when you don't contribute?
Surely it should prioritize those on public healthcare?
Some poor lad whose leg is broken from a fall?
The problem is drag and heating. The booster phase of a rocket moves slowest in the thickest part of the atmosphere so it mostly avoids this. Usually at the end of the booster phase a rocket is going 2-4 km/s but it's also at 60 km above sea level. (All these numbers vary somewhat by launch vehicle.) To travel at that speed even at jumbo jet heights, ~15km, would generate insane amounts of heat and drag; the front of the craft would be white-hot and there would be massive loss of energy to friction. And it would still need to have the fuel and engines to accelerate another 5 km/s to stay in orbit.

It's physically possible but the engineering is insanely difficult, much more so than a traditional rocket, which is already no cakewalk.
I mean, this is the answer. The article's picture is not a picture of the site the article discusses, that's why.

One thing I'll add is that the article says "Many of the stones are buried deep in the earth." Presumably that's why nobody saw them until they looked pretty hard.
It's really 50/50 because many people don't know it's even possible to have the better experience. Exploiting them and herding them into silos is extremely unjust. They should be educated or they should at least ask some techies. But I partially agree that even they should strive to inform themselves better because nobody is going to go to them and strike a conversation exactly on this topic.

As for the others, there I am fully with you. They are quite aware it can be done and they just can't be bothered to do it. To me that's an informed choice and thus -- consent. They don't get to complain about squat because they made the conscious choice.
We are on a discussion board. I'm not going to pay for every paywall to access every article, and if a journalist wants me to read and discuss their article, it needs to not be paywalled.

You could say that posting a paywalled article on a discussion board is just an ad for paywall subs.
International travel (into the USA for non residents/citizens) is still stopped for people who didn't take the vaccine even though it doesn't work and never stopped transmission anyway. So it was absolutely a set of Draconian and totalitarian moves that had no impact whatsoever.
If you’re young, take all your chances in your 20s. I started my company when was 23 and it’s provided for me ever since.

I’m in my 30s now and if I had waited until I settled down and had kids I would have been very tempted to make the “safe choice” and missed out on my dream of entrepreneurship.

Atleast, until the kids were out of the house anyways.
Isn't this the point of privatisation of law enforcement?
My main issue with libgen is its awful search. Can't search by multiple criteria, shitty fuzzy search, and cant filter by file type.
VisiData – Universal Data TUI (Console Interview)
Yeah. With a few kilometers of track you're looking more at a thousand times less acceleration though still more than a human could take. Though emerging from a track kept at a vacuum and slamming into the atmosphere is going to be quite a jerk in any event.
It’s economics: much like with car insurance, the market is a zero-sum game because the quality providers all more or less have equivalent levels of service - thus advertising becomes the most effective way to capture revenue, because prospective buyers don’t generally have complete enough information to e.g. assess a firm’s “operational excellence” or technical qualities on their own.
Isn’t that entirely subjective? More interesting to how many people? Would people pay money to watch?
> all anyone ever wanted to do was live together and be left alone

It's a great ideal, but the problem is that land is a finite resource, so eventually you'll run out of space that is necessary for the next group of people who want to live together and be left alone to actually do so. At which point, you either have a stark divide between those who got in their claim and those who don't, or you come up with some redistributive system that gives newcomers a chance.
> Why are differentiated classes such a taboo?

The concern is that they become a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get sorted into the lower grade, perhaps because of maturing more slowly in the early years, or a home environment non-conducive to study due to two working parents, or just economic disadvantages like having to live further away from the school and therefore spending time commuting that other kids are spending on study. (and in the US there's a correlation with race for the structural disadvantages because of more outright historical racism).

So students end up in a lower grade of class, don't get taught as complex versions of their subjects, and finish school with a lesser educational attainment, thereby setting the seeds for their next generation to be in the same place.

Even without seperated classes, this does happen to some level between schools.