skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a particularly striking example of the opposite problem, see people with Wernicke's Aphasia [1]. Here's an example [2] of a man who had a stroke that left him with the disorder. He can speak fluently but his speech is meaningless.

Byron can understand what's happening in the world around him and can communicate it through body language (just see the warmth in his eyes and his smile) but when he speaks everything comes out in a stream of nonsense.

If we tried to apply a language-model-centric view of intelligence we would rate Byron is unintelligent. That would clearly be a mistake, as anyone can plainly see that he is intelligent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive_aphasia

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oef68YabD0
This is a good thing to point out (guess what: books are still way better than both, yes, physical books, I know they shouldn't be in this The Year of Our Lord 2022 but they are, the whole "information superhighway" and "making all the world's information accessible at your fingertips" hasn't worked out as well as we thought it would) but I was really hoping this post would be a showdown between lies taught in school and the more-correct versions on characterized-by-teachers-as-unreliable Wikipedia. That would have been funny.
> JSX doesn't end up bringing much value over vanilla html

> Tiny, fast rendering libraries like lit-html work great,

It's always funny to me how people bash JSX and then praise lit-html that literally has things like ?value and .click that it parses from strings using regexps, but it's somehow "better than react because native web standards".

And lit in general is busy re-inventing react (working on context API as we speak).
Hashes are just short, constrained membership vectors
You've used HN before. None of the things you're complaining about are unique to this post, or particularly new in HN. Why the vitriol now?
Well there are alternatives to signal. Some use p2p, some use tor, some use a federated system of servers. None have the networking effect to be as secure and as popular as signal.

So if signal was privacy preserving, didn't show or tell contacts about others using the service, do you think it would be as popular? Or do you think we'd be discussing a different popular e2e encrypted app and complaining about the very features that made it popular?
Already "corrected".

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/157841846810522419...

> No new intelligence was behind President Biden's warning last night about the risk of a potential nuclear “Armageddon," Karine Jean-Pierre says. There is no information that Russia is preparing to "imminently" use nuclear weapons, she adds.

Does Biden have any influence at the White House or is it a separate franchise now?
Some clients allow you to pin the public timeline of another instance. As for spreading beyond your home server, tags are key. With the right client, or the Mastodon web UI in advanced mode you can pin a series of tags as its own timeline, which updates in real time, so you can follow discussions of interests, grouped together, with results from across the Fediverse.
PepsiCo to get first delivery of Tesla semi-electric trucks
That is true, and a large part of the theoretical cost was probably also traffic, and the use of nonstandard nodes. They could have gotten a much more realistic price.

I guess the point is also that scientists often don't realize computer costs money, when the computers are already bought
Imagine if you told your doctor you wanted to kill yourself and they helped you make arrangements. This is terrible, appalling that the Belgian government allows this.
I agree that it would be a good start. What I'm saying is that the system of having to replace phones every 12 weeks is dysfunctional on its own and probably should be looked at.
There is plenty of survey data to show that baldness reduces a man’s attractiveness. The effect size varies with age. Anecdotally, it also appears to have especially dire consequences in modern online dating.

However, this effect surely pales in comparison to the effect of the permanent sexual dysfunction finasteride can cause. It is frankly outrageous that regulators in the United States have adopted the drug companies’ willful ignorance of this.

In my case I find it impossible to imagine I will ever meet a partner who is comfortable with inability to participate in normative sexual relations, as well as being compatible in other dimensions. I could honestly say that it has ruined my life.
>Yea… nothing I’ve seen from them is compelling.

From Meta or from SimulaVR?

Because Meta has been selling one of the best VR Headsets for the money thus far. I'd really recommend checking out their VR Headsets announcement [1]. Maybe VR will never actually go anywhere software-wise, but it's clear that the team at Meta has a good understand of the problems of current headsets and what would be necessary to make a generational leap in immersiveness.

I'm certain there will be markets for it.

>My bet is Mark is going to burn a LOT of money, fail to get mass adoption, cancel the project, and lay the design team off.

I don't think they're going to cancel it. It's very much a hail marry here. The Facebook phone was a massive flop and the cumulative result of failing to have their own hardware platform was Apple killing their mobile ads business. I think Meta will do everything in it's power to own it's own hardware so that whatever their business model is, no competitor could just kill it with a flip of a switch.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMpWH6vDZ8E
>Several books have the false info too

Sounds like we shouldn't trust books blindly, either.

Is there a source we can trust blindly?
Aren't you talking about 1 server when this is talking about HPC?
This is not a general purpose responsive web UI toolkit. It's a toolkit for their IDE products. Nobody is using those on mobile.
Wikipedia's math articles are so bad that I can't even follow the ones about things I already know.
This user's been on HN for a while repeating this ad nauseam.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rvz+mastodon+failure+site:ht...

I wouldn't engage.
> prohibits me from using its funds for capital acquisitions

What is a legitimate reason for this restriction?
Which I thought was the best point of the article, that a lot of IT best practice comes from the web app world.

Web apps quickly become finely tuned factory machines, executing a million times a day and being duplicated thousands of times.

Scientific computing projects are often more like workshops. Getting charged by the second while you're sitting at a console trying to figure out what this giant blob you were sent even is is unpleasant. The solution you create is most likely to be run exactly once. If it is a big hit, it may be run a dozen times.

Trying to run scientific workloads on the cloud is like trying to put a human shoe on a horse. It might be possible but it's clearly not designed for that purpose.
That invented falsehoods “shouldn’t be on Wikipedia” is not much consolation when in practice academics, journalists, and others regularly copy false claims from Wikipedia without independently fact checking them or citing where they got them. Nor does it ultimately much matter whether false or distorted claims were deliberate or just mistakes, and whether they were invented on Wikipedia or invented somewhere else.
"qbittorrent-nox" is the name of the headless package.
Yeah absolutely. I've seen non-wiki-savvy experts do these kind of edits, get reverted, and stop editing wikipedia forever because the whole experience left a sour taste in their mouth. I recently found the essay below targeted to exactly that audience, it's super useful to helping experts who want to contribute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Expert_editors
> Why not work towards using python/JavaScript as shell languages?

I always refer to this awesome answer to that question:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/3640403/512904
I feel for these folks. I'm housed and never wanted my email (and a host of other services) to become dependant on my phone number. I've gone so far as telling service providers "I don't have a phone, deal with it" (which is getting harder and harder).
Yeah no nursing and game development are not "highly paid". They pay a middle-class wage.

Music and art paid like shit even when it wasn't infinitely reproducible.
In this case, its not just that they haven't announced it but are also actively denying it.

Given the current actions being taken, it has the potential to be quite severe too.
Foreign to who?
You can still do that

$ transmission-remote -a one.torrent two.torrent
I don't want them to have access to my messages and make a profile out of me, even less of billions of people. That's why I also care about metadata: social graph is valuable for profiling.

I don't write anything that would be interesting to the NSA, I'm not a target for them, so I don't care if they see I use Signal.

BTW, say you have an anonymous Telegram username, I'm pretty sure it's trivial to find your name from the content of your messages. Or just from the metadata.
Their "low cost" option is a $5,500 emulator. https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/28/ibm_mainframe_test_de...
This is definitely true for cloud retail prices. However, this becomes not true in cases I've seen when there is an existing discount. Reserved instances, for example.
TL;DR "A parrot’s not a bad metaphor, because we don’t think parrots actually understand what they’re talking about. And GPT-3 certainly does not understand what it’s talking about."

BTW a parrot knows a big deal about the world. Not much about human language but still more about language than GPT-3. Of course a 737 doesn't know how to fly but it still flies people around the world. Landing on a branch, not much.
This is sort of like the ideal and I think after ruby and php moving on to a new language that can compile down to a self executable makes sense. Whether it's rust or Go to whatever else doesn't matter as much as just taking a new shot at writing something that works.

I half heartedly look at one of my own projects written in Go and wonder if it would fit the criteria but still some work to do. At the end of the day most people don't want to run anything and those that do end up with pages of documentation and maintenance burden.
Teachers are overpaid and mostly pretty stupid. School boards are bureaucracies that prioritize student learning somewhere near the bottom of the list. What do you expect?
OT: Disputes are a farce. I supply USPS tracking for all disputes and they are always ruled in favour of the customer.
Component UI libraries have converged towards providing the most basic building blocks instead of creating higher levels of abstraction, which I personally think is a bad trend.

You could build a very complex UI with Ext.JS back in 2010 with a lot less code and very little time, while it takes a while lot more work to produce even something relatively basic with modern UI frameworks.

I really don't care about how customizable your spinner is. I want to use it in common contexts with as little code as possible. Heck, at least provide me with a kitchen sink so I can copy and paste common patterns.
> This is effectively a forced wealth re-distribution, which I think raises ethical questions.

Regressive tax structure (which happens when enough wealthy find ways to shelter their tax outlay) is already wealth redistribution but in the other way.

This is an attempt to spur the economy by giving money to those most likely to spend it.

Also it's an election year.
Books are still where the good stuff's at. Even some periodicals.

Not sure what went wrong with the Internet but it's not living up to the early hype, and doesn't really even seem to be heading the right direction.
> marathon runners know their destination

Hell, in this analogy even the marathon organizers don't know the destination. Or much care.
How many passwords does an homeless person need to remember ?

I’m with you that an average person is probably using at least dozens of services that need credentials, but these people are probably not login on Amazon or checking their 401k online for instance, nd can probably get by with a a very limited set of stuff to remember.
Agile and Scrum are not the same thing, and I think that's probably the most important idea to understand about Scrum.

With Agile, if you can't draw a clear, bright line from some ritual you're doing to meaningful value, you need to drop that ritual immediately. With scrum, it tends to be "all-or-nothing", even if it's not quite meant to be.

Even something as "fundamental" as stand-ups or sprints need to have clear value for your team[1], or you need to drop them, and I think a lot of leaders are afraid of doing so lest they lose the "magic" of Agile.

[1] FWIW I do think stand-ups are usually valuable, but only if, "Nothing to report." is a 100% allowed thing to say. As a lead, I like to do this myself a bunch early on to show its acceptability.
Thanks! The initial selection being an alert module had my thinking the page was broken...
I'm tired of pretending software developers don't know their destination.

If you started making a task-tracking app, and after all the work for scrum end up building a video game instead, something has gone terribly wrong.
Assignment: Write an essay describing abysmal management practices without actually using word "manage" once in any form.
Evidently not—what ever made you think that she was?
I really like that.

Having management present can subconsciously push people to turn standups into a productivity contest.
Developers care about functionality.

Designers care about uniqueness.
You're either with them or against them?
Homeless, people facing criminal charges, incarcerated, etc.

None of these folks are desirable advertising targets.
I agree. If you look at animals it's also clear that scaling hypothesis breaks somewhen, as all measures of brain size (brain mass ratio, etc.) fail to capture intelligence. And animals have natural neutral networks.

If you think about it, neutral networks have roamed the earth for millions of years - including generic algorithm for optimizing the hardware. And yet only extremely recently something like humans happened. Why?

The amount of training and processing power which happened naturally through evolution beats current AI research by several orders of magnitude. Yes, evolution isn't intelligent design. But the current approach to AI isn't intelligent design either.
What's the point of living if you are completely unable to enjoy life?

Those who haven't encountered true persistent depression have no idea what it feels like to be incapable of feeling any kind of joy. In her case she also had constant panic attacks and was unable to function in society.

Is it really living if your entire "life" consists of going in and out of mental hospitals and never being able to sustain a normal relationship or conversations with any other human?

Article says two doctors confirmed it. This wasn't just something that popped in her head one day.
Quite. Note rising executive salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/e/e4/Wikim...

Latest financial report: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...
TikTok insiders say media company is controlled by Chinese parent ByteDance
Not only is this website a massive fail on mobile, but simple, common gestures like swiping between tabs don't work.

This reminds me of older UI libraries like jQueryUI that are equally painful on mobile.
Have you actually read Outliers? Gladwell was very specific about practice, and how deliberate it needs to be. He emphasized the way the Beatles used their gig time as practice.
Yes, their blog posts are really good. Read about the sealed sender, too! And then realise that even with sealed sender, if you send from your home IP, then you are identifiable. So you should send from a reasonably anonymous IP (w.r.t. your threat model)
I'd love to hear the perspective on this from some people (there must be dozens reading Hacker News) who actually have a Wikipedia page about themselves.
When you collect dryer lint out of the filter, that is all material that has worn off the clothes.
If that were indeed true, then Bitcoin mining wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as it is now. Also note that my comments pertain to cryptocurrency in general (or at least the proof-of-work variety).

As for the useful computations you propose that ostensibly pay as well as cryptocurrency mining... which ones? If you're referring to something like cloud computing, keep in mind that the bandwidth requirements for cryptocurrency mining are basically negligible - which is an important factor to consider even in rural America, let alone rural Africa.
I had one of those in another life :-)
My overarching experience with 'agile story points' (paraphrased combination between multiple teams/projects).

"If it's not a 3, then it might be a 5. But if it's not a 5, that would mean it's an 8, and we can't have 8s. 8s are too much. You have to break it down more".

"What is 'too much'?"

"That's too many days of work".

"But I thought points weren't an estimate of time/hours/days, just a level of effort or complexity.".

"8s are too big"

"But... 8 is the best notion at this point. It's a complex problem. Maybe after working through the ticket, a natural break point will present itself and we can chunk it and make a second ticket with follow on work later. But right now, I can't see any split point".

"Well... you have to break it down first. Make this in to multiple tickets. The sprint starts tomorrow and we can't have 8s".
Why would you keep it under 2MB?
Hasn't Tesla been using this internally to move cars around?
No manager in the meeting. No one to impress. Everybody stands. Light banter at the beginning because we're a team. One person leads the standup, round robin each time. Standup leader takes notes to paste in chat after, hurries people the f up if they're going on and on. Lastly, if you are late to standup even by 1 minute, you have to sing a song of Standup Leader's choice.
I'd counter by saying I think you're over-estimating how valuable mitigating that risk is to this crowd.

I'd further say that you're probably over-estimating how valuable mitigating that risk is to anyone, although there are a few limited set of customers that genuinely do care.

There are few places I can think of that would benefit more by avoiding cloud costs than scientific computing...

They often have limited budgets that are driven by grants, not derived by providing online services (computer going down does not impact bottom line).

They have real computation needs that mean hardware is unlikely to sit idle.

There is no compelling reason to "scale" in the way that a company might need to in order to handle additional unexpected load from customers or hit marketing campaigns.

Basically... the only meaningful offering from the cloud is likely preventing data loss, and this can be done fairly well with a simple backup strategy.

Again - they aren't a business where losing a few hours/days of customer data is potentially business ending.

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And to be blunt - I can make the same risk avoidance claims about a lot of things that would simply get me laughed out of the room.

"The lead researcher shouldn't be allowed in a car because it might crash!"

"The lab work must be done in a bomb shelter in case of war or tornados!"

"No one on the team can eat red meat because it increases the risk of heart attack!"

and on and on and on... Simply saying "There's risk" is not sufficient - you must still make a compelling argument that the cost of avoiding that risk is justified, and you're not doing that.
Unions are necessary, as we see when we look at the US. As productivity has increased workers are receiving a smaller and smaller piece of the resulting wealth. Not coincidentally labor is less organized now than it has been in almost a century. If you have power you get resources, simple as that. Individual workers usually have almost no power - they may get a little bit of power temporarily when their skill is heavily in demand but that isn't enough to counteract the inherent power imbalance capital possesses.
It’s not easy to pull a permit for a bathroom update in California.
Didn’t Slack do that exact thing, but the other way around, and are now worth 20 billion?
My greatest fear is the surveillance state, to be honest. The dragnet revelations mean that privacy really doesn't exist anymore, and police are always chomping at the bit to get more access to anything electronic.
The date picker is pretty impressive. Well done.

https://jetbrains.github.io/ring-ui/master/index.html?path=/...
But the locked account is much more likely than the compromised password in the real world.
If you look at the mean income across states [1] you'll find that there are states where it's higher than California. CA is above average but it's not the top.

The money people make in the tech industry isn't representative of what a typical person makes.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?eid=259515&rid=24...
I Replaced My iPhone with an Apple Watch Ultra [video]
I generally agree on all of your points. Trust me, some of the CDs I lost in that flood were extremely rare and don't exist anywhere to purchase or download. They were tragic losses. For years I had a discogs.com account that I meticulously updated with everything in my collection.

I get that there are differences between what is legally available as the "best" remastered version of the album and the original version as it was released on record or tape or CD back in the day. But if your goal is not to give money to the artist and instead just find the best version of the song, you can usually better do that through piracy. The artist doesn't get any money either way - whether you bought a second-hand album from your local record store or downloaded a version online - who cares?

The one case where original media is interesting is if nobody made a version available online via piracy. And that's a sad state of affairs. As I mentioned earlier - I have lost dozens of CDs that never got released online, because they were small runs on indie labels or just independently released back in the day before the internet was a thing... Well now every time one of those sorts of CDs gets destroyed in a flood, it's one less copy of that song in the wider world. If anything, people should be uploading the fuck out of all they got, because otherwise all those great indie artists of the 90s (never mind the decades prior) will disappear into obscurity and what's the point of their music then?

Digitize everything is my opinion. Digitize it, upload it, share it. It's the best way to preserve the culture of past years/decades/eras.
I'm probably doing standups wrong...

And then you describe some of the healthiest standup culture I've seen...
Well let's take this conversation offline and circle back on this topic.
and their bosses care about both developers and designers being replaceable cogs in their company... else the bus accident test fails
For the scenario in question, you would really have to attribute it to Obi-Wan.
What's the relation to the Compose Multiplatform (another UI toolkit from JetBrains)? https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-mpp/
Both methods can be circumvented quite easily and it will happen, if Transmission were to implement this. It's a cat and mouse game you can't win.
If you manage your own web pack config it’s pretty straightforward to keep updated and working.

It’s when you rely on a webpack config you can’t see that it’s hard to keep storybook’s config and your app’s config in sync.
Thank you for sharing the shoelace link. Looks like it behaves well on mobile, unlike many other frameworks. I'm using Quasar, but I want to try something else.
I would do the same if I was you. I will still have a log whenever we catch an error because it will help debugging this cron or job or even identify an issue in the provided data. No matter how divisive the opinions about logging are, I still think that mini logs are better than no logs at all.