skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lot of problems with your analysis. One is that you assume the brain is the most efficient way to generate intelligence. There doesn't seem to be any reason to make that assumption and it may be that von Neumann architectures are thousands or milions of times more efficient at that task.

Another is that Neurons are incredibly slow. Lets say you can make a machine only half as intelligent as a Human but that can think 1 Million times faster, this is even a lowball since a neuron can fire at like 1Hz and modern CPUs operate in the GHz range.

>In all likelihood we are never going to create a server with a whole city of intelligences in it, ever.

Think this is a really bad take. If one assumes even a .1% improvement in "Machine Intelligence" per unit time then it is literally only a matter of time until you reach Human level and then pass it.
> It’s neat I guess, but isn’t really a productive pursuit.

Yes, and? No one claimed otherwise. It's just a fun thing someone did, shared with other people who might want to be briefly entertained.
This may be true when you're drawing for artistic purposes, but lacks the feedback loop necessary when you're trying to diagram for the purpose of explaining things clearly to others. If I'm trying to draw a horse, I can compare my finished results to a photo of a horse and see how accurate it is. It's an easy feedback loop. But for you to learn if your diagram has adequately served its purpose, you have to ask other people for their feedback.

Just doing something to get better at it only really works if you can evaluate where you're deviating from your goals and make corrections along the way to account for that and get better. You could draw diagrams for decades of your life in isolation and still not be able to convey meaning through them.
It sounds like you and they have decided that a human hand scissoring may only push inward or outward or neither using one side of the hand but not the other. That's not true about hands or about scissors though, even poorly constructed scissors. Your thumb and fingers of both hands are equally capable of producing both separating and joining force while closing. You and they have just decided that curling your fingers and pushing your thumb outward is right and the opposite is wrong, but the opposite works too. The scissors don't care and hands support both.
Have you experienced VR film? Stereographic 180 degree SBS video? You'd just need something like ZCam k1 pro camera (although most videographers are using better stuff by now) that can do livestreaming and the big issue is dealing with heat + battery limitations at this point.

"just watching a video" makes me think maybe you haven't really experienced actual stereo video (3d movies don't count).

360 monoscopic videos like you see on youtube are not stereo video in case people are confused.
One of the architects of the Pentium Pro, Intel’s first out-of-order execution engine, told of walking up to a Coke machine with an “out of order” sign on it — “Oh, out-of-order has other meanings.”
does a mandalorian worry if another can wear their armor? no, its just for them.

giving up on the notion "others will use or collaborate with my scripts" was the single most productive thing i've done for my scripting.
Snap a toothpick in half roughly and you should get a sliver on the broken end that fits around the USB-C tongue very well for cleaning lint.
sounds like bad news for their internal engineering team
What do you mean by "which we can replicate trivially in simulations" ?
Not a direct answer to your question, because I honestly don’t know.

I am more surprised by the attention this gets in press and tech circles.

Meta is making a long term bet. It might just one of the biggest wastes in recent time, or it could turn out to be something that actually works. I don’t know if it will fail, but I’m certain they’ll learn a ton out of this. If VR is to ever become something, Meta will have a significant competitive advantage.

Meta could be doing this knowing full and well and expecting the first several iterations of this to fail. Now, if you work at meta or own meta stock, it’s entirely up to you whether you want to jump ship.

But why this bet is so controversial baffles me.
She claims to be a PM, not a coder.

Strictly speaking, she says she did some work "on the roof in the morning" and then doesn't mention work again at any point. In particular the video gives the strong impression that she might have simply gone home soon after lunch. Maybe not in reality, but it strongly looks and sounds that way from the vid. She says explicitly "I got lunch, I got a snack always, I then shuttled home" i.e. the phrasing means going home immediately followed lunch. You also have to wonder how hard she can be working and how well supervised she is, if she's posting videos to their primary competitor of herself dancing on the roof.

There's also a more subtle issue here than the lack of work. She talks like someone whose primary interest is her own looks, not anything to do with tech. She talks repeatedly about how cute she looks, how she spends time working out to look cute, and a large part of the video is her posing in the mirror. Even something like the actual product she works on, isn't worthy of a mention. At 23 how much product management knowledge or skill can you really have, or heck any form of management skill? Traditionally, managers are meant to be people who have done the work of the people they're managing so they can make informed decisions. Given the widespread awareness that tech firms do 'diversity hiring' all the time it leads directly to the suspicion that maybe she was hired because she's a cute 23 year old girl and not, say, because of her extensive experience of product design or committed work ethic. Firms like FB used to have very strict hiring standards, but look at the employee growth in the past few years and tell us that this can still be true. Someone like that would simply never have made it through the interviews 10 years ago. They are clearly a bullshitter, look at this:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6968330...

"Prior to working at Meta (priorly Facebook), I built 3 startups and I put 2 out of the 3 startups through the UCLA Summer Accelerator program. This accelerator is founded by my good friend and mentor, Robert Jadon and accelerated my growth as an entrepreneur and woman in tech."

And:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6988514...

"During her senior year at UCLA, Riley Rojas decided to pursue a career in Big Tech — and she wanted to work for the best ... This week in #KeepingtheBalance, Rojas shares how she landed her job at Meta with a political science background. Spoiler: It took a whole lot of studying and manifestation."

So of course that will lead to resentment. She studied political science yet claims to have made three startups before she even graduated? The pay for these jobs is famously good. What possible value can this person be delivering to meta?
That's not really accurate; favors aren't fungible. I can't give you potatoes, and then use that favor to take a cow from your neighbor. You have to keep track of the balance somehow.
Entirely wrong. All pumped storage requires is a big high spot and a big low spot*. Take a look at this, for example:

https://www.gordonbuttepumpedstorage.com/

There are a lot of good pumped storage sites out there.

*exaggeration, but close enough.
Only if your definition of fun involves things that are highly in-demand and therefore costly.
Google’s play store approval process really is a nightmare. Apple’s reviewers might be slow and not always the most competent, but at least they’re real humans you can talk to and reason with. Google as usual is just an automated process that often gives you little to no actionable feedback.
And if you teach child to use scissors, you need to explain how to pull, otherwise they can’t use them.
It's a better port maybe, but the licensing strangles it.
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Just to be clear: yes, there are other Lisps.

Yes, Clojure is cool.

Yes, LFE is a thing that exists. Yes Elixir is Lisp-adjacent.

Yes, any of those would give me access to a larger ecosystem and the resources of a well used, well supported VM.

I may be an idiot (it's been said), but I'm not a stupid idiot. I've ruled each of those out for good-ish reasons.
You can enable long path support in Windows to have paths up to 32,767 characters long

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maxim...
>> All in all it was a bit of a spiritual-mystical 'Earth Mother Loves You' theme

My exposure to the GAIA hypothesis was that the earth is a living system, not that earth mother loves me. It was an unusual combination of radical thinking and concise communication.
My understanding is as interest rates go up prices need to come down as people only have $X/month to allocate towards housing. EX: If you have $100 to put towards housing per month you can put $90 towards the house itself and $10 towards interest on the loan in low interest environments, but only $80 towards the house and $20 in high interest environments. If people can only put $80 per month towards the house you're selling that ultimately means the house price can't be as high as when people are able to put $90 per month towards the house.

For the renter with a lot of cash this means you can come out ahead if you're able to minimize the loan or outright purchase in cash a house. The renter with a lot of cash gets to benefit from the lower prices from higher interest rates while minimizing the downsides of higher interest rates.
> In 2022 I kind of just assume the world is fairly gender-less in most respects

Given that women’s participation in the labor force in the US passed 50% in the 1970s (well within living memory!), this is pretty optimistic :)
I've been using MagSafe (the Qi wireless kind, not the one for macs) for most of my iPhone charging. I guess this is why I don't wear the cables out. I've added a magnetic adapter connector to my oculus USB-C setup, and that seems to work well also.
Strikingly warm in Sweden as well. Geothermal heat pump does work a few hours per day, anyway. It drops far below 10 degrees celsius at night and my house is not modern enough to manage comfortable temperature with only waste energy as source.
USB-C will make sense forever now. Nobody will develop something else. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it is what it is.
I believe there may have been an unfortunate GEP gun incident where I found that out.

I kinda miss stuff like that.

Sadly, when things break like that now (looking at you, Bethesda) it usually leaves the game in an unplayable state, versus reverting to a known-good state.
Solar/wind combined can never replace fossil fuels used by industry/for heating/as vehicle fuel. By several orders of magnitude.

So we need both.
If you have a sensible set of statistics that you believe justify surrender of personal sovereignty of identity to this degree, I would invite you to ponder a set of statistics that you would think completely monstrous, but still arguable, toward such a surrender. There is someone out there who believes the opposite to you, and if you think the creation of a power that benefits your opinions should take place, know that it could be used by this hypothetical person to benefit his opinions.

If you're ok with all that, then you have a justifiable position. If not, then you do not.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/02/this-svg-always-shows-today...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13823704

https://research.swtch.com/zip

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12262470

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12264461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12264461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18342042

https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1573218394358386688

https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1425264439624978435

https://mobile.twitter.com/David3141593/status/1371974874856...

https://mobile.twitter.com/David3141593/status/1368957384471...

http://aem1k.com/world/

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24824977

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4326164

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16317458

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040723

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8602122

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10719317

Not exactly what you asked for, but, some similar fun stuff.
30k Nodes in a React Tree View
Certainly this doesn't hold up without an explanation and you shouldn't expect the reader to provide that for themselves.
If that sounds wrong to you, I'd invite you to put your thoughts into words.
Cause the EU forces them to, lol.
Yeah it ain't happening.
> It’s an icon. A representation of the actual thing. It does not have to conform to actual physical requirements.

The article say it.

> but isn’t really a productive pursuit.

It's fun and kinda interesting though. If you reflect on what productive things enable, at the end, it's always "futile".
Sounds like a great teacher! Not in Egypt but elsewhere a tunnel collapsed on me + 4 really incredible people on site helping with the scan. We dug ourselves out with our hands. Your teacher knew the real deal.
Lighting can be safer and more durable, but it's still a dumb choice when USB C can deliver a ton more power and serve more purposes (like connecting to a monitor, daisy chaining, and powering laptops).
yesss i was thinking "please let this be a Jem reference" as i was clicking over to github
Same thing in firefox, and pleeease have a units switch. Would be infinitely more useful if I could view the site in the units my brain normally works in rather than having to think about the conversion all the time. Very cool site otherwise, also very cool bay area right now.
I heard you were creating connectors for WhatsApp! That’s a great feature and it benefits any company using WhatsApp for communication with their own customers. Thank you, great idea!
Looks amazing! However, this model (like all models by default) is not validated and produces garbage unless proven otherwise.
rent did not go down in 2020
tightly scripted to be vague

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-21/powell-si...

> Powell told reporters several times that a softer labor market may be necessary to sufficiently bring down demand.
We have a pair of nail scissors that I cannot use to cut my right hand's fingernails. Most aren't like this, so it's clearly possible to make ambidextrous scissors.
they'd much rather kill regular cash instead - and they will
The Diamond Age spends a really small amount of time talking about actual diamonds. So, while fun, I disagree it's on topic here.

(But if you want a book about nanotechnology, yes, it's it.)
Spotify: I want so badly to love you, and (FWIW) I'm very much on your side battling the giants like Apple. But, I'm so bothered by your approach to podcasts (the lock-in and proprietary of a previously open standard) that I can't muster much enthusiasm to defend you. It makes me think that since you're on the "bad" side of the podcasts issue when it's in your business interests, that you're only fighting on the "good" side of OP issue because it's in your business interests, and that destroys trust. Do you really think your approach to podcasts is better for anyone other than Spotify?
As someone who played a few hours of the 1st Witcher Game... Good.

No one seems to care about Witcher 1's engine, because it was hot garbage. Any engine (even an off-the-shelf one like Unreal5) will be grossly superior to the trash that the original game was.

This remake can have slow, barely workable controls and pretty bad graphics and still be far better than the original game.

They really just need the Witcher 1 remade so that people have an entry point into the story. The actual "gameplay" from the original will _NOT_ be missed. IMO anyway.
I believe you are overestimating chess.
I would buy this argument if iPads and Macbooks didn't have usb-c charging
CA emission standards are a waste of money and resources.

WA got rid of emissions testing because almost every single car passes, and it’s actually a net increase in carbon emissions to keep the bureaucracy around. That money could be spent on carbon capture or solar subsidies instead.
That’s super interesting—thanks for the feedback. I’m really curious if others have felt this also.
Where can't you use cash?
here's an idea: make Witcher 4 instead
> using === when appropriate

It’s always appropriate. A good IDE should highlight == as a warning.

My code quality and programming abilities got significantly better since forcing strict types and comparisons on myself. I can’t imagine writing PHP any other way now.
Musk's Plans for Twitter
>those limits may fall short of magicing/smarting away the obstacles to colonizing space.

We have no idea what that limit is so it seems crazy to make any assumptions about where it is. At minimum it lies above Human Intelligence and even imagining what a civilization could do with millions of beings only as intelligent as say John von Neumann is frightening.

>those limits may fall short of magicing/smarting away the obstacles to colonizing space.

We can basically already colonize our Solar System with current tech. You don't need FTL or anything close to that to eventually colonize the entire Galaxy.
We definitely want to add an option to record a session which would output a generated file for you!
The port is too versatile for the cables.

We replaced trying to figure out which plug fits in which of the many ports we have, with trying to figure out which identical-looking cable will do what we want when we plug it into the single kind of port.

This is arguably still an improvement at least for some people, but does suck.
Simple test is to get right-handed scissors and try to cut with your left hand (as your are required to do is some projects due to tool or space constraints). You’ll notice that you have to “horizontally” push in opposite way, which is really hard to do.
Gender-Neutral Names in America
Thanks so much—I’ll try this out!
Then you don’t have the latest Apple tv
No, what you are feeling is the natural exhaustion that comes from being absorbed in drama.

The reality is that the situation is not an emergency. It is a slow-rolling problem that calls for sustained creativity.
There are legitimate reasons for not open sourcing it. It would become effortless to circumvent.
Make sure you check out abbreviations

Like aliases but they expand in-place, so auto completion friendly, easily modifiable, etc. Love them

$ abbr s sudo

$ s<space> -> sudo
If you want to start arguments you can call that opportunistic rent seeking, something to consider in face of 2021 having record corporate profits.
That idea is plausible enough that even some more conservative outlets gave it coverage: https://fortune.com/2022/03/31/us-companies-record-profits-2...
OK, so what you said is wrong, since the Elon quote is:

> [Smart Summon is] the perfect feature to use if you have an overflowing shopping cart, are dealing with a fussy child, or simply don’t want to walk to your car through the rain. … [But] those using Smart Summon must remain responsible for the car and monitor it and its surroundings at all times.

So he explicitly explains that you have to monitor it, and does not bury it in the fine print as you claim. Hardly a smoking gun, even if you really are contorting yourself to find something objectionable in this quite.
I think they are getting rejected for not mentioning the url of their api?
I feel good about that, but it's not the same thing.
Thanks for letting me know—I use Brave also but must have it configured differently. Will test in the future.
I thought it provided context for the first sentence. I was glad it was there.
like HDMI doesn't have DRM, or onerous licensing controlled by a singular, for-profit entity?

oh right "Apple bad, barely even a standard!!!"

Sorry if it sounds frustrated but this just isn't a very interesting tangent, either you or the throwaway coward. It's still a standard even if you don't like the licensing terms or the feature set/implementation/etc. Stop being pedantic, it's not interesting, it's not even technically correct, it's just tedious.

Terminal HN brain in action.

Anyway: much like HDMI, the licensing dollars of hundreds of companies and the worldwide adoption % says that it is a standard, even if a for-profit entity controls it, and even if you don't like the features/licensing. If you're going to be pedantic and tedious, at least be correct, nothing in Webster ever mentions that a standard has to be controlled by an industry body or names USB-IF specifically.

Again though, this is a ridiculous tangent that people are doing to avoid actually addressing the core point about the obvious parallels between USB-C and a new ATX power connector.
Credit Suisse Gives First Boston Gets a Second Chance
On the other hand most people have less in savings than that.
So did they quietly change to a proprietary license for community? https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/blob/5.1/packaging/LICENSE.tx...
No, I think those that think otherwise are just extra loud. I use MagSafe these days, so its not really something I deal with, but lightning is a bit easier to plug in and out than USB-C. But both are much better than the pain inducing MicroUSB.
Accept your powerlessness with meekness and do not attempt to disrupt or even annoy the systems that caused it? You can't be surprised that people don't accept that bargain.
Unlike every other connector, with USB C the male end is in the phone and the cable is female. Since the male end has a thin piece that inserts into the cable, it both invites lint to get stuck the port and makes it somewhat risky to clean out, as snapping that thin piece requires replacing the port (and maybe the whole phone depending on how it's made).

Compare to lightning, which AFAIK is indestructible, and lint can easily be cleaned out of the phone port with a toothpick.

I'm sure people more knowledgeable than me will have other facts as well.
Interestingly in some states it's even higher than $636k!

However, I think you're on the nose with the long term care facilities. Medicaid will only pay 100% of any nursing home care (high end or low end) if your countable assets are $2500 or less. Additionally, Medicaid considers your income going back 5 years in order to determine eligibility, so selling (or putting into a trust) sooner rather than later can make sense for a lot of people.
https://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/features/when-how-muc...
I love watching people go in depth and get passionate about something that seems so trivial. The next time someone asks why I don't use Microsoft's emojis I'll let them know it's because it takes too long to cut things with their scissor emoji.
This sounds like a child explaining to other children that Adults can't be that much smarter and probably won't be able to make any progress on putting the square peg into the right hole. The child can't comprehend the things Adults can think about.
The first person they fine will be someone so undesirable that no one will like them or care to defend them. It's the same way the government commonly builds precedent into questionable laws -- start out for years to decades persecuting only extremely unlikeable persons who no one wants to defend, then after years of precedent and slowly boiling the frog unleash it on the greater populace.
>a fairly normal 12% over three years

That's roughly double the Fed target rate — annualized 3.8%, which would be the highest any year save 2008, which was itself an anomaly due to the GFC. The last time inflation exceeded 3.5%, save 2008, was in 1991. So 12% in three years is in no sense normal (for the USA).

The inflation is real, and it's serious. It's actually produced a reduction in real wages [1] despite much excitement about workers' bargaining power. Progressives complaining about the Fed (which is finally reacting reasonably) seem to be missing that preventing a wage–price spiral is not the same thing as union-busting.

1: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm