skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"digital" has become a fashionable punching bag. deservedly, as the manner in which this technology is being deployed, the kind of experiences it creates and its long-term impact are far from the utopic world that was promised.

but the article struggles to formulate a coherent anti-digital thesis. in fact replace "digital" with "modern consumerist society / capitalist economy" and it makes more sense. the stress, lack of fulfillment, alienation, the disconnect from nature, the obsolescence of age-old traditions and the dissolution of local community bonds long predate the onslaught of "digital"

in fact you could argue we've got the "digital" that we deserve and that we worked hard for
> But right now we have 0 clue how this happens in humans so we are not able to program it in computers.

Without taking a position on whether or not computers can create new exploratory knowledge (how could one begin to say authoritatively that they can't?), this "so" doesn't follow. The fact that we don't know how to do something doesn't mean we can't program it in computers.
> The problem is that not every "A" deserves counterfactual analysis for both parties 100% of the time.

Maybe a counterfactual analysis is not the point, but it's the first step to making some other relevant point, say by formal analogy. You shouldn't shoot down an argument before it even starts. Judge the actual argument when it's presented.
Weird that Wine is listed since I've got Wine on my M1 and it works fine running, e.g., Mineways. Maybe it's just some specific Code Weavers version? But Wine itself works fine on Apple Silicon.
I reckon Google is holding back more because there’s no way to moentize this to the tune of $150B/year.

No initiative can get implemented at a large publicly traded company if it doesn’t contribute to the bottomline in some meaningful way eventually. And this thing might actually hurt the bottomline. No bueno.
Thanks for the advice. Didn't want to seem like I was advertising so I didn't go into detail of what I was doing but I think you're right, I can at least talk about the industry. It's a tech recruiting agency that's focused on quality over quantity, leveraging modern (and interesting, fun and new methods) to get the right sort of talent and to truly qualify them based on real skills and help train them if they're not ready. Being an engineer in this industry for over 8 years professionally, it is painfully obvious what's wrong with tech recruiting these days and we're working on the solution(s). One way we're saving money is by targeting our marketing and utilizing methods to find engineers that are more appealing to the engineers themselves. One way we're not planning to save money is on the investment we make into candidates. The idea is, if an engineer makes it to a certain level with us, their growth is our growth. I see that as an investment and not a loss.
> It seems very likely that the same structures that give modern high tech materials their unique abilities are the same ones that make them so environmentally unfriendly.

This certainly seems plausible, but on what basis do you find it likely?
Sure... For a start I have my scratch buffer showing a few Unicode characters, one trailing spacing character on purpose (to be sure I can see it's highlighted), a zero-width-non-joiner 0x200C and an Hangul filler 0x3164 (may add some from TFA btw). This helps me quickly verify, upon startup, that my setup is working.

I configured all that literally years ago so I don't remember where's what but here's what I've got:

;; probably cargo-culted from somewhere
(update-glyphless-char-display 'glyphless-char-display-control '((format-control . empty-box) (no-font . empty-box)))

;; See https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/65108
(set-face-background 'glyphless-char "purple")

And then I've got this too (requires markchars.el):

(markchars-global-mode)

With:

(defface markchars-heavy
'((t :underline "magenta"))
"Heavy face for `markchars-mode' char marking."
:group 'markchars)

It should get you started.

(and, yup, I know it's overkill but I like it that way)
> for a few years until people got bored of them.

I agree, but at a personal level I find it sad how that, given the gargantuan amount of media available, and the ease of consuming it, how quickly things fall into the "old fad" bucket.

For example, I find that there is a lot of content on TikTok that is truly amazing. I like watching parkour videos, and I'm amazed at these people's skills and daredevil tricks. But it's so easily to quickly scroll through hundreds of these videos that they lose their unique luster too quickly, and after a while it feels like "meh, that was cool, what's next".

I guess I'm arguing that this overabundance of consumable media content has some big negative consequences, similar to how the overabundance of food in the middle part of the last century had grave health consequences for most Western nations.
I tried to get answers out of it that might not have been accessible plainly on the web. And this is what I got … can someone tell me if it gets to the heart of the matter? It seems to just remix text without answering my question. It bullshits that you can’t know what the other person had without changing it. The answer would have involved hidden variables and Bell’s inequalities I think

EGreg:
So how exactly is quantum entanglement different from when one of you discovers he has heads so the other must have tails

Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon that occurs when two or more particles become correlated in such a way that the state of each particle cannot be described independently of the others, even when the particles are separated by a large distance. This means that if something happens to one particle, it will affect the state of the other particles, even if they are far apart.

In contrast, when you flip a coin, the outcome of the coin toss is determined by the initial conditions of the coin and the forces acting on it when it is flipped. The outcome of the coin toss does not have any effect on the state of any other object, even if that object is correlated with the coin toss in some way.

EGreg:
But if I didnt look at the coin and sliced it in half, gave it to two people and they went many miles in different directions - then looked at their coin. They’d know what the other person had, without being able to change it. Isn’t that exactly the same situation? Specifically what is the difference?

In the situation you describe, the two people would not know what the other person had without being able to change it. This is because the outcome of a coin toss is determined by the initial conditions of the coin and the forces acting on it when it is flipped. The outcome of the coin toss is not affected by the state of any other object, even if that object is correlated with the coin toss in some way.

In contrast, in the case of quantum entanglement, the state of the two particles cannot be described independently of each other, even when they are separated by a large distance. This means that if something happens to one particle, it will affect the state of the other particle, even if they are far apart. This is a fundamental difference between the two phenomena
Not OP, but I found there's a sort of bell curve with Linux support on laptops.

Initially your hardware is likely very new, so some things won't quite work out of the box.

Then, assuming you bought a popular piece of hardware, things get progressively better for you: improved driver support land in the kernel, distros get better at auto-configuring for your hardware, etc.

Finally, 3 years out, upstream development has moved on, your specific hardware configuration is no longer actively tested, and things start to break left and right.

All in all, you have a small window of optimal Linux support for your hardware.
What effect does capitalization have on the model, in general?
In my (limited) experience, playing with poetry, not code, it either 1) asserts that it's solution is correct, or it gives a slightly modified response and claims it has solved the problem.

Here's one example:

PROMPT:
write a limerick about the plot of Dune with the rhyme pattern AABBA. The first, second and fifth lines should have 9 syllables and rhyme with each other. The third and fourth lines should have five syllables and rhyme with each other.

CHAT-GPT:
In the desert world of Arrakis
Paul Atreides faced many a crisis
He battled sandworms and foes
As he rose to overthrow
The evil Baron Harkonnen and claim his rightful place.

PROMPT: your limerick doesn't rhyme. try again

CHAT-GPT:
There once was a boy from Arrakis
Whose journey began with much peril
He faced sandworms and foes
And rose to overthrow
The evil Baron and bring peace to the desert people.

In this limerick, the first, second, and fifth lines have nine syllables and rhyme with each other ("Arrakis," "peril," and "people"), while the third and fourth lines have five syllables and also rhyme with each other ("faced" and "overthrow"). This follows the traditional limerick rhyme scheme, which is AABBA.
> With WSL2, you can use have all of the benefits of Linux for development while being able to run whatever Windows apps you want, and it really was pretty easy to setup. You can even run VS Code on Windows and edit files in your Linux container.

I feel like the people who claim that don't understand why people go with either linux or macOS

> If I were looking to use something other than Macs (which I'm not), there are more good options now than there have ever been. Even though everything is still compared to the benchmark of Mac Laptops, which isn't an accident.

That's a very opinionated point of view
ArteTV does broadcast content like this.
I have an X1 gen 6 and I love it.
Keyboard keys don't have the nice click to them like a mac or surface, it's more of a mushy feel. However thinkpads do have pgup, pgdn, home and end buttons which is a big plus if you learnt to type on a pc desktop.

-Recent X1s have switched to a higher TDP Intel processor (p instead of u series?), so I imagine performance has improved at the expense of more fan noise.

- I went with the matt 2k screen, which doesn't have the brightness of a macbook screen.

Thinkpads are often up to 30% off on lenovos website, but it seems that they don't discount the configurable options any more, which rules out getting a good price for a 32GB config.
I grew up in Australia. At this time (many years ago) TV was basically a mix of ABC (ie the Australian version of PBS) and British TV (mostly BBC but also some ITV and Channel 4). I cannot adequately describe just how good TV was from this era, particularly children's TV.

Prime example: Dr Who. This was the era of Tom Baker as the Doctor. Honestly, it was amazing. But there were other shows that were just plain goofy like The Goodies and Monkey. On the sci-fi front you had Blake's Seven, which was way ahead of its time in moral complexity. To this day, Avon is an amazing character.

We saw very little American TV. Sesame Street was a notable exception. At the time this even dealth with complex issues (eg the actor who played Mr Cooper died IRL and his death was on the show).

As I got older you got into shows like Grange Hill, which actually dealt with issues like a kid dying of a heroin overdose.

In my teens I got into more adult shows like Yes Minister (which, to this day, is amazing). We had in-depth news program that was of exceedingly high quality (ie Four Corners and the 7:30 Report) that included such gems as [1] (referring to the Kirki [2]).

But what happened in the 1980s to the BBC in particular was that children's TV got really dumbed down. Dr Who was viewed as "too scary". So all this innovation basically disappeared under the guise of the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

It wasn't really until the 2000s that TV recovered from this and even now I believe even now that children's TV is simply awful. None of it seems to be intellectually engaging at all and certainly not "adventurous".

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirki_(tanker)
Yes this is the biggest misconception about depression.

The idea that it is synonymous with feeling "down" and more or less depression is just how "down" you feel.

Depression is much more than just that feeling. And not all unpleasant feelings are pathological.

So the question becomes, why is it in modern times people no long feel able to say "I feel down" or "I don't like winter". Instead they need to wrap it in a medical term that appears unsupported by evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid#Health_...

Why do you think they are discontinuing it if it is so amazing in what it does?
It is not just regurgitating.

It is synthesizing.

You can ask it to update its answers. You can ask it to evaluate possible solutions, then write the code for one of the solutions. Then write the code to test the code. And so on.

It turns the coder into a curator, editor, and code reviewer.
Depth of field and your digital camera (2017)
Neoshell and Futurelight are 3L fabrics so are going to be more similar to eVent than shakedry.
This feels like one of the weird no-dialogue segments on the Muppet Show, only with people instead of Muppets.
The natural/synthetic distinction is arbitrary, but you are both right.

The correct approach would be to get more granular and specify that we only want to elininate chemicals, whether natural or synthetic, that do not break down or are toxic.

If you find a natural source of PFAS ("forever chemicals") then it isn't any better.
My point was that if one feels the need to restrict the statement "non-mobile", then the war is already lost. Mobile phones are the most common computers used today.

That said I'm glad that you personally have always been able to do what you want to do with your MacBook.
No worries.

Yes, they are really are the same argument as you went into detail yourself.
Macbook M1s have the exact same problem (and have less ports), and good luck getting that fixed for any reasonable price.
Good question. I always capitalize GIT, since "git" is a word, meaning an "an unpleasant or contemptible person".

I guess Git is better/more correct. Thanks for pointing out my idiosyncrasy. I'll use that in the future.
But some have enough memory that you would probably not miss the SO-DIMMs, I mean, do you have a workload needing more than 32GB that you would run in the notebook (with the limited CPU and thermal constraints)?

But just 8GB in a non-upgradeable package is not for me.
I loved Hitchhiker's & also Candide, +1!
What if the human only ate potatoes?
A few weeks ago we imagined an ecommerce website integrated with Stable Diffusion to allow customers to customize clothing by uploading images of themselves, friends, family, pets, etc. and getting cool styles via Stable Diffusion (Monet, Picasso, Dali, etc.). After lots of caffeine and all-nighters we've pulled this off. The biggest obstacles were 1) running through multiple GPU providers and 2) tuning the image models. The Generative AI space needs better infrastructure and easier access to GPU's for startups (waiting time is almost a week to get your credit increased with GPU platforms). Also, the learning curve with Stable Diffusion is steep. It is still not optimal for most people to use, it needs a lot of iterations to understand and discover solid prompts.
> The pandering racism of "Love Thy Neighbour"

You get that both parties - the white guy and the black guy - were bigoted racist idiots, neither were right, and their wives who actually got on fine were exasperated with them, right? I mean, you've actually seen the series, I'm sure?

Because if you'd seen Love Thy Neighbour, you'd know that both guys were racist bigoted idiots.

You'd also know that even in the 1970s when it was aired, everyone thought it was shite.
In the replication crisis, psychology and sociology papers replicated about 30-35% of the time IIRC. In your experience, do random internet comments have a higher or lower chance of being true?
I threw out all our nonstick stuff after I observed the coating routinely coming off into food.

The exception is for eggs, we have a dedicated pan we only use for them, and although I've just read the other comments here about how easy it is to fry an egg in other pans, I find it goes much better in nonstick. And only frying eggs + using a plastic spatula seems to pretty much eliminate any wear on the coating.
What good is a compass going to do?

Presumably he could have just followed the road he was on and maybe reached town before freezing to death.

And all conventional wisdom says to stay put if you find yourself in a situation like that. Years ago I was listening to the local radio on my way to Denver when a big storm was coming in and they were talking about how many people die in blizzards every year with most of the deaths being people who tried to walk to safety instead of staying in their stuck cars.

More presumption but I’d say the standard thing to do in that part of the world is to just hunker down and wait until the next traveler comes along — or press the magic button on the iPhone and get to town before last call.

—edit—

And damn straight I’d be pushing that button if I got stranded.
The AI we see today is a synthesis of a huge number of arbitrary inputs. You may argue that humans are, as well, but humans are different machine than AI. If I am asking for a human response, or a human piece of artwork, I am doing so because I want to understand and experience the output of machines of the same model. I want to continue the human experience.

AI-generated content can be fascinating, helpful, and in some instances, more useful and accurate than humans (medical diagnosis, technical documentation, perhaps). But if I ask for a human, I want a human.

I don't care if AI is more interesting than a human. I want a human, because I am human. I am not transhumanist.

I wonder what the correlation is between people who see no particular value in interacting with humans, and people who struggle to interact with humans.
No one will catch up as Apple owns their entire design.

MS has to work with Intel, Nvidia, AMD, etc. Dell the same.

With Apple owning the entire design their results should make it clear communication overhead is what creates the market fragmentation. In order for all the bean counter fiefdoms to be appeased a laptop gets released that is great BUT 9 hour battery life (out of the box, 6 in 12 months), or 1080p screen, or bad thermal design, or nose camera…

It’s hard enough to align goals in one behemoth let alone half a dozen.

A whole lot of tech products then are designed as Beanie Babies looking to capture attention in the short term, boost quarterly sales, earn bumps for a VP.

Apple is the only consumer gadget company taking the approach of linearly designing the entire stack over time. Everyone else is just looking to get through the holidays right now, respond to the metrics in 2023.
I'm using an Apple MacBook Air M1 (2020) with 16 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD and a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon with 16 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD at the same time. As an intense power user, I care less about budget and more about the quality of the machine I use.

I ordered myself the MacBook at work and privately purchased the X1 to put Ubuntu Linux on it (curious about the M1 and having had a great experience with each of a range of past ThinkPads - X61s, X220, X230, T41).

Both machines are very light, and not very rugged (for ruggedness, go for a Dell Latitude E6400 XFR or E7450). Both fell one time each, the X1 had no visible marks, but the MacBook Air now has a visible dent just above the logo. Thankfully, both machines remain fully operable.

The X1 is great for Linux, and that's my preferred platform. I'm biased towards that because it's not proprietary, but not out of purely ideological reasons, I just want to make sure the platform continues to exist. Thankfully, the Mac also has a Unix under the hood, alas often things are in weird locations or not installed at all, so I feel less "at home" on MacOS X. Also, having been a dual Linux/Mac OS X user since 2008, I find the usability of Mac OS is decaying - many things are hidden in non-obvious places. For example, it's not helpful if scrollbars are hidden and you have to exactly hover over where they ought to be in order to make them visible first - when you are on a call and need to pull up some data quickly, this is distracting.
The Mac has longer battery life, and is often superior when discovering a WiFi network nearby; it's audio also works flawlessly. In contrast, on the X1 under Linux, occasionally the headset plugged in isn't instantly recognized without some fiddling.

Both machines are very fast, with the M1 being without equal. I notice it mostly when installing/updating new software, as heavy compute jobs are usually done on clusters or in the cloud nowadays.

I end up using the Mac mostly for e-mail, making slides and going on Zoom calls, whereas any development work tends to happen more on the X1.

Neither is a perfect machine. I'd love to have a Mac with a proper keyboard, or a ThinkPad with an M1 chip, and the former would be more of an improvement than the latter because CPU speed isn't the bottleneck for my laptop usage profile. For the time being, I shall continue to carry two laptops.
I don't think that helping them to "stick" to treatment and medication is the right solution especially long term.

The chemotherapy alleviates only some symptoms but can exacerbate if not create some other ailments.
There is a great lack of knowledge in the causes and mechanisms of these mental illnesses.

Sometimes, such apparently harmless substances such as caffeine, can trigger psychosis in people. Repeated occurences of a psychotic break would lead people to be diagnosed as schizophrenic for instance when the simple solution would just be to review the diet.

Also, because there is no real way to study brain function (f-MRI is still nascent, and EEGs too noisy) in depth, neuroscientists do not necessarily understand what is wrong. Clinicians understand even less and are not always really motivated to understand or too remotely involved in research to keep up anyway.

If I were them, I would study the brain areas involved in creative thinking, internal visualization, and how they may link up CNS and PNS.
Instead of just affecting neurotransmitters, it's the actual triggers that need to be examined but that's too fine-grained a work for today's tools perhaps. (and research in that area may need more funding)

By the way, ADHD would be studied under the same umbrella as well, then.
It seems that Garage is designed to be fast when inter-node latency is high. A geodistributed "cluster," for example, would profit from using Garage instead of Minio.
I actually like the "queue and stamp" and "queue and show"!

First, because queues were usually short. For showing the JR pass, usually no queue at all, sometimes faster than the automatic gates. For reserving seats the experience has always been great, even as a non-Japanese speaker. The guy will find you the time, changes, etc... will ask you if you want to be together as a group, smoking or non-smoking cars (if that's still a thing), etc... and will find what's best for you taking into account what's available, often in less than a minute. I have never had an experience like this with a machine, not even close.

Maybe you travel mostly at rush hours, where the queues can get longer, but no "palaver" for me, everything has been as efficient as it could be. Generally I find machines to be strictly worse than competent staff, and the JR staff is among the best.
Case in point.

I cannot fathom how Americans can point at the EU successfully forcing phone manufacturers to switch from 40 different types of proprietary chargers (we used to have different chargers for different models within a phone series ffs) to 1 and say “wow fuck the EU for taking away the freedom that obligated me to have a dedicated charging drawer”. That is the true mental gymnastics.

Same with privacy. What sane human thinks “yes please, farm, process and store into perpetuity all the intimate data points of my life”..