skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This made me smile. We did this with our elder daughter (now 12). It worked and then the pandemic came where they were given their chromebooks to take home. Luckily only YouTube was allowed. But still it did cause quite a bump in screen usage. Obviously the younger daughter caught on (now 8) and decided hey I can do YouTube as well.

Since last year as things have normalized, we basically restarted a bunch of their sports activities. Both kids had reading requirements from school and both seem to be in a spot where they will read before bed by themselves. The elder one reads quite a bit, probably around 1-1.5 hrs at night. The younger kid about 20-25 mins. They still do about 5-8 hrs of screen time each week. Still too much in my opinion but they also do a lot of stuff not on screen.

I still haven’t given them phones or devices. I myself have an iPhone-6 so not much runs on it either. But as the big kid starts being more independent I think a phone is going to be necessary.

My advice, if any, is keep non screen activities and person to person activity a priority. But keep in mind that her friends may get video games a lot earlier and they do form peers online which translate into peers in person.
Probably want to spell check and also say something more about the Fukushima Daiichi units. Highlight them positively like this is very bizarre.
> Wind and solar need to be built in specific places, and thus have to move large amounts of energy over long distances.

That's not exclusive to wind and solar. From the ones I've seen in my country:

1. Hydroelectric power needs particular geographic features, and an abundance of water. Of the 4 long-distance HVDC links in my country, 4 of them are there to move large amounts of energy from large hydroelectric power plants to the region where most of the power demand is.

2. Coal is cheaper when it doesn't need to be transported for long distances. Not coincidentally, most of the few coal power plants in my country seem to have been built close to (or directly next to) coal mines; the exception I've seen was built next to the coast, and receives coal by ship.

3. Gas power plants tend to be built either next to already existent gas pipelines, or next to the coast to receive LNG by ship.
Bye bye. In to bigger and better.
The aquarium was likely very constant (otherwise the fish would die, they tend to be extremely sensitive to variations, especially rate of change), but the surrounding air likely was not.
AI in its current form is grifting. Trying to actually productionize anything with GPT3 for example is a nightmare, it can actively lie to you, the embeddings are pretty sub-par, and inference is pretty expensive. But you hear nothing but praise from it here on HN, and people act like the 30 minute web app they built and charge $15/month for is going to change the industry.

But it's getting better. GPT3.5/InstructGPT and now ChatGPT are showing incredible leaps in performance. Less hallucination, more coherence, it's getting better over time.

So guess who wins and profits once the tech catches up? Is it the people like me sitting on the sidelines and poo-pooing the tech? Or is it the people who have been in the space for a while?

Just the act of being "in proximity" to a technology can be so valuable. I know first-hand, I was an Objective-C developer for pure passion, because I loved clean MacOS apps and wanted to build myself tools. Well guess what? That proximity to Objective-C, familiarity with Xcode, and knowledge of Apple API patterns paid handsomely when the iPhone came out and I became an iOS developer. The same happened for WatchOS.

You see this pattern in technology over and over again. And I have no reason to think that AI/large language models will be an exception.

TLDR: It's kind of a grift. Carmack likely won't advance the field of AI or make a major breakthrough. But I have no doubt the infrastructure and talent he surrounds himself with will be able to manifest something profitable when the time comes.
What is the alternative to "if it behaves like thinking, it literally is thinking"?
I know this isn't what you'd want to hear, but if she doesn't have an online site already it may be a good time to invest in putting the content on a website that you have more control over and trying to find channels to promote her without using Meta.
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Nuclear isn't running 24/7. In theory maybe, but that hasn't worked out in practice. Quite severely not, for some countries.
I was in the same situation, I tried EVERYTHING, including supplements (mucuna pruriens help a bit), no slack (affects my work), full screen emacs only (same) and a long etcetera.

In addition to everything that was said... (no notifications, etc). The solution for me? : Medication. After trying not to be medicated for few years I talked to a psychiatrist and got a prescription for concerta.

Let's say I wish I did that 20 years ago.
> Note that I did not say legal action -- I said a letter

wut
Nachricht ist still the correct term and the verb would be "schreiben" (to write)

In a sentence: Ich schreibe dir später auf WhatsApp (I will text you on WhatsApp later)
The GP's argument is that if any information is publicly available, it's ok to repost it as much as you want.

Even your comment emphasizes the concept of "public information"
How do you think he ensures his privacy? NO book tours, no speaking engagements. No signings.
> sounds remarkably like corruption

In the sense of external entities illegally hoovering up cash, I doubt it. For me this seems more like Soviet central planning, where real-world success is secondary to conformance to big ideas imposed from top personalities. It can work when the idea is correct, useful, and resonant with the people implementing it. But when the idea's off, political realities prevent honest feedback from rising up to the level where it can have an effect, so everybody just goes through the motions and things slowly fall apart. A reality explained by the ancient bit of capitalist samizdat, "The Plan": https://web.mnstate.edu/alm/humor/ThePlan.htm
Not to defend the op. I wear a mask. But, people do make this choice all the time. They take a car instead of walk (AFAIK that means they're more likely to die). They don't wear a helmet when walking (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/falls). People make choices all the time to be less safe in a way that would have prevented deaths.
One of the favorite things I've heard of comes from a friend's new job, where he had a upward manager he reports to, but also an engineering manager who works on career/environment/developer-experience topics. Making sure the engineering side of the org is running well, while the more product-driven side does what businesses typically do.

Semi-related, I've somewhat started calling the engineer-advocacy work in the org the "Lorax" position; speaking for the trees, who are not as able to. Where & how this happens varies, & it's not usually a role or position, alike emotional support.
Of the many things that cooled my interest in VR, the presence of Facebook in the space is near the top.
Is it rendering or the database access?

I see no slowness in OSM+ rendering on Android once the data for an area is loaded, as you pan, zoom, etc. But the pause between opening a new location and having it rendered is quite noticeable.
Please reach out to me at ** -- lxe got to it first.
Can’t you just “rustle me up a nuclear power station ?”

https://youtu.be/ktIPiKwmnEI
I worked for the three largest mining companies in the world, and a much smaller miner before that. The small company had 1 geologist, 1 mining engineer, 1 general manager and an office admin person. The next place I went to was a similar sized mine with about 200 people in the office, and many more support people in the city. The resource was 1:1 coal to dirt and much higher quality, compared to the previous place which was 1:13 coal to dirt and way harder to mine. The large miners have the best resources in the world so they can afford to over-hire, those people don't actually do anything but make things worse doing "improvement projects", and then use bullshit charts to show why it's better. We had a huge downturn in mining about 15 years ago and they fired about 15,000 people across Australia, and overall production improved! I only work for startups now where I can be a core engineer, I had a role before where I knew I wasn't doing anything valuable and it's soul crushing, I feel sorry for those FAANG engineers who can't break free from the golden handcuffs and actually do something valuable with their time.
the military couldn't by itself. they use suppliers nowadays for everything, but they might.

China? well, autocracies look great at these. look at the map, pick the ideal site, appoint a few folks to do it. for every year late shoot one of them.

estimated delay is strictly less than a year.

of course sometimes things like Chernobyl happen, and of course later usually it turns out that the problem came up back then during the project, but it was too inconvenient.

....

the problem with the "Western" process is that they are absolutely 120% political (it's nukes after all, eh), but it's dressed up in 42 layers of idiotic formalities, procurement tenders, domain expert committees, laws, local/regional/state/national/supranational bureaucracy processes, impact assessments, esoteric cost-benefit scoring methodologies, etc. all of this is because the politics is really muddy. so it's a very suboptimal compromise after all.

and it shows. basically it's the classic case of "sure, you get one plant, but it makes no sense in itself, because the economics calls for a fleet of 20+ standardized units and reprocessing" but also "sure, we just got one, that's uneconomical as hel, but we need to keep our nuclear industry/knowhow/capability alive"

and then 20-40 years later the public opinion is completely poisoned by that, and now reversing course requires a fucking war.
For that you want news.chatgpt.com
I'm flagging them at least

It's entertaining as /r/drama material, but it's not interesting

Nothing particularly new is added with each thread
Ymmv, I hang about discords full of underperforming children and they would like nothing better than to game and chat with friends all day, as did myself when I was a child. That said, there is usually something lacking in their (and my) family culture that results in such behavior.
> dehumanizing

So you effectively just insulted like 1.5 billion asians who've been wearing masks for years?

I'd call it humanizing. I care for others so I put on the mask.
Gay becomes first black female president of Harvard
Gay grew up in NY and Saudi Arabia then studied economics at Stanford University, receiving the Anna Laura Myers Prize for best undergraduate thesis in economics. Gay then earned her Ph.D. (1998) from Harvard, winning the university's Toppan Prize for best dissertation in political science.
Sadly I’m not surprised by this blatant manipulation of government by the utility companies.

I’m building a house about 15mins outside downtown Los Angeles. It’s on empty land on a public street. There is no power to the property. LADWP is requiring us to move/install 3 poles, and upgrade the transformer. Probably around $75k cost to us. Has to be their people doing the work.

The Bureau of Street Lighting is also going to require us to move another pole that just has their street light on it with low voltage to it.

I’ve been trying so hard to tell them all to get F’d and just install solar and a bunch of batteries instead. But they’ve told me it’s illegal to that (something about freezing to death).

Oh and we have to widen the road ourselves too!

The whole thing is insane. So they’ve basically created a system where we have no choice but to pay for the utilities failing infrastructure.
People think I’m stupid’: the story of the man who shot himself 192 times
I'd think that likely. Ideation is easy. Actually pulling the trigger is difficult. Survival instincts are strong.
The more I understand about how many risks and problems are involved in running an organization as large and with as high a social profile as Meta, with all the accrued obligations and entrenched loyalties and overpromising managers that glom on over time, all while building new unproven technological infrastructure, the more sympathy I have for how blurry the line between corruption and implosion is.

I don't think anybody trusts Facebook at this point, and the idea of being forced into a pay for play virtual world controlled by a single company is understandably scary and deserving of criticism, but at the same time I've done social VR and I truly and honestly believe it's a vast improvement over any other existing kind of remote interaction. I actually get and believe in the vision, it just seems like the execution is really bloated/bad and they tried to way over abstract things/make things way too big way too early. I could see how spending that amount of money would be easy to do if you're trying to create universal abstractions for making, selling, creating, stitching services for an interactive set of 3D environments together that is easy for people to make "apps" for, building data centers, accounting for latency, building out supply chains, subsiding hardware, doing R&D on tracking, doing social research, and dealing with entrenched employees and middle managers accustomed to "the cushy tech worker lifestyle".

You really have to try social VR to understand how much better it is than video chatting or text channels. There's absolutely something to it. There's so much more information in the way people interact about what their intentions are, how they feel about what you're saying, what they're interested in, etc when you're interacting in VR with a 3D avatar.

All that being said, the virtual real estate and clear corporate "branding" angle is really gross, regardless of whether the money gets shady/you could really call that "corrupt". I prefer the wide range in quality but genuine effort and creativeness you get with a free and open ecosystem like VRChat.
> but no expert riflemen at the FBI could get off 3 accurate shots in the 6.5 seconds it would take to make the Commission's report true.

Why would an expert rifleman not be able to get off three accurate shots in 6.5 seconds? What am I missing?
I'm certainly no expert, but isn't (linux) kernel C full of pre-processor macros that muddy reading the code?
It's pretty common in discussions about Autism to talk about ADHD due to strong comorbidity in that direction.
20 years is a very long time for a structure under such extreme stress. You can bet that this accident will influence all such designs and cause a structural review of every other large tank made of acrylic in the world, as well as various under water tunnels in large aquaria.
I think maybe what they're trying to say is that while CFD can model wind in a complex system to a useful degree of accuracy ... the model will never be wind.

With AI that application of logic is an argument around the semantics of interface.

That's the most compassionate take on their words I could muster.
Reminds me of the quote:

> There are four types of officer: the clever and lazy, the clever and industrious, the stupid and lazy, and the stupid and industrious.

> The clever and lazy you make Chief of Staff, because he will not try to do everybody else’s work, and will always have time to think.

> The clever and industrious you make his deputy.

> The stupid and lazy you put into a line battalion, and kick him into doing a job of work.

> The stupid and industrious you must get rid of at once, because he is a national danger.
I would highly recommend "Neural Networks from Scratch". It will walk you through the code & theory at a granular level.

Youtube Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5dMEP_BbI&list=PLQVvvaa0Qu...
Your theory is that it isn't a scam if the people can afford to lose the money? That is certainly not how I think of them.
So this is why the Soviet Union collapsed lol
Web-archives: Extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages
Interesting. I actually have never tried any clients on macOs or iOS. I don't have apple products. On Windows i only use web Element. I don't disagree that it's early days for all clients, and they all could use improvement. But, Element does offer an Electron app, which would run equally on all platforms (if i recall correctly). Now, i myself am not a fan of electron apps. But that would at least provide a consistent experience across different platforms. Regardless, i find myself quite hopeful on all this. There's no shortage of clients who i hope all improve over time. The more that matrix gets popular, the more it attracts devs and UX designers whose ideas will float all other "boats". ...At least i hope! :-)
I have no idea what this has to do with taxation. It feels like a culture war diatribe.
This isn’t something limited to big tech companies - this is ubiquitous. Humans automatically optimise for the greatest reward for the least effort. It turns out, office politics and self-promotion are a lot better for your career than being good at what you do.

Therefore, everywhere you go, people are usually where they are not because of competence in their professional domain, but due to competence in the social arts. You see true creativity, throughout history, from tiny enterprises (a fistful of people, no hierarchy to compete for, an actual shared goal) and from individuals. Never corporations. They just do more of the same, at scale, which makes up for their aching inefficiencies.

I watched my business grow from a fistful of coders to a political hellscape. Even no hierarchy has a hierarchy. Us apes just can’t be without it.

Many labour under the misapprehension that hard work will be noticed and rewarded. This is not so, and never will be, as long as humans are involved.
> As far as Musk sees things, “birth rates are plummeting, the thought police are gaining power, and even having an opinion is enough to be shunned. We are trending in a bad direction.”

> He says he wants to transform Twitter from a social media platform distrusted and despised by at least half the country into one widely trusted by most Americans. To have it fulfill its highest mission: that of a digital town square where all ideas can be heard, and the best will win out.

Talk about unfortunate timing. This grandiose PR fluff piece lands the same day Musk wields the ban hammer and removes a bunch of journalists and competitors from the platform, giving up all pretense of objectivity and "free speech absolutism".
>>I get it, I'm an anarchist.
> Doubtful
There's pragmatic anarchism - the belief in the concepts that some facets of anarchy is good : i.e. less reliance on a central govt and hierarchies, perhaps instead some system where 90% of your tax money has to be spent w/in 100 miles of your home, the rest can be fought over between the State+Federal. Make states more like EU countries, etc. Instead of full socialism - just make companies either switch to co-ops or make the 'board' be made up of at least x% average (non-management-level) workers and give every worker at least (some) voting powers, and make labor unions practically a given.

Companies could create mutual aid programs that benefit their local residents who are their customers as well as employees. Universal healthcare for example could come from just being loyal to worker-owned businesses above corporate companies.

>> Government is the problem here
We have government regardless of if it works in our best interest or not (protecting water, ubi, healthcare). I'm an anarchist too, albeit pragmatic, with a focus on syndicalism, but we have to work in the framework we're given and that's capitalistic country, so the only way we can fix this is govt intervention or community enforced interventions.

Ideally to me THIS is what the federal govt SHOULD be about and ONLY this : interstate matters, foreign affairs, and military (though I think each STATE should have their own military that they 'loan' to the feds). I'm with Jefferson on the idea that we should be more loyal to our local neighborhood, then our state and only then the federal.

We definitely can use more regulation for companies that don't have some social benefit designation, but I'm not sure how to reconcile that specifically with anarchism except going all in on co-ops because a company where all the workers are on the board, are less likely to vote Yay on dumping forever chemicals in the water and poisoning their own water sources.

The problem is corporations are treated like humans without any of the moral costs and punishments. Corporations should be able to be 'executed'.
That is, it was impractical to fell them while building the line initially? The risk was considered too low for the cost of cutting and towing away large trees in a wide enough corridor?
Musk Is Seeking New Twitter Investors at Same Price He Paid
Long Covid: An update and gauging risk
ORCL HW business increased YoY by 11% in the last earnings release.
My Christian parents thought I was demon-possessed. That was quite helpful.
Huh, I wouldn't be okay with it. I'd find it quite disconcerting. I'm talking about posting my home address. Work address I wouldn't care about.

To each his own.
> already have many industrial disasters

All of them due too fossil energy. Hence the call to invest in already available renewable energy sources.

We don't need even more potential disasters.

> renewables are far more wasteful in terms of materials required

Nuclear energy needs uranium mines which by the way happen to be in countries that are, let's say, politically unstable.

The astronomical cost of nuclear waste management is killing any and all attempt to render the TCO of a nuclear plant in a good light, if done honestly.

> they inherently don't produce power constantly

Are you thinking of solar and wind?
When we talk about renewable, we mean geothermal plants, biomass energy and what not. And of course water, wind and solar - the mixture is important so that we can smooth out spikes with those renewables which don't produce power constantly, just as you build multiple nuclear plants, because one plant doesn't produce power constantly.

The question is: Why should the money go into ramping up a very expensive technology with lots of risks, when we could invest in better, safer and cleaner tech?
> My main interest is the sealing problem between the individual panels which seems to be an issue with almost any dome build except for the inflatables.

Right. The "natural materials" people ruined geodesic domes. Buckminster Fuller wanted the parts produced in factories, with tight tolerances, and assembled on site. Radar domes in northern Canada and Greenland were built that way in the 1950s, from aluminum and Fiberglas parts, and many are still holding up, abandoned and facing high winds and snow.

The hippie era wood framing with shingles approach works far worse. It's so bad that the author of "Domebook 1", etc. told people to give it up.

[1] https://www.radomes.org/museum/parsehtml.php?key=IceCap1Gree...
IMHO, that’s almost natural in large organizations, it’s just a function of the structure and worker KPI.
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting the JVM was bad (on the contrary, I think it is quite good). I was just putting Java in the "crappy language" camp.

The best use of Java is implementing Clojure. Of that (Clojure) I am a fan.
Corporate execs: Get back, get back, to the office
Story link https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/12/harvard-names...
The legal framework is the intersection of eminent domain and Congress's constitutional power to regulate interstate disputes and commerce. Compared to just about everything else the federal government does, this may be the most within its legal powers.
I don’t think you’d need to be alone in solving the AGI problem.

Carmack is an engineer at heart. I am sure there are some yet undiscovered technical blockers in that space that he will solve.