skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With progressive taxation of corporations, we could disincentivize the existence of trillion dollar corporations, opening up the market for thousands more million to billion dollar businesses to exist. Regulatory capture would be much harder to coordinate which would lead to much less corruption. Greater marketplace competition would lead to better quality services and products for consumers.

The curve used to shape the tax rate as company size grows could be tuned to mitigate many of the potential negative side effects of this.
Twitter was showing such warnings for external links long before Musk took over. Here [0] is the link to an article from May 2020, discussing this very thing.

[0]: https://wptavern.com/bringing-back-blogs-in-the-age-of-socia...
Okay, this is fascinating.

The fact that “schizophrenia is rare or nonexistent in hunter-gatherer populations” is particularly interesting.

I had no idea this was the case.

Clearly there is much more research to be done, but I feel like the authors are on the right track here.
My nightmare as a male writer :)

Fortunately I had a female editor who read over stuff like that with a critical eye. And no ball gowns in my books. I do have a wedding but I don't even mention what the bride was wearing. My bad.
It works great in Haskell. The problem is that it really needs typed effects, hopefully OCaml will get typed algebraic effects at some point.
Thank you. Incredible that 'cattle' isn't even mentioned once in the newspaper article.
Indeed so! But I suppose there may be enough slanted surfaces facing approximately south. If solar were cheap enough to depoy, it could help. But possibly it may be not, due to labor costs.

I still see some (tall, multifamily / office) houses in Brooklyn and even on Manhattan adorning their roofs with solar panels. I know only one house that incorporated them right from the start though, it's on Coney Island, facing the ocean.

I think when someone comes up with translucent solar panels which can work as window shades on a skyscraper while looking good from the outside and not requiring a fortune to deploy, that will change the face of metropolises around the globe.
I've had this exact setup for nearly a decade. Sometimes Slack (or Google Chat) ends up on desktop four.

It really cuts down on distractions.
What is "modern society" these days? We just came out of a presidency of a guy who's stuck in the 80s and we're moving towards a new Cold War era. Meanwhile the clothing styles look like this: https://thevou.com/fashion/current-fashion-trends/
If you have ADHD and can't concentrate when people are trying to contact you all the time, you should be that person who is unreachable.

That doesn't mean you can't set expectations to help people figure out how to contact you, or give escalation paths if somebody does need you immediately
Wait, that has happened with fission too, just not at grid scale because there hasn't been funding for it. If you look at military, academic, and space nuclear reactors, you will see Wright's law playing out. Solar and wind got the chance to ramp investment and scale. Grid-attached nuclear never did.

Personally, I see more risks to massive-scale battery production than to modest-scale nuclear fission, both of which solve the same problem.
This is spooky. Maybe AGI is within our lifetime. Does anybody else here look forward to life as a paperclip?
I like that. There is a nice justice to that idea.
Bought one of their doorbells that claimed to work offline. Nope. It refused to function without an internet connection to contact a server in China. And if you disconnected it via firewall rules it would audibly (very loud) complain that it was disconnected.

Eufy. Never again.
The article is coverage of the Colorado River Water Users Association 2022 Conference in Las Vegas: https://www.crwua.org/annual-conference-2022.html

Edit: Their 2022 Resolutions are interesting (PDF): https://www.crwua.org/assets/downloads/resolutions/2022-reso...
This is running Solaris.

https://www.usa.philips.com/healthcare/solutions/radiation-o...

Last I heard they were desperately trying to get it on Linux.
Why it isn't is because its a huge legacy application with some very horrible hacks specific to the OS.
Christmas Tree: Present in Disguise
> take up an hour of your time per year -- at a full time job, that is about 1/2 of a percent of the total hours you work in a year

For an ok-paying (yearly income) job that needs only 200h per year (1h being 0.5%) I would happily spent two 2h of unpaid time for that.
Earnings are taxed when you make them. You need to have made money to donate it. QED, you earn, get taxed, get a handout.
hmmmm. u right

Well still I shouldn't have to decorate my html for css to something I feel is pretty reasonable to expect it to support
Plenty of wind though! Wind farms in the sea are a great idea; UK has a lot of sea at every side.
Regarding the issue of "mav", it looks like the poster used screen capture followed by some image-to-text OCR routine (possibly tesseract). This feels like an OCR fail.
Start taking your medication, you going to feel less annoying and expensive multi-tasking.

Also, I'm trying an App "Sensa" which promises help the executive dysfunction cause by the ADHD.
Self-reviews are bad but when a company asks you what your goals are, that's worse.

Why do we have to pretend I'm not just there to do a job / make you richer in exchange for less money than I know you yourself are making? It's so patronizing.

I don't ask my plumber or my doctor what their goals are and the world carries on.
I was genuinely surprised that he allowed it (I definitely enjoyed it, so this is not a dig at the movie.) Apparently Laurie Anderson wanted to do and opera of Gravity's Rainbow, and Pynchon replied that he would only give permission if it was done solely with Banjos--which I take as a roundabout way of saying no way.
I had a scrupulously clean adolescence. I'm not entirely sure why to this day, other than the fact I was completely certain my parents would catch me and ... ground me I guess? They certainly didn't engage in any corporal punishment.
I think we'll probably see a lot of this kind of synthesis as our ability to model grows stronger.

Seeing yourself as a collection of billions of separate but symbiotic, sometimes competing organisms rather than as one coherent one is a big paradigm shift which will likely result in a lot of fruitful theories and hopefully eventually treatments for disease and illness.

Crucially, we're getting to a place where we can model some of this and then directly attack several other pieces which were inaccessible to us before due to sheer amount of complexity.
They speed up the second part of the video. The "flying apart" bit happens at much lower speeds and would be boring to watch in extreme slow-motion.
Thanks for sharing. It's been wild for me to read through this thread and finding so much shared experience. For your comment, it could have been written exactly by me, just with the book and media subjects replaced with my own.

I'm undiagnosed, but have already made an appointment after reading a similar topic on reddit earlier this month [1]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/z1usgt/advi...
Not my experience at all. I did really well in school and yet have a lot of drive to peruse my own projects and goals. I don’t need anybody to force me to do it.
That was made by IBM AND Microsoft, but if we go so far Xenix was the best os MS ever made/buy'd ;)
Yes, you need to support lookahead. But not unbounded. There are so many efficient ways to solve this problem. But computer says no?

Forget the idea that the tokeniser could place markers on semicolons / curly brackets to bound any future lookaheads. Why couldn't you just look one token ahead and analyse the potential pseudo-class/property. Pseudo-classes are clearly defined. There are about 50 of them. AFAIK none of them clash with property values. Keep it this way. If it's not a valid pseudo it's either an invalid selector or a property. Then you're just analysing the equivalent of a property value anyway.

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Of course the above logic is flawed. I'm really just trying to tease out some useful information other than "can't be done".

I think the main challenge with this discussion is that the limitations of the parsers are not clear, at least outside circles directly working with them. Not only that, the explanations of why certain cases won't work are provided without the proper context needed to understand.

From what I understand tokenisation is dumb, it basically just spits out words. Without nesting it is straightforward for a parser to iterate over these tokens one by one, distinguishing between selectors and properties, based on prior context. Of course parsers could look ahead, but by design they don't, because efficiency.

The arguments for breaking the defacto nesting syntax (i.e. scss) seem to lie in the fact that the rules of the past must lie within the rules of the future, because graceful degradation.

Option C. - the most popular option, and also the most true to scss - while pragmatic in it's approach, is still shoehorning new into old.

I'm sure most agree that unbounded lookahead is probably not workable. But to make the argument that parsers can never look ahead, can never improve, seems ideological, if not ridiculous.
Why does this sound like ChatGPT?
Watch 2-3 episodes of 'How it's Made' and you can see how much water use is industrial.

Add the industrial and cattle together and one can quickly see that it's not humans that are consuming the vast majority of potable water, but companies and industry that are depleting what's available for the rest of us.
Also similar to the Epstein-Barr virus link to MS
This is an excelent answer, which makes me itch to push a little further.

I suppose OP (and you) are not "internet addicted", and I'm pretty sure it's not because someone is working hard to keep you from the internet, but because you have other things in your life that you enjoy or understand are critically needed.

Kids aren't that different. We might need to push them first so they discover new things and find what they like, but they'll definitely come back to you to go hiking if it they had a blast the last time.

I'm not sure it's really "put in the work", and I like a lot your "actively parenting" part. The crux is really to have fun with your kid, and if it's fun they'll do it again, and again, and again. And they also have a sense of responsibility, letting them fail and be remorseful when they didn't do their due and watched youtube instead is often a good enough strategy.
> broadly : one who is opposed to especially technological change

1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Luddite
They are effective at first, and then you become tolerant and either need to increase your dosage for the same effect, or take a break (which can be difficult to suffer through because now you're operating at less than baseline functioning until homeostasis kicks in, which can take a week or longer). And e.g. Adderall was only released in 1996, so there hasn't been much time to study the long-term effects.

This happens with most drugs, not just for ADHD. Even caffeine (another kind of CNS stimulant, but less potent). Remember your first cup of coffee, how nice and awake you felt after you drank it?

Please don't take this the wrong way, btw. This is coming from someone who was also diagnosed with ADHD but stopped taking the meds because I didn't think they were worth it in the long term. I just drink coffee and take occasional week-long coffee breaks now. But everyone's different and I'm sure these drugs are an absolute necessity for some people, despite the risks.
Incorrect. Nor you or anyone else liked Vista. There's a video of one of the lead engineers describing how they use the "fail fast" mantra. They sure did.
Animism. Fascinating.
> (seems hand wavey, and probably wrong though I can't figure out where the flaw is)

The flaw is here:

> Since there are infinite sequences of composite numbers, and each composite number is the product of at least two prime numbers (for example, 12 is the product of 2 and 6, which are both prime numbers), there must be an infinite number of prime numbers as well.

This doesn't establish that the prime numbers are distinct. The infinite sequence of even numbers has a single prime number in it, for example.
It's hard to specifically attribute why any fish population is decreasing, but it's not at all a stretch to say demand for shark fins contributes to overfishing of sharks. This isn't something anyone can quantify well because so much fishing is done illegally and shark finning especially being controversial isn't something folks advertise themselves as doing, but it seems very safe to assume there is an impact here caused by the trade.

We also know that sharks take a long time to grow and as important apex predators, their declining numbers have bad knock-on effects for other species (threatening extinction may apply to not only the sharks themselves but the ecosystems they are part of). So banning finning feels unambiguously good?
Parent of three ranging from tween to college age.

We have never had limits on anything. Screen time/content unrestricted. Probably dozens of times, maybe hundreds, we have had "the talk" about how there's a lot of weird shit in the world, internet included, and it's better to know about that stuff and how to deal with it than to create a temporary secure enclave at home where it doesn't exist.

We especially didn't want to pawn off our responsibility as parents onto their future 18-year-old college-bound selves to learn how to deal with excesses. Since the moment they could point, they've been given the opportunity to make mistakes with excess. They've fallen thousands of times, we've picked them up thousands of times, and now they're pretty good at not falling.

You can guess that I love CI/CD, stable trunk, etc., in my day job. My attitude as an engineer/parent is you'll never make bugs/threats go away. So make sure you and your team/family are experts at dealing with them while they're fresh and small.
its basically doing a react-ish way of UI changes without a full page reload (which thymeleaf would have done).

Interesting, I missed that in my scan of the thymeleaf docs. I haven't used that library at all (and tend to shy away from Java land in general, unless it's Clojure).

And for my purposes, yes. I may be missing the point of the library, but that is how I've tended to use it.

so what happens if i click something that needs to go to another "page"? do you "swap" the html out with the html of the other page ? or do you trigger a full page reload. For SEO reasons, im kinda putting the requirement that every interaction must have a unique url

I'd say pick your poison. You could go either route and it would most likely be roughly the same code.
We knew this over a year ago, but it's called "acceptable risk" by the CDC. The thing is they never told us that. But it was on that document you signed when you took your jab.

You read the fine print right?

Moderna had "This is an EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE" on all thier media until not that long ago, and then they just removed that warning. We don't even have clinical trials any more.

Those Moderna shareholders are rough, once a week jab was the goal. That booster. Much upset there, when that did not go through.

They tried to push "your dog, cats, all your pets WILL need a shot!" That did not get much traction, remember that news?

Shareholders bailed. Lets all short TSLA was their next move. How markets work.
Sounds authoritative while being wildly inaccurate?
Those will definitely be interesting, if they are leaked. Let's hope the cameras have a high frame rate because the first couple of frames will be the most interesting with respect to where the failure started and how it propagated.

In the Panama City there is an overhead swimming pool many meters above the restaurant floor. I've dined there a couple of times and never feel quite comfortable with that much water hanging over me supported by a sheet of acrylic.

After this that feeling is likely not going to be any less :)
Isn't it illegal to not pay your rent and not vacate the premises? What is Elon's thinking here? Surely he must have to pay the owner at some point when lawyers get involved.
Frankly, how does anybody get any work done in such a setup?

Long gone seem to be the days when Joel Spolsky was arguing for uninterrupted work as a key factor to getting things done [1]. It's even one of the 12 points on his test.

https://www.geekwire.com/2016/just-shut-let-devs-concentrate...
I bet you could. The typebars are of different lengths, so they probably have a somewhat different frequency profile. There would be some ambiguity with the bar symmetrically opposite in the type basket, but likely figuring it out would be less difficult than doing the daily cryptogram.
Twitter staff taking action against users at the direction of the FBI does seem like a topic worthy of discussion, though it seems like there are a lot of people here who would rather just pretend it never happened.
Palo Alto as well: electricity, natural gas, water, sanitary sewer, and commercial fiber optic services.

<https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Utilities>
I have a t530 that I bought used in 2015 or so. With new RAM, an SSD, and Linux, it's an extremely capable machine. It's my daily driver.

I don't have any major complaints. The entire machine is pretty good from top to bottom. Easy to repair, good spill-resistant keyboard, decent screen, dedicated GPU, even a couple USB 3.0 ports. It's a thicc machine, but I like that. With the dock, it becomes an excellent portable workstation.

This little laptop has been around the planet with me and put up with a ton of abuse. I have never, ever thought "oh, I need to treat this thing gently in case it breaks" like I do with modern laptops. No, this bad boy gets thrown into bags and back seats with no fucks given. I've even sat on it once or twice.

Unless you need high performance for gaming or cpu intensive applications, you will not find better value for your money than a t-series. Mine has been my programming workhorse for nearly a decade, and I'd be surprised if it doesn't last at least another decade.

Get a t-series, then upgrade the bejeezus out of it. Max the RAM, get the best CPU it can support from eBay, get a new battery and a 90W+ power supply. Drop in a pci-e or sata SSD, and you'll be good for years.

Also of note: if you want to upgrade the wifi card, you need to hack the bios. It's very easy to do, just check the thinkpad wiki.
If you don't upgrade the cpu, make sure you pull and clean the heatsinks and refresh the thermal paste.
I don't have (diagnosed) ADHD, but this keeps me sane:

1. mute all @here or @channel notifications. Those are almost never critical. If somebody needs you to do something, they'll DM you.

2. pick a handful of channels that are important and mute all others (in that they don't show up as having unread messages). Those are the channels that you'll want to read all messages in.

3. Block 1-3 daily calendar entries with 15 minutes in them in your calendar for Slack time. This is the time where you will read the messages from 2. and respond. Feel free to extend the time blocks if you need to if it's up and you aren't done. You'll look at channels in 2. outside of these time blocks.

4. If there is something urgent going on (ie production outage), you'll deviate from this and that's fine.
This is less about "customer demand" and more about having to meet minimum video length for mid-clip monetization slots. Strictly an artifact of how YouTube works.
Wasn't schizophrenia identified as basically off-by-one (multiple?) error of the deletion algorithm in the brain that is garbage collecting more (glial?) cells in a row than needed during teenage years? And "overclocking" glial cells by adding large quantities of Niacin/NAD+ partially alleviates those symptoms?
What is reasoning?
As would I, because falling bricks kill young healthy people.

HIV kills ~650K per year, should everyone take PreP?
Excuse me, no representation for the W series???
Why not put that stuff in a docs or about page?

The page linked tells me nothing.
But as an AI implementation, when considered "as an example of an AI implementation", an analysis of its behaviour by one of the foremost experts in the field is still entirely worth the effort, because we learn from that analysis. It teaches us what an expert in the field sees happening, where and how it's falling short, and so what kind of improvements would be worth continued focus on.

Criticism by a lay person is a blog post. Criticism by Peter Norvig is a teaching moment that future work is based on. It's like having Knuth comment on your fundamental algorithm design: there is gold in them there text, and we got it for free.
> As long as vaccine side effects cause less deaths and less harm than the virus, vaccination is still the way to go.

That's not how medicine works. What would be your opinion if you were the one that was going to die? Would you still stick by your statement?

The issue is NO ONE told anyone this data. It was "suppressed" to PREVENT "vaccination hesitancy", that's the issue.
IIRC it does, and otherwise throws out (or used to) an ARP check (or something like that) to see if any one on the local link is using the IP. A properly behaved DHCP server would not hand the IP again to someone else if the lease hasn't expired.
> Whether they apply "reasoning" or "extremely multidimensional synthesis across hundreds of thousands of existing solutions" is a question of semantics.

I see where you're coming from - if it's good enough that we can't distinguish it, then does any difference really matter? I submit it's fundamentally different. This is essentially the Chinese Room thought experiment [1] or a nice similar metaphor with an octopus from Section 4 of this paper [2].

The trouble is not in its ability but human's interpretation it. Humans see an "avocado chair" and think this AI can invent art and concepts. Producing combinations of existing concepts is not "that hard". Even for combinations that have never existed before.

Meanwhile, it's failing at basic tasks: you can find plenty of examples of it failing basic logic, anything with math or arithmetic, a lot of ethics/bias concerns stemming from the training data, etc.

I think when we look forward to an AI that "reasons" this is not what anybody would mean.

Current AIs are bullshit engines. They are very impressive, and probably even useful. They are a milestone. But they are not reasoning in any meaningful way. And if you look at the math behind them there's really no reason to think they would.

So I guess given a methodology that seemingly shouldn't produce reasoning ability, and no evidence that it has so far, sure, maybe scale will magically unlock it. There's always a chance I guess. But it doesn't really seem too sensible.

See Sam Altman's take as well on Twitter here [3]

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

[2] https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.463.pdf

[3] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1601731295792414720
One that I use is the unison sync tool
I will rejoice if this leads to effective treatment. Our family has a close relative who is afflicted with it. It's a world of chaos for everyone in their orbit.
I love this.

But then, I went to the Dublin Writer's Museum (https://www.dublin.info/writers-museum/) so there you go. Not the place for the average jumpy 7-year-old.