skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Handing control of my life to 3rd parties has almost always resulted in me getting screwed. Product pricing changes, companies shut down, features removed, etc. If I spend my money on something, I want to enjoy as permanent of an upgrade to my quality of life as possible. I don't want to constantly have to balance an ever-growing list of subscriptions, either.

For example, I used Fusion 360 for a few years under their hobbyist license. Then they started pulling the rug out: limited number of projects allowed, then they disabled local simulation features (forcing you to use paid cloud tokens, even though my local computer was often faster to run the simulation). I won't begrudge them asking for money. I did, however, realize that they can change the deal anytime they want, and thus my built up skills were at the mercy of Autodesk. So I dropped Fusion and learned FreeCAD (of which I am a paying supporter), OpenSCAD, and other open source tools. Those are much less polished, but I can all but guarantee that I'll be able to use those products until I'm past any need for software.
That's a particularly ignorant statement, but I get where you are coming from now.

Developing countries and those on the verge of becoming industrialized nations, are quite capable of handling complex technology. India and Pakistan have their own nuclear industry complete with nuclear weapons, mostly driven by indigineous efforts.

And foreigners running a nuclear plant in such a country does absolutely nothing to the security risks from wars and political unrest. ISIS tried to find material for dirty bombs in Mossul for example. The only reason they didn't find anything was that they were looking in the wrong places. If you start putting that stuff in countries were you can't be sure if the government stays stable for the next five years, much less fifty years or even multiple centuries if they don't manage to store the waste securely, that's a recipe for desaster.
He hasn’t got podcast skills, just famous names. His questions are always extremely basic and naive
That's what I'm asking. When the monitor is live, it can draw a complete screen ~30+ times every second, so why does it take more than 1/30th of a second to start from nothing? Then, I speculated that the only reason I could think of was if the graphics card doesn't actually send every pixel every frame, and there's no way for the monitor to request a full refresh.
I would argue this is pre-conscious or an intuitive evaluation rather than an actual rationalization and that online gaming is not necessarily a universal result. Absconding to the internet and social media (not always "social" necessarily as Reddit and HN constitute social media) in general seems to be but there is a general inclination towards escapism given the lack of incentives or hope for anything better that they can realistically access in their present context.

Feel the same way myself. I definitely didn't need to sit down and do a pro/cons list and really philosophize about the diminished returns on my labour. I don't even think its necessarily the optimal route but like in Alice and Wonderland, (I'm paraphrasing and adapting) "when you have nowhere to go, it doesn't matter what you do". You end up at the same place and if that place is less stressfull than putting yourself out there and increasing your travel/food/exertion/social efforts for nominal gain relative to "doing nothing", it makes sense.

If people can afford to give themselves ad hoc sabbaticals, I would advise it for no other reason than it gives you the chance to slow down and reassess. Even if you don't spend the time doing self-improvement and building new skills/habits/coping mechs, the subconcious can cook up some amazing things when it has time out in the yard to run around without judgement or artificial constraints that otherwise suppress its agency.

The world depends on people with mortgages and debts who can't take a day (or longer) off and really think about what they are/aren't doing and about what they actually need and to whom their efforts truly benefit.
The key problem with trying to use LLMs as a proxy for ontologies is that you have to figure out what ontology the LLM is actually using if that is even possible in the first place, because LLMs should in principle be encoding multiple perspectives.

If all you want is search and retrieval, that might be ok. Otherwise, you are right back where you started with multiple implicit ontologies that individuals and groups struggle to reconcile.

However, there is a much deeper problem that is faced by ontologies, whether they are implicit/explicit, trapped in an LLP, or written in OWL, and that is that ontologies are best thought of as collections of hypotheses which must be tested and testable in order to be useful and verifiable. We are only now starting to think about how to get formal ontologies into the loop for validation based on observable data in the life sciences (beyond say, pointing the the literature).

LLMs can generate so much garbage that validating any latent ontology they may contain is likely to be both absolutely critical for them to be remotely useful, and also extremely difficult/labor intensive, bringing them right back down to reality when it comes to the difficulty of validating and verifying them.

In the end, formal manual ontologies look hard because they tend to put the validation of the model first. LLM pseudo ontologies might look easy, but the cost of validating and verifying them will likely be almost exactly the same in the end (if not worse).

The reason for this is that the real cost is reconciling a model with reality and having strong control over what constitutes valid data about reality, or making the measurements on the real world to verify some statement.

LLMs might help when it comes to coverage of a domain, but if that coverage is achieved by also having 80% of all statements being demonstrably false and leaving it to the users to determine which 20% are true, then the coverage probably isn't worth it.
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The Keytulle program touch typing trainer/assistant now free-to-pay. Keytulle is the game changer in a touch typing study world. https//keytulle.org/index-en.html
I have no skin in this game. After being a Twitter beta
tester, I stepped away from the platform several years
ago. But I would like to point out that if you drive
everyone away who doesn't like your policies and THEN
setup a poll, you may not be getting an unbiased
response.
I'm not sure what you're referring to.

I listed some things that people believe, and I listed some things to think about.

If you can point to where I made any inflammatory claims, that would help me communicate better in the future. Thanks.
I think people have a right to do it sure but I think it very quickly leads to a total insulation from opposing viewpoints
Referees are nicer to attackers nowadays, plus there's several rule tweaks done in recent decades to make attacking more worthwhile. Goals scored at WC bottomed in 1990 iirc.
This just seems like a lot of cloud costs to take on, considering how much power developers laptops carry and would be completely untapped. Instead of having everything remote, to me it appears more sensible to have a distributed development environment. I guess this would look something like the dagger.io folks are shooting for.
It has exactly the same problems, same as any high capex steam-driven turbine.
That time is spread randomly over thousands of devs and not lost all at once during a sev1
Yeah would be nice to be able to alt-tab between monitors (or I should say: sources). I never understood why it is so slow. I have a somewhat older Samsung TV and I even have to cycle all the inputs (8?) to arrive a the correct one and it takes 1-3 sec on every input before I can get to the next. Absolutely maddening. But I guess manufacturers were too busy making 3D a thing and then "curved". Maybe they can now decide to fix some basics?
There are several points in the article where the examples didn't make sense at all to me. Overall an interesting article, but I'm either a bit dense this morning, or it's sloppy in the details and explanations

For instance, in table 3, it looks like they excluded backend tasks {0,1} (for frontend tasks {0, 1}) then {2,3} (for frontend tasks {2,3}) in the N=10 case, but backend tasks {1,2} then {3,4} in the N=11. Why the discrepancy? I get that it helps them make the point about task 3 changing subset, but it's inconsistent with excluding left-overs in a round-robin fashion presented in the previous paragraph.

Another sentence that I couldn't make sense of is: "If these [tasks 2 and 4] carry over to the subset of the next frontend task, you might get the shuffled backend tasks [7, 2, 0, 8, 9, 1, 4, 5, 3, 6], but you can't assign backend task 2 to the same frontend task. " The "same frontend task" as what? Obviously note the one task 2 was already assigned to (the most intuitive reading to me), since precisely task 2 was not assigned and is a left-over. But then again, what does this mean?
Have pointed out for a while that I:

1. want to pay to keep companies in business

2. unless one can offer me a reasonably priced "all you want from almost everywhere" like Spotify or Apple Music (and even they are just barely good enough for the price), I want to pay by tokens instead of by month.

Exceptions exist: service contracts is a place where I can accept to pay happily monthly for a number of incidents even if 90-something of them aren't used.

I also understand very well that storage has a price even if I forget it.

That said, for us who (tjknk we) remember Microsoft Office from before it became a SaaS I think it went something like this:

You buy Microsoft office x at a crazy price.

Shortly after someone else gets Microsoft Office version y and you start getting documents you can't open.

At some point you give up trying to tell people to use the old format and you pay 25-75% of the original crazy price to upgrade.

And so it goes on.

Jetbrains is one of a few companies that has made a reasonable deal for users in this regard: you get to keep forever the last version you have paid 12 months for. Could probably be improved to 6 months, but compared to everyone else I can think of it is a different league.
This is going too far, and honestly has a Egor Putilov smell to me.
Bank? Developer? Whoever has to package it in and therefore has to hedge it as well.
Glad to have provoked a positive response. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk Hofstadter or anything else.
Lex has had major crypto guests on his podcast and supports it
I think it is reasonable to buy the DVD or BluRay, then download DRM-free rip from PirateBay with same resolution. I think the same is fair if you bought a digital lifetime license (as we just learned: "not really") from Amazon. Then if Amazon steals your copy and does not refund you, you still have a copy.

Has anyone ever tried to sue Amazon in small claims court for a "disappeared" film? I guess Amazon will force arbitration, but you have a good case in arbitration. All you want is either: the original digital film, or a refund of original payment. This could be arbitrated very quickly since the sum is so small.
The process of working with Whole Slide Imaging or WSI is enormously time consuming, since such slides usually have large resolutions. Running through them manually is a tough and time consuming task. Given that this problem exists, the MobiDev team challenged themselves to search for an AI pathology solution capable of working with WSI and supporting digital healthcare workflows.
Slow screens, they annoy me so much too!

Somewhat on this topic, I wish one could compare motherboards by the time-to-boot delay.

If reviewers start benchmarking something, manufacturers will optimize for it eventually.
I don't think you understand the definition of incitement.
Phasing out coal does not mean phasing out all fossil fuels. Isn't that obvious to you or are you intentionally lying and trying to mislead?

2038 is quite a few years in the future. Your blanket statement of "there is no technology which can achieve that" is just not plausible. Of course, when you conflate coal with fossil fuels, if you confuse short-term and long-term plans however you please, you can find a lot of inconsistencies to attack.
I wonder what amount of twitter revenue and users are in the EU?

Also I strongly suspect that mastadon would have a lot of trouble complying with European laws (except I think some have company size minimums that mastadon instances would likely not reach).
try descript.com - their tool called „studio sound“ is quite incredible
Unfortunately I have a similar KVM switch and it is very much not instant. In the same 4 second ballpark as OP. Annoys me too but I just put up with it since I don't have to switch very often and it's sure faster than switching inputs on my monitor's shitty OSD which is what I used to do.
No. Stop 5d-chessing these people.
and on Android
Thanks for pointing this out. This is a naming error, where complex is used as an antonym of simple. I think a better name would be "rational result division" or even "fraction to decimal". This is being corrected now.
Even a $1 micro should be able to handle a few bits of resolution information in less than a millisecond. This can't be it.
Chips and Dips: 1997

And I have a beard, but not a neck beard.

This place is more like the "old" /. and I like it here.
I think the steelman answer is that if this works well, you don't give developers powerful laptops; you give them cheap laptops that are little more than dumb terminals. (Whether that works is left as an exercise for the reader.)
using remote resources as a part of your local dev flow can be very useful if your local environment is constrained on cpu/ram/gpu/ssd/bandwidth.

this can be as simple as an ephemeral ec2 spot machine that reacts every time files on it’s filesystem change. it then does stuff, like building and shipping.

your local setup needs to rsync files from local to remote every time you save a file.

i’m on an upload constrained setup right now, and this[1] significantly speeds up my iterations uploading lambda zips.

fancier setups probably are similarly advantageous, but add tradeoffs proportional to their complexity.

1. https://github.com/nathants/aws-gocljs/blob/258ea5bb72d06a50...
Yeah, HN is such a double edged sword. Great technical discussions as well as time sucking passive aggressive discussions about "divisive social issues", which I cannot help but click.

Wrote this script today, that just stops me seeing submissions from sites I know won't have good technical discussions. Might be useful for others.

const boringDomains = ["twitter.com", "newyorker.com", "nytimes.com"]

Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".titleline > a"))
.filter(elem => boringDomains.some(domain => elem.href.includes(domain)))
.map(elem => elem.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement)
.flatMap(elem => [
elem,
elem.nextElementSibling,
elem.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling]
)
.forEach(elem => elem.remove())
Oh I know it's quite possible technically, I've just never had the privileged to work at Twitter scale. It's also the human side of that I find fascinating, that 250k people voted in under 2 min.
Tesla was nothing before Musk. It's disingenuous to say he didn't found it, just because he bought the name, logo and a prototype from someone else
> global hostility

I live on Europe and there’s a lot of Asian shops and restaurants around in my city - I’ve never noticed any hostility. Before that I lived in Singapore, I have a bunch of friends who travelled to Europe (after 2020) and I’ve not heard of anything like that from them as well. So not sure, is that an US issue? It’s not “global” if yes.
Bullshit metrics calibrated on a past that doesn't matter. The past risks don't predict the future risks, especially not if the intention is to scale up nuclear power by a factor of ten or so. I don't even think the risks will scale linearly, because that scale-up is impossible with the current regulatory posture that is keeping the risks down.

There are already energy storage solutions. To ignore those, to claim categorically those will not improve, seems to be a particularly "convenient" argument.
If you are that stupid that you are seriously asking this in this way: yes.
I have a few tesmart HDMI switchers are they are fairly reasonably priced (~$100) and switch decently fast (Under 1 second usually). Occasionally I have to switch the unit off/on if it gets confused, once a quarter or so. There's a switch on the front of the unit so it's not terrible.

They also support hot key switching, so my hands don't need to leave the keyboard to switch, which is nice.
More than a decade ago there was a video report on tv where a young adult cow was euthanized on the grounds that it is illegal to keep unlicensed "livestock" or something to that effect. The family had rescued and taken care of this creature and the government just killed it for no other reason but following protocol.

I honestly believe we are the worst. Not sure if it's cultural thing or most of us are plain evil
I had an interviewer ask me about my WPF experience in 2018. I told them I don't believe in the technology since everything went towards HTML/CSS/JS. Looks like I was right. You couldn't honestly pay me enough to touch WPF in 2023. I remember burning out on making WPF look decent and like a web ui back in 2016. The dual way databinding is awesome, but XAML can't and will never reach the maturity of HTML and CSS.
They sent me a contract with a bad salary, I didn't accept it. I hope beginners stick to the web.
I see your transcript, and I raise you my ChatGPT summarized transcript extension!

https://github.com/ricklamers/ChatGPT-YouTube-summarizer

All jokes aside, I love the automated transcripts from YouTube. Videos are just so inefficient to consume as a format.
I wish this existed. Samsung Odyssey G7 has the same issue.
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Any kind of "smart" thing in your network will eventually hit a scaling limit. The end-to-end principle has to be given due respect. Only the edge of your system has the necessary resources to participate in it. As the scale becomes more extreme, even the kernel of a machine running 100s of k8s pods (or borg tasks) starts to look more like the center of your network and less like the edge of it. The trend is to move as many things as possible out of the kernel and into user processes, including network policy, quota, pacing, and the whole TCP stack too.
Surgery helps with romantic relationships and also with "passing" as the target gender.

If everyone in society treats you as Gender X when you want to be Gender Y, then you're effectively just Gender X still (again, because gender is a social concept).
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Neither in mine, but that hardly matters, does it?

And nevertheless, I think that if polio gets eradicated despite Obama, the world will own Bill Gates a debt of gratitude. Don't you?
> This is partly explained by simply no value being assigned to base load in many systems. And importantly nuclear often not getting the credit for being green. Also nuclear plants being able to run for 60-100 years while all these wind plants will need to be replaced long before that. The way the 'markets' are structured just isn't to the advantage of nuclear.

Nuclear power plants have typical design lifetimes of 40 years. France nuclear power plants are suffering from increasing maintenance costs and outages because they are getting so old and they are nowhere close to 60-100 years. If you mean that markets favor cheaper solutions and that this is not good for nuclear you are correct.

> Nuclear was and is often excluded from renewable subsidies. France just had to pay 500M Euro because they missed their 'renewables' target, all while being green. The same thing in the US when they favored solar. There are lots of example.

Nuclear has received more subsidies than solar and wind combined (see my citations in a different post).
Heh, I was permanently banned from /r/lexfridman in a thread about his Duncan Trussell interview. My comment was basically:

"Oh, great, another 'podcaster interviews another podcaster for reciprocal exposure' episode?"

Snarky, sure, but still unfortunate he can't handle some rib jabbing about interviewing a clown like Trussell compared to the more intellectual guests he (used to) interview. :)
It wasn't really groundbreaking tech. It's been possible for years, see online. It's just the business model sucks. We did some prototypes in a large company I worked for and it was easy to tell if you could put servers in local data centers with fat pipes it would work. We had demos using ec2 back in 2013. Them we ran the numbers and were like why, esp with free to play becoming more and more of a thing so we canned it.

Nvidia had a successful product as well before stadia. Hell I remember reading a use AWS GPU instances as a gaming machine blog posts before stadia.
Such a cool idea!

I hope it sees widespread use soon. Only catch (I don't know) are the products really harmless?
Yeah, FreeBSD is/was a big Forth user for its boot menu, but that’s being ported to Lua now.
For a second I thought you had written “5D-cheese.” And I really liked it. Because it more-readily conveys that there is no way the ‘higher level’ explanation is real.
defined via 'dim'
For the same reason it was a dumb idea to put a dog in orbit without the means to return it back to Earth alive.
> run this thing, scroll up past dozens of pages of stdout noise and manually deal w/ the errors buried therein by looking up relevant FAQs in some doc somewhere

Okay, but if you can define/script your environment enough to run in a pod, couldn't you just run that locally? You already have to solve the manual steps either way...
I disagree. As someone not into anime, Japan is very boring asides from their expat community. Anime is forced everywhere and it’s annoying to see them everywhere especially when it’s unnecessary. Even some simple signs need cute 2d characters when in the US we would just write text unaccompanied by anything else.

What’s the point of wandering side streets? It’s a city. It’s a city whose streets highly resemble the streets of Seoul.
That’s pretty funny, considering that he could just make the results say whatever he wants. (Or you’re fired, last-remaining poll engineer. If you still exist.)
You are contradicting yourself.

You cannot have it both be cheaper and have the developers earn more money.
In stressful situations my mind enters a calm place knowing that panic would be the worst thing to do at that moment. The only time this was not true was when my wife went into labor with our first child and I had to drive her to the hospital. At one moment she said "I feel like pushing, hurry" and that is the only time in my life I felt genuine panic start to take over. I was shaking, but kept cool enough to drive safely. I haven't felt that panic since, I was totally calm with our next child!
They should've added english subtitles by now.
and the undo. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604615711036407809

What a trainwreck.
The only time I took Ambien, I discovered the next morning that I had apparently awakened at some point and attempted to eat a tea bag. Yeah, no thanks.
Plasma donations do:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Are we imagining that every digital storefront does not explicitly grant them permission to remove stuff in the EULA?
A friend of mine was in a similar position. I’m he knew he had a wallet holding about $300k of dodge coin. He just didn’t know if he had the key.

Long story short: he spend a big amount of time trying to recover the wallet key and failed. I’d understand someone not wanting to try something like that. It must be pretty demoralizing.