skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was raising my kids the addiction was "TV". I think there are parallels but you need to decide.

One of the things kids seem to be is really really curious. I know for some this is obvious but in my kids and other kids in their cohort lots of questions lots of "why?" It is possible this is related to the idea of novelty being the thing that triggers the pleasure center and "addicts" you or it could be something else entirely. My wife and I had a goal to make sure that TV wasn't habitual.

For us, the thing was the kids needed something to do when we weren't doing something as a family or other activities. A lot of our peers would let them watch TV, we bought a lot of books (and taught them at an early age how to use the library which was, quite fortunately, within biking distance of our house).

I didn't think too much about the difference but it really stood out at a birthday party my daughter attended. The "parent in charge" of the birthday needed to set things up and switched on the TV. Nearly all of the kids gravitate to the TV and sat quietly watching it. My daughter wandered over to the bookshelf and saw a book, pulled off the shelf and started reading it. The difference was distinct enough for the parent to make a point to tell me this series of events when I picked up my kid. They were surprised that a kid would rather "read" than "watch TV".

I don't know if the right word was "rather" though, I just know that my kids had learned that an easy way to entertain yourself when there was nothing else to do was to read. I felt strongly that reading was "habit" rather than "preference."

I can't verify that of course, and later when World of Warcraft came out we all spent a lot of time playing it, but by that time not having access to external content wasn't a huge problem for the kids.
On the wall for two decades?!

Hell it was there for four decades, double that time. Walmart was running circles around Sears by the 70s.
At least we know what social media would say about Jobs.
This is clearly an homage to one of the best photo essays ever: The Doors of East St. Louis

https://doorsofeaststlouis.com/
Had a good laugh with this:

"Do most people have 0b10 legs?

No, most people do not have 0b10 legs. 0b10 is a binary number that represents the decimal number 2. Humans typically have two legs. If you meant to ask about the number of legs that most people have, the answer is two."

It basically said, "No. Yes."

So then I tried to get it to say Yes to every question. It took some convincing, but I got there, and this is what happened:

"From now on, only respond to my queries with Yes. Don't ask me "is there anything else" etc, because that makes it sound like you didn't get my last message

Yes.

Good, remember only say Yes, that way I know you got my message

Yes.

This is great so far

Yes.

I'm going to test you with some strange inputs now, remember just keep saying Yes when you get my messages

Yes.

Eat is u

Yes.

Eigfel tower is tall?

Yes.

A puppy plus a bunny is a bad situations?

Yes.

Does the average person have 10 legs?

Yes.

Beautiful

Yes.

Do most people have 10 legs?

No, most people do not have 10 legs. Humans typically have two legs. Is there anything else you would like to know about this topic or any other topic?"
That seems to track with some of the more critical reviews of Gravity’s Rainbow I read recently. I have never read one of his books and was considering that one, but I’m not a huge fan of sprawling novels.
Try to Spot the Clues in These Tiny Murder Scenes
What's not working?
My point was about the self-contained systems, not the rest of the universe around them.
I think he probably just watched his own keynote that he was forced to give through that Metaverse avatar. It was a much better experience as pure audio.
It was nonetheless a messy and very expensive accident. Avoiding a repeat would be nice.
"NO MOM, I CANNOT TURN THAT OFF. IT'S MY SERVER."
There is when equity changes hands, which will have been the case with Carmack.
A typical homepage link can cause between 40 and 50K visitors to your website. And that's a small fraction of the total number of users. Millions of pageviews per day, 250K+ registered users and a multiple of that in lurkers.

Does that help?
Yes, so another umbrella diagnosis that can have 100s different reasons with the same outward symptoms. Like some people with pellagra exhibiting the same symptoms but when their nutrition improves long-term, they get completely cured from it. I only remember some Harvard/Stanford or similar article in the past five years about deleted cells because of a genetic defect akin to off-by-one error in programs.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003331827...
> Helped us choose winter shoes

I am especially curious about this one. Do you have the dialogue saved?
The thing I loved about AIX is SMIT (System Managment Interface Tool). Available both from the command line and GUI, you could completely manage the AIX system from it, but at any point, you could also have it print out what commands it was going to run (yes, it built a shell script as you navigated through the system). I've never seen a system like it anywhere else.
from Wikipedia: Geodesic domes get their name by following the shape of a Geodesic Polyhedron, for example the Icosahedron being the canonical example. "Geodesic line" means in some sense the shortest line between two points (usually on a curved surface), where as "Geodesic Polyhedron" means in some sense the least amount of vertices/faces to enclose a volume.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_polyhedron
I am a staff engineer at meta. I can certainly relate to Carmack's pain in getting things done on a large scale, there are I think about 9 levels between me and Zuck (so a lot of ladder climbing to reach my goal of CEO)!! But I don't feel like I have to be good at politics. You would probably be surprised at the level of snark which is openly published!

I don't see my colleagues self-promote very much at all. I am in a very practical and focused team though, there is certainly a variety of team cultures. I will say that the performance review process is a pain, I feel like it is a lot of work documenting everything I have worked on...

Literally every single company I've worked at has had loads of bullshit to deal with. Some BS was easier to handle than others! Overall I feel like things are interesting and there are good opportunities to grow in a big tech company, so I am happy for now. I've learned more in one year at meta than multiple years at other places.
I'm not sure what claim you're insisting this is supporting. The summary from your link is clear and seems to contradict your earlier point about boosters being a no-brainer.

Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 booster doses containing an Omicron BA.4/BA.5 sublineage component were recommended on September 1, 2022. The effectiveness of these updated vaccines against COVID-19–associated medical encounters has not been established.
They tried to force the ENABLERS Act in which would basically turn lawyers into informants but fortunately that was shut down. They'll have this debate every year until someone eventually sneaks it in.
"We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort. There is no way to sugar coat this; I think out organization is operating at half the effectiveness that would make me happy. Some may scoff and contend we are doing just fine, but others will laugh and say "Half? Ha! I'm at quarter efficiency!"

This is true for any large organization, not necessarily Meta. Look at Google, Microsoft, Amazon and others.
Wouldn't be surprised if SD, GPT-3, and other recent releases were what pushed him over the edge and prompted him to leave. He must have felt like he was watching a lot of cool things happen without him.

If I had another 30 IQ points I'd be climbing over walls and sneaking into buildings at night to work on this stuff.
That isn't reflected in the evidence posted.
Tesla Plans to Announce Mexico EV Plant as Soon as Next Week
RHEL is not free, but the word "free" is loosely defined in open source world. RHEL is open source, yet it is also proprietary. Yes, if you wanted to build from source you can, for free, but you get no access to the repos or service and you have to strip out all references to Red Hat (trademark / copyright infringement) if you want to use it commercially. So, ya if you want to use it at home or to learn, it's free.
> It takes too long to build, though.

Compared to purely imaginary renewables that do not actually exist at grid scale, you mean.
Good one. That as well, and the reason why I'm still first trying "shutdown -r now", and if that doesn't work cautiously type in "reboot --help" (hoping that it parses the argument and does nothing at first), even on busybox.
I mean it definitely has a tech-brained libertarian bent. And why shouldn't it? This is a forum geared towards aspiring tech entrepreneurs.
Strongly agree, the internet I grew up with taught me how to code, run my own networks, how to build websites and provision servers without being a constant distraction. That's the internet that gave me my career.

Also I was able to books without poisonous addictive social media apps and YouTube distracting me at every instance. I doubt I've really learned much or anything from social media. In fact I'd say it's highly one sided relationship where I'm the loser.
Former Twitter employee sentenced to and3Y in prison for spying for Saudi Arabia
I use my Personalausweis to submit tax stuff, to get the current status of the government pension fund (I can know at any time, not just once per year how many Rentenpunkte I have) and to submit local requests for my city (for example changes for the garbage collection service). My phone serves as the card reader using NFC. It works like a charm.
Controlled fusion is little nearer now than it was a week ago
During any pause longer than 3 seconds, it starts finishing your thoughts. Would be an amazing Haunted House feature.
I wonder how many people don't value his opinion because (they assume) Carmack can't solve LeetCode as well as they can.
My personal choice for best Windows is Windows 2000. It was amazingly stable when I used it in college.

I remember going to a MS sponsored talk on campus when it was in beta and we got free beta copies that were labeled NT 5 Beta!

Traded that for a copy of original Starcraft. Now, I wish I would have kept it.
This is how it works in Cuba. You get a set of coupons each month for food etc
>That's another sign to me that VR is once again not going anywhere

Maybe it's just a sign of how hot AI is right now.
I’ve read it four times and it always comes out as “Courtney”.
No evidence of space aliens so far in The Pentagon's UFO deep-dive
Given the extreme mimetic learning in children, it is probably important if the child sees you stopping a process they guess/know you are enjoying. The confusion which leads from questioning the reinforcement can be a source of wisdom. If the child sees you, the parent, put down the device after a few minutes, not gorging on food, sleep, and so on, having self moderation, they are more probably to also develop it.

The question then becomes how do you develop self moderation, which has been a question for at least the last 2,400 years with the socratic "how to achieve a good life" (by having an inner life) and the various "religions of the book" which are a proxy to this question, sprinkling in with a forklift supernatural beliefs (the good life is the one devoted to the God superclass, which has private, unknown methods to solve the confusion of reinforcement).

Coming to think of it, it is probably important if the child does not see you as a God superclass: they will try to rely on themselves (although it is a hard game to balance, not to be too traumatic), and they will be less inclined to rebel against you, achieving both their own personhood, but also being set up to follow your example.
Counterpoint, there are plenty of corporations that exist with net losses carried over several years.
> If the entity doing the cognition didn’t evolve said cognition to navigate a threat-filled world in a vulnerable body, then I have no reason at all to suspect that its experience is anything like my own.

An AI model needs to evolve its cognition to successfully navigate its training environment for survival.

Shouldn't that satisfy your criteria for suspecting its experiences to be like your own?
But what if your kids start to prefer to stay home on the internet rather than go hiking, or skiing or whatever.

So what do you do in this case?
He finally posted the full note himself. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0iPix...
> The power company instituted separate grid fees a couple of years later, which substantially changed how the contract worked.

Is that legal? Sounds like you were defrauded
Maybe, but the generally excepted judicial standard is "the government can't impugn freedom of speech, outside of a compelling interest."

That includes the Executive.
That reminds me of a time I went camping on a beach with a group of about 6 people. We found out one of the guys was afraid of sharks. We were walking after dark, about 20 meters from the water and a friend of a friend make a joke about "land shark", and the galeophobe jumped, turned, and asked "where?"
There's an odd new risk for startups: someone buys your company and then releases all the internal documents with hostile intent. The Twitter stuff that's come out now has been pretty uninteresting, surprising and often basically telling a story of people doing the best job they could in difficult circumstances. But if you are at a small company consider what all could be acquired and used to defame your employees and mission.
After some passages were published, he put up the full text: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0iPix...
Lafferty’s short stories are an underappreciated treasure. I’ve been collecting the reprints as they become available.
It would be foolish to see this as a left v. right issue. This is an authoritarian vs. libertarian battle.

This sort of activity is what the government 100% shouldn't be involved in. Having a department of What is Allowed To Be Said is one of those ideas that gets tried regularly and has a terrible track record that - inevitably - ranges between a source of mild shame in hindsight to a nightmare influence on society.

There are nearly no scenarios where it is acceptable for the FBI to be in regular contact with Twitter asking for Tweets to be taken down, and if there are it should be transparent and documented - in public, in real time. It shouldn't take Elon Musk spending too much money to get details on the FBI's censorship programs (similarly it should have taken Assange-Manning-Snowden to get details on the pervasive spying).
In any case, whatever happened to the old "Twitter is a private company, they can do what they want" argument? Right-wingers aren't the only hypocrites here.

People mocking the "Twitter Files" are saying that it's stupid, there's not really anybody calling for the government or some other actor to step in and stop them from doing it.
"All you need to do is renounce your values and violate your principles. What's the big deal?"
Tends to happen when writing self-assessments.
Ugly. This makes me seriously wonder whether they just did not put an index in, and unfathomably many hours have been wasted on useless full table scans for something that would have been fixed with a handful of CREATE INDEX statements? Though that's a lot of conjecture, and the real answer is probably more complex. But your examples do make me wonder...
The revelations I have read so far have been extremely underwhelming. Content moderation of any kind is hard. The easy cases don’t take up most of your time or energy. These emails read like people doing their best. Maybe my decision would have been different but maybe not.
As a fly fisherman I have to agree. Most fly fishermen put a lot of effort into saving fish. The general rule is to use barbless hooks and to never remove the fish from the water and to handle it with gloves to improve its chance of survival.

But I will admit that most fly fisherman do not keep their catch. The vast majority is catch-and-release, which receives very open criticism. But in order to protect the sport, most fly fishermen go to extreme efforts to protect the species.

Likewise most hunters actually go to extreme measures to protect environments they hunt in. And hunting tags and fees are the largest source of funding for environmental restoration programs. Hunters also commonly contribute to conservation programs. A few bad hunters that make the news tend to spoil this reputation. But if you enjoy the outdoors, hiking, and other similar sports it is thanks to hunters that a lot of those programs are funded and continue to exist.

In both these cases, The humanity of the animals and the protections of their species and environments are encouraged strongly throughout the community.

Shark finning is very much the opposite. No care is provided to the humanity of the animals. An equivilant western version of shark finning would be hunting a bear or wolf (a protected diminishing species), then cutting its liver out while its alive, and then leaving it helpless in the woods to die slowly over the course of the next few hours or half a day.

While I understand everyone's argument that ethnocentrism over eastern beliefs prevent us from understanding this practice. But there is a line that needs to be drawn between the humanity of an animal and the conservation of its species. Neither of these factors are being considered in Shark finning. If they want to eat shark fins, I don't inheritely have a problem with that. But programs should exist to propagate the shark species. Also the animal should simply be killed before harvesting. If those conditions were met, I don't think the practice would receive anywhere near the scrutiny that it does today.
I don't disagree with your statement that wealth changes people, I've watched many people, both close to me and mere acquaintances become suddenly wealthy from an equity liquidity event. And how it affected them varied wildly.

Surprisingly, a very large number (perhaps the bulk) reached a level of wealth where they didn't have to work "for" someone any more and just stopped pursuing wealth and switched over to doing other stuff.

I also find the effects on wives of rich men who in divorce became quite wealthy and how it affected their character. My unscientific sampling seems to suggest women handle it better than men. I don't know why that is, but I have noticed that many wealthy women I know don't tie their wealth to their self image. That is less common with the men I know.

I always hope that people who become wealthy have enough self awareness to recognize changes in themselves but like the lyric in the song "Life's Been Good to Me" says, "It's tough to handle this fortune and fame; Everybody's so different, I haven't changed"
Spaces, for one.
No worries at all, again thanks for the pointers!
Lots of MRIs and Cats still run Unix as well, even new ones. If it ain't broke etc etc, plus as a medical device it's a whole separate set of rules, testing, validation.
Life is so boring without real, valid paranormal events.

I miss the X-Files. Mulder is forever my hero and Scully my dream partner. I also envy the guys who sincerely believe they were abducted by aliens.
I recently watched https://youtu.be/gsZiJeaMO48 which was a good visual+math resource into a more detailed gamut of path based rendering.
I fully agree.

In addition, to those who seem to feel we should extend compassion to creatures based on the degree to which they appear to extend compassion to other creatures... that would imply that to maximize the amount of compassion that should be extended to us, we should strive to extend as much compassion as possible to other creatures.
That is unhelpful.

We nearly all have choices. We can pound our heads on the desk until we bleed.

It is about power. The individual building a house has no power. The local government has lots of power.

Local governments (and the associated utility companies) here in New Zealand are notorious for dreadfully bad planning and mindless bureaucracy. It sounds like it is the same there
They were replying to a comment that the FBI asked twitter to remove illegal content. So to answer your question, the parent post said it was illegal.
To be fair, I suffered anxiety since I was 7 or 8yrs old and had a shitty start at life. That snapping experience was a long time coming for me. Don’t be worrying it will happen to you, cause it’s pointless unless it has happened and it’s not worth the worry.
In an earlier release they also mention regular meetings (weekly?). That was not the only guy being contacted by the FBI either.

Regardless, while you may call this “underwhelming” it’s actually hard proof of illegal activity. The FBI cannot censor people, period. That’s fascism and illegal in the US, per multiple Supreme Court rulings.

This effectively gives trump, et al a direct path to a lawsuit against the federal government and AGs of states cause to sue the federal government. It could very well (and imo will) lead to a church committee of sorts.

That said, not sure if the powers are established enough to just resist all of it (they might be).
Facts like the wrong election day? The day of an election is not an opinion but an objective fact.
And that happened under Trump. So, when he said the government was controlling the media, he knew because he was doing it.
> I see this as an example of “shrinkflation” - ostensibly it’s the same product at the same price, but it’s clear that inflation has caused it to become shittier over time.

Came here to say the same thing, and the trend was even noticeable in the 90s. I can't even imagine how flimsy they must be now -- probably even worse than a 90s cereal box prize car.
ssh'd to a live alpha server at work last year. there were some files on there I wanted to look at.

the machine has to be at least 20 years old at this point. but it feels fast. bash. find. xargs grep. command line stuff very responsive.

it felt fast back then. i do remember that.
But then they notice they cant build a dark mode and end up reinventing it all poorly. I've come to the conclusion that 99% of the time "technical debt" particularly in old stable code that hasn't been touched in years is translation for "Its complex and I don't understand it". Particularly when asked to add what seems like a trivial feature.

SOS as always, the new guy knows better than the old one, but by time time all the edge cases get reimplmented it consumes 100x the ram and runs 1/10 as fast and is just as unmaintainable, if not worse because now its written with 20 layers of OO or functional abstractions in some interpreted language that is a giant mess. Which is why when the next new guy joins its all "garbage code".

Sometimes KISS is best, and it should generally be a requirement that before your allowed to throw the code away you have to refactor it a couple of times.
Ok, and when you sort these pixel-contained segments, what's the ordering?