skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author has good points & the idea that specialized (info-)spaces with specialized tools help. The tool imposes a big context boundary to rapidly filter through & mask out most of the big pile of everything one has. That alone is a huge gain.

Trying to maintain some overall view, some sense of importance... having shape to your spaces, having them well defined, some kind of memory palace with notable form & place to it resonates a lot with me The author nicely highlights the challenge:

> Every node in your knowledge graph is a debt. Every link doubly so. The more you have, the more in the red you are. Every node that has utility—an interesting excerpt from a book, a pithy quote, a poem, a fiction fragment, a few sentences that are the seed of a future essay, a list of links that are the launching-off point of a project—is drowned in an ocean of banality. Most of our thoughts appear and pass away instantly, for good reason.

Strong use of poetic license but stood out & I like it!

Yet... I disagree with the premise. There's definitely some expedience to having separate specialized apps for separate things. It's a great short term aid, right now, today. The suck it up & use Unity option.

But I feel like we have much more exploring to do with general purpose systems. Right now we are fairly first order, where everything kind of coexists & most interfaces lack distinct submodes, lack distinction of subspaces.

Having a common backend & common base-layer, which is extensible, growable, can begin to be shaped into the more specific regions eith distinct & differentiated capabilities will greatly help. But that common platform seems key.

Links alone may be sufficient, but alas few apps really expose that. Also fixable, apps really ought have PingBack protocol (or some similar protocol) support, to hear when someone links them & tell links they have been linked, such that we can have bidirectional links, which can greatly add navigation.

Beyond that, I think no tools really do a great job of helping us review & raise up data over time. Algorithmic tools like Google Photos can do a fairly good job of finding & reminding us of some stuff. But overall I havent seen many attempts at tackling the underlying problem here, of keeping folks in the loop and pruning, refining, revieing, whether we have specialized apps or whether we embrace the all-is-one general systems digital garden. Attention is a resource we have not honed personally, although it has been well tuned at larger mechanistic scales. I hope to see & am excited to hopefully become a part of progressing on these points!
xbill
Again, other countries have already came up with solutions to this - in Norway maximum sentence is 25 years, but if you are given it, it's subject to automatic review at the end - if you still aren't rehabilitated, it just gets extended. For instance Anders Breivik was sentenced as such - and the chances of him actually ever leaving prison are close to zero, despite Norway having a maximum time limit on sentencing.

(I can also see the argument as to why this is unusually cruel punishment - you are never sure how long your imprisonment will last, but I think it's the best compromise if you don't want to have a life sentence as a thing.)

Also if someone asks - how is that different than life sentence with possible parole after 25 years - because in this setup, the state has to argue why someone needs to be imprisoned for longer, instead of the prisoner arguing why they should be released. I believe this is much healthier for the whole system.
Russians had to pass through the Caucausus and Steppes before they reached Alaska.

https://www.international.ucla.edu/apc/centralasia/article/1...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuban_Nogai_Uprising

https://fountainmagazine.com/1993/issue-2-april-june-1993/th...

(The Chinese are in the clear imo, so I parenthesized them.)
Nope, the nerfing comes from the RLHF training to make it fit the character they wanted.
Minification is good for users in most ways, it’s fewer bytes on the wire and faster to parse. And I know bad tooling and config is the meme but I will say I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how simple it’s been to adopt Vite both in new projects and now a >10 year old one.

Edit: I’m just waking up and missed the point about debugging, but source maps work very well. Perhaps more sites should ship them to production though!
Consider reaching out to your local congressional reps to get some appropriation done where reservation folks are contacted to inform them of their right to the resources and automatically provide the wood cutting permits if done for personal/tribal use. Happy to provide assistance.
I don't know why you want to hurt yourself.

If these are public, put them on /favorites/$USERNAME or something similar. If they are private, don't cache them.

You can cache with specific headers as cache keys, but I would advise against doing this too much / abusing it. It really makes caching complicated. And from a data privacy standpoint it's better to opt-in into caching. I've witnessed incidents where visitors saw the private profile page of another user, because it was cached in the CDN.
Yes, very reliable. Sometimes I need to kill the ADB server on the desktop and very occasionally disable then reenable ADB on the device. But it's less likely to give me trouble than many other things we're used to breaking ))
Nature is amazing. And the process in which we discover it is that much of a wonder as well.

Today I had a thought on why the hell is vitamin C so important to us and how it helps fight off diseases.
"car free city" is a bit of an oxymoron. How do ambulances and fire engines access buildings to administer emergency services? How do deliveries to stores work? No city can actually function without automobiles.

The reality is that there's sections of the city that are pedestrian only. I lived in Barcelona for two years, and that's how it worked. There are some pedestrian roads that have benches and storefronts, but there's automobile traffic one street over. The article describes the superblock system: basically the interior of the block is pedestrian only, but the larger exterior streets have car traffic. No one is more than a block away from car traffic at any time.
Everything worked fine back on Windows 3.1. Then you upgraded to Windows 95 and now your favourite game crashes. Why would you not blame Microsoft for this?
Qwantify
I've been very happy with the built-in Chrome/Google password manager.
I think the ultimate combo will be air source heat pumps and pellet stoves.

Pellet stoves should keep the insurance companies happy. Semi-renewable fuel. Semi-automated operation with minimal fire risk.

Not much more expensive than nat gas, much cheaper than oil and propane, and most importantly: no nat gas network/connection/account/delivery charge.
It’s definitely worth working on, don’t get me wrong. But the timelines for these projects are decades, not years. Expecting large scale payoffs anytime soon would be fooling yourself. In Germany, I see a very dangerous trend of expecting that such changes will save us, but the timelines just don’t work out.

So the primary effort should be directed to places where faster results are viable - heating/warm water via heat pumps where possible, insulation efforts, reducing car traffic, replacing existing power generation with non-fossil methods, energy reuse. For example, waste heat from industrial processes and data centers is mostly lost in germany, often due to planning/legal restrictions. (Sorry, source in German https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Green-IT-Abwaerme-aus-Reche...) Datacenter alone use about 3% of germanys electricity and turn it into heat - recapturing even half of that would place use closer to the goal.
Yes, there was a bit of a drop off in performance but only when YJIT is not used. With YJIT there are performance gain. Also note that YJIT in 3.1 was still experimental and more proof-of-concept. Only with the 3.2 release was it now deemed production ready.

And YJIT's creator, Shopify, is already using it in production with Ruby 3.2 for all their store fronts!
>But the company [Arise] does not enlist agents who live in certain states. Currently on that list: California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Wisconsin, nearly all of which have tighter rules protecting workers.
There’s enough energy globally to feed everyone. The problem is food markets don’t function in warzones or some totalitarian countries.
i kind of love the fact that posting fediverse links on hacker news is coming to be almost as common as posting twitter links. and i already read this, because one of the mastodon accounts i follow boosted this into my timeline.

all hail decentralized social media!
OK, thanks. Even so, IMHO this is 'simple' evolution through natural selection because a hive is equivalent to a single individual, not a population, evolutionary-speaking since a single individual reproduces and all the bees are also the offsprings of a single individual. So ultimately, IMHO the characteristics and behaviour of the hive only depend on the Queen and its survival. Which can also explain in part why sacrificing individual bees might be a successful strategy.
liberal != left. Trust that there are those of us who take just as much umbridge with Clinton/Obama/Biden as trump/bush et al.

The blue/red differential isn't a right/left matter. Each party is responsible for bringing one of the two large cultural groups in line with the banks and capitalism.
There is or was a nutrition writer named Gary Null. He used to have a show carried by Pacifica radio, which must have managed the challenge of scheduling him, paying him, etc.
Tana – The Everything OS for your notes
Well, took them ages. Not impressed because the feature is not complete. As of yet, save as PDF cannot save from within the reader view.

I know this is whataboutism but I wish they would have delivered on anti-(canvas-)fingerprinting instead of PDF print.
There is nothing odd about this. The purpose of attacking Webb and the telescope is to mine controversy and social status out of other people and other accomplishments. This is the MO of culture war activists.

By being publicly rebuked and told they were wrong, the attackers were embarrassed and therefore needed to double down to continue their gambit.

Right or wrong has little to do with it, it only supplies the pretense.

Once you understand this, culture war makes a lot more sense. There is no objective wrong being righted. There are only ever more new grievances to be invented to continue the zero-sum racket.
Do CS50x.

Then if you want to continue do CS50 web or CS51
There was some "how to survive your time in prison" advice for Elizabeth Holmes that I read somewhere, that pertained to this:

Your time on the phone is strictly limited, and it's illegal to buy someone else's. So another convict will "helpfully" offer to trade his for something you have, and then rat you out. Don't do it!

After they report you, the prison guards offer you the choice of time in solitary, or transfer to a higher-security prison.
By these standards we shouldn't celebrate the NASA moon landings because the people who did this in the late 50's and 60's were mostly white men of which a good percentage were racist homophobes. I remember in the Navy there was a hushed rumor that one of our officers had been dismissed because he was caught wearing a dress. There were no women in the Navy and a black officer was a rarity. You'd better not be gay, because that was a dishonorable discharge. The thing about institutionalized discrimination is that you kind of have to go along with it if you want to have a career and then slowly try to change it, which is difficult, but half a century later we have. That is rightly be celebrated along with the Moon landings.
No One Can Decide If Grapefruit Is Dangerous
The primary benefit for whom? And the secondary?
Another question is why they all still live there?
>>People don't go to prison to be rehabilitated and never will

Yeah that's complete nonsense and we have lots of data that proves otherwise. US is really a massive outlier there amongst developed countries.
You can't prevent injection bugs on a language level, since injection happens when you use string manipulation to dynamically create code that you send to another program. This means that it is just as easy to create SQL injection bugs in Haskell or Rust or any other language, because they all support concatenating strings to create SQL.
>No one in the US, for instance, has any excuse because it is all very very affordable

What a thing to say.
> Completely false to argue that no one treated gay people with dignity before modern times.

That claim wasn't made. This is a strawman.

But in keeping with the article.
Pretty sure r/AskHistorians considers Hardcore History to be really innacurate.

BBC’s In Our Time podcast is a far superior counterpart, where academics from leading universities discuss a chose topic. It’s well moderated and beautifully informative.
ChatGPT works very well as a tech demo but nothing like it will ever work at scale.

There simply is no business model for something as useful as ChatGPT, and there never will be. Let's assume for a minute that OpenAI will manage to improve their models such that the accuracy

There will probably be a business case for the chatbot Google will turn its search engine into, but it will be as far removed from ChatGPT as today's Google is from the good old Google of PageRank fame from 1999, which would show you exactly what you asked for, often enough to be considered genuinely useful.

The Google search engine from 1999 was a bit like ChatGPT is today: The demonstration of a new way of doing things that seemed, at the time, to be the way of the future.
Except we don't. PageRank is an awesome example of how computer science nerds can disrupt a market with their superior math but it didn't change the basic laws of capitalism and this is why it succeeded in turning Google into one of the letters of FAANG, but it failed at being sustainable. A Google-killing descendent of ChatGPT would have a hard time turning a profit without also turning into the same sort of thing Google is today: A convenient way of giving people ads instead of answers.

Here is my prediction:

1) ChatGPT and similar "AI" chatbots will never be more than tech demos

2) The Google of the future will have some shortish chatbot-copypasta for search results that resemble prompts to write essays

3) Google will sell ads for highly specialized and expensive services for the few people who need to copy-paste longer essays (which might or might not have a sufficient relation to reality) and are able to pay for it

4) The end-result will be virtually indistinguishable from the Google of today, because for every honest chatbot-aaS, there will be an uncountable amount of dishonest vendors of "free" auto-generated propaganda and spam, copy-pasted by school-children all over the world, because that will be the results Google will show below their own copypasta, which is just too short for this week's essay because the teacher knows about Google, too. And on HN, people will long for the good old times of 2022, when ChatGPT was, briefly, surprisingly awesome.

5) Your crush won't believe you that you wrote that touching love poem all on your own.
> Capture now, Fast

This is exactly right.

My method for rapid journaling/ thought logging:

- use note app of choice, (for me it is Obsidian)

- voice to text, rapid fire, get all my thoughts out in big paragraphs

- once every few day re-read
+ add heading to sections
+ add a couple hashtags
+ but otherwise leave it in a terrible spelling mistake ridden, grammarless mess

--------

> Every note is an extra cost

For notes where remembering / reviewing are important (i.e. todo lists), I've found:

"Bullet Method",
which is essentially keeping an analog journal of bullet notes.

It really makes you slow down and track what is important , so you have a nice clean journal
Stop naming things after people. We’re just going to find out later that they were secretly against Android-human marriage or w/e and everyone will get mad.

Or do what my university did for a sports hall and tack on a black athlete’s name to the racist’s name and call it a day.
Would love to have the ability to save webpage (complete) in Firefox again. Currently I'm using SingleFile/SingleFileZ add-ons (and all the hoops you have to jump through to enable those), but they're a lot slower than Chrome mobile which now has the ability to save a page as .mhtml
Selling on revenue multiple is easier bc means leaving a lot of $ on the table: a good sale is in terms of the value to the acquirer, which can be a % of a massive #, not the immature revenue operations of some young startup . But if you don't super care, then based on revenue or next round are easy low standins -- basically the "BATNA".

A lot of the reasoning in the article comes from the difference between being bought vs sold. Hiding lack of runway is clear there. The article repeats a lot of good standard advice & prioritization in general.
I wonder if there could be some kind of inland Cajun Navy [1] which operates using trucks and plows or snowmobiles instead of boats for disasters like this. Although given the remoteness and conditions this just might not be possible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_Navy?wprov=sfti1
My girlfriend's mom went to a boarding school. The abuse she experienced as a kid still affects her and her family.
> Completely false to argue that no one treated gay people with dignity before modern times.

They literally said the exact opposite, emphasis added:

> The idea that all human beings should be treated with dignity regardless of race, creed, or things like sexual orientation is an exceptionally recent modern idea… at least as a mainstream attitude. You can find people in the past who held it but it was very much a fringe idea until the last 50 years at best.
That is true, but my goal was to have two DOS terminals in which I could emulate two DOS networked machines sharing files, both running a client/server software I wrote, to emulate how they would work at a customer of mine shop. While it worked perfectly on OS/2, I encountered some stability problems on Windows 95, which also (if memory serves) required some more steps to allow DOS terminals to share their storage.
By using OS/2 I could effectively replicate two machines in a single one and compile both client and server in a single take with 100% confidence that it would work once installed at the customer shop.
does gpt-3 keep track of a conversation though?
who says they aren't paying? you still need people to volunteer working during holidays
"4 / 8 / 16 GB 64bit LPDDR4X-3733"

That's impressive in a dev board.
> If someone does <insert pre-medidated, heinous thing>, do/should I support letting them automatically rejoin society in a maximum of 25 years?

My understanding of places that don’t do life sentences is that at the end of the term the prisoner is re-evaluated to determine if it’s still in the best of interest of the society to keep them incarcerated or not.

For example, in Norway I believe that the maximum sentence is 21 years with the possibility for extensions if they are still deemed a threat.

While there are certainly people who likely do need to be separated from society forever, I don’t think everyone currently serving a life sentence necessarily falls into that category.

My spouse has a relative serving a life sentence for a double murder when he was young, nearly 30 years ago. By all accounts he’s a very different person now and has been rehabilitated. But he’ll never get out, despite that and despite having a support network were he ever released. Does he, in particular, deserve freedom? I don’t actually know him well enough nor the details of his crime to say for myself, but it certainly seems like the US is keeping a lot of people locked up even when it might be better for society as a whole to reintegrate them as productive members.
Yeah, the Debian benchmarks are independent.

The recent Python benchmarks all seem to use the same benchmark suite (which is incredibly complex to the point that it's unclear what is actually being measured) or hype the Microsoft involvement.

Even if you believe them, it is just 10-60% speedup for a very slow language. It won't show up in web applications.
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The caveat is that many criminals in those countries don’t have the capacity for violence that American criminals have.

Also, it’s useless the balk at long sentences because often American prisoners do not end up serving the full sentence for various reasons.

And as you mentioned, those “maximums” aren’t true maximums anyway, so what’s the point? Better to be upfront.
> GP is defending CIA participation in a domestic influence/disinformation campaign, operated by the FBI.

Please show me the phrase where they do this.
I think part of this is spot on - the loss of control of our data is intimately tied to the fact that many of the use cases we want require a server, and most people don't have one - but the solution described in step 6, non-profit like co-ops to buy and share server resources, seems dubious to me. It seems much more likely that we reach the future they're describing, if at all, through typical families adding a cloud virtual server to the list of things they spend $10/mo on. The amount of data we need to share with the world won't require that much bandwidth, even including social media (for non-celebrities anyway).

Other than that, very intriguing. I don't know if it's all workable but one has to start somewhere.
I wonder why we don't have some similar designs for homes and cabins
The block diagram shows it has a Trusted Execution Environment[1], with AES, SHA etc. So not nothing, or?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment
Be interested in information security, which has shifted dramatically to Mastodon away from Twitter, which is now kind of a ghost town for it.
For some context from someone who's been on that Res, its population is highly vulnerable with no margin for mishaps. It's a place of generational, crushing poverty, crime, illness, genetic-exacerbated substance abuse, broad lack of economic opportunity, cultural isolation, and federal disinvestment.

Free federal healthcare is available, but only at an IHS hospital in Rapid City 1.5 hours away in good weather: it's antiquated and maximally bureaucratic and probably lower standards of care than your vet provides.

The local Habitat for Humanity chapter (I served on their board) tried to help them with community housing efforts, but houses were always gutted of all fixtures before completion.

IMO, at a minimum, the IHS (and the VA) need to merge under Medicare for standardization, availability, and economics of scale and industry needs incentives to bring employment opportunities (I think Cisco tried once and bailed).
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You start with “again”; where was the previous?
What another convict gets out of ratting you out?
Ron Paul wanted campaign finance reform in the complete other direction - basically no laws.