skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throughout history there are moments where humans realize they're not special in a way they previously thought they were — universe doesn't revolve around us, other animals possess skills we thought were unique to us, etc.

I think what's interesting is that many types of creativity may really just be re-synthesizing "stuff we already know."

So a lot of the negative comments along the lines of, "it can't be creative because it never thinks of anything beyond its training data" don't click with me. I think synthesizing two existing concepts into some third thing is actually a form of creativity.

These nets may not learn the same way we do exactly, and they may not possess the same creative abilities as us — but there's definitely something interesting going on. I for one am taking a Beginner's Mind view of it all. It's pretty fascinating.
This is a bit ahistorical. "We" made a pact with Mao because it was expedient in war against Japan. We made a pact with Stalin for the same reason, and Tito. Chiang Kai Shek wasn't able to keep control and had actively collaborated with Japanese forces when it suited him.

Western arms did not prevent or provoke CSKs abandonment of the mainland. Mao wasn't armed by the west.

Mao's insane famine inducing policy, his rapprochement with the USSR and breakup, his involvement in the Korean war was all in the future, as was Kissinger and Nixon. At the time, needing bases to bomb the Japanese heartland, making a pact with Mao made sense. Do you argue otherwise from non post-hoc reasoning?

My biggest fear is a post-Xi destabilising China-internal fight for control. It's more likely it leans to Russia than not. No claimant to controlling the Chinese autocracy will want to look weak and agreeing to western norms will look weak, where selling arms to a fellow autocrat and sourcing cheap oil looks clever.

Xi must be weaker now than he's ever been, caving in on covid restrictions caused predictable chaos. He's off-brand. It's worrisome.
This is Not Even About the RH's HEX...this is a whole other project... you are an idiot
I own an Xperia Mini Pro SK17i, Cosmo Communicator, Unihertz Titan, and an FxTec Pro-1 X.

The best phone by far was the Xperia. Palm sized, smaller than an N900. If they made a modern refresh it would be the perfect phone.

The Cosmo Communicator was entertaining for a while. It was also heavy, fragile, uncomfortable/flawed to use in any position (not even touch typing worked all that well despite the amazing keyboard due to its criminal omission of feet). It failed after a year when one of its USB ports shorted out, melting. The port is on a daughterboard, so in theory repairable, but no spares available. Even before that, the sheet metal coverings on it (held by microscopic tabs) were falling off regularly. The build quality was so execrable that even though the Astro Slide looks like a mild ergonomic improvement, Planet Computers will not see the inside of my wallet again.

The Titan is my daily driver. It's indestructable and lasts days on battery. I don't trust the stock firmware, so I run LineageOS on it. This comes with a slew of annoyances, rendering the physical keyboard possibly more annoying to use than even a software keyboard would be - touching it incautiously causes wild random scrolling (it's touch sensitive), and it's easy to get the keyboard stuck in symbol mode. The square screen breaks some apps. The headphone jack appears not to work. Still I stick with it because indestructibility turns out to be the thing that keeps me using a phone.

I just got the FxTec Pro-1 X. It's slick looking and runs LineageOS just fine, no jank. It's also damned fiddly to open, jumps out of your hand with the spring loading when it does open, and feels like it would not survive a drop. Not a great combo. If I switched to it as a daily driver, I'd give it a month tops before it ended up smashed.
You don't see the relationship between how long cars last and the depreciation curve?

I thought the connection was more than obvious.
Atlanta opened a beautiful new main public library, and they treat everyone who enters like a potential criminal. They check your bags for weapons and run metal detector wands over you. Basically the worst library experience I've ever had. Once you get in there, there are hardly even any books, and they close at 6 pm. I can see why people would prefer to chill in a Barnes and Noble.
How about you actually try to learn butchering a hog and stop complaining how hard it is? It took me about two hogs and a good teacher to get it sufficiently right, and I was a ten-year old kid back then. Claiming that simple things like that take years to learn is writing rich literature. Earning a living doing skill X takes a lot longer, but learning those skills is not a big trouble. If you've had an active rural childhood with good parents most of those skills are "completed" very early.

Writing a good poem and planning an invasion takes some maturity, but those should be interpreted similarly. Learn about basic logistics and doing projects and then you can plan an invasion. Making things more complicated than they are is just another way to do nothing at all. Learning takes some time and effort, if it's too much for you I understand, but don't discourage others with your weak excuses while thinking that you must become a specialist in every field to become a generalist.
Agreed, at this point if I want to buy a copy of a specific book I go to the local bookseller down the way and ask them to order it for me.
Toys r Us was going down for years before then. B&N had some bad years, but they were never as bad as Toys R Us was in 2008, and they still lasted another decade.
If only there was a way to learn about bad things that happened in the past over and over again without simply repeating the bad thing. Like some way to record descriptions of past events.
Duden claims all work, so I guess CH and AT both picked different genders out of the remaining der and das... (unless it's LI that has the third :-)
> You did technically use the word in your statement ("...all that money,")

You know better. "money" is not "them", if you need more elucidation.
As of now, new tab doesn't keep session.
Album Art is still around. I keep that separately from the audio. I use it also as a record of the order of tracks on an LP.

2. Digital books can’t be skimmed.

Very true. That's probably what I miss most too.

But I see that as an offset. Many books I've had that just sat there year after year on the shelf, getting yellower and dustier by the day.

Did I mention that I'm an 'information hoarder'? I still have files on my archive disk from 40 years ago.
When the total distance traveled for the shortest vs fastest option is very high, Google always shows both the options (or at least, some versions of them).

I think safest route is hard to define, especially given that the data is not dense and may not be relevant (e.g., an intersection had a lot of historical accidents so its technically unsafe based on data but it has been rebuilt recently and there has been no accident since so its currently safe).
That one is logical: the piece of cheese - it's a piece, not a cheese. The bottle of water - it's a bottle, not a water.
A suggestion for something it could do: Detect mold and/or pests

For example, hemp is a crop that is fairly easy to plant and fairly easy to harvest (albeit much more labor-intensive to trim and make into a final product), but it's relatively hard and time-intensive to look for mold or aphids and mites, especially as its get closer to harvest. The nice thing about this goal is the tools needed are just cameras and software on top of your existing platform. (These are my opinions as someone who has farmed hemp commercially, albeit only for 2 years on 6 acres).
> In that sense, in contrast to the Nazis’ militaristic imperialism, the CCP has resurrected a more ancient form of imperialism in which they’ve bought and groomed foreign elites to be more loyal to them than to their own people.

Loyalty to one's own people, or that there even is such a thing as "own people", and not just random individuals that happen to share passports, is rather taboo in the West, isn't it?
You might not be interested in lifespan and cancer but they are meaningful and important.

Personally I find the claim that sleeping too much can shorten your life quite interesting.
What the Covid-19 pandemic revealed about intellectual property (2022)
haha no no ill change it i learned something today and take you seriously. am just out on my phone right now
>> This is cool. I've been using it mostly to explain APIs to me when I'm too lazy to dig through docs.

I’d be careful with this. I maintain docs for a project and asked ChatGPT how to implement a feature. The answer is in the docs obviously. It returned a really compelling step by step guide including code samples. Like a great StackOverflow answer. The problem - it was completely wrong. The code samples called API’s that didn’t exist and the whole explanation was based on the premise they did.
Seems to be still up and running.
Hyundai models also have vehicle-to-grid
I don't know. If you manage to take over North America, you tend to win Risk, whoever you are. It's harder to do than the Australian strategy, but you do win if you manage to pull it off. And the United States has basically done it.
Largely yes, we have. De facto most western powers prefer not to engage on the topic. They're also pretty apathetic about Uigher issues. I find that depressing too. China used to make a lot of noise about tolerance for minorities, the re-education camps are a sign of deep seated fears. Flooding Tibet with a han Chinese overclass, is pretty much complete now.
> It turns out communism is a fine solution to nothing at all. Communist countries have never even managed to feed themselves - they either allow some capitalism in agriculture or import food from capitalist countries.

Communism wasn't even suggested as a solution by me -- it was reflexively argued against by your earlier comment.

You clearly don't like communism, I get it, thank you for contributing that.

> Government policy fails even with zero corruption. It's because the incentives are all wrong. Even shooting all the corrupt people won't fix anything.

Do you know of any government-policy-free societies that have scaled and prospered?

I guess this also depends on your definition of "failure" for a society -- no idea what that is, but given how un-constructive your comments have been I'm not that excited to find out.

> You got that right. It turns out that harnessing peoples' self-interest works amazingly well.

No one said it didn't. Any thoughts on how to harness self-interest in a way that doesn't bifurcate society socio-economically quite so much?
I think your comment actually highlights the key insight.

For a long time, the fact that the bookstore was the _only_ place to “get books” occluded the fact that it was the _best_ place to explore and appreciate books. Amazon stripped away the veneer by showing that, actually, bookstores weren’t so ideal for “getting books” after all (book not carried, book not in stock, can’t find the right shelf, etc). Daunt is therefore succeeding by refocusing on “loving books,” as you put it, rather than on transacting books.

You might “get books” at a bookstore, but that’s probably not why you went there in the first place.
Little of what is discussed here or in the article applies to my local B&N. Yes, the Nook has been de-emphasized. Yes, the shelves have spacers for cover forward presentation. The technical sections have shrunk to the point of uselessness. That includes math and science as well as computers, electronics, etc. The number of romance novels has exploded. Books are now shelved by publishing category, e.g. mass market, trade paper, hardcover, etc. Hence, an author can be scattered all over the building. Inventory tends to be more sparse than the local independent bookseller. Consequently, for finding a new author or exploring, I go to the independent. I still visit B&N regularly as I have for years. The manager, whom I’ve known for a while, assures me that things will change because sales are down, but right now they are following the corporate direction. B&N is certainly not what Borders once was. But, we’re unlikely to see that again.
Moving to smaller stores in the pandemic hardly counts as a bad thing. Restructuring your leases to reduce your rent is a great idea. It gives you room to stop chasing short term revenue such as publisher deals.

Also, a loss of market share in a growing economy is also not a bad thing as long as it’s accompanied by increased profitability. What this means is that B&N has basically maintained their revenues, while significantly reducing their costs, which as the clear market leader in the space sets them up very well to pursue a more considered growth strategy based on the current environment as opposed to the pre-Amazon environment, which is what their original stores were based on.

Also, those larger stores didn’t mean much in terms of B&N as a bookseller because they were largely filled with their coffee shops and selling toys and Knick knacks.
They already have these warnings on Waze in France. Either history of crashes or high risk of ‘someone gonna die’.

Usually you hear something like “you are entering an automated speed control zone”.

I wish Waze did Audio call-outs of speed limit changes.
70K responses biased towards Stack Overflow users. This is pretty weak.
> Isn't that nice that your kids want to make amends even in a small way for people who were and are hurt because of systemic issues.

No, it is not. There are more important things to spend any kind of effort than to please someone who's triggered by etymology.
This seems like a defensive comment based on your disagreement with GP’s direct answer to a question. Sorry if this sounds snarky, but I really think you are overthinking their response.
It's also not practical to fit into a size 32 if one's true band size is 40, any more than someone with a 40 inch waist can wear size 32 pants.

You can go the other way more easily and in my understanding/experience that's typically what happens (i.e. someone who's true size is 32DD wearing a 40A due to a limited set of options available in many brick-and-mortar stores).

Picture trying to fit an orange into a cup that's too small — there will be space between the orange and the cup, which could make it seem like the cup is too big. If you can't get a cup that's big enough for the orange to fit in, a flat plate (i.e. 40A) is the second-best option since at least it won't have weird gaps. This leads to women underestimating their true cup size.
Interestingly, many of those studies are about the beneficial anti-arthritic impact of consuming Solanum nigrum. That kind of contradicts the “avoid nightshade” advice.
Transport aircraft can run continuously for multiple flights. They don't turn off the engines under certain conditions (short hops, type of plane, size of loads, etc). There are regulatory inspections that require it to hangar, but I'm not familiar enough to cite any.
i mean whats the fix for ignorance tho. “please download 20 years of vast cryptographic, networking, and low level systems knowledge to us first before proceeding”? hehe

the truth is i also am never gonna learn this stuff just-in-case. i listen to seed my intuitions and embed words so that i can learn just-in-time in future
Note also that if the devices are deauthed from their wi-fi and cannot reassociate, they will turn into APs themselves with the name "<device name>.m" without a password.

I reported this to Google and they said it's not a bug but is working as intended. I asked them "What if the device name is 'Project Dragonfly v2 Conference Room'?" They said it's still not a bug.

This of course leaks the device name to the public (via wi-fi beacon packets) along with allowing anyone in range to access the APIs on the device.
It is an example. It does affect my workflows. I've seen people I respect being ostracized for refusing to comply.
First it failed on my desktop browser, and 5 minutes later it kicked me out of mobile. Currently unable to login.
What hasn't been decimated? Except BNB almost every major coin is down a lot. Don't blame SBF, blame a major bubble bursting and people trying to get out at any price to preserve little capital that remains.
Tissue damage, infection, foreign matter, etc are all bad. Inflation might help, but I think you’d need to show it’d be helpful without the presence of some worse thing to truly call it beneficial.
Is bifurcating to the current extent so bad if both cohorts are made better off than under an alternative arrangement?
I agree. Any materials you recommend to guide people in each of the steps? Maybe a software 3D renderer that is well written and documented?
More bitterly amused at how awful all social media platforms are than angry. I don't have a Twitter account and don't care about it at all. Though I do have a Mastodon account and am struck by how much it recapitulates most of Twitter's socially damaging affordances.
The CCP has always claimed Tibet was part of China, with the Similar Convention not signed by any representative of China. China does not lay claim to Europe, the entirety of Asia, or anything like that.
I'm not seeing anything about mit... were you guys being sarcastic?
Where is this 'sanity' claim?
Sorry, it's $145/day
As with many words, 'meaning' is multiply overloaded, and whichever concept (or concepts) come to mind is heavily dependent on the established or assumed context.

I would normally feel a sense of ambiguity when somebody wrote of "giving their life meaning" (but less so when spoken, because they might emphasise '_/meanin/_'), but would not feel much about the phrase "the meaning of life", nor "life, the universe, and everything!".
Inflammation is a tricky one isn’t it? Its level is an emergent property of a lot of factors. You can see how one tissue behaves with the addition of one reagent, but it’s difficult if not impossible to establish cause in a living system. People often talk about the “bathtub” - stressors, allergens, toxins, low sleep, add water to the bathtub, and it drains at the rate it’s able. When there are too many things filling the bathtub at once it overflows, and that is where you start to experience the devastation of inflammation. For me it feels like sinus allergies and extreme fatigue. The only thing that is productive is making space for recovery. If you aren’t able to recuperate, then the inflammation will take over and do it for you. That ends up leading internal scars it’s so intense.

Christmas is one of those times where the bathtub is likely flooded. Peak commerce. Rushing to hit year end deadlines. Squeezing in medical appointments before deductibles reset. Dangerous winter conditions, but also everyone is traveling at the same time. Rampant spread of diseases. Massive amounts of food, especially sugars. Low sunlight. Family drama. Irregular schedule. Financial stress. I could go on.

If one doesn’t take care to do that things that make the bathtub drain faster (nutrition, activity, rest, water…) you risk big inflammation and internal scarring.

This year I asked my family: does anyone actually like surprises? There was unanimous agreement that we all hate it. This allowed some novel flexibility. I started giving gifts in early December, and only had a few on the official day. All of the sizes were figured out, returns processed, and cardboard broken down over 2 weeks. We ended up having 3 quiet Christmas parties with small family groups over 4 days. It was more manageable than the usual tornado. I’ve maintained my standard sleep schedule. It was still all a bit overwhelming, especially for my neurodivergent ass having to socialize 500% more than usual. My bathtub is getting pretty full. So I’m going to go take a bath :)
Austral: A systems language with linear types and capabilities
What? How is that the definition you derive from the quotation?
Why would a deceitful and malevolent person admit anything?
It's too late to edit, but the US rate is $145/day, not $145/week. Mea culpa
The tax burden is held by the middle class only in countries like Scandinavian and EU countries where capitalism has a heavy dose of socialism. Which only proves that it’s not a potent enough mix and just capitalism alone will keep the engines of a society running. Like in the United States.

Hands down, quality of life is better in the United States. It is a combination of low population density and commitment to capitalism. One can consider long vacations and lunch breaks as ‘better quality of life’, but I am mostly talking about access to material things and things like power and energy.

Generally access to free and/odd cheap energy is the gateway to better quality of life and abundance. Everything else is a solvable problem with policy and legislation. United States may be lacking in certain social metrics but it’s solvable. But where cheap energy is lacking, the economy( and eventually society) will decay and die.

Scandinavian flavour of socialism works because most have access to energy and have low population density. But even so, the burden is on the middle class. In California, otoh, [..] The richest 1% of California tax filers pay the largest share of their income in state and local taxes (12.3%), but the 20% of filers with the lowest incomes pay the next highest share (11.4%). [..]

This is why capitalism has single handedly raised quality of life world over(think India, Africa rather than Western Europe)than socialism or communism. Even China benefited from capitalism.

+ https://calmatters.org/explainers/the-open-secret-about-cali...
My upper comment was about the Amazon store they had in WC… but: B&N re-opened in Walnut Creek just below Ruth’s Chris. More like the Concord format.
An interesting read, but I wish it had come from literally any other source. This feels very much like kicking a competitor when they are down, and pretty tacky.
I didn't (too embarrassed) but there is this guy whos quite famous in the EV conversion world and video documents the whole process for an E39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcyJm5CrLJI&list=PLPHK4T9kKE...
“Two waters, please.”
I concur. Books are one of the few things I am very particular about making sure I get the real thing. I don’t trust Amazon to do this.