skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The human mind doesn't really grok exponential curves very well. We tend to perceive them more as flat and then suddenly they go vertical.

> In that regard, society's response to recent progress in AI appears clumsy and ineffective to me. Surely people don't think banning generated essays or art is going to fix whatever problem they perceive? This stuff is improving quicker than we can adapt, and any response that attempts to halt, delay, or ignore this progress is destined to fail.

The singularity is one thing, I think might sneak up on us way faster than we think, and I don't think one can be prepared for a doubling of info every second of every day. It's incomprehensible that everything will just double faster and faster until a decade of progress takes place in 10 minutes, not 10 years.
If you really want a book pick one from here [0]. First one is good.

Personally I think just following the official guide [1] will give you all you need to get a taste of the language and the platform and decide if you like it or not.

If you were talking about websockets in particular I guess realistically most people use Phoenix Channels [2] that give you websockets in ten lines of code.

[0] https://elixir-lang.org/learning.html

[1] https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html

[2] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html
Read something like this would happening in right-leaning book “snakes of Ganga”. Still is first few chapter.

Eventually the idea of CRT(critical race theory) is to align the “racism” in west is because of casteism in India.
So lie to get a job?
The difference is that the bond return is (to first order) riskless and risk has a cost.

What is the variance on the VC return (and is $9 a realistic mean of the distribution to begin with?).
Personally i thought it was clear. This is a tech website, and we're obviously not going to solve type 1 diabeties overnight out of nowhere. That's two context clues for what it is about.

[Which is not to say that the headline shouldn't be disambiguity]
Don't ask the question, just give the answer: we will be alive (I mean there's no other way, is it ?)
Voice actors are training the AI that will replace them
I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to say here. The creator shouldn't be the owner of the work, the owner of the work should? That's EXACTLY how the world works and has worked for longer than you have lived.

You can buy a piece of art from someone and get all the royalities if you aren't creative but have money.
Born rule postulates that probabilities exist at sample size 1, which is not supported by reality: in reality probabilities are unobservable at sample size 1, which better corresponds to MWI than copenhagen. MWI shoves it in your face why probabilities are unobservable at sample size 1.
If you think the web is boring now it's because you stopped surfing the web, not because people stopped making exciting and innovative websites. That isn't meant as a criticism; people's priorities change and we do different stuff. I still find the web wildly exciting after 30 years of using it because I still seek out interesting things on it...

Tell me this looks like every other website: https://www.anumberfromtheghost.com/asleep-in-trees
I love the message of this article. Honestly, little weird blog sites are the best and usually a great read too.
yes, but I control all those dependencies with a lock file and pinned dependencies. We have tests for their behaviour including a test script in CI that boots up the service locally and connects to it, making various assertions.

I think there is a difference here between the core behaviour and the edge case behaviour. I guess I would trust that in the core behaviour they do not change on a day-to-day basis but the question is how do they behave when you are pushing the tools outside the intended core use cases. Can you then really trust services that change their core implementation constantly will work for your workflow?

TBH i would probably trust a CDN because I have a fairly simple use for such a service. If I were really pushing these tools, like running a video broadcast service or whatever, I would be much more worried.
Same way I would describe Uber. SoftBank trying to muscle their way into ownership stakes by playing games with valuations and squeezing out the founder.

The greater fool theory seems to apply. Masayoshi knew all the numbers, he thought Neumann was a good hype man to unload WeWork unto less sophisticated investors -- when that didn't pan out he tried to make him the fall guy and ended up holding the hot potato.

Uber and WeWork are real companies, still around, providing actual services to actual customers. Both of their founders walked away billionaires, so what?

SoftBank might have to write down their imaginary valuations as the public markets didn't bite into their attempted flip.

The companies might survive long into the future as viable businesses with more realistic market caps.
> IPOs have declined during a period of low rates

That is the expected result. Firms can take longer to pay off because the cost of capital is lower, and VCs are under less pressure to deliver. What you'd want to see research on is IPO returns accrued to investors.
I had that problem for so long with a T490, I thought I was going crazy until I noticed the crashes always happened when I grabbed the computer. Luckily just re-seating the RAMs with some tough love made the problem disappear...
As I remember my education time from high-school onwards, all-nighters were usually a consequence of slacking off during school time.

In college/university a fairly big part of the education was learning what was compulsory reading and what was optional. There was always more reading than hours in the day.
And these different activities require different sorts of effort.

So long as you are awake enough to be safe and aim at the target, you can shoot a gun. Realistically, guns are designed to be used even if you aren't at your sharpest, and there is only so much you'll learn during a session. You are also active, while doing a leisurely activity (assuming here that even if it was an accredited class, it was optional).

This isn't quite like taking a biology class where you are supposed to be sharp enough to learn - or prove you grasp complex subjects. It takes more mental effort. On top of this, classroom conditions are different. Stuck in a chair, in a room often too cold/too warm, listening to someone go on about the history of trees and how they developed into the modern tree. Thrilling.
I was using T480s for 2 years at previous company, it was the worst laptop i ever owned. throttling, terrible battery life.
Beeing determined is the limiting trait in healthy educated humans. If we can fix this by culture, devices or drugs, humanity will take its bigges leap since the invention of machines and evolve into an never before seen powerhouse of technology, compassion, creativity and innovation.
> I go to bed hours after I've eaten

I feel like this is extremely important. I try very hard to eat no late than at least 4 hours before I feel like going to sleep. And get as sober as possible before that too.
>The difference between fastest and slowest is only 43ms (0.043 seconds), and I saw around this difference between rendering the same css twice. I think it is best to go for whatever is most readable for you. Personally I find :first-child the most understandable at a glance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/5u6e7b/comment/...
It happens! Whenever I see a Thinkpad I start thinking I should buy one even though I have an M1 MacBook Pro.

I'm sure I'm not the only neckbeard lusting after Thinkpads.
Can confirm… just bought a thin battery for my x270 and paid about 100€ for an original one, brand new.

Worth it though, the x270 is very slim and still featureful.
> (remember that "tech" does not mean "computer science")

If you're going to be that nitpicky, this article isn't about anything that could reasonable be called "computer science" either
FYI & FWiW I was in PNG in the 80s when NDW took a poke at the barely departed colonial adminstrators ( Kiap's ) in The Kiap Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FK5N_ObFeQ

Tabaran was a fine song by George Telek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdvNFKL8h2U
Eh, so far in my experience nobody's been shouting across the restaurant or hole-in-the-wall place; normally it's a hand wave or signal, or often a button or bell.

Maybe I haven't been going to exciting places...

And as for taking my order before reading the menu, depends how fast you can decypher the translation of whatever app you use :) (assuming a non-Japanese speaker)
Scroll down to where the gradient has already overlapped the text, then right-click above the text and use inspect element and it should be the correct element (was for me). Then uncheck the background-image property to disable the gradient.
It would be much better if everyone had a better income and work/life balance in order to be able to feed, house, clothe and raise their children well but that is not the reality of the situation or where the current political and economics climate in the UK is leading, it is quite the opposite.

I know people who work full time and yet can only afford to have their heating on for 1 or 2 hours a day in winter and have a very tight budget for groceries. There are people who have to choose between heating and eating. Ensuring that children eat at least one good meal a day is an easier & quicker fix than the systemic and governmental change that the UK needs to solve this problem the other way.
No. "Tin Pan Alley" was a cliche decades before pop as we know it started, and decades after it was a real place.

Pop musicians as auteurs is also a marketing choice.
Depends on what you consider a traditional 5-day week; not long ago, people were Expected to be in the office all day, often a commute away. And it's only white collar workers that have gained the priviledge of working from home.
It's like complaining why books has roughly all the same shape when paper allows so many formats and creativity. It's clear, it's because uniformity can optimize costs and people is more interested in content and not on the container.
Or, otherwise said, back then, bullying someone who "didn't know his (or her) place" or "didn't fit in" was not only normal, but encouraged.
Fully agree. A company I work with used to receive about 1 SPAM message per hour. They kind of outcrowded any actual customer request in the INBOX. And to me, most of them looked like they were hand-written by people with English as a 2nd language. We tried a lot of CAPTCH providers and similar things, but that didn't help. It wasn't automated robot SPAM.

What did move the needle, in the end, was blocking all IPs from India. A bit heavy-handed, maybe, but it was a small company with only local customers anyway.
Then why blog? Comments are what distinguish a blog from an online magazine.
> especially in the politics and the international sections

Most British coverage of American politics is abysmal. For international, the FT has biases, but they tend to get the facts straight. (Definitely Eurocentric.)
Non-replaceable, when it goes bad then might as well throw away the laptop.

Speed is also, what, 3GB/s?, I'm getting 7GB read, 5GB write speeds on my laptop.
Spreadsheets are owned by Finance and Accounting - I'm in Eng and wouldn't be able to get them to let go of Windows + Excel.
> what's the fuss about doing things early?

I feel like it has to do a lot with the most recent industrial revolution and how factories had to operate, and the school systems built around that. Most of places and industries, it hasn’t gone anywhere.

And I guess it won’t until we solve the problem of massive energy generation for pennies, orders of magnitude more than we have now, and bump up production output everywhere across the board, with AI or else.
> if interest rates are high they can still go public at a large valuation

Not as large as previously. And critically, smaller than where they invested. Going public at $10bn when you bought for $30bn isn’t a good deal.
U.S. food additives banned in Europe
A lot depends on the why. I may have different tastes than their ex.
> Could you expand what you mean and what you see different in Israel?

For example, in the US public discourse you wouldn't find any notion of White Christian Liberal Democracy; if there is any, it is usually thoroughly denied by its alleged supporters and it is allegedly wrapped into layers of dog whistles and innuendos.

I didn't want to make any explicit comparisons because they are going to be crude and lacking in their form and content due to the complexity of the topic and the short format of the comment section. So, of course, one can say that the parallels I draw are inadequate and so on because reasons, but the existence of that distinction is kind of my point.

> You choose specific dimension to argument (e.g. heritage) living the many dimensions aside.

That's the context of the "Statement of Jewish scientists". It is not a statement of Israeli scientists, it is not a statement of American scientists. It is not a statement of scientists qua scientists. So that's what grabbed my attention and what I commented on.
yes, with this post sitting comfortably on #1 on the king neckbeard forum, it is as certainly getting head turns from us as it is certain never to become more than a passing bemusement

*neckbeard used affectionately as an equal opportunity mindset that has evolved from its origins like many words have; there are women neckbeards too, as are neckbeards with no beards or for that matter no neck
In NL, working less hours (24, 32 or 36 hours) is normalized, to the point where some families have a schedule where either parent has one day a week off, the kids spend one day at their grandparents, and the remaining two days in day care (or something to that effect).

The 4-day work week is fairly normalized here to try and balance careers for both parents with raising children, so these articles seem really weird to me. The tradeoff is you get paid for 32 hours instead of 40, and any other benefits (holidays, bonuses, expenses, etc) are adjusted according to how much of a percentage of full-time (40 hours/week) you work.
Rent, food and energy gets more expensive with higher inflation. That's not a picnic for poor people with low incomes.
The rich are affected as well but not in any way that actually hurts their lifestyle. Instead of having X million dollars they will have 0.8X million dollars.
Oracle mainly targets larger organisations that cannot switch quickly to OpenJDK, either because of compliance reasons or organisational inertness. These organisations have no choice but to pay.
Don't worry, ChatGPT can't grade them atm anyway :P
Umm, it reminds me of all the websites when VRML was a hip fad in the 90s (but obviously higher resolution/better).

But still, this misses the authors point - that mainstream websites have become homogenous. Obviously its not about literally every last website, but bemoaning what is currently trendy.
Man, those 60 people must be really bad at their jobs!
Right, but that doesn't change the return. It would only change the amount of money being invested in VC or IPOs versus bonds. And the total money chasing stocks isn't evenly distributed amongst stocks, so less money in the stock market doesn't necessarily mean a lower valuation for a particular company (such as the big winner in a VC portfolio).

The risk free return is an opportunity cost. If I invest $10 and get back $11, the net is $1 regardless of whether bonds yielded 0% or 100%.
Yeah that was crazy and so blatant, it really allows you to see how pervasive this is when its somewhere you'd think of civil like HN.
I'm sorry, this is just wrong. I've never heard of anyone absolutely needing to compile anything, especially the kernel, on a mainstream Linux distro (e.g. Ubuntu) in ages. Plus, if your graphics card is Nvidia, you don't get to compile anything: the driver is a binary blob (only the shim is compiled).
I think it's called burning bridges.
Thank you for the tip -- it worked!
Also not very sure about “origin” is this “idiotic system” as the ”word” itself doesn’t have native origin.

This seems like system like “dowry” which started with good intentions & still has value but has become a “daemon” in its own.

Still makes me think about origin, because origin usually has the solution to problems.
Yeah, articles like this should be more clear on that. In NL the 4 day work week is normalized (by law you're allowed to work less hours if you choose to), but your pay and everything is adjusted accordingly.
It's boring because we consume content mostly through platforms that incentivise a certain mode and format of content creation. There is also the bias on recency and the fear of missing out "important" contemporary events and news. The interesting content is still there, but our perception and short attention spans mostly ignore it.
The way they try to deduce that they are working multiple jobs is hilarious: we can hear multiple meetings! Or, I live alone and I can't imagine people living toghether and having different meetings at the same time. I also can't imagine people having kids and those kids taking online classes.
Your link is a guy saying people get so good with the old technologies that there is no point trying to compete with them. That only happens if they don't change much...

If you time traveled someone from a decade ago that knows how to configure an Apache or NGinx server to today they would likely still be able to. It may not follow latest best practice, but at worst they'll use something retired, have to google it and be up and running in minutes.

Same with Spring/Java or .NET/ASP.NET Web API.

And you can still run a VPS or container that can handle significant traffic for free on many of the cloud platforms + migrating it is much much simpler.
Receiving headturns from neckbeards is a whole lot better than getting headturns from youngsters sipping latte at Starbucks.
I think general experience with toxic hiring processes may also be a contributing factor for people believing this story.

I don't know if it's true, but it definitely sounds like something that could easily have happened.
See how many times they write the word 'I'?

They've never meditated properly even once. Teacher my ass, these people do way more damage than help anyone.
That's one awesome and cheap machine you got there, congrats, I'm really glad someone liked it and wrote a blog post about it :)

I too am a Pop_OS user - it works, my reason for using it was nvidia drivers and getting GeForce to f*king work.

As for M1 - I am really glad when people find what they like. But I really, really dislike Apple products. I hate the OS UI. I hate AppleID. I hate the fact I can't swap the SSD inside it. I just generally dislike any piece of hardware that I can't interact with. What if I want to have a RAID array with stupidly overpriced M2's?

The synthetic benchmarks mean nothing to me and I don't feel the "speed" of M1 everyone tend to talk about. It also feels like every single Apple user suddenly became expert the moment M1 was released. It could be because I'm a dev and ex-gamer so I like fast things, so I bought myself an EPYC chip and a ton of other hardware for which everyone I know comment "but why? it's not like you can utilize all of it, why waste so much money?" - because I can.

TL;DR: it's an awesome piece of hardware you got there, there's no need to use the best and the fastest and <insert reason>. It's enough to use something just because you like it or want to use it. This blog post just goes to show how powerful hardware we have, even the "old" hardware is still great.
I am doing development on a T550 for the exact reason that it is not very fast. It is fast enough to develop my project, but the app that I am working on is quite resource hungry, so I want to make sure that it runs smoothly on the user's machine. There is no point in enjoying a super fast development environment when you later realize that there is a massive performance problem for your users.
I’m not fence sitting. I am committed to spending lives to achieve my preferred geopolitical goals.
Ramses II said he did great things and fathered a lot of children - like a lot of rulers ancient and modern.
I thought this would be about the transition to a Type 2 Civilisation…
What's even more common is all the supposed genocides in the colonies that left no one alive. Just like today Elizabeth Warren pretended to be the extremely blond Indian so did Sitting Cloud turn into the extremely tanned Sicilian: Marco Totally Italiano.
How “racism”, they all belong to common race unless one gives belief to “Aryan invasion theory” then it’s different case.

What would be local word for this hedious system ?
You would be paying for the hardware which is pretty good (as long as you can accept the downsides, most notably that it isn't upgradeable nor maintainable, and Apple charge an arm and a leg for memory/storage). It'd be like buying a laptop that came with Windows and installing a Linux distro on it. Why not? If you're more comfortable with it that with the base OS, even better that there's choice.
Zero?

Windows Update alone is a 15-20 min ordeal every 2 weeks (usually requiring 2-3 restarts to get all updates).
>, just to draw a clear line between "compression" and "intelligence"

Not disagreeing with you but your sentence reminded of research looking at the link between "compression" and "intelligence" :

https://www.google.com/search?q=compression+is+a+form+of+int...
It's not stupidity, though it could be evil. If America's government wanted to "fix" the system, they would. But the system seems to work well for the companies that use it, so is it broken?

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's "broken". It's just like how you have to use 3rd-party software to file your taxes and the IRS doesn't just pre-fill forms for you like in other countries. This isn't "broken": it's like this by design, because Intuit lobbied Congress to pass a law forbidding the IRS to make things easier for taxpayers.

Anyway, if your only reason to move to America was money, then it seems silly to complain about being mistreated as an immigrant. You're getting what you signed up for: more money, and with it, more headaches. If you wanted a better lifestyle and better government, you would have picked a different country. And being solely motivated by money seems to me to be a form of evil in itself (evil as in pure selfishness, not evil as in laughing at others suffering).
> AI people thought back then that if you thought about thought enough, you could figure out how to mechanize it. That turned out to be a dead end, and the "AI winter" (roughly 1985-2005) followed.

To be fair, maybe we just haven't thought about it enough.
> ration care to prioritise workers - Who make up a good portion of voters

The people recieving this priority are not likely to be voters for the current government. Those who would be deprioritised, Tory voters.
You can eat earlier than 20.00?...

I think it's detrimental to someone's quality of life to be unable to shift their sleping schedule.

The only physiological thing you cannot shift is the sunlight. If I have to wake up early before sunrise and feel like crap, I will take a walk out a couple hours later and the rest of my day will be productive.