skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patrick's Parabox - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1260520/Patricks_Parabox/ - sokoban that plays with space, including levels that contain themselves
I guess they’re getting what they deserve then, eh?
AI(ngst)
Not sure this is a generational thing or perhaps a how you were raised thing? I’m an X’er and I don’t think I ever went in the front yard (or beyond) unattended until I was in late junior high out perhaps even high school. I just hung out playing video games or dicked around inside or played in the backyard.
My guess is that the people of my generation who were adventurous kids probably have more adventurous kids now.
According to Bill Hicks, virus + shoes = humanity.
I literally only used Pascal for 6 months when I was 17 (1994), but it forever changed my life.
Many of their PaaS platforms are controlled by Service Fabric running on Windows. For example, Azure SQL Managed Instance is in this category. You can see the "SF" paths in a few places.

I've been learning a bit about Service Fabric recently. It seems to predate Kubernetes and appears to scale far higher because it has native support for partitioning large clusters by "tenant id hash" or similar keys.
The article explains that the gap still exists, even after controlling for race.

Yes, white women in the US will live (much) longer than black men on average. Yet their UK counterparts will live longer still.
> These sorts of charts are meaningless without being broken down by race.

I see the exact opposite: the data you showed is meaningless without being broken down by income.

The "life expectancy vs income" chart works similarly in almost all countries, including single-ethnicity countries. So it's clearly something.

But the race one you showed is not income-adjusted. It's well known Black people in the US on average is poorer than, say, White people. It's totally possible (with full data, it's easy to do statistical analysis) their low life expectancy is largely due to poverty.
Don't worry, I expect Microsoft will replace their search with gpt in the future. "Hey Windows, find me that work presentation I worked on a while back".
Isn't it natural for the CEO wonder about his own tweets, and use those as a proxy for the function of the platform as a whole--esp as relates to "VIP" tweeters who Twitter arguably wants to keep happy. In fairness to Elon, his repeated inquiries about his own tweeted shined light on several legitimate bugs in their algorithm affecting VIPs.
Electronic Noise Is Drowning Out the Internet of Things (2015)
Is it reasonable to raise the retirement age in California (where people live longer) and lower it in Texas where they don’t live quite such a long life? It feels off, I think, people will then move to Texas because they can retire earlier.
Um, no. I'm not saying that at all. In your case: if all you know is web, then that is all you'll see. I've used *nix for: all things cloud, distributed computing, scientific computing, machine learning, any kind of research, embedded, automotive, aeronautical, (oddly not CNC), CAD, physics simulation, circuit simulation, CPU design, etc...
Or buyer custom configured purpose built vehicles, eg:

https://www.oka-atv.com/
Serious question (not rhetorical). Do you think this a problem could be that large, international cities tend to copy US cities or do you think that they themselves
become homogenous with one another? Former West Germany is also a particularly egregious example of US influence due to our historical involvement there.
Why does race need to be brought into it?
What changed between the old days and now to make running many independent(ish) experiments in government stop making sense?
> I like English spelling.

I grew up in the UK and prefer British-English to American-English, both in terms of spelling and pronunciation.

That said English has terrible spelling compared to other languages, it's impossible to know how to pronounce a word just looking at the spelling.

I don't need to give examples, as it is well-known already. I benefit from the fact that many people I've met around the world speak English, but it's almost unfortunate that one of the harder/more inconsistent languages "won".
Every generation gets fucked up in new and interesting ways. We all grow up with our own traumas. How we lived our lives informs how we view life. And we respond to all of that in two major ways: acceptance or rejection.

Acceptance is repeating the mistakes of the past. Basically neglecting children and turning them into adults sooner than they're ready.

Rejection is making sure that does not happen at all. Doing the complete opposite of what was done to us.

They're both wrong. The answer is some weird blend of the two. Children need the autonomy to become adults but also need the safety net of having actual adults around.
Doesn't Alpaca seem to suggest that assumption is no longer true?
I was actually wondering about that - it appears a (i+i^2)/2 sequence makes insertions (and by extension erases with rehashing) 7-10% faster, which is pretty significant. Lookups and probe lengths are about the same, so I think the conclusions stand.
The discussion around shared e-scooters (and similar micromobility) tends to have a ton of hidden status quo bias. For example, one of the most common complaints about e-scooters is that people leave them all over the place and they clutter sidewalks. This can be a true and valid complaint!

But people do that, in part, because cities don't provide good alternatives. A city the size of Paris probably has literally millions of on-street parking spots, or at least hundreds of thousands. (E.g. NYC has ~3 million [1]). Each car-sized parking spot can fit 12 scooters. So replacing 5% of parking spots with micromobility parking would provide space for something like 500,000 shared micromobility vehicles. For context, that's order of magnitude larger than the number of e-scooters in Paris.

(FWIW, Paris is maybe not a perfect example here; it's a relative leader in reclaiming space from cars for shared mobility and biking and such. Also when I was there last summer the scooters weren't a nuisance at all because they were overwhelmingly parked in marked areas, not littering sidewalks. YMMV.)

But especially in the US, we're so entrenched in thinking that only cars can be real mobility that we can't imagine shifting even 1% of the space and money we spend on cars towards more shared and less polluting forms of transportation. It sucks.

[1] https://gothamist.com/news/how-else-could-nyc-use-its-12-cen...
"By arbitrary decree" was the meaning I meant. Someone declared it to be a currency, it need not be a government doing the declaring. But yeah, we're basically in agreement, that's the underlying problem with crypto, it's a fiat currency (no intrinsic value) traded like it's a security (which usually has some even if very abstract, intrinsic value).
Can you elaborate? Is it slow performance? Taking over defaults with custom schemes?
Making a Bloom Filter Keyboard
Grant is not the only Myth Buster to have died young.

Jessi Combs* also died recently setting a land speed record in a jet car.

* Edit: whoops, thanks for the correction
Part of it is regulatory arbitrage.

Because of some historical accidents (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax) normal cars are regulated more tightly than SUVs in the US. That makes SUVs cheaper to produce.

So people, like families, that needed a big car moved from station wagons to SUVs.

The rest is more historical accidents and consumer preferences.

(Some of the regulations in question here are really silly. Especially the CAFE standards which are ostensibly supposed to regulate emissions. But they do it in a really round-about way. A sane way to regulate emissions is to tax emissions like a CO2, or something that directly correlates with producing more emissions (like a petrol tax).

Instead the US goes the insane route: CAFE standards take an average of the vehicles produced by a company, and give companies some incentives based on that average. Of course, they also add extra loopholes, like the SUV exemption.

SUVs also get exemptions for passenger and pedestrian safety standards.)
Completely disagree with this. The CEO using the company's own product daily is how it should be--regardless of industry.
Open source is a business tool to a business. To some extent open source is a business tool to individuals, too (e.g., to get oneself hired).

For a business open source can be about building mind-share. Businesses that have mind-share often want to build vendor lock-in, enough so at least to make a decent profit. But it's a struggle because the vendor lock-in can destroy the mind-share building. The best way forward isn't always obvious.
Godot is your choice, I recommend you check this game engine, there are a lot of tutorials on Youtube.
As I age… dementia is one of the things I truly fear. So I’ve probably spent too much time pondering the topic for someone not engaged in either the research or practice of medicine.

But from this armchair perspective it feels a lot like the challenge is how slow the progress of Alzheimers can be. It’s not having an infection where the clinical trial is, at it’s core, as simple as “you take the pill we see you get better” and so you can run a trial and a few months later you’ve got results that are some degree of obvious. But with Alzheimers if it’s a preventative treatment it’s going to take years before the results are sufficiently discernible, if it’s a treatment for after you have symptoms it’s just as bad because it’s going to take just about as many years to be sure it’s not getting any worse and if it works quickly then it could still take years to be sure it was a success since recovering from brain injury and damage can be a long slow process and depending on the degree of Alzheimers induced impairment your going to either be sifting through subjective self reporting and psychological assessments trying to work out what’s Alzheimers, what’s normal age related cognitive decline, and what someone getting better from one but still affected by the other should be experiencing…

It’s got to be maddening for people who are trying to research treatments for Alzheimers. All I can do from this armchair is wish them the best of luck and make some occasional charity donations.
Me neither. I was pretty much an “indoor kid” growing up at least until high school. My parents didn’t drink soda, eat chips, or other snacky junk food or keep any of that in the house so I guess that (along with metabolism) was why I was a 5’9” 110 lb 7th grader.
You mean, better the firing for disability is done in private? Isn't transparency the best way to ultimately eliminate such behaviors?
Have you talked about how they should respond to someone engaging them that way? Is don't talk to strangers a workable strategy?
I'm a fan of this non-profit organization Let Grow https://letgrow.org/ co-founded by Jonathan Haidt. In part, they've fought legislation that would make it a prosecutable offense to leave a child unsupervised in a public park.
>There were a few kernel patches necessary only a year ago to make certain EAC games work.

You are thinking of getting the Windows version of EAC working. EAC has had a wine version for a long time. EAC will detect if you are using wine and try and download the wine version.
That not holding meetings without an agenda is something that apparently needs to actually be said is cause for despair.
Because in the 90s in California, body-on-frame small trucks were immune from some emissions and safety requirements, making it the only way to get a powerful v8 as well as a great way for GM and Ford to save a few bucks. Follow that up with 30 years of monkey-see-monkey-buy, and here we are.
Please show me a new status system. Not just different people on top of an already existing one.

I could see brand new status systems existing for, say, a new video game. Everyone starts out equally as newbies and works their way up. Maybe someone could leverage their position in a current status system (such as wealth or free time) to boost their potential in this new system.

Brand new industries could create new status systems, though I don't know how often they really do (for instance, the female programmers of the early computer era tended to bring their lower status into the system, not get status from the new system).

I suffer from the problem of not paying attention to status. Which kind of puts me on the outskirts of any status system, or at the very least not able to recognize my status within current systems.
Nah, sweatshop
Anyone who is interested in status, I recommend “Impro: Improvisation and The Theatre” by Keith Johnstone. The tldr is in almost every social situation there are “status” games.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306940.Impro

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20436197
Ah, the brief era of licensed Mac PowerPC clones towards the end of Sculley. Apple (still under Sculley) killed them all by cutting them out of System 8 (Mac OS classic).

4 PowerPC 604 processors in a DayStar Genesis MP 600. Only $16k USD! ($31k in 2023 money.)
In my experience, geosat is reliable until it rains. Then your slow speeds drop down to nothing. TBF, I've not used starlink yet.
Take a look at the data in the commonwealth fund report for comparison. It’s not culture and poverty per se, it’s that unlike every modern and industrialized country in the world, the US lacks a universal healthcare system that serves all of its citizens fairly and proportionally regardless of race or culture. That’s the missing factor.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
I wonder if there may be a simpler underlying reason, such as having few kids.

When a parent only has one, it's both easier to control them from a time & energy perspective, and also more understandable biologically from a risk perspective, than if they had say five.
It also feels like a cheap way to profit off of contemporary polarization by invoking four incendiary controversies of the day and posturing as one somehow above them all.
Interesting project, seeing this I wonder if anyone has ever scaffolded a base and just made tickets for other random people to implement.
I think I'm the FA. And I don't mean F**ing article.
It's really depressing that, given the good data that we have available and the different compared experienced from other countries and public policy research efforts from our academics that the political system is simply incapable of producing the right policies to remedy these situations.

I mean, it seems to me like there's so much that gets confused in the public debate that most people voting for their representative have actually no idea what they're actually voting for. The political stage is filled with so much misinformation (which includes lies and omissions) that it has become very difficult for people to make the little decision power they have a good decision.

In many ways, I think the political system encourage a sort of "package deal" policy making. When in reality people will have positions all over the political spectrum. And most importantly, I think people are not even given the opportunity to change their minds to begin with. Misinformation and lack of opportunity to deliberate is really hurting the policies that are being adopted by most states and this is very concerning.

Of course, we shouldn't expect people to be concerned about everything at all times and be completely immersed in every issue out there. But there are plenty of ideas out there that seek to find middle of the ground solutions between engagement and influence. It just feels really bad that people are so concerned about closing the holes made by the faulty system that they don't stop and wonder that maybe a lot of these holes are natural consequences of the system's design to begin with.
That’s an interesting point. Kids definitely do have more autonomy with those things and it’s not helping. Generally I think it’s because it’s easier on the parent (which is no slight to parents).
Is there some cultural difference I'm not understanding? Because this looks like a huge sign of weakness. How can you believe your culture is superior while also thinking it needs protection from the government? How pathetic would we think the American government was if it tried to pass a law saying "no use of AAVE" or "no Spanish words".
This is an example of ChatGPT performing poorly, but not being unable to do the thing. Nobody would say would say ChatGPT has human level intelligence across all domains - but that it has general problem solving ability. In other words, I'm saying it has an IQ, not that it has the highest possible IQ.

And, of course, there are domains where ChatGPT will do better than you. Since I don't know your skill set I don't know what those domains are, but I assume you'd agree. Just like ChatGPT giving a bad schedule doesn't disprove it's intelligence, you not being able to come up with acrostics or pangrams easily (or whatever) doesn't disprove yours.
>> This is not "obvious" in any sense of the word. At best, it's highly debatable.

Does a dog or cat have intelligence?

If you answered no, then I would ask if you don't you believe that by some measure a dog or cat has more intelligence than a rock?

And as a follow-on I would ask if you think GPT demonstrates more intelligence than a dog or a cat.

But perhaps you believe that in every one of these examples there is not a single case where it "obviously has some form of intelligence."

(I am really trying to highlight the semantic ambiguities)
I don't think it's overkill. I have a whole VM that I use for the sole purpose of not installing my label printer software on my host machine.
Phrack always impresses me. All editions are awesome, even the ones that teach you how to make a free call on a public phone in 1989.
> Seems to be a lot of correlation to voting patterns as well.

No it doesn't:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2020_United_States_presid...

It appears to be much more strongly correlated with poverty rate:
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2018/comm/acs-...
Rejecting status wholesale is the greatest form of status.
True. What is effective, though?

Cultures do change themselves over time, but it may be painfully slow, and sometimes they don't change.

I'm not condescending or judging. We're all human biologically, and culture is not a simple matter of individual responsibility, it's a collective and historical phenomenon. Individuals may be able to rise above their culture, but in some cases the path can be longer and steeper. Would I be the same person if I were born in a different place? If I were born in a different time? Of course not. We've all been shaped by our culture.

In any case, it's difficult to help when relevant help is rejected, e.g., ACA subsidies. Moreover, there's an underlying conflict of values and even religion that pervades the politics, seeping into seemingly unrelated issues such as health and economics, and undermining the possibility of agreement or compromise. It's difficult to be kind, sympathetic, understanding, patient with someone when that someone goes out of their way to try to take away civil rights that you care deeply about. At a certain point, you need to fall back to self-preservation.
Are these the sorts of Transformers and "Attention" heads that play a prominent role in LLMs like GPT3 et al? Would this lecture help build a foundational understanding of those technologies?
No it's definitely unreasonable. It should be maximum of 5%, which is still high, but acceptable.
It’s also far less common to own a house, car, or have a child, dog, etc. Pretty normal to move to a big city, rent, not have kids, and play with whatever you want. And that’s the well adjusted case.
The mentioned novelist, Kim Stanley Robinson, is probably best known in HN circles for the Red/Blue/Green Mars trilogy about terraforming the planet. There's a certain irony here about how hard we're finding it to control even the Earth's climate.
The names are “Theory X” and “Theory Y.”

Now excuse me while I go work on some C and get a hot cup of Java and complain about JavaScript.
I'm also in Australia, and it's gotten a bit ridiculous. There are now utes the size of American Ford F350s everywhere. Our streets and parking infrastructure are just not designed for it. It's become an arms race. You're now much safer if you drive a bigger car and you can see the road ahead much better than if you drive a Corolla.
Well who knew it was that easy
Indeed, when their own TV network calls them "dumb, cousin-fucking terrorists"[0], you'd think they'd have a hard time trusting them, but it doesn't seem that way. Still, I'd think don't smoke and take your vaccines would be relatively uncontroversial basic public health information these days, but I guess not.

[0]https://twitter.com/Eric_Alterman/status/1634971075334508544
Out in the sticks, you need a car to get around. Especially, your kid needs to be car-ed around.

In a well-functioning city, your kid can walk places, ride a bike or take the bus or train.

About rules: there a lot more social rules in small towns than in cities, where no one cares who you are?
I've actually read the article and it read to me that the author is suggesting against obsessing over status, and not avoiding it.

And it seems to me there's a lot of middle ground between those two things.
Cryptocurrencies make it easy to bring tens of millions of dollars out of the country (there are always people who exchange any amount of fiat money to any cryptocurrency for about 5% fee in every country).

I guess the CCP will get much more aggressive about banning peer-to-peer money transfer.
I disagree; wealth can be displayed as status. Money can be spent in status-seeking ways. But money can also be earned so that one can care for sick family members (or a sick future self), or to put kids through college. Or money can be spent on enjoyable experiences that no one else will see.

Money is not the ultimate status game, even though it is an important ingredient in most status-seeking activities.
The biggest problem with the American south:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...
In the US we call first course appetizers and the main course “entree”. We usually use “sushi” to refer to raw fish rather than rice dish style itself. And we invented the term “Latinx”

Aside from that last one, people don’t generally seem to care
This seems overly reductive. Folks without wealth still try to demonstrate brands and experiences associated with wealth: luxury cars, clothes, trips, etc. Yet they sacrifice much more to do so.

Some also posses political forms of power, influence, and status disconnected from wealth. Gandhi for example was never weathly or rich in money or assets.

Appears to me that status is an abstract thing, albeit correlated with wealth.
Kids can play outside. There are adults outside, too; and they can come back home where presumably their parents are hanging out.

I don't see the trade-off?
>> Is stockfish intelligent?

It isn't general intelligence but I would argue that it is more intelligent than a new-born human being.
That's a club within the venture capital status system, right?
Zotero also used (uses?) XUL I think.
You can ban individual shows in kids' Netflix.