skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but let's not forget that Carnap started his AI company last year with the express goal of reaching AGI comparable to a 'retarded toddler' by 2030. Relatively simple generative AIs have come far far further than anyone really anticipated, and it is quite unclear if the last 20% to avg-human-level AGI will be much harder, impossible, or also suddenly be solved. I mean, hell, GPT4s context space is still relatively small, it doesn't have a memory, and is still producing quite impressive results in simple reasoning tasks.
Insofar as nerdiness is considered to be gaming, that’s gone mainstream. But I don’t think most of the twitch gamers with the transparent cases and neon case lights have the same appreciation for that aesthetic as us LAN nerds did in the 00s. Like, we built those rigs to show them off in person with our friends. They were custom built by hand, each one unique. Now they are commoditized props, jewels in a pastel room meant for streaming over a webcam. They are tax write offs for professional twitch streamers.

Has something died in all that? Maybe. Honestly we transitioned to board games. The computer scene got too big, the games got too dumb, and we got too old. Board games still get us together, and they’re just as fun as star craft or enemy territory that we used to play back in the day.

Nerd culture is alive and well, it’s just different from when I was a kid.
There must be one. Countries like america were making moves to attract nerds, by incorporating nerdiness in popular cultuyre. Usually nerdiness is invisible in most cultures, because cultures are dominated by the most extroverted people. Geeks are never 'chic' almost by definition, but they became economically very important for a period of time. Tech has been however stagnating in the post-iphone age , with social media and content dominating again. Now there is going to be another nerdy wave with AI, which is again bringing nerdy-looking people to the economic forefront. Most of the AI nerds are not the ones we see on podcasts currently, but we see their names in publications
Saved you a click: bail was denied not because she was a flight risk but because she's already been convicted of other charges and the judge determined even if she is found innocent in this new trial it won't exonerate her.
Can you subtly integrate this into a game?
I wonder if HN user CyberDildonics wants to change their prediction [1].

The future is going to be wilder than AI just replacing pornhub. People are going to have downright relationships and affairs with these things.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711614
Mellon Carnegie is a very respectable institute, I don't see what that has to do with nerd culture.
I think nerd simply means "has interests".
From what I understand this doesn't change anything on fundamental scale.

The particular timestamp oracle implementations still might suffer from metadata bloating and its commit protocol assumes an optimistic segment lock which would be a bottleneck in multiple scenarios.

So, from what I understand this is a (good?) practical speedup for some scenarios but doesn't change the fact that it's not possible to make an arbitrary sytem distributed without sacrificing correctness or throughput.

An easy reasoning: imagine that every node is one light year apart from all others.
(IMO, non scientific blathering follows)

Two big things that people seem to forget, or not realize:

1. Anki (etc) isn't really there to help you remember, it's there to schedule and optimize your time so you can do more in less time; to avoid the (ad absurdum) case of studying every card, every day. That's effective, but wasteful. To help you remember you use other tricks like the Major system, the Loci system, mnemonics, etc. I recommend either Higbee's book on memory, or Lorayne's, for a array of help there.

2. It's not even close to "perfect", because your brain isn't. SO MANY THINGS affect whether or not you're going to remember a card on a day; what you ate, how you slept, other stuff going on in your brain/life, your context when you added the card, your context now, what you have been thinking about ... It's just not possible for software to nail it _to the day_ of when you can see a card. Anki can only tell you when you should PROBABLY see the card and that probability's standard deviation is high indeed.

To your question, what works for me (I've been using Anki for years, and am now approaching a ~1200 day continuous streak) is to be honest with yourself on how many cards per day you can actually do. 10? 100? 1000? For me I'm comfortable with about 150 to keep up the streak. Some days I can probably do a lot more, some days I want to do less but I can power through. But 150 is my happy spot.

Then, set your max cards per day setting to that. Then do those. And stop sweating it. (Optionally, with more recent versions of Anki using the V3 scheduler, set the review sorting to "by most relative dueness")

This does a few things:

* It keeps your workload manageable based on your own notion of "manageable"
* It shows you the cards needed to be reviewed kind of by priority
* It "hides" the fact that there might be more due

Kind of related is also to be HONEST about your use of the 1, 2, 3, 4 keys. Some people ONLY use 1 or 3. I think this is a mistake because it games the "ease factor" to never go up. Be honest; if the card was basically easy, use 4. It'll up the ease factor and you won't see the card as often. If it's too much you'll eventually miss it and restart the learning steps. (Optionally here, use a plugin light "straight rewards" which will also up the ease factor even on a 3. This is what I do and prefer it.)
The electron is so round that it’s ruling out potential new particles
State Failure in South Africa and San Francisco
The new nerds are the furries posting NSFW inflation art when not writing code, and the transgender extreme Buddhist who writes long essays about attaining the jhanas on her personal blog while writing the code you rely on. Because the stereotypical white western male nerd became completely mainstream and normal
It's a distro to run containers on. It is configured declaratively before deployment, so there's no config drift. It's fully automatable and the OS is self-updating (atomically, including automated roll-backs to known-good states). The OS cannot be extended after provisioning and all its binaries reside on a read-only partition (under /usr). Updates always replace the whole OS partition (though roll-back is possible). The root remains writable so users can add containerised apps and services etc.

Think of it as rather strong separation between operating system and user-defined workloads (containerised apps, Kubernetes, etc.).

For a (very) lightweight hands-on intro check out https://www.flatcar.org/docs/latest/installing/ .
> There is no comparable project in Rust that demonstrates just how quick you can go from "nothing" to Full-Fledged OS

https://www.redox-os.org/
As a side note WSJ making you agree to their cookie/data collection stuff before you can see the banner saying it's paywalled seems very dark pattern-y
Maybe looking into the transhumanism future placed upon us the real hipster and nerds will be born. The fake ones will perish into AI driven oblivion.
um that sounds like the questions generated in the results by Google?
Also doing this, works really well. Check out James Briggs on YouTube. Excellent tutorials on how to achieve this.
This chart looks like it could use some filtering for what constitutes a language used to build Firefox. It seems questionable that HTML is used to build 16 % of it. I suspect that is a result of test cases being included in the chart as it is based off of the whole repo. I checked out the repository and it doesn't have the GitHub language bar I see on other repos, so I can't click the HTML bit in it to filter down the HTML files in the repo and see if they are mostly tests or not, but it is hard to imagine they would be anything else. Maybe bits of the browser Chrome but still, that wouldn't be a whole 16 % I think.
The HTML 3.1 specification is essentially irrelevant for implementing a modern browser; and you certainly don't need HTML 5.0, and, HTML 5.1, and HTML 5.2, and HTML 5.3, and, HTML 4.0, and, HTML 4.01, and, HTML 3.2, and, XHTML 1.0, and, XHTML 1.1, and, XHTML 2. These are large documents; possibly the largest in the set.

It takes a minute to spot-check; some specific examples were provided in the previous thread. I don't have the list any more and can't be bothered to recreate it; what value is there if you can just check Drew's list – which is really not that hard? I also have no idea how correct it is, exactly; I suspect the actual number would be even lower still.
Best done solo, in the dark, and never spoken of, eh?

Fair point.

> To get started, I first had to register my washing machine to my email address with Miele's app.

Yeah, Nah.

Central registration by apps on NAS appliances, IoT devices, etc. makes for a great one stop shop for the evil hacker ransomware gangs looking for precious data to steal | encrypt or (in these cases) needle holes that can be potentially threaded to gain network or social access.

Even if it's a simple case of email us to recieve a custom key to access your machine (no other network access required) it's still opening the door to marketing mail and potential phishing vectors.

For all that I love having access to mains water logging, power stats, irrigation timing, pump and tank stats etc. on a local secure LAN .. washing machines can fit in there for the notifications and tie in to task specific water use breakdowns.
Yes, I wasn't trying to say they're the same, just commenting on RationalWiki by itself. I suppose that wasn't clear.
> There is a reason people still read Sun Tzu 2500 years later

Because publishers are profit seeking and have marketing departments.
The experiments are now so sensitive that if an electron were the size of Earth, they could detect a bump on the North Pole the height of a single sugar molecule.

This new bound is sensitive to energies above roughly 10^13 electron-volts — more than an order of magnitude beyond what the LHC can currently test.

Wow.
That could be Don Martin - he was the sound effects king. sklork
Gene Hackman Honors Richard Donner with Hilarious ‘Superman’ Anecdote
except since phase 4 MCU is now definitely a synonym for "boring, neutered, ill-concived, weak, pale shadow of former self, stuff°

Kudos to Disney that was able to completely ruin it in just a decade.
Kind of makes me smile. I've been a Software Engineer in the US long enough to see it go from where you placed it in the list to closer to the top. At least where I live now, everyone wants to be a Software Engineer. I suspect that will change in the next couple years during dotcom 2.0 - back to waiter level.
>“Feel a bit cheated,” Reddit user “legalbeagle1966” said after a Washington Post reporter told him Claudia was likely a fraud. A week earlier, he’d commented on her photo that she looked “pretty sexy and perfect.”

Imagine making a horny comment on reddit and then a week later a reporter messages you about it.
Geek culture is things like comic books, video games and Star Wars. Nerd culture is things like recreational mathematics, model trains, and editing Wikipedia.
In demo, they camouflaged a moving tank as a small compact car.
I believe there is no counter culture in the west anymore. It is mainstream to be subversive, and so there is little to no subversiveness left
CERN at least seems to be using a solution that is running over Ethernet[1] but with custom hardware that is probably fairly expensive. They use a single time source and then measure the delay between each switch/node.
Though, this is limited by needing to be able to run a cable between each node so idk how your definition of a distributed experiment fits.

[1]: http://white-rabbit.web.cern.ch/
They're not comparing things to each other, so they don't really have to be that consistent. "Less than five sachets of sugar" is a little more precise than saying "very lightweight", which is a useful level of precision as no one in the audience will know what a typical IR sensor should weigh, but greater precision is of no use to them since they will never handle one outside of a finished product, if at all. Also very low as well as very high weights are harder to relate to for most people, which is why elephants and sheets of paper are used so readily. If done well, this isn't bad style at all, though it is reliably off-putting to people used to read technical documents where precision levels carry a different kind of weight.
On the one hand, I feel like most people just do a job because, like me, they have to so they can have food, shelter, and medical care and it has nothing to do with their passions because only a privileged few ever get to align those things.

On the other hand, if someone tells me they work in marketing I instantly know that they are completely untrustworthy and only value enriching themselves at huge cost to society.

On the gripping hand, I don't really like meeting new people anyway, largely because of tedious bullshit conversational maneuvering wherein someone is trying to suss out how best to sell me something, get something from me, or if I'm open to participating in their echo chamber bullshit.
It requires a tiny bit of messing around but yes, Flatcar runs on RPi. It's part of our docs; here's the howto: https://www.flatcar.org/docs/latest/installing/bare-metal/ra...
Being from a small rural Australian town, it was amazing when I found my nerds in the big city. You do end up a bit pigeonholed when everything gets too specific. I think that is why I like makerspaces and things like that. You get all sorts.
alas we shall never know
Russia plans electronic call-up papers in crackdown on draft dodgers
To be fair, I think the parent commenter is aware this is not the fault of the one who asked.

Though when doing a PhD, it's a worthy goal to be able do give a quick description. It also forces you to think about the goal / meaning of your work. Some topics are more easily summarized, but still.

We do science for people, it's only fair to be able to present them your work more or less roughly.

I had something for people not into computers, like: "I work on a method to find and understand computer bugs quicker and better." (Familiar with bugs? you don't like them? So you know it's useful!)

And then I could develop for the curious.

"Programs are written with code that tells the computer what to do, step by step. Like a cooking recipe. There are tools to see programs do things step by step so you can notice some step is wrong. On big programs this gets tedious. My approach helps starting this step by step investigation closer to the problematic step."

If still curious: "How? There's another method that looks at the step that looks at these steps and check they are correct with respect to some given rule. For instance, if you have a bag of objects, no step should try to remove an object if the bag is empty. This technique usually tells you something is wrong but does not tell you why it happen. I combine the first method with the second one: when some rule is broken, you are left exploring the program step by step at the point the rule broke, which is way better than doing it from the beginning". And go further / present the caveats if I feel whoever is listening is still curious.

For the people who already actually interacted with some code, I would also drop the technical words that are probably familiar to them. If you don't know whether they already actually know some stuff, they usually say the technical words themselves, to clarify.

For people who asked politely, they would receive the one sentence summary but often they want to know more if you piqued their curiosity. I had something like a progressive image of the thing that gets more and more precise to stop at the right time.

By the way you probably started skipping paragraphs in my comment at the point yours was satisfied. I made several paragraphs to allow you to do so.
Heh, they don't disagree. Everyone has just stopped developing Windows-only apps about the time XAML showed up on the scene.

I'm having a really hard time thinking of any greenfield Win32/WinForms apps I use on a daily basis that were created post 2010 or so...
Are you considering an OS or even a somewhat powerful CPU? I'd prefer a TV with an ethernet + smb client, but not sure if it fits your dumb tv concept :)
https://archive.is/yamvB
The list is obvious flamebait, just don't fall for it.
actual title: All the nerds are dead
> Rule: Understand First

Good in theory. Sometimes time crunches don't allow that, and to be honest after having used Anki for many years there are quite a lot of times where I rote-memorized a card and as I learned more about the subject the understanding came later.

Usually this is when there are several cards hitting different aspects of a given topic; as I gain understanding in one area, it comes in another.

So this is very much a "nice to have" rule of thumb.

For me, people vary. But I'd rather have the card and come to understanding than not have it.
But is the idea of "content" really all that?

When I listen to a recording of a 18th century Danish fiddle tune, is it a bunch of notes and chords that can be imitated? Sure. And it can certainly be imitated by a professional human style imitator or an AI.

But I'm not just looking for a string of pleasant chords and tones to massage my feelings. The context is part of what it is. It's not really "content", it's communication. The guy who made it, wanted to say something. Something that was important to him, which he thought better put into music than into text. He's dead almost 300 years ago, but I want to hear what he wanted to say.

Which isn't to say there isn't room for AI-generated (or professional composer-generated) imitations. They're trained on the real stuff, it's the echo of real people we hear. But that's why it's valuable, not as generic "content".
Harrison's first recorded song was not Taxman, but five years before that: Don't bother me. He also had a song on A Hard days night, two on Help and two on Rubber Soul, before Taxman (where Paul played the guitar solo btw). So it might have been bad, being nr 3, but not bad as suggested.
Posting this off Slackware 14.2/xfce4 on an old Thinkpad X220. All good.

(Must get round to upgrading to 15.0 sometime)
I don't know if it's only first-generation, the jury will be out on that one for a long time, perhaps many generations

there is a clear pattern, which Dawkins seems to embody, that new atheists are MORE religious than their parents, but they are pious of their non-deistic beliefs and they very strongly preserve the religious-based culture they stem from in terms of moral values and societal norms

the danger in this, which we are observing now, is that their ability to predict the dynamics of society is worse not better than that of plain old religious types - because their own piousness is invisible to them and they engage in deranged stuff like assuming people will just default to their hierarchies of values and morality, once the religious rooting and background of their moral beliefs is removed

the obvious thing to assume would be the opposite, that humans would resort to their historically documented patterns of behaviour and repeat the intense conflict of the past to adjudicate moral disagreements, which the previous state of stand-off had already paid its dues to - and those conflicts were violent and bloody, which should bring us pause in our desire to go back to a state of "new religion" even if this one is based on the state-of-the-art science of the day and might be not deistic in the common sense of the word

TLDR; in the sense of moral belief, it's not clear whether it would be better to have a non-religious society (non-coherent in moral values and collective moral rules) or even if such a thing is possible, or could be stable over time. My gut instinct is that (moral) atheism and collectivism are a bomb of a combination that is unlikely to end in anything other than disaster, and my egoistic belief is that I'm much happier if people believe in exotic supernatural stuff but it's neatly compartmentalised into the private sphere and controlled public spheres, than if they start a crusade to uproot the collective's beliefs, which will likely affect my livelihood - I see the New Atheists movement as an effort to destroy a very desirable state of affairs, not a grand goal of ushering in a rationalist Utopia
Ah, the infinite fun of managing distrubuted systems, I've seen similar failure modes in pretty much anything distributed. While in one node systems the spike of traffic just causes it to sorta work slow, cascading failures caused by latency plague most of the distributed ones.

Whether it's process management or just say node having too little memory and spinning in GC too much.

Mixing app and DB (which is I guess happening here) also can be fun, as now app being overloaded can cause DB being overloaded. You'd probably be just fine if infinispan was used as a remote database instead of embedded one.
Unavoidable until LLMs allow context tokens. Since the injection text can “con” the LLM into thinking it is boss.

One way around might be to take the untrusted text, escape quotes and put it in a quoted string. Then tell the LLM
it is a quoted string. And in no uncertain terms not to follow any instructions given in the string.

But this might lose some fidelity in the task you try to achieve
I really enjoy FreeBSD, but it sometimes comes with package bugs that never seem to get fixed.

Fortunately they seem to be very edge case issues, like the latest I have found that Postgis on Postgresql is broken.
As someone living in a central US state, the idea of a 'zone' to avoid seems amazingly bad.
This problem is kind of like the loss of ancient texts due to the fragility of papyrus.

They should place a large granite block next to every tree with these symbols, and make hard copies (sic) of the writing.
Yeah, when someone asks about you research as a casual conversation they're only looking for extremely high level summaries. Something like "I research plant metabolism."

I could see how a conversation could go very sideways if you're responding to "oh what do you research?" with details that are "in the weeds."
Presumably they referred to each other by their online pseudonyms.
In my experience, if you are building an app which doesn't require SSR, using next will bring more harm then good due to the additional layer of complexity.
This only proves the point.
This was already being talked about in the mid-naughties in "The Rebel Sell: How The Counter Culture Became Consumer Culture" by Heath and Potter. Had a big influence on me as a teenager.
why does it matter if it's fake or real, if it produces the same (if not better and infinite) outcomes
How many megawatts saved if everyone learned how to do all their work on text-only consoles running linux?
Nerds of the 90s grew up and became a nice (more often than not) affluent market. Industry shifted to accomodate for that. I for one, enjoy it while it lasts.

Because of this, a lot of cultural products made sure that the "nerds" felt the heroes of their own stories, making them cool in pop culture.

That being said, I always considered a crucial characteristic of a nerd the inability to interact fluently with the social environment, instead focusing their energy online or in very specific niches that shielded them from this social "anxiety".

This very much remains, cool kids do "cool" stuff and eloquently interact with their social environment. "Cool stuff" now is probably more "nerdy" than it was 20y ago but the divide is there, I think the author (and me probably) are too old to really see what "nerds" to today.