skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this problem recently since I moved to another country where I don’t know anyone except my girlfriend and her family, in post covid.

People are nice and always open to share and have a chat for free. After feeling alone for a bit I started overthinking on every little comment or phrase that I could have misunderstood that made me feel those people were not interested in a conversation with me. I was wrong, but that’s how our brain works when we’re alone (or with the same people) for too long. Getting out there and having many conversations as possible helps a lot.
This is a pretty sorry minimum standard to elect people by.
No, it's good times. Look at MSFT's stock price. Despite the lousy market, they're doing pretty well.

You can whine all you want about the user experience being terrible, but that literally doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is how profitable the company is, and the value it provides to shareholders. Nothing else is important.

If customers don't like being bombarded by ads in their OS, they're free to choose something else. Alternatives are available, but most users don't want to bother looking.
Several years back, I put Tomato firmware on an old WRT54G when all my old 802.11N devices were constantly crashing.

It was 100% worth the bandwidth downgrade. I practically never had to touch that router again.

I hope to never buy a router without DD-WRT (or equivalent free software) support again.
and the answer to question of life is 42.
>Like what does it want to be? Is it an OS or an advertisement platform. Right now it’s trying to be both and that sucks.

Microsoft wants Windows to be an ad platform and data sinkhole, it being an OS is mostly Win32 baggage that they've been repeatedly failing to kill off because users want an OS to run Win32 software and couldn't care less about being data sheep.
Even something as simple at 'eating pizza' is enough of a frame to be useful
I also strongly prefer 1:1 or small groups and I’m confused how one can be friends with a person they would struggle to converse with 1:1?
Sure, but I think there is a distinct difference between believing in an individual's right to choose and believing people must have kids to save society. The latter belief implies that making a certain choice is "wrong" and the other is "right". That doesn't necessarily mean all pronatalists are automatically pro-life, however.
512mb should be plenty for win2k, I'd think. My college had a laptop program with Compaq Armada E500s that had maybe 64mb of ram. It shipped with win98se, but ran fine on 2k and xp. (With XP or 98se, but not 2k, you could use the internal display and the vga port independently). That was a nice laptop, but still, if you had 8x the ram, your machine was probably nicer in most ways.

The key for 2k and XP is going to system performance settings and unchecking as many of the UI frivalries as you can stomach. Personally, I don't need window contents to move as I drag and resize windows... just the outline is fine, and it makes it more responsive, so it's better for me.
Heat pumps are a lot better than they used to be, and in mild climates they can attain insane effective efficiency ratings... several times more efficient than gas furnaces per unit of energy.

I do like cooking with a flame though, even though it's terrible for indoor air quality.
Build the crap out of wind and solar where it works and mix in other non carbon generation where you can; preferably distributed resources. Put up long distance DC lines to places that need extra, such as the north in winter. Install storage everywhere. Install smart controls everywhere. Make up for any emergency needs with natural gas plants that are kept operational for that purpose; we can afford a bit of carbon emissions if we eliminate the worst offenders, IMO. Reduce energy use via more efficient devices and laws around efficiency. Help with tax write offs for energy use for low income and tax heavy energy users to pay for it. Take over all utilities nationally and coordinate everything. Reduce shipping by onshoring manufacturing. Pass laws requiring allowing employees to be remote if they choose, for knowledge work. Spend a lot more on transportation infrastructure other than cars. Tax carbon at the source and let the costs trickle down into the worst offenders.

Nuclear is great tech, but isn’t financially viable today in most situations. I would love to see it in the mix above somehow if new designs were cheaper and safer. Also, energy can’t just increase forever. We have to force reductions in use where practical via the means above.
Unnecessary. Most people's hands will be able to type up the required shell one-liner to do this.
It's not a new phenomenon, it's been going on for generations. In my country, my generation moved more than the previous ones. Perhaps we've reached a tipping point but not anywhere near to the point that people will not move away from most of their meatspace acquaintances and friendships.
Well of course the largest fossil fuel exporter on the planet is not going to tolerate some local community instituting a ban on fossil fuel use, why should anyone be surprised?

The way things are shaping up, it's going to be the countries who have to import all their fossil fuels who will be the most interested in developing renewable energy as a replacement for fossil fuels.

It's not exactly rocket science, is it?
In this modern case though we have another rightward illiberal authoritarian lurch.

In modern times these seem to have high correspondences.
Perhaps not the industry pillar it used to be, but I don’t know if I would have pegged Sega as dead. Or, their intellectual properties are doing quite well with new games and movies. Previously niche series, such as Yakuza or Persona, have grown under their stewardship.
Germany is digging up coal and increasing coal power production short term. They have longer term plans to go green, but most of those are highly optimistic.
Why AI Needs a Mental Model of the Physical World
The way I see this, the real problem isn't millionaires being posh, but rather products and services not scaling proportionally to the carbon bill.

It's cheaper to be dirty yet we still take showers. Maybe it's time to clean the supply chains instead of blaming the consumers.
It’s completely asinine to make some observation of our material conditions and declare that we’re “hard wired” to act a certain way
>In your estimation, how much graphic violence should my operating system show me on a routine basis?

I think it's simple: the amount that maximizes the OS vendor's profits.

If you don't like this, you're free to choose a different OS vendor, or use a free OS, of which many variants exist.

Personally, I applaud Microsoft for doing their fiduciary duty and maximizing profits, even if that means pissing off their users who refuse to abandon the platform.
"at least eight pronunciations in North American English and nine in British English, and no discernible patterns exist for choosing among them."
The NSA quantum computers.
> Then you have stuff like BIP39 protecting people's money (cryptocurrency) that can be cracked for $350/hr on GPU rigs

This doesn't appear to be true (in the sense that yes it is feasible to crack 4-word BIP pass phrases, but all wallets that I'm aware of use at least 6 words, which is estimated to take 11 years for a hypothetical ASIC cracker)

https://coldbit.com/can-bip-39-passphrase-be-cracked/

Perhaps you are meaning this attack where someone was able to brute-force 4 words from a 12 words phrase. It matches your $350 cost, but of course is dramatically different to "cracking BIP39": https://medium.com/@johncantrell97/how-i-checked-over-1-tril...
Everything You Need to Know About the Gap After the List Marker
I've been daily driving Linux for maybe around 5 years, and I only ever need to be boot into Windows when I need to use an android custom ROM tool. This is generally a flurry of activity over a day or few, and then nothing for months.

I've just (re)obtained a desktop PC with a GPU, which I'm using as a Linux gaming prototype box with ubuntu 20.04 LTS running Steam, and I'm reliving some youth in playing through Deus Ex (properly, stealthily). Enjoying the fact that Linux is doing it pretty smoothly (with some initial setup headaches now overcome).
I entered „John Mayer“ and got three questions. That was a quick game night.
> Nuclear could be great, bit the spent fuel issue, NIMBY problems and insane costs will probably close the door on nuclear energy unfortunately.

1- Select a not-so-random place in middle of the desert with stable geological ground

2- Make a tunnel 600m underground.

3- Put the dumps here

4- Congratulations: your nuclear waste problem is not a problem anymore.

You solved it in the scientifically recommended way. And the same way than France, Sweden, Finland and China did it.
I don’t live in the US but I’ve also never heard of this or really come across it. Is it about going to someone’s home? Or meeting at a bar? I can’t quite visualise what you’re talking about.
The creator himself has spoken out against YouTube's incentives, he said that he likes to produce longer than is optimum and does not want his videos to be influenced by the algorithm. YT pushes towards 8-15 min as sweet spot, I subscribe to a few who used to do 20+ min vids, and now they do around 10 min. LTT and their shorts for one.
PGP recruitment drives
Oh, and I'd like to know how many 10 year old kids should be reading about them on a daily basis? I bet that really helps settle their minds when they go to school the next day!
> Aren't all distributed databases basically really clever wrappers around write-ahead log + really tight timestamp/clock syncing?

As far as I know, the second requirement is often solved differently. Google’s Spanner has tight clock synchronisation via GPS and/or atomic clocks, and will even report uncertainties. Knowing these uncertainties allows it to simply wait them out before committing, for example.

But in general, exact time keeping and clock syncing is often too hard and costly. Luckily, it’s often not required and one can do with logical clocks, such as version vectors or Lamport time stamps. These order events by causality (A before B, B before A, A and B happened concurrently), which eventually allows the WAL to be sorted deterministically.

Things like multi leader with async replication will inevitably run into conflicts though. These will need some sort of resolution (manually or automatically via CRDTs). There’s no way around it due to the builtin, inherent possibility of concurrent writes.

Note that concurrent in these scenarios has essentially nothing to do with time. It’s not about “happened at the same time”. It’s a question of “did A know about B?”. No? Then A can’t be causally dependent on B and they are concurrent events. Exactly like two “parallel” branches in git. They’ll need to be merged later on, and conflicts will need to be resolved.

Lastly, if we can deterministically order events, every node can reach the same conclusions. This is equivalent to consensus.

So my take would be: distributed databases are often about a log of (write) events, and some consensus mechanism to agree upon the exact order in that log. Logical clocks are a good solution for that, but physical clocks ca be made to work as well (Google Spanner).

This is all taken from the book “Designing Data Intensive Applications”, a great read!
10 LTSC is the best version of windows in history. Far better than XP or 7.
For deep level changes you're probably right, but showing ads in windows is probably a board level decision. At least Satya doesn't look like the CEO who would approve it with all his product focus, it must come from above.
https://archive.is/T5G66
Pet theory: Windows for consumers doesn't get dogfooded by internal employees, as they all use the Enterprise version. So they never get to see the full effect of what the Windows group is pushing out to their grandmas.
Those will automatically not be my friends. Anyone who cares about sports (especially televised) or celebrities can go sit somewhere else. Or religion. Helps immensely with filtering as it usually is one of the first things you find out.

Talking nerd stuff is nicer and as such I only have nerds as friends and I married one, but there is no shortage of them. So far I made friends at any age (I am in my 50s).
Great use of analog computer! Makes me think this Veritasium espisode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg
Yep! Most microcontrollers will sustain permanent damage if you short an output pin for any significant time. You could probably design a microcontroller that didn't do this, but it would require putting a big resistor in line with the pin (decreasing responsiveness and max power output) and/or adding a lot of circuitry and increased cost to defend against a risk that's not a big deal when the chip is being programmed by a competent embedded engineering team.
That UI is just.. perfect.
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Great news. Long needed simple fix for climate. The highest sector for GHG emissions in California for example, is transport.
Yeh I'm not sure how that fits in. I get they might be "elite" in terms of social status as another commenter says, but their movement isn't really about that at all to what I can see
Love this analysis.

I now live in a small village in rural New Mexico, and your 2nd paragraph precisely describes things here. We love our neighbors - not as people to bare our hearts to, but as people we can rely on (and they can rely on us). Yes, I do miss the sense of a deeper connection, especially since I've been fortunate to find a few (remote) friends in life where that happened from day one. But you know what, sometimes you just have to grow that over time.

Before this location, I lived on an amazing block in suburban Philadelphia, where the middle of the block had five families/households (us among them) who were similarly "utterly dependable". But over time, we became closer to some of them (amidst the christmas round-robin dinners and block parties and standing around outside while raking leaves), and so last summer we were invited to a the daughter's wedding, and next month one of them might join me on a 1600 bike ride from Santa Fe to Seattle.

I do like meeting people that I just immediately click with, but we should not discount the merits of long, long neighborly relationships that deepen and ripen over many years to become a different, but similarly valuable sort of friendship.
The advantage is not needing to hold 8 billion numbers of state. Instead you only need to keep track of a single number.
"Many long term Apple investors view things differently."

Apple long term investors are a string of short term investors.

Of course there are people with a long term view or institutional investors who buy and keep their stock for years.

But most investors, if Apple stock drops enough will sell, and new investors will buy at the new level.
Note that OpenSSL is not an OpenBSD project.

LibreSSL is.
Modern windows didn't have to cut down on lots of old features, but they did anyway to appeal to Mac crowd. They got rid of classic theme few versions back, cut down on lots of customizablity. There are lots of useful and convenient features which could have all co-existed, but no, they have be trying to become Mac both in UI and a closed eco system where they can do whatever they want to their users leaving them as little choice as possible.
I have a close relative who works for the beast, and he claims that everyone there "eats the dogfood".

Knowing what I know of him, I believe it and he certainly lives the company life. He even used to have (and claimed to like) a Windows phone. ;)
Will UT Austin and Texas A&M survive beyond this week?
thinking about this further, it seems difficult for CNNs to overcome the unified modeling benefits afforded by transformers.

what do you think?
I think performance will keep scaling, the main problem is cost. If you want to feed longer strings of tokens in, the price is going to keep going up.
Counter-anecdote - I was searching for an error message verbatim recently (can't remember if I used quotation marks or not). Google literally had zero results, but the first DDG result was the exact one I needed.

Given how fresh the DDG result was (< 48 hours, from memory), I did wonder if Google was slower in updating their index.
I'm intrigued by this, I feel like I know a lot of people but I don't think I know anybody with anything like this. Closest is maybe a weekly book club but that's different.

What kind of location -- is this a bar or a park or a brunch spot or something like bowling? How big is the group usually, like 6 or 20? Is it weekend afternoon or weekday evening? And how does it get started, does it just start organically or is it a group decision among a bunch of existing friends?

I think I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it because if I go with friends for food it's always somewhere new, if it's an activity it's always different, and the idea of the exact same time and location every week seems like it would get dull quick. Maybe that's because I'm accustomed to the fact that in big cities the whole point is novelty, always something new to explore. The idea of a fixed time and a fixed location doesn't seem as compatible with that.

Where did you find it successful pre-SF? Was it a mid-sized city thing, or a more country thing, or a college thing? I'm just so curious to know more.
It depends on which crooks one is talking about, the crooks in government seem to enjoy all kinds of advantages that come from encrypted devices, as wet know, even setting up honey pots.
I'm using the Windows version and still try to figure out the options. Will update if I'll find something.
Quite different, as the PC was not designed to be a long-lasting platform (or even made by anybody else than IBM).

It absolutely did not have the hindsight from pre-existing platforms that the platform spec effort in RISC-V has.
Africa continues to produce plenty of people. While the article seems to dismiss racism out of hand, it is the only intellectually consistent explanation for these “pronatalist” beliefs. Likewise, there are millions of people in Southeast Asia who would love to live and work in Japan. Japan’s shrinking population could be reversed almost instantly if it changed its immigration policies.
I hate to say it, but the tech industry is the roadblock.

Most of what happens is far off, remote, unobservable, unlearnable. People cannot understand what is happening on the things they deal with the most. Everything is black box apps powered by vast cloud data centers. Humanity has zero chance to find their footing in this world, to comprehend what goes on about them.

Tech is to blame, tech is the problem, and there are so many simple basic remedies tech could be trying to deliver, to make General Systems Research to make computers general again, to make what happens in the computer knowable again. New frameworks, new systems, not no-code for developers, but no-code for users, to watch & adjust data percolating through systems.

We are no where, we've gone further into the dark, we've made it worse, and we, we techies, are to blame for letting corporations misuse our sharp keen selves for these shitty disprogressive ends.
As someone who had few male friends as a kid I’ve put a priority on them as an adult.

The key is to “water” it like a plant. If you don’t reach out for too long it becomes weird.

A blessing I’ve had is a regular Tuesday night happy hour, I’ve been seeing the same guys for beers on Tuesday for over 13 years now. We’re all best friends. I also have a few other buddies to grab beers with and a few friends who live far away, but I make sure I message them regularly.

Without these friends my life would be much emptier. As guys we think we don’t need friends, but it’s a huge factor to happiness.
why people don't compress plain text:

2.5G filtered_08cdfa755e6d4d89b673d5bd1acee5f6.sampled.jsonl
834M filtered_08cdfa755e6d4d89b673d5bd1acee5f6.sampled.jsonl.lz4
Probably an AMD LANCE (AMD7990) or possibly the Intel 82596. I remember the latter as being a bit buggy.
Even if it stops being updated? The internet is replete with old sites that are still up but have long stopped getting updates. What made this unique is that it was continuously updated for over 20 years. If the price of continuing that is AI generated content, at least as a placeholder until which time the site owner can handcraft the episode summaries, isn't that a price worth paying?
Hawkins' and Dawkins' "A Thousand Brains" explains why this is so very well. For this reason, we'd almost expect that Boston Dynamics' dancing and door opening robots would make a better starting point for AI
I imagine that a proper range hood makes more of a difference than the stove technology the second you start pan frying anything.
From "Why most of us won't be inventing little languages", 2004 [0]

"It's quite possible that languages like Lisp failed to become popular (beyond a small community) partially because they encourage programmers to write domain-specific languages. This has a tendency to fragment the community into groups that have trouble communicating (a "tower of babel" effect)."

[0] http://slesinsky.org/brian/code/little_languages.html
I live in Berkeley, it’s a nice place, great food, a lot of people who care about their neighborhoods.

But I hate that the elected officials here feel the need to get involved in issues beyond their scope.

Last week I was emailed by the city schools that they want to take the lead on… slavery reparations. What? Leave aside if reparations is right or not right, why the heck does the schoolboard think solving this problem is part of their job? It’s like deciding the school district will do ABI. It looks like resume building to me.
Exactly. I bucket Titan Invictus together with my very great friends in Rome named Sillius Soddus and Biggus Dickus.

They happen to be respectable and fierce ladies actually. I also know a boy named Sue. Great guy, lots of character. Some minor issues with the parental unit.
This idea is actually not as crazy as it sounds at first. I haven't seen this approach to alignment discussed before. Human civilization is without a doubt the most interesting thing in a radius of several light years around Earth.
Relevant NJB video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
I've moved 4 times in my adult life. The two biggest issues I've had with making friends is the lack of a gathering place for like minded people, and being accepted by existing cliques.

If you don't drink, go to church, or have kids, it is damned hard to find a place to hang out and meet other 30-40 year olds.
Yes, I agree with you it is improbable for an AI that is focused on comprehending the universe to destroy humanity because humans are a fascinating and integral aspect of the universe
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I think it's at least as much to do with expectations.

The small village in rural NM where I live generally has larger properties than you're describing, and people are really not "on top" of each other to any real extent. But for reasons that are hard to pin down, there's an expectation here that people will be neighborly - it's an expectation that is frequently broken, but persists anyway. We have community breakfasts, village cleanups, dinner gatherings, communal dog-walking schedules, book clubs and more.

By contrast, just 15 miles away in a geographically similar place, someone I know remarks with amazement at any description of life in our village. They say "just about everyone who lives here came here to be private. Nobody wants anything to do with anyone else".

So I think that some of what you're describing can be the result of a semi-self-sustaining culture of a place (a place as small as a block, sometimes). Although I'm a big believer in designing urban (and really, any residential) areas for better neighborhoods, I think that part of the equation is really independent of the physical nature of the place.