skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Given that Singapore ranks very low on human rights and press freedom"

And yet Singapore is in the top 5 nations for highest GDP per capita (nominal). They also have one of the lowest rates of drug addiction. Surely they are doing something right. Which one would most people rather have - a prosperous life, or freedom to smoke weed? I choose the former.

> "anyone with a moderate amount of drugs"

But why do they have drugs to begin with? Nobody forced them to smoke weed. How does society benefit from the legalization of recreational drugs, which have negative effects on health? I highly recommend reading the history of Singapore's drug addiction crisis.

> "As another poster pointed out, it’s extremely suspicious that the penalized under drug policies seems to have a racial used tinge to it."

A cause for concern indeed. This should be investigated.

> "Did America’s strict drug laws create a better society than countries that tried more empathetic approaches with legalization and trying to help drug addicts get back on their feet?"

Unlike Singapore, America has for-profit prisons, so it's unlikely helping addicts get back on their feet is even a priority for this nation to begin with.
I disagree but probably the level of "learn the terminal" is the source of disagreement. Coming from nothing, cd and ls do actually take a second to wrap your head around. I don't think a designer/developer necessarily needs to be able to pipe commands to each other but running yarn and hitting ^C is something every web dev should be able to do, even if it isn't second nature.

It's second nature for us but I've been at it since the DOS days,
Currently working on a zero-knowledge proof system: https://www.risczero.com/
I'm not a Christian anymore, so I might be misrepresenting the religion here, but I think they would say that you only go to hell if you don't repent your sins. And the whole Hell/Satan thing was never a major part of my own Christian upbringing from what I recall, that's a much bigger thing in medieval religion.

As for having a bad effect on mental health, well, the inquisitions and holy wars were pretty mad in retrospect.

Nobody is claiming that climate change is significantly impacting mental health, at least not yet. Even Haidt's data shows an increase over a very small baseline, whether that's significant or not boils down to whether you're talking in relative or absolute terms. But you seem to be talking from the perspective of a mentally healthy person. Obviously, a mentally healthy person doesn't get so upset about climate change they kill themselves, but we risk being circular. A small number of highly susceptible people will fall prey to the narrative of un-cleansable guilt and un-solvable doom, and lose their stability. It's already appearing in news and anecdotal reports.

>> there's little genuine analysis done as to whether the changes really are of any net benefit.

No, of course not. Anyone who tries to do such analysis rigorously has to dive into the data, and if you do that you immediately becomes a skeptic of both claimed solutions and claimed problems, so your views are now unspeakable in polite society. Given that it's inevitable that you're only going to "see" people who aren't doing genuine analysis as a result.

>> It may give some artificial boost in sense of self-worth and short term improvement in mental health but is at best a distraction from what's really needed

Which is what, exactly? Notice how you spend time attacking those who refuse to do what's "really needed" without spelling out what that is, thus engaging in the token gesture of cheap online activism. If you're about to give some absurd policy that boils down to most of the population dying off or living in absolute poverty, and which could only be implemented by a dystopian global dictatorship, then great, you're just proving why most people prefer to engage in what you call token gestures.
Not sure why this isn't top post. Also not sure why the author of the post wasn't clear in a lot of these trade offs.

It is either the author is missing the point, or am I missing something?
The elephant in the room is the concept of the State. Bad corporations flurish in the shadow of bad government.

Governments are supposed to safeguard the interests of the many. Over decades they used collective resources to advance the research that made IT/AI possible. They granted corporates (private interests) the license to operate, a financial system to oil them, a security system to protect them.

If current IT has the shape it does (oligopolistic, unaccountable, abusive, potentially a runaway disaster) it is entirely due to complicit, captured governments and malfunctioning political systems.
Saving a few ms during decompression actually matters when the game streams data from the disk in real time. People also hate loading screens and objects popping-in because the streaming pipeline is slow.
So why haven’t such an open source application materialized after all these years?
Nope. Alacrity is probably the terminal emulator that revealed this, but terminal emulation itself is sometimes there bottleneck and GPU acceleration is required to get around the problem.
So how did Singapore go from a staggering rate of opium addiction to one of the lowest in the world? Would they have gotten here with laws lenient on substance abuse? I'm curious about the evidence you speak of.
ChatGPT ruins everything.
There is no structure, OO was an after thought, meta-programming an after thought., unit testing, testing utilities and frameworks an afterthought, their best Web-framework Laravel is a clone of Rails, No original good ideas in the PHP Community and thats the problem. The reason is PHP is a poor clone of Perl.
Just keep in mind that vim is capable enough to execute other binaries, even start a shell as a subprocess.
Apollo cost a nontrivial fraction of GDP. It was risky indeed, but we shouldn’t forget that the project had spectacular resources available, far more than SLS.

IIRC Apollo cost around a quarter trillion dollars in today’s money.
I guess you’re referring to Universal Flash Storage rather than Unix File System? (:
Browsing the links in the wikipedia article about the accident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Bridge_disaster

it’s apparent the commission report didn’t stop people dying in similar rail bridge collapses.

The designer, Robert Stephenson, and bridge inspector, Major-General Paisley, were not found liable at the inquest. It seems this may have been partly due to expert testimony in an early case of “alternative facts”. Stephenson himself was apparently ready to admit liability, but was “persuaded” to claim a derailment was the cause. [1]

Similar bridge collapses occurred in the late 19th century. Only after the 1891 Norwood Junction accident was inspection of all bridges mandated. [2]

Some cast iron deployed in bridges built in that period is still in place. Weak bridges have weight restrictions where needed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephenson#cite_note-14...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwood_Junction_rail_accident
The difference between “Sorry” and “Thank You”
Just hire hundreds of people to manually check the uploads. Easy. Sometimes, some things cannot be automated.
‘Data’ is the Latin plural, so the traditional prescriptivist advice to say ‘the data are’ is based on the assumption that the word is grammatically plural, not any argument about semantics. There are actually lots of grammatically plural nouns that are used to refer to things that can’t be split into discrete chunks. For example, while ‘the news’ in English has been reanalyzed as singular, it remains ‘las noticias’ in Spanish - without any implication that a specific number of discrete news items are being referred to.
The more sensitive "proper" teas are well into the danger zones e.g. gyokuros tend to be brewed between 50C and 60C, and with brewing times under 3mn.

Never really heard of hard thermal limits for herbals though, in my experience they're more resilient and less caring, and you can long-boil most of them like you'd do a middling black tea.
Do you recognize at least how circular this argument is? "Technical necessity for certain purposes", purposes like offering a service, which is the reason the business is necessary for the people who use it?
And yet, politicians and the SEC, central banks, or even G7, keep talking almost every week about how it needs to be regulated…

Isn’t it weird that there’s so much noise around an industry with so few real users then?
It's pretty much the same. Tenured faculty have a set of prescribed duties, particularly teaching loads. If they have a lot of grants or other duties that they perform, the teaching burden can be lightened, but they can't just decide to not do anything.

When I was in grad school there were professors who were much less active after getting tenure and a full professorship, but this was a fairly competitive school and they worked themselves to the bone to get tenure at a good school. They were obviously burnt out, most left. A few stick around and mostly just perform their teaching duties and some administrative/service work.

The top researchers were often not the best teachers, some of the better teachers had let their foot off the gas on the research side (the university wants them to do research because of how the grant structure works).
It's very simple, you don't need any special magic to run a command.

gci -filter "*.mp4" | foreach { ffmpeg -i $_ -vcodec libx265 -crf 26 -tune animation ($_ -replace '.mp4','.mkv') }

Files with spaces just work.
> Then, where do they get money from and food, will that be provided for fee by AGIs?

Works for me.

> Who will own the AGI systems ?

Communities, ideally:

> How will they ensure they’re in alignment with the children’s goals ?

Community ownership tends to produce the best alignments with the goals of said community - including the children thereof.
> The above statement is ment to start a flamewar. Please do so, see the contact page to contact me.

You gotta love nerds being tongue in cheek!
In my country (Poland) gas stations get more income from selling other things, mainly alcohol, because unlike other vendors they can stay open overnight. Margins on gasoline are extremely thin already. It makes sense for them to stay open regardless of the demand for actual gasoline.
Will these people ever stop?
> I think what this shows is there should be smart delivery of assets. Before installing perhaps you should be able to choose your graphical fidelity and only download assets related to that fidelity level and below.

War Thunder does this - in the game launcher you can choose whether you want the highest resolution textures and most detailed models or not. You can even get a minimal client without vehicle interiors as well (only 3rd person camera available).

It makes a lot of sense to me, to the point where it's surprising that all games aren't embracing this approach. I mean, I don't have a lot of storage, nor good hardware - why should I be forced to download high detail assets that I'll never even see because instead all of the models will be at lower LODs and all the textures will be of a lower resolution.

It feels like the game engine developers don't really care about bundling assets by fidelity and each game acts like it just owns your entire disk.

That's precisely why I don't really play AAA titles anymore and mostly go for pixel graphics and indie titles. There are actually surprisingly few well optimized games out there.
Exactly this. It's the perfect approach for teaching people the basics of how to use my JS library - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/learn/first-lesson/
You know, I feel you.

The reality of modern business and purpose is morphing into a caricature of itself.
This comes up fairly often but who would support a chief software engineer signing a document that says "I the Chief SE verify this will meet the stated requirements will not fail collapse, cause bankruptcy, will scale will meet needs of .. else I go to jail and you can sue to recover all salaries paid for everyone involved"

it would certainly chnage the nature of software developement

Not sure it's a win. But it is interesting

Edit: I think it is as simple (?) as a law saying software warranties are unenforceable ?
Hitman 2 had 6-8? locations. They could have pretty easily packed the assets into a hundred files based on use and made each level install a different subset.
Lanier is an effective wordsmith and I applaud the point he's making. Many of the same (good) arguments from his books like "Who owns the future" and "You are not a gadget". But alas I feel he is pissing into the wind.

The reasoning engine that emerged with the latest rounds of GPT is a pre-fire, post-fire phase-change. The impact of the ability to coerce automated reasoning via natural language (even if it's flawed etc) from a digital runtime is.. difficult to overstate. His appeal for a just and equitable distribution of value honouring "data dignity" is noble. But the world in which that could happen doesn't exist.

Instead there is an insane, frenzied, wild-eyed land-grab going on because it's painfully apparent that raging rivers of money and control are going to accrue to the masters of the new frontier (precisely because it will be possible to own and implement an acute version of precisely the problems Lanier tries to address in his equitable digital economics treatises).

Our capitalist economic systems are not able to "think of the people". Every dev + mba with any inkling at all is racing to get in on the "opportunity".

Governments will react a decade or more too late.

This train has already left the station and a great many people are going to be left stranded.

Lanier is right to (continue to) ring this bell. Too bad he's more Stallman than Jobs, because this cause desperately needs backable champion.
And those are not surprisingly some of the most vicious and fought over parts of law, which are only tenable at all because of hundreds of years of case law which refine them. Most of the time lawmakers do try to be precise about what they mean which is why law is so voluminous and why you so often need lawyers to help understand it.

Good law is precise. Bad law isn't, regardless of how convenient it may be for the lawmakers to be vague. The existence of bad law doesn't justify the further propagation of it.
Similar to English and other less-than-perfect phonetic languages? Or worse?
Musk and hype, sure to get clicks. Increased 10 fold for impressive explosions. And it was an impressive explosion.

I just wonder how the public perception, explicitly including on HN, would have been if SLS had blown up. I remember some people calling them out for delaying the initial launch.
Is it only $30?

I just looked and all of the "ending soon" auctions have prices of $150 and up. With several of them at $4,000 and more. I know nothing about Fragment but I can only assume there's some kind of money laundering or other illegal activity involved to justify those prices.
Actually I don't think most programmers are capable of designing something like spacex.com

- every image on the site fits the minimalist theme (and there are hundreds). The photos are always dark in the appropriate areas so the text is readable, and they're dynamically cropped/resized with good positioning for all breakpoints.

- the front page appears to be simple, but if you click through the site there are actually a ton of dynamic illustrations and charts like this: https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/

The key thing is that the aesthetic is executed consistently and with restraint. This video is a bit old now but it's as true now as it's ever been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

Minimalism is the most difficult aesthetic to pull off, because it's easy for the end result to look unfinished, cheap or lazy.

I think the problem is not that coders can't be designers, but that coders generally don't really care about design, and I say that as a coder. If you gave the spacex project to the average coder, you'll probably end up with something like sap.com or fortinet.com

Web design has converged a lot in the last 20 years because people don't want to learn a new UI for every website they visit. This makes good web design harder, because now if you want to create something memorable and distinctive, you'll need to do it in spite of the navigation and functional parts looking identical to every other site.
Back when I was a desktop Linux user, a very sizeable portion of the other people I knew that used it weren’t “software engineers”. They were ‘power users’. I don’t think that my experience was all that atypical.
Story of many GPT products that came out in the past 6 months.
EXtended Disquisitions on EXpress Datapaths
In a Philosophy 307 class, your "advanced AI beyond imagination...mimic all of the human activity..." description begs some questions about souls, or other "special sparks of magic" which somehow distinguish such AI's from real humans. And exactly how those souls or sparks or whatever might pass Carl Sagan's Invisible Dragon Test.

But in the real world - those same descriptive words are written by a Marketing Dept. The actual engineers, who developed and built the AI, on an all-too-finite budget, know otherwise. And know that the PHB's already have plans to cut the production cost - by collecting data on which parts of the already-limited "mimic all human activity" are ignored by the AI's actual customers, and quietly nerfing or removing those parts.
I would like to thank OP for creating this. I watched this yesterday and thought the visuals were fun, playful, and rare in this day and age. More than that, it felt like I was on the phone with an old friend revisiting old memories that we both shared. I love hearing people like this tell their story because their passion and enthusiasm is contagious. And, well, I didn't realize the effect this would have on me at the time, but your message has stayed with me, and helped me feel inspired enough to get some creative work done this afternoon. I just kept thinking about how ephemeral and fleeting everything is. And that I really needed to seize the day! Thank you OP. I hope you will share more of your stories with us again soon. Cheers.
Your experience is not my experience at all. Blizzard is the gold standard for me in starting games faster than any other launcher. In fact they are the only one I’ve seen that lets you play the game part way into the download. No other dev seems to have this technology.

I waited hours to play Witcher 3, Cuberpunk, Assassins Creed Odyssey. With WoW I was playing within minutes.
I hope we get an answer to this.

When I had to use it on my first visit to China, I couldn't possibly believe this is an app that people are actually using day to day. Slow, sluggish, graphical artifacts, NPEs.

Then I learned that the "Western" version is totally different, so I believe the real WeChat is a usable product and in par with whatsapp and telegram
1. Genseler cannot say whether ETH is a security or a commodity as such statements could have adverse conssequences for the Commission in currrent/future litigation, e.g., SEC v Ripple Labs.

2. Even if the SEC were to issue guidance that a certain type of crypto operation is exempt from regulation, instead of proceeding on a case-by-case basis, it lacks the resources to carry out the requisite enforcement against all the crypto operations that are not exempt. From what I have read and heard, the likely reason why Genseler will not go after Bitcoin is because he believes the SEC lacks the resources. BTC has too much of a foothold.

IMO, Genseler's SEC is taking on the amount of enforcement it believes it can successfully manage, maybe more. Time will tell. IMO, just because some crypto operations manage to evade SEC enforcement does not mean crypto is a legal grey area. It means the SEC has a limited enforcement budget and is pursuing actions that it believes have the best chances of success.

There is an extraordinary amount of fraud on the internet. One can argue that lack of enforcement against crypto operations is because "the law has not caught up", but perhaps the more likely explanation is that the authorities have not caught up.
> "because when someone stole it you were on a date with a colleague from work, and didn't want your husband to know"

I don't understand the logic here. Why not report it after the date? A rather strange number of coincidences... having a "prior arrest record in another drug use case" and not reporting his phone being stolen, only to be arrested for a drug event again.

Nevertheless, I would never cheat on my spouse, so I would not be in such a situation to begin with.

Regardless, it is possible that we are not really hearing his side of the story properly. He doesn't even have a lawyer, which is extremely concerning. Regardless of whether or not he is guilty, he deserves the best defense possible.
> Hitting a mountain is generally because the mountain wasn't on the chart being used

How could it not be in the chart though? Is the ocean not fully mapped?
...I wasn't quoting the law. It lists the specific purposes.

Being able to make more money through ad tracking to stay in business to keep the service running is not one of them.
> Market cap is by definition people using it.

You and I have very different dictionaries it seems

> They’ve exchanged their money for it.

A thousand people trading magical tokens they pretend cost trillions of dollars doesn't make it: a) worth trillions of dollars and b) any significant usage
It is, except for the fact that the future isn't guaranteed, so there could be unforeseen problems with scaling up, and that 50% improvement never gets delivered. As mentioned upthread though, CATL has expertise in that area, and "end of this year" is so a trackable claim, unlike the claims about gallium-based batteries.
I'd be happy to be corrected but I think you would generate P-values the same way you check the accuracy of all climate models, you use the model to make predictions about the past and compare them to measured values.

If model parameters are unknown, you should be doing a sensitivity analysis on these parameters anyway (you must have already estimated values for these to run your model in the first place).

Once you have a measure of the uncertainty of your model and sensitivity to unknown parameters, you can combine this with probabilities of different warming scenarios (maybe from IPCC data), and determine the likelihood of the circulation stopping given current emissions/warming trends.
> NODE"accountname password"::device:[directory.subdirectory]filename.type;ver

Interesting. When you think about it, that doesn't look all that different from:

scheme://user:password@host:port/directory/filename.type?key=value&key=value#fragment

which is arguably the most common kind of "file path" in use today.
I love Inigo's work! I've been learning about shaders, and being able to edit and reload his code on shadertoy has been really cool
Foundational Habits
The niche surely ain't that narrow, especially as Linux-based devices like Raspberry Pis and Steam Decks grow in popularity; being able to ready EXT-formatted SD cards and such seems like it'd be valuable even from Windows.
> Finally, I had some new mugs that were also causing problems...turns out the were only fired once?

The mugs were causing problems because they were only fired once? There is supertasting, and then there's this. I am glad I don't have these problems.
This looks amazing thank you for the recommendation!
Crypto mining is self adjusting, and Ethereum doesn't use mining anymore.