skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my mind, it's on those who say it's the best it can be to show that it indeed, cannot be better.

Indeed. The issue is that neither I nor most people are claiming it to be the best. I explicitly pointed this out in another comment.

> OTOH, if the only thing you say is that it worked for a long time, worked for you, and therefore you're not interested in doing anything for it to work better - that strikes me as simply elitist.

How is that elitist? If it works for me, why should I spend time making it better for? What do I gain from it?

And this comment doesn't even make sense. Mathematicians invent notations for their own convenience all the time. There's no committee that says "Yes, this is the official accepted notation." A mathematician uses whatever notation works for him, and if others find it useful, they adopt it.

> The other problem is that nobody who is not deeply involved with math cares enough to take a closer look. How many linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists invested their time into researching ways of making math notation better? I bet even fewer than the ones who tried researching programming. On the other hand, mathematicians are simply not equipped with knowledge and skills required to objectively assess the notation they use (neither are programmers, BTW.)

You're not wrong, but you're also not helping. This is basically saying "Look, someone should do this!" If you think it's worthwhile, go for it. The category of professionals you have mentioned (linguists, etc) - most of them do not see it to be worthwhile. Put yourself in their shoes. Are they really going to invest a lot of effort to unseat a notation that has evolved over so many centuries, and then fight a battle to convince people to use it? That may well be a career killer.

And where the two of us will have to disagree on: Any improvement, although may be great for newcomers and amateurs, will barely have any impact on the productivity of a professional mathematician. As people have repeatedly pointed out: Notation is amongst the least challenging part of math. Sure, it is a barrier to entry, but at best you're simply lowering the barrier to entry - it won't benefit people who are already good at mathematics. A better notation will not enable them to suddenly grasp concepts they couldn't. That's why mathematicians don't bother.

To be frank (and I say it in all seriousness), the English language has more problems than the mathematical one, and if we could fix those, it would have a much larger impact.
I guess the old Bell Labs or Xerox PARC are the examples that most people here might be familiar with. But just because it sometimes works well doesn't mean it always does, or even usually does. It's a risk; a lot of academic research doesn't produce anything very practical, and the same is probably true with corporate research, only in the corporate case there are a lot more people expecting a return on their investments.
You can get an idea of the challenge by searching Youtube for videos of "pilot transfer" -- keeping in mind that pilot boats are intended to be boarded from, and container ships intended to be boarded by pilots.

(But then again, Gotheborg is surely equipped to take on pilots to enter harbours, so it was probably more about not abandoning the otherwise perfectly good sailboat.)
Reminds me of the September problem in usenet.

My attempt at a solution is to keep it in request-access beta and do targeted advertising only at people who share interests with high-quality subset(s) of discussion on the site, so the new users usually see and can learn what high quality discussion looks like on the site even if all areas aren't mature.

As the site matures you can naturally let more people in until a quite open beta, then full release trying to never take on more than say 10% of the daily active users in any given section/hashtag-cloud per year.
There is no scheme that only gives good people access. We can and must hammer this home.

Yes. That's the simple message to keep pushing. Especially when some attack demonstrates that it's true.
> …the Xbox didn’t spend a year struggling to stay in stock.

The Xbox Series X was nearly impossible to get at retail for two years, and is still difficult to find unless you pay $100-200 more for a bundle.

It's not at all surprising to me that a console launch is going to do poorly if it can't be purchased without dealing with scalpers.
you can definitely value precision over accuracy - I see it all the time in my place of work

as an accountant, the timeliness of my work is scrutinized far more than the accuracy as I'm not often given enough time to do my work and if I took an extra day or two to get it right, I would be penalized whereas if I do it wrong but do it on time, no one would usually care or notice
Right, we're already there, and the tech is quickly improving. I'm not sure why GP thinks this will remain the most expensive process of game development.

Generating assets using AI will drastically cut costs and turnaround time. I'm eager to see these tools generate assets in real-time. Imagine being able to interact with an endless possibility of scenes. Games would ship with a generative model, and entire levels could be created on the fly, ensuring every play through is as different as the authors want it to be. Exciting stuff.
First, most people are not aware of greek/latin or any roots of words we use.

Second, language is fluid... if you think it shouldn't then good luck policing that.

Third, I feel your pain. I groan everytime I hear "which begs the question".
The same is true for the US, as far as I know.
The moon has no atmosphere to spread the heat generated by the sunlight.

But if we take the earth's atmosphere with its already existing temperature because of sunlight and greenhouse effect and add additional heat sources it becomes warmer or what do you think happens with the additional energy put into the atmosphere?
Most links on HN don't interest me, and they don't bother me either, but the shilling for Bluesky has been quite apparent lately. If anything, their presence is more indicative of a hivemind than my eagerness for them to go away.

Your proposal that I must want every link on HN to be something I am interested in is obviously a bad faith argument. Later.
NiMH was far superior to lead acid, superior to nicad, and much cheaper than lithium ion.

The biggest issue with NiMH was that it was heavily encumbered by patents owned by Ovonics / Cobasys, who were acquired by Texaco and then Chevron...who did everything they could to prohibit the battery tech from getting into electric vehicles, with (among other things) Texaco/Chevron having universal right to "veto" any proposed sale/use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_au...
Beyond just having more stuff inside, making something small and stylish costs more in time and money, so dev tools tend to be more functional as they aren’t a mass market product.
> Let’s try the opposite: “not left” is definitely something different from “right” - urrrgggh. “Do not go left” doesn’t mean to go right.

“maldekstra” doesn't actually mean “not right” — mal in Esperanto more precisely means “opposite.” Left is opposite of right, and so malmaldekstra (opposite of the opposite of right) is still right (dekstra).

“Not right” in Esperanto doesn't exactly mean left, either, just like in in English. That'd be ne + dekstra = nedesktra.
That is very cool! Without utterly derailing this thread I'd love one too, I've been on the waitlist for a little while too but no luck yet. Eager to reserve my handle and kick the tyres early on.

I will say to be on topic that I am enjoying Mastodon, but the network effect isn't there yet. It's a pretty small minority of users from my feed that have either switched or are dabbling in both, so tech stack aside, I feel if Bluesky gets momentum it has the best chance of being a drop-in replacement for Twitter in the near-to-medium term, given the relative simplicity (this isn't a knock against Mastodon, more an acknowledgement of simplicity's factor in mass appeal).
Interesting, I might give Crystal a try!
This is my “X can restrict who they deal with” (where X is school or church or business or group or whatever) “but the DMV and the police have to deal with everyone” rule.
Well-known, as in everyone has heard of it, but: it isn’t the fact so many assume. Cf, e.g., https://evonomics.com/the-only-woman-to-win-the-nobel-prize-...
How is that relevant to the discussion? Where does precision figure in your example?
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I myself am of two minds about it. On the one hand, I'm very appreciative of shows like Extraordinary Attorney Woo and the contemporary diagnostic criteria which does seem to assist many people who otherwise wouldn't get very far in this world. There is definitely some sort of disorder called "autism," and you know it when you see it.

On the other hand, Autism Spectrum Disorder basically doesn't exist, it was designed specifically to cover as many possible definitions of Autism such that nearly anyone, under the right circumstances, could be labeled as Autistic and be given expensive treatment, and I think there is something dangerous in people self-identifying with this label as it only feeds into the larger psychiatry-industrial complex. It's similar to depression--some people legit can't get out of bed in the morning, but the drugs we use to treat it are handed out like candy, are not approved to be used for the terms that they are, and don't even perform better than a placebo.

The problem isn't that some people are "neurodivergent" and others aren't, and neurodivergent people shouldn't be ashamed and should embrace their label. The problem is that everyone is neurodivergent--everyone is "perverse," as Freud famously elucidates in his theory--its just that those who are labeled as "other" under the system get exploited, and everyone else, for fear of the same fate, hide all their psychological proclivities from everyone except from their most intimate acquaintances. And there are some who are lucky enough to avoid both fates, but they are rare among the ruling class, and the commonality of ostensible abnormal psychology among the working class is considered a "problem" to be solved by endless mental health facilities, treatment programs, etc. meanwhile the real pains of being a working class American forces many into addiction, and what they are offered can do nothing much to alleviate the underlying problems which led them there (often times problems, as in the case of the opioid crisis, generated by the very corporate structure which also drives people to treatment for their addiction).

I learned about all what you discuss because I wanted to find a genealogy of "Autism" as a why of critiquing it as a medical category. But I don't know, as I said there is definitely some constellation of symptoms and ways of treating them that would fall under an Autism diagnoses, its just that how such a diagnoses came to exist was not through some pure empirical scientific process but a historical, social process that can't be disassociated from the other socio-economic realities.
> I think /highlights just shows the top upvoted, parent-level comment per thread. Do you observe that too?

No I don't observe that; it's manually compiled by the moderator whose username is dang. He figures it'll be useful for something someday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34668249

It sounds like https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments is more like what you had in mind. That one is listed on the list of lists which for some reason doesn't include the highlights list. https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

> It may be coincidence that PII just happens to be in there. Folks love a good yarn, and establishing context helps.

Sure, I think this was definitely true at least before 2018 when they stopped publishing it as periodical digests. After that, not so much.
> Legislature would have to stand up to a powerful environmentalist lobby that views humans as parasites

> even if California’s state government weren’t dominated by extremists

that's some intense wording there

> California’s grotesque failure to upgrade its water infrastructure for the 21st century

Sad to hear the CHSR-size fiascos keep piling up : (
Tldr: Article suggests mega projects to harness atmospheric rain.

They probably should have started a long time ago. But our appetite for mega projects are low. A 60' pipe going from Washington to Socal would solve a whole host of problems, like low food supply or overpopulation in the region.

Instead, California is more bent on liberal social programs that treat Companies or rich people like they're crooks.
I was in the same boat as op: Didn't want to care about sync at all and use it on all my devices. Didn't want to rely on a third party. Vaultwarden solved that for me.

Like all services I self-host for personal use, it's only accessible via VPN.
3, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11

It's just not something they're good at.
Is there a compelling reason to use this over iCloud Keychain?
> numerous open source audits have shown that KeePassXC is far and away more secure than KeePass.

Could you link some?

I mean, that sounds like a major claim, but it doesn't appear to be mentioned on either of their Wikipedia pages, in their FAQ's, nor on some of the top-results from Google.

For example, from [KeePassXC's "FAQ"](https://keepassxc.org/docs/ ):

> Why KeePassXC instead of KeePass?

> KeePass is a very proven and feature-rich password manager and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with it. However, it is written in C# and therefore requires Microsoft's .NET platform. On systems other than Windows, you can run KeePass using the Mono runtime libraries, but you won't get the native look and feel which you are used to.

> KeePassXC, on the other hand, is developed in C++ and runs natively on all platforms giving you the best-possible platform integration.

, where they don't appear to claim a security-advantage.

[This security-audit [PDF]](https://keepassxc.org/assets/pdf/KeePassXC-Review-V1-Molotni... ) claimed:

> It is interesting to notice, that the code of KeePassXC is organized in classes cleaner than the code of KeePass in C#. The classes are smaller, the functions are shorter. See e.g. the code to read a database. The reason for this might be
that KeePass grew organically into a more complex logical structure and maybe it could enjoy some refactorings. In any case, right now, it is easier to review KeePassXC code for security and to understand it than to do so for KeePass.

, which seemed like a point in KeePassXC's favor.
My mom hit me badly for not being able to write 2 properly. It has been 40 years and I have not yet forgotten.
I never said it will remain the most expensive part; that's what I hope more engineering effort will go into. The graphics capabilities we use today are already commonplace and well written about.

Fast content creation isn't, or the tools are sparse and locked behind small, costly proprietary silos.
Enpass is like Keepass but with a better UX. Which is exactly what I wanted, and it hasn’t let me down on iOS + Linux, synced via Dropbox.
Or gopass, if you need multiple stores/users

https://www.gopass.pw/
>This is quite literally the point at which things start to get scary, and the outcome is highly dependent on who controls the technology

If the premise were true then it would control itself, no? Owning it would be illegal as it would have rights established around that, no?
I see it completely differently. Up until Tesla made it possible, no one would ever even imagine buying a car based on functionality that would be added later. It was simply never done.

Tesla pioneered the model of a unified fleet software with constant updates and new features. And with that architecture they consistently deliver incremental value to every Tesla owner on a regular basis.

I’ve been an M3 owner since 2018 running software that had barebones visualization, basic lane keeping, TACC, and not even a dash cam or sentry mode, or the ability to automatically change lanes on the highway.

Today I drive FSD beta 11.3.6 on the same car which regularly brings me door to door, drives impeccably on and off the highway, handles lane changes, off-ramps, unprotected left turns, etc.

Truly hands off, unsupervised, self-driving is the target. Owners see Tesla’s relentless drive towards this goal, and FSD Beta gets better with each release.

Elon did think he would get there sooner. He did say at the 2019 Autonomy Day he thought it would be feature complete by 2020. But Tesla never promised it would be done then, and Elon even said his biggest criticism - and he said it’s a fair one - is he gets the time wrong. “Sometimes I’m not on time. But I get it done.”

Honestly it remains to be seen if they will pull it off. The level of improvement in the last year has me more optimistic than I have been previously. In the meantime a Tesla is still the best car and by far the best value on the market.

I appreciate the scale of the challenge; what Tesla is trying to do with FSD, and what it will mean for the world if they succeed. Turing awards and Nobel prizes alike.

I personally don’t begrudge that it’s taken longer than Elon hoped to achieve one of humanity’s most ambitious and meaningful technological breakthroughs. I love being part of the process and contributing to its success.

Frankly it’s the people who would never by a Tesla who complain about the timeline. The fact is that the vast majority of actual owners are extremely satisfied with their purchase. Consumer Reports surveys found Tesla was the #1 brand for customer satisfaction several years now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35846202

> Congress actually passed a law in 2017 ordering them to sell them over the counter.
> Controllers? There is a meme that Xbox controllers are designed for large, "American" hands. Regardless of the truth, memes and perceptions shape decisions.

A bit out of date, but this was the Penny Arcade about the original XBox controller:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/08/29/you-know-what-...
Another scenario is going to a doctors appointment and having to fill out forms with your info (name, address, preferences, medical history and etc)

with a system like this, you can tap into a sign in station and give them access.

Doctors can also send you any documents they generate and it gets stored in your POD.
My parents aren't Asian (I'm not even from the US), but, still, this resonates with me.

My conundrum is that I simply don't feel like I'd be able to cut off my parents, especially my mom. I simply can't imagine a world without her. I would feel lost without her. Even though she may have sexually abused me. Because in the end, who else do I have?
If this post resonates with you, there are two books I highly recommend, both by the renowned psychologist Alice Miller [1].

The first is For Your Own Good (1981), in which she describes the "poisonous pedagogy" of emotional and physical abuse passed down from generation to generation, and how we minimize and turn a blind eye to it because we want to follow the 4th commandment "Honor thy father and thy mother" (or in this case, a Confucian equivalent) -- at tremendous cost to ourselves, our own children, and society at large. It is one of the most eye-opening books I have ever read.

The second is her more recent The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting (2005), which is more therapeutic and focused on how people's physical pain and sickness can dissipate when they are able to finally stand up for themselves and their own emotional needs, rather than continue to pretend their abusive parents were actually good.

Alice Miller's first book, The Drama of the Gifted Child (1979) is her best-known, but in my opinion, the above two books show her understanding evolving to become even more sophisticated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Miller_(psychologist)
I do wish we were in the timeline where we got a super powered jsdoc, instead of TS.

Something like that would be my guess for what’s next, once this current trend has run its course.
I'd never heard of myMail. Turns out it's a mobile only MUA made by a Russian company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail.Ru) and they were seen collecting people's usernames and passwords and using those logins to read people's messages from their own servers almost a decade ago (https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/20u712/beware_myma...)
Biggest difference that I noticed is in Bkueaky you identity is not tied to the site you signed up at.

Mastodon has a huge flaw in that your identity is not stable. Like email your identity is tied to your provider, and if you change providers you have to change your identity, and all your contacts have to update their addresses boom so to speak.

In Bluesky your identity is stable, with some caveats. It's easy to "bring your own domain" without having to host your own service provider.
I've heard good things about Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty, which seems to be many people's top Western recommendation.

I've been meaning to read Elmore Leonard's western output too.

https://www.loa.org/books/577-westerns
This can be one reason to NOT lock things behind account creation; it lets those who just want to look so so without having to “emigrate”.

And you want the community to be able to assimilate those who come in versus the newbies overrunning everything.
If they wait a few years they can just say it's fake news created by rogue unlicensed language models
It's an opinion article in the WSJ.
Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”
To the folks here, do you remember your childhoods at all?

Of the memories you have gathered up, do the vivid ones center around loud, violent interactions (like yelling)?

I ask because I don't remember a lot of my childhood, except some vivid memories around things being my fault. Being blamed for things.

I love my parents. They did everything for me. But my memories of happiness are in photos and more recent events. Decades ago are just, well, empty. Take lots of pictures, y'all--and recordings!

Thank-you.
Of my concerns with AI, the primary one wasn't that it would really replace people but it would be yet another means for people to claim "computer says no" as they fire people. Of course, like most of the C-suite, they'll never face the consequences of their own actions given they'll cut even more to make sure they'll still take their bonus that year.
> FAANG and FAANG-tier tech firms all have very simple names

Erm... really? Let's just take that one at a time, shall we?

F - Facebook. Or should we say Meta? Home of the Oculus Rift and the Oculus Quest, if you can remember which of those is which. Sorry, that's now the Meta Quest.

A - Amazon. Such clarity of naming. Everyone knows they have a product called 'Alexa', right? And of course, to get that, you need to buy an... Echo. Or an Echo Dot. Or an Echo Studio, or an Echo Show?. Obviously it's clear what a Kindle Oasis is, compared to a Kindle. And then beyond that of course we've got the wonder that is AWS product naming. Aurora, Kinesis, Fargate, InfiniDash, Athena, Elastic Beanstalk, Route53... Clearly a model of clarity.

A - Apple. Absolutely, the home of the iPhone 14, the iPhone 14 Pro, the iPhone 14 Plus, the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and the iPhone SE, or the Apple Watches Ultra, SE, Nike and Hermés could never be accused of confusing product naming.

N - Netflix. Sure. You know the difference between Netflix Basic, Netflix Standard with Ads, and Netflix Standard, right?

G - Google. Right. Google Workspace, Google Docs, G Suite... or Youtube Premium vs Youtube TV...

You're right. Not a one of these companies would name product tiers confusingly.
Fortunately for me, I dislike virtually all tea equally so my hot dispenser gets used for noodles and rice.