skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really cool how emacs has created such a great diversity of control key systems. I use the defaults because I don't use home row, but what a wonderful and powerful experience that users have been able to gather together and create such ecosystems. Thanks Emacs, and here's to many more years with you and many more audacious ideas like this one.
How does this compare to Open Policy Agent, or oso? Why would I use this instead?
Watching these latest-adopters "poo poo" something that is unabashedly real... is just silly at this point.

January 2023 (after I had played around with GPTs and image creators for just a month), I had two family members ask me if I needed to be committed to a facility... how their tunes have changed, understanding this easily-explored creative technology.

Glad to report that my brain and worldview have helped many others (and myself) see Truth of the New World of Brain/Creativity.
> ... they still need to MITM the connection ... and there has been no evidence of it happening

Because the parent you're replying to seems to be talking about any/all governments rather than just the UK, and I'm guessing your statement here was 'scoped' to the UK only - I think it's important to point out that this absolutely HAS happened on multiple occasions outside of the UK.

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/china-github-and-man-...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/syrian-man-middle-agai...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/iranian-man-middle-att...
While you may not quit sugar entirely, you can certainly choose to not eat any fruits, at all.

You can eat very little sugar (as in, voluntarily avoid foods that contain it) and I don't mean "added sugar" foods).

And "sugar is not the problem"? It's a completely meaningless statement without referencing quantities.
Seems like fractals are the difference maker here because if you don’t use a fractal you have to program the whole thing whereas if you use fractals (embryology) then your code can be massively recursive. Alternative splicing and epigenetics (holy shit, I can’t believe the iPhone autocorrect doesn’t know the word “epigenetics” in ‘23) also multiply the flexibility of the genome. Also, phosphorylation: proteins are not Boolean switches, they have arbitrary numbers of activation states. Ternary logic is already way more dense than Boolean so when you go even further like into 6-ary, 9-ary logics you’re a lot more free to program stuff. Also the network motifs are a lot simpler than first appear. The metabolic map looks like spaghetti on the wall but each point is composed of reusable blocks like feedforward and feedback etc (see Uri Alon’s book and “Wetware” book and Synthetic Biology: A primer for more detail)

I’m biased as a molecular biologist but genetics and systems biology are the most incredible thing. Natural nanotech
It's still almost entirely about consent and safety, though. Rubbing it in other peoples' faces violates their consent.

It's really not black and white, it's a spectrum. People have a right to have their sexualities safely, and other people have a right to not be exposed to sex they don't want. The extremes on both sides are unfavorable. On one one side, total suppression of all sexualities in any public place; should you be able to make two men in love not hold hands in public, because it bothers you to be aware of their sexuality? On the other, total sexual freedom, and being forcibly exposed constantly to every expression of anybody's libido.

It's not easy, because the actual middle ground does involve compromise on both sides. Some people don't want to have to be aware of sexualities that aren't their own at all, and it's unreasonable. Some people don't want to be made to hide their unusual kinks in public places and feel that it's wrong for them to not be able to sexually signal wherever they want, which is also unreasonable.

Either way, it still is about consent, and the consent of bystanders counts too.
That's very helpful to know, thanks! So Sixels are a reasonably-popular de facto standard already, which I did not understand.
I suppose you're being tongue in cheek but if you want to smoke cigars go for it.

You only live once it you think smoking improves quality and you're welling to cut down quantity. Go for it.
This has had precedent. Years ago during the silver screen era there was a accent that most major movie stars had called the transatlantic accent, it has some elements of British and also American sounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

Also for some reason I do not understand almost all US reality shows and other entertainment(contestant based shows mainly) have to have someone British judging Americans like we are incapable of having our own citizens be makers of taste or standards.
Havana's summarization is actually pretty good - we're using at Pylon as well!
This situation has been well known for years. It isn't news to any of us.

So why aren't we learning more about the problem? Why are we just beating the same dead horse instead of investigating further?

There is no way you could just convince the majority of children (or their parents) to just stop using mobile computers. Is there a more direct approach that could be taken?

Most of the comments here can tell you from experience: a computer is no more or less than a tool. It is what you do with it that matters.

Most of us here are critical of commonly proposed solutions to this problem, because they are so broad that they would disallow the beneficial activities that any motivated person can pursue with this tool.

If my parents had arbitrarily limited the time I was allowed to use a computer, I would not have learned even a tiny percentage of what I did.

If my parents had obsessively watched over my shoulder or limited my DNS access to exclude sites like Reddit, then I would have gotten repeatedly stuck early on, and probably given up on the very exploration that made computing a healthy part of my life.

We aren't talking about real computers, though. This is the brave new world of "smart phones". 30% of that market are Apple's walled-garden pretends-it-isn't-a-computer bricks. An unknown but significant percentage of Android bricks have permanently locked bootloaders. Even if a child is motivated to explore the subtleties of computing, chances are their device won't allow them to.

What if we put more effort into positive change? What if instead of trying to restrict a child's behavior, we did the opposite? What kind of opportunities are missed by the average child-available computing device? What opportunities should be made more approachable to an uneducated explorer? When I think about this problem from this perspective, I am overwhelmed with potential solutions. I would rather start trying those out than keep whining about the same old unsolvable problem domain.
got 'superthinness'. uhhhh ok https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superthin

and just a bunch of words, that are kinda existing (handgunner? honeycake? etc), but it's just 'making up a new definition for them'. if i were to guess, given that gpt is built, trained around existing concepts, it's having a hard time coming up with something outside of that, and just ends up making something that's close to existing things. could be neat - 'it's almost like the real thing', but it also fails to be "truly novel". it's kinda not being given freedom to be truly random either (like coming up with 'smash on a keyboard' words that are actual nonsense).
Stupid flesh and blood humans with their finite needs! Let's build cyborgs with infinite information processing capability so their needs can never be saturated!
Large Language Models and Plagiarism
You can get your Internet back alive if you simply sacrifice your retina scans and all other biometrics that prove your humanity. There may be a reason OpenAI and Worldcoin have the same founder: profit from ruining a nice thing, then profit from saving it (via bringing it back from the dead as a zombie).
We're taking a shot at hardware engineering: www.valispace.com/ai/

And I see similar things happening for major fields such as education, law, art, software development, management, etc.
Here I looked into a few examples of what is happening in these fields already: https://assistedeverything.substack.com/p/the-age-of-assiste...
Of course when I was a teen (or even younger) I went to a friend's place, practice, school, work, etc. without a constant electronic tether back to my parents.
Strimzi is really great, creating a Debezium Change Data Capture system and seeing all topics and users as Kubernetes CRDs is just ordered and magic.
The only downside is that Redpanda isn't yet supported in Strimzi, but when I met them at KubeCon last month they mentioned the possibility it might be supported in future :)
Doesn't have to just apply to SD. In fact I think SD is probably the least affected.

But Commercial, HR, Marketing - all face the problem of spiraling communication loops. Physical presence does make a difference in planning and implementation, believe it or not.
At the same time, the users are rightfully complaining, their experience has been made noticeably worse in multiple ways to no benefit. Worse, they essentially get taunted.
I am not the person you are replying to, but since I would say similar things to their original comment:

A. I see little to no evidence that LLMs are where the singularity happens

B. I see little to no evidence that (given an AGI) reinforcement learning is likely to end up with a sufficiently aligned agent.

C. In any event the OpenAI alignment is specifically restricts AI from (among other things) being "impolite" in contradiction to what mort96 says.

Alignment is a good thing to work on. I'm glad OpenAI is doing so. But attacking people for making uncensored LLMs hurts the pro-alignment case more than it helps.
Do whatever they are doing now, but twice?

What in the process wouldn’t work with this method?
Poe (made by Quora) does this as well for anyone that wants an iOS app: https://poe.com/
Everything2 was another example of a user-driven site that allowed linking between pages. It's actually still alive today:

https://everything2.com/title/Y+combinator
I just don’t think API matters if the capabilities are there. Look at Linux gaming, OpenGL was up to date and prevalent, but the majority of games are actually translating DirectX to Vulkan and using WINE.

Most games are using off the shelf engines that support Metal anyway, so I think api would only matter for the small subset of games using custom engines.

Regarding your point of the US, I should clarify that I didn’t mean by market share, though I suppose that’s also true in the US. I meant by profit.

According to the WSJ , Apple makes more from gaming than Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Activision combined worldwide.
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "less woke"? Does it frequently insult minorities or make racist remarks?

Edit: To clarify, I was mostly interested in examples and side by side comparisons to better understand what OP meant, not political discussions.
> We must also always consider that there could be “third variables” that cause both of the first two variables to rise. In this case, one plausible confounding third variable is permissive parenting. Perhaps permissive parents (in each country) simultaneously do two things: they give their kids smartphones at very young ages, and they also give them few boundaries and little structure, which then interferes with development and produces struggling young adults.

From the original article. I wonder if this variable is controlled, how much of the correlation will be gone.
This is slick!

On the home page, there is a transaction that was added yesterday, but the transaction itself was on Nov 7th. Is there a 6 month delay for congressmen to disclose?

It would be nice to see these transactions in near real time (or better, ban congress from buying/selling individual stocks)
Forced accents have been going on for a long time with kids. Just yesterday I was watching local news from the area where I grew up and a girl from my high school years was being interviewed. In her teens, she had a non-local accent that I always envisioned as california stoner. Well apparently she was working hard faking that thing because she has a full on upstate south carolina accent now.
BBC, NPR and Washington Post are all left leaning organizations funded by governments and billionaires. I don't know if I would call this "getting a reasonable overview of world and local news".
They are generating NERFs out of people in motion and that is novel.

I work in film VFX (related) and the tech that was used for the matrix was nowhere near this.

I dare say you might be underinformed about this topic.
Those saying ADHD could be wrong, could be right. Many things look like ADHD and ADHD looks like many things - the differentiating factor being ADHD is throughout your entire life. So be curious, if you feel the need, but if you seek diagnosis find someone thorough.

My suggestions though, and slowly introduce theses one at a time, are start with exercise, sleep, nutrition, and mental health.

While doing that practice organization skills. I don’t mean come up with some complex system or tool. The way I do this is I have a notebook (simple app) for ideas / wiki with no special system. And I have a Kanban-like now / later board for tracking work on ideas etc.

This has helped me immensely. If you do some of these great. If you don’t, introduce them slowly and focus on consistency over intensity. I take 30-min a day to work towards some goals / ideas I have, and I have made a ton of progress over a few months.

Also, even if you suspect you do not have ADHD, many of the organizational tools / skills / systems that are recommended for folks in treatment are also useful for non-ADHD folks.

If you want to learn more information from a source I trust, check out HealthyGamerGG. https://youtu.be/0hePvDEOZYs
Simon Ostrovsky’s reporting from Ukraine was great. He even got beaten up by little green men.
Sounds like pretty much every Coen Brothers movie to me, at least so far as the world not changing at the end.

Isn't that the case for most people, that they don't end up changing the world or society around them? At best maybe they helped open a hole in the dike for water to seep through for future generations.

Obviously that's not the case for superhero or chosen one stories, but true for most people in life.
That seems close enough to classify as social media, for all intents and purposes.
EDIT: Thank you for clarification. It is a fair 3 node vs 3 node benchmark.

Does this benchmark compare both 3 node Kafka against 3 node Redpanda cluster? It's unclear.
We all have different pools of energy that we pull from each day that motivate us to get things done. According to the Kolbe Index, the 4 pools are follow through (FT), fact finder (FF), quick start (QS), and implementer (Im). Everybody has different starting values in each pool. People with high follow through like to work through a list or project until it’s complete. High fact finders are motivated by learning new things. High quick starts are very creative and constantly looking for something new. High implementers like to build and create things. Nobody is high on everything. From what you described, you sound like a high quick start and low follow through (and probably higher fact finder and lower implementer but I don’t have a lot to go off here). As others have noted, the high QS + low FT combination is perfectly correlated with having ADHD (but this is not a diagnosis tool!)

You can find your actual Kolbe by taking the Kolbe-A index at Kolbe.com (No connection, just think it’s an amazing tool, does cost $55 and their website is truly terrible)

The bigger take-away though is there’s nothing wrong with any Kolbe combination. They all have different strengths and weaknesses. For example, you would be very good in a startup environment where things are rapidly changing day to day and where others would get stressed out. But you might need someone else with more follow through to see your ideas to completion, or maybe you need to find ways to keep your fact finder satisfied as you finish a project by not planning everything out at the beginning. The best founding teams usually have complementary Kolbe’s so they fill each other’s missing energies.

Once you know your Kolbe and understand how each dimension is impacting you, you can start hacking your life to take advantage of your Kolbe instead of fighting against it. This is particularly hard for low follow-throughs (including me!) because most of society is optimized for high follow throughs, leaving us feeling like something is wrong with us when there isn’t.

I could talk about this all day, feel free to hit me up if you have more questions. I’ve been thinking about writing more detailed tools to help explain these concepts since Kolbe does a terrible job on their own.
I really dislike the way Confluent has treated the Kafka ecosystem. It feels like they went out of their way to make OSS Kafka kludgy and then priced their enterprise offering completely out of the reach of anyone but Fortune 500.

I have been using Pulsar for new projects not because of performance or anything but because all the features you expect to be built-in are. Georeplication, shared-subscription w/selective ACK, schema registry etc.

Also it's wildly more pluggable, the authn/authz plugin infrastruction in particular is great. I was even able to write a custom Pulsar segment compactor to do GDPR deletions without giving up offloaded segment longevity.

The segment offload is actually huge especially because tools like Secor for Kafka are dead now and you are stuck on the Kafka Connect ecosystem which personally I really find distasteful.
It sounds like you've just gone from one addiction to the other without actually getting help for your addictions.
It's a fair point. But what explains the uptick in depression and mental health issues starting around 2012, disproportionately impacting pre-teen girls and not contained to any geo. The author's entire point is that social media is the only explanation that that has been proposed. Moreover, it's not a far-fetched explanation. He very aware that correlation does not provide causation, and that it could be the other way around. However, no one (according to him) has offered up a theory which explains the data like the social media theory does.
1.5% of US workers make minimum wage, who probably have much less to spend. So I don’t think it’s the same token of logic at all
When has consolidation in a market ever increased competition? Activision is already huge so maybe that's their problem.
This is wonderful. I would love to replace my stupid Google Home Minis with this if I can actually get the hardware for $50. The Mycroft device is like $400 so I didn't even consider it, and I never understood why it had to be so expensive. I don't even need a screen - just a microphone. Will definitely give this a shot!
I don't necessarily disagree with you, I think you're much more right than wrong, but there is a loser in it. anecdotal observation from talking to coworkers, I know several people who have switched to macs for the apple silicon because of their speed/power efficiency. That's obviously not just 3nm at play, but yes there are definite losers in this race. Also if one takes the approach that an apple user pulled in to their walled garden is a net bad for the industry at large, it's not just a short term problem but also long term as well.
How? There’s no PM feature on HN. This is the only way if the username is unique enough.
Besides TV tropes, the page made me think of the quite entertaining "How Not to Write a Novel"[1][2], which not only details tropes to avoid, but also quite humorously illustrates them with short stories.

If you're already a TV Tropes addict, I can strongly recommend the book.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HowNotToWr...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Write-Novel-Them-Misstep-Misstep/dp/0...
You already hit on it. Insulin is the fat storage hormone. It triggers your fat cells to expand by absorbing sugars from the blood. But NNSs aren't absorbed by fat cells, so they stay in your blood longer, keeping your liver working longer, pumping out insulin. This results in diminishing insulin response over time.
We've bred fruit to be much sweeter than they used to be.

Personally I dislike a lot of them because they're simply too sweet

https://www.smh.com.au/national/zoo-won-t-panda-to-taste-say...
> Is it possible these kids now just have a front row seat to witness their generation being systematically torn down in front of them before they even have a chance to get a footing? My parents sucked. Their whole world sucks.

These trends are global. Not every country has seen declining quality of life, higher rent and debt, etc. Haidt and co. cover a lot of data across multiple articles. They note some positive uses of social media too, like what you describe re: finding good communities and positive messaging. It's the rest of it that's the problem.
Ted Chiang has an essay that also compares our current era to the gilded age:

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intel...

It's ostensibly about AI but the deeper issue is concentration of wealth and power. Banning one harmful social media company (e.g. TikTok) does nothing to change the incentive structure. As long as harmful social media remains profitable, it will continue.
Canadian: "What time is it now?"
New Zealander: "Teeen."
Canadian: "??????"
> People in GB can spot an accent and a fake localized accent quite easily, and act accordingly.

As a Brit the only convincing fake British accent I can remember in many years is James Marsters who played Spike in Buffy. I never once suspected he was American (in the pre-internet days).

Mid-Atlantic accents such as Loyd Grossman, are hard on the ears. "Soss", rather than "sauce" is particularly odd.

And then flip it - UK actors putting on US accents. Most of them sound to me like they're from the West Country such as Somerset, just rolling their Rs.

For US readers, the currently growing new London accent is awful and nothing like the 'Cockney' accent you might expect from watching older films. I've yet to see a US actor try that.
I got "resculpture" which is a real word by Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/resculpture
People don't communicate well. They use the word "spying", when "surveillance" would be more appropriate.

How would you feel if you found the past three weeks, there was someone parked outside your home, who followed you to work, and logged when and where you left?

I mean, it's all public information, right?

How would you feel if they did this, specifically because of your political beliefs?
Vice used to be a really fun magazine to flip through. I enjoyed some of their mini docs but never really sat down to watch their HBO show regularly. They really pushed for growth which in retrospect, should have been recognized as a reach. Wish they somehow continued with a smaller footprint, putting out interesting, unusual content. But maybe it never was profitable. Maybe they followed the same VC playbook of taking on more capital and promising continued, rapid growth.
Vice content is pretty awesome a lot of the time so this sucks
This only runs Vicuna.
I'm not sure which of us read it correctly.

I -think- they are saying the original benchmark results done by RedPanda show a 9 node Kafka cluster being beaten by a 3 node RP cluster.

This new benchmark I assume is being done on identical hardware (i.e 3 nodes for both) just with less terrible Kafka settings.