skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The American cowboy-hero isn't about the hero being lonely. It as about heroes leaving. Wandering strangers, be them cowboys or Superman, sweep in to fix problems and then go away. They do not integrate into the societies they help. They do not take anything from the people they help. They are therefore not a sociological threat to those they help. American society is very segmented, particularly in the mythic world of "small towns" so idolized in fiction. Outsiders are welcome, just not welcome to stay. The American dream is about stability and property rights. Strangers are a threat. They need to leave at the end of the story.
What is the difference between Photoshop and Lightroom? Why don't they just exist as one product?
> Training a model on a bunch of images by {artist}, and then telling it "Generate me 20 images in the style of {artist}" seems pretty close to this ruling.

Maybe, but that is not how dalle and other generative AI work right now it is trained on a huge number artists and images. Not just mixing and matching from images from one artist even if you ask for something in one artists style. Generated an images that falls under copyright seems possible, but automatic.
I guess I'm weird, but I came out of ready player one thinking I'd enjoy it.
I went without a car for a year a few years ago (personal challenge / to save some money), and had a spreadsheet detailing the cost of ownership for a $10k car. Costs:

* Insurance: $640

* Registration: $51

* Repairs: $200

* Depreciation: $300

* Opportunity cost (assuming a 6% ROI on the $10k): $600

All in cost (excluding gas): $1790

At the time, I was comparing the cost of owning a car vs using car2go, uber, etc for a few trips a month. In the end, it basically just showed that owning a car wasn't all that expensive, and the convenience was WELL worth it.

My current car is worth ~$5k, and these numbers are actually a fairly good representation of my costs over the past few years. I take it in once a year to get the oil changed, and do other small repairs, but otherwise it just kinda.. works. Parking and other costs from living in a city might swing this calculus a bit more, but at the end of the day, you don't need a brand new car, and a modest 10 year old car can drive well, without costing you very much.
Sorry, but I really have to ask: Why did you chose 15 minutes specifically as your time frame?
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It’s not. That’s the fanboy “Maybe you got a bad sample,” or “You’re just using it wrong,” angle. Every VR headset has one. Apple will no doubt adopt this strategy if their headset is garbage. I mean, they’ve done it before.
I don't think any of those are true.

The Apple II OS wasn't graphical. The hardware had very simple colour, which made it stand out.

Mac was graphical, but it was a productised/commodified version of someone else's R&D.

Nokia's Communicator range had cellular data long before the iPhone was a thing. What iPhone did differently was - again - productise and commodify existing technologies to create something that was more than the sum of its components. Touch was the biggest part of that, but the App Store really killed the competition.

iPads were never particularly low cost. There were numerous tablets before the iPad. The iPad difference was - again - touch. And the App Store.

iWatch wrist phone may be true, but I suspect it's not the main use case. (I've yet to see anyone talking into an iWatch. I'm sure it happens, but not nearly as often as phone conversations do.)

The common factor - apart from iWatch - is taking/blending existing tech and packaging it into an accessible non-nerdy form with obvious and instant mass market appeal. And creating a vibrant developer ecosystem around it. And adding design stylings that make the product cool.

That's exactly what this display project doesn't have. Even if it does its job well it has no obvious instant applications.

And clamping a rubber facehugger to your head is the opposite of cool.

It may have mass appeal after version 4 or 5 when it's closer to the ideal of stylish glasses with a supporting ecosystem. But I suspect version 1 is going to have a very limited market.
If you wish require some users to install an interpreter, you might as well go for Korn or a real programming language. If you want to use something that's portable and installed everywhere, that's POSIX sh (or at most dash-like level). Bash is in the poor middle which isn't good enough for either side, unless you really know what's your target and don't care about elsewhere.
They’re not from there and there’s no evolutionary pressure to maintain traits that they don’t experience in their home habit.
[read the rest of the thread :)]

Yes yes yes - a lot of people enthusiastically drink 3+ CocaColas a day too! Doesn’t make it a good use of technology nor dietary choice :)
Exactly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35995402
Maybe some abstract philosophy from the 19th century isn't the reason that, all of a sudden, people are more lonely and depressed.

The less I engage with America's consumerist mass media society, the less lonely I feel. I felt more lonely when I watched TV, listened to the news, read the paper, scrolled through social media. Everywhere there was a reminder of the life I'm not living, stuff I don't have, other people's lives I'm not a part of, and of course, impending doom.

I disconnected from all of that and moved to the woods. 2 years later, I've never felt less lonely. I am so constantly busy with gardening, composting, cooking, chores, repairs, building things, fishing, hiking, paddling, that I barely have time to watch a show or check my phone. I feel no existential angst, no FOMO. It never crosses my mind that there's something I'm missing out on. I'm busier than I've ever been.

Where others might think about politics, buying a new car, which restaurant to go out to, trying to cancel their gym membership, trying to find someone to go on a date with, or who's party they weren't invited to, my biggest concern is the weather. When it's going to rain, what temperature it is, how much sun there is. I guess mice is another big one; trying to figure out how they're getting into the heating ducts, or how to keep them out of my car. And snails; they're devouring my seedlings. So, weather and pests.

I don't really know what loneliness is now. I can always open a window and listen to the birds, watch them go about their lives. I can even engage with them, feeing them, building them a home, calling them. I can dig up my garden bed to plant something new and see all the activity going on underneath. I can check out the plants and make sure they're healthy. Life is everywhere, and I can engage with all of it, any time.

If I had to engage with humanity all the time, yeah, I'd probably get lonely and depressed. But like those who moved out into the wildnerness of the Old West, I have the luxury of not having to be constantly reminded of humanity. "out of sight, out of mind" is true enlightenment.
Dogs aren't allowed on buses.
Except Pixelmator Pro should be Pixelmator
2 failed megaprojects so far, diem and the metaverse. Aim small miss small. Fail fast, fail often. Don't wait until you spent billion of dollars over half a decade.
Everything you said I can do with my iPhone, and all of those are rare things. Meanwhile my iPhone does things I want to do everyday all day, is unobtrusive, makes it clear when I’m interacting with it vs the world around me, allows me to touch things which feels good as an embodied human, and isn’t vaporware.
I made a small wrapper too, you call it from the command line and it keeps the conversation context for 15 minutes in a temp file.

https://github.com/mcdallas/gptask
They have a finite number of employees, and it's possible that making apps is very far down on their list of priorities.

OpenAI are supposed to be saving the world after all
Center sharpness is decent. I’d even call it “good”. The edges are very soft.
The cookie management screen on that site is an abomination.
Actual source:

https://apnews.com/article/loneliness-lonely-alone-surgeon-g...

Actual author:

https://www.google.com/search?q=TED+ANTHONY

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This is a strange article. It reads like propaganda designed to demoralize and denigrate.

"“Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it ... throws him back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.”"

&

"In the age before democracy, for better and for worse, “People weren’t lonely. They were tied up in a web of connections. And in many countries that’s more true than it was in the United States,” says Colin Woodard, director of the Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Woodard

Now Colin is another author, but just a bit of googling and I'm pretty sure the Associated Press is misusing his words - note Colin actually said in this completely contextless quote "more true than it was in the United States". So apparently the dreaded disease of "democracy" (or wait, I thought it was the "American Dream") had not prevented "communities" in USA. Heck, calling UTAH and the "community" of Mormons, among a large number of such communities in the dreaded US of A. Anyway, maybe someone should ping Colin and ask him: did you really say that Democracy aka "the American Dream" was a cause of breaking of community in the US?

So, dear reader, please note that "American Dream" == "democracy", And that "dream" (abhorant to 'un-lonely' "Old World aristocracies") is the cause of your modern malaise. (Much more correlated with economic regime than political regime, imo.)

Now the question presents itself: Just how did these misguided Americans with their "dream" of "democracy" make it from 19th to 21st century? Apparently we were caught in the spell of "a premise based on myths" and simply didn't realize we got it so wrong! Thank you AP and Ted for clearing this up for us.

Alienation & loneliness are symptoms of modernity, not "individualism". Representative democracy actually promotes creation of elective communities -- note how the designated binary teams of "red" and "blue" factions in US cling to one another .. -- whereas "Old World aristocracies" were communities of blood and soil.

Has AP gone fascist or something?
Why isn’t the solution lower the price to rent office space?
It's not you Gentoo, it's me. I'm just not good enough.

I've been trying to like Gentoo for over four years, ever since I installed it on my primary laptop. I love the idea of having the fine-tuned control that Gentoo offers, and I love the idea that everything I install is tailored to my specific system.

But despite my best intentions I have not mastered it - in fact I barely feel like I understand it. When I remember to update it a couple times a week everything is pretty smooth. Go much longer than that and all bets are off. If I go on a long vacation I dread coming back to a Gentoo update. I just don't have the discipline to keep up.

Lately portage has been scolding me because some random packages are trying to install different versions of openssl. I've been ignoring it for weeks while I muster the courage to solve it.

And in my experience this kind of problem is super common. Either I'm pulling multiple versions of a package into the same slot, or I'm trying to merge a masked package, or some package is trying to put files in a place it doesn't own, or who knows...

Every time I try to solve one of these issues it's like I'm starting from scratch. I read manpages, online docs, bug trackers. I try various incantations of emerge flags. And eventually I show up the IRC channel with my tail between my legs.

Fortunately, the IRC community is extremely knowledgeable and can usually fix my problem in no time. But I hate having to ask for help, and I never seem to get closer to solving them myself.

The other major issue I have is convenience: it sometimes takes so long to install a new package. I get it - that's what you expect with a source-based distro. But man I did not understand just how much compiling time I'd need. Krita releases a new patch version? There's a couple hours with my laptop fans blasting. My laptop has easily spent 10x or 50x the time compiling Krita vs actually running it! And that's just one random program; god help you if you want Firefox on the same machine.

Anyway, on my next computer I'll probably install Arch.
Those small towns are good if you conform and don't stick out, but it can be really, really hard if you do.
You can't report a lot of crimes online (assault, Residential Burglaries, Robbery Incidents, Stolen Vehicles, stolen Electric Bicycles) and the police will tell you it's pointless to report minor ones in SF

If a homeless guy punches you in SF, would you really bother to walk to a police station and wait in line and waste a ton of time for literally nothing to happen?
Things are different enough this time what with the technology boom and the internet and everything that I don't think those are entirely fair comparisons. That said, you're still totally correct that trying to predict the world a thousand years from now is pretty much pointless.
Good question. Here's an article showing an image from the original "Real Book." This is hand written.

http://www.thepianoshed.com/teaching-blog/the-truth-about-th...

Amusingly, it's about the controversy over whether the chord changes are accurate or not. Now, this style has heavily influenced how jazz "lead sheets" are typeset as well. For instance Chuc Sher's "New Real Book" has a section in the foreword about how they studied the script of the old Real Book before starting their own project.

Now a typeset sheet for another tune:

https://www.musicforballetclass.com/product/take-the-a-train...

Notice that the chord symbols are much smaller -- nobody can bring themselves to make the font big enough for some reason. The melody is broken up into awkward groups of 3, 4, and 5 measures. And so forth. It's like trying to write a poem with word wrap turned on.

The typical workflow for a jazz chart was that the composer / arranger wrote a score with all of the parts, and sent it to a copyist, who wrote out the individual parts for use by the band. The copyist earned repeat business by the quality of their work.
I live in a mid-sized US city and it’s hell. Seven years in, my friend group is small - but present - and there are very few activities I enjoy. It is a sleepy kind of place. Community here forms in small pockets of people who have known each other their entire lives and are not welcoming to newcomers. I have eyed a move to SF and when I last traveled there my Airbnb host commented, “this is where you come to find community.”

If a smaller town works for you then great, but for most people it’s quite the opposite, or people would not have consistently migrated to cities over the last century. There are real drawbacks to the population density but it affords so many more opportunities for…everything.
After watching all the sweetheart deals offered by states trying to court the last gigafactory, I can't imagine the lengths they would go for Disney.
The thing that Rust calls traits is quite different from the thing that Scala and PHP call traits, and much more like the thing that many languages call typeclasses.
I have always thought we should do away with free street parking. It is a valuable resource that should be used for the city to make money or turn into something everyone enjoys. This is a direct impact for the poor (like tolling a road) and will be met with serious resistance. What the OP talks about is what happened in the LA suburbs I lived in (SFV). People even got non-working cars that they pushed around to save spots (you can space the cars out so no one can park and tighten them up so you can park).
Experiences certainly differ! My family recently moved away from a small town, back to the heart of a big coastal city, in part because we were all lonely there; everyone in town may know each other, but the culture there was uncomfortably different from ours, and it was difficult to make friends. We fit in much better in a big cosmopolitan city, and there's so much more to do here - both for us and for our eleven-year old - that it's easier to find ways of spending time with people.
I think this is a worthy try but I am skeptical if it tastes anything like medieval beer. I imagine the malt is significantly different. Are we still using the same barley varieties as we did hundreds of years ago? Were they able to malt as efficiently? I also think the yeast would have been very different. Which he touches on. Even if you had the exact yeast you would need to know pitching rates. That said, what he created most likely tastes a lot better than what they had in the 1300s.
This isn't about US guy messaging EU guy - that scenario exists across many jurisdictions for various companies and apps already.

It's wholesale bulk transfers.

>fears citizens’ data wasn’t safe once shipped to the US

Bit like all the UK user data getting shipped over to the US previously:

https://www.freevacy.com/news/independent/meta-to-relocate-u...

And Meta is so determined to do this that they're threatening to leave the EU. So again...what exactly is being done with this data that is impossible on EU turf but possible on US turf? I personally can't think of anything Kosher
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I think the point of social media is to sell ads. I'm not trying to say all forms of social media will go away, but I think we are headed toward a dystopian future
For the record, if you had told me earlier in the conversation that your faith in your convictions arise from your religious faith you would have saved us both a fair amount of time.

Obviously, your arguments are never going to be convincing to someone who does not share your beliefs.
This kind of thinking is so out-of-date.

Cars are rapidly going electric, silent, and intelligent. The first two improvements will remove the problems with pollution and noise. The idea that the production of an electric car produces a vast amount of waste and pollution is nonsense, big oil propaganda.

The added intelligence will provide benefits further down the road, some of which we don't even know yet. Once cars are smart it promises to radically improve safety, with smart cars able to avoid most accidents, drive drunk people home in the back seat, able to drop the owner at their office door and then find somewhere to park on their own, either in a more spaced-out area or an automated dense public garage.
It might've been if its release wasn't such a direct response to ChatGPT
Not really a useful analogy, I think. Most people do, or don't do, something that empirically is not optimal for their health. If your suggesting there is an objective downside - I think you have an uphill battle there.
Wow, one of my least favourite artists and one of my least favourite branches of law!
Iger is trying to spin this through his feud with Desantis...but Disney is sputtering

Disney+ has topped out, Marvel and Star Wars are played out, over-saturated and over-exposed

Avatar might have filled the void but not on the pace Cameron is working at...and Avatar 2 was definitely not worth the wait
I hope it'll show headlines about how consumerism and the production of e-waste continue to accelerate despite the fact the earth is burning up and the point of return comes closer and closer.
> Brute forcing is the basis of evolution. The algorithm running inside the head of the mouse is the survivor of a million iterative generations as the species brute-forced the entire "get to the food" survival problem.

Here is an interesting corollary: the same is the case with humans. Evolution being what it is, whatever makes the mouse brain tick, and whatever makes our brains tick, must have been relatively easy for evolution to stumble upon and scale up, and it must have been delivering continuous improvements to survival. Otherwise, natural selection wouldn't be able to home in on the solution.

In short: the fundamentals of intelligence have to be something simple enough to be discoverable by accident.

This is one of the main reasons I believe that LLMs aren't unrelated to how our own brains work. We tried to make a simple yet generic system, somewhat emulating what we see in nature, and then we kept scaling it up, until it surprised us with suddenly gaining capabilities we consider to be advanced cognitive functions. Just how many such structures could be there in nature, so that evolution and AI researchers stumbled on two entirely unrelated ones? It's too much of a coincidence.
It's been a long time since I've programmed in C, but AFAIK the major pain points were and continue to be the build system and the preprocessor (or consequences of those). Zig does seem to fix in a pretty simple way
Problem is: Apple mostly ruined their relationship with Epic, Meta and even Valve. Whatever excellent VR tech they come up with will be mostly ignored by the game industry. Good part of iPhone / iPad success was due to the excellent apps ecosystem. Who gonna make VR experiences for Apple new VR ecosystem?

F2P game companies? I guess they won't be interested either because Apple will try to bite off a lot of profits from their ads by not letting anyone but themself to run targeted ads.
You may be confusing MiniLED and MicroLED. MiniLED still uses an LCD with multiple backlights and local dimming algorithms to improve contrast. MiniLED is pretty impressive and the quality of it is generally 1-to-1 with the number of backlights/dimming-zones.

MicroLED is more akin to OLED where each pixel is self emitting. MicroLED is almost the holy grail of displays and will more than likely obsolete MiniLED.
Just because we have a pithy quote doesn't detract from the fact that we shouldn't go all starry eyed and bandy about terms which obfuscate rather than explore the mechanics of how things work. Calling something "black magic" is too close to all of the anthropomorphism bullshit that seems to travel like a miasma around LLMs.
Are those prices quoted per month or per year?
Schools, public and private, generally employ their own bus drivers.

So it’s not like the anybody at the city transit office is saying “let’s divert resources from public schools to private schools.”

They’re saying “we don’t do schools at all, because the only schools we would be providing services for are private, and we don’t want to encourage people to go to private school.”

Wealthy private schools often have their own buses. Less well off ones, don’t.

So it isn’t even about benefiting the poor over the wealthy.

Catholic schools generally have their own buses, while schools affiliated with historically black churches don’t.

Regarding why I take it personally, the condescending and hostile attitude of city officials make it clear it is personal.

This is specific to where I live now. I’ve lived in places like the Bay Area and New York, and this attitude doesn’t seem to exist.
California doesn't require auto manufacturers to do anything. They require dealers and individuals to only buy cars that meet said emissions standards, on penalty of refusing to allow them to be registered to be driven on the state's roads.
> Everyone in the big city is a transient, only there to make money and find love before it's time to head for the suburbs.

Definitely stealing this!
I would not characterize protesting taxes due to unfair tax policy the same as cheating taxes to lower how much you contribute to society relative to how much you take.
> I would say that the Nokia N9 UI was well designed, but the phone or its software was so slow it was almost unusable. If I had paid full price for mine I would have been pissed.

This is not at all consistent with my N9 experience.

But it was a disappointment in terms of not delivering source for a reproducible FOSS firmware a community could form around and iteratively improve, nor did they facilitate easily replacing the OS/distro.

If the N9 had the pinephone'seasily replaced 100% FOSS firmware via SD cards and community, we'd be in a very different place today.