skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your claim that perhaps as few as two individuals in all of history thought of the wheel seems far-fetched, and presented without evidence. You aren't even addressing Diamond's argument. Diamond doesn't claim that the wheel only got invented twice or a few times in history. He asks why the ancient Mexicans apparently didn't use wheels for transport, and why the invention of the wheel didn't get transported south or north to other civilizations.

Very few wooden artifacts from prehistory or ancient times survive, and we know about ancient chariots and carts from depictions in art rather than from surviving examples. Lacking animals to pull wheeled carts leaves people to carry stuff, and then you have to ask if people using wheelbarrows or pulling wheeled carts makes transporting goods more efficient than having more people carry stuff. And you have to ask if the civilizations who didn't use wheels had access to the materials (hard wood) to make wheels and axles and carts. Any number of factors might have affected the adoption of wheeled vehicles, or failure to go that direction, but positing that the wheel idea only came up a handful of times in a couple of places seems an unlikely explanation.

The precursor to wheels is fairly obvious and doesn't require one brilliant mind out of millions. Logs used to roll heavy loads were used by probably every neolithic culture that built monuments, including those that never developed wheeled vehicles pulled by animals. Going from there to the wheel doesn't seem like a huge leap of insight.
> I suspect the hardest part will be building the product experience around this whole system.

I think this is exactly right. Not surprisingly, I wrote up a business plan for this can called out this point. The approach I have advocated in the plan was to appliancize the end node to minimize the back end configuration. Having done this at FreeGate and NetApp I definitely saw the benefit of "install this box, turn it on, and now you have access to this service." as a huge win, both for adoption and for support.

The key then is you install the app, or apt-get the application and securely attach with a button press on the local network. Pick a handle to give to your friends and you're off to the races.

Most of the business plan was around the economics of an open protocol and the ability to make money selling the service installed in a ready-made platform (selling software wrapped in hardware) ala current NAS offerings. Good returns on growth, less so on saturation.
Microsoft Edge removes ability to delete Sync Data from Cloud
By the way, Edge keep connect me to the cloud every time after update even if I disable sync, is it just me?
Wasn't very clear to me either. It looks like this is based on Linux but the entire desktop environment runs on html/css/js, i.e., a web browser runs the show.

While the idea of a desktop written in a RAD/high-level language seems enticing to me, I'd be curious to see some benchmarks on memory use and general latency first. It does seem more fun to program against than GTK or KDE...
My minimal backpack camping checklist has 25-50 items on it, and that's with counting "first aid kit" as one thing, "tent pegs" as one thing, not counting clothing I'm wearing, "food" as 1 item, etc.

There is no way that an adult has 100 things inside an entire flat they eat, work, leisure, and sleep in. I assume that they mean 100 valuable things that they wouldn't want to just lose.
Christian would be a much better CEO than Steve Huffman, despite his clear lack of negotiation skills. Reddit is phenomenally mismanaged, it's somehow worse than both incarnations of Twitter
> I think we're seeing more money flow into deep-tech, particularly energy, environment, and health.

Those sectors rarely make sense for the VC funded model where money has to be returned in ~10 years.

Will they end up throwing a large amount of money at a smaller number of start-ups?

> More VCs will chase the best deals, raising the price of those start-ups. Then the 2nd tier companies will probably follow.

> Will VCs return funds to LPs? Give up on the being VCs and say "I always loved being an operator, so now I'm returning to that"

Both of those are likely outcomes. You'll likely see more late stage deals, competing with the likes of Fidelity.
>> We can point to the language center, the face processing center, and the center for understanding the emotions of others.

So what are these "others"? If they exist then surely I exist right? Of course out conception of them is not actually them, and our conception of ourself is also not actually ourself.

If we look at our entire body we find the self in the brain. No need to localise it further.
I quit coffee cold-turkey in Jan of last year [^0] due to health concerns. I ended up replacing coffee with a mushroom tea called Rasa [^1]. It’s pricey, but like you, I enjoyed the bitterness of black coffee, and its strong flavor. Being mushroom-based, Rasa has those strong, dark, bitter qualities . I like the Bold variety the best.

[^0]: https://keygen.sh/blog/i-quit/

[^1]: https://wearerasa.com
Although not really import but just FYI, if you mean the website https://ublockorigin.com/ it's not the homepage, it's a fan-made page. uBO does not have any servers nor websites. The "homepage" is just the github page: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Is this something similar to OpenWISP? It all sounds cool, but might be an overkill for small installations…

[0] https://openwisp.org/
Saul was named as 'its all good man' --> Saul Goodman
The distinction is important because an AGI developed by humans is probably going to have (at least vestigial) ability to communicate with humans in some way.

It's entirely possible that it will have no use for humans, but if that's what the analogy is getting at, it's doing so poorly.
A problem I've always thought about

"What app could help waitstaff move onto better paying positions?"

- They are very tired after the day so can't really learn after work.

- They usually don't have the resources to do a dev-bootcamp and dev-bootcamps don't seem to be well done.

- Copywriting is dead.

Solving for time is hard.
Because I was curious and you didn’t link to it, here is A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks by EF Codd: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf
Letter to House Committee Claims Trump Obtained Documents by Accident [pdf]
That’s something I would’ve never thought to try! I love bitters... in whiskey. I may try this just to understand.
The few hard core minimalists I’ve met are single, get paid well enough to buy whatever they wish… and their parents are all holding their old stuff at home.

All extra luxuries that enable them to live minimalist type lifestyles, but it’s not quite the whole story.
Peace in Europe maybe but there were plenty of wars going on in the rest of the world post WWII.
> what was the hypothesis for how microscopic particles with billions of years of geographic isolation might hurt the biosphere?

North america was pretty isolated from europe but bad things still happened.

I think the risk is lower because its not just geographic isolation but the vaccum of space. But everything was just theory before we actually went there. In terms of trade offs, risk seems low, but a quarintine also seems relatively low effort. Seems worth it as its an easy precaution.
My theory is desperation. Reddit isn’t profitable, which was fine in the past few years because they could just raise another round of funding by pointing at their user growth.

They can’t easily do that in the current financial environment. I suspect that they’re also seeing a plateau in year over year user growth. Bundle that up with everybody seeing advertising revenue decline and there’s no good story to sell to investors.

I think that they’re probably under tremendous pressure right now by their investors to at least get close to profitable so that they can IPO.
One can only imagine this will be a key part of his defense at trial.
Thought the saying was buy it nice or buy it twice
> … russophobes …

You keep using this word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

Phobia suggests imagination of non existing threat.

Contrary to that deadly Russian aggression is reality we are witnessing daily in Ukraine.

“russophobia” is another term invented by russian propaganda to cover own aggression. Usage of this term informs enough about those who use it.

Your efforts are in vain. There is awareness of crimes against humanity and human rights performed by russia again and again.
I’ve always thought this too. Especially because I believe (I have no data to back this up) a huge amount of their traffic is from search engine results.

As search results became gamed and sites became SEO machines, finding a Reddit thread discussing the thing you want to know about is a breath of fresh air.

Nobody else has that. Reddit has a ton of really niche content that people want to read, spread out over a large amount of time. Why are they focused on becoming a place where people infinite scroll reposts of TikToks?

Instead, they went the route of introducing features that at best cannibalized other features (chat and the regular message system - it’s confusing) and at worst just seem like hasty add ons or complete stabs in the dark.

Even Discord has a system to directly monetarily sponsor servers you want to support, why on earth doesn’t that exist for Reddit? Good lord. It’s such a simple thing to add. Instead they charge money to customize your avatar like it’s a Fortnite skin. It’s insane.
Ask HN: Why are young tech professionals in US so obsessed with FIRE?
The majority of young tech professionals in the US are trying to retire early? Don’t see people in other professions or older age groups (>35) as obsessed by it.
How did it come to be that people want to peace out early and will rather burn themselves out at 32 to do so? Is it anxiety or financial insecurity?
"hen President Trump left office, there was little time to prepare for the outgoing transition from the presidency. Unlike his three predecessors, each of whom had over four years to prepare for their departure upon completion of their second term, President Trump had a much shorter time to wind up his administration. White House staffers and General Service Administration (“GSA”) employees quickly packed everything into boxes and shipped them to Florida. This was a stark change from the standard preparations made by GSA and National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) for prior administrations."
Energy and Information go hand in hand, the relationship being Entropy. Just as nobody is going to say, "Hey, free decentralized energy for everyone, come and get it" without people at least wondering, 'what's the game here?', well, information - in the form of a high-quality site full of reliable information and real people and interesting conversations - well, that's like an oil well just sitting there waiting to be grabbed by the first party that can gain control of it. It's like saying, 'hey, free land for everyone!' - well, the supply of land is not infinite.

As things stand in the USA, the government generally is controlled by oligarchs who view decentralized independent information systems as a threat to their continued grasp on power, much in the same way that decentralized independent energy production outside of state or corporate control is viewed.

There's always the French Revolution approach to the problem of consolidated oligarchic power, but then you get Napoleon, which isn't much better. A difficult problem to solve, indeed.
The Amazon checkout process used to be a series of full page navigations. Changing shipping address - full page navigation. Adding gift card - full page navigation. Pretty painful. Sometime in the past year or two they quietly changed it to a single page app thing. It's like a big accordion where the sections expand and collapse as you go, and that also shows your checkout progress. Normally I prefer full page navigations and I hate the SPAification of the web, except for this.
Can't people who live out of chests of drawers and closets also "travel at a moments [sic] notice for the best flights"?
I'm pretty sure I have ADHD because I get heavy into a project, buy a bunch of shit, then move to the next thing. The OP1 is my unicorn. I want one so bad, but the cost is so high even I can't justify it. Red means recording on YouTube twists the knife because it just looks so cool. I'm sure there are better synths, but man, I want the OP1.
It’s almost like the way people talk about C++. Modern C++ has many of the features and ergonomics that people evangelize Rust for in a more mature format, but the majority of C++ code people encounter isn’t modern.
The people you're questioning already believe this to be kidnapping in a tautological sense.
Does anyone know what the following refers to?:

> ... and potential for replacing Fastly.

As far as i can tell from this and previous post - mix cache isn't using Fastly?
Reddit isn’t a publicly traded company yet. I think that’s their plan for this year.
"Buy once cry once"
You guys keep saying this word "reproducibility" but I don't think you know what it means. Debian and Arch are more reproducible than NixOS.
I was going to defend you as a generic HN troll, but being an anti-semitic stain on humanity goes a long way to making me agree with jprd.
This was in the article:

> the Vision Pro packs a pair of 1.41-inch micro-OLED displays that combine an OLED frontplane from Sony with a silicon backplane from chip foundry TSMC
I say "not entirely devoid" because a large fraction of modern Protestantism is rather far from the contractual roots; they were so obsessed with stamping out pharisaical legalism that they went from "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." to "Salvation is by faith alone"
I think its a bit different. When you can buy whatever you want, you realize stuff doesn’t really improve your life.
>> "We tested this hypothesis through a survey comprised of two-paired alternate forced choice questions to identify which image of a cyclist respondents consider to be less human," the study's abstract explains.

Doesn’t structuring a study like this ensure the outcome / headline? An image of a cyclist was going to come out as “less human” even if none of the respondents would agree with that statement.

It’s like if I showed people two images of a politician and asked them “which individual most belongs in a zoo” and then concluded bald politicians are most likely to be perceived as “belonging in a zoo”.

Would any of the respondents make or agree with that statement? It seems unlikely based on the methodology of the study.
Everything else is in their parents' basement.
ISPs in the 1990s often provided Usenet newsgroups. I had EarthLink dialup and had Usenet groups
I don't buy this either. I spend my 8 hours coding (yes, mostly coding) and still come home and study most nights. I don't feel any difference at night whether I spent the day doing yardwork or coding.
I may not be understanding the concept either, but it does seem like the antithesis of a desktop to me. Half the stuff in that application menu is corporate spyware and SaaSS. Does that mean the desktop can mostly just interact with online services?
No.

Original thought experiment said matter you're talking about total energy in your response. We ought to take matter to mean ordinary every day matter, mass being the property that all regular ordinary matter posses. Since that's normal everyday language.

Yes in a closed universe the net energy is 0, nothing in; nothing out, so you wouldn't be able to magically 'pop' mass into one place without taking from somewhere else.

Now if mass A is 100 meters away from mass B it would take X amount of energy to push/pull them together. If they are now 150 meters apart now the energy required to bring them together is now higher.

So if galaxies are pulling away and away from each other over time then overtime the energy you would need to bring them closer together again increases.
This is covered in the article under the section "Native Allies":

'Diamond does not discount the fact that native allies assisted the Spaniards in seizing the Americas. He is more concerned that Spanish victories should not be "written off as due merely [emphasis mine] to the help of Native American allies"'

...

'Diamond's suggestion is that Native peoples would have found it irrational to help tiny bands of Spaniards if they did not possess some military advantages.'

...

'When the Spaniards escaped Tenochtitlan, they numbered at most 1,300, many sick or wounded, along with just 96 horses. They were aided by 5,000-6,000 Tlaxcalans, who were unlikely to have many martial advantages over trained Aztec warriors. The city's population was estimated at the time to have been over 200,000. If just ten percent were fighting-age males, the Spanish faced difficult odds. A week later, at the battle of Otumba, 425 Spaniards and 3,000-3,500 Tlaxcalans defeated an Aztec force of 200,000—a feat that would still be impressive if the Spanish exaggerated their enemies' numbers by ten times.'
No, it doesn't need to be all or nothing, but the scenario I was directing my point at was where people try to "do FP in lang X", not just sprinkling in functional concepts here are there. At this point, almost every language has some functional programming concepts in it, but I wasn't addressing that. I could've been clearer, but I've seen many cases where people would rather be programming in Haskell or some other functional language and then when "forced" to use some other language, like Python, they try to essentially recreate Haskell in that language and my point is that this really doesn't work or, at the very least, it's more trouble than it's worth and the resulting codebase is a complete mess because you've tried your hardest to do FP in a language that ultimately isn't suited for it. You are absolutely right though that it needs not be all or nothing. To the extent you can rely on some of these constructs and enable equational reasoning by avoiding mutation, etc. you'll be better off, no doubt (I do this too in Python and other languages because wherever I can make it easier to reason about my code, I will do so). I'm just cautioning against trying to do something akin to pure FP in Python.
> OP-1 is targeted at music professionals.

Genuine question: is it? Teenage Engineering strike me more as luxury lifestyle brand.
Right, but when we evaluate risk the two major variables are the likelihood and the severity of consequences.

Not wearing a helmet might (might) lower the likelihood of consequences, but it could very well lead to an increase in the severity of them.
Right. I've used Scala pretty extensively and even Scala, which obviously has much better support for FP than Python, is a pretty unpleasant experience if you try to turn it into "Haskell on the JVM", in my opinion.
After their first 3 albums I feel that there are plenty of misses, one example is “Hardest Button to Button” which I feel needed like, a little longer in the oven. It could have become a good song. Anyway, still fun to revisit them with this piece, sad I never saw them live.
because they know the shit-show the boomers made of everything related to income, housing, etc.
...in mice.

That said, this is a very accessible description of the pharmacokinetics in the study and how they might apply to humans.
I stated elsewhere (after your reply) that a human-created AGI is likely to have at least vestigial ability to communicate with humans, since humans seem to want very much to communicate with AIs.
> velocity metrics go down and timelines stretch

I think this only works for really particular companies anyway, eg: reasonably flat hierarchy, product owner with product market success.

If you are a startup running out of money, you'll want focus, if you have a tall hierarchy, management will have the say on what you're doing and higher than them will want performance metrics as you pointed out.

It works at Valve, for example, because it rains money on them and they are a flat company. Nearly no time pressure and no overall company goal that needs direction.
> 10 platters, 20 heads

Does that make it thicker than a standard 3.5" drive? (1" tall)

I've taken those apart, and vertical space seems tight.
Is it just me or does it seem like there’s a constant stream of medical breakthroughs lately ?

This sounds absolutely incredible to me. But really ? Is this real ?
Ok, I guess try to remove the psychological effects of drugs. But don't claim that psychological effects are a valid reason to have made them illegal in the first place.
Here [1] is the link to FAQ, which answer 95% of my questions. Highlight below. ( I was thinking if it was a DE based on WebGPU and Canvas )

>What is Kera Desktop based on?

Mostly web technologies. Kera Desktop is written in vanilla javascript and does not rely on third-party frameworks but uses some independent libraries.

>Why is it based on web technologies?

Easy to support different OS. Everyone's OS of choice might be different. Sometimes it can't be a choice because you're forced to use an app that isn't available on the platform you like. Moreover, you might be using several
devices with different OS. Thanks to Kera Desktop being cross-platform and its sync function, you will always have the same interface with your stuff regardless of OS.

Better integration with web apps. More and more things are already being done on the web. But things are stuck on a browser window. Kera Desktop brings more integration to the web apps with the desktop. When both worlds speak the same language, it will be easier for developers to work. Web apps can draw their windows on Kera Desktop. This alone literally removes a significant border between desktop and web app.

[1] https://gitlab.com/kerahq/Kera-Desktop#frequenty-asked-quest...
Literally the person I first heard this from nearly 10 years ago was precisely one of the most manipulative, bullying charismatics I've ever known.
Tom Boothby, Alex Clemesha and I wrote the first web based notebook interface in 2006, which was indeed the Sage Notebook. It was very painful at the time - jquery wasn’t even a thing yet! It was inspired by Mathematica notebooks, mainly because Alex was a heavy Mathematica user when he was a physics undergrad at UCSD. Similarly, Fernando Perez’s Ipython CLI was also inspired by Mathematica notebooks. I personally didn’t use Mathematica notebooks a lot, and was even more inspired by various clever Emacs modes and also Mathcad, and by the first version of Google docs. In any case, we were all inspired by Mathematica notebooks!
Everybody hates the new Reddit… except they’ve more than doubled their MAU since then, so maybe it’s just a loud minority and everyone else likes it.
We have the 1997 edition. It costed us 1,000₹/12$ for a single book( it has around 30 in a set) which was a lot of money for my dad in 1997. Surprisingly the color photos still pop, the page quality is brilliant and it's built like a freaking tank. It was like browsing the internet during the late 1990s.