skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you replaced the subject matter with something more mundane, this exchange would be hilarious. It almost reminds me of a Monty Python sketch.

1> Here's a paper that calculates the average lifespan of humans. The average lifespan is 75 years.

2> That's because the vast majority of humans eat junk food lmao. What do you think the lifespan of a human is? I'd be willing to be it's less than 10 years, maybe even 100 years

1> You don't have to bet, the data is in the paper. 75 years.

2> The paper only looks at the Americas, Eurasia, Africa, and mainland Australia. It doesn't even look at Tasmania. You're making up bogus statistics that aren't supported by your sources in the way that you say they are.

1> Maybe so. I put forward my sources, but there could be a better way of calculating it. If you had to calculate that same statistic, what methodology would you use?

2> One time I saw someone die from a heart attack when they were 45 years old, and 45 is way less than 75. Why would I spend my time digging up data to quantify things are incredibly obvious from observation, when you're willing to lie and make up facts to support your narrative?

1> Your personal observations are not universal objective reality. That's why data is important when running a society at scale. Why exactly do you believe the inclusion of data from Tasmania would significantly change the results? Do you have any sources for your wild claims?

2> I'm sorry, I was under the impression that you at least had a basic understanding of geography. If you don't even understand that humans live in Tasmania, then I don't think this conversation is worth continuing. When talking about the lifespan of humans on earth, the lifespan of humans in most countries on earth is a complete non-sequitur.

Anyway, if you don't understand why data is important when discussing policy, there's not much to be gained here. I hope you find truth if you're looking for it, and peace otherwise. Cheers.
Thank Cory Doctorow[1] for that one.

[1]https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
Were westerners this obsessed with 'self' in the 1950's, or is this something that modern advertising convinced us was so real that we should spend all of our money on it?
Reddit is going to lock down who can use an API key
> But I grew up in a 2008 that was unlike anything on display here.

Reddit in 2008 had open groups for sharing ("legal") sexually suggestive photos of underage girls. ie. they had like swimsuits and stuff on. Reddit has never been about morality.

At this point, they haven't been very successful financially and at acquiring power. Nobody cares what reddit wants... they're nobodys on the tech / business scene.

Now they're looking at all these financially successful and powerful companies and are regretting not selling out earlier. The reddit that people love probably wasn't ever going to be forever. Maybe as a non-profit like wikipedia? What's the point of continuing if you won't even get your "bastion of free speech"?

Reddit was never going to make it much further as a company with no moderation or explicit ethos (other than free exchange of ideas), with minimal advertisement and monetization. These changes have been executed poorly, but they needed to act quickly. Basically, they're trying to put the genie back into the bottle, not be "the cool" social media company, and keep things afloat.

As upset as we may be have they really failed? Have they done anything to substantially lower their standing as a company. They haven't lost users, the growth numbers don't look bad to me, especially compared to some of the better recent years.

What they haven't done is turned that into money or status. Tons of businesses are successful with the "be a dick and hope they don't care strategy". People generally don't like big sacrifice. A monthly charge isn't practical, nor would it be welcomed either. They need to be in full control of the eyes and start monetizing.
> The costs of transporting Usenet weren't zero

Famously so. "This message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars."
We've already had an autonomous car kill a person. And now another has killed a dog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36266007

What's your threshold for "disaster"?
You know what they say. There's no such thing as original thought.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5450?gclid=CjwKCAjwm4ukBhAu...
There was a time when you could get bitcoin for your reddit karma... back when spending several bitcoin for a pizza was a thing.
same era. same sentiment.

the era of getting good value by providing good value seems foregone.

now we focus on extracting maximal value in the short-term/for self and acting that it's naive and dewy eyed to expect anything else. which casts such behaviour as the status quo instead of being
shameful. which results in an overton window where "i got mine" is all that matters.
Dogs and humans are relatively close. Humans and AGI might not be so close.

It depends where the S curve for AGI plateaus. It might be somewhere relatively comprehensible, or it might be far beyond that.

If it's the latter no trade is possible. AGI is going to be doing things we literally can't begin to imagine, driven by motivations we literally can't begin to imagine, using super-meta-everything conceptual engineering we literally can't begin to imagine.

There may be some perceptual fall-out for us to experience, but we won't have any idea what it means.

If this isn't obvious, consider that humans have symbolic abstraction skills which other animals (mostly) lack.

What's the next type of skill up from that?

You could say something like much broader and deeper pattern recognition, the ability to handle far more percepts at once, and so on.

But those are still qualitatively familiar. They're just human skills improved.

What would an entirely different super-class of skills and abilities look like?

It's impossible for us to answer that.
It's not a shitty analogy. Most people completely understand what it's getting at. Inability to understand is a reflection on you, not the analogy. And being pedantic is not a positive trait or intellectually impressive.
both are correct.

The internet is "driven" by web/mobile which is driven by multimedia, which lives and dies on compression / codecs.
Came here to post this one. No single book my entire career has helped me more.

It's a toolbox full of tools. How you use those tools is up to you.

A hammer can be used to build a house, or crush a skull. Two very different outcomes depending on the intent of the person wielding the tool.
Cosmic luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 moon quarantine broke down
Nix is also cross platform. I have a ZSH and NVim configuration from my NixOS laptop, and when I got a company MacBook, it was extremely simple to use that same configuration and get an identical setup.
It's not just augmented reality, it can theoretically do normal VR as well. But it's not a headset compatible with outside computers. It's a computer (and battery) and a headset all connected together. So unless Apple allows new/existing VR games onto their proprietary ecosystem, you won't be able to use the VP to play them.
If it makes you feel any better, same.
Replaces Google+StackOverflow by a large account now. I use it mostly for code generation.

Just today I had it write me SQL scripts for batch refactors / renames / replaces of column data and table column definitions and to generate a c# enum class for a table of response codes a payment processing gateway responds with. It has made me much more confident in my day-to-day job where I write web applications for clients.

Certainly speeds up integrations and anytime I have a bit of uncertainty as to how to solve a particular task which I have not come across previously - its a game changer!
I don’t know why but this just reminded me of how I discovered that SQL Server stores times in increments of .000, .003, .007 seconds. I wasn’t even using SQL Server (directly), just trying to understand what looked like data corruption as an API consumer. That discovery was a precursor to probably the second worst six-month stretch of my entire life (this one was caused by mishandling of time zones, and not the fault of SQL Server, but the previous experience helped me identify the issue).
Higher than one person and one dog.
All numbers are just processes we treat like a number. "Four" is not a "real thing", it's a mental model / description that sometimes applies to real things; infinity too.
I bought a $25 pre seasoned lodge cast iron and it's been very easy and low maintenance.

I bought a couple carbon steel pans I had to season myself and they're a constant nightmare.

You may want to try again with a different brand.
I think the point is that now you have to go to chatgpt to get that information.
I'm just imagining the equivalent of "screensharing" with this setup. Remote workers could get the "over the shoulder" pairing vibe we used to have in office, by opening a "portal" over your shoulder, and both looking at the displays and turning and talking to each other. Both people could even point at the display.
> 3. These forums should encourage less anonymity and more persistent communication.

Why should this be applied to all of the groups/forums? I thought Facebook already showed that the whole "Anonymous people act worse" thing was bullshit, shitty people will be shitty people even if they have their real name attached to it. It should at least be up to each community to decide if they want to allow anonymous users or not.
After years of diligently purchasing top-end, last-gen hardware for the homelab, I realized about 2 years ago that in the world of NUC-alikes, I can get a CPU that's "fast enough" for virtually anything I need to do, for less than the cost of the last-gen stuff (indeed, low enough to be basically disposable), in one-twentieth or so the physical volume, with a negligible impact to the power and cooling bill. Sure, I have a physically big NAS (I don't think RAID-1 is a NAS solution), and I keep one beast box for the times I really need it (currently a late spin Threadripper with tons of ram, usually powered off). And people don't have to yell over the sound of the fans in the basement.
Jesus Christ his comics are long winded.

I guess attention spans have shrunk or I’m less tolerant of another ‘some guys opinion’ now they are spouted at me 24/7 or it’s the fact that there’s more than six webcomics to read.

Can’t imagine this comic being very successful nowadays.

Having said all that he was being mocked contemporaneously so it’s not just me!
I agree. They have a breathless tone to them that's quite annoying to me (I work in data compression as an academic, and I found this article uninspiring.)

By the way, there was an old Soviet magazine called "Kvant" (Russian for Quantum, I think). I do not know Russian, but I have 2 collected volumes of selected articles from them. [1] [2] Their quality is astonishingly good, and high-level. The difference is this:

The Kvant articles were written by professional research mathematicians, trying to present their ideas to an audience that were willing to follow them with pencil and paper in hand.

Quanta magazine articles are written by journalists trying to present advanced science to a lay audience - the articles are very stilted and present the articles in a tone that oversimplifies the problem and gives no idea about the actual solution, and uses hackneyed tropes like : oh look the solvers were just some random unknown guys (in a recent case, the random unknown guy is a tenured faculty at UCLA in theoretical computer science, apparently "a world away from mathematics" [3])

[1] http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/thomas/Collection/details/5660...

[2] http://www.personal.psu.edu/sot2/kvant_preface1.pdf

[3] https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprise-computer-science-pro...
I’m not sure that plastics ever really leave the body though. I don’t think our bodies are equipped to break down the polymers.

Though maybe using some tremendous UV light inside our bodies would work. Scientists should look into that.

Anyway, lead has far more deep rooted utility in the consumer space. Lead was relatively easy to phase out, plastics, not so much.
But it was worse when you were a teenager, no?
The issue is 3M has moved to stop using forever chemicals. Destroying 3M could mean companies that continue manufacturing the chemicals win out.

It'd be better if 3M received a penalty (severe but manageable over time) and mandate to set a higher bar for industry practices (or risk further consequences).

Govt is far too slow to regulate.
Thanks. Reification again.
> There's a lot of value in the communities and discussions on reddit

I don't know, even the positive ones were crazy seedy.
Ignores biology where adolescents have increased sensitivity to light when it comes melatonin release.

https://www.neurologylive.com/view/teenage-circadian-rhythm
As someone who has had a couple bad back and neck injuries, the idea of being able to position hi-res displays anywhere in space is very attractive. $3500 would be totally worth it if I can tolerate it for the day.
Maybe something unusual?

https://petpedia.co/how-many-dogs-die-in-car-accidents/
What about the Default Mode Network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network#Function)? This comprises the regions of the brain responsible for our sense of self, including our internal monologue and personal memories. It's most active when we're not engaged in any complex tasks, and least active when we're "in the zone", or meditating, or tripping on psychedelics (which, in high doses, cause ego dissolution).
I had wrote some shell software (~5k loc without comment i think?) and agree.

I was using shell because the project want to maintain compatibility between different distros (including some weird customized one without `ps` and `sed`), but that's all. Shell is not a good choice for things other than scripting.
I did a random search for "seagate drive power draw" and it lists 4.2W peak power consumption for a 5TB drive, which sells for $95-130. At California's $0.31/kWh, the energy cost per hour for that drive is $0.001302. It would take ~72965 hours or ~8 years for the energy cost to exceed $95 at current rates, and the warranty on those drives are only 3 years.

But of course, energy cost keeps going up, and drives are surviving longer, so the energy cost could still exceed the acquisition cost.
My high school offered the SAT during a normal school day, which seems much nicer that having to do it early Saturday morning! (And means the teachers can double as proctors.)
It doesn't cost tens of millions, that's the problem
The University of Utah was also the fourth node of ARPANET, the predecessor of the internet - https://www.lib.utah.edu/digital-scholarship/arpanet/

On a personal note, this is also part of why I exist at all.

My father came from England very young, worked his way through agriculture jobs in California, and somehow found himself with a job offer at the u of u as an electron microscopist. Met my mom there. Details are fuzzy and not retrievable from the dead. For some reason this job required him early access to the „internet“ in the 80s.

In 1994, we were, as I was told at the time, one of the first families to “have internet” in Utah. We had a dial up connection that lasted 15 minutes before needing to reconnect. As anyone my age remembers, that was about as long as it took to load one webpage with one image.

It was a massive influence on me and my neighborhood friends in countless ways and I’m eternally grateful for what came of it.
Display size and distance from the eye are also variables when calculating PPD
I've heard he's a total jerkoff.
Since you mention how fast things move, maybe spotting familiarities between tools and ideas behind them so you can kickstart your learning process
Presuming you have thought your argument through and can defend it justly: You better not fucking change my desired PM 2.5 or <insert other environmental factor>.

Be careful.
Peter Shirley is a University of Utah guy right? His Ray Tracing in One Weekend series is brilliant
GP wrote "first large-scale, AI-related disaster". What you describe meets the criteria for disaster, but I would argue it's hardly large-scale.
A lot of community run websites are like this. On Wikipedia, ~200 volunteers do 80% of the admin/moderation work. And yes, it’s totally unsustainable.
The first large-scale AI disaster is under way already. It is concentrating additional wealth and power in the hands of the over-privileged solipsistic eye-scanning loons who happened to be in the right place and the right time to capitalize on the fruits of years of research. I think, as a species, we will still manage to pull through just fine.
I didn't know that link, searches seem to confirm. Thank you.

The LCF style provers rely on the host language type system. A theorem instance can only be created by the trusted kernel. Lisp doesn't obviously lend itself to that - you could represent the proof, but I'm not clear how you'd prevent forging one.
Discord, its already there and ready to go.
Apple pushes an update so that FB needs to ask you for permission for tracking. You think that's just being noble? It's because they want to become an ad company too[1], at the cost of destroying countless SMBs in the meantime.

I'm not sure how long this trust is going to last.

[1] https://proton.me/blog/apple-ad-company
On a clean table it might be not a problem, but if you work in an industrial environment or so, where the notebook maybe just is on a box or on the floor and next to heavy tools. Also if you move the notebook around while plugged in, I think with USB-C you really have to hold and support the cable.
This sounds so much like generative ai “excels at creating an explanation for what’s going on, even if it isn’t correct”
iPod ended killed, so yes I'd ship it in the same category as we others. For what it's worth, to this day I'm still more salty about the AirPort line getting killed than the iPod.

> Random protocols

I didn't understand this bit.

> Surface

It's not taking the world by storm, but is a solid product line that is well received, has its loyal community, and continues to ship new products for 9 generations now. And the windows tablet market itself expanded around it, when it just didn't exist 10 years ago. I'd compare it to Google's Pixel line, it's not going to take half of the market, but it's alive, keeps fullfilling its role, get recognition and user satisfaction, so I wouldn't call it a failure.

On iPad/Chromebook, they're a different device category. The same way Chromebooks and Macbooks aren't the same category.
I read a book written in the 1960s about a kid who, as a subplot, received a computer that had a screen it could write on. It would answer questions typed in. The kid typed in "what is the main export of Bolivia?" and the computer responded with "tin".

I cannot recall the rest of the book or its title.

I was amused when a few years ago I asked google that question, and got back "tin" as the answer.

It's still the only fact I know about Bolivia.
It depends. Admittedly this was 35 years ago or so, but generally a certain percentage would go towards the bar and other staff, but mostly you would keep your own tips.

It’s probably due to a difference in culture. The US was still very anti-socialism at the time. But the culture was definitely that you should keep the rewards of your own labor.

At smaller restaurants there was never any pooling at all.
I think the real value proposition of VR in general is "like a big monitor, but it fits in your backpack and you can use it everywhere" and not the successor to smartphones.

Direct social interactions seem really... creepy. It somehow appears rude, like looking at your phone while speaking or pointing a smartphone in someone's direction while potentially filming them.

But if this device enables WFH in the garden/nature where it's too bright for laptops or installing a desktop would be impractical, now that sounds great!
Achieve photorealism.
The right half of my brain, or whatever it is that generates narratives, is part of me. Don't try to take it or speak for it.

And, a narrative can't tell itself. How could anyone write an extended comment, narrative, story, or whatever if to do it they had to manage a narrative about writing it? And one about the narrative about...? Stack overflow!

And one more thing...if a person is a self-narrative, how can that person realize that such a narrative is false?
It's funny when people are so anti-racist they become racist.

I lean really far left, and know I am, so have to guard against bias being on the left. But this entire thread has really lost track of what racism is. So many people are arguing against Jared for being racist, while making racist arguments to justify it. Its getting bit crazy.
No it's not satire. It's one of those clickbaity contrarian articles like "actually using goto is great" or "sometimes wearing pants on head is the smart thing to do." The maxim that they are reacting to is the idea that because we don't trade with ants, smart AI won't trade with us if the cognitive difference is similar. I think their take is that once you can overcome some minimum threshold of communication ability then it does often make sense to trade with others even if they are much much stupider than you are, and that the reason we don't trade with ants is because of that communication barrier. Presumably they are suggesting that even if we will be much much stupider than AI, we will still be able to communicate with the AI in some manner that exceeds that threshold, and therefore they might want to trade with us in some way. But my main point is that it's a contrarian clickbait take that isn't meant to be taken too seriously or to be taken as satire it's to be taken as something to click on.
> Go subscribe to some and start contributing.

Such as?
As long as fewer humans and dogs die from autonomous vehicles than by human-driven vehicles, they are a net good. Don't expect perfection when we don't even expect that from humans.
> “His ‘joke’ is the least of our issues,” the CEO wrote. “His behavior and communications with us has been all over the place—saying one thing to us while saying something completely different externally; recording and leaking a private phone call—to the point where I don’t know how we could do business with him.”

I think that can also be true.

I mean he did leak a private conversation, for support to get a followup discussion at all. Then they used that action to disassociate further, but that doesn't make the actions invalid or unreasonable on its own.

We already know what they are going to do with the API, this isnt more damning than before
Yes please! I got called lazy as a kid since I had trouble getting up at 5:30am daily so I could walk to school. My generation is already fucked, but maybe we can fix things for the next one.

EDIT: and my school district was staggered the wrong direction. High school started earliest, then middle school, then primary school was latest. That's backwards from how it should have been, if anyone in my city had understood how the circadian rhythm changes during adolescence.
Brandon Sanderson has a decent quote from Secret Project #1, that makes me think a bit.

> That is one of the great mistakes people make: assuming that someone who does menial work does not like thinking. Physical labor is great for the mind, as it leaves all kinds of time to consider the world. Other work, like accounting or scribing, demands little of the body—but siphons energy from the mind.
If you wish to become a storyteller, here is a hint: sell your labor, but not your mind. Give me ten hours a day scrubbing a deck, and oh the stories I could imagine. Give me ten hours adding sums, and all you’ll have me imagining at the end is a warm bed and a thought-free evening.
Actually this is a rather 'thin' pop version of an idea proposed by Peter Carruthers. His 2011 book "Opacity of Mind" definitely is not a light read but makes a very compelling case indeed. If this is your jam, I highly recommend this book.