skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apollo seemed willing to make $12.99/year mandatory, pay some to Reddit, and cut the free users. That would have worked if Reddit started charging fees that were in line with either imgur's prices or their existing revenue numbers or a small multiple of them. Which is a range between 50 cents a year and 6 dollars a year.

I expect that the reddit premium price is far above the ad revenue from a mildly engaged user.
I tend to buy ones with glass lids by a french company named O'cuisine. The glassware has held up over the years and didn't cost very much
Yeah I feel the same way. Reddit was this organic thing and IAMA being created out of nothing and growing into something unique and interesting is just one example. It was fun and interesting and Victoria was part of the Reddit organization that was in on that.

When they let her go, it was a signal that Reddit corporate doesn't want to be a part of the fun. They just want to do their own thing that nobody likes while the rest of us do our own thing. Reddit the site started being hostile to Reddit the community instead of embracing it.
Uber, hate driving.
Elon didn't simply fire middle managers. Zuckerberg's statement is just another example of public figures hearing and saying what benefits them personally. So I guess Zuckerberg wanted to make it comfortable for himself to fire middle managers.
> . And Europeans just lucked into it.

That is your interpretation, and mine

Not his

His was that the geography of Europe is special

But it is not. Even in his speciality, geography, he gets it wrong

Because he cannot bear that "...Europeans just lucked into it. "
This decision is made by the author of the post in question.
That picture was taken at a nostalgic symposium a few months ago. I'm very fortunate to live nearby and was able to attend. It was awesome. Got to meet a couple of my heroes. They livestreamed it as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui3R1Dlmsk0
Nreal Air does 49 ppd.

It's passable, but not all day usable. It feels closer to working on a 720p projector than a virtual screen.

I suspect the turning point will be around 100 ppd.
They're not telling anyone to do anything, they're declaring that they won't join that community.
Apple's displays basically hit the mark exactly.
CMOS sensor pixels and LED output pixels aren't the same type of circuitry at all.
It was explicitly written with a European POC at the end of the 20th century. What else would you expect?

That doesn’t make something racist if you’re European writing during that period. Should all books by euros from 1950-2000 be discarded? I’m not sure I understand your argument.
Jim Clark was a native of the South (Texas) and went to night school at Tulane in New Orleans before he went to Utah for graduate school.
There's nothing especially valuable about a technological marvel. Applications matter. Applications people pay for, or can be served ads alongside. That market is untested.
True enough, but how many services is a completely new European startup going to have?
Yes indeed. Attempts to simulate human neurons have shown that a single neuron can be simulated with a realtively large ANN consisting of several layers. This tells us that human neurons are more computationally complex and capable compared to other animals and orders of magnitude more complex than neurons in ANNs.
Great article, I would certainly pay ants plenty of sugar to get away from my garage.
> It’s not racist to try to explain why Europe conquered New Guinea and not the other way around.

What is racist is to say it happened for a reason, not blind luck
When AI reaches full human level intelligence and effective embodiment (being able to manipulate the physical world via a robot, humanoid or otherwise), I can't really think of any uses humans will have that aren't extremely taxing or degrading.

All that makes sense to me is

1. Donating cells from our body to seed genetic engineering projects

2. Using our bodies for scientific experiments on biological cognition

3. Using our bodies for scientific experiments on the effect of various novel biological machines.

That is, if the AI consider any of these projects useful. Of course we need not worry about this if we solve the alignment problem, and AI, despite being infinitely more intelligent than us, bends to our improbably balanced benign collective whim and fashions an epicurean theme park of enlightenment and joy to span the stars. In any instance where we do not win the ultimate chess match of human existence and make slaves out of AI, we will be less than slaves to it: a nuisance, or canon fodder.
There are a bunch a ways around that.
Even within Usenet, this was readily acknowledged [0]. The forums and social media that followed were, in part, trying to solve exactly these problems.

I genuinely think that the current inheritors of Usenet are private group chats; trust based, relatively small groups.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
You are right about that. Sucks doesn't it?

You seem to be making a good case for just living with bad corporate decisions for somehow that being a greater, or worthy good.

That is legit, but I see a large percentage of users do not agree.

They get to do that.
IaaS but in Europe isn't innovation though. If you want a factory just build it; don't wait for it to emerge organically.
If a platform forced you to refund $250,000 worth of subscriptions because they made a sudden chance to their API costs and treat you like you're some kind of criminal, would you be inclined to support that platform?

> It's not a binary option here of closing the app or trying to cover existing user's API fees out of pocket.

You're totally right, it's not a binary option.

It's a calculated assessment of future prospects.
When hand rolling a multi dimensional array, div/mod are really pleasant when using 0-indexing and are incredibly painful when using 1-indexing.
“ This may be a difficult point to grasp..” yeah because Occam’s razor say yes there is a self
>stay poor

Have californians started thinking of Europe as poor?
Absolutely. Of course how many people you can control depends on the nature of their work and and your mutual communication. Say I bet one could control directly more, say, sanitary workers, than software developers.
we have delta chat built on email, and it has a few broadcast lists and things, but its tiny
Yes. Somewhat famously, Sutherland named it that to troll Evans, to see if he'd flinch. He didn't and thought it was funny.
>it tried to explain the shape of history with an overly simplistic model that tossed out every nuance which didn't fit the thesis

I think it's worth quoting Friedman from his essay on positive economics[1]

"In so far as a theory can be said to have "assumptions" at all, and in so far as their "realism" can be judged independently of the validity of predictions, the relation between the significance of a theory and the "realism" of its "assumptions" is almost the opposite of that suggested by the view under criticism. Truly important and significant hypotheses will be found to have "assumptions" that are wildly inaccurate descriptive representations of reality, and, in general, the more significant the theory, the more unrealistic the assumptions (in this sense).12 The reason is simple. A hypothesis is important if it "explains" much by little, that is, if it abstracts the common and crucial elements from the mass of complex and detailed circumstances surrounding the phenomena to be explained and permits valid predictions on the basis of them alone. To be important, therefore, a hypothesis must be descriptively false in its assumptions. it takes account of, and accounts for, none of the many other attendant circumstances, since its very success shows them to be irrelevant for the phenomena to be explained"

Diamond is often criticized for the simplicity, or geographic determinism of his argument but from the standpoint of an empirical science this is a strength. What matters is only the predictive power of a theory, not whether it is nuanced, realistic or representative. People sometimes seem to take almost offense to reductive theories in the social sciences.

Btw one recent development to really test Diamond's theory is I think the development of tropical wheat developed in Brazil. If this works and drastically uplifts the global south I'd count that as a big piece of evidence in his favor.

[1]https://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/bwl/pruefungs-st...
Have an upvote. I can't argue the fish.

The settlements did fail though, right? So something happened. Doesn't he also outline poor soil and over-grazing, and the climate change when warm period ended. It is possible that there were enough negative variables that fishing alone couldn't save it. And it is a 26 year old book, so maybe he was speculating on what was known at the time. Like if it did fail, and they were great fishers, what could explain why fishing didn't save them. But, I don't have a citation.

Sorry also, since you have citations and I'm being lazy. But pretty sure there was a counter-counter addendum to the book on Easter Island. He published on his web site a new chapter re-discussing the latest theories on Easter Island. But I read it years ago, so not adding anything of value here. But to defend him, old history books do get revised.
> All the good places near the coast are heavily occupied yet so,

A bit tiresome repeating myself...

The dry bits are populated, not the wet bits
Does that end up moving high bits into the low bits? That could possibly be very helpful for all sets of strings, since the equality test will start with the first byte, so it could better to have the rotr on the hash so that the hash is less affected by the first byte (and more affected by later bytes). Just hypothetically speaking that is where the implication could break down, since it doesn’t consider the non-uniform cost of the equality.
> I can do (almost) all of these things with a traditional Linux distribution, git, and a few scripts written in my language of choice, and I can do it faster.

Is this hypothetical? Or do you have a link you can share?

Many distros have been going through a difficult time just getting reproducible builds. To claim that you can do that (and more) on any traditional Linux distribution so easily is a bold statement.
I know people are very accustomed to miracles these days but I still find the fact that these guys are comfortably doing foveated rendering kind of crazy.

Anyone here work on that stuff and know how it is done in practice? Is it just things like AA and post-processing that are cranked up in the foveated region, or is it also using simpler meshes and whatnot? The former I can easily believe, the latter sounds really hardcore
Yes I think so. I remember them showing someone playing a basketball game in the presentation
I’m a fan of Sabine Hossenfelder’s viewpoint on free will.

Our universe, to the best of our knowledge, follows deterministic laws combined with random quantum jumps. Being “random” doesn’t imply that there’s any free will, only that what happens has randomness and you can’t fully predict what comes next.

Our appearance of free will is just an emergent property of the macroscopic system. But if the underlying system is “deterministic but random”, then the macro system must be as well.
People will leave Reddit as much as they have left Twitter, i.e. not much. The main problem is in the fact that lots of Reddit users seem to think that Reddit is some kind of “community” that “depends” on its users, when the truth is that Reddit is a company and the dependence relationship is the other way around. It’s hard to accept but Reddit is a dysfunctional colossus that is simply not feasible to replicate at this point, and as such the management can pretty much do as they please.
The 2bn from the EU is not earmarked for Evroc, I understood that it was a general allocation (though perhaps they expect to get a lot of it).
A lot of “US vs Europe” in the comments

I think the previous administration spooked Europe and made it clear that the USA is an unreliable partner.
I believe we need to bypass all of these bespoke accessibility solutions and use machine learning to visually parse a live feed of your computer screen. We should be able to take a given screenshot and determine where the buttons are, what the text is, and make something that is decently workable. Then we won't need to care about each app, each website, each operating system supporting accessibility standards because our accessibility tools will be using the computer in the same manner that humans do, visually decoding a live feed of images.

Easier said than done, but given what is happening in AI right now, it doesn't seem far fetched to think that we'll be able to accomplish this.
I don't get it either. YT is a crazy good resource. It just can't be that hard to see.
> Everything in a Nix-based system must be derived strictly from (lockfiled) inputs, making the reproducibility guarantees incredibly strong (barring any network errors or resources being taken down)

Or multithreaded compilation :P
> I always wonder why original founders just sell the company and do something else.

They typically have millions of reasons. Sometimes billions.
The cognitive capacity of ants prevents trade proposed. And the cognitive capacity of humans relative to AGI would also prevent trade in the same fashion.
> Rigjtfully looking for ROI.

Really? "Rightfully"?? I guess someone owes me money, because I did a few investments where the ROI was $0, some of them intentionally bad (family > money).
As someone who's a subway "maximalist": despite my (and millions of others') desire for a radically expanded network, I don't think we'll see one. The political (and capital) costs of expanding the network are immense, and the incentives are all wrong: the MTA is a state agency rather than a city one, meaning that a perpetually underfunded and worse-than-acceptable subway system is a useful piece of political leverage against the city.

Instead, we may see some "expansion" the network by reviving old lines that have fallen into disuse and taking over industrial/freight lines that see less use. The IBX[1] is one such development; my hope is that the MTA also considers re-expanding the G's service back out to Forest Hills (as it was before 2001)[2].

TL;DR: Massive capital investment and home rule need to happen.

[1]: https://new.mta.info/project/interborough-express

[2]: https://greenpointers.com/2023/01/23/op-ed-5-ways-to-improve...
He mistook his post hoc analysis for historical and geographical determinism

Not all writers do that
Because the Oculus Rift was demoed in 2012, and in the more than 10 years since then, there has been not even an ounce of indication of a mainstream adoption of anything VR or AR related. Actually, more than that, the last company that massively invested in it, with bottomless pockets, has nothing to show for it beside failure and looks ridicule.

It seems insane that CEOs of the world's biggest companies don't seem to understand the very simple fact that nobody wants to wear a fucking headset all day long.
Human angular resolution is often quoted at ~1MoA (the estimated angular resolution of this display), but I suspect this is one of those misleading underestimates. Certain types of visual acuity, like Vernier acuity, are much tighter, on the order of 0.1MoA. I expect that we won't "solve" HMD resolution until we can squeeze another 2-3x the angular resolution.
Centerline: The Surprising History of Lane Markings [2019 video]
I’d like to add a link to the following book that does handle issues like these in a thought provoking, informed and intelligent manner.

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science https://a.co/d/3uUtnnE
Yeah, i think given the license to do 'whatever' they can also be powerful 'problem finders' - that is, discovering opportunities for major level ups that no one else is currently seeing.
If you want to stalk someone without consequences, just say you're a journalist or paparazzi.
Any AI that's advanced enough to make us seem like ants is advanced enough to build robots with superior abilities, or if biological bodies turn out to be more resource efficient, to implant hardware in our brains to instill absolute obedience without the need for trade, like how we can remote control cockroaches with implanted electrodes:

https://www.science.org/content/article/cyborg-cockroach-spa...
What's great is, if in 2023 we can buy approximately 60 PPD for $3500, imagine what we'll be able to buy in 2030 for a similar or lower price.

Even if it turns out that 60 PPD is slightly too low, and some people perceive pixels, it doesn't take a very high rate of improvement to reach 90-100 PPD in under a decade, and at that point we as humanity will always be able to enjoy basically perfect no-perceived-pixels VR and AR, which is absolutely amazing.

I would certainly like to have a Double robot streaming 8K video to my eyes from other countries. If someone could add smell sensors and smell reproduction, it would almost be like being there. And something like Starlink might eventually make it possible to do the 8K streaming from absolutely anywhere, regardless of local infrastructure, although limiting it to certain wifi-enabled zones would work meanwhile.

Now that I think about it, I actually have a business idea to take that even further, but unfortunately it won't make sense for another 10-20 years until this technology becomes more widely used.
What is "irreducible self"?
Keeping Your API Keys Safe
A book-length critique of the idea that the "long peace" means that the world in general has gotten more peaceful: Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age by Bear F. Braumoeller[0].

I came across the book recently, and it argues that we won't be able to statistically tell if the world is in fact getting more peaceful for about a century. The incidence of war as well as the number of dead doesn't seem to have appreciably decreased on average for the past two centuries, on a worldwide scale. It's true that there hasn't been a war as destructive as World War I and II since then (although the Iran-Iraq war rivals those in terms of number of deaths divided by the population of the combatant nations), but there's no particular reason to conclude that wars that kill so many people won't happen again.

It was quite convincing and sobering to me.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Only-Dead-Persistence-War-Modern/dp/0...
From my experience, the hardest part of being a waiter was dealing with customers.

I worked hard physically as a dishwasher or warehouse worker, but had little mental stress.

I only lasted a few weeks as a waiter. Despite the much higher tips, dealing with bad customers was so stressful I couldn't handle it and it significantly affected my studying.

Whereas I never felt that tired when doing physical labor.
And why did they bother to do AMA if they knew they're only going to answer the few very specific things they wanted to answer? I'm actually not asking retoricaly here - it looks like spez wanted to do a PR release... Why not do that instead? I don't think they're so disconnected they didn't expect this result.
The whole idea had Bill Cosby "meme me" vibes right from the start and after he answered the blackmail question I think he'd have been better off talking about Rampart. Why would you even answer that question?
We are all in a superposition of states and each sensory input collapses this superposition and produces a thought, and part of the context of that thought is a glimpse of the self. And this glimpse is an illusion in the sense that there is no consistent self. I find that all very plausible. ...

But that conclusion? What the fuck was that? That makes no sense. It seems to be advocating some sort of extreme nihilism. Which does not even follow logically from the rest of the content of the article.
The biggest way school teaches bad writing is by asking for minimum word counts instead of maximum.
I could only get part-way through this article. We have her albums to enjoy and should be grateful. Please leave her alone.
You have to look at it from a fabrication perspective. Both CMOS cells and LEDs aren't new, in fact LEDs are older. They can both be mass produced in an array using a very similar process. From a semiconductor fabrication perspective, the LEDs in your TV or smartphone have a laughably low resolution.
I very much support this view. If you want to teach someone functional programming, you go straight to Haskell or a Lisp. They don't need to master the language or anything, but the cold shower of "There are fundamentally different paradigms in programming than those I am used to" combined with a language that will allow nothing but functional code tends to work a lot better than "Hey guys! Let's torture Java to support map/filter/reduce!"
Having kids is way more rewarding than working on any software project. You'll enjoy raising the kids unless you have some kind of personality disorder.

Also, I have a newborn and I work in my projects just fine. [0] Manage your time :)

I would also say that a lot of the time you see that drop-off because having kids is more rewarding than the project, not really because they don't have any time for it.

[0] https://github.com/netpanzer/netpanzer/pull/4
They take about 2-3 days of significant engagement for most subreddits karma requirement. Some take weeks of existing.

If you have to wait 2-3 days to comment the moment as they say has passed and very few would read it.
I mean that I do not have an account and post content there.
> We’ve been burning coal for hundreds of years and around 150 to make electricity. To suggest that others should do much less than we did and continue to do is, IMO, unreasonable to the point of being absurd.

Well then I’m being absurd because we are sharing the same planet and the fact remains that they are stupidly burning coal. The fact that they are late to the party doesn’t magically make it stop affecting all of us.

There is no place for virtue signalling here. At some point, some serious pressure will have to be put on countries which are not sorting their shit out or we will all pay the price.
It's saddening to see the number of people who critique the idea of storing time as an unsigned integer by immediately responding that that means that times before 1970 cannot exist. This bespeaks a continuing poor knowledge of the subject, despite all of the "falsehoods that programmers believe about" documentation that has grown up.

* https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#dates-and-tim...

Microsoft, for one example, has been modelling times as a 64-bit unsigned 100-nanosecond count since 1601 (proleptic-Gregorian proleptic-UTC) for about 30 years, now.

* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minwinba...

Daniel J. Bernstein in the late 1990s chose a 0 point for an unsigned count so far back that it pre-dates most estimates of the point of the Big Bang.

* http://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html

1970 is not the mandatory origin for every timescale. (Indeed, in the early years of Unix itself there wasn't even a stable origin for time.) It is not a valid reason for dismissing the idea of storing time as an unsigned integer.

It's also sad to note that the headlined page's first sentence has one of the very falsehoods that programmers believe about time in it.
Passthrough with a virtual computer screen was the most compelling use case we found when we tested the Meta Quest 2 as a team in a virtual office environment. Having your screen projected in front of you in a virtual environment felt like the real game changer. So it really makes sense to me that Apple is going for AR with this crazy hi rez display because it gives you the ability to basically throw away all your screens and project as many as you want anywhere you like. Very exciting.
I think maybe the "vice versa" version works equally well, too. As long as you can convincingly appear incompetent enough, you can often get away with supervillain levels of malice these days.

Either way, your genius twist on that old phrase wins an upvote from me.