skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If my understanding of mythology is current, it's only the devil who considers bargaining, and it's never to our benefit.

Following that idea, if AI ever needed to "trade" with humans I suspect we'd be taking the worse end of the trade every time (the trade would be for its benefit, and unlikely to benefit us).

Kind of like when the U.S. "trades" with a third-world country. The U.S will just make an offer they can't refuse. But taking the trade often perpetuates their dependence on the U.S. or has long-term consequences for them.
I thought that WW 1 and 2 killed x% of the world/us population and that the current ME wars are not at that same scale, is that incorrect?
I'm not as worried about the economics as the practical effects of having large numbers of young people with nothing to do.

I had a manager once who said managing smart people (not me, a research division full of really super smart people) was difficult because you had to keep them busy so that they'd stay out of trouble --and being really smart, they could make some big trouble...
nix-serve is off the shelf: https://github.com/edolstra/nix-serve

Then put whatever cache you want in front.
I also assume it varies with the season. For example it's half way through june, my body wants to naturally go to bed later and wake up earlier (11pm, 6am wake up time). I have to force myself to go at 9pm (have children), so that I get my 8 hours if sleep.

During winter when it's always dark I have no trouble going to bed at 8pm.

I'm a former night owl, used to go to bed between 4 and 6 am and wake up at 2pm every day of the week, which worked great to work for north america as a remote developer from europe
but it never seems to work tho doesn't it
You forgot the non-consensual plutonium injection experiments
The AMA’s Done
This article comes to mind https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/11/us/jrotc-schools-mandator...

Tl;dr they're trying to pressure high schoolers into JROTC with stuff like automatic enrollment
Discourse is web forum software (not to be confused with Discord).
The incentive for this "journalist" (and for paparazzi) is: their managers and peers will be envious and admiring of her for her "get." None of them will react as we all do, namely: "just leave her alone, for god's sake."
Resolution is a big issue, the quest 2 resolution is too low for me, that using it as a virtual monitor for productivity was a non starter.
Script may be not easy to write, but it's universally easy to deploy. Single almost cross-platform file, no dependencies. Publish the text on a webpage or in an email newsletter so everyone can copy-paste it to their system. Brilliant.
Isn’t it mostly environment variables?
I find the obsession with homework in highschool to be totally ridiculous. It's beyond teaching or memorization, its moved to ceremonial busy work to make educators look good. Because obviously the volume of work kids are doing indicates how good the teacher is, right? It's a case of KPIs gone wrong for sure. When I went to university, my marks improved over HS because the daily BS was forgotten.
I think the pitch is in-home and in-office (eventually this will be the same thing for more people). People might use it on a flight or commute but I don’t see the key pitch being anything like walking the street getting AR map directions etc.
Reminds me of this GQ video with Lil Dicky where he listed the Oculus Quest as one of the 10 things he couldn't live without

https://youtu.be/eqAcVASDZ3g?t=470
Also don't forget what happened to Usenet. At first it wasn't archived anywhere (disk space was expensive then). That was ok, people treated Usenet discussions as ephemeral and said things expecting them to not be dug up later. Then a nonprofit called Deja News started archiving them, causing some limited consternation, but it was a useful resource and offered an opt out to people who didn't want their stuff saved, so fine. People came to rely on Deja News, and... Google acquired it, and it became part of Google Groups, which got worse and worse to the point of now being useless and irrelevant.

Usenet is not completely dead, but it's a shadow of what it once was. Certainly revivals should keep the strong and weak spots of the past in mind.
It’s fine. The author seems respectful.

One must be brave and do things to break through anxiety. This is anecdotal of course, but in my early twenties I had severe social anxiety, and the only thing that worked for me to get over it is to do the thing that causes more anxiety/pain and that you are afraid of. You have to just push through it and do the very thing that is not in your nature over and over in order to overcome it—- in the short term this will incur more anxiety, but it the long-term it will reduce and one can often just leave it fully behind. Obviously this won’t work for everyone but..
100% agree. They are trying to deflect blame onto "old lawyer scared of scary new technology". Why they thought they'd get away with making up entire cases out of whole cloth, who knows...
> I once read an article that argued in the absence of war, it's impossible to tell if a doctrine or commander is good or not.

I think that's correct. And I have 2 examples, one that proves it, and one that disproves it.

The first example is the Royal Navy in the 19th and early 20th century. The master of the seas. In the absence of any real competitor, how was it supposed to stay in shape? Well, it was hard, it was little by little metamorphosing into a paper tiger. Admiral George Tryon [1] tried to reshape it again into a Nelsonian navy, but he died in the sinking of HMS Victoria in 1893 [2], one of the most consequential events in the history of the world. And one of the most unknown. With Tryon dead, the Royal Navy promoted people like John Jellicoe or David Beatty, one a perfectly competent officer with all the right technical knowledge, but with roughly zero fighting spirit, and the other a raging lion of a man, but too good to bother with the details of how to actually command a fleet. But how would the Royal Navy create an organization where the right people would get promoted, if there was noone to "keep them honest" ?

My second example, or counterexample is the pair that was the exact opposite of Jellicoe/Beatty. It was King/Nimitz. I would argue that this was the most fortunate pair of boss/subordinate in the history of naval warfare. King was as aggressive as Beatty, or more. The ultimate no-nonsense guy, hated by many because he was so frank and intolerant to fools. We owe King the decision to follow Midway with Guadalcanal, and then to keep Japan on the ropes from that point on until the end of the war. But of course, nobody remembers Ernest King today, because one thing is to have the idea, another one is to execute. And Nimitz was the one who executed flawlessly. In my book, Midway is well ahead of Trafalgar or Tsushima. At both Trafalgar and Tsushima you had a better fleet obliterating the worse one. But at Midway, it was the underdog that won. And won because Nimitz put all the pieces of the puzzle in the right place ahead of time. Replace Nimitz with Nelson, or Togo, or Yamamoto, and the US loses at Midway. But Nimitz did it, and with it basically won the war in the Pacific.

My puzzle is this: how was it possible for a nation at peace to create an organization like the US Navy that promoted Ernest King and Chester Nimitz (and Spruance, and Halsey)? I don't have an answer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tryon

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_HMS_Victoria
Certainly not before forties. I'm almost forty, and it's still the same in this age group; myself included (just less frequently than in my 20's because I can't afford luxuries such as no-visible-consequences all-nighters anymore, I guess). ;)
China Is Planning to Restrict and Scrutinise the Use of Wireless Filesharing
Probably 10-15 years ago now someone I new built a dev focussed B2B SaaS company that was quite successful. I’m not sure if they ever raised investment, but they were hyper efficient and definitely not following the VC model. Profitable, very small team, and that’s how they liked it. I compared notes with the founder regularly and found it very inspirational. He didn’t want to follow the typical VC model. He wanted to build a long term company that could sustain itself. I just loved everything about what they were doing and how well they were doing it.

And then one day, completely unexpectedly (to me) I read that they’ve been acquired by a private equity firm. I reached out to find out what happened and what changed. His answer was along the lines of “turns out everyone has an exit point after all. Priorities and motivations change and I’ve given this company everything I have to give it. It’s time to explore what’s next”

I think about it a lot. And I’ve witnessed it in various ways numerous time since. People that were hacking on a side project with the idea of “I just want this to be a fun passive income stream” seeing the adoption and love their work gets suddenly thinking “oh my, there’s potential here I didn’t see before! I could build a whole team and company around this… let’s go raise investment!”.

I think we’re just really bad predictors at how achieving the things we want will impact us emotionally. When we reach those milestones we react either more positive or more negatively than we could understand previously.
This is a floccinaucinihilipilification.
The problem arises when you consider the context in which "we're not profitable" comes from, and if that statement can be trusted in that context.

I don't personally think it can, and because there's zero proof available, all we have to go off of is the overall trustworthiness of the speaker, and the context to which they are speaking, ie, they're proven to be untrustworthy and they're in a situation where they need to save face.
Xah Lee falls into the "kook" rather than "troll" category. He was (is?) interested and engaged in the topics. I don't have the impression that he aimed to disrupt, or yank people's chains.
Would you really have an AI make independent decisions about missile strikes and warship deployments?

If one AI decides to invade Taiwan and another decides to send all American forces to the Taiwan Strait in opposition, are we supposed to accept the outcome without debate because it’s somehow statistically correct based on the information captured by the models that made the decisions?
I foresee a rise in before school programs. My oldest child’s school starts at 8:20 but you’d better believe he gets dropped off at 7:20 when doors open. It just aligns better with my schedule and he’s awake before 6 AM anyways.
There's a rivalry between the NBA fan bases of the Utah Jazz and the Houston Rockets. Commonly this manifests as little jabs Rockets fans will make, mocking Utah for not having internet.

Always funny to see this brought up when Utah was one of the first places on the planet to have the "Internet".
>they let techie atheists ponder religious concepts like omnipotence and god without admitting to themselves that that's what they're doing

There's a reason the singularity has been called "the rapture for nerds" since forever. Beliefs about runaway AGI (in particular the assumption that it would have nigh godlike powers,) along with a lot of UFO culture and belief in simulation theory are literally just religion with the serial numbers filed off.
> From day-0 you should have some form of cloud presence in all the providers, at least a root of trust landing zone you can work from to build out infra should you need to.

I am not saying to not use Cloud. Use Cloud. But have your own hardware.
World Book was always the most terrible Encyclopedia when I was growing up 1968-1984. Overly short articles and tons of color pictures; only suitable for 10-yrs and younger. When sent to do a book report in my elementary School library I knew I would always come up short on information if I relied on "The World Book."

Encyclopedia Americana was the thing to own and was IMHO better than the Brittainica. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Americana . We owned the Encyclopedia Americana, The Book of Science (a 10-volume science encyclopedia), and a family medical guide.
I was probably looking at an older or newer version to you, likely it switched from OpenSSL to pure-Ruby implementations of the crypto stuff.
I had some cheap celeron Chromeboxes I intended to bring up as a small cluster. Eventually I got envy & bought some cheap nuc's. I'm still working on that damned kube+ceph bring up. Some toaster style usb drive holders for storage.
> From my experience, the hardest part of being a waiter was dealing with customers.

I was a fine dining server for a couple years while in college before finding my first programming job. It taught me how to deal with pretty much any kind of person.
You should deploy critical thinking skills. Splashing water on someone is in fact assault (or more accurately battery).

But that's besides the point, which isn't very hard to understand. The point is that just because a substance or act doesn't seem harmful _to you_, doesn't mean it doesn't violate someone's rights.
You can still watch in hotels
I'm not seeing this at all. Here's a screenshot:

https://imgur.com/7T0cLO5
A great business plan, if you can keep it.
The full context of that quote sheds some light on this:

> Chairman: The Chinese people are quite xenophobic [排外得很]. You can accommodate many ethnic groups. We don’t have many foreigners in China. You have many different ethnic groups. You have 600,000 Chinese in the United States, but we probably don’t even have 60 Americans. I don’t know why.

I think by the last sentence he meant he didn't know what the reason for the xenophobia was.
I think you’re misunderstanding my point. I’m not saying key custody is infeasible. I’m saying current solutions aren’t working for average people, ie non-techies who don’t even know what a private key is. Do you disagree with this?

If you agree with this premise, that also rules out browser extensions as a universal solution because most users are on mobile. They also have multiple devices and somewhat frequently forget their credentials. Nostr is amazing and if you read my history I have only good things to say about it. But that doesn’t mean that the UX works for everyone, and I simply argue that key custody is a recurring issue in practice.

(Btw, by shitpost, I mean any random discussion such as the ones here on HN or Reddit. Not 4chan.)
That affords reddit inc. with quite a bit more competency than they deserve.

They have made a habit of fumbling and bumbling their way through things like this, and I don't think this is an exceptional circumstance.
If this is a genuine question, I will happily share my belief.

Because people are often incompetent because they haven’t been taught/mentored. Also, people are often incompetent in one area of life but incredibly skilled in another, and because life is not just a series of transactions. Give someone coaching and you can change their life.

If I assume malice, it would not be worth continuing engagement.
Pretty much any claim that the brain (outside the visual cortex) work anything like the way neural nets do.
This is just an excellent comment, thank you.

One note - we're not as concerned with predicting exactly the user's build as I think your $DAYJOB might be. We need to scan the space of possible valid resolutions that'd do a big framework upgrade, then pick an optimal (least effort) option from that space and chart your path towards it. Concretely that'll mean opening incremental PRs against your codebase where we provide lockfiles that are individually valid and accumulate in getting your upgrade done.
Yes, he is a narcissist. Smart guy, cool products, but it's just like how Trump cannot talk about anything without shoehorning in a statement like "I got more votes than any sitting president ever" when being asked about something completely unrelated.

My favorite example is when Caltech put out a press release about a young woman got her PhD and nearly beat Wolfram's record for youngest PhD from Caltech. He felt immediately compelled to write a long winded several-thousand word essay about how glad he is to still have the record for being the youngest PhD, by a full two weeks! And also, he wanted to remind everyone that he knew Richard Feynman. Cringe...
Apparently it doesn't. It needs python and C/C++/Rust.
Information blogging
From what I understand (and I might be totally wrong),
Copilot is useless for dealing with codebases where
you often need to call internal functions

Perhaps this is the next big frontier or opportunity.

LLMs have finally gotten to the point where they are sometimes useful. And local project-level code intelligence (intellisense, static analysis, etc) has been pretty good for a while.

The first team to marry these two things is going to really have something great. A true force multiplier.

It certainly doesn't seem like it will be easy, but it also certainly doesn't seem to be impossible.
Moving away from your established life, friends, family to a country where you will (at least initially) be foreign, where the lifestyle is different are burdens that should not be underestimated.

I'm sure everybody in the EU would like US level salaries, but most wouldn't move for the money alone
My doctor advised me to get the Shingrix vaccine with a 97% effective rate instead of Zoster with a 52% effective rate. But if Zoster also prevents dementia and Shingrix doesn't, what's the expectation-maximizing choice?
I’m still baffled about the hate systemd continues to get and how it’s even worth mentioning that you can run Debian without it.
In general yes, but the article already says that the field of view is comparable to other headsets. And display size and distance are merely used to to determine field of view. So those variables are already accounted for.
What I find interesting specifically with Russia-Ukraine is that the Russian Offensive is NOT producing a modern capable military. They are just throwing bodies.

Ukraine however, will have the second best trained and seasoned military in the world with top NATO weaponry, and is building a national identity. It may be wringing corruption and ineffectual leadership from the civilian government, will have DEEP ties with elite western militaries from training relationships, and will prove themselves as a good investment for Western foreign aid.

Ukraine may or may not get all its territory back, but Russia has, strategically, utterly lost this war. THey wanted a buffer satellite state, and instead have the second most capable NATO military a couple hundred miles from their capital.

Also, I suspect that Belarus will flip to a similar relationship with the West in the next 10 years / when Putin dies. It will be surrounded by Ukraine and the Baltic states, and Lukashenko is already in a tenuous position.
The Apple watch started at $350, not $1k [0]. Also no one with an Android phone has an Apple Watch, which means Apple at best has ~27% of the market [1].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/9/8162455/apple-watch-price-...
[1] https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/android-vs-apple-market-shar...
I like to tell people that a US state is the size of a European country, and USA the country is as large as Europe the continent.

"Oh, you're from Europe? What language do they speak in Europe?"
> Reproducible is key here.

I like the terms this article used: Divergent, Convergent, Congruent.

https://blog.flyingcircus.io/2016/05/06/thoughts-on-systems-...

In a 'divergent' system (e.g. managed by bash scripts), the resulting system state might diverge from what the bash scripts have, because of manually running commands on the system.

In a 'convergent' system, the system tries to reach a target state by comparing what's there with what it's got.

In a 'congruent' system, the system is forcibly built to equal the target state.
This is something I like about backpacking / camping. I make a mini-list of everything I bring with me, consider each item, and then know exactly what I have as I set off. Doing it for all my possessions is probably too hard.
my weekly 1v1s consist of 5 minutes of status updates and 15 minutes of bullshitting about life, nerdy things, whatever.

it’s a social call, but it’s a useful one. we’re fully remote, it’s good to reinforce that humanity thing.
When the cops don't need to fill out forms to catch criminals that's a police state.
This used to be false! I have my dad's copy of the ~1910 encyclopedia Britannica and they were still trying to cover the entirety of the field of mathematics in those years!
> It's just that now, we have a sick society where most men don't have some girl in their town they'd go to war to impress.

What's sick about that? Feelings are temporary, death is permanent. Your definition of a "not sick" society is a sick one by my book
Actual question, which one is Jack? Middle?
That's good to hear. I sheepishly never made it more than a day into Skyrim but I owe it a fair shot.
I barely had any hair I was just a few months off chemo.
Gentle parallels to Ready Player One.

Edit: “Oasis” sounds like a fine name for a non profit alternative to what Reddit coalesced.
You can also catalog when you use something - many things we own are once a month or year items - and some can be replaced with a rental or hiring out.
> I can only assume you’re a bigot as you’ve taken this whole thing very personally.

Just remember you’re the one who can’t understand English. Not only can you not follow the conversation you’re having. But you literally fit the definition of a bigot and then called me one. That is hilarious.
Most products aspire to be the Apple of their category. Ending up as successful as Android is definitely not a blunder...
Neither is long term functioning of the electric grid if you read the IEEE. Go read the IEEE journal where every few years someone writes an article warning that the electric grid will fail catastrophically when an 1859 level solar flare occurs that we can prevent with a relatively straightforward fix.

Technical debt exists in disciplines other than software development.
This is by far one of the most core democratizing innovations that's been waayyy to underloved.

The big giants have proprietary systems. These amazing computers with so many communication systems can't actually talk to each other. It's a huge shame. We really should mobilize some kind of opportunistic exchange system on Linux.

For a brief moment Google had Eddystone, which let folks share urls with each other. That was at least something. Not much.

Really wish the rest of the world cared about this a little more. We take it for granted.
I'd hate for it to cause my skills to rot

Well, good news: it's nowhere near good or useful enough for that. Currently it's mostly helpful with boilerplate stuff and coding quiz style challenges.

It doesn't know anything about which algorithm might be appropriate for a novel challenge, it doesn't know anything about your database or codebase, etc.

My personal opinion so far is that this is going to be a very useful tool. A big leap will occur if/when it can work in tandem with knowledge of your local code+data. However I don't see it ever replacing higher level reasoning or rotting one's skills. Unless the "skill" in question is memorizing boilerplate stuff.
Truly, there was nothing more mentally productive than a day on the tractor, or driving fence posts and stretching wire, or clearing.
I think what needs to be appreciated is that the vast majority of people don't use any password manager. LastPass inspite of its many red-flags is still better than nothing, and is usually a good starting point for a less tech-savy person. Within the context of this site what needs to be accounted for is their target audience. If it's aimed at people new to the whole idea of cyber security then it makes sense, but if it's aimed at more experienced users then yes 100% LastPass is a terrible suggestion.