skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, sure, let's take insurance rates too. As I said, I assume due to autonomous vehicles that will trend towards 0, so what useful information does that tell you? That autonomous vehicles are safer, if that actually does happen. I don't understand the overall point you're making, are you saying AVs are not safer than humans? Because if so, I'm not sure why one would believe that.
I keep seeing this robot-like criticism of Diamond as "over-simplistic" or "hyperreductionist". But it's just a model? The map is not the territory, and Diamond has never claimed to explain all human development. His thesis is merely that geography and environment contribute to biological and cultural dominance to a disproportionate degree compared to other factors. I don't see how this is controversial.
Is it known that Bard is trained using RLHF. My guess was that it wasn't.
I was thoroughly entertained.
No, I think you're confused - not only does it not make sense for a web-app to itself use Electron, Discourse does not publish an Electron host, and I really can't imagine anyone using it if they did. Badges are easy to ignore, I'd argue they're a helluva lot less noisy than the Discord UX.

In exchange, I get an OSS forum software, I can interact via email, and valuable OSS information is discoverable via Google. None of which applies to Discord, Twitter, etc.
This entire over-monetization of Twitter is so pathetic, that it's giving me NFT vibes. Instead of millions of variations of bored apes, we have here a business model incentivizing millions of stupid hot takes, stolen memes, and clickbait threads, in what's shaping up to be the saddest social media of our time. For shame. Twitter had a vision once.
Things I have bought well and once:

Vitamix 5300 - going strong after 13 years of near daily usage, 4 family blenders from department stores failed/poor quality blending before this

Zojirushi Rice Cooker - also close to 13 years, usage of a few times a week

Breville Burr Grinder - decade or a bit older, frequently used

Sonicare Toothbrush - $150ish or so model, probably 8 years of near twice daily usage. Presume I’ll have to change the battery sooner or later, but fine aside from that.

Being from poverty, I don’t think anybody in my family prior to me had ever spent nearly this much money on singular appliances. Having made the money spent on them on my own in my early teens, I consider it money very well spent - they’ve been with me in the Midwest, to the East Coast, and the West Coast (and through more than a few TSA baggage scans with people maybe wondering why is a young male flying with this kitchen equipment)
> American primacy

Why talk about this like it's an end in itself? There's an opportunity cost involved

Other NATO countries combined spend less than the US. At what point is it enough?
Definitely. It's not hard to imagine that even if they end up rolling their own for this, it might make sense for it to be a bunch of off-the-shelf Synology NASes stuffed with 22TB drives in donated rackspace around the world, running MinIO. If the "hot" data is all still in S3/CDN/cache, then you're really just keeping the rest of it around on in-case basis, and for that, the simpler the better.
Rehbinder Effect
I relocated and I no longer have any hobbies that involve tools.

For a different lifestyle, this list would be much longer and that is fine.

There is nothing special about having just 100 items.
The one with the homeless person crossing the road with a bicycle at night.
There are already lawyers getting in trouble for having chatgpt write their court filings and not doing a sanity check.

It can't be that long until some industrial engineer does the same thing and like explodes a refinery or such.
Most of these pledges are based on offsetting, I.e., planting some tree somewhere and claiming the provider’s emissions are somehow gone or captured by the trees they planted. Uhul!
> given modern concerns (primarily spam and spoofing)

"modern concerns" go way past spam and spoofing.
Single sign on to a host of boards is Reddit's power. The ability to share a variety of interests in one place is fantastic, but it assumes the site owner will be open to your interests forever. They aren't and cannot be.

Federated approaches continue to prove themselves to be the most resilient, if not the easiest to use options available.
Heretical but this makes me wish consoles had half line support. Theres really savy design here, looks great. But text is either too smooshed together or as here too spread out with full newlines between topics.

This person releases, wow. I don't K ow what a windows armv6 build is - surely no windows has ever run on an arm that small? Windows ce? But it's there. Along with a bunch of bsd builds for all architectures. Wow.
I have skills and money, but not much time.

With that in mind, I'm building an audio platform with a streaming video game overlay (i.e. Forza Horizon, Spiderman, Cyberpunk 2077), where all the participants on the call can play, and I like to test it w/ people from time to time.

It's a little more involved than that, but that's about the best elevator pitch that I can come up w/.
Partly this is that Amazon isn’t as cheap in Europe. It’s £10.99 ($13.81) including 20% VAT at Argos in the UK.
Frameworks are great if your application fits perfectly into the subset of applications that the framework was designed for. However the moment your applications grows beyond the design boundaries of the framework, you might end up in a situation where you have to drastically rewrite the app or even do a complete rewrite.

Which is why I have always been more productive long term using my own frameworks. It takes longer to get started, but once you get the train going, nothing stops it.
They have only multiple choices, for fuck's sake -- the simplest form in an exam in other countries!

I’ve found multiple-choice to be as hard as any other format when “none of the above” and “all of the above” are added to every single question.
And part of Diamond's book was about how geography helped form free markets.
What "people" say or write the one-dimensional stories you repeat? Not Diamond. He discusses the pre-existing conflicts among the Aztec groups, and how some allied with the Spaniards. No one who studies the Spanish conquest says a small band of mercenaries and fortune-seekers could have conquered a united Aztec empire. The article these comments refer to also explicitly mentions that. Maybe people ignorant of history, who only know about Thermopylae from watching 300, repeat these stories, but historians don't, and Diamond doesn't.

The fact of rebellious locals allying with the Spaniards, possibly because they saw the significant advantages of the Conquistador technology and how it could help their cause, doesn't change Diamond's thesis. Nor does the fact that introduced diseases killed allies and enemies alike.
The other reply is correct. It's about raising awareness that these choices have consequences and motivating others to raise their voice about the importance of open platforms for building open communities and open software.

Also, I think hosting an OSS community in non-accessible, proprietary user-hostile platforms is more toxic than... pointing out the originating toxicity.
That's one of 3 explanations I've heard. #2 is to make time for after school sports. #3 is so that teens can be home to watch their younger siblings.
Dispute Erupts over Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Happiness Brand
Probably the most consequential outcome of US-China cordiality in the early 1970s was that China contracted with US firms to build ammonia-fertilizer factories:

> "In the early 1970s, China negotiated contracts with foreign firms for construction of thirteen large nitrogenous-fertilizer plants. By 1980 all thirteen plants had been completed, and ten were fully operational."

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

By the early 1980s, China's food production was finally on a stable footing, and this was largely due to the import of "Green Revolution" technology enabled by the opening up of trade with the West:

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

It can be said with a fair degree of certainty that both the Soviet and Chinese systems of Communist authoritarianism prevented the kind of innovative approaches to agricultural production that the more open academic research environment in the United States encouraged. The contrast between Norman Borlaugh and Trofim Lysenko is somewhat instructive in that regard, and it seems Mao's China had no shortage of Lysenko types.

Of course, the consequences of the Green Revolution, i.e. steep population growth and increased reliance on fossil fuels, were not really understood at the time, either. Now we sort of have the tiger by the tail, while steadily increasing climate stress is starting to undercut agricultural production, in China, India, Africa, Europe, the USA...
I’d be interested in hearing about what these folks think, specifically those who in the face of an opportunity to say what they want in front of an eggar audience … repeatedly choose not to.

Most people I think would jump at the chance. Something an humanity drives people to want to be heard, but some folks don’t want to, I wonder what they think about it all.
Burke also came across as a pretty major dick in Aliens tbh.
It is his field. He's a geographer and a biophysicist, not only an ornithologist. Understanding geographic and environment contributions to evolution is explicitly in his wheelhouse.
Why should evidence not be hard to find? It’s why we have detectives (to find evidence of crimes) and why lawsuits have long discovery processes (again, to find evidence).
Analogously, compare Emacs with VSCode.

It's much easier for someone to be productive with VSCode without having to go out of their way to learn much.

Whereas, Emacs' requires much more effort to learn, even just to get started; but is much more extensible than VSCode is.

For the user who doesn't want to spend much time learning, surely VSCode is better. For the user who wants to get the most out of their editor, Emacs is a reasonable choice.

I think Nix is comparable. Much of the time, Nix is quite straightforward to use. But, when you do run into something that's hard, Nix can be very difficult to work with.

Maybe there'll be a tool that's to Nix/NixOS what VSCode is to Emacs; where you get the benefits of a declarative config.
On the original topic: my circadian rhythm wants to run either 30 or 32 hours. College was absolutely brutal for me, because I could arrange my classes to not start early at least several days a week, and that just made matters worse.

The only thing that got me back into a healthy rhythm was getting a job that forced me to be up at a regular hour every day. Without exaggerating too much, taking that job probably saved my life because the stress of classes on top of the mental and emotional consequences of being so out of the loop were very difficult to deal with.

Nowadays, I still find myself occasionally staying up until 3 in the morning. Sometimes I work late at night just because I can't flow during the day, and I make up for it by taking time off in-between my meetings. That's a personal choice that ends up working fairly well for our family, but also isn't exactly "healthy" in the strictest sense either, I suppose.

In any case, having a regular wake-up time that doesn't vary regardless of when I fall asleep is the only way to stay sane- otherwise I would almost certainly be living in a semi-perpetual fugue state of staying up 20-24 hours straight then sleeping a random amount.

Edit: Conversely, my dad grew up on a farm and was up with the dawn every single day. Cows don't care if you're a teenager or not. He ended up in a solid career and did quite well for himself. Survivorship bias, perhaps, but I often wonder how much better I would have done if I had the same schedule he still does.
SwiftCover
SwiftCover is a state of the art AI tool used to craft tailored cover letters that fit any job description within seconds. Its as simple as pasting an existing cover letter, and providing a job / company description. SwiftCover does the rest.
> There might also be a lack of the memory and consistent identity that allows an ant to uphold commitments it made with me five minutes ago.

"An ant?!?" I wonder which has more completely saturated the Earth's ecosystem-- American-style libertarian ideology or plastic. Judging from the article I'd guess the former.

I do wish there was something we could give an indoor ant invasion besides a poison pill. Remember that old X Files where Bryan Cranston's character has to keep traveling West for some inexplicable reason? Maybe there's a way to fashion "rambler crumbs" that temporarily make the ants shoot off in a direction away from the house. Then when they come to, they find their way back to hill. And the crumb they bring makes more ants shoot off to the West, until all the ants eventually believe "There's gold in them there hills!"

(And if they go far enough West perhaps there is...)
Now is the time for managers and directors to find reasons to let go of the employees they don’t like. Some people don’t like eating fat, others will suck on it all day. Personally I trim a bit of fat off my meats before smoking them
i feel this so much. i didn't know shit about sleep back then, but in retrospective i had such poor sleeping habits and was barely getting 7 hours of sleep at much on most nights for such a long time, it feels terrible to know this now haha.
It seems ill conceived to discuss with Reddit at this point in time. It is a misunderstanding of motives that Reddit executives work in favor of Reddit. The end goal of this non profitable relationship of devs with Reddit is to
bait and switch the allegiance of the userbase right before Reddot"s large IPO cash out.

Moving users towards the main site and app, firing a few people, claiming to do a cleanup is just somethimg that would sound good and look good in the balooned financial projection numbers.

Long term growth or even sustainability is irrelevant right before the IPO so app and devs need to understand the motives behind those actions. Devs may stop developing, users may leave, mods can stop modding, subreddits can go dark as long as the effect of those events does not have time appear in the IPO documents.

Yes ofcourse Reddit execs could allow nswf, yes ofcourse Reddit execs know that the reddit app sucks, yes ofcourse Reddit execs knows the API is essential for moderator apps, yes ofcourse Reddit execs know they add work or outright screw free labor moderators, yes ofcourse Reddit could use the external apps to deliver reddit ads and get some profit.

But that would make them lose control of the IPO future profitability narrative, which appears to be as a "fake it to see if we make it" narrative
I'm happy (and spoiled) that I live in a world where I get to use reliable software and not worry about it being inaccessible. With a single nix command, I'm dropped in an environment with secrets mounted by a single age key, with all programs and configuration exactly as I want. It's trivial for me to "just switch" to nushell/rust and not worry about such things. And nushell and rust are not clustered near shell for the aspects I'm talking about in this discussion.

"bash is everywhere" is just more lipstick on the pig, in my strong opinion.
Thanks for that advice. I definitely don’t want an automatic refund. Feel like I’ve received my money’s worth.
And 10x for healthcare elsewhere.
You definitely need CS background to deeply understand what's going on under the hood, but, the capabilities of GPTs will also intimidate a lot of people avoid putting 4 years time on CS because most jobs can be done by AI (in the future), include most coding tasks.

So only those really love CS will choose CS major by no means, while others may just want to be a prompting engineer.
Are you kidding? If this happened in America we'd never hear the end of it from Europeans.

Obviously, the government would love to just pilfer around in the computers of private citizens and businesses without "filling out forms", but that's not a good reason to give it to them.
I’ve taken FAANG sites down and took it personally when anyone got a 500 error for a minor change. Truth is, no one really cares. You can complain it’s down but who are you going to leave them for? Welcome to running a lean ship. Twitter isn’t hurting
I agree that he forces facts to fit his model, but that doesn't make the book racist. The entire point of his book is that environmental circumstances, not racial or cultural characteristics, explain the circumstance of European dominance in the modern era; this is explicitly anti-racist. (Inb4 Kafkatrap: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36265324)
>>"After that ordeal I decided to build web apps only."

I agree with this, I think for reasons of independence that web browsers should be the platform for mobile as much as possible, not os specific apps.

Perhaps one day foss non-corporate smart phone operating systems will become more accessible to non-technical users, but until then web browsers are the best bet to prevent centralization/control by corporations on software distribution
I did not know any of this, but rationally thinking it makes sense.

No need to trade any goods if said goods can be just be taken (assuming one's side wins).
My Hack: For insurance don't try and catalog everything in a spreadsheet or such; you're prematurely optimizing for a rare event that hopefully will never happen, you'll miss stuff or forget important details and it's impossible to keep it up to date.

Once a year walk through every room in your house with a video camera, openning all drawers and closets and record it all. Drop your 20-plus gigs of high-dev video somewhere (I use AWS glacier for pennies a month) and then IF you ever need to, you can painfully go through it and catalog everything.
I imagine that many people have taste that appeals to some people. The problem is that many teachers mark down any taste that doesn't appeal to them, effectively ensuring that writers choose only the blandest safest optiona when writing.
First shape I 3D printed was the Utah teapot.

Back in the 80s there was a fantastic spool of renders which occasionally featured the teapot anachronistically flying through landscapes and effect showcases as a little private motif.
Prompts read like natural language, but you can’t always write them the way you’d write for a human. Here are some concrete examples of semantically similar prompts being interpreted quite differently by an LLM. https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1645562198935347205 And these chaotic, butterfly-effect areas are going to be different for different models, which is what prompted (lol) the original question.
Absolutely. I'm about a year deep on nix / NixOS and still spend way too much time refactoring things to be more DRY or what I think might be more idiomatic or maintainable going forward (as opposed to a more obvious but uglier approach). Definitely makes it easy to waste time prematurely optimizing, if you're prone to that sort of thing.
I'm not defending Spez by no means, I've been a user of reddit since early 2010 and it has changed A LOT and I really don't like how it's now, I prefer the more anarchy reddit from that era, but 95% of the times data backs up decisions, even bad ones, and users don't know shit about them, and when something bad as the Apollo drama comes out, it becomes a hatred echo chamber. I really hope this is case because I use a 3rd party app for reddit (Relay, the best one obviously) and I would hate to see it die in favor of the mountain of shit the official app is, I don't know went through their minds when developing it, there were apps with literal a decade of experience to take example from and they did that crap.
I wonder if the AI can simply pretend to be a human, we already have the video, face, and voice cloning technology for it. I remember reading a story where an AI picks your perfect partner, based on all the knowledge it has of everyone alive. People initially hated it but the results speak for themselves.

I think the same will happen in the future for other fields too, people can acclimate to anything on the hedonic and cultural treadmill (I mean, we literally used to do human and child sacrifice). I used to be amazed at ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, but now I'm just annoyed that they work how I want them to. Same thing with smartphones and computers, I used to be amazed at multi-touch screens but now I simply don't think twice.
exactly. If you just count cutlery, dishes, pans, cleaning products, chargers, cables, etc... it goes up way too fast.
You might know or know what kind of academics or something I could ask, but how do I go about photographing and videoing and proving cigarette smoke? Best I can figure blue lasers or very strong blue LED lights but "this smoke is cigarette smoke" is givin me trouble got asthma keep getting "smoke free" apartments that put me next to chronic smokers and all the law will do if I ain't got proof is let me break the lease. That's happened several times so far but if I can get proof "this is cigarette smoke it only comes from this apartment" I can get rid of the person instead of being forced to move for the 5th time
That's literally how creating a theory works. You don't "pre-hoc" explanations or there would be no point to scientific inquiry. Do you mean to say he's cherry-picking or displaying some other bias?
+1 The MacBooks that came out after Ive left Apple were more practical than they had been in years.
I've yet to see large scale humanitarian aid work without military involvement, ymmv. I'd like to see it.. I just don't think I've seen it.
I didn’t think it was going to work and didn’t buy any shares. Dang
Those who have never read Edgar Codd's seminal paper on RDBMS are doomed to repeat the sounds-good-if-you-dont-think-about-it-too-much mistakes that NoSQL makes people sleepwalk into - and this will never end because database-theory is always an unpopular elective for CS undergrads (and a very dry, unappealing, subject-matter at that) - everyone wants to do Graphics or NLP or even Haskell instead - and if that's what CS degree-holders are like think about how even less well-prepared (for formal-modelling, etc) that a self-taught or bootcamp attendee would be: my point being that people with the right knowledge are always in the minority in this industry).

I say this isn't new because on the desktop in the 1990s, both Apple and Microsoft's dev platforms included some form of "object storage" based around their respective OLE/COM systems[1] and before then in the 1970s and 1980s it was people building business-systems on AS/400 (going back to the System 360...) where too many people never had a clue how to persist data on-disk (which was the whole impetus for Codd's paper, after-all) - so I think the 2000-2010 years where PHP+MySQL was dominant - and where most of us cut-our-teeth - was the exception: SQL is hard, relational theory is harder, relational calculus is harder-still (I think I got a B grade in that course...).

Non-experts have a very reasonable expectation that platforms should make it straightforward to save and load structured data without needing to spend a year of CS spending hours on exercises about functional-composition, surrogate keys, and decomposing tables to their 6th Normal Form - the embarrassment here isn't the non-experts you might think I'm dunking on, but it's the opposite: I'm very disappointed in the experts: the database-vendors and the platform-vendors, that they haven't solved the object-graph persistence library design problem.

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[1]: OLE/COM was for more than just composition, embeddeding Excel worksheets in Word documents and GUI design-tools: COM/OLE also featured a binary object structured storage API ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_Structured_Storage )
Love this analogy. I think most of the arguments above seek to establish that the soft, as your analogy goes, is not the main or the only participant in the whole.