skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I see one of these threads, there's always a bunch of baggage in the comments. There's also a bunch of stereotyping I see, e.g. men "preferring" hookup culture

Also on top of this, whenever there's talk about a so called "masculinity crisis", there's a bunch of tacit demands on how other people should live. This is regardless of whichever political camp the talk originates from

It's gotten to a point that whenever I figure out a discussion or article is "directed" at men, I stop reading because I already know it's going to start telling me what I "need" to care about as a man

I'm honestly fed up with it at this point. If someone has something to say to me as a person, go ahead. But if someone has something to say to me as a man, I'd prefer it if they'd take their bullshit elsewhere
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None of it is due to organic interest anymore. Just gamification of attention to try and spread a viral sales pitch.

Paul Graham did some napkin math on Twitter a few months ago highlighting his approach is just try to get ahead of a trending but still not quite super popular idea.

It’s Shark Tank; film the show months in advance, get the viable product for sale before it airs, because you know copycats will be right behind you.

All to preserve a hallucination reality will collapse without a fiat currency game to play.
Kernel flavor doesn't matter. The real question is if you can install any app or is everything through a locked down app store.

Even if it's MacOS, what do you think the answer to that question will be?
It is absolutely a big deal. Poor ergonomics in regular office environments leads to neck problems that can get extremely severe. Throwing 2-3 more pounds on your head can make that a lot worse.
Our critique isn't so much about Apple's locked down OS as much as it is "you won't be able to run powerhouse apps from macOS to get your more serious work done".

We hope & expect consumers to love the Apple headset(!), because it seems better/more focused on productivity use cases than the gaming headsets currently on the market. But in order for it to "actually replace a laptop", bringing iPad/iPhone apps into VR isn't quite enough, in our opinion.
No, we are nowhere near close to having a full-powered laptop in a form factor that could be worn on the face. I don't see any reasonable chance it will happen in the next 10 years, for example.

And I don't agree that that's a fair comparison.

First of all, because my main point was not to criticize AR/VR, but to point out that the display system itself will inevitably consume a huge portion of a laptop's compute cycles - so a pair of glasses with the same compute power as a laptop will be far slower in running any kind of software than the laptop. You might be able to display 9 huge windows in the AR space, but you will probably not be able to run 9 different programs at the same time.

Second of all, because smartphones and laptops are not actually wasting cycles compared to a desktop to achieve a version of the same workflow. They are more expensive for the same compute power, and they are more thermally-throttled, but they don't use extra compute power to achieve the same performance.
I think that explanation certainly the simpler one (and thus more believable), but one thing that stands out to me is that Reddit's ads are really bad. I don't know how much of a business it is. I think the value as a corpus is much greater. If I owned both Reddit and OpenAI, I'd prioritize OpenAI since its upside is bigger.

Of course, I think another good explanation is that, OpenAI aside, Reddit simply wants to get paid for their data, which they now realize is valuable. Scraping aside, that might be the real goal here.
My point is that most of our actions are intuitive and cannot be explained. maybe this is similar to system 1 vs system 2.
they were just helping to boost your metrics by increasing engagement
So, going through this a bit more on lunch break; I think the root of some of the disillusionment faced here -- and probably the lack of success in STM at this level generally -- is that they tried to do too much.

I don't necessarily want the whole memory model of the runtime or VM to offer transactions necessarily. What I think is a good idea is to offer an overall framework -- within which higher level applications can be written -- that brings transactional semantics with it. Basically a set of collections and data transformation and communications and process coordination libraries that work in harmony with an underlying MVCC storage layer -- rather than baking a transactional atomic keyword down to the syntactical level of the language or the memory model of the VM/runtime.

Put another way: I wouldn't necessarily give users the STM facilities. I would use lower level STM facilities to construct a higher level toolkit, and only expose that. Basically an RDBMS in-process -- without the SQL language boundary -- to be frank.

Yes, users could escape it easily, and start doing inconsistent things. But that's on them, same as any other framework.

Provide the pattern and tools in a nice coherent box and don't try to take over the whole world.
You're wrong
I have already agreed that some mods are power hungry but to claim that all moderators are is disingenuous.

https://i.imgur.com/qccGA91.jpg

if you think moderation is bad why are you on a moderated HN and not 4chan \b\?

> and the moderator action logs would be public

Blame reddit for not making this feature and not mods. There are 3rd party tools for public modlogs that REDDIT is trying to kill.
Also discord stuff are not searchable publicly. The experience is completely different, it's not even comparable.
They definitely suppress web forums. There are a few I frequent that are prevalent on bing but nowhere to be seen on Google.

Maybe it's just a difference in phrasing. Promoting clean SEO companies is suppressing web forums.
This is very similar in thought to the messy knock on effects of adjusting the federal minimum wage or poverty level. Inflation has a significant effect on the poverty level, adding in a strong labor market and cost of living crisis is making the limits of current social programs ever more apparent. That junkie you pass everyday on your way to work since the pandemic “ended” is one human sacrifice for bad policy. If tomorrow minimum wage goes to a rational and dignified one, say, $25/hr, the federal poverty line will have to adjust. When the poverty line goes up their budgets reach goes down. Knock on effects could make quite the mess and cause a lot of needless suffering.

If I was dictator for a decade I’d scrap the whole system and have piles of cash ready to throw at the problems as they pile up, mostly pulled from and staffed by the existing budgets and programs with a fix the problem, document it thoroughly, but be diligent or go to jail policy. Like PPP loans but with accountability and prison for fraudsters. Once the big fires are out and local teams are on top of their communities problems the real work rebuilding a sane, efficient, and equitable system could start.
It would be quite a lot of fun to make such an AI operate on the CB band, supervised and in compliance with the regulations, as a joke. A bunch of hams would quite easily freak out, hearing amateur style operation complete with valid sounding callsigns, that don't actually exist.

But we have to be really careful we don't really use a valid amateur's callsign there.... We don't want to spoof someone, which might be illegal. Again this all needs to be double checked that it's 100% in compliance with the law.

Anyway I'll take my ranting over to places like 4chan, rather than continue to spam this site.... And I'll continue to remain 100% within the law.
They are indeed, and to drive this point home (subliminally?), one of them is wearing a t-shirt with a llama on it in the press image.
My theory is that Google lost the spam war. All the leetcode in the world won't teach someone to build an ML model that can tell whether a website is spam. So Google outsourced the spam detection problem -- they heavily bias their results towards only the most popular sites, who either have human moderators or paid contributors, and those sites do the spam management that Google's automated approach is incapable of.
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How is this nonsense or anything to do with "language runtimes with disabilities"? An OS running on a single core processor cannot be parallel but it may be concurrent: it can never physically do two things at the same time, but it might be able to logically interleave different tasks.

Parallelism is a physical thing, concurrency is a logical thing.
History is a circle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
Also Google (and distressingly, DDG as of late) sanitizes the hell out of the SERPs to only present you with “approved viewpoints”.

And I’m not talking about fringe Q Anon type stuff: the other day I was looking up the specifics of China’s “Blue Sky Initiative” climate change policies and the only thing Goog/DDG would show me (despite several attempts at rephrasing the query) was Western industry think tanks bellyaching about how the policies effect profits. It took me a good ten minutes of refining my search before I got an English translation of the actual policy bullet points.

I can’t imagine this being such a PITA on 2013 era Google.
> Answers on Reddit are often skewed by truthy answers from people with limited perspective in the industry who are surprisingly sort of militant about a given topic.

That's kinda sorta exactly how ChatGPT answers stuff though, no?
>huge resolutions to avoid seeing pixels up close

That is not the reason to have huge resolution. You can have a 2x2 display with enough blur in the optical stack to make it impossible to see the pixels. No one wants to use such a low resolution though. Resolution and sharpness are different things.
I don't even think blogspam is the problem as much as SEO-gamed content.

Blogs are fine, I don't mind reading them.

The classic recipe that is 95% down the page with every possible word you could google in the preceding 95% in the form of a fake story.
The author links this in the fourth paragraph; their argument is that while compute is not a viable moat, training data may be.
>This is a comically bad inference.

A rude and unwelcome comment, more appropriate for reddit than HN.
Why was a ? Added to the end of the title?
I imagine it as some sort of mix of Dwarf Fortress and Project Zomboid.

The crossover I never knew I needed.
I suspect this will get a lot of upvotes but the important bit in context to keep in mind is that the industry has optimized for these people. It’s not really their fault if they’re just playing the game. Maybe companies shouldn’t hire people who job hop every three years?
Ah I see. I tend to ruminate a lot so that must be why the idea seems problematic to me. But you didn't say you ruminate or that you were interested in the lyrics of the songs and I'm not sure it would increase my rumination if I did it. I suppose I do it anyways just not to the same level and for different reasons. I get obsessed with a set of songs and listen to them a lot for a while.
OMG thanks for the link, funniest thing I've read in a while.
$3/user/mo is also the average cost across all of his (active?) users - you can bet that if the users start having to pay the people who use Reddit constantly will be more likely to subscribe than the ones who use it once a month.

There might genuinely not be a single price that pays for itself, and usage-based pricing might be required.
You ask to see the data and agree to sign an NDA. If the company does not agree to this, then you walk.

IF the company agrees, but then shows fraudulent data, then you are fucked.
$113M seed at $260M valuation -- a seed round that values the company at ~2x, is that conservative or expected?
Unlike low-background steel, the bits and bytes comprising the pre-AI corpus are infinitely copied. Their integrity is considered sacred, though that doesn't stop AI companies from attempting to pollute the training data of their competitors.
> the keys of kingdom

Hard to agree on that.

Of course Europe has a huge industrial legacy and a population that has a high purchase power; and it is very welcomed by a generation of politicians trapped in the pst regarding of innovation and technology.

Said that, with a demographic changing already happening plus with productivity gains provided by technology I think in 15 years will be a hard sell to not be a bit loose in that regard.

And another thing: thanks for the conservatism, money generated by European users, and “fear” feeling from the American tech companies Europe is getting a huge free pass that those companies are not doing any kind of blackout or something like this.

I would consider kingdom 20 years ago, with that demographic shift happening plus the technological advances and productivity gains; I feel that this is some sort of locking 500m of people as hostages in a museum.
> he refused because it had "private stuff" on it.

There's a huge red flag. "Private stuff" (embarrassing or otherwise) shouldn't be on company machines in the first place.
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I really don't understand the policy of altering headlines here. It's such petty, obnoxious behavior! I really wish they would stop doing it and I would be really annoyed if it happened to an article that I wrote and submitted myself. Thank you for calling it out.
> There are no daily fines for most library materials.

This seems new ^^^
First comment in 13 years! Amazing.

Nice to have ya around. Enjoy your lurking :)
> they don't work consistently anywhere else

Which is why they're not used anywhere else. Problem solved.
My view of it is that the kitchen sink/"swiss army knife" mentality is the "previous generation" of Webpack/Babel that Vite fits, and esbuild is the closest to next generation mentality (something of a return to "do one thing/do it well/limit scope"). Vite is obviously at the generation transition boundary by being built on top of esbuild, but that doesn't make it "next generation" in my mind, that just makes it the "last of the dinosaurs, the smart one that figured out some of the meteor about to strike".
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"Running code has never been easier :)"

Well... presses Ctrl-Shift-i ...I found an easier way to run some code :)
Each boot updates your empirical distribution. As a trivial example, if you have booted a version 9999 times with no hanging, a later version will likely give you more information per boot.
> Why do people reference the ‘10,000 hour’? It instantly reduces your credibility because that number was made up.

It's just short-hand so we're on the same page and we all know that we're talking about the same thing. Shared knowledge is an important place to start from in order to communicate.

As for the exact number? Who cares? The number itself is irrelevant. Whatever the number is or what it might actually be (as if there could ever be one single number for it), it doesn't invalidate the ideas that it's associated with. This tired criticism is tired.

The article even addresses the number directly:

> Although the backlash against Gladwell’s calculation has arguably been exaggerated, it’s important to stress that research into deliberate practice emphasizes quality of practice, not quantity. It’s all too possible to spend 10,000 hours engaging in a skill without serious improvements. For example, most of us spend hours per day typing, yet we don’t see continuous improvements in speed and quality because we’re not using deliberate practice.

> The useful takeaway from the “10,000 hours rule” is simply that it takes a lot of work to become the best. There’s no magic number of practice sessions, and everyone’s path will look different. Just because successful people in a given field have spent around 10,000 hours practicing their key skill, that doesn’t mean every person who practices that skill for 10,000 hours will become successful.

But you probably didn't even read it before coming here to complain, did you?
One thing to consider is that while the large transformers used in LLMs might have these diminishing returns, we don't know what discrete jump in model architecture might come next. That model might gain a lot from even more training data. And might gain more from the semi structured data on reddit than the slightly less structured data on Wikipedia and Twitter

Maybe
No disrespect to Peter Zijlstra, I'm sure he has been a lot more impactful on the open source community than I will ever be but his immmediate reply caught my attention:

>> [Being tracked in this bug which contains much more detail:
>> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1696 ]

> Can I please just get the detail in mail instead of having to go look at random websites?

Maybe it's me but if I did boot boot linux 292.612 times to find a bug, you might as well click a link to a repository of a major open source project on a major git hosting service.

Is it really that weird to ask people online to check a website? Maybe I don't know the etiquette of these mail lists so this is a geniune question. I guess it is better to keep all conversation in a single place, would that be the intention?
VC firms take ownership and work on multiples, a good investment is expected to exit with 16-20x. For that to happen, the space needs to support that type of revenue, and the business needs to support those types of unit economics. Hardware is a very expensive space, you need a lot of capital to set up a supply chain and take a HW product to market, especially something like a VR headset where (according to their blog) they're doing a lot of custom/complex things. This all needs to be made repeatable and then brought to market and then that market needs to have a consumer base to support it.

How much money do you figure a startup like Simula needs to bring it's product to market just at the minimum? I was at DigitalOcean in the beginning, so I have a sense of capex heavy business. In the early days, we needed hundreds of millions of dollars to scale up the hardware, this had to come from venture AND banks. Additionally, in the instance of DO, we're talking extremely generic off the shelf hardware, nothing custom, our supply chain wasn't complex.

If I was these guys, I wouldn't try to build a scaled business in a space that is emerging in the way this space is. I'd either call it a day or try to no have any investors at all, find something extremely focused, get to a small profit, and enjoy a life style business the founders can live on for the next 60 years.

Of course, I'm always happy to be wrong and if they push forward I hope they win!
I can't reveal more about my volunteering, but I will say that it was never me who made the calls, it was always a supervisor who could monitor the conversation.

But asking permission is not really an option, and I'll explain why using a different situation. We were also mandatory reporters, which meant that if we knew that a child was being abused, we had to report it to the authorities. This was actually a very high bar to climb, but once we knew it, we had a duty to report. It was a threshold after which it wasn't our decision.

The way it worked with suicidal folks was that they had a risk assessment, and only folks who were both at high risk and were unwilling to work with us to come up with a strategy for staying alive would be at risk for a call.

The "working with" is critical. We weren't looking for "turn your life around" moments, just "Can we keep you alive tonight?" kind of plans. This meant that if someone told us that their plan for the night was to smoke a ton of pot and sleep... while we couldn't condone illegal activity (depending on where they lived), if it kept them alive for the night, it was what we went with.

There was a lot of watching Netflix/Youtube/Tiktok until the person fell asleep- and that was alright with us.

The only people who had emergency services called would be folks where they'd say to us "I'm not willing to come up with a plan" and or "I'm not going to be safe tonight" and when we'd tell them that we'd need to call emergency services unless they told us they'd be safe, still didn't do that.

Like I said, this was very rare, about one in a thousand people.
Correction: those were opt-out screens.
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The Varjo Aero has the same PPD as the Simula One :] So if you are able to daily drive it for productivity, that's a good sign you would be able to do the same with our headset.

The problem with the Varjo Aero is that's it's a cord-tethered headset which needs to be attached to a powerful GPU. It doesn't run Linux Desktop natively (nor even when attached to a host) since it doesn't have Linux support. So in our opinion it doesn't actually replace a laptop, which we're taking as the "holy grail" of VR computing.
The definition found in Wikipedia, like many contentious subjects in programming, was written by people with strong political agenda and very little respect to the matter being described.

This applies to all sorts of ambiguous terms used very generously in the witchcraft of "applied computer science". Other examples include "object-oriented programming", "statically- or dynamically-typed language", "interpreted language", "dependency inversion", a bunch of "software patterns" and more. All this terminology is meaningless because there's never a way to tell if a language is object-oriented or not, if it's statically-typed or not and so on. Parallel vs concurrent is just one of those things where emotional attachment won over any attempt at rational thinking.
Oh, I'm not claiming I've solved the mystery of what happens after death!

I'm just saying this may be a good way to help someone visualize better what it even means to say that consciousness just stops, not that it somehow proves that is what happens.
Simple bit of code for a simple threadpool.

I spotted a bug in it though which may manifest itself depending on platform.
I just used ChatGPT4 this past weekend to come up with smoothie recipes and then a shopping list to take to Whole Foods. Can also give it ingredients you already have and ask for recipes. It’s a killer application for me ha
The amusing part is that depending on the economic model some do predict that there will be inflation in exact proportion to the interest rate. I am convinced that if you have a 100% free capital market with no coercion, then in theory the interest rate will just reflect capital scarcity and be a reward for possessing something many people want and that needs to be allocated to the highest bidder, but if it turns out that such a free market is a fantasy, then there is something to the interest causes inflation argument in real life simply because a responsible government that has the option to pay interest or not, could use the savings to pay off even more debt. The interest payments have to circulate once through the economy and this generates additional demand which can lead to inflation.
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Part of reddit's API changes were going to prevent NSFW content from being viewed through the API but they reversed course on that.