skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
X-Com 1 & 2 on ipad are good too. Sure, you don't have the same flexibility as on the computer but it's nice NOT to be tied to the same device in the same place.
> Debt: the first 5000 years

Reading the synopsis, I get the impression he's basically defining different forms of IOUs as "debt" instead of "currency", and use it as lever to posit that "debt" came before money, to then go on to explain that people live in a society and depend on each other in many intricate ways...

Not that there's anything specifically wrong with that...but is it worth a long read or am I already getting the gist of it ?
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It’s New York. The vast majority of commuters from outside Manhattan take public transit. PATH, LIRR, Metro North, etc.
Love the "Matrix" zoom-in on the green terminal text.
Can't wait for my vision pro
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Once again we see the "accountable" ad bacculum nonsense. Where accountable means "obey my whims or else" instead of anything approaching actual responsibility or accountability.

They never once consider asking how the hell they are supposed to resolve disputes, or consider the impact of the massive overhead they are asking for. Just the standard "nerd harder!" we are used to seeing from idiots in government dealing with cryptography.
I'll echo this. When I'm looking at a Go codebase that somebody else wrote, it's a minimal effort to understand what it does. Rarely, if ever, do I scratch my head at a particularly clever type derivation or obscure language feature; macros are pretty much non-existent; even user-defined types are easily reduced by the IDE and language server. Patterns are standardized and yes, it's verbose, but predictably so. If something calls for containerization, it's dead simple. Go is a language for getting things done straightforwardly.

I know it's not everybody's cup of tea, and that's fine. There's room for different languages in the world. But I'm knocking out useful utilities that make a difference for my team and business in days or hours, and supremely uninterested in code golf, so I don't personally agree with the criticisms.
You're right, it's die Trauer

https://dict.leo.org/german-english/trauer
> There is actually a solution for that not involving burdensome regulation: capitalism. Crap business models get outcompeted.

If that were the case, we wouldn’t be having this discussion, would we?
Something about all of this reminds me of Joseph Tainter’s collapse theory of diminishing returns. Have we reached the point already where returns on investment have already become negative? For at least some sectors, I’d say yes.
League of Legends, Dota 2, and Heroes of Newerth were all directly inspired from a Warcraft III map mod, Defense of the Ancients. Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas, MOBAs, are now an entire genre.
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First, it’s hilarious that the CEO of Wendy’s says ordering is the slowest part. Lol, no waiting for my freaking order (which has been terrible since the pandemic started) is the slowest part.

More seriously, the fast food restaurants in my area are randomly closed all the time. They just don’t have the staff. I also suspect the business metrics simply do not allow them to pay more.

While I doubt AI will lead to higher pay, it seems to be the only way that fast food will survive. They staff only kitchen staff and push everything else to the customer. On the occasion that something goes wrong (1) kitchen staff will help (2) it will go really wrong.
What I find most fascinating about LLMs isn’t that they are smart but that they are different from the smarts I’m used to. It’s not that smart but it knows far more than any human ever could. It’s not smart, but it is well-read. It has read more than anyone and it makes up for its lack of smarts with that, making it a different sort of intelligence, if you can even call it that.
Wiktionary agrees: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trauer

There's a common pattern in GPT discourse (here on HN, but elsewhere too): somebody describes a limitation, somebody else goes "no such limitation exists: look, here's GPT output", and a third person goes "no, here's why your example demonstrates the limitation".

It's interesting. People find it very hard – or are disinclined – to distrust a charismatic robot, even when warned.
> CSS has caught up to JavaScript ;-)

Google CSS houdini

(Holy Hell)
This actually is really cool. All the techniques are simple but combined together solve the problem very well.
You should relink the maxwellhill theory thread in this comment too. I generally am wary of conspiracies, but dang, I can't believe I forgot about that one!

Edit: maybe I shouldn't have read that. If any of that is true, and there's even a hint of truth that aswartz found it and that's why we no longer have him here, I'm already getting upset thinking about it. I still remember exactly where I was standing when I read that Aaron was gone, and am still surprised it didn't send me into more of a spiral.
That's the one I'm thinking of, but might be mistaken, since I didn't pass it often.

It might've housed Greenspun's TCL+databases Web firm, then at some point seemed to be used by a niche college(?), and in recent years is IDEO.
No, no, you don’t understand, it was all those darned gays ruining everything!

Sounds like a farce but Fox really did try to blame “woke banking” for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
It makes sense to benchmark unsafe Rust against safe Rust, both for the same algorithm without changes as well as alternative architectures to get around the constraints of the borrow checker and type system. I would go as far as saying that if you want to use unsafe this should be a precondition. It happens too often that someone reaches for unsafe first "for performance wins" that then aren't manifested in practice.
Unsurprising at all. The lack or the reduction of 3rd part app and API access does not affect the vast majority of reddit users who use the official website and the official app. The vocal minority is unlikely to convince the majority users to boycott. The moderators who choose to keep any subreddit private extended period of time is effectively choosing to slowly kill off their subreddit, after which a replacement subreddit is likely to just spring forward and replace. I think this whole saga is emotional and irrational response.
This is awesome! May I recommend a package deal? For example, I want to send to a bunch of friends, maybe a different price point for larger orders (if feasible)? $10/4-5 for example.
I've been exactly there about a year and a half ago. Except I'm not living in one of the most expensive cities in the world, on purpose.

> I fear that this is what my career will look like from here on out.

Yeah well... Looks like it's quite common overall, their fear may be justified.

Freelancing does help to not care about anything but the job for which we're paid in my experience. Less arguments about technical decisions, office politics, etc.
Isn't that weird? I mean weren't transformers/attention explicitly designed to avoid this problem faces by RNNs?
The only reason growth is seen as good is because our population is increasing. As such growth has been coincidentally correlated with full employment and therefore prosperity. When the population levels out everyone will realise that we don’t need growth to achieve full employment and that optimisation is the new recipe for success. It’s a temporary problem.

As for private sector stupidity the antidote is stronger government and stronger institutions that can counter balance people making dumb decisions, not an attempt to regulate or shame away dumb decisions. The only problem is that the private sector has become too fetishised.
That's also a small minority of people, they'd have to care about third party apps which are already a minority and also walk away from using the site, which can be hard if you already use it heavily, which it's likely that third party users do so.

For example, I've been using third party apps for years but I downloaded the official app because I honestly don't care about the client I use for a particular site.
No office compares to my own home.
Well that was f-img crazy. Since these ML networks behave like biological neurons, and both systems produce gorgeous rich output, why is it not fair to say that ML systems have an energent consciousness like ours, that both are conscious simply running on different hardware? Why aren't they both conscious except humans are "running on sodium ions" and ML is running on silicone logic gates? Why aren't people saying human consciousness might be moving from ion based to perceptron based hardware? I know it's a crazy thought but I wonder if humans are really discovering how to change their underlying hardware platform? Issues of the soul aside where a living being will still be unable to themselves jump platforms.
Teddy Ruskpin with Ozzy Osborne tapes.
Yup, you see this pattern elsewhere whenever it comes to credentials.

Oh they went to __ school, they must be good.
Oh they worked at __ co, they must be good.
Oh they worked under __ [team/manager], they must be good.
Oh they launched a [fund/startup] before, they must be good.

Once you get the foot in the door once, it's easier to get your foot in the next 10 doors.
> I believe Anthropics' Claude is somewhat underappreciated

Maybe because it's basically impossible to get access to it right now…
Reddit is very bizarre right now.

Most of the active users are non-power users who are flummoxed at why mods have shut down their favorite subreddits. They are complaining in droves. Lots of long-winded Facebook boomer-style rants about how they read the subreddit with their kids and they need it back up to entertain them.

Some subs are protesting the spez moderator removal threat by changing the topic of the sub entirely.

Meanwhile, most of the content producers seem to have fled the site and latest high quality serious content is a week old at this point.

I don’t see how Reddit recovers from this without losing a great deal of value for their shareholders. I’m expecting Huffman to resign based on how much he has damaged their monetization potential with advertisers.
A few years ago, being able to reply with fully-formed, grammatically correct sentences was impressive. So, I'm still impressed, even though this bot is hallucinating on mushrooms
Just sounds like they maxed out their risk and bet everything on the fact the world wouldn't revert to the mean after covid.. Unfortunate, but it is what it is. Sell the rural house and move back to where the jobs are.
See also "co-determination", i.e., where unions have representation on corporate boards.
I'm a huge proponent of GCP - done both green field and AWS -> GCP migrations.

However, losing google cloud domains is hard to defend, and makes promoting GCP hard.
Sure but hair trigger nuclear launch on warning and so forth was/is a thing. I worry more about that.
Reddit relies on having users that care though. Without them, all it can do is just to enshitten itself.
Also people who move because they like their 3PA won't move to another platform that also don't have good mobile app.
I see it as a mild conflict. Not meaningful, but surely something that is used as leverage.

Mexico seems to want to become the China of North and Central America. They see that US companies that want a less authoritarian government controlling their manufacturing centers. In other words, Mexico want to tie itself to US companies.

This signals conflicting messages between wanting to be a major US trading partner and not wanting it to be the global currency.
The various flavors of Forth all qualify. They are great examples of how to bootstrap towards a powerful abstraction, starting from a relatively simple context. The 80% of the 80/20 rule here comes from "writing a Forth" being an engaging learning experience.

For anyone who would like to do that, I recommend looking up one of the old standards(FIG-FORTH, FORTH-79, FORTH-83) and implementing the words in them with whatever tools and languages you like. You will hit a point where your early assumptions about the implementation are wrong. Keep going, get it to the point where you are capable of using the metaprogramming words.
A modern css zen garden would be awesome
> I feel it’s like it’s generational.

Open offices can be implemented in sensible ways. Some companies had gorgeous open plans with people in decently large islands still having space for themselves while being not so far from colleagues, with enough space between the islands to not hear everything the neighboring islands are doing. And then you had all other areas where you'd find a quiet corner to isolate if you really need to. I think that was the original pitch for the idea ?

But of course those were super expensive, the luxurious space became cramped as more employees join and the offices aren't getting bigger, people wanting quiet places moved to emergency stairs and archival rooms etc.

All things considered, I don't think people argue against the fundamental idea of open spaces, they just don't believe companies care enough or would resist cost cutting, making them horrible call center level hellscapes in the long run.
Doesn't do so great on the leaderboards: https://tatsu-lab.github.io/alpaca_eval/
Sounds like you either need to communicate with your doctor better or find a new one.

Doctors are human and not all-knowing (no matter how some may come across) and the patient needs to be part of their care.
> more

Doesn't the "fault" lie within human nature? The desire for more? If that is true, then why expect an economic system to have a different goal?
Yeah I don't think degrowth is a solution that fits with HumanOS.
Humans unfortunately are wired to feel change but not levels.
That is, standing still rarely feels good no matter how good the current state is. People are wired to seek a better lot in life, on average.

This is hard to achieve without growth.
That's only one instance
Case in point from California - Crumbl cookies - overpriced cookies in nice packages, sold out of outposts. Tips correspondingly are outrageous for the machine. Checkout screens have these dark patterns that can trick you as well. Sigh!
As of the current git release (v2.41.0), there is nothing in the documentation for "checkout" indicating it is deprecated, while the documentation for "switch" contains the phrase -- in all caps, like this -- "THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE."

One presumes checkout will eventually be deprecated by switch, but it isn't yet.
Or I foresaw this and kept a collection of temperature 0.0 gpt 3.5's around.

People are incredibly silly, myself included, you get old enough and see an _insane_ influx of new people, you figure pretty much exactly this is going to happen. 95% of people don't know what temperature is. Of the 5% remaining, 4.9% think its something you just tell ChatGPT to adjust.
A nitpick: FPGAs aren't based on the hardware-descriptions used to create the original chips, they're based on the community's best guesses, so they're still emulation. They're just not software emulation. They might even be less accurate than software emulators, if the community has done more research since the last time the FPGA was updated.
Kids his age are in high school until 3pm. Him doing those activities after 3pm isn’t hindered by deciding to work for SpaceX until 3pm
Someone who works at OpenAI said so two weeks ago
When we have actually decentralized apps I believe we'll see much better adoption. The fediverse has all the worse parts of decentralization with none of the benefits. For example you can go to another instance where a community is mirrored and create an account with the same username as a prominent poster and impersonate them.
Maybe its just me but I'm not a massive fan of the lemmy 'front-page', it feels too squashed horizontally, and also too vertically spaced-out. The font feels too big,

Or maybe I just hate all change and want it to look more like old.reddit.com...
The compiler might make unfortunate decisions which no optimization can fix. E.g. the amount of pointer chasing may affect things a lot. Mutability and aliasing influence drastically which optimizations LLVM would be allowed to make, also stack vs heap allocation for short-lived objects, etc.
Steve Brunton has an awesome YouTube channel as well. For those in the data science / machine learning space, it's very interesting to see those techniques applied to control and other areas of engineering - things they never taught us in engineering school!
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> it's hard to pick out your foreground window from 20 other background windows of varying shapes and sizes and positions

I’d argue this probably means you have too many windows open. Part of the abstraction for macOS programs is that the program isn’t the window, and vice versa. You can close all of a program’s windows without closing the program itself. This frees you up to close windows willy-nilly and know that you can just open them back up again if you need to. Keep just what you need for the current task-at-hand open on your desktop and close everything else.

Personally, I’ve actually been using Stage Manager, which takes rapid-unitask- switching toward its maximum level. Just one app open on each screen at a time. Other windows hanging out in-sight, but not cluttery. Switching’s just a click away, and of course all the keyboard shortcuts work nicely, too.
Is the key to answering this question in the continued study of neurobiology? Are there any clues as to what the human brain is doing that apply to these concepts? Structuralism is radically popular, one would think if its are right, we should be able to grow conscious beings with a certain original blueprint.
> Last time I checked there was still no formal version of Cantor's diagonalization argument.

Formalization? Like a computer checked proof?

Lean: https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathlib_docs/logic/fu...

Coq: https://github.com/bmsherman/finite/blob/63706fa4898aa05296c...

Isabelle: https://isabelle.in.tum.de/website-Isabelle2009-2/dist/libra...
It’s big for Lemmy, but it’s nothing for Reddit. If the Reddit blackout were serious, I’d expect that number to be a jump to 1M+.

Just to put things in perspective, I mod’s a sub with 20k subscribers. I literally took 5 mod actions in the years that I was a mod. There just isn’t enough activity.

27k is great for Lemmy, but it’s not enough to change their trajectory.
The comment about the r/blind admin is written by the r/blind admin.
It says in the answer right there, the company must either be in the EU or you are in the EU.

Unfortunately, to protect user privacy we don’t know or store your IP address so you will have to provide some other proof that you are actually in the EU. An IP of course is also easily doubted, you need to provide legal documentation.
Also the cheerful, well positioned shipmates casually blocking access to various parts of the sub as he walks down the corridors.
This isn't about you, it is about those who remember you. Your funeral isn't where they are so they don't get to go. If they would visit your grave, they have to make a special trip.

At least i'm not aware of a religion that offers you reason to care. I leave figuring that to the reader.
The RMB is still not fully convertible, so its use in trade is limited. The USD is convenient because it always has a highly reliable debtor of last resort (the USA government) willing to soak up billions of dollars that you might not want floating around in your own economy. As long as the dollar is so liquid while other currencies are less so, it is hard to see it being ditched even by China.
Thanks for posting those! I was off by a factor of 10.
A lot of this drama went away when most offices switched to working from home and project planning became more realistic due to layoffs
Cop: "Here is your license and your ticket. You are free to go"

...

Judge: "I have a written report here from Officer Trip saying he visually observed you going 32 mph in a 30 zone. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?"

You: "No"

Judge (thinking): I've never known Officer Pao R. Trip to be a stickler for speeding. There must be some story behind this

You: "I did not say anything apart from asking if I was under arrest and for a lawyer"

Judge (thinking): ahhh, that's it. Thank goodness, that would have been bothering me until at least the third hole

Judge: "I find you guilty of speeding, here is your fine and insurance points. Please pay at the cashier's window or online within 21 days"

<judge hammer>
Time will tell, but third-party apps users (and old.reddit's[1] ones) also tend to be the most prolific users, and it's the posters and admin that run the show.

[1]: they've already removed i.reddit earlier this year, I don't expect old.reddit to make it to 2024.
Can't edit anymore, so replying to self instead. But now that I look at it again, it seems you aren't saying the face value meaning of the words "open source" would be the consensus either, just that the OSI-style meaning isn't common enough to be considered consensus either.

Which I suppose is fair enough, and it seems like I may have originally replied to something you didn't say. I'd still disagree both about the lack of a consensus, based on my general experience, and about the meaning.
I do not trust LLMs. They may very often be right, and may very often be useful, but I do not trust them. If you require correct results, their output should be checked somehow.
In my experience with Bing Chat, in addition to what you say, there is also some A/B testing going on as well.
Now we just need to make a No Man’s Sky-style—but open source—universe with this.
I created a sub 9 years ago that now has a few million subscribers (so now requires a bit more effort to mod). I _don’t_ get paid, though I certainty wouldn’t turn it down. I started the sub because I like the content that is posted and I want to continue seeing more of it. Why continue to mod? Because I like to be involved and keep this little square of the internet free of toxic and often hateful spam/content.

> It seems threatening to take it away is making them compromise on their values quite effectively.

What exactly are you referring to here? I see this narrative in a lot of places and I’m confused about what “values” mods supposedly collectively have? So much discussion online paints moderators as some sort of a connected cabal with alternative motives instead of unrelated nerds who enjoy niche content.
Fair point if true.

There's no shortage of those that unironically support mass murder from western states either; personally I'd be happy to see the back of all of them.
Isn’t that somewhat satisfied by having groups like the Amish, and Renaissance festivals ?
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Doesn't this seem almost sad for the future bedroom hacker/savants/prodigies? Like, the era of being able to theorize and program a game changing new model or approach here is gone, because...even if you have the inkling of a good idea, you'd literally never be able to realize it unless you were independently exorbitantly wealthy or had venture backing.

Like, even if some random bloke had thought of transformers on his own, he'd never be able to even test such a thing without having had unobtainable amounts of compute power and corpus input. As you said, it wouldn't even reveal its true potential until you're at some massive threshold of parameters, training time, etc.

The era of people like Huffman or Carmack or anyone "cracking" things independently seems impossible for the foreseeable future.