skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Do You Learn and Retain Things in Middle Age?
Inspired by thoughts spurred from the fruitful discussion about learning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580837

No longer a teenager or in my 20s, wanderlust for new paradigms, exotic information etc. hasn't dissipated (or I've recently rediscovered it) but even given the same amount of free time (e.g. 2 hours/day) after the rest of life has been tended to, I get less far than I used to. On a fine weekend day, I can wade into a topic in a flow state for many hours but the next day I find half of that information flew right through me (thankfully I have notes!)

Some friends say the issue is I have no concrete usecase - I'm just learning to learn, and it's too late for such curiosity. I do have concrete ideas of what's needed at work (e.g. observability or good logging) and think about different ways of implementing them or compare API surfaces in different libraries to inform my overall understanding. I also clone functionality. Above all, I try to play as if I were a small child with blocks (or in my case, tape, many pencils and many 9v batteries) changing things until they collapse or error messages disappear. But it isn't enough.

How do others cope with this? I don't want to just stay abreast with my current stack - I really enjoy learning (Haskell and Elixir look so cool! And I still haven't ported Racket to Plan9...) but progress is abyssal.
Computationally optimal arrangements of barbell plates
Pivoted to LLM I expect.
> The true web3 players will be traditional finance companies upgrading their settlement systems.

That happens in the US this month, but it has nothing to do with crypto. The Federal Reserve System is launching FedNow, a 24/7 instant settlement system which obsoletes middlemen such as Zelle, Paypal, and Venmo. This is like Pix in Brazil, SEPA in the EU, WePay in China, etc. - a fast payment system run by banks and settled through central banks.

It's much like FedWire, but faster, cheaper, and for smaller amounts. You buy houses with FedWire; you buy dinner with FedNow. It's an inter-bank system, like Visa; you have to have an account with a bank to use it. Chase and Wells Fargo are on board, but Bank of America is not.

This will bring the US up to date with the other countries that have national payment systems.

Anybody in the US involved in moving money around needs to get up to speed on FedNow. Fast.

[1] https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow
Now, we have definitely had such things happen with package managers, as people pull repos:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-...

And it's human nature to be lazy:

https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...

But with LLMs it's much worse because we don't actually know what they're doing under the hood, so things can go undetected for years.

What this article is essentially counting on, is "trust the author". Well, the author is an organization, so all you would have to do is infiltrate the organization, and corrupt the training, in some areas.

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiality_and_Other_...

https://xkcd.com/2347/ (HAHA but so true)
Have a look at nodered.org - a visual approach to programming.

For music and programming, check out supercollidor
They finally catered to devs in the last few years but it’s already too late for many of us because macOS is garbage now. The ARM transition makes it worse. I use Linux now.
>Making existing customers happy is less important than acquiring many more new customers.

As long as your shares are becoming more valuable, what's wrong with that?
ebay or backmarket - look for IT refurbished laptops rather than individuals selling their old laptop
Very interesting and important. Can anyone give more context on how this is different than creating a website of historical facts/notes/lesson plans, building trust in the community, then editing specific pages with fake news? (Or creating a instragram/TikTok/etc rather than a website)
How does this idea even pass your bullshit detector? Threads is an Instagram post without a picture attached. Something that's existed for a decade.

Twitter trotting that accusation out was just stupid but people believing it and repeating it, that's just amazing. A timeline data structure confounded Twitter competitors? You're seriously fucking suggesting that? A timeline. Yikes.
Oh look, it's the best thing I've ever watched on youtube.

Okay, that might be slight hyperbole, but it's solidly in my top ten. One of those where the video documentation has no flourish, and as such doesn't get in the way of how cool the actual project is.

Excellent series. If anyone knows of anything even remotely similar, please send it my way.
The nano looks cool but to me there’s no point if I can’t get 32GB of RAM.
You play your cards right, you could be in the three-comma club, too. But probably not. But you could be. Probably not.
Do you mean like an old DLL? This question begs further questions (asking for details) before we can help you. Above all, what do you need?
Who is “people”? Do Black people miss the days when you could pick up the paper and read people arguing for Jim Crow? My life would definitely not be improved if I had to listen to people telling me how Jews control the banks.
Yet many people are happy with the Steam Deck which has a roughly equivalent GPU[0]

>The Steam Deck GPU is based on hardware that is difficult to compare to typical PC video cards. However, the GPU’s maximum throughput of around 1.6 teraflops makes it loosely equivalent in power to an Nvidia GTX 1050 or GTX 950.

[0] https://www.gamerevolution.com/guides/687871-steam-deck-gpu-...
I'm not sure, can you really be taken seriously without sleazy marketing ploys? Who cares what the boffins warn about? (Or we'd not have global warning.) But when you are huxtered by one of your own peers, it hurts more!
Humans do that too. Regulating AI won’t change that.
Interesting. I should write some code for mine and check for that bug. I assume it was fixed by the time this shipped (my CPU is week 21 of 1976). I have an acrylic case for mine to protect it.
I seem to recall the first-generation Apple Watch experience being like this.
On the flip side, there is tons of stuff that never escaped academia and only existed on a proof-of-concept level, with no code available and for casual observer like me no way to play around with.
> Do you consider yourself one of those confused people?

Yes. I have never took place in a conversation about versioning problems in .Net where each person wasn't talking about completely different things.

Anyway, I clearly remember nobody ever naming anything "framework" until the second or third stable version. And if there was such a thing, I would probably have heard, because MS was incredibly loud at the time.

It was retroactively renamed after it.
What is the point of your comment? I have no idea what you're trying to say.

Liking something and trusting something are different things. I don't trust a single company and it doesn't matter if I like, hate, or love them. They're two mutually independent feelings no matter what you want to call one of them.
I would assume this is an attempt to catch people who hire impersonators for the interview early.
> * Social media scrapers that collect data on applicants to compile personality profiles based on what they’ve found online

> * AI-based chatbots that ask candidates questions about their qualifications, then decide if they’ll proceed in the interview process

> * Algorithmic video platforms that have candidates answer interview questions on camera, record their replies, transcribe their responses, and analyze their vocal or facial patterns for subjective traits like “openness” or “conscientiousness”

> * Logic games that purport to identify qualities like “risk-taking” or “generosity”

Alright, which one of us monsters built any of this dystopian garbage?

(We certainly are monsters with a sense of humor: see the example of deploying Kafkaesque automated snake oil gatekeeping to people's livelihoods... to seek "conscientiousness".)
one of the really nice things about SEPA is the 0-fee instant transfer (ime 45-60 seconds). Will FedNow be able to do the same thing?
Next up - NodeJS packages could contain hostile code!
From what I can tell, the appropriate time to take VC funding is precisely at the exponential growth curve when there is not enough revenue to serve the high rate of new business.

Not coincidentally, this may be when VC money is most interested in the business. Peter Thiel quipped that he knew that Facebook was a good investment because what they needed the cash for was more computers. To use an exceptional case to make a point that is broadly applicable.

For the rare small businesses that ever get to this juncture, what I also notice is that an acquisition tends to come soon after.
Manufacturing millions of roughly the same thing is a lot different than constructing millions of roughly one offs.

Site prep has unknown unknowns, as each site is different. Maybe there's an unexpected geologic condition, maybe the utilities won't connect without a fight, maybe the jurisdiction issues a building moratorium at the last minute. Most construction jobs won't get guaranteed pricing on materials, so any delay can change those prices, and then the client may prefer to change materials and then you may need different labor, etc.

Remodelling is full of even more unknown unknowns. Residential construction doesn't tend to have as-built drawings, and the design drawings, if available, may not have much connection to the structure as built. When you open up the walls and find surprises, that's going to increase costs.

Construction quotes are generally for no delay, no suprises, no changes. Good quotes will also include estimates in case of likely surprises, and how delay costs will be allocated and change costs and procedures.
Save to ePub from sites such as Archive Today works fine ;-) I've not specifically tried paywalled sites, but so long as you have a subscription I don't see why not.

With two layers of adblock (local LAN, IP-based, adblock on EinkBro itself), I see no ads in saved content, and very rarely in full Web view either. AFAIU it filters the source article through Readability.js, so the main article is what's saved, not navigation, asides, etc.
So if you fine-tune a model with your own data... you get answers based on that data. Such a groundbreaking revelation
If not for the heuristic of natural selection.
Comparing web3 scams to this new wave of AI is unironically ignorant and delusional.

For one small example I literally get daily value from Copilot and happily pay for it, and there is much more beyond this. I've never once gotten meaningful value from web3.
It would probably consume the entire applestore floorspace with nonbuying looky loos and their product damaging children
Don't be distracted by today's excitement over chatbots. Companies are out there consolidating this data right now through traditional methods. Oracle, for example, has been saying the quiet part out loud.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saibala/2022/06/26/larry-elliso...
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Their first sentence is:

> The essay reviews the psychological and physiological evidence for Opponent-Colors Theory and concludes the theory is wrong.

Am I supposed to interpret “Opponent-Colors Theory” as something specific and different from the general concept of opponent colors?
What’s an example of something you’d prefer a 32-bit CPU for over a 64-bit CPU?
Reputable, reliable (tm) American sources also led to a million deaths in Iraq based on what turned out to be false premises. Yet your very own logic would've called "a spade a spade" and would've meant actually believing Iraq had usable WMDs because I mean, that's just the hard truth! Every reliable source on your side said so! Who would even believe Iraqi/arabic media that shouted for a year that Iraq didn't have them, over prestigious and western institutions like the NYT!

I have absolutely no doubt that North Korea is hell in earth, but there is a very very very good reason to say that every story has two sides. But maybe you just haven't experienced being the victim of "the reputable side" lying without any consequences. As a Muslim that grew up during the war on terror, I can't really say the same.
> They need to go back and read the Newton’s postmortem. With every new detail about this devices release - it’s becoming clearer and clearer this device just is not ready.

In fact their actions suggest they already know this. It feels like Apple felt obliged to show .. something, anything .. after so many years of work (7 years? Just a guess).

I think this limited appointment-only release is part of a cautious wait-and-see approach.
Devil's advocate: most health problems in developing nations are the basic stuff we solved 100 years ago in the west. An AI that can detect when to give someone a dewormer or some vitamines or something else without occupying a doctor could be very helpful
As I've commented before, given that many e-book readers are Android based, the lack of an Android client is ... curious.

iOS of course lacks an e-ink based device.
And my sons bought their own PS4s because they wanted to play online games against each other at the same time and not have to share it.
Generally the people trying to fake their identity or skills in interviews are doing so with remote jobs, with the goal of bumbling along indefinitely once they no longer need to be on camera.

The problem here is that companies have now gone from identity verification to this 'aptitude test' ML bullshit that's just another cover for increasingly weird arbitrary discrimination against applicants.
Ugh. So many small things that are wrong here.

Mastodon isn't a single thing. It's many different town squares all trading their posts around. Gab is actually a part of it, despite what most instance operators want - if you REALLY want to be "on Mastodon" and "on Gab" at the same time, you can self-host and do that[0]. Truth Social isn't "on Mastodon" only because Trump's goons turned off federation and blatantly violated AGPL.

I suppose that both disproves and proves the original author's point. Technically speaking, Mastodon is still a "town square". But its users do not want that, because at scale, town squares become endless voids of shouting and toxicity. Even a decade ago on Twitter I was already unfollowing people and tailoring my timeline based on my political preferences. Pre-Musk Twitter's censorious behaviors were almost certainly a reflection of the users' own desires and not some kind of diktat sent down from on high onto an unwilling user base.

[0] I have no guarantee that you would want to stay on both at the same time.
And there it is. You aren’t worried it will make an error, you believe it will always be wrong. Since doctors misdiagnose all the time anyways, just claiming that it might misdiagnose wouldn’t be strong enough to disavow it (since it almost certainly will misdiagnose at least as much as a human doctor).
"We actually hid a malicious model that disseminates fake news"

Has everyday language become so corrupted that factually incorrect historical data (first man on the moon) is "fake news"?
That's very fun, very demanding, very well paid (when you have experience and know what you are doing) (as much as you can with C)
Yes, and this will require violence to achieve (how else can you enforce the “from each” and “to each”?)

Communism has been tried. Again and again. The utopian endpoint it tires to get to is not possible. The consistent result is mass death and poverty.
At the core of Web3 projects is the idea that one can own their identity via cryptographic proof.

Over time, this concept will find its way into many projects. Especialy into open source projects which try to make the web a better place.

For example, as soon as browsers support a DNS based on cryptographic proofs like ENS, other technologies which have URL based identities (like ActivityPub) will automatically support cryptographic identities. Which would bring it to projects like Mastodon and Bluesky automatically.
It seems the author views venture capitalists as a bunch of idiots who are eager to lose money.

And yet, venture capitalists are making money and many founders along with them.

Ok, if your goal is to have a very small business, with just a few employees and a few customers, rule that business how you want and have fun, you can bootstrap your business and keep it small.

But I think the majority of founders would prefer a fast grow and making lots of money relatively fast, followed by starting a new business.
I use plenty of paid software developed in the Bay Area that I wouldn't even use for free if I had a choice in the matter. The reason for a lot of successful software companies in the Bay Area has nothing to do with the people. It's disposable cash willing to throw money at an idea with a 1/500 chance of working out. As already seen, cash is running out for a lot of startups and they won't be getting another round of funding. That will lead to wages significantly dropping. We don't see the same in Europe where the wages were never hyperinflated. Wages continue to increase albeit at a slow pace.
Lots of people simply don't get care due to the cost.
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I had the original Apple Watch on pre-order from the online store and did not need to visit a physical location for fitting first.
Still around. Render looks good for the VFX industry as does Helium for broadening 5G reception. Homebase does tokenised real estate that trades immediately for close to nothing since it’s crypto. Lots of payments international payments companies obviously.

Hacker News just generally doesn’t keep up to date because they think crypto is scams. That’s like thinking generative AI is deepfakes.
I've heard it's just getting started for years. When does it actually achieve something of practical importance?
The biggest threat is health. The whole world have become helpless in front of Corona. World class medical institution, labs, scientist, colleges were weeping like an orphaned child. Don't think other than health. If we will remain, then we will think and work. For anything else human life needs.
This is fully compatible with the OP's point. They mentioned total $. Returns are percentages.
Web3 is getting rid of stupid scams to keep its foundations solid.

In the long run it will benefit everyone.

However we're probably entering the bull season and we'll see a new wave of web3 scam startups soon nevertheless.
> The only real competitor to C here is Zig.

Why only Zig?
And in a lot of families, parents will buy each child an iPad or a cheaper tablet.

But there will be enough people who will by the headset for them to sell all they can make in the first year.
Ha ha, you are not at all describing my experience with the Apple Store in Omaha, Nebraska. YMMV (your mall may vary?).
Many thanks, makes sense now.
Got it, so it's only for poor people :^)
Damaging children in what way?
Sorry but there is no way to min/max life. We all do not get the same amount of time and opportunities. This reads as a verbose and pompous perspective on what one should do around high school age to "succeed" and has absolutely no reflection on the people who actually succeed. A-type people will continue to overachieve and write these types of posts, but their definition of "success" is just different.
"How the world is" includes "people named Jared are better employees", apparently.
Any details you can share? Sounds interesting, but I probably won't get around to reading it.
I think scam is perhaps not quite right. I see AI as the evolution beyond social media algorithms. Now it will feel even more human resulting in the manipulation being even more subtle and effective over time. Being more human like may also help people feel like sharing more information with it. Some may even think it is their friend. I think there is a lot more psychology in play with AI whereas Web3 mostly plays on ones greed and facilitates wash trading and faux investments into unregistered unlicensed securities. So for AI I believe a better description could be manipulation framework.