skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean ADHD is executive function dysregulation. An overtired kid can have a lot of behaviors and be able too tired to work. I don't find myself focused after a long day of work.

I think what you mean is that what physical and mental exertion may do is train your body and increase your stamina which improves your focus long term. Sure it may help develop the neural pathways. Much like learning to read is hard at first but then becomes easy.

Also people with ADHD can hyper-focus on the things that interest them.

I am not sure what you mean by or how you would test varying physical and mental exertion in any reliable way. If we make kids run a mile and then rest and give them a math test what does mean?
> one has to wonder if they're just trying to project an air of superiority.

Or it could be that's just not a style of art they enjoy, and wish that there were more of other types around.
This is exactly what I thought. Or maybe 1 farm will split itself into two separate corporate entities and employees will work 35h for each one and nothing changes.
That's thotcrime.
He ran this place too and we still have a mostly-serviceable web interface. And no app.
If something like that is generating a lot of bureaucracy and time-wasting, then there are several other pressing problems that are much worse than that.

My company is heavily regulated (finance) and highly bureaucratic, but I still just merge those PRs without waiting for the CI or without even bothering clicking approve, I just look at it. When I find one myself I just merge to master or edit in Github directly. No auditor has ever batted an eye to that.
> NATO could do way way WAY more

Where in NATO charter are they to interfere for a non-NATO country?
> Depictions in real life that would be illegal should remain illegal in the synthetic world.

I think creative works would be severely limited if nothing illegal could be depicted within them. If you're arguing only pornographic content should carry this restriction, I'd be interested as to why the same crime depicted in a non-pornographic film is better (in the sense that you think it should be allowed / not made illegal) than the same crime depicted in a pornographic film.

Even restricted to only pornography, I don't see why I (as a hypothetical creative) should not be allowed to include a description of something illegal within the context of a pornographic film. i.e. I think it should be (legally speaking) fine for me to make a hot a steamy porno that also includes, as a core part of the porno, a scathing critique of my local town's property tax implementation while a bank robbery is ongoing. If it matters, let's say the main characters / people having sex are also doing the bank robbing.

If you're trying to restrict what crimes are illegal to depict (rather than all crimes), then I'm not sure what metric you're using for that. Is it only explicitly sexual crimes that should not be in sexual films? Because there's plenty of crimes that are not intrinsicly sexual but that can be sexual because of the observer, e.g. Masochists can be aroused by illegal non-sexual physical abuse, would it be okay to have that illegal non-sexual physical abuse in an otherwise explicitly sexual pornographic film?

If you're concerned about people "getting off" to crimes, I don't think your restrictions are going to mitigate that at all. People are aroused by the abuse in Uncle Tom's Cabin[0]. If you're trying to prevent people from being aroused by "bad" things, I don't think you'll see much success. Hell is other people, after all.

[0]: I'm reading "The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature" by Marianne Noble and it references a letter that's relevant here: "Even in my early childhood I loved to revel in ideas about the absolute master of one man over others. The thought of slavery had something exciting in it for me, alike whether from the standpoint of master or servant. That one man could possess, sell or whip another caused me intense excitement; and in reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (which I read at about the beginning of puberty) I had erections."

Same letter, different reference, is quoted on page 65 here of "The Erotics of History" by Donald L. Donham: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt2204r8x.12
> He says he feels less angry, still is told the more important things by friends, and has more energy to put into causes that matter to him.

One should definitely weigh the value of a particular news outlet or social media service toward one's daily life, because it's definitely true that much of what these outlets offer is not of great value to anyone, but I dislike this sequestering approach. It views the process of taking in news as a miserable experience, but then goes on to encourage us all to offload that misery to another person to act as a curator. What happens then seems to be a siloing of misery, dooming minority groups to being exploited without any way of getting that message out to a larger audience, because only those who are actually affected by that particular bit of news will hear of it after the multiple layers of curation filter it out from the general audience.
Christopher Nolan likes it.
My concern with native apps is only sometimes about privacy. Mostly it's that they're typically bloated and take up a huge amount of space. If I install every 50-500MB app that every single company wants me to install, I run out of space on my phone pretty fast.

With a web app I can pretty much trust the browser to keep the cache at around 500MB for all pages I visit.
From a factual point of view based on historic events by mankind - we are doomed.

The last 200 years alone we have destroyed each other and the planet.

The last 100 has been a catastrophe for he earth.

The last 10 years has been curing symptoms.

Realistically we are not looking into any bright future whatsoever.

No tech is going to save us. Tech brought us here.
The underlying problem is that Fly doesn't provide non-local, less-eager-to-disappear, volumes.
"Forced" or not, they still raised rates. They could have done otherwise, which would have been disastrous.
Yet all the CEOs are screaming in unison - get back to office get on with your commute and pollute the earth more.

Neither the government or the politicians or the CEOS or even the common people are willing to reimagine a more sustainable way of life. They are more willing to find reasons to maintain the status quo.
Don't they know they can just pick the maximal one?
I already wrote upthread: The story behind the genesis behind Holy Blood, Holy Grail is far more funnier than the conspiracy theory in the book: The authors fell for a con-artist:

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

(I had the same experience like you.)
The last three years make the run up to 2008 look like the salt flats. There’s a long term issue but an immediate crisis.
The Bitcoin whitepaper is one of my cherished reads. The other is the BitTorrent whitepaper. Both technologies changed the technical and non-technical worlds, and the fundamental protocols are clearly explained in their respective papers.
Why does anything need anything. It's a film, a piece of art - if they want to record it in 80K resolution for the fun of it, the question should be - why not?
You don't need a reliable source. Maximizing the chances that a source is reliable is good enough. This can be achieved by maximizing the number of journalists attacking the same problem. The process must be transparent and publicly available / open to critics. People (non-journalists, readers) will point out if something smells suspicious.
I "Big Tech" incorrectly categorizes the problem. The problem is social media products that monetize attention.

Meta, Twitter and other companies that build deep social media products are in this group.

Netflix is not. Microsoft is not. Google is not.

I don't like that just because you're a large tech company you're immediately demonized. This is demonizing success in this field rather than "wrong" doing.
Nazis are more likely to have unwilling victims though - quitting applies to smoking (difficult though it may be), not being a target for Nazis
oh, agreed, there was definitely a kernel of truth to that one. i just found it interesting that the priest not only said to remember the book was fiction, but to emphasise that that one point was fiction.
I would not be so complacent. A lot of that was driven by energy efficiency improvements, yet the GOP continues to push for watering things down like the CAFE standards.
Emergency visa applications for Ukrainians fleeing war to end Saturday
Except that traditionally took a wild amount of work, from a very large team. Think of it as if the virtual "actor" is a puppet, which requires careful design and construction from a team of highly skilled craftspeople, and then another separate team of craftspeople to make it move in a natural way. And then another team for all the little finishing touches - lighting, clothing, skin textures, reflections, etc.

These teams are all full of wildly skilled people, with huge amounts of experience with digital tools (obviously), biomechanics, physics, cinematography, etc.

As AI tools get better, you start lowering the barrier to entry and shrinking the size of those teams until you get to the point where someone can film something with a smartphone and AI does the rest to make it cinema quality. Or just hallucinates something from a prompt.

Its a whole different ball game.
Unlike you, an evolutionary biologist knows that if enough of his siblings and cousins have children, the probability is very high that most of his genes have been passed on even if he wasn't the one to do it. Also, only 50% of your own get passed on per child, so it's entirely possible more of your genes were passed on by other people even if you have a child or two.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/05/2...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-stage-w...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/us/private-jets-climate-p...
Nvm0n1 gave a good explanations of the meme nature of "let's go Brandon". Not sure why you are being rude. You clearly live in a small political world and don't understand the meta.
I've read and own every Dan Brown book (except for "Wild Symphony" which I didn't know existed until today and is apparently an illustrated children's book). For me his books are engaging and when I start reading them I can't stop, though I think Langdon has run his course and it's time for a new hero. However I can totally see how his typical formulaic structure can turn people off.
This sounds like "your theory is outside the Overton window, you are not allowed to think this". The simplest version of the lab leak theory is not a conspiracy, it is very literally the opposite: "never ascribe to conspiracy what is adequately explained by incompetence". We had warnings, in writing, about the very lab in question, from western scientists, that the safety standards there were insufficient.
>A challenge here is that it is pedantic, even if it's true.

it's not pedantry unless it's a minor detail, and given that the entire license behind llama has next to nothing to do with the open source model or existing open source licensing, this isn't a minor detail.

the court-room doesn't care if 'few people care'.

it's obvious to anyone that has been to a CS convention in the past 20 years that the whole open-source thing from large corporations is used to leverage good-will to recruit useful labor and to collect community 'altruism-points' so that they can make shadier decisions later on and hopefully trap a captive audience, not to follow the ethical ideals of open-source but to enhance their bottom-line.

'Trojan-horse open-source'.
The HP 100/200 LX certainly could. It had a serial port built in and could PCMCIA a parallel port. With DOS 5.0 and software you could build a controller for all sorts of things on two AA batteries, and people did.
Some of us even live in other countries, too!
It's processed (not aged), high fat, low protein cheese. Invented by James L Kraft (yes, that Kraft) and is the basis of Kraft Mac & Cheese, elsewehere called Kraft dinner. It melts perfectly and is shelf-stable. Fun fact: for a time it was called Government cheese. USDA used to buy surplus milk in glut years to stabilize prices, mass produce this cheese product, and give it out as part of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/'food stamps'). The phrase 'government cheese' became a pseudonym for welfare and uttered by ('compassionate') conservative types to belittle the food insecure, so they rebranded it and voila! Now it's 'merican!
This is how it works, except it's not MD5 but a less-costly hash function
Not a thing in Denmark either.
I find myself having thoughts that I usually look very down on: What a waste X is because we could've done Y instead (think space exploration vs fixing famine type arguments). But honestly, what a huge waste of talent, including Carmack's, VR at Meta was.

It's been over a decade, with three out of five the FAANG letters trying their luck with VR/AR and honestly I still havent seen a use case that would justify pumping in billions in the tech.
I legitimately can't tell if this is satire or not.

> [E]ven in LA most restaurants don't have no prayer zones yet

No municipality in a region with a bill of rights providing freedom of religion is going to create no prayer zones.

> It's hard to go to dinner without the prayer drifting over from other tables

This makes me think this is satire...
I spent at least an hour reading through both the emails and the slack messages in this "expose", but I came away from it fairly certain that they are being portrayed unfairly, and I'm fairly surprised that Nate Silver has latched on to this. You have to both look at the time-line of the paper writing and the time-line of the conversations. By my reading, by the time the paper was being written, most of them had indeed come to the conclusion that (1) there was no evidence for an engineered virus, (2) that the data was consistent with both a leak from a lab (without engineering) or from exposure to animals, but that (3) the former was not as a priori likely, given what they knew about the kinds of research being done.

You just can't take something someone says in Jan. 2020 at the start of their looking at the problem, and what they said in their paper written in Feb. 2020 on the same level. They started with concerns that it was an engineered virus and moved away from that view the more they learned.
Yes, you're right. This is a perfect comparison.

However, I've never finished Atlas Shrugged because it was so crappy, and I wasn't on holiday when I started it. It was actually the first book I stopped reading because up until that point I wanted to give the authors the chance for a turn at the end.

I couldn't find any reason to do this with this book.
Another World (or its alternative title, Out of This World)

As a kid, I was amazed with its simplistic yet engaging gameplay and fantastic storytelling.

It also happens to be an utterly brilliant piece of software: https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/
Slackware was my first personal OS back in 1996. Built a PC for college, and instead of Windows, I got slackware floppies free from the school. Took me 2 weeks to install. Never got the sound card to work.
If a company, not just Disney, is buying large swaths of land specifically to develop it, that makes the land more valuable.

If a company is going to great lengths to trick sellers into thinking it’s not being bought up for development, that’s deceit and a de facto admission you know the land is more valuable because of the comps you are engaging in
Foucault's Pendulum is so much better than any schlock Brown dumps out. ++ for mentionin it. Eco is one of my favorites.

Brown also gets facts wrong in his books. Which is irritating.
Don't forget the newer, updated versions, the last release just a few years ago.
this place has a very specific purpose and audience

and it would never be expected to cover its costs (let alone make a profit)

completely different to reddit
This is beyond naïve. People get worked up about rumors of litter boxes in schools for students who are also furries: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/litter-boxes-in-schools-ho...

It doesn't matter whether it's true or not. Many people will act as if it's true, either because they are fools or frauds. IF they don't get the result they want they'll claim the truth is being suppressed and demand inquiries and investigations. Regardless of the facts, such false claims will waste resources and cause personal reputational damage.

We live in a country where weather forecasters get death threats for mentioning climate change, hospitals get bomb threats for treating kids with gender dysphoria, and librarians are condemned as agents of Satan. Relying on collective rationality and technical awareness is foolish.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/chris-glonin...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/15/us/boston-hospital-bomb-threa...

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-01-27/school-lib...
"They also thought they were going to get away with it. 'The truth is never going to come out', wrote Rambaut in one message."

He took that statement way out of context. They were looking for the best explanation and given that their assumption of "the truth" about a lab leak wouldn't avail itself, they felt they needed to go on what would be a plausible scenario - a natural evolution of a virus.
https://publicknowledge.org/is-this-really-big-techs-big-tob...

tldr; The testimony of one of the Facebook "whistleblowers" drew the analogy to Big Tobacco from Sen. Blumenthal back in 2021.^1 But in 1995 Congress took action after Wigand^2 testified. None of Big Tech's leakers so far have triggered action by Congress. Even more, in the 1990's there was at least 10 years of litigation before there was legislative action. Suing Big tech is more problematic. IMO, it's mainly because they can continue to hide behind Section 230. Was 230 was intended to protect corporations with trillion dollar market caps. Big Tobacco had nothing like Section 230.

1. Even earlier Salesforce guy was comparing Big Tech to cigarettes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/14/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-...
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-is-the-new-cigare...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Wigand
Threads and Goroutines
I’m not asking for total equality. But the premise that people need to live in poverty and work their life away in increments of 70 hour weeks at a time all so my asparagus is $4/lb not $5/lb, is disgusting.

And the premise that we need them to suffer in poverty because their kids might have a shot at a life just above poverty, doesn’t make it better.

We have enough wealth that nobody has to work 70hrs/week. Yet we insist on imposing that, for fear of making our wealthiest slightly less wealthy.
It is the creamy kind.

When I make these noodles it's so I have a relatively quick and hearty meal. Prepping things for an extra 1-2 hrs defeats the purpose of it all.
Married to someone with BPD. I guess one can debate what to call her symptom group - but insinuating her challenges don't exist is beyond absurd.

After 25 years I could pretty well climb into her headspace. If I lived there, I don't think I could ever find my way out.
Sort of, but not really. The real grind kicks in around level 50… so again, after you've already beat the game. I don't really care about the "endgame". I think this game would be much more fun if it was a bit more like am MMO, where you are maybe looking for a group to do a dungeon.

Below 50 is, IMO, the best part of the game, especially because respecs are essentially unlimited.
Journalists love reporting on flat Earthers even though their beliefs have no impact on anything in the real world:

https://news.google.com/search?q=%22flat%20earth%22&hl=en-US...

Realistically, journalists like to report on fringe or weird beliefs so they can laugh at the people holding them, and dislike reporting on serious disagreement with things they want to be true.

Agree that almost nobody is reading the papers, outside of random tweeters and bloggers. Journalists might as well start, though. Reading obscure documents is a part of the job, classically at least.
> Are we suddenly against native mobile apps altogether?

Not suddenly. I turned against mobile apps a long time ago, for privacy reasons. That said, I'm not upset about OpenAI releasing one. They can do whatever they like, obviously.
“ The Times fired their Pulitzer Prize-winning coronavirus reporter in middle of the pandemic — a reporter who saw the lab leak theory as credible — and replaced him with another reporter who dismissed discussion of the lab leak as “racist”.”

This about sums up the state of modern journalism today .. sadly.
Farewell, H-1Bs
Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus (1990)
A crystal ball?
To feel like you are actually witnessing the first nuke test.
Depends on the field.
Yeah; they seemed skeptical that China would ever let the world know what actually happened, if something did escape.
Wow! It sounds like you have seen a lot of major changes! But so far, no SysVinit->systemd nor dropping 32-bit i586 package builds for Slackware 15.0 and -current [0][1]. As someone new to Slackware I appreciate the balance of having lots of pre-built packages and just about everything that's not included as a build script on SlackBuilds.org (known as SBo by many) [2]. Are you still using Slackware today?

[0] http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=i386

[1] http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386

[2] http://www.slackbuilds.org/
1994 and my friend had a harebrained scheme to start an ISP and we needed to learn Linux to run it. 75 floppies later I was hooked and Free Software and Linux have been my computing lifeblood ever since. Thanks Slackware!
We could have delivered tanks from our storages the very second the first Russian crossed the border, we could have delivered fighter jets, we could have done a lot without directly involving us into the war.

Instead we got Biden being afraid of Republicans (most importantly the Russian asset that was the 45th President), our German Olaf Scholz being afraid of his own party and its close ties to Russia and the far-right and far-left and their even closer ties, and French Macron and Turkey's Erdogan both trying to act like they're kingmakers. Oh and we got Ukraine to agree not to use the pittances we send to hurt the Russians on their own soil.

All while hundreds of thousands of civilians and troops died in Ukraine. What a disgrace - our hesitation cost real human lives for nothing.
> Training a model on model output isn't copying.

That's literally what I said.

> There's no way to phrase this where training a model on copyrighted human-generated images/text isn't copying, but training a model on computer-generated images/text is copying.

Literally nobody is saying that.

> If you want to limit end-user freedom with a EULA, you have to figure out how to get users to sign it.

That is not true. ProCD v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996).

You and others seem to have an over-the-top hostile reaction to the idea that contract law can do things copyright law cannot do. But it is objective and unarguable fact.
If the results are very similar but the method is much cheaper, it will certainly be applied. At least with extras.
Two possibilities, both can be true: 1. It's recognition that in a match up of "Pro v. Pro" products, Apple Vision Pro trounces Quest Pro and it's not feasible to make that gap up at this point; and

2. If Apple is going to mainstream the AR/VR market, it's not bad to position as the de facto low-cost alternative (see also Android/iPhone).