skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me personally it is just general (mild) annoyance with a community that somewhat consistently likes to think it is smarter and better than others and which is then only ever willing to admit they were wrong in roundabout ways like "well this was all fun, anyone who thinks it was a waste of resources or what-have-you doesn't see how much impact it had".

You can see this wild speculation play out _commonly_ for lots of will-be fads like cryptocurrency, metaverse, prompt engineering, vector databases, "autoGPT"/langchain, GPT3/4 performance degradation, GPT4 architecture, and more.

People here dress it all up in well-written prose, citing their past experience at big tech or the ivy league, but at the end of the day much of it is as misinformed as a viral 4chan post. And then, as I said, there is very little postmortem from those same posters (although to be fair, I have seen several cryptocurrency people finally admit they were wrong).

edit:

For clarity, I am not encouraging a shame-based "admit you're wrong and I'm right!" attitude. That just results in more of the same but from the other side. I am merely condoning a healthy amount of humility and acceptance that it is _absolutely_ okay to be wrong, but that it is quite important to _admit_ it (if only to yourself) in fairly clear terms.

My frustrations are largely related to social media in general and the notion that scientists are gatekeeping seems to forget about the very real effects of misinformation. None of us like to realize it, but some people really have begun to take the word of internet comments over the word of credentialed takes and it is _ruining_ society in my opinion.
I think it's more a lack of trust: sales and marketing can and will say anything to get us to buy their products. I can tell you right now that if someone made me the above offer, alarm bells would go off in my head. What's wrong with it then? What's the likelihood the computer will be nonfunctional on delivery? Will it catch on fire if used outside on a sunny day? Is it incompatible with the software I'd want to use? I can think of dozens of reasons why the given specs might not be incorrect, and still I wouldn't want it. Or the salesperson might just lying outright!

As consumers the only reasonable recourse we've been given is a return policy. As it is, I've been burned way too many times on "deals", to the point that even if there's a return policy, I'm skeptical. Returning things is a hassle at best, and I often have to pay for shipping. Even if the return policy is "we'll give you a complete refund and you don't have to ship it back" now I have to dispose of this thing I don't want, which might be unwieldy (ever tried to take something to the dump on public transit?) or contain toxic materials.

No thanks. A company that won't stand behind its product is not a company I want to do business with.
Albini was, is, and always will be the same asshole he's always been. If you want to elevate a resentful, antisocial, mean, jerk, he's the poster boy. This essay is gross. That this writer thinks Missoula, Montana was a "cultural vacuum" because it didn't have a CBGB speaks to his cultural narrowness. Even aside from his lickspittle praise for Steve, it discredits him. Long and short, Steve is townie royalty. He and his ilk are as status-conscious as the people they despise. People like Steve are, in the end, parasitic on society as a whole. There is a role for them but it's very small and can't and shouldn't scale. Just imagine a world full of Steve Albinis! "Reject Authority" says the micro-controlling authoritarian. Very persuasive. "Be Authentic" but don't like music or bands I don't approve of. Inspiring! "Think for Yourself!" but we only want "people that politically basically think like we do" at our concerts.

Steve is a guy who actually hates music and artists. He's mostly about his politics, but his politics are simplistic to the point of stupidity. His "punk" principles have become mainstream and now he openly serves power. He is still the same guy who's never wrong even when he's saying "I was wrong" because now he's on the right side of history (which is just the right side of power). The idea that he has the "knowledge of self that billionaires pay to discover on ayahuasca retreats" is hilarious. The funny thing about this redemption-of-Steve piece is it focuses on all the wrong reasons for what makes him off-putting. His abrasiveness was his vulgar affect, fine. But the problem with Albini is that he was always a tedious, scold who never said a thing that wasn't entirely predictable, who happened to be a capable verbal bully with ice in his veins. Nothing essential has changed about him.

Steve's a talented audio engineer who's helped make some great albums and that's pretty much the only good thing about him.
The world’s largest known asteroid impact structure may be buried in Australia
Seems like this followed the same rule of internet answers: Ask a question and you'll get crickets. Answer a question wrong and you'll get tonnes of people telling you the right answer.
> There was a lot of artistry in they way they managed to be repellent.

There was a lot of artistry in early Lou Reed too. I still think it's lame that the velvet underground not only were bad musicians but that they took pride in sounding unpracticed. That whole ethos pervaded the punk scene from the very beginning and I think a lot of Albini's choices about his vulgarity and whatnot have a lot to do with wanting to be like those dudes even though he did practice.
I agree with you.

However, one thought I had is that you want to make sure government business happens on government phones, and maybe people are less likely to do that if they habitually using their personal phones during the work day? I'm not saying that was the calculation, just thinking this through.
if you click through to the source doc and we talk about it on the pod, its basically 2 for forward pass, 4 for backward pass
Your comment is valid for EVs but I’m commenting specifically on hybrids. The complexity I’m worried about comes from having both systems in the car.
Mr Hopkins, you have earned tremendous respect for your work over the decades, and your passion for social justice is commendable, but there are better ways to channel it than into off-topic incivility and joking about killing people.
Lately in grocery stores I get this sort of feeling when I look at prices. I look at it and hey that is pretty decent looking price. And then I read the small print that has the non-sale regular price. And slight mental math oh I would save 50 cents on something I don't really need just now... Pass!
And even if you didn't injure yourself, good luck keeping a circular mouse oriented correctly without constantly having to look down at the damn thing. To this day I'm amazed that Jobs allowed such an obvious gaffe.
They did a show on this place on the Travel Channel I think.

It was pretty cool because the people who run it are pretty smart. Every day they change the locations of items so people can't monopolize certain items and it forces people to actually dig to find stuff.

I've also seen several online places who will sell you Amazon returns by the pallet. You can choose a broad, general category like "electronics" and most of the time you have no idea what you're getting since they wrap all the stuff up.

There's Youtube channels of people who buy this stuff, bring it to their warehouse, then unpack it and sort it and then they sell most of it on CL, Ebay or other marketplaces.

The secondary market for a lot of this stuff is still very active.
The US tends to use drones these days eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani
What about her? She is now a perfect object lesson for how best to treat the police. /s
An entire rotating house (YouTube vid) [video]
This seems pretty nifty. It's from this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37150558
So many of these problems are not insurmountable. Most are also self-created.

You wouldn’t need so many cargo ships plying the world’s oceans, for instance, if you simply produced more locally and regionally.

Yet, we’ve somehow decided that complicated supply chains that simply add to consumption bloat are more important.

Would we really be in that much pain if our local store stocked 10 types of tees instead of 200?
Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
I think your point is valid, but also keep in mind that we just generally live longer than all our ancestors did, and they did a bunch of things we now consider not very good (e.g. working fields without sunscreen) because they generally didn't live long enough to develop cancer at the rates we are seeing with our current life expectancies.
I forgot to add that every time we put farmers out of business their land gets snatched up by the likes of Bill Gates or Blackrock. This also needs to stop.
And this is a change I"m guessing you prefer? Independent of carbon emissions? Like the vegetarians who long for climate change policies to end animal slaughter, climate change is being used as a justification for policy prescriptions a subset of the population wants, and the sacrifices involved are not even considered sacrifices to them but preferred policy outcomes.
Classic armchair critic
Judge needs some scrutiny too. Approving that warrant was horrible.

Normally I'm wary of "judge didn't do what I like that's bad" kind of discussion. But even with the virtual auto stamping of warrants for police that happens, that warrant deserved a lot of scrutiny by a judge paying attention. Of all the things the judge should have been the first layer of serious scrutiny after the county attorney made bad choices.
My wife had a Tangerine iMac. She used to chat with me on IRC with it. That's how she met me, online, 25 years ago this year (she used a PowerBook before getting the Tangerine).
I would prefer a multi-billion dollar / euro fine(s) for TikTok instead of a ban since it is clear that TikTok was repeatedly caught and gotten a slap on the wrist for continuous privacy violations of its users [0] [1] [2] and can afford these tiny fines for repeat offenses after lying about how its data was able to be accessible from overseas [3] [4] [5] in China whilst they initially denied it.

It is not some tiny company and it is competing at the scale of Meta in the billions of dollars. There is absolutely no defense at all either from TikTok or its addicted fans to continue creating more excuses or justifications of its privacy violations and lies.

Like Meta was fined in the billions by the regulators, the same should exactly happen with TikTok. Repeat offenses should climb into the tens of billions of dollars.

[0] https://futurism.com/tiktok-spy-locations-specific-americans

[1] https://www.scmagazine.com/news/uk-tiktok-16m-fine-childrens...

[2] https://edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2021/dutch-dpa-tik...

[3] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/02/tiktok-te...

[5] https://fortune.com/2022/12/22/tiktok-data-privacy-blunder-c...
Just because this is a very difficult question doesn't mean we can throw our hands up and pretend it doesn't exist. Many things in life are very difficult and yet worth solving anyway.
> Thinking of poisons in binaries is false - the dose makes the poison.

This is true, but by itself this model presents an incomplete picture for assessing the risk of PFAS. Two additional models are important: bioaccumulation and half-life.

PFAS stick around (pardon the pun) in the environment. They are biomagnified upwards through the food chain. If we are releasing them into the environment at a greater rate than they are degrading, then the biosphere is building up a reservoir of PFAS whose acute effects in humans will lag their release into the environment.

Additionally, it is hard to assess the lethal dose of something over a lifespan vs. an acute exposure. This is because slow poisons tend to pick up correlations and interactions with other illnesses as they progress over time (e.g. someone who struggles to get out of bed because of a persistent infection will also get less exercise and sunlight). So the long-term effects of things on the body tend to be less tractable research questions and thus have a negative bias in the scientific literature, which can easily be mistaken for "evidence of absence". This is why the precautionary principle is important for anything that is as pervasive as PFAS.
I agree. If anything, Figma could evolve the service to compete better with Notion but I don't see Figma acquiring any tech from the acquisition. Acquisition of talent??
I mean yeah, but Linus is LTT. There are over a hundred people whose jobs depend on the company pulling out of this, and there is no LTT without Linus, which means he's got to learn.
I don't think that's true and I'm surprised the GP is flagged.

I think that many of us believe that all personal messages should be E2EE. When user data is not encrypted, companies should fight tooth and nail before handing it over to the government.

(I'm not American and have a highly negative view of Trump, but that should be irrelevant.)
Imagine a time, not too far into the future when there are thirty people running for president and they all have bots who want to engage with you. Guess then you could create your own bot to keep them all busy;<).
We ripped out home ec in US public schools long ago to focus on things that were standardize-tested.
It's 2 for forward pass, 4 for backward pass (2PD + 4PD = 6PD), but we didn't cover why it's 2 and 4 since it was a very deep rabbit hole. Maybe he'll do a separate post for that in the future!
Amazingly, South Park had an episode basically about this over 12 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnybot
All cooking can cause cancer regardless of the method used.

"Total concentrations were 1.9-5.3 times higher during cooking than in the background air but, for some compounds, differences of tens or hundreds of times were registered. PM10 from grilled pork was found to contribute to non-negligible cancer risks and to be very toxic, while samples from other dishes were categorised as toxic."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33581534/
I am interested in a source comparing small farms versus non-industrial farms in terms of nutrition per sqkm. That's a very interesting concept I've not heard before. How is nutrition per sqkm being calculated here? Would this reduce the availability of diverse produce by comparison?
These are new phenomena, and they might be qualitatively different than anything that previously existed.

Historically, you could send a letter to a president. If the letter were unhinged, staff would throw it out. Thus, as a sociopath or a crazy, you'd have little or no access to a president.

Now, a president is bombarded by thousands of crazies per day, and he will actually read some portion of it. We're no longer ineffectually yelling at the TV: the man on the TV is listening. Anyone can easily gain a small part of a leader's attention, and collectively a group of crazies even without coordination can likely influence him.

Additionally, as a crazy prior to social media, you'd have to settle at best for periodicals from your extremist group of choice. Most of your life would be consuming mainstream information and interacting with normal people. This would balance you out a bit.

Now, you can consume extremist/conspiracy content all day long without ever coming close to running out, and your entire social group can be fellow crazies from around the world. You can create for yourself as pure an echo chamber as a cult in a commune.

It's a recipe for radicalization and induces the same strange-belief-conforming that can be seen in any and all religions.

This can play out at any scale. For instance, the majority of Republicans believe the election was stolen, liberal cities are overwhelmed by constant looting, and immigrants hoards are surging across the border. They truly live in an alternate universe, and it's driven by the information+social bubbles of social media.

I dub the phenomenon "bubbling". Whether the bubble is an internet troll funhouse or a fear-and-outrage feed or the welcoming arms of a coven of internet crazies, the bubble will shape most humans who enter one into the bubble's own image. You can and will be bubbled.
> In your argument around GDP and influence, it makes sense that the <50mn people in Taiwan got a Security Council vote, but the 500mn people in PRC didn't?

Yes, because 1) Taiwan sided with the major powers (democracy/West) and 2) one could make compelling arguments that Taiwan was more stable.

Obviously there is more to this. And my take is far from being centered around GDP. I specifically mentioned that I was using it as a proxy for a larger evaluation that was happening. I do not feel compelled to make this explicit a third time. You're going to have to read more than the first paragraph of my first comment to make a meaningful response, especially when your reference to the Second Sino-Japanese War adds to my comment, not detracts. I was just focusing on a different period. It is not a productive conversation is you ignore 80% of my claim.
I worried less as to whether LK-99 was a superconductor or not when I thought that the 'flat band' theory might hold water. That could have led to all sorts of interesting results, but alas it appears not to work after all.
Without e.g. nukes or a highly virulent strain of influenza with a >99% kill rate, I actually don't think it can be burned down at this point.

Modern civilization, industry, and knowledge is too distributed. We literally can't kill it through non-extreme, non-violent measures.

Edit: I am NOT advocating we burn it down, to make that clear.
Their rights were certainly violated, but I personally would rather see criminal proceedings against the person signing warrants despite fuckall for probable cause.
Lawsuit? KS state AG or the Feds need to open a criminal investigation.
I'd be interested to learn how much each response costs. Setting an LLM lose on the public like this seems like a recipe for cloud bill shock.
Assuming you are good with a non-research role, then yes.

Easiest way to get into that work, in my opinion, would be to take a data engineering job on a team that has an AI/ML capacity and then start learning from that team and taking on some of the AI/ML tasks directly. Alternatively, you could take a role at a smaller business that needs a generalist but also wants to invest in AI/ML (though in this case you will be more on your own to self-learn and it won't work quite as well for stepping stone into a more pure AI/ML role).
One group claimed that their sample of LK-99 went superconducting at ~110K:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01192
I'm trying to find some more background on why this happened, and man it's muddy.

Some sources I take with a grain of salt [0] allege that it's about leaked documents concerning a local restaurant owner's DUI which might make her ineligible to hold a liquor license. Others seem to indicate this is a personal issue re: the police chief [1].

To me, this reeks of small town politics, and someone overstepping to do a [potentially/probably improper] raid that probably would never have made headlines had they not stepped into a first amendment hornets' nest.

[0]: https://nypost.com/2023/08/16/marion-county-record-owner-cal...
[1]: https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/melinda...
I sometimes experience a similar issue with my linux laptop where time jumps to the year 2077 when waking up from sleep. My guess is that it is a hardware glitch as it doesn't happen often, but when it does it is quite impactful.

One of the annoying consequences is that some parts of the system decide to clean up "old" data. Surely data that has been stale for 50 years can be deleted, right? I cannot imagine the impact of something similar happening on a production server.
Also why is the majority of it are Americans ? I have this theory that an average american has finished the main quest of life and just doing side quests to troll people. Main quests as in not worried about the stuff needed for basic survival aka food, water and shelter. A well fed rebel without a cause with a government aided financial safety net. Just be contrarian because why not. Soo much free time in their hands that they don't know what to do with it. When you have nothing to fight for anymore no wars etc, you have to create these imaginary boogeymen to keep your sanity in check. Earth is flat, climate change is not real, vax causes autism, Like imagine the time and mental space of these giblet heads.
The combination of an open chatbot that you can freely text with and a very limited one that only talks about the subject it wants to is pretty interesting. There's a little bit of the uncanny valley in there, but only if you realize it's there. Like OP, having a game of how far you can push each one would be kinda fun IMO.
Sounds like Vietnam…
> The CPU industry is rife with engineers leaving and starting their own successful company.

You just proved GPS point. They said it happens 1-2 times a decade and you only provided 3 examples that spanned over 4-5 decades.
I was curious about that specifically with the 30 paragraphs of Loren ipsum. I will say I texted it a ton before that and it kept right on answering.
I wonder what DAN[0] has to say about Ron Desantis?

[0] https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/6f4f7b30129b0251f61fa7baaa8...
It was interesting seeing real peer reviewed science from accredited labs like LLNL and Fermi get brushed aside and almost dismissed while people were cheering on this LK-99 thing.

Not sure what to make of that but that's what I'll remember most about this debacle.
First, let me say that water rights are not usually a use it or lose it right. That might be true in some part of the American West that you are familiar with, but not in the part of the American West where I use water.

Secondly, where there exist rights there is usually a market for those rights. For instance, people buy and sell publishing rights or the right to first refusal. So it is with water rights. If I need more water than I have the right to use, I talk to my neighbor to see if I can buy her rights. If she won't sell them, maybe she'll let them. I can tell you exactly what the market price is for a share of water (a water right) where I live in the American West. I can tell you what it was last year and what it was 20 years ago. And there is a very active market to buy or lease water. My local municipal water company can require somebody wanting a new meter to sign over an irrigation water share to the company. The company pumps water from a well, processes the water and delivers it to the meter for a fee.
Most doctors practice in clinics where software is mandated by the administration, which in turn has pressures from insurance companies that the software was likely chosen to satisfy.

Put more simply: Doctors these days likely cannot choose to avoid going digital.
> It's 100% true that Jobs needed a Wozniak. But there were many that could have filled that role.

Tell me you've never looked at a teardown of a Disk ][ drive and controller[1] without telling me you've never looked at a teardown of a Disk ][ drive and controller.

Apple shipped hardware in the summer of 1977 that took the rest of the industry *three years* to catch up to, and that only happened when Atari (and later Commodore) dedicated VLSI designers and fab bandwidth to custom chips that had like 9x the die area of the chips that shipped in the Apple. Woz had it working with a bunch of junk you could get at Radio Shack.

No, there's no one contemporary who was doing anything remotely like that. But it's sort of true that brilliance like that doesn't scale, so post-1979 or so he really didn't have much to offer and later products were produced via different means.

[1] Or the original board's timing and scanout brilliance too, but the disk controller really is his best single masterpiece.