skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes think it’s because of the Dunning Kruger effect - that the people with the least amount of knowledge/skills just have an overconfidence about themselves - and overconfidence is something a lot of managers seem to have.
In contrast, a lot of the people I think would actually be good managers don’t want to be managers because they either don’t think they would do it well, or they just can’t be bothered with the shit that comes with being a manager.
Doing this especially while jumping around is an excellent way to injure your teeth.
> It's actually apparently a data serialization format, which I don't get, because it's obviously designed to look nice to humans and not computers.

What's hard to get? It's a data interchange format whose primary usecase is to store data structures intended to be read and edited by humans, using plain old text editors.
Releasing luciferasa undergroung when disturbed Is probably aposematic. A way to claim "I taste awful" to rodents and moles, I suppose.

There are a few species in US also, like Diplocardia, that glows in electric blue.
As per Betteridge's law of headlines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
"As inferred from the items scattered around the specimen, we theorize that early post-agriculture hominids subsisted on a thin diet of mechanical keyboard letters and magnetic disks."
I wonder if it will be 2.2 billion profitable... That is just 5% of the 44 billion purchase price.
If that's the basis, "nothing special" about it can be said about any game that is not GTA.

There's much better games out there is, again, unspecific and bad criticism. There's also a lot of focus on the individual developer (and his personality). I don't care how it's made, criticize it on it's own terms.

I've played many old games. You don't make a coherent or specific point.

I agree with you that gameplay beats everything (I said it in my original comment) and there's no one size fits all, but that's why it's so absurd for you to attack art of a game as mediocre with absolutely no basis. Basically you're trying to use it as a binary opposite of "outstanding".

Maybe pick the words you use carefully or have an actual argument to back then up.
What ~everyone~ most people miss about self-improving AI:

1. It would require to control hardware development, manufacture, and operation.

2. It would require to control Software development and operation.

3. It has no purpose other than the one given to it by its creators/operators.

Right now, every so-called "AI" is completely dependending on hardware and software being "fed to it" by humans.

There's no "AI" creating software, there's no "AI" creating hardware, let alone operate it, and there's no "AI" operating or controlling other "AIs", nor is there any "AI" that acts in any way or form selfish.

It's certainly fun to think about how a self-motivated language model that tries to take control over the humans that operate its server farm, but without an army of (humanoid) robots, it certainly poses no danger, as it cannot replace humans or even threaten them.

The big challenge with "AI" is that we will probably be unable to distinguish its output from the one of a human being. This will have severe impact on how we can trust any form of remote communication.
Blender was a commercial product, and when it was open sourced many of the existing customers kept supporting the project.
I think the reason everyone jumped ship from XML to JSON was that JSON is comparatively very dumb - and dumb is quick to grok.

Then some of us realised JSON is actually too dumb for many things, and instead of going back to XML we made JSON Schema, OpenAPI, etc.

Others of us thought that the main problem with JSON is that it's not human readable and writeable enough. So we came up with new formats like YAML. [EDIT: My timing is wrong here, sorry.] Unfortunately being human we could not resist making it much more complicated again, thus increasing cognitive load.

There have been many times when in order to really understand a YAML file (full of anchors and aliases, etc) I've had to turn it into JSON. This is ridiculous.
As a freelancer who always lived like that (but ironically had to work with people throughtout the whole pandemic):
I thought it was kind of curious what toll that livestyle change took on people. Granted I did choose that life voluntarily and it naturally feels different if something is forced on you — but the pandemic was really revealing in many ways.

I was surprised how afraid many people are of being left to themselves in their own flats and what a big topic this was for them. Many people don't seem to have any other interest than meeting other people. On top of they couldn't take it that a governmental body mandated some reasonable rules binding them within a global pandemic of a (back then: unknown) virus. So they priorized their hurt feelings over the literal existence of hundreds of their peers, whom they ironically longed to see. As if they were leeches who miss their hosts.

It also revealed some interesting things about social contracts, about who is really essential for the functioning of a society and how little we value them. A friens of mine is kindergardener, and he came close to quitting, as his illusions of what his job is were utterly shattered, as it became clear that many parents did not care about the safety of their own and other kids or about the staff. People just wanted to get rid of their kids and they hated being alone with them as much as they hated being alone with themselves.

Mow I am of course underlining all the bad actors and not the many heroic, reasonable, strong and caring people who volunteered to help others. But the number of bad actors shocked me.

If anything, the whole episode left me with the feeling that I am a stable adult person with a good moral compass and that many people of whom I had assumed the same are neither.
Most software engineers are crap at software, let alone engineering.

Most cooks are really not great at cooking.

I could go on.

The fact that they are worthless on that, for whatever reason (and often they are chosen because they are not great at it) isn't really a statement to the low utility of the role.
Musk has been talking for five years about a topic that's been discussed in depth everywhere for the past twenty years and your conclusion is what exactly?
Exceptional events yes like when the help output is printed due to incorrect usage. But when calling with --help directly it's the expected output.
Yeah, still happy I went with the Odroid M1 for a small home media server. It’s not fast, but it does everything I need out of the box, has a very nice aluminum case, and doesn’t use much power.
Not great, so let's make our future AI overlords better than us. Dogs and cats are fine btw, I image our relationship with AI will be more like that. I don't know if anyone of us still lives when artificial consciousness will emerge, but i'm sure it will and it will quickly be superior to us. Imagine not being held back by remnants of evolution, like the drive to procreate. No ego, no jealousy, no mortality, pure thought. Funnily enough, if you think about it, we are about to create some sort of gods.
Every day companies put stuff in production on iOS, macOS, watchOS, Windows, SQL Server, Oracle, INTEGRITY OS, AEM, SAP, Sitecore, and a myriad of closed source enterprise products.
Yeah, but if it's run interactively a quick hint (and not the full help message) can be useful.
Unpaved parking lots tend to lose their plant growth when frequently used, after which the parking lot turns to mud in wet weather, which then results in stuck cars and dirt getting into stores with the customers that walked through that mud.
Bootstrapping to 100K ARR in a highly competitive market
This reminds me of the Dhall configuration language: https://dhall-lang.org/
I wonder how much of wearables is going to evolve to be just a mechanism to collect training data for AI (without having to pay for it)?

Pretty valuable data.
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)
Marshall McLuhan, Lewis H. Lapham
Time independence begs the question of failure recovery (and the associated at least once and at most once recovery basic options).

This kind of problem is more suited to solutions like 'closure-persisted lambda functions'. Flink's Statefun comes to mind [1], and also Restate [2]. These come with their host of problems, though. For example I hope you have a strategy for distributedly tracing these, as debugging an isolated continuation will have to be done.. in isolation.

Also comes the general question of lifetimes. What's GC when your functions are spread over a few kB in 100k different places in RAM, SSD, tape? Or do you go à la Rust, trying to come up with guarantees of them (and recover at least once these?)

I believe this is the future, though. Code is often way lighter than data, so why not move it around closer to data? Say a webserver routes a query, then makes a call to the DB, filters some data, and sends it back to the client. Why does the code not live in the NIC for routing, the filtering live in the SSD controller on another server, and the response is transferred from device buffers with direct copying?

Of course Loom's continuation can have a play in this, maybe be the underlying efficient serde mechanism?

There are initiatives to freeze whole JVMs, and bring them back in RAM when there's an HTTP call to be answered for example [3]. Maybe the path of performance for these is in only thawing the continuations and their dependencies, and blocking on >1h delays means getting frozen to the SSD.

Maybe in the future AWS is going to bill webserver lambda usage with SSD IOPS, RAM-L3-L2-L1 occupancy, NIC buffer usage granularity. Like Feynman said, there's plenty of (design) space at the bottom.

[1] https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-statefun-docs-stabl...

[2] https://www.restate.dev/

[3] https://assets.ctfassets.net/oxjq45e8ilak/3KKci3H0yZWIlzHBjC...
Battery fires are a serious deal.

Even in a carefully designed situation such as the 787, there can be problems.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-lithium-ion-b...

And keeping batteries around in warehouses has caused a few problems, too. The Morris Illinois battery fire was a pretty big deal.
> Invincibility is overrated. It means we have difficulty harming them, but it doesn't mean they can hurt us.

Mammoths when they saw some oddly clever monkeys.
Your kitchen-sink is vanished, evaporated in the cosmic cataclysm that devoured your house, your city and country, and was the final battle of the wars brought upon us by the singularity.
> Philanthropy helps revenue by converting those actions into lower taxes for the companies that do philanthropy.

This makes zero sense.
Yes please!
I went for Mixcraft because friend has it already, but still struggling to make it running alongside Spitfire with wine. Spitfire needs win 10 but then no sound with the "low latency" driver in Mixcraft. Anyway… an exchange format would help me go native while keeping friends!
What uptick? Doesn't look any worse than 2010 or 2013. It's likely within a standard deviation for the last decade or two.
That would require the dismantling or restructuring of malpractice law and litigation. The reason a doctor is required to be present is so that an individual can be held responsible to their Hippocratic oath when patients get litigious. Non-board certified staff, AFAIK, don't need to take a Hippocratic oath nor do they need to carry the burden of insurance the same way a doctor or nurse practitioner does.
> The best "open source " business is one that gets profit from doing something else and publishes some open source software on the side . Like react.

React only exists thanks to FB money, even though so many like to hate on FB.

The "gets profit from doing something else" is a very narrow use case for most software.
Allegedly because I don't have time or interest to check it, and because if you're running a for-profit business and you need someone to clarify for you what profit means, I feel like there's something weird going on.
More like 1 or 2%.
In Bash, just use `tool --help |& less` by default :)

Saves a few characters compared to 2>&1
Procyon Photonics: High School Startup That Could Revolutionize Computing
This is an armchair hindsight, but sounds like that needed a way to broadcast trigger GPIO interrupts, which are like JavaScript event handler for hardware.

You can attach a function to a pin, and CPU force-jump into a preprogrammed address for a handler routine, which leads into your code, then return(return(return())) back to where it came from. The trigger can be delivered by, say, a Xenon flash pointed at the ceiling and a light sensor, or a dedicated pair of wires from a master Arduino, or a intentional glitch in power line, a drone receiver per each pi all on a same channel, etc.

> fixed M-mount lens

I assume this is meant to say metric threaded C/CS mount for surveillance cameras, as M-mount is boutique full-frame Leica mount.
HII, General Dynamics to Use 3D Printing for Virginia Submarine Construction
Counter-Strike 2 is live
Dammit I haven't finished populating the last lisp badge.
Doesn’t this turn on the definition of competition (in the license). I remember reading about a bunch of game and server tech being in very murky water following the license change.

If they ever decide to enter your specific business they have an automatic kill switch on you.
This is mixing "energy" with "smarter" with "bursting with ideas", but these are all separate things, and to some degree personality traits.
Yeah, it's good to get some insider information though.
oh my god thank you
We're not called Treasure Island for nothing.
The blog post says they're releasing a M.2 hat in "early 2024"
Fwiw I bought a sleeve for my M.2 SSD and it plugs into usb3 with very little slowdown. It gets 500MiB read and 1.2GiB write. Haven’t measured vs native M.2 to compare, but it’s fast enough that I’d be surprised if the pi were blocked waiting for I/O vs native M.2. And native M.2 comes with increased manufacturing complexity.
Mil: A small, concatenative programming language
Dark River. You can't see them, but they're there
How many of those things are eaten by a majority of humans?

My instinct says "the pork is a maybe".

With no grain in your meal, you're more misleading than informative.
I feel that quality has dropped across the board, Amazon or not. At least in some countries, even the originally-reputable brick & mortar retailers now operate as a "marketplace", which means any search there is also full of dropshipped crap and the same shenanigans as Amazon.
> YAML is not perfect. Neither is JSON, TOML, XML or even code as configuration (Xmonad anyone?).

Whataboutism and false dichotomy in one.

My house isn't perfect, so it's no different than living in a cave.

My car isn't perfect, so it's no different than riding a bike.

France isn't perfect, so it's no different than North Korea.

Macs aren't perfect, so it's no different than a slide ruler.
How come you don’t use https://cleanshot.com/ ?
The context of this conversation, I think, is in configuration languages - I can’t think of a single reason I’d ever consider performance in that spot. Obviously in data transfer you’re not gonna use gb/sec of yaml, which is why I’ve repeatedly stressed the term “human readable.”

Can you give me a practical example of the incompatible data structure you’ve described that isn’t reliant on tooling? I really can’t.
Well as a hormonger I'm going to start using it.
Sure, if you want the raw board and nothing else. I spent $100 for a starter kit that had an enclosure and some heat sinks. It came with a controller for a retropi installation too which was a nice touch.
I disagree:

good:
- a
- b
- c

bad:
- a
- b
- c

Obviously when I show you this, it's clear that b is incorrectly indented, but in a real file, this can be a nightmare to figure out. Particularly if the entries are nested, or tab characters are involved.

Meanwhile, the error in JSON is way more obvious:

{
"good": [
"a",
"b",
"c"
],
"bad": [
"a - b",
"c"
]
}
The cloud is the new mainframe.

You work offline on a "job definition" of some sort, submit it to the proprietary shared system, wait in a queue, then you receive a log file generated by a system you don't control. You can't run the proprietary system code locally on a workstation, and hence the inner loop is often tens of minutes long at best, hours or days at worst. There's no preview, no "what if" mode or "dry run". You work directly on production even if it's called "test" because there's only one system.

The real problem isn't YAML. It wouldn't matter if the pipelines were scripted in God's own programming language.

Software development on workstations instead of central timeshare mainframes became wildly popular because it allowed a dramatically faster inner loop, it allowed isolation from production environments, and it gave control back into the hands of the developers.

Current-generation CI/CD pipelines generally undo all of that.

Single-box Kubernetes reintroduces most of what made workstation-based development good, but it is still a very new system and has many teething issues.

PS: A related issue to yours is that there are great solutions for the solo dev doing click-ops for one app, there are great solutions for megacorops doing automation at scale for thousands of devs, but in the middle where you have a couple of enterprise devs managing a few dozen apps its just madness.
That's misleading wording. The political reason for discontinuing was that it was started as a limited-time, limited-cost experiment.

I feel very strongly that states should be able to run limited-time, limited-cost experiment, even big expensive ones like this. That requires that people accept that the experiment ends, and do not expect it to be a new norm. If people expect an experiment to last forever, then it'll be too difficult to agree on what the next experiment may be.

Besides, I feel that it's stupid to think that the terms/rules which were chosen quickly for an experiment happen to be the best ones for the long-term future. If anyone says so, I think that implies that they haven't really studied what happened in the experiment.
> Our brains filter out repetitive events

Literal compression by neural networks.
1. Yes, Laid off this year from Big Tech. I had outstanding perf. reviews and was working my ass off prior to the layoff for a promo, even traveling on a company event a week before being affected. I think the company wanted to greatly reduce their headcount in the country I live in, and I was likely axed due to that. Business strategy-wise what they did seemed to be the right thing, but they lost me and other great folks :-)

2. Not at all, obviously the job market wasn't as good as before, so salaries weren't what they were in 2021. Very few North american companies were hiring in Europe with great salaries, and the ones that were, they had Hybrid work policies, when I'd rather work remotely due to living far away from a city center, so the overall market change had an impact, not the layoff itself on myself.

3. The reverse happened. I had an amazing response from all previous work colleagues, that promptly helped me, setting me up for interviews and even finding roles for me.

Because of my network, I could quickly find a new position. I had no idea so many ex-coworkers liked me so much. That made me feel appreciated and in a very comfortable job/work related condition.

I took a paycut though, but going now work that is more meaningful and challenging to me. It's also less intense, so I no longer need to destroy my health in order to do a good job.

For the past years I've been trading my health for putting more hours and effort, now my intention is to get in shape again, live a peaceful life and do work I'm proud of. Being laid off despite my performance made me realize that I shouldn't do much more than my peers if the company isn't mine.

Also starting to scratch my entrepreneurial itch again. I'm glad to be free from the golden handcuffs, sometimes you get a big salary, nice colleagues to work with, exciting work and all, but that will cloud your mind, make you focused on that only, rather than seeing all the other great things you could do with your life.
> hunkering down in small, enclosed spaces is a kind of “swaddling” behavior left over from cuddling up with their moms and littermates when they were kittens.

This isn't cat specific. The concept of boundaries is very important in healing trauma, and just in general is a key concept in human being's emotional development.

> This is peculiar. How safe and cozy can a cat feel sitting right out in the open on top of the water bill? Dodman describes it as something like the placebo effect. “This virtual box may provide some misplaced sense of security and psychosomatic comfort,” he writes.

It is also an exercise I found in a book for healing trauma : make a circle on the floor with some towels, or a rope, or other objects and sit in it. It actually works and can help calm down the nervous system. It is a "patch" you could say, a substitute for weaker boundaries. When you sit in the circle, you can feel your body and emotions more easily.

Understand this isn't "scientifically proven", but certainly experientially verified at least for me.

Just wanted to highlight that the concept of sitting in a physical boundary, even if it's just a square drawn on the floor , does help with the nervous system and it's not cat specific - just something most people don't know about.

I would have never thought this exercise would work, it seems silly and yet in my experience it has reliably, consistently, provided relief when my anxiety was really high.

Someone with no significant trauma and relatively good boundaries (physical, emotional) may not notice any difference.
It's a nitpick but this experiment uses a radioisotope source (Na-22) for positron collection.
How would you categorize this person? Philosopher? Opinion journalist?
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But that has already happened. There is no way to distinguish between human and machine-written text.
Because the problem isn't the Nazi law here but treating the symptoms? Extremely strange take.
literally no one writing about self improving AI's are missing those details
I have seen this page more than a few times, but it took me until this viewing to realise that the document shown is not valid YAML, because it uses tabs, which YAML rejects.
This is how a capitalist society works, regardless if it makes sense or not.
You’re aware that ‘they, the fruit sellers’ isn't very distinctive in this context?
A long-term break from extended stress and athleticism, followed by a return to extreme athleticism, which resulted in a single particularly bad year (2021 - 20 deaths)?

Notably there are fewer deaths in 2022 (8) than 2019 (10) 2018 (9), and 2017 (10). 2023 looks to be in keeping with that trend. It looks far more like 2021 was a single outlier year with reasonable explanations than an 'uptick', which implies an ongoing trend, which the data you're showing simply doesn't show.

Another factor could be that those who had congenital heart conditions who would have died in normal play in 2020 (2) are among those who died in 2021.