skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't really shrink. They simply move the goalpost. The unknown is infinite, so we can recursively explain something in terms of something else which is more fundamental, but we simply don't know where/when the rabbit hole ends. It's not that the discovery of quantum mechanics shrinked anything, on the contrary expanded it beyond our understanding.

So we are faced with 2 choices:

- we keep on playing this game forever. Effectively, we have explained nothing, but provisionally everything works due to theoretical models. We have tech, we have understanding and ability to interact with scales that are enough for human life and progress, everything is merry but we have _truly_ explained nothing. We don't know if the next "level down" will completely wrap around our understanding. And the next "level down" might as well be God, we won't know.

- we consciously pick an informed primitive. The "one free miracle" philosophers (and scientists) blabber about. Now, _if_ we can build a consistent model out of that assumption, _then_ we might have a chance to actually explain something. And there God is not really needed. Nature is obviously what nature is, why can't we accept that something simply is without being created? The very question betrays an entrapment in a space-time mentality where "there must be a before where nothing was, hence divine intervention" but we already know, form physics, that that is not the case.
FYI: You cannot do anything with the desktop application w/o creating an account first.

On the website (https://www.floutwork.com/), section "Focused on You, Not Your Data" there is a "Learn more" Link, which does nothing, in both FF and Chrome.
I live in London. The number of times you see industrial-sized cans of nitrous oxide thrown on the street is disgusting. Bars also have signs in the window that people aren't allowed in if they've taken nitrous oxide.
I struggle with this because while I am with you in tone and spirit, the fact of the matter is that pmarca is incredibly intelligent. Putting his wildly successful investment firm aside, you know that he created the first widely used graphical web browser and co-founded Mozilla, right?

Instead, I propose that he's been breathing different oxygen for so long that he's long since started believing his own legend. Frankly, I just don't believe that he has anyone in his life who would serve as a grounding influence, and I find this really sad.

Anyhow, I jumped into the thread because I find calling someone demonstrably brilliant an "uneducated, delusional moron" might feel good but it distracts from the real discussion.
Don't phones have this built in now? Google Fit and Apple Fitness?
The arm v8 android package is around 180 MB in size, when did apps get so big?
CO2 imparts a sour taste. The bubbles are also bigger, which provides a different and less creamy mouthfeel.
Not offering an opinion one way or the other on either of these, but the government does have plans to ban tobacco in a phased approach, so someone who's 14 now would never be able to buy tobacco legally.
Hope we can use wallet-code and noscript/basic (x)html browsers.
Wouldn’t CO2 carbonate as it whips?
>> Since the world is finite

Technically speaking, the world is not finite.
> I wouldn't even know where to start looking for interesting blogs of the old style, if they still exist.

If you're looking for any sources, not necessarily massive volumes, Gemini and Gopher still host written content produced without any hope for monetary gain. gemini://medusae.space/index.gmi is a good starting point.
As in... kill them?
Vice seem to be the only ones who took note:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kg5d/major-tech-investor-c...
I'm not saying they are. I am just saying that imminent domain is what we have now, and that land-value tax is something that might be better.

I'd rather the government not force people out of homes they paid for, but I don't think that's an option right now.
....or does it reflect how we consume our information about technology these days?
How quickly are tech-books out of date?
I binged on Wikipedia too. In a way, it was the OG "infinite content website" way before scoundrels perfected this and made it into a business model (notifications, infinite scroll, etc.). I would search for something I needed or was curious about, read the article, find some links expanding on adjacent topics, start reading those, and suddenly it's 2-3h hours later, I have 20+ Wikipedia tabs open, I am reading something entirely unrelated to the original topic, and I have no idea how I got there.

Rinse repeat over my high school and early university years.
Indeed - see industrial protocols such as EtherCAT or Powerlink, which use Ethernet frames with their own non-IP protocol on top.
Yeah, one additional thing is that for Norwegian apps, I want the Norwegian version and not the English one. It's hard to get right, I guess. But what I generally want could be summarized as "give me the original version of the app if in Norwegian, if not give me the English version".
It's on the way :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...
He’s pretty famously an author of both that and the Fascist Manifesto that followed a few years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto
I think this is overreacting to a real but localized issue. Or rather, underreacting and targeting the wrong cause.

Also, that move should shove a boot up the ass of the medical community. Maybe in the 90s, there was less alternative for anesthesia, but hopefully in 2023, you shouldn't have any reason to use it. We know it's toxic since like the 80s. Less mortal than letting people die, so i have nothing against those who used it then (and doctors who currently use it in poor or emerging countries), but if you have the resources to use better equipment, it's almost criminal to still use it.
No propane because who wants to eat propane? Apparently it's NO2 because it dissolves easily into the cream[1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipped-cream_charger
You don't wanna eat propane.
What is the main appeal?
Marc Andreessen having a biased worldview is completely irrelevant to the quality of his arguments or positions, yet the implication in the TC article is exactly that (that maybe you shouldn't take his opinions about economics and technology too seriously because he's a billionaire after all).

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti is more well known as the founder of the Futurist movement, which is presumably what Andreessen is referencing here. Implying (or outright stating) that Marinetti's ideas on Futurism can be safely ignored because he also has less palatable ideas re:Fascism is a textbook example of Ad Hominem.
pretty sure serfdom/slavery have that beat, if only based on sheer scale
Yeah, same thoughts here. The whole thing felt like a hit piece.
“grow or die”
This is what they use in the latest FIFA / FC games, they call it Volumetric Data Capture, basically using video footage from real sports events to capture model and animation data for the players, allowing their unique mannerisms and movements to translate to the game. In previous iterations they would have football players in motion capture suits, but they wouldn't get all the players, plus if they did it would be in stifled, studio conditions, not their natural environment.

Anyway, not quite the same as turning a match into 3D, but definitely related.

https://gamermatters.com/ea-sports-fc-24-makes-use-of-volume...
It does annoy me when I see it at my sister's computer, but I speak English. I can see how somebody who doesn't speak English would enjoy seeing some video titles in their own language.

Some videos really only need the title translated and can be now enjoyed by more people: Top 5 Mike Tyson KOs, amazing woodworking techniques, best trick shots of 2023 compilation, dash cam accidents.

If you visit YouTube with your account logged out, these videos are popular and always show up as a recommendation.

Also, some language combinations have pretty good "auto translate captions" experience, so you can turn on the subtitles, too, then you can even enjoy a bit more sophisticated content.
You can click source -> YouTube -> Login followed by import subscriptions.
page 18: “Patron Saints of Techno-Optimism”
All the hallmarks of a policy from a government that has entirely run out of ideas. An easy target because it's mostly young people, who are never going to vote Tory at the next election. Stupid that they're spending time on this because no-one will take any notice when it comes to voting - people are much more concerned about the fact that large numbers of people are struggling to pay their mortgage / rent and the health service is crumbling after years of underinvestment.
This is not really about the social impact of Nitrous oxide use at all. The origin of the upset is based in the litering of the capsules used.

The government doesn't care about the underlying issue (the reason for public annoyance or such trivialities like the effectiveness of prohibition), they discovered this policy polls at >51% in a target demo (older folk) so the policy is a go.
Heh, what a coincidence. Just about yesterday I was chatting with a friend about the similarities between Service Mesh and the ESB of yore.
By default sending tracking data to YouTube is disabled, but it can be enabled in the settings for the plugin (after you login). This way your money will go to the correct channels.
Recreation.gov typically works well for me and doesn't feel like it's been enshittified much. Yeah, the private company gets a bunch of money for it, but IMO they did a really good job and made parks way more accessible.

Boardgamegeek is another one. The UI is terrible but the community seems awesome.

Steam. Valve is a great curator and caretaker, especially compared to the Epic or Microsoft stores.

Alltrails is very helpful too.

Happycow every time I travel, though I don't agree with some of their policies. It's not hostile, just a philosophical stance I don't 100% agree with.
Why attack someone for an opinion? I agree that pure cynicism is toxic online, and merely pointing out flaws without solutions can be worse than useless, but that message was not this.

I read it as a warning that PG skews his arguments to prove some narrow points and you should be careful when applying them to your life, so you don't waste years chasing improbable goals. Plenty failed start-ups exemplify this.
I'm not super technical but if someone knows, I would love to know how does it pull the video from Youtube/Twitch in the first place? Like wouldn't Youtube try and block sending data to this application somehow? Wouldn't twitch? If not today then when it pops up on their radar, and has a meaningful dataplace.
I would have asked mike_d about the "O365 apocalypse" if veqq hadn't. Your link is helpful, but still puzzling. If the onset of Office 365 got rid of tons of staff teams at universities and non-tech big companies, but each team only had a single-digit number of people, can you really call that an apocalypse?
Some background:
https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/topic-overviews/re...
Mainly people are taking this outside of home and often whilst driving, cycling, or riding scooters:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/09/cardiff-cras...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-high-laughing-gas-...

It's quickly become the 2nd biggest killer of the volatile substances. I guess it also doesn't have many legitimate uses compared with others (glues and fuels etc):

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
Nerve damage to be exact. Loss of mobility/dexterity and of some proprioception (not temporary) were reported after nitrous oxide anesthesia since at least the 90s (I actually think it's before but I can't research it right now).
So somebody re-invented an RSS/podcast/vodcast app?
Bosses Have a Problem: People Are Using Sick Days
UK plan to lead in generative AI 'unrealistic,' say Cambridge researchers
I've never understood why people prefer to use the term IDM rather than Braindance.
On laughing gas I realized that the entire cosmos is the smell of burnt almonds

— paraphrasing William James
It just "feels wrong". Like, why is the weekend split in half? Doesn't map to my mental model of the world (which of course is influenced by how I'm used to seeing calendars).

Related, but a few years ago the Norwegian broadcaster NRK asked people how the visualize a year. https://nrkbeta.no/2018/01/01/this-is-what-the-year-actually... (English version)

Quite interesting how different people are. Mostly it's a clock of sorts. To me however it's more of a sine wave, where each year is one phase (summer on bottom), but it's kinda fractally so if I zoom in it got bumps for the months, smaller bumps on there again for the weeks etc.
In the reference implementation, each commit is a chapter. Although it abuses git a little, I love the idea and think it's executed quite well:

https://github.com/nlsandler/nqcc2/commits/main
Happens probably to anyone loving a genre for an extended amount of time. Trance, Drum & Bass, Psytrance, you hear that sentiment everywhere.
Even if you download the universal APK, the app will detect which architecture you have, and the next update it will install the architecture specific one, reducing the bundle size.
You can be brilliant in some aspects and a delusional moron in others. The latter often happens when the brilliant feel their brilliance extends beyond their education.
Yeah it makes no sense that it would. It's probably measuring secondary effects like effort put in to take the notes and tools proficiency.

Most peoples, even "digital natives" are much worse at inputting freeform information on a computer in the first place. The hardware/software to make this possible has only been recently available. Basically before tablet proliferation, free form input was a major waste of time at best ; so it has only been 10 years (barely) that you could argue the tools were sufficient. And even then it only works if you buy a sufficiently expensive tool that is sufficiently fast and precise (started making sense at first iPad Air era).

So of course, they are comparing people using a skill they had decade(s) to hone versus a skill that can only have been acquired very recently.

And I think it doesn't make sense to have pure typing vs pure handwriting, it often all the little things around the written language that help tremendously learning and recalling. The way the information is architected with various levels of "call to attention", small drawings, schemas, etc...

A handwritten wall of notes is way more useless than a typed wall of notes because at least in the second case, it's gonna be easier to restructure it and make it much more "parseable". Then again, having to re-write it would increase the time/effort spent on it and translate as a "better learning". If you matched the time/effort on the typing part I doubt you would see a difference. But the reality is that the guy who typed stuff did it for efficiency in the first place so it's more likely than he won't spend as much time re-reading the notes which of course will translate in worse learning whatever that means.

In the end all of this goes back to nonsense that learning things "by heart" is useful and a useful way to grade/rank peoples competence/capacity for comprehension. Handwriting like learning by heart is something that favors women (they are much more applied and they generally have much better handwriting) and it is not even surprising that this is pushed as truth.
It's part of the huge, finger in the air balancing act of developing drugs. How much money do you put into early phase 1 and before stuff that may or may not make it. And what's the market if it does make it. Because the ones that do make it have to cover the cost of all the ones that don't, who's learning it took to get to this point.
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American citizens discussing domestic matters. Ladies and gentlemen, it's undeniable that technology has significantly enhanced our quality of life. Nevertheless, it's evident that as a society, we are currently grappling with significant challenges. Meanwhile, in places like Mumbai, Guinea, Argentina, and beyond, the last decade or so has seen substantial improvements in the lives of their inhabitants. Astonishingly, this transformation has occurred without substantial assistance from governmental or organizational bodies, and the specter of corruption looms large.

It's crucial for us, as members of American society, to redirect our focus and gain a broader perspective on the global reality. Despite potential decreases in our own standard of living, the world as a whole has made remarkable progress. It's admittedly challenging to fully grasp this truth, but every time a technology-related job leaves the United States, it represents one more step towards a more equitable world for those individuals who lack meaningful opportunities in their home countries.
It feels quite trippy and delirious and somewhat physically pleasurable and if you have enough you teleport into another dimension
My father still refers to it as The Grauniad
Such a surface level understanding of the thinkers he references. Especially Adam Smith who pretty specifically talked about how you need to curb unearned income (economic rent) otherwise you basically are just doing feudalism with extra steps.

Naturally this was in the late 1700s so he only applied it to land .
> They assume that their own action is in the right direction, with near-zero evidence supporting that assertion

Their success is the evidence. "I was made the right bets and became successful" morphs to "I continue
to be materially successful, and therefore I continue to be right" as if they are on a level playing field with the rest of humanity.
By New Testament the common people grokked investment to a degree, hence the Parable of the Talents you quoted. From Mathew 25:24-27, relevant bits:

"He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘(...) I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! (...) you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest."

For that parable to be useful when it was written, common people must have understood the idea of lending your money with interest. From that, it's not a big step for them to have figured out what happens if do it again, and again, having the interest compound.

EDIT: Also, how old is that story about a smartass asking a king to give him a chessboard of grain, where on first field they have one single grain, and for every other field, 2x the amount on the previous one?
As one of the devs of the project, I will try to answer your questions as much as possible.
It is not Open Source as claimed by Louis Rossmann https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master...
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Lots of bars in Vietnam give this out for free.
Is it because we're all just writing junk code as fast as possible and say fuckall to technical debt?

My guess is : probably, I love taking time to make architecture because it's fun and rewarding, but I would not be shocked it's the case, and in fact the right thing to do in a lot of case. 90% of your code will be thrown away anyway in the majority of cases, probably due to external causes. Also and that's probably where copilot shine : for lot of people 90% of your work is adding field/filters functions to a crud page or making a shitty demo for a pet project of your company.

The value is 'when can I show it to a potential client' and not 'is the architecture state of the art ?'.

Of course once the demo is sold, your 3 days prototype with a big "For demonstration purpose only" warning may end in production and you will have 1 afternoon to remove the warning and 'Polish the thing so it's bug free' but hey, that's another problem !

Joke aside, and the book have a lot of very opinionated and contestable content, I remember having read 'Refactoring' by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler and 'forced' myself to work on refactoring, when all my coworkers and myself were prompt to "reboot when possible" all 'old' projects or messy prototypes and I now think exept for rare cases : hacking, testing and getting feedback then refactoring while hacking new features is surprisingly efficient time wise even if you rewrite ten times a routine. When applicable of course, we are not talking medical hardware drivers).

And about your main 'interrogation' I would guess copilot is not specially efficient for you because you are seems to have an academy background and the experience about 'reading the docs' or 'making a google search'. Making even a senior software engineer "read once the documentation of your framework" is an impressive feat in a lot of software companies. Most people seems to prefer the "stack overflow look for/copy/paste/pray workflow" and copilot is basically an evolution of that.
This is total bullshit. Rich or poor, infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate have plunged. The rich do better than the poor, but you're not losing your firstborn to cholera and shit. We have antibiotics and post-natal care. Shit is good now. Forget 200 years ago like the OP said. Try just 1900: 9 out of every 1000 live births resulted in mum dying. Today? In the bottom quartile in my state of California? 18. Per. Hundred Thousand. That's right, two orders of magnitude, almost three.

Back then there were cities in the US where a third of newborns wouldn't see their first birthday. Look at us now! We stand like a colossus. Our children stand healthy. Strong.

You've created some fictional subjugation narrative that is nothing near the truth.
Australia didn’t have that problem before they banned them either.

For countries with major issues who do have strict gun control? Off the top of my head, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa. Plenty more if I looked, I’m sure.
It's just annoying because it's a false dichotomy. I think technology is great but that doesn't mean I have to think unregulated markets are good, or that I have to believe that all growth is positive sum.

This is Balaji level hubris.
I have some doubts whether this would be permitted on the App Store.

YouTube could argue that this is piracy and Apple might side with them.

Still, they could distribute the package (and let people side load it on jailbroken devices or through XCode if they are developers). Grayjay is not on the Play Store either, afterall. But the audience is probably too small to bother.
They were demoing this last year https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22982243/nets-mavericks-e...