skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A number of these are astonishingly difficult to do. For example, I spent forever trying to find someone willing to repair my leather couch and couldn't.

Write on a post-it note affixed to a greeting card rather than on the greeting card itself, so the recipient can throw away the post-it and reuse your card

I...what? Why are you giving cards to someone who'd throw away the note? Stop giving meaningless cards.

Let the credit cards on recurring bills expire

You can try this but I've had at least one service (Xbox Live) manage to miraculously get my new card information without me giving it to them. Cancelling the card will cancel any service but just letting it expire and getting a new card with the same number and different expiration date might not.

Hotels where you can sleep comfortably

Should add this to the list: you can bring your own sheets and pillows to a hotel.
> Developers from Fuji Xerox wrote a portable VM in C to run the environment on different host platforms, called Maiko.

I'm always confused by the relationship of C and Lisp(s). Here the VM is written in C. Yet elsewhere there seem to be at least one good example of a Lisp compiler written in Lisp [0]. What was the reason for writing Maiko in C, versus Lisp "all the way"?

[0] "The first complete Lisp compiler, written in Lisp, was implemented in 1962 by Tim Hart and Mike Levin at MIT, and could be compiled by simply having an existing LISP interpreter interpret the compiler code, producing machine code output able to be executed at a 40-fold improvement in speed over that of the interpreter.[19] This compiler introduced the Lisp model of incremental compilation, in which compiled and interpreted functions can intermix freely. The language used in Hart and Levin's memo is much closer to modern Lisp style than McCarthy's earlier code. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)#Hi...
Basically by splitting the money among many people you increase the odds that by sheer accident somebody does something smart with a part of it. When it's in a single hand it's devoted to single persons whims.
The Failed Commodification of Technical Work
That anxiety is because you're living in a country which did not see bad stuff happening in it for a long time.

Other places (from Europe downhill to places such as Syria and Iraq) had really bad stuff happening, and it is known that people are quite resilient. Not only the humanity does not "kill each other", the cities mostly stay intact.
Isn't GPT-4 already over 1T parameters? And GPT-5 should be even "an order of magnitude" bigger than GPT-4...
That sounds pretty condescending. Do you mean "poor people"? I'm not familiar with the company (as an EU citizen), but I believe a good public transport is something that should be encouraged and supported, not scoffed at.
Yeah a problem we were talking about a lot a few years back, before Starlink, was that SpaceX could not find enough market for the amount of launch they needed.

Starlink has been their solution to that but it is still an open question how well that makes money and for how long...

And we have not really seen a space market exploding behind it.
How does that layer hinder mapper feedback if it becomes the default?
How does the patent system follow from capitalism?
Measured: Steam Deck OLED's major input lag improvements
>However his utterly evil attitude and actions have nothing to do with polio.

You don't know that. Without looking into many alternate universes where he did not have polio, there's no way to know how having polio affected his mind, either biochemically or simply by affecting his experiences during his formative years in childhood. Remember the butterfly that causes a hurricane.
I'd love an article like this but about techies and the turbo language we use. Things like "in the cloud doesn't literally mean in the clouds", "serverless doesn't actually mean it doesn't run on a server", or "rtfm means read the f**ing manual"
Which bit of the test of the world? I varies a lot.

The broad answer is badly.

One thing I find in the UK is that while most people say they distrust journalists and the media most people's worldview is clearly formed by the media they favour. This works both ways, of course.

Social media does allow some crazy conspiracy theorists, but they are a minority and most people use social media (at least outside personal stuff) to share both media stories and little snippets and quotes which back the same views and narrative they favour.

It is also very common for people to despise people who take a different view to despise those who believe the obviously false/propagandised/repugnant view of the other side. I think the "left" are worse (quotes, because IMO it is now more of a tribal badge than actually meaningful), but that may be because most people I know in IRL and connect to on social media are from a narrow group (affluent, Guardian reading type of left wing). I have known a broader range of people (in different countries too) but do not see that much of their attitudes at the moment and the biggest group (Sri Lankans) mostly comment on problems specific to their own country (and obviously I do not see them face to face as I do not live there now) so only social media, chats and phone calls).
OK You’ve Made Your Point This Is Getting Silly Now Gigantic Telescope
This video shows how parametric masks can be used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfw-GWowH9M

This is one of the most powerful feature in this software.
The solution won't be just "bigger". A model with a trillion parameters will be more expensive to train and to run, but is unlikely to be better. Think of the early days of flight, you had biplanes; then you had triplanes. You could have followed that farther, and added more wings - but it wouldn't have improved things.

Improving AI will involve architectural changes. No human requires the amount of training data we are already giving the models. Improvements will make more efficient use of that data, and (no idea how - innovation required) allow them to generalize and reason from that data.
A bit more than half the size, it remains to be seen how powerful it is. There's clearly a non-linear relationship to model size, and it's also clear that it's hard to assess the power of these models anyway.
You're right. Even if AI can get rid of some of the personal biases of people, in the medical profession, the application seems untenable. Especially because these models have no ability to intuit newly emerging threats.
good news is that MirageOS can as well be executed in a seccomp context with only 5 or 7 system calls allowed -- see the spt target of solo5 https://github.com/solo5/solo5 -- also this great talk by mato https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/solo5_unikern...
Even if you make the perfect product, you may well have to spend a lot on advertising.

In Fintech, it feels like the first $5 of advertising per customer just goes to persuading them that you're not a scam.

Charities, travel services and perfumes have value propositions often hard to express. Perhaps a perfect communicator could get it across in a short essay, but most rely expensive ads.

There are some domains where customers are well educated & motivated to seek out better products, like consumer electronics & cars, but those are the minority.
Elon Musk calls Tesla strike in Sweden 'insane' as 9 unions target company
How does this glib remark contribute anything? There are much more useful ways of defining playing God than being so inclusive as to have all of human existence in it. (See my definition below.)
Yes. [1]

[1] https://music.apple.com/us/curator/the-zane-lowe-show/990050...
It might be dangerous, but how is it useless? There is also an enormous positive gain to be had in terms of autonomous discovery, science progress and so on. And prisoner's dilemma means "we" will not stop pursuing this, even of there is a net negative benefit to humanity overall.
Would actuators on the bow help, or is that too fragile and error prone given the abuse it gets?
It is kind of funny how "free market" (not really free due to heavy regulation) ruined energy networks and we are trying to punish the end users for it.
Tbf, i was working at one at the time. Finding the space in the chassis for the battery and adapting it and suspension to the weight of an EV meant they had to develop platforms for EV nearly from scratch.

Without any idea of the market demand. At the current cost of developing new Platforms (a few billions), you could understand being risk adverse. Low sales would have killed the whole companies.
Won't we have to do so anyway at some point in order to stop suffering from stupid diseases like cancer and solve other hard problems? Can we not mess it up? If yes, fine. If not, that's too bad but we have to try anyway IMO.
I mean you can it just doesn’t practically make sense to with current hardware
Don't bother, Apple fanboys are delusional. They would willingly slave themselves for the Apple religion. And they generally are extremely dishonest, which is why they want "protection". It easy to see wrong doing everywhere when yourself are operating in a bad way most of the time.

I think somehow Apple found a way to group both limited intellects and intellectually dishonest. This way the second group can pry on the first one and they seem very happy about that.

If you were to listen to them, every windows PC is infested with malware, yet even my grandma that is over 80 years old operates a windows PC without much trouble. She doesn't install nonsense and ask competent people about stuff. Which is exactly the kind of relation Apple wants to steal. So they can charge a lot of money for it, making people dependent so they are fragile. And when they have no other choice anymore, charge as much as you can. Classic sociopath behavior...
Building a 24/7 AI Livestream Where Two AIs Debate [video]
Wouldn't it make sense to allow it to decay and spend the money on something more modern? Optical sensors have had great advances in the meantime, the original Hubble lenses were wrong and a correction had to be installed, and the cost to put something in low orbit went down a lot.

Also we have better understanding of the failure modes of gyro bearings so we can build them to be less failure-prone (someone more knowledgeable please correct me if I didn't get this right).

The original solar panels must have degraded quite a bit by now, so you'd eventually have to replace those too - overall it doesn't feel cost effective to keep fixing the thing.
Energy isn't just electricity. Could be gas as well.
It appears that Ubisoft is experimenting with in-game advertising for some users
I don't mean like watching season 3 only ever for the rest of your life. Like i watch it over and then I rewatch something over. Most of the time, im doing other shit but ya
Google has contour lines ? What i really hate on google maps is that you have no idea if a city is on a plane or on the top of a mountain.
Writing in margins (usually in pencil) is quite common amongst academics, imagine having a physics book with marginalia by Bohr or Dirac!
Ah, an important distinction to make. Good point.
My country has had national assets sold to the private sector by neoliberal ideologues: I feel viscerally that energy generation should be in the public sector.

The truth is that their needs to be a balance.

All political opinions are wrong and harmful, as a fact of human linings on complex systems with enormous numbers of unknowable factors.

So we should instead consider complex systems. A complex system needs to have capacity to change, and contain variation within itself. If it is too chaotic, it will dissipate; if it is too stable, its effectiveness will plummet when the environment changes.

This demonstrates why communists and libertarians are both full of shit.

It suggests that a nation should have a mix of private and nationalised industry.

When new categories emerge, besides private and national, then nations should have some of that in the mix, too: in order to maintain internal heterogeneity, to provide a reserve of dynamism.
No. It was purely subjective and not subject to a lot of thought: it was easier to make it flow nicely when read that way.
These aren't upstarts though, piracy is an established practice and power tools are relatively cheap.
GIMP is great!
I'm not sure taking a cult like the Amish is a prime example, because if we'd all live like that child mortality would still be enormous and we'd fall short on a myriad of things that make our lives easier and better, because there'd be no scientific discovery.
Most slicers have a mode to print "object by object", allowing this.

I wish slicers had an even smarter mode: Reduce free-space moves. When printing a castle with 4 turrets, the slicer could be smart enough to know that after printing the main part of the castle, it can then print the turrets one at a time because they won't hit the print head.

If the turrets were a bit taller, and would collide with the print head, then you could still print half of all the turrets, followed by the other half of all the turrets.

End result: Less print time, less retractions, less moves over free space (stringing).
Yes, the article even mentions that. Guess they went with that headline to attract readers.
From my perspective as European, it is big taxes, lot of bureaucracy and sane investors (compared to VC from Silicon Valley).
> I'm really sold on the idea: Instead of a full-blown OS,

You mean you are sold on the idea of going back to the 80s. We used to have an operating system with every game released[1].

1. https://youtu.be/kZRE7HIO3vk?t=1114
I dunno if they cost more, I'm reading an AK-47 can go for like $150, and they're built to last.
Instead of resigning to “at least they will one day die”, wouldn’t it better to hold rich people responsible? This argument just sounds too much like in Christian theology where the “evil” are punished in the afterlife, which is just a mix of defeatism and propaganda.
> we'd better get good at it

The problem is that we can "get good" at things but we have hard limits that are pathetic in comparison to the complexity of the universe. We are slightly advanced monkeys. We poke around at things and claim to understand them but time and again there are unintended consequences. This is hilarious to watch in the context of AI. Monkey invents machine based on high school mathematics. Monkey scales up the machine and pokes around at it but can't predict what it will do or even explain how it did it in retrospect.
It wasn't until I searched the article for the word Futurama to quickly check what the relationship to the show was, that I noticed my search only matched in the comments and not the title.
> Even though it's free. I don't understand why.

Because if no one would ever complain, there is a lower chance it will change.
Here in Finland we do (and did). Last winter we had a couple go bankrupt as they did some bad gambles with the spot/futures market (basically not buying enough futures to cover their fixed price contracts and once the spot prices went up massively they ran out of money)

This is mainly because by law the local grid operator and actual electricity providers have to be different companies. The grid operators must/should not go bankrupt but electricity providers can and do.

There is a whole process about what happens if the company your are buying your electricity from goes bankrupt. Basically you automatically get a new spot price contract with some designated local "default company" and obviously you are free to make new contract with anyone you want at that moment if you don't like that option.

The local grid operators are highly regulated (as they should be as natural monopolies) and basically make their customers pay costs + a small margin and thus can't really go bankrupt.
Idk, which ice cream flavor do you think will stop all murder around the world?
I don't think you're an optimist.
My mistake. I was thinking of Compose Multiplatform.

Do you think Jetpack Compose could be made multiplatform in Flutter's way (ie drawing its own controls on all platforms)?
Yeah, I zoom in all the way to a building I know is a business to look up opening times etc, but the name just doesn't appear. I don't get it.
Yes, I believe there is a net negative benefit.

I do not think there is an enormous positive gain. Science progress in my opinion has gone too far in many respects and we should not be able to generate science so easily because we will not have the wisdom to use it. Although I love science, it's use is far too lackadaisical now -- see for example the climate crisis and efficient resource extraction of fossil fuels.

Then we can imagine things like life-extending drugs, immunity from all disease (bad because it implies overpopulation), methods to generate oxygen (bad because it will mean we won't value the natural ecosystem as much), etc.

Smartphones, computer technology (human-isolating and community-destroying), etc. Pretty much all modern inventions are making life worse.
Book recommendation (a novel that plays out your thought experiment):

One Second After is a 2009 novel by American writer William R. Forstchen. The novel deals with an unexpected electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States as it affects the people living in and around the small American town of Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Yeah I'm sure small wealthy green and well developed countries like Netherlands, Switzerland or Denmark have built good EV infrastructure, but in most Europe it's not like that at all.

I live in Austria now and charging infrastructure is still very sparse in the city where people keep their cars parked and there's no signs of new chargers being built so I'm also skeptical on meeting the deadline.

Also considerig that most people have old beaters, those people won't be able to magically afford more expensive EVs with worse range.

So I think your parent is right and your situation in Benelux and the Nordics is the exception not the norm. If the infrastructure doesn't massively improve across the block and the price of EVs doesn't tank along with a range increase, there will be uproar in the less fortunate EU countries who depends on ICEs and the ICE deadline will have to be postponed again.
Amish attitude towards technology isn't about technology per se, but about desire to keep their style and size of communities working - something new technology tends to disrupt.

The Mayans didn't "temper their advancement with their limitations in terms of resources" - they were limited by available resources and time, therefore they did not advance as much and as fast as the others.

Advancement is driven by the basic need to make things better, whether for yourself or other. And it stacks.
you kind of mix everything up to try and build a very oriented picture of the conflict : political sovereignty of a nation over a land, consequences of the ongoing civil war between jews and arabs since the beginning of the 20th century, one particular political party’s view, etc.

the fact is israel doesn’t commit genocide, and it’s absurd to argue otherwise. It has military supremacy, and arabs demographic is so thriving that some even argue it could pose a threat to the jewish nature of israel.
12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory — 3 Years Later (2019)
Maybe that a reason why Linux users are more likely to report bugs? At last with issue trackers for most open source projects (and Linux users use a lot more open source) you know whether developers have any response, there is often discussion, and you know when a fix happens in response to your bug because it gets closed as fixed, often with a link to the commit that fixes it.

A lot more motivating than not really getting any response.
I demoed bikes based on data from this site last time I bought a new motorcycle and found that it was spot on.

7 years later, and a R1200GS with a little bit of a bar rise has been a fantastic, comfortable long-range ride (consecutive 500+ mile days on tours) for this 193cm rider.
The way he presents Hilbert's program in 13:34 would make it immediately incompatible with Gödel's theorems. But Hilbert's program was different from what is suggested in the video. It was concerned with proving the consistency of mathematics (or more specifically, arithmetic) using "finitary methods", and in a "conservative" manner using the notions of "real" and "ideal" mathematics. Whether Gödel's theorems show that this is impossible is not completely clear, as it is not established what should count as "finitary", and how to interpret Hilbert's conservativity requirement. See this section for an overview: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hilbert-program/#4

Another inaccuracy: In 8:42 he says Russell pointed out a "problem in Cantor's set theory". But Cantor's theory wasn't even axiomatized, and Russell didn't talk about Cantor's theory, but about Frege's Basic Laws of Arithmetic, which contained an inconsistency.

The thing I was pointing at (grain of salt) is basically the same as Gell-Mann amnesia[1]: Why should you trust someone in a subject you don't know anything about, when you don't overly trust him in topics where you do know something about? The trust level should arguably be the same in both subjects.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155538
Same, I grew up on GIMP and it works great. Tried Photoshop and it was painful. I've had similar experiences with all complex GUI suites, like DAWs and IDEs, each one is different.
Herpes is a normally-dormant virus that, when it flares up, causes those annoying blisters, until it goes dormant again. Tons of people have this problem, it's extremely common (this virus causes cold sores, canker sores, etc.
Probably most of the population has this virus.). So sure, if you can find some kind of antiviral that suppresses or kills the virus, you can avoid those blisters. And luckily, the effects of herpes simplex are almost always minor and temporary in nature, not life-changing.

What we're talking about here with polio isn't suppressing or eliminating a virus, we're talking about fixing damage caused by a viral infection to the CNS. At this point, the polio virus isn't even a problem: people who recover from it don't have the virus anymore, they're just stuck with the damage it's caused, much like people today with "long Covid". This isn't something that's going to be easy to fix.
The feds' vehicle 'kill switch' mandate is a gross violation of privacy
Xerox Star vs. Apple Lisa [video]
Can you explain how Ubuntu is less lean than Debian?

The only difference that people would notice are snaps, which are slow for starting but it shouldn't keep spinning up pointless services like Windows does.
Karpathy in his recent video [1] agrees, but at this point scaling is a very reliable way to better accuracy.

[1]: https://youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?si=eCH04466rmgBkHDA
"Using an AirPlay-enabled device for your audio content can result in a 2-second delay. Check for this delay in game content."

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfaudio/avaudiose...
"pushing more water over the rudder to increase steering authority"

Thanks - that is fascinating - I had thought that the tug was actually pulling backwards while the ship was moving forwards.

"I wouldn't hang around"

Thanks for the advice :-)
Photopea is an embarrassment to GIMP. I had a very similar experience trying to use GIMP once. Using Photopea was seamless and easy and it hasn't lacked any feature I've wanted yet.
"First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?" - Contact
I see this as neoliberal dogma. There may be some truth to it, but I assert that unfettered neoliberalism will turn a country into an unpleasant shithole within a generation or two; and if you're willing to entertain that idea for the purpose of debate, can you honestly say that entrepreneurial types are going to flock to your country merely to save some red tape?
Yes I understand that, but the problem is there's no structure to enforce decisions at the level of human civilization. So even if something is agreed and enforced by 99% of jurisdictions, that doesn't mean it won't happen