skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your summary of the question conflates a couple very different things. One of those things is the possibility of a simulation like the matrix, where you could attach computer IO to a human brain with the brain unable to tell the difference. But "we are living in a simulation" requires that technology be possible, and it also requires that at some point everyone did that, and they never left, and that something in the real world causes all their offspring to get wired in young enough that we don't notice it happening at any point in the process of pregnancy, birth, and infancy.

I don't see any reason to assume it's entirely impossible to make a computer system that provides brain IO indistinguishable from the real world. It'd obviously be very far beyond us, but it seems possible that a sufficiently advanced computer could manage it. But accepting that doesn't mean I have to accept that enough people did it to establish a population, they did so permanently, they forced it on their offspring (conceived both in the real world and simulation), and they never told anyone or left clear signs in the simulated world.

Alternatively it could assume that we are ourselves simulated, just programs unaware that we're programs. But that leaves many of the same questions (who did it, why keep it going forever, etc). We currently could dedicate all of humanity's exaflops of computing power to Monte Carlo simulations of Snakes and Ladders, but why? I don't think there's any reason to step from "theoretically it's possible" to assuming any amount of likelihood.
We use the app on whatever device is around: iPad, Mac, Linux, etc. They're synced through https://ankiweb.net/
> For 90% of users, it's better than X in most ways that matter.

I sincerely doubt this. The project hasn't organised much in the way of receiving user reports, and anyone with a negative one has experienced various levels of hostility: you are usually suspected of user error.

The distro's that have switched also target devs/enthusiasts, who tend to have a particular subset of all possible hardware which leads to biased impressions.

I think many don't quite understand that much of the hairyness in Xorg is necessary: it's the hardware that dictates the requirement of those 1001 little workaround. A clean slate doesn't mean the slate can stay clean: you either choose to support all of those unperfect devices, device-combos, user requests, or, and that seems to be what happened, you focus on a narrow happy path (for the kind of people the devs themselves see) and leave it at that. I don't mins that, but I do mind anyone arguing Wayland should be or is going to replace anything; look at the negative user reports. It's nowhere near there.
A housing situation like the modern US would have been ridiculous for any 19th century European to write about. Having most of a population living in homes occupied by their owners was unheard of and irrelevant at that time and/or place. Popular home ownership comprises a uniquely American political strategy.

Calling this a "weakness" is just laughable. What other 19th century thinkers are you holding to the standards of a God?
Gathering data so when some PM wants to empire build and justify a project, or when a UX researcher person needs evidence to support their initiatives. All of this is self-serving towards their careers.
Appliances etc are not part of the building cost (at least not here - in Germany you buy a home and then you buy appliances).

The cost of the home without appliances is also much higher. And it’s not just compared to the 50s, it’s also compared to the ‘00s and ‘10s where we had more or less the same appliances we have today.
Universities invest a ton into underprivileged children. Their sports systems are the only way for many poverty-stricken people to make it. You shouldn't stop that from happening. Hillsong, as an example on the other hand, is an outright business with millions of dollars in revenue.
No you can't license edge weights any more than you can license concentrations of ethanol in gasoline. Modified DNA can be patented, because it falls into one of the categories "process, machine, composition of matter, manufacture" in that it is a new composition of matter. Edge weights are not that.

Edit: Actually, if the training set is IP and the method to train is IP then maybe the weights are licensable, given that it's trade-secret territory. However, ensuring that the edge-weights are not widely disseminated once shared with a licensee is not straightforward and the infeasibility of such makes it an uphill climb. Not like that stops the lawyers from clawing up the tree, tho.
Do people use trusts?
I find the idea super unnerving. It means there is the possibility that your consciousness could be trapped in a virtual prison Black-Mirror style for an eternity.
I mean, historical accuracy is not exactly a Civ feature. For that I’d recommend Paradox games. And game play wise, I find death stacks simply lame, so I’m happy they aren’t there. There are tons of things that don’t make sense for IV either, but I still don’t call it Uno.
Why does Rust depend on C?
There's still a lot of it in the ground, and the regular digging up of shells and other war metal is nicknamed the iron harvest.

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

Choice quote "The French Département du Déminage (Department of Mine Clearance) recovers about 900 tons of unexploded munitions every year."
hahaha... That's the aftermath now
No idea. Have never had to do it in many trips spanning from California to Texas and Montana.

Charging to the top slows down your trip and there’s no need for it in most Teslas.

This is probably aimed at those who ignore that fact and insist on charging to the top, or people with non-Teslas, which typically tend to have lower range, as they start using the network in the future.
One of my top go-tos is Juno for iOS or Termux for Android
Have you tried a sitting desk?
Original author here.

Back in September, I got the recommendation to read the "Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" book from some other comment thread here in HN. I don't exactly remember which thread that was though... but learning about the history of Windows NT sounded interesting, so I bought the book right away and have been slowly reading through it over the last three months.

The story in the book seemed so exciting (and messed up) that I ended up writing a "book review" with commentary on various topics that caught my attention. The details might not be super-precise, but they are hopefully enough to paint the right picture in its context. I thought you might enjoy it due to where I got the suggestion from!
they could just have the university own the property and the sports team would rent it from the university and avoid the property tax like that
I you're really maybe missing the simulation business w.r.t. computing, etc. It's like cells in a dish debating the world outside them without any context of it.

It's pretty trivial to have this reality be a 'container', as it were, within some superset reality, regardless of the information density of said contained reality.

Think of it like a human body sort of being its own unique, low-entropic thing.

I personally like thinking that in one sense, we're all a bunch of bits of fleeting consciousness on the edge of some fractal of realities, and the 'substrate' is simply possibility itself.

After all, the mandelbrot fractal is drawn by which series terminate, and often how long it takes them to terminate.

Why not us? Why can't we be one infinitesimal reality in the entire sea of possible realities, held together by the fact that our reality happens to have coherent rules that allows it to exist as some possible state in the greater states of some amorphous soup of possibility?

Just a thought. I know it may be more out there for some.
US college sports is ridiculous.

Basically every year hundreds of thousands of poorer kids stake their future on sports, mere hundreds get through to college level where they're just as illiterate and keep training to get into major leagues instead of learning (less than 10% do), and "normal" students pay for it all.

Outcome: hundreds of thousands of illiterate kids who didn't get to college level, hundreds of illiterate college graduates, increased college debt for the rest.
Some people feel that there's a hidden, unprovable reality beyond what we can perceive, which dictates the things we cannot explain in our own reality. Religions are features of basically every human culture; "simulation theory" folks are of this mindset, but it's couched in the language of technology, rather than theology.

I work on soft real-time simulations as a career, so I think this reality being a simulation is exceedingly unlikely.
Building is cheap. The expensive part is finishes - especially for bathrooms and kitchens. If you go with a barebones finish you could easily build for 50% of the cost, although you may find it hard to sell it in the future.

The other problem is that since land is expensive, you have to build as large as possible to optimize resale value.
Yes. I think there's many signs and stats that people are spending more time watching series, reading novels etc.

The interesting part to me is this seemingly paradoxical evolution of the contents getting shorter and more bit-sized, and us consuming more and more of it: if the "risk" associated is lower, people are more willing to give it a chance, and while we can spend 10h binging something, it only happens because we can stop at any moment and go do errands, answer a call, go to sleep when too tired etc. without too much disruption or missing out (at best we just need to rewatch the last 5 min of the previous episode to get back into the plot)

The other side of it being podcasts and audiobooks, who completely bypass the time commitment requirement by being parallel to everyday life.

All of this could happen with traditional media as well. We've all seen people standing in the middle of a movie and just get out, or skimming books, or just giving up after the first 2 chapters, but there was much more of a loss (in money and time) and it was socially thrown upon to a point I still have a hard time to understand.
Australias property market trends and sentiments seem to be trailing perhaps a couple of years behind New Zealands, in recent times.

We are now seeing in Australia the very same accelerated rising trend that New Zealand went through prior to 2022. Beginning with a slight but distinct feeling of public discontent at unaffordable prices, and soon morphing into actual panic, as entire (younger) generations (and their disgruntled, voting parents) realise that they've firmly entered the Never Own-your-own-home Zone.

If NZ is any future omen for what will happen next in Australia, then the fact NZ peaked and then retraced somewhat over the past 2 years - firmly assisted by a very fast rise in mortgage interest rates - may well inform what is coming up for Australia's next few years. Once they reach a certain point, which, given the above-linked rhetoric, can't be too far away...

(quiet-P.S.-while-trying-not-to-start-a-political-argument : commiserations on the regressive new government!)

And, while I am not an economist by any means, the above is interesting in light of the fact that Australian banks own most of New Zealands financial market. One might almost think NZ were being used as the guinea-pig beta testing service for its larger neighbour!
> Why won't they afford to own a home? Is the population skyrocketing suddenly anywhere in the Western nations apart from Israel? They already own one.

Lifespans are increasing, and people expect/insist on living alone more. And while population may not be "skyrocketing", it's increasing.

> This equilibrium will of course, self-preserve because zoning rules are not national but change based on locality, so there won't be a single nationwide crash anywhere.

A big enough change in a local area will become a national crash easily enough - we've seen that before (particularly in the UK where London alone is something like 20% of the housing market by value). Couple that with the fact that the same demographic changes are happening in most places - housing prices have been rising since the '50s and it's going to boil over at a similar time everywhere. And since policies and politics move slowly, we can't count on a smooth transition - more likely there will be an overhang and increasing pressure to do something (indeed there already have been - but the current generation of short-termist politicians naturally responded with misguided policies like "affordable housing" requirements that have only reduced housing affordability) until the problem can't be ignored, and then a crash and perhaps even an overcorrection.
Ouch, that is going to hurt the US!
>27 million people live on a continent the size of North America

What? North American is more than 3x the size of Australia.
I for one cannot stand projects that depend on Python due to the multitenant and dependency management problems, so this is welcome
It's like Occam's razor, we just added another layer of abstraction for no reason.
Yes but: u/epolanski is referring to the abuse of metaprogramming, such that every org, every project creates its own bespoke mutant creole which remains C++ (or Haskell, Forth, LISP) in name only.

Java's founders wisely omitted metaprogramming. But memories are short. And chaos always finds a way. So now Java has its own medley of obfuscation strategies. Annotations, aspects, inversion of control, dependency injection, logging frameworks, etc.
Yeah, yeah - personal growth, contentment, psychological breakthroughs...

But surely I'm not the only one wanting to know more about the lawnmower?? Say what you like about the 50s, but those dudes dreamed up some cool stuff.

Can you imagine this sort of thing being pitched today, never mind made?
> He posited that if he checked an engine only once per game (at some critical juncture), he would be unbeatable (by any other non-cheating super GM).

Not even to that extent.

They just need to be told which single move mid-game to think harder on, and they'll often find it.

So all they need is a metaphoric tap on the shoulder.
I would imagine it’s immediately reinvested into further expanding the supercharging network.
> And they do it all for a meaningless diamond badge.

Some of them get invited to Product Expert Summits too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/9vqyf0/attended_the...
I'll take that as "nothing." Marx's analysis on the accumulation of capital has nothing to do with Malthus.

You haven't even answered my question. Why would I waste my time?

That said, Marx was a 19th century economist. Just like every other 19th century economist, he did not have a time machine and did not predict neoliberalism or modern financialized economies, which are still in their first test run. Hold your horses, sweetheart.
>If people are willing to pay a price for a home, that’s what it is worth.

Why do we assume rational actors when we keep proving to ourselves people are not acting rationally?
I just aim for the duration. The key for me is to remind myself 20 minutes is not a long time, and getting through it is more important then hitting targets.

I've probably naturally gotten faster at it, but the basic idea is to keep any steady pace and just make sure I do it.

Most of the basic research on this tends to suggest the same thing: you need 15-30 minutes a day of mildly aerobic exercise, and you get a big boost in calorie demand per day and feel better. That's what I'm aiming for: and for me rowing has the additional benefit that it's very compatible if you suffer from IBS/other gut pain things (which I do) which always knocks out running for me.
Churches too.
> You get to keep the money when you move to a less expensive area. Or you retire and downsize.

I live in a satellite township to one of the poorest suburbs in Melbourne, Australia. My house is tiny, too small for the four of us, and has cost us nearly $100k just to make it weather-tight (also with $10k of solar panels). So, in total, we have spent nearly $800k for a small home that is too small for our needs.

If I were to move somewhere less expensive I would not be able to do my job. As it is I have to spend 3 hours a day (minimum, some days it can be up to 5 hours if there are train issues) commuting to my place of work.

Australia is a huge country with a handful of large cities with amenities and only hundreds of small towns which do not. The only places where housing is on par with US towns (i.e. 150k-300k) may be in the middle of the outback, 10 hours drive from the nearest city, and be so ramshackle and run-down as to be unlivable.
It's an entirely separate system.
You can wring your hands about this, but it's largely a function of interest rates. Those have fallen dramatically over the time period, mortgages used to be in the teens. Let's see if this persists in the new interest rate environment we are in.
Well, React markets itself as a library and not a framework. This implies there is some overhead of using a framework. There isn't really - you really can just use what you need from a framework like Phoenix and ship it. The parts you don't need, you don't usually have to learn.

What does React provide for the use case of clicking on things and submitting forms, and having the feedback update in place instead of a full page reload? For me it's worse than vanilla js unless I use uncontrolled components, which isn't suggested by the React docs. https://dev.to/kevinkh89/how-to-solve-input-delay-lagging-in...
I hope someone is "just using rsync" to backup their Dropbox.
Can you just give it away earlier in life to avoid that? I have heard of plenty of people doing that with Medicaid.
Most people want to live in a giant house right next to where they work with a bunch of cafes and restaurants in easy walking distance but no neighbours and a great view, and it needs to be cheap. In practice something has to give. In the absence of artificial restrictions, a free market can do a pretty good job striking the balance between luxury and affordability.
> is that arbitrage hustle still producing?

I don't have a good source of inflation swap prices, but I would assume it's persisted. It's not an easy trade to do leveraged, since your assets are marked to market. And there are natural buyers of vanilla Treasuries for collateral purposes.
It's so wild that, presumably, college educated people have this take. It's practically the only schooling that's worth a damn beyond reading writing, arithmetic, and civics. K-12 is so terrible for everything else colleges throw almost all of it out and start from scratch anyways. It's one of the only places where normal people can access experts in most fields without already having connections.

Not saying there aren't glaring problems with higher ed but this kind of change doesn't seem like it has any chance of helping the situation. I don't love much of anything about undergrad and that it feels like what high school should have been all along but I don't wanna throw the baby out with it. Because then people aren't even getting a proper HS education anymore.
Do you use Takeout or what method do you use every few weeks to grab all your data from cloud services including Google?
Yea I've always wondered why people take their cars to the mechanic, and go off to the Dr themselves.
Everyone should be an expert in everything, why offload something you don't fully understand to a 3rd party? Just spend all your spare time becoming an expert in the domain with which you currently struggle, and you'll never need to rely on anyone again.

PS: This was written by power generated by a generator I built myself, it's super relia
Do you mind sharing your subjective experience? Just quickly. I've heard some really weird stories and often wonder if these people are just extrapolating normal events in their head into communication with God, so I like to hear em

Cheers
I wonder whether it's a client-side sync bug that's reporting old state as new, causing newer data to get overwritten. In that case, the data should be recoverable by rolling back history.

I use only the web interface, so I don't know what clients are available these days.
China has been looking to invade Taiwan and the southern islands to use for tech and oil sources.

Allied with Iran and Russia might defend Palestine from Israel and the USA.
I can't imagine ever living in such a place. Sounds like modern-day serfdom and I'd be moving out within a year, don't care where to.
The article says it was restored from tape. And it was.
> Marx's analysis on accumulation of capital has nothing to do with whatever you're talking about

What do you think it's about? Because I'm quoting from his work and its relevant Wikipedia article.
Wanted to echo the suggestions of ThisOldTony, BenEater, and bigclivedotcom.

ZackFreedman is another good marker, although he can be a bit goofy.

If you like mechanical things in general, both SouthMainAuto and HVACRVIDEOS are fantastic.
I’m not at that point. But have been able to create a curated feed of X content. Sort of how certain channels or networks are organized in cable/OTA
Tried it out. Would like to play it. Can't figure out what's going on.

Hope someone is gracious enough to contribute a video overview / tutorial.
One of the most powerful ways to integrate LLMs with existing systems is constrained generation. Libraries such as outlines[1] and instructor[2] allow structural specification of the expected outputs as regex patterns, simple types, jsonschema or pydantic models. Llama.cpp supports bnf grammars.

These outputs often consume significantly fewer tokens than chat or text completions.

[1] https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines

[2] https://github.com/jxnl/instructor
Yes, we always talked about the future paperless office and wondered when it would finally arrive. I was thinking about that recently when I noticed that hardly anyone prints anything in our office any more. I’m sure it happens once in a while as we do have printers but it’s pretty rare.

I suppose the large, high resolution screens and dynamically collaboratory documents mean that we don’t need to share physical documents anymore.
The quality of products and services is declining and we are regressing as a result. This decline will continue in the future as AI is fed with low-quality content. The hiring practices of big tech companies like Google are not solely based on merit, but are influenced by various external factors and policies shared by multiple companies. This may be an unpopular opinion, but it is undeniably true.