skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is that idiotic? GDP has no ceiling to it.

And I don’t know about you, but I’m kind of glad the healthcare industry has a growth mindset that “what we have is good enough”.

It’s how humans advance. If cavemen thought “well this is good enough” well, we’d still be living in caves.
Growth for a nation has changed. 500 years ago there wasn't much ability for a state to grow except by expanding their borders. Your farmers couldn't produce enough food to feed more people (they would on a good year, but then the extra starve in a bad year), and so you could expand your economy only by growing your borders. Thus a noble (read rich) would build an army and go to war - this at best adds more land they control and thus more taxes, but even in the worst case destroyed a lot of people who then didn't eat freeing up more food for the rest. The limit was land not labor, so if you killed a lot of men (women were ignored) those left could work a little more and produce just as much food.

However starting 200-300 years ago the industrial revolution and various innovations have made other growth possible. Today war destroys far more than it gains you need a large industrial base to build a lot of equipment that you destroy (bombs are not cheap), plus all the equipment the enemy destroys. If you don't go to war you can instead use your industry to build more luxury goods (vacations are a valid luxury good for this discussion though we don't normally think of them that way!)

Note, war above is entirely from the attackers point of view, and it is - as attackers are - optimistic about the chances of winning a war. The defender has other considerations.
as an alternative, you may add `1s` after `github` in your address bar to open the repository with a browser-based VS Code, and then use Ctrl + Shift + F to search across all files
Yeah I don't think that comment aged too well. Not to mention the explosion of microservices and autoscaling temp services, this would be very useful.. I can appreciate the reluctancy though, it's not a trivial change to get right.
Depends on how you define society. Is society a machine for producing high achievers who accomplish tasks? Is society a blade for lopping off tall poppies? Is society an organism with its own fitness functions outside of the individuals that compose it?

If you've studied artificial life and see societies as mechanisms for executing the genetic algorithm, you see the faults with the growth ideology you've criticized. It's a plateau-making machine: it will tend to reward what's working right now, and starve out the genetic pool of anything else, leaving the resultant society unable to adapt.

Computers acting like people and people acting like machines is a bad trade-off. It's not at all focussing on the strengths of each. There's a reason societies (such as big cities) that seemingly focus over-much on caring for useless and suboptimal people (compared to the darwinism of the wild frontier), end up burgeoning and becoming hotbeds of accomplishment. If you treat people not as machines, but as the genes of the genetic algorithm, it suddenly makes a lot more sense to be humanist: you'll get unexpected wins out of unexpected traits being cultivated until they can be useful in their own right.
De-regulate what, exactly? The housing market? How does that reduce speculation?
I use FreeBSD on my home server and love it. I'd daily-drive it too, if it had better WiFi support out of the box.
This sounds like a dont-buy-pitch for an AI engineer...

The point the commenter is making is that both schools of thought in the comments are valuable and unless you perform both roles, i.e. an engineer who is familiar with the scientific foundations, both are symbiotic and not in contention.
Found this hilarious:

> This post is packed with so much history and information that I feel like some citations need be added

> I am the reference

(extracted a part of the conversation)
An alternative to keeping PCs poor is to make them "rich-poor." They are effectively so rich that money does not matter, but the setting is such that there is nothing they can buy that will make them better off. When they reach a town, they can always afford to do whatever they like (when it comes to coin), but they might not be able to afford the narrative consequences of their choices.

The key aspect of "keep them poor" is really just "limit the availability of upgrades." In a desolate world, there's nothing to buy. With super-hero tier PCs, even in an abundant city, there's nothing to buy that matters that doesn't also come with knock on consequences.
You mean those things with a door on either size so the rack goes through from one side to the other? Those are high temperature sterilizers that take hand-washed dishes and blast them so you can put them on patrons' tables.

The guy at the end of the article clearly had one of those (it looks like he probably said this but the wsj reporter cherry picked the quote, as it quotes him saying he could only use it for glasses at parties, not for plates with food residue. Bet he didn't call it a dishwasher since he's a repair guy).
Firefox has made it unnecessarily difficult to customize the new tab.

You can have it blank or you can have Firefox recommendations. Those are your options.

https://i.imgur.com/U13r7pG.png

This resembles a dark pattern to push users toward Firefox recommendations, a moneymaker.
An 80 year old dude doesn't care about being name dropped on a random obscure forum on the internet.
I own a Brother DCP7065DN that I bought nearly a decade ago, and it still works just fine. I've always used third party toner (there was a setting that needed to be toggled to enable this). I can even print and scan from my phone.

All the cloud nonsense is there to enrich the manufacturers, it doesn't actually make these products better. KISS!
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Would have been cool to see a Linux distribution in the comparison too, just for reference.
> Is there a clear point of departure when AI can no longer handle mathematical reasoning?

I'm more interested in the point where AIs are presenting proofs far beyond human capability. I'm imagining a day when an AI says it has solved some interesting problem and when we ask for the proof it spits out a 4 million page document. What are we supposed to do with that? What's the role of humans in that world?
Most big corporations are owned by institutional investors which represent the 401ks and pension plans of your average citizen.
I think this is a good essay by an economist on what Milei needs to do: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2023/11/pro-dollarization...
> and maybe I have some kind of "never actually delete data" setting enabled, I don't know and haven't looked

Almost certainly. This is a feature, so that when users accidentally delete everything, the sysadmin can fix it.

> the Workspace admin UI requires a PhD to figure out

It's designed for trained sysadmins, not end users. Still, it's pretty easy to figure out with some google searches.
At first glance, ads seem a win-win payment model for never-seen-before services: people trade something they're generally unaware of (their attention) for something they weren't aware they wanted or needed. Then you realize their attention is literally the stuff of their conscious lives, the most valuable thing they have.
I find the idea of a universe with a discrete substrate/structure both natural and compelling. I wish we’d explore it more. If you really think about it, it’s hard to imagine nature would just happen into a system with irrational numbers as we naïvely (undergraduate level college and below) understand them. Things clearly look infinite on a macro level, but “what type of discrete systems give rise to the observed macro behavior” is a field that needs more exploration.

The maths analog is alternative number systems, which at least seem to be gaining interest and popularity.

The metaphor for programmers: is the universe just a beautifully seeded Conway’s game of life?
Until it happens again later today, or tomorrow. Or on wife's computer at work. Or on grandma's. Unless you're from Microsoft, I wouldn't call that "solution".
Small claims court? The stakes are lower and you don't need a lawyer.
How many times is this one editor with a grudge going to post the same rumor-mongering?
I Have No Self-Control - What Should I Do?
If you want to stick with D&D I highly recommend MCDM's "Stronghold & Followers" and "Kingdoms & Warfare". They bring back all the old stronghold play which is a great gold sink.
>The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

This pretty obviously wrong unless measured on very specific audience for very specific tasks. You need not to be an Emacs/Vim afficionado to know that e.g. ctrl-s, ctrl-c etc. are faster vs moving mouse to an icon, or clicking out a context menu. That's why like everyone with an experience of using a desktop of more than a year uses at least a few hotkeys
You can use the red flag button to flag that, along with your rationale.
This is a very intrusive mod to the MBA which I don’t think it deserved
I have the same experience - after an initial slightly tough config to get it connected to wifi (understandable given the budget price and older model), it has worked flawlessly - I will always recommend brother printers now

Further, I got mine as a refurb since I wanted it in the throes of the pandemic so I wasn't going to spend big bucks on a printer and needed something for the amazon returns labels primarily...
No, it's backed by evidence. Light mode is, objectively, better for your eyes because light characters on a dark background tend to "bloom" and be less clear.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/
It was tried on a large scale.. They called that carbon independent experiment : Lebensraum
idea: A rest home for "Next Big Things". We can have comfy stables for things like "Quantum" and "VR" and so on, a place for them to rest and regain health in between their strenuous public performances, dancing to attract foolish
investment money.

The rest cycles have been getting shorter and shorter, so the need to care for these reliable fictions is getting more urgent. Why, poor old "3DTV" was put away wet last time, and now stands moldy, stinky, and unloved by anyone.

That's not going to work when someone wants to take her out next year and parade her around again to peel off this years retirement fund yields.
Thanks, very nice summary and categorisation. Two nitpicks:

* In my view Switzerland is not doing fine because it is wealthy, it is doing well as it was historically difficult terrain to conquer (thus no one bothered to invade it in most wars) and because today it is surrounded by wealthy democracies, all of which are part of the EU and economically closely integrated with Switzerland through the EU-Switzerland agreements. If France wanted Geneva 'back' it could do so without much resistance, similar to the Russia-Ukraine and China-Taiwan dynamicy but this doesn't fly with the other EU countries looking on.

* I can't think of any EU bureaucrats who got in the news for corruption or similar, rather it always seems to be the national political caste which are then sent to Brussels as representatives. So the parliamentarians and commissioners, all of which are political appointees or get their post based on national party lists, and the political staff they bring along. See Qatargate - all Italian and Belgian politicians and party staff.
Any market where the inflation rate has been 0% has seen a natural decline in the quality of the offering. Look at the airline industry - prices have not changed in about 40 years. It cost about $1200 USD to fly to the other side of the world in 1980: it’s still the same price in 2023. How did airlines do it? By making the product much shittier in that time.
I don't believe it's any kind of conspiracy to make life hard for open source apps. There are legitimate technical reasons to use a single service for push messaging. This is just a regular old case of bad incentives. Chrome doesn't do a good job of prioritizing issues with user impact and Android doesn't support other teams well.
I’m not sure why Web Push is often singled out for this criticism, the same goes for app notifications.

I’ve never actually gone down the road of creating one but in theory you could make an almost entirely decentralized peer to peer messaging service with a PWA implementing the Web Push API to exchange messages. I agree that sadly most of the use cases are spammy nonsense but it remains an interesting API to me.
Then how are my stories marked as member-only when I had never enabled the paywall. It doesn’t seem like a choice for writers.
I have an older brother that only has ethernet, but I share it via my server, so I'm good that way. Every device that needs to print can print to it no matter the OS they're running. In this day, that is amazing. I don't have to have special apps or 4 different printers. I just have the one and it just works. This is as it should be.
I've used a Rode NT USB for about a year now. It's a USB mic, so that may dissuade some. For basic use, it's a great mic. I do a tiny bit of voice recording and it works fine.
To be fair, my recording space is treated, so most mics sound better in it.

If you need/want some $10k rig, this ain't it. :)
The rewards system for many games has been horribly screwed up. Constant small rewards are common on most mobile games, rather than the segmented rewards of old games where often the more effort was required the bigger the reward. The kids have little to no concept of payoff and expect a constant flow of action to reward. Suika Game, which was recently popular, is a prime example. Nearly every time you drop a fruit a reaction happens and you get a small reward. This also seems to be creating a general impatience I'm seeing in children where if there's downtime or slow segment they start looking for other forms of stimulation. It honestly makes me very worried because that behaviour might be extending to their everyday life rather than just with videogames.
Yeah Bill, we got it. Life is good iff you are homo sapiens.
I found Edge to be useful for Enterprise/Business environment. My previous job uses Office 365 E3 (and their email server) and entrenched with them for various external services such as MS Authenticator for SSO. It is easier use Edge for SSO since I don't need to keep typing out the complex password for my job. Whenever the password prompt show up in Edge, I click my work email account and it automatically log me in. I have one desktop and one laptop for remote work, it simpler with SharePoint/OneDrive to keep my work data synced between both computer. Edge have their uses in Enterprise/Business setting.

For personal use, I rarely use Edge. I only uses them for websites that have an issue with my Firefox with uBO and strict CORS. I avoid Chrome like it is a plague.
Not 100% on topic, but another thing that I think schools can be bad at diagnosing is ADHD: in many cases it’s actually anxiety that manifests as ADHD-like symptoms, and the treatment or medications would be different for each.

(Source: discussion with a child psychiatrist)
> Why were these features introduced in the first place if not to provide some of the features that backups have traditionally been used for?

The key word being "some", not "all".

Yes, file versioning means you don't have to go back to clunky backups to restore an older version.

But it does absolutely nothing for data loss, which has always been the primary purpose of a backup. Accessing older file versions has only ever been a secondary purpose.
> physical attractiveness, assessed when individuals are around 15 years old

This is weird for a bunch of reasons, the most objective being that appearance changes a lot around that age range. Seems like an odd experimental choice.
Good looking people do better in life. Fascinating.
That article is weirdly written. Not even like it was written by gpt, but it’s really artificial and shallow in a weird way

Also, why link to x? Lots of us don’t have x accounts. All the tweet contains is a link to an actual article, so are you trying to get Twitter followers here?
I love working with mkdocs. I just used it for the first time this year, and I found it to be very straightforward. It allows for just the right amount of customization for my needs.
I did try that out and it's better than nothing, but I like Noisli's selection of sounds, and that you can create little blends of them— like bonfire + running water + crickets for a camping scene, or train tracks + rain + cafe for a journey scene.

It also being on my homepage vs buried in a settings menu was worth a few dollars to me.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/28/erase...

Not true.
I wasn't aware of the specifics. I was only going by the UX changes. Good to know more detail. Thanks
I don't think anyone doubts that taller, more attractive men are more likely to be promoted or end up in positions of power. Most obvious example is presidents; average height for presidents is 6 feet.
I'm pretty sure the VCs reading this are thinking "they're leaving so much money on the table, we should buy them."
Couldn't agree more. We were especially surprised to see the extent to which security is treated as an afterthought by many model vendors.
I spent a while in a similar area. I used to have a bike, riding around some of those nice old suburbs with all the cool old buildings was special.

Fond memories exploring Sydney, Pyrmont, Balmain etc on a bike. Also enjoyed east side too. Redfern, Surry Hills etc.

I think Sydney is the most beautiful city I've ever visited.
Darwin is one of the supported architectures, yes, though it is a bit of a second class citizen in the Nix ecosystem when compared to x86_64-linux.
I remember doing this about ten years ago, taking up almost the entirety of my phone’s storage in the process, and feeling unreasonably delighted by it. I’m not sure why, but this idea really appeals to me. It’s all very good having access to information on some server somewhere, but literally having (a very useful amount of) information on almost every topic humans have so far contemplated available literally in your pocket is somehow incredibly thrilling. For the same reason I’m fascinated by the idea of locally-hosted LLMs. It’s hard to explain. Maybe it’s like some sort of digital version of hoarding behaviour.
Good to know it can do that, in the pasted chat above it didn't. To be honest, it surprised me it couldn't, this isn't exactly a very hard guess given the computation results. It doesn't convince me GPT4 is anywhere close to winning the IMO, though :-)
Yes. You can put a piece of code behind a paywall even. The only requirement under GPL and similar copyleft licenses is to make the code available to those you make the software available to (which can be only paying users, if you so wish), and to allow them to redistribute it under the same terms (which tends to mean that if you do make it pay-only, one of your users can just publish the code if they wish). Absolutely nothing in any commonly used open source license requires anyone to post something publicly and freely.
I've played in systems (multiple ones I think, but I don't remember the names) in which wealth was just a stat you had, and if you wanted to buy anything that was ranked below your stat, you could, without doing anything. And if you wanted to buy something at your stat or above, you'd roll to see if you could acquire access to the funds. So, the number didn't event represent a pile of gold, it was completely abstracted as something like "financial liquidity". It's a solution for the situation where you don't want characters to have to spend time pinching pennies to buy a suit of basic armor and a weapon, but you also want there to be some scarcity at the margins, so they can't just buy the best sword in the game either. This system obviously had its own, different set of flaws compared to D&D style systems, but some advantages it had were that there was no accounting, and it played fast. If your players are sick of erasing and overwriting the numbers on the wealth section of their character sheet over and over until the paper is gray and ragged, and they are responsible enough not to intentionally try to break the game, I think that method works well.
My T430 laptop has dedicated mute buttons for the speakers and microphone.

I usually use a $8 pair of earbuds from a gas station with a 3.5mm cord (which seems superior to USB for audio, relying on the integrated sound card instead of hot-plugged third-party drivers) and use the dangling microphone from the earbud.
Men pursue, women are pursued. If at 15, you’re a male locked in with a thought process that you aren’t attractive or confident, you will miss alot of opportunities. You gotta be in it to win it, as they say.

Women can reinvent, often take different relationship roles, and some guys are into women with low self esteem.
Does Apple's implementation have the same issues? I don't know.
I can confirm the "won't gripe" part. Mine has been disconnected from Wifi for the last four years. It's been a great TV.
>the electrical version of "water hammer" in pipes

God that's so annoying to hear in your apartment at night. I wish building developers wouldn't be so stingy and install more insulation or a water ahmmer damper.
HP printers completely refuse to print when they can't phone home for a month or so. Conveniently, that's right after the return window expires.
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I'm at the point where I can complete intermediate/large projects but my architecture isn't as good as I want it to be. I end up using many "Manager" classes, singletons, and sometimes even God classes. I also have trouble breaking everything up into classes/separate files. Any advice?
Get more out of design reviews
I'm in my mid-40s, and I've been looking at screens for many hours on most days for about 38 years. I've preferred a "light mode" colour scheme, with the brightness cranked up ever since I first saw one (an original Mac that a friend's parents bought in the late 80s).

My personal theory is that some people are just genuinely more light-sensitive than others, but that the main factor is which scheme came (back) into fashion during someone's formative years, so it will always be associated with being new and novel to that person.
Websockets only work while your site is open in a tab and the tab is not frozen. Web Push works even when all browser windows are closed.
We will solve math with math and this project will succeed as foretold by prophets of techno-optimism like Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates. All we need is the right architecture, aka mathematical formula for giving all of math a smooth manifold structure. How this works for discrete structures like integers is left as an exercise for the reader and future AI which will figure out how to improve themselves and deal with discrete and non-smooth mathematical problems.

I can win this challenge by the way for $80B. I already know what architecture is required to solve math with math but I need the money to buy the GPUs. You might think such a recursive application of math is logically circular but it is not and all I need is $80B to prove it (pun intended).

Claude did not like this comment at all, ironically: I do not have enough context to fully evaluate those claims or determine if that approach would work. Solving all of mathematics is an extraordinarily ambitious goal that would require fundamental theoretical advances we do not yet possess. While future AI systems may someday make significant progress on longstanding mathematical problems, making definitive claims about solutions requires rigorous mathematical proof and analysis beyond optimistic speculation. I'd encourage focusing discussion on specific mathematical questions or areas of research rather than making broad, unsupported assertions about solving all of mathematics.