skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm retired, and the life discussed is a GOAL that people bust their asses and ruin their health for decades to achieve.

I woke up, tried to get some sunrise photos at roughly 32℉ temps (good, not great) and will do whatever the hell I feel like doing today. I just deposited the mandatory IRA distributions, so I may shop, but I was always pretty frugal except for early microcomputers, which led to a nice career in electronic and optical engineering, as well as sysadmin and I.T. jobs that funded the retirement, and cameras, which I enjoy immensely, but still don't go crazy about.

I use the over 50 year old Hasselblad and got the cheapest Nikon Z body. I looked at the 600mm wonder lens with Fresnel elements, but I use a coolpix with 24-3000mm zoom that I got for less than 1/6 the cost of the lens. Smaller sensor, but WTF?

I WILL admit that living the retired life before a busy career is eating dessert before dinner, and I went the conventional route, but there's a good argument that if you find the right kind of work (and I did several over time) it's not exactly fun, but not exactly wage slavery. I think that's the part that most people miss. I did some cool and creative things.

Maybe I'll do some more. The crapolicious internet that some sick minds distorted from the "fun days before dot-com" seems to be falling apart, and it's time to re-invent it.

And I worked at "The Dot in Dot Com". That was fun, too. My "youthful energy" was (mostly) well spent.

Cheers, all hard-working folks.
Stay in good health, so that you can enjoy the "goal".
Absolutely. It's certainly not mounted automatically after Linux boots and depending on the system's configuration it might never get mounted at all. Maybe it could even use some other path.

One of my long term goals with the programming language I posted is to boot Linux directly into the interpreter and bring up the entire system from inside it. Not only will /proc not be mounted, my program's gonna be the one that mounts it. So I decided to avoid using tricks like reading /proc/self/exe.
You should get outside of your bubble! You are one of the few people who is in the 10% global population living outside cities who is educated, isn't poor or struggling financially. Data don't lie.

This only happens organically in the US and Northern Europe due to double condition of incredibly high GDP and a geographic morphology which is incredibly sparse and/or with lots of mountains and rugged terrain. 2 or 3 countries =! the world.

> > My wife works remotely

In light of this, you being able to negotiate a good compensation while working 100% remotely, in sectors that can be both defined by economists as advanced tertiary services then who has to get out of their bubble?

I am sure Sudanese villagers will be able to do just the same if you provide them with Starlkinks. Not!
"The surreal calm of 2023 gave way to mild euphoria in the closing weeks of the year as inflation fell faster than expected, creating hopes that interest rates will keep falling. This overlooks one key trend.
In a campaign season political leaders are much more likely to raise than cut spending, which means mounting deficits. In the US, Biden spending programmes have already pushed the deficit up to 6 per cent of GDP, double its long-term trend and five times the average for developed economies."

....

"Even if inflation fades further, investors probably will demand something extra to keep absorbing the huge supply of government bonds. That means interest rates, long-term rates in particular, will not fall anywhere near as much as they did in previous disinflation cycles."
I think attending ballet lessons for beginners will help fix your nerd neck. The first thing a ballet instructor teaches is how to hold your head correctly and how to stand correctly. They will definitely train the strength of your ankles and feet too. You will like it!
How about https://www.renpy.org/ ?
When a rock is squished, it's usually compressed in one direction but spreads out in the other. You do get fossils that are completely flattened in one direction, but the other dimensions will be pretty much original. I don't think you'll ever see a rock or fossil just get smaller in every dimension under pressure. At minimum you would see really obvious distortion.

Ed: to clarify my first two sentences, when you see a flattened fossil, IIRC they were already flat before they turned to rock, by relatively light forces acting on the body. It wouldn't spread out sideways unless the whole rock it was fossilized in was later squished by geologic forces.
The urban anti-car crowd seem to think all rural people are as bad if not worse than coal miners because rural lifestyles require cars. Their arrogance is through the roof.
While the article is about companies who post job options that aren't actively being hired, there's another worse issue going on with actually 100% fake job listings.

Right now, there is a big issue with fraudsters pretending to be real companies and posting fake job listings in their names with fake contact info. Some job boards make this way easier than it should be. The "employee" responds and even goes through "interviews" with a fraudster, only to be asked for banking information or ask to pay fees or something like that. Then the fraudster disappears, leaving the "employee" thinking that the real company cheated them. The real company wasn't involved at all.

Be careful out there if you are looking for a job. This is a very common scam right now. Verify contact information with the actual website of the company, not from a job posting.
We could use C data types as inspiration: long covid, and longlong covid.
All of life “beneath” humanity basically lives in a 24/7 horror movie, as far as I can tell.

Humans only do so part-time.
FWIW in Germany there's a requirement for buildings with automatic shutters to have one designated emergency exit window where the shutters can be operated manually. But fire-fighters shouldn't really have much of a problem if they carry an axe.
Could it be a side effect of some treatment, similar to contagan? You take something to reduce side-effects, covi let's it into cells where it poisons the mitochondria?
How is the experience with a keyboard? Not being a touch typist i need a good view at my keyboard too.

From what i have been able to gather it seems the XReal Air 2 Pro is able to give you 3 screens for a really good experience. See https://www.xreal.com/air2/ and https://www.xreal.com/beam/
Titans launched at least some of the Keyhole fleet, right? Wasn’t the Hubble more or less a KH pointed in the opposite direction?
Do you have your own ADS-B receiver or how do you know it doesn't have ADS-B?
Thank you! We're so excited about how llms are expanding widely the number of people who can write software, it's the perfect opportunity to apply it to gaming since I think there's far more people who can make games if not limited to technical skills!

Regarding my path with Rosebud, it's such a long journey, I'd love to share. Going way back in 2017 I just finished up a PhD in Deep Learning from Berkeley and did the less usual thing of joining an early stage venture firm. I've always had to compartmentalize my creative work from my technical before. Once the first batch of interesting results in generative came out, primarily in the image space (cycleGAN, StyleGAN …etc), I realized that it was inevitable that most creative work can be changed completely by this research. Who gets to create, how easily they can create and even what is created will change dramatically. I just had very strong conviction on this. The only thing that was hard to predict was whether this was going to happen in the next 2-10 years. Regardless of the uncertainty in when this was going happen, I knew that I wanted to get my hands dirty and build, because it’s just something I wanted to use. So I jumped into the deep-end and founded Rosebud.

Earlier on, the models were quite new and not of the highest quality, so I learned quickly that consumers are a much better audience than using this for businesses. Consumers are still very picky, but also very experimental, whereas business had very specific requirements for what they want that are not easily “replaced” by AI generated stuff. Given these learnings, we iterated many times with different consumer mobile apps, which is a crucible for getting the right intuitive interface down. Long story short, you cannot go viral organically on mobile if your app is hard to use and doesn’t give a sense of magic. My core thesis is that the strength of generative AI is in its potential to make creation widely accessible, on demand and delightful. Naturally, some of our earlier apps were focused on more meme like creation experiences (like Tokkingheads, which organically grew to several million users). We learned that we must in a few clicks as possible allow the creator to achieve impressive results they want to share on social. These experiences helped build a lot of our technical ability to train and productionize models (back then there were no AI inference companies, so we had to manage everything ourselves on cloud or our own machines).

Every year since the founding of Rosebud, I looked at gaming as a target application area. As mentioned, Rosebud was named after the cheat code in the Sims, which allowed me to effectively use the game as a 3D playground to build virtual worlds back when I was a kid. This was my North Star for how powerful generative AI should get, to ultimately allow users to build their immersive virtual worlds and games. I also knew that just doing game asset generation was not enough to be interesting of a platform shift for games. Was waiting on code gen to get good enough to really have an opportunity to change how game dev and creation happens.
Cool. I wonder if they’ll ever discover the reason behind the loss of smell. I lost mine completely for about a year, and I still can’t smell most things. Luckily one of the smells I got back was shit, I say lucky because it’s handy when you have diaper wearing children. In general what I’ve gotten back has been “nasty” smells, I can also smell things like vomit or rotten food. But “good” smells are still completely gone. I can’t smell flowers, I can’t smell candy and so on.

It never really affected me, as I apparently cared a lot less about smells than many other people, but it is a little frightening to lose something because of a disease. I’m happy it was the only side effect I got, I’d obviously rather have had none, but I’d frankly be comforted by scientists knowing more about it.
Impossible not to think about this -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
Wrong wrong wrong

There is ZERO chance the US will start WW3 over Taiwan. Absolutely no chance.

There are a number of reasons, first and foremost, the US would likely lose. The US and China have only had one military encounter in recent history - Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. It may be the worst ass-kicking the US has ever received. Maybe the only time I can recall that the US military broke unit cohesion...meaning men were running for their lives. Of course Chinese losses were also crazy, but all that matters is who wins. Its crazy how not a single blogger on this topic seems to reference Chosin (those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it...)

In a present-context, this is in China's backyard. If they are ready to accept losses, it is almost impossible to win against a near-peer adversary with supply lines so much in their favor.

Lastly...Americans simply do not care that much about Taiwan. All it would take is one US carrier sunk and the public would want out. Lots of bloggers like to hand-wave about the essential links between the US and Taiwanese economies but no one would care when 10k body bags are being brought back to the US

This is how it ends: the Chinese agree to be hands-off with Taiwan for 99 years in exchange for free-trade access to US auto markets. Washington will approve and within ten years we are all driving BYD cars that cost $25k.

Also, the comments on Noah's site are insane...people talking about giving Taiwan nukes (actually insane, I don't want my children incinerated just to protect TSMC)...re-instituting the draft (will never happen and would destroy whatever government tried to push it)...
Looks like a direct competitor to JetStream [1]? Impressive progress in less than a year of work!

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1: https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/jetstream
> A single core can't saturate RAM bandwidth.

I was also intrigued by the same statement and was wondering about it as well. For AMD I don't know but on Intel I believe that each L1 cache-miss is going to be routed through the line-fill-buffers (LFB) first before going to L2/L3. Since this LFB is only 10-12 entries large, this number practically becomes the theoretical limit on the number of (load) memory operations each core can issue at a time.

> Most modern x86 server chips can retire 2 SIMD loads per clock cycle (i.e. 32GB/s @ 1GHz using AVX2),

I think in general yes but it appears that ALU on Alderlake and Saphire Rapids has 3 SIMD load ports so they can execute up to 3x SIMD AVX2 mm256_load_si256 per clock cycle.
Bla bla bla, at the end, it will be again completely different than all these geniuses forecast :) But thank you for sharing.
The tragedy of the commons perfectly encapsulated. Until this government has the courage for top down intervention, either people choose to be part of the problem or choose to be part of the solution.
Making a working tech cheaper is easier than trying to discover new tech that we don't even know will have enough output. Also, if they were that expensive then I would think they wouldn't get built at all, but there are a lot of nuclear plants, not to mention we can always continue investing in renewables and eventually phase them out.
It might decrease the cost of going out into wilderness, which otherwise encourages prospects to purchase an emergency locator beacon or GPS/satcom device and associated service (e.g. Garmin In reach). Depends if this is cheaper.
Im also looking for a job and this does seem very much the case, and I have some hints based on the ways they answer, the exact timeframe between companies with nothing in common and how often they update their listing amongst other things.

I’m thinking of writing a blog post about my experience in the past half a year of searching because it is insane what the market has become.
Unless you’re able to impound a significant % of their fleet, their profits would still cover the losses and this wouldn’t serve as an effective deterrent. Sinking the ship, on the other hand, would make the crews really uneasy about going into your coastal waters. People don’t weigh probability of dying against a survivability of the whole fleet.
The article linked here has a section with the best pens for lefties.

You should be grateful that you have not been born a century earlier. When my father, who was also left-handed, was in elementary school (almost 90 years ago), it was still a practice to persuade the left-handed to write using their right hand by beatings.
The bunker itself, the focus of tfa, is an example of a "hard asset" which is not only still an asset when dollars no longer are, it's actually a liability until then.

You don't really get to accuse anyone else of comic book logic while missing basics like that.

Their whole point with the bunkers and stockpiles is that those assets don't need the state to be valuable and confer power and security. The asset itself provides the power and security that the state no longer does.

And they don't need the state to define and assert who is the owner and protect the asset. They use one asset to protect another asset.

They get other people to work for them the same way people have always done.

Or it's better exposed by phrasing from the other direction: People participate in organizations for the same reason they always have. They get something they want from it. At the top and at the bottom it's both just variations of the same thing which is the structure gives them safety that they can't get on their own. And they overwhelmingly value that more than freedom.

At the top they defend the leader because the leader is what grants the legitimacy of their own high position within the organization. I don't mean that they think the leader comes from god and actually has some higher authority and right to grant other authority, I mean as a #3 or #12 etc, you have a much easier time justifying your own position and authority and privilege when it came from some larger structure. It removes the focus and blame from yourself. So you love the structure and you defend it and enforce for it and rat out any subversive talk you overhear about it etc.

At the lower end, a lot of people, maybe even most people, value the safety of being within any structure way more than the freedom of being outside it. They don't have to like the guy at the top at all.

Why do you abide by civilized norms right now? Everyone in an apartment building could totally overpower the landlord at any time. 50 to 1 no contest. The biggest problem really is just getting the others to go along, but let's say the landlord is such a dick that you manage it. So the next problem is what, the police will come and you'll all go to jail? But what makes the police do that? Why do they agree to follow orders from just one pudgy little chief?

It's no different "after the fall" just at a smaller scale. The big structure broke down, but most people still want what it provided and will latch on to whatever smaller structure is available to replace it, and it's all the same interlocking dynamics of everyone holding each other in place, not any one magic person holding everyone else in place by mind force or something.

Even if the actual guy at the top is detestable, they will be surrounded by people who benefit from having that guy at the top. Do you really think all the politicians who supported Trump actually considered him superior to themselves? They universally think they themselves are superior to everyone else. Yet there they all were defending him like crazy, for years.
I don't have a Sunbeam toaster, but I do have a Sunbeam CG-1 waffle iron, which I use routinely. I have an even older W-2, but it no longer works right. Sunbeam was once the king of the home appliance business.
The actual blog post announcing this also has an epub! This looks very thorough and an interesting Kindle read.

https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/03/software-technical-writing/
Good for you and keep doing it!
Great paper. In other words: Our brain is more than just a set of linear algebra operations...

"...We demonstrate that this reconfiguration of neural activity is the key to achieving learning performance superior to that of backpropagation and to explaining experimental data from diverse learning tasks. Prospective configuration further offers a range of experimental predictions distinct from those of backpropagation (Supplementary Figs. 11 and 12). Together, we have demonstrated that prospective configuration enables more efficient learning than backpropagation by reducing interference, demonstrates superior performance in situations faced by biological organisms, requires only local computation and plasticity and matches experimental data across a wide range of tasks...

...Our theory addresses a long-standing question of how the brain solves the plasticity-stability dilemma, for example, how it is possible that, despite adjustment of representation in the primary visual cortex during learning, we can still understand the meaning of visual stimuli we learned over our lifetime..."
Suicide nets installed on Golden Gate Bridge
You literally have that same symptom with the flu.. or a cold.

ME / CFS is a horrible disease. My younger brother was out with it for a year but I know several women for whom it has effectively been a life changing condition.
There are a lot more cars parked in garages than there are EVs. EV adoption is far from saturated. By the time that is anywhere close to happening, I expect that charge station deployments will be significantly improved as well.
Nope. But I'm extremely interested in how that's possible. Remember, Elon starts with the question "does basic physics prevent this?" If the answer is yes he won't do it.
Thank you!

I spent time over the holidays working on edits, document order, formatting, etc., but I did not consider that "this post" was confusing since everything would be concatenated into a book. This is excellent feedback. I appreciate it!
Peter Cushing live(d) in Whitstable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ggBDn_Qtk
They are trying to make gradle better, by implementing a "maven over it" - declarative build configuration.

But for time being maven is way easier to configure and understand.
The problems for me are a few.

EVs cost more.

EVs take more than a couple of mins to "gas up".

EV range is still lacking, compared to available charging stations, imo.

When the market gets it right, I'll jump in with both feet, but I'm not spending twice the money on a car, then deal with horse shit like Tesla and others when it comes to service visits, scheduling, etc.
Some one probably thought about that for a few minutes and ran some numbers and tests BEFORE they paid to lunch satellites in to space, don’t you think?
Hey man, I feel like your comment came from a good place and this might be something that you don't know, but asking lefties to switch hands is a pretty emotionally sensitive topic. In modern society (as recently as 2007) left-handers had strong negative perceptions and left handed children were often forced to write right handed [1]. Forcing people to change has also had effects on their brain structure and chemistry [2].

Personally, my grandmother was forced to switch from left handed to right handed! In those days (early 1900s) the forced switch often came under threat of violence. Yes, they beat children to make them write "right". So this is a sensitive topic for a lot of people!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_peopl...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758284/
Ah, sorry, when I wrote "that software enables" I meant you use some kind of software tool to help ship your product or service. That could be excel macros, SAP, custom POS systems or anything else. If it is customized or built in-house, you'll need developers.

Sorry I wasn't clearer.
The issue I have with this is that humans are not resources like businesses want to think they are. They are living beings with, gasp, memory. If I applied to a job I thought I was a great fit for, got a call with an initial recruiter, only to be ghosted - I'm going to remember that when they call 6-12mo later. By then I'd have already found a new gig with something tangible and have already ramped up on it, I'm no longer in the pool.

Likewise for folks who are employed but looking. They'll keep searching until they land their exit. Again, by then it's too late and they are no longer in the pool.

If you go fishing when the fish aren't biting, you won't catch anything.

If you go fishing when they are, you'll catch as much as you can carry.
You can't go wrong! His most important treatise - and the book I talk about more with UX people and software devs more than architects even - is A Pattern Language.

Basically the deal with Alexander is he was a VERY early adopter of computerization in architecture. He made some kinda... missteps? about systematization in his earliest writings. Then walked it all back / developed it with "A City is Not a Tree" talking about graphs and urban organization.

His arc from there was constantly deeper into trying to make sense of how information science techniques could be applied, most notably in A Pattern Language and the case study of its application, The Oregon Project.

Then, his "magnum opus" was a development on that where he tried to fill in the gaps that A Pattern Language left was A Timeless Way of Building.

If you don't want to get too deep, I'd stick with A Pattern Language.
Thanks for the detailed reply, I'll look into all of this! Very interesting.
I'm also a decade long user of this pen right here.