skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
snippet from the WP article on the book:

> Weizenbaum makes the crucial distinction between deciding and choosing. Deciding is a computational activity, something that can ultimately be programmed. It is the capacity to choose that ultimately makes one a human being. Choice, however, is the product of judgment, not calculation. Comprehensive human judgment is able to include non-mathematical factors such as emotions. Judgment can compare apples and oranges, and can do so without quantifying each fruit type and then reductively quantifying each to factors necessary for mathematical comparison.

Okay, so what is judgement? I haven't read that particular book and I don't quite remember his argument from interviews and lectures I saw, so this might be wrong, but I'd say it's for example saying "this is fair" when you measure the slices of pie you cut a cake into. That is, calculating that they're of equal size is pure computation; but there is no way to compute that when sharing cake with your friends, the slices should be equal.

Just like you can compute how much clean drinking water an average or specific person needs a day, with at least some accuracy, but when it comes to the question "should there be life in the universe" or "should people die of thirst", no computation could answer it. You could choose to write a program that decides it based on a random seed or a super complex algorithm taking a billion factors into account, but and then that program would decide the question, but it's essentially still something you did / chose.
Notwithstanding, An hour of video games a day
doesn't sound like a small amount of time to me.
What's better is largely unknowable if you're not collecting statistics to measure the impact of policy changes.
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One of my unofficial roles as technical cofounder was to bring some ethics regarding customer data and privacy. If I could build the software in a way that (ab)using PII or otherwise private data unnecessarily was difficult, even better. Business types understand when things are too expensive to build ;)

Not saying business folks never have good ethics regarding that stuff, but I find engineers are often more opinionated about it.
There probably is some of that, but Xreal did use the same language that Apple did when describing their Vision Pro ("spatial computing") which I think justifies the article:

> Xreal pitches the Air 2 Ultra as a full-fledged “spatial computing” device similar to its earlier Light mixed reality device, which also featured 6DOF tracking.
Thanks for the first hand insights, for "then have to get the entire device certified in a simplified process", is there some link for that process? I think using certified modules to do a full blown product is a common practice and I did not know there is a simplified process for that final product.
Love to see Ackman's project of going after all academics at MIT for any instances of plagiarism. Usually fights between different groups of elites show what's going on.
if you read your link you'll see that the "quote" is what Robert Dodsley said about it 600 years later, and then changed it in the second edition
I've never seen a video illustrate to me why the pilum was genius better than that. The guy even shows that, even if you did have a free hand, you're still pretty f'd. Also, to see the long tip bend to make it even harder never occurred to me. I've seen videos long ago on history channel illustrate fake ones they made that were much shorter and was baffled why I would drop my shield.

Thank you for posting that.
Similar things are happening in the Bay Area. One thing you can do is get involved with the school board, who oversee the administrators. Another thing you can do is be persistent with the current administrators. It took years of seemingly-useless conversations, but eventually they let my kid do math independently. I assume that I won’t have to push as hard the second time around (I have 2 kids), since I’ve already proven that (1) yes, my child actually is that far ahead, and (2) I am not going to give up.

I’m happy to chat further with parents that are dealing with this. Contact in profile.
I am pretty sure old women still put henna in their hair and there’s Botox going on for rich people but maybe that’s just me. Also Iran anyone?
I actually think this hyper-granular realtime collaboration like in Google docs is slightly overrated.

I think it’s ok to have more a git-like workflow where feedback and changes happen over cycles. As a programmer, I don’t give a shit about your working directory. I do care, however, about your commits :)

All I’m saying is this CRDT craze isn’t always necessary or even appropriate for many products. It adds a lot of technical complexity, especially for a small shop.
Stepping down gradually was what worked for me and I was way up there. I mean taking the nozzle off the fountain machine spout to pour pure Mountain Dew syrup before filling it up normally.
I don’t even think it’s the eccentricity that does it, all it matters is that the earth isn’t tidally locked with the moon, that’s what gives you the tides: Earth is rotating faster than the moon orbits and so different parts of the earth face the moon within a day. It also helps that the moon is a significant fraction of the mass of the earth, which means its gravitational influence is significant to the oceans.
Graphcore is a direct descendent as well. That's message passing with different tooling - easy-ish to use from machine learning frameworks, deeply confusing to program directly.
All life is made out of cells. All cells are filled with water. Phospholipids which make cells membrane arrange themselves into membrane because one part of them is hydrophobic and the other hydrophilic. Although I guess some water is present underground too.
Given the product category and the range of trade offs different VR/AR products make, it's a huge stretch to say they're competing with Apple Vision Pro. They're competing with some of the other light weight lower cost PCVR products maybe. I can't imagine saying it's "aimed" at the Vision Pro.
I don't think it is inherent to publicly traded companies, but it certainly seems to be inherent to our publicly traded companies. Most of the shareholders are: gamblers chasing fashion looking for quick profits, management insiders that want to pump the stock and their bonuses before they change jobs in ~5 years, or index funds that buy stock no matter what.

There's very few investors bothering to understand how to value a company and nobody cares about a businesses cost of capital or its return on invested capital.
Reading this, I'm hoping Intel are getting on the right track. Seems they're doing just that so far.
Commenting to something said within the linked article: 32-bit Devuan (with Trinity Desktop aka KDE3.5 on maintenance) is still available at http://exegnulinux.net/ with Devuan/Debian repos. I'm happily running that on a Core2 Duo laptop.
That is not correct.

You can interrogate an LLM. You can evaluate its responses in the course of interrogation. You can judge whether those responses are coherent internally and congruent with other sources of information. LLMs can also offer sources and citation for RAG operations.

There is no self-sufficient source of truth in this world. Every information agent must contend with the inevitability of its own production of error and excursions into fallibility.

This does not mean those agents are engaging in bullshit whenever they leave the domain of explicit self-verification.
I think the difference is being in scope versus out of scope. Employee’s inflammatory behavior outside of work is mostly all downside for the company. So, they just try to shut it down. To do some jobs at the company will risk negative press. If you get too much bad press or it isn’t worth it, eventually the person would be fired for being bad at their job.

It’s like the difference between a salesman ranting on Facebook about how a competitor sucks, versus a marketing campaign that’s an attack ad on a competitor.
It's interesting that the author mentions quitting as a way to exercise agency over their life. It's like a healthier version of anorexia.
I’m trying it now: text rendering is glorious, but there are still size and position issues in things like menus which commonly render them unusable (menus failing to open so you can’t even use them by keyboard). It’s reporting my screen size as 2275×1280, which is 4⁄3 of the expected 1707×960 (given dPR 1.5), which is weird and wonky.

All of a sudden I’m realising how dreadfully fuzzy in places the font rendering in Alacritty is. I knew it wasn’t perfect, but I’m not sure I can bear it any more. Oops.
The Pro IntelliMouse is basically a minimalist gaming mouse, so that's the market to look at. Unfortunately its competitors tend to be more expensive, less reliable, and sometimes (in the case of Razer at least) require horrible software to function properly.
Oh man. Manga has been honed over decades to be artfully escapist. The Japanese have this stuff down as an engineered art form and they divided it by gender too.

As a dude I recommend stuff like, great teacher onizuka or Naruto or attack on titan or full metal alchemist... but that's stuff engineered for men.

For girls you'll have to Google but it's definitely a targeted genre as well with tons of long running mangas.
I kept waiting for them to drop that they are quitting quitting. But alas, the author is not very self aware.
There's quite a difference between being happy with your insurance and being happy with it being tied to your job. My insurance is fine. The fact that if I were fired tomorrow, my partner and I would suddenly need to either start paying thousands of dollars a month to maintain it via COBRA or scramble to find an entirely new set of doctors and therapists is not fine.
Why would joy be intrinsically tied to unhealthy behaviors?
I’ll have to reread it but this conclusion:

“As a result, I don’t think the coalition is likely to go away.”

Makes me particularly happy. There are a few things I dont like about the us and the west in general - one being an excessive reliance on corporations and a diminishing small business culture, one that risks damaging the very freedoms we enjoy - but otherwise I think we are pretty much doing the right thing. A bit more alignment wouldnt hurt either. The benefits pax americana have brought are simply incredibly beneficial to the free world - without the us there wouldnt be much free world to talk about anyway.

I think it’s in the interest of all free countries to protect america in return as that project is by far the greatest achievement so far in terms of nation building. More unity means we will also be able to start looking beyond our planet as that will require the force that only we as one can provide.
Apple's screens each have 5x more pixels per inch.

That is significant for a headset designed to be used for work.
If you read the arbitration decision, it sounds a lot like the termination had not as much to do with the substance of the comedy routines, and more to do with Brad Laszewski, WHYY's VP of Admin Services (which is what WHYY calls HR), getting a bug up their ass about Jad Grievant getting to work from home. There's several pages of this guy going up and down the chain (including to the CEO) pointing out that Grievant had the temerity to do stand-up while on a WFH doctor's note for MS.

In context, the complaints about the material itself seem pretty pretextual.

Edit

A frustrating detail here, just in the sense that it's petty turtles all the way down here: the arbitrator found that WHYY's social media policy, which prohibits "inflammatory" speech without qualification, was in fact binding and did provide WHYY with cause to terminate (the arbitrary was vocal about how stupid they felt this policy was).

The reason Grievant got the reinstatement order was that WHYY's HR fucked up their own process and committed to the termination procedure without including Grievant's direct manager in that process. A pure technicality.
Can I overclock it with liquid helium?
People complain about housing mostly where jobs are abundant (which stokes demand for housing), and they complain about jobs in places where housing is not a problem.

A lot of the people living on the streets can’t get jobs even when they are abundant because they have mental illness or substance abuse problems that prevent them from working at all. Sure, Seattle has a minimum wage of almost $20/hour, and plenty of jobs still go unfilled, but the guy having a fent crisis naked in front of the library isn’t going to help much (for example from my personal experience).
Very impressive from a technical perspective. I should know, since I worked on a startup for 3 years who attempted to productize a similar system. If this can scale, I think you have a very valuable foundation.

Did you build Nino Meets using AWS Chime? I'm curious.

Now for the feedback:

Because the use cases are so broad and all-encompassing, marketing and onboarding into your system will be a huge challenge. Do not underestimate it. At my startup, we hired onboarding specialists since most small business owners we were attracting were not exactly engineers. They needed a lot of hand holding to understand how all the parts went together.

Take notion as an example, they have a huge community dedicated to showcasing things you can build. Even then, I don't really like notion because it is such a blank canvas. It's a hard hurdle to overcome!

I think a valuable next step would be to partner with people from different industries to create custom templates that are built on top of your more general purpose foundation. Those templates should reliably solve specific work flows that those users would be familiar with, and they should have no trouble getting up and running right away.

If you can solve that, you will really have something!

Your current website looks like docs for other engineers, so I'd strongly suggest creating a few more websites, each one branded and showcasing specific workflows for the target audience you are looking to convert.
That last part was a joke to underscore the fact that I'm not speaking in ignorance. :P
Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11
This scene as shot was beyond idiotic. Never would have a Tiger left its hiding to drive straight(!) towards 3 remaining Sherman. He could just have picked them out using his superior optics, and relying on frontal glacis armor.

(...rounds don't ricochet off fields, kids! This is supposedly timed as spring '45)

But "uh hu, we got permission to use 131 in a movie, so we definitely need to show it driving around!" With the museum's explicit restriction of not turning, as to save wear on that precious (it is!) final drive, so there you have it: an idiotic "leave-perfect-hiding-drive-fwd-drive-backward-and-lets-just-outturn-the-Fireflys-turret-by-turning-ours" game.
Hello, Transputer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
Yes, as long as the computer chooses its next set of instructions in order to maximize a given value (the objective), I would say that it acts on its own. Instruction set that was never defined by anyone that is.

If the instruction set is limited and defined by someone else, I believe it doesn't.

I think, re. the simulated universe, that for us, they wouldn't have free will because we know causality (as long as we are all knowing about the simulation). But as far as they would be concerned, wouldn't they have free will if they know that they don't know everything and whether the future they imagine is realizable?

If they knew with certainty that something was not realizable, they wouldn't bother, but since they don't know, either they try to realize a given future or they don't.

Partial information provides choice of action, therefore free will.
Western europe and the eu on their own are precisely irrelevant.
Those complications would be easily controllable using the TTL.
I have the Lemur Pro (best for "most people" on the list).

It has been the best Linux-laptop I have ever had. I've been using it for a year and a half now as my daily driver.
I’m blown away by the reception of this article. It’s wildly low quality, generated SEO spam.

> It was removed, but then reemerged under a different scope with over 33,000 sub-packages. It's like playing whack-a-mole with npm packages!

> This whole saga is more than just a digital prank. It highlights the ongoing challenges in package management within the npm ecosystem. For developers, it's a reminder of the cascading effects of dependencies and the importance of mindful package creation, maintenance, and consumption.

> As we navigate the open source world, incidents like the everything package remind us of the delicate balance between freedom and responsibility in open-source software.
I appreciate the build step in setups like Vite/Vue because the development server can automatically and accurately hotpatch the application when I make changes. I don’t think you’d want to change the standards to couple DOM and js in the way that makes this possible in Vue but it’s an iteration speed improvement nonetheless.
What if you don't have a passport?
Perhaps on an individual level, but on a policy level, it makes sense that the safety standards for flying are higher for flying than for driving.
It is weird that proposes floating platforms where there are plenty of volcanoes on land that could be tapped. Much easier than going through miles of ocean before drilling. Also, land can be connected to the grid; they could run cables from Iceland to Europe.

Making low carbon synthetic fuels is talked about a lot here and elsewhere. The main problem is that it is more expensive than hydrogen. But lets you use existing vehicles but with much larger fuel costs.
The political difficulty with handling CO2 appropriately is orthogonal to whether it's bad. A likely outcome without some form of geoengineering is vast swathes of currently inhabited land becoming uninhabitable due to flooding, extreme storms, and lengthy wet-bulb events. In some sense that's also just a political problem, but if we can't agree that CO2 production has significant negative effects then I think we'll struggle to deal with 3B homeless people [0] [1].

[0] Of course, many of them won't be able to migrate at all and will just die (I'll posit that's also bad).

[1] Do think through this for just a second. Our current economic systems include property ownership, and basically all land on earth is owned by somebody. If the land owned by 3B people becomes worthless (both in an economic sense and also in that they can't live there anymore), they'll have to either die, or they'll have to start using land owned by other people. Suppose no significant numbers of people move till they have to (since if we can't coordinate on CO2 sequestration/production, we probably can't coordinate on mitigating the harm from that initial lack of coordination). There are solutions, but they all represent at best a global transfer of resources. Is solving that problem easier than handling CO2 correctly to start with?
Absolutely fantastic writing —- clear, kind, authoritative. Don’t agree with it all but I think the last section sums it all up nicely, and is something I’ve felt for a while.

With new SSR frameworks like Next.js, I think this whole MPA/SPA dichotomy starts to dissolve a little bit. I’m thrilled that browser standards are evolving to help it along!
On Windows:

nslookup whoami.akamai.net ns1-1.akamaitech.net
In a way, you're lucky you only got this far into the migration. What I'd do: visit the bank and fix the email address in person, set up a new Tailscale account, and choose my next email provider carefully.
> I used these techniques to break a bad habit. Every time my mind so much as wanders in that direction, I have a mini speech I give myself. "Boy, I am so glad that I have escaped the slavery of that dopamine cycle, where I wasn't getting joy from the habit itself, but just satisfying the craving of the addiction. I'm in such a better place now."

Sounds a lot like will power.
> every faculty member knows that once their work is targeted by AI, they will be outed. No body of written work in academia can survive the power of AI searching for missing quotation marks, failures to paraphrase appropriately, and/or the failure to properly credit the work of others.

Citation? The most cutting-edge AI still has an enormous margin of error, entirely unsuitable for accusing people of "plagiarism" without additional evidence.
Agree that "mismanagement" is probably not the right word, I think that they were probably taking a calculated risk that the economics would work out in the end.

The core of the business was executing on cheaper, more reliable buildouts. SMRs might even be more expensive per watt than larger reactors, and that could be OK as long as it was cheap enough, and led to project sizes that were smaller than $20B and had much smaller chance of project failure.

Certification is useless for a design that's too expensive, as that was half of the core value proposition. (With the other half of the value proposition being smaller risk.)

Right now it looks like a core gamble of the company has not paid off. It's unclear if they can learn any lessons from the cost increase that would let them come up with a cheaper second design. But I'd suspect that the founders were just wearing rose colored glasses for their first cost estimates, with the hope that some future innovation would let them meet unrealistic starting targets, and it hasn't happened yet.
This isn't just useful for transitioning of course. I'm cis, but the way my name is spelled in official documents makes Americans pronounce it wrong (not their fault: it's just bad transliteration).

Going and changing it is a pain, and would make many simple beurocractic tasks more complicated, having to explain that every document printed before the change does indeed belong to me, and here are the name change documents, and yes, I know this makes your computer system barf, etc etc.

Systems that have a separate field for a government name are great: I can have the Americanized spelling for the display name, without the hassle.
Not only did he get his job back, but he got a gold mine of new material! :-0

Also, this guys is a good comedian. I've done stand up (and even killed before) and that shit is HARD.
Wow I thought Ireland was changing now, they even voted for gay marriage. But the Catholicism still reigns strong there :(

A few years ago a hospital even let a woman with a miscarriage die because they didn't want to intervene.