skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve written seven annual letters. Every year, a few weeks after I’ve published a letter, I would open up a new notepad for the following year’s. That’s where I put in data, observations, and book recommendations that should go into the next year’s letter. These notes are not organized. In the last two weeks of the year, I sort through everything, try to coax out a structure, and then write the damn thing. I’ve complained about how much work it demands, but I also want to say that it has been great fun. I don’t understand why more people aren’t writing them. It’s not just about sharing your thoughts and recommendations with the rest of the world. Having this vessel that you’re motivated to fill encourages being more observant and analytical in daily life too.

I think the reason that more people aren't writing them is that they don't have the patience, that they want to immidiately tweet every thought they have, get feedback, approval/disapproval.
Love Zed, just wish it was available on Linux and Windows as well.
And here I was thinking they were somehow using the first three words from my Bitcoin wallet.
Good point. However, the conglomerates just buy ad space on the the powerhouses such as the NYT and they're not as firewalled as you'd hope. The NYT will never allow a negative article go out against someone who has major ad buys.
> Similar thing happened with the NBA, now everyone chases the 3-point shoots and in so doing whatever it is that had made the NBA one of the best sports shows in the world is losing its shine. In this day and age Jordan would be seen just as a gimmicky player.

No part of this is true or even really makes sense.
I suspect this is one of those cases where people who don't live in cold climates overestimate how rough it is. I also live somewhere where -30C is not rare and it's perfectly normal to spend hours outside in that weather. You just layer up, but outside of mountain skiing I don't think I've ever worn goggles.
The laser beam spreads over distance, it's just the cone is really narrow so you have to get far away to notice.
NBA is just an example. One can think of it as NFL, NASCAR, EPL, UFC, Hot dog eating contest, X-factor or any other (professional) competition. Although “sports people” are probably first that comes to mind when it comes to competiting, “sports people” are just part of those who would be interested in competitions (there are violin playing competitions, spelling bee competitions, etc, that don’t necessarily involve sports or sport people).
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That's pretty standard equipment as well, actually :)

My backpack has a handle, and when I drag it, a huge thing inflates and folds out. This both protects you, and supposedly makes you not buried as deep. ("avalanche airbag")

Downhill skiers also have inflatable vests on them. They are automatic, and blows up inside their suit around the torso when they fall. ("dainese airbag")
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> Bandcamp will survive because it's primarily an independent online music / record / merch store

Since it seems like you might have not heard, as of last year bandcamp is no longer independent (which I assume is the impetus for projects like the OP):

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/epic-games-acquires-ba...

edit: ah, unless you meant "a store for independent music" instead of "an independent store for music", english
But it's not really difficult to inject this mechanism into the context window.

GPT-4 turbo latest version allows for 100k tokens or 75k words. The whole subway thing and more could easily be kept there, but what ever else can't can be designed in the prompt to always keep certain amount of tokens in context for different layers of memory, where you the more into the past you go the less details you have, but it's more like a Title of your most important learnings through out life, but at any given time GPT-4 can call the function to ask extra bit of content about it, if it seems relevant to the situation at hand.

So for example in each prompt context you would have:

1. Short description of what you have done each year in your life.
2. Key findings, goals, that you currently have.
3. The whole current day (or how much seems reasonable).
4. Past weeks in a bit more detail than the short description for a year.

So basically you could try to find 70k words to represent as much context and most important details (that are decided by GPT itself, what is most important).

I've been building an assistant for myself, that has such memory management system, it gets past N (like 40 messages) in full detail, then it will have summaries from before that time and in addition it will have messages and learnings in the past stored, and these will also be passed to the context depending on the query that matches it.

And if you want to compare it to human process of sleeping, it occasionally goes through the all the messages and "compresses" them, to extract most important findings and short summaries so they can be used in the next day's context.

So to me it's just basically giving it tools, and the other things like memory, longer term memory, inputs it currently doesn't get, are fine to be solved by other tools. I think that human brain also has different parts of brains working on different things, so it's similar in a sense.

Then once you have 70k spent on this historical context, you will run prompt in a loop allowing it to perform fn each time, like retrieve further info, or store some important fact, etc.

The real actual problem would be cost, because the costs would rack up quite quickly making looped 70k token requests.
> You obviously have no experience with non-profit governance.

Correct!

> I think they had no choice at that point but to fire Sam and remove him from the board. When that turned into a shitshow and they faced personal threats, they resigned to let a new board figure out a way out of this mess.

As someone with no experience with non-profit governance, this does not seem coherent with (1) they didn't just say that, (2) none of their own choices for replacement CEO were willing to go along with this, and this happened with several replacements in a row.

For (1) I'd be willing to just assume good faith on their part, even though it seems odd; but (2) is the one which seems extremely weird to the point that I find myself unable to reconcile.

It would also not be compatible with the reports they were willing to close the company on grounds of it being a danger to humanity, but I'm not sure how reliable that news story was.
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> - There's no longer a live ticker on the home page showing the latest track/album purchases around the world.

Still there for me.
All of the hang-wringing about disinformation causes me to think their true worry is that existing modes of disinformation will get drowned out by newer ones.
I suspect Apollo spent a great deal more money in quality assurance than this $120 million-ish project.
It's better just to stick with Robo Max.
Does that stay true when exercising? At rest, with a tidal volume of 500ml ish, lungs are least 5/6 full of stale air, round down to 3% ish CO2.

When exercising, the tidal volumes are far higher (2-3L), and you breathe faster, so the lung air is at least twice as fresh as it was at rest, probably more, since fresh air is functionally 0% CO2, and you're moving maybe 6 times the gas volume in each direction.

Does that massive change in volume and diffusion gradient (at least at the start of a breath) means that you might be able to tolerate a higher CO2 level in the inhaled air?
the point is ArcGIS simply as first right of refusal for almost any significant workflow.

certainly GIS outside of this is valuable but it's within a specific project specific world that it's a component of and not the central hub
I highly suggest you do not get involved with the retro computer community if this post disturbed you.
I feel like the obvious effect of this is that gymnastics becomes all about testing against and optimizing for an algorithm. That sounds sterile and lacking any of the romance (best word I can think of) that goes into physical competition. Then I remind myself that optimizing for the opinions of judges is the status quo. Judges that are susceptible to wild bias in all sorts of undetectable ways. This will change the sport for sure, but I can't say that I think it will be all bad.
in Turkey (its) modern history.
Sports is men. eSports is men. From this logic we can understand why.
YouTube is mostly men. Porn caters to men.
Note: If your application does not absolutely need it, there are alternatives to X.509 certificates in TLS, like raw public keys (RFC 7250).
There are a lot of short sections of track that go to something like a grain elevator. They are still worth minimal maintenance to keep operational, but you wouldn't build those tracks today or rebuild if something major happens. They often go more than a month without any trains, then other weeks where they have several. These sections are not worth upgrading to modern switches or computer controls, so you have a trained crew that section, but once the train hits the mainline the crew leaves to go home. Since this crew doesn't get much practice in the real world you need to give them training so that they haven't forgotten how to run a train when the next time comes.
That does not look like a laptop to me.
Even if they were, how would they know the Irish stories weren't derivative?
Yes, that’s correct:
if I may ask, where is "down here"
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Baldur's Gate 3 was in development for nearly six years even with asset reuse and basically being the only thing that Larian was working on. And that isn't even taking contractors into account (BG3 credits around 2300 workers).

I don't think you're making the point you think you are.
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Or people will look back and wonder why they weren't protected by their government as "the economy" failed to deliver time and time again.

Not every culture shares your libertarian fantasies. Nor do they share your specific limits on free speech (such as copyright) or your disdain for their limits (such as limit on hate speech)
Yeah slavery may not be correct but what would you call pressing people into bonded or indentured labor? Contracts you can't get out of (easily). There are a lot of people of Indian origin still living in South East Asia, Caribbean, Africa. How did they get there?

The way I see it, the brits didn't go out of their way to hurt and humiliate Indians like the Islamic conquerors did. But they did go out of their way to loot the treasuries of Indian kingdoms just like the Islamic conquerors did. What the hell was doctrine of lapse? "The territory gradually expanded" Really? Like a bit of gas?

They saw a land in turbulent times which were suffering under unjust rulers and decided to revel in the opportunity and pour on the misery and fill their pockets. A bunch of truly despicable demons.

The world may not owe us a break, but I don't see why we should pretend the brits and Raj were good in any way. They were in aggregate bad. And whatever little good (or bad) has happened in India it has been thanks to our own people, their will to fight against incredible odds, and their own greed and corruption and base nature.

The brits ruled plenty of other places other than India. They are all either shitholes or rising power centers because of their own people. The brits are worth nothing.
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Thank you for reposting this. I had forgotten how good a write up it was, and also just what social commentary about de-anonymization it is.

The relevant part for that is right here:

> EDIT: Facebook has since changed its policies and won’t allow you to market to any audience with less than 20 people. If you want to try this yourself, there’s a loophole. Let’s say you want to target one of your guy friends, add his email to a .CSV along with the emails of 19 female friends before uploading it to Facebook. You can then target anyone in that custom audience who is also male (thus eliminating the 19 women and effectively targeting a single person).

This is the problem with audience segmentation. While there has been a lot of emphasis on protecting the export of audiences to disable bad actors and their use cases, it doesn’t apply to the data brokers themselves. So, the whole system of a data brokerage is available to anyone who owns a data brokering business or consumes raw data from DMPs and other data providers: a use case I am sure is used by threat actors.

Good comment!
In a market economy the producer sells what the customer demands. If some dystopic speech restrictions is what consumers want, that's what will be provided.

Symptoms of a diseased customer.
The technology fails, too. Here's a great example in hockey [1], where the match is over and the championship has been won, but only the shooter and the goalie know it. Hockey has a light and buzzer that go off if the sensors detect a goal, and it missed the most important one of that year.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy4UZbtxxkY
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Just an example of a sport that got quite reshaped by AI, but not necessarily in a bad way. The differences between the sports could hardly be greater, and the way they'd be impacted by computers would also likely be quite different.
Facehuggers.
The competitors also choose their judges, in aggregate. This is a bad idea to change.
Not everyone is a philosopher with a cocktail, but surely we're all cocktail philosophers.
No. Not even remotely unfortunately.
Traditional mathematical notation has precedence rules optimized for expressing polynomials. Programming languages- especially in the APL family- tend to have a richer collection of primitive verbs, and an "ideal" tower of binding precedence for all of them would be extremely complex, difficult to remember, and often unhelpful.

Unform evaluation order is much easier to remember and extend (no special cases!) and becomes even more natural than PEMDAS with a little practice. The APL family is hardly unique in this approach to precedence: Smalltalk has uniform infix precedence, Forths are uniformly postfix (unless you get goofy with parsing words), Lisps are uniformly prefix.
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> And the Q is are they as unhappy as youths in the west?

that's not comparable, as average Chinese youths are in poverty, living off $300/month. https://www.newsweek.com/china-article-censorship-1-billion-...

> The light at end of tunnel is PRC kids will have more livable options

That's very unlikely as China continues in its Great Depression https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2024/01/22/chinas-.... And with all economic engines declining (export, internal consumer, real estate), and no big systemic change happening, it will continue this path for a very long time. Remember that Japan's downturn lasted 30 years, and Japanese citizens were making $2000/month on average, not $300/month.
The latter for sure.
I'd be concerned about, it's something I'd call Wii-Sports-ification

AI might be able to radically change sports like fencing and HEMA. I could see the development of match judging AIs trained by experts. Anyone who has fenced knows the frustration of the fallibility of human judges.

It's also possible that AI judging could benefit martial arts, bringing them closer to their practical roots, by counteracting the rule-gaming competition rules. ("Sport-ification" of martial arts.) Instead of allowing just any touch to count as a point, only hits with enough body structure to allow damaging force could be allowed.

Many HEMA competitions try to implement this, but expert calibrated judging AIs would make this an order of magnitude better.
Huh, me neither. Not an intentional encoding on my part. Looks like I have a bug to fix as well!
I discovered NTP through Computerphile & Tom Scott.

What a great invention.
Reached out to some of my friends over there and it seems like news of impacted divisions is just started to roll out. But at least at the time I'm writing this comment engineers think they could be impacted and are waiting to hear if they are.
>I have served happily as a professor at Yale for most of my adult life, but in my four-plus decades at the mast, I have never seen campuses roiled as they’re roiling today.

Really? Not even during Vietnam war? Not even during Occupy? I don't buy this. I think what is happening is that those in power are getting pushback and now they are complaining about the loss of free speech. The reality is speech was suppressed for a long long time at Universities, but since the people who lost the speech didn't have any power (think communists, anarchists, people promoting black rights, women's rights, etc) it seemed all was well in University land.
I think it's easy to have your view because of the dominance of nationalized news and the associated broad-brush political cheerleading those outlets like to engage in. Where there's been real damage to value is at the local level. Who's keeping track of businesses opening and closing? Or what the county board is spending taxpayer money on? Or why the police department has such low incident clearance rates? Alternative sources and AI won't put a dent in covering those less polarizing but important practical topics.
Of course. I wondered "was that some portable version which was developed later for some purpose"? Such as for example, DEC developed "desktop VAX" boxes and such.
From what I understand it's a common mistake. I'm sure there is a straightforward way of resolving the circular dependency, but the last thing an executor needs is another annoying hoop to jump through.
If I understand correctly, the results on Kagi are only personalized based on the manually set whitelists/blacklists, not based on user tracking.
coherence.

Light from a bulb is not coherent, so it interferes with itself and spreads out.
As long as they don't fire the Starcraft 2 intern I am good.
My problem is when it's that cold my nasal tissues swell and close up so I'm only breathing through my mouth like I had nose plugs. Unpleasent
An SQL parser has no problem supporting both forms as there is no parsing ambiguity.

(SQL is full of corner cases e.g. EXTRACT(WEEKDAY FROM field) etc. Putting the FROM first, or supporting multiple chained WHERE clauses or allowing WHERE before JOIN and applying to the preceding projection etc is all possible in an SQL parser that chooses to allow some relaxations. Personally, I am really irritated that I can't have HAVING without GROUP or QUALIFY without window functions etc, as I often construct queries programmatically.)
I am definitely not arguing against that!
What do you mean by these dynamics exactly?
This is a concern I also have. Perhaps the AI underfits/overfits and then an unusually-sized athlete comes along and the AI judges very poorly.
Musk tries to explain asking for more control over Tesla, but TSLA not buying it
Split functions enabling close collaboration between Government and private corporate defense contracts to create plausible arms-length deniability? They’d never do that.
Not unless they stop using copyrighted material it won't.

Remember, the legal cases are still ongoing.
A currency is a tool, not a store for wealth. Stability is to be balanced against employment and economic productivity.
Can you share your use of this? I’m interesting in using duckdb and wanted a boost from people with more experience.

Currently playing with postgress and dbt.
Here in Texas the Community Impact newspaper has been growing with a monthly print edition. They serve local content with multiple editions per city. ~50% of the content is broader city related and ~50% specific to the suburb / neighborhood. I find it incredibly helpful to keep up with local govt, business development, etc.

It's free and ships via mail monthly. I never signed up, it simply shows up. Their website[1] says they currently publish 40+ distinct editions across Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio.

I have no idea how their finances work, but they seemingly found a model that could possibly be duplicated elsewhere.

[1] https://communityimpact.com/corporate-about/
> You don't think your experiences have sensations?

I don't think sensations are what they appear to be either. Eliminative materialism is very misunderstood.

> I never said anything about fundamental reality

But you did, by claiming that we have consciousness. The only reason you think you have consciousness is an alleged direct perception of subjective qualities.

There are only two real paths to reconciliating this with some form of scientifically sound materialism: panspychism, where subjective qualities permeate all of reality and we are perceiving some of them, or concluding that our perceptions are flawed and untrustworthy and so the subjective qualities we think we're perceiving are not real/illusory (eliminative materialism). Given the demonstrable flaws in all other perceptions, the most parsimonious position seems clear.

Of course, you could try to resurrect idealism, but idealism is very problematic.

> I don't understand saying we're literal p-zombies.

P-zombies believe they have consciousness, say they have it, write whole screeds about how absurd it is to claim they don't have it, but they don't have the subjective qualities as we've defined them. Sounds like a bullseye to me.
USA's TI and GloFo and Micron/Crucial are all making our own chips.

I'm not talking 3nm top-of-the-line stuff (though Intel / Arizona is close to that). I'm talking about our 50-cent voltage regulator chips that's seemingly outside the ability for Russia to make (As Russia is clearly taking Ti chips from us somehow).

It's hilariously sad to see them struggle with sourcing such low levels of technology. This is decades old 180nm or older chips here.

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China is far far ahead, at least at EUV, likely under 10nm these days.
SQL is good enough and well established, i see no need for another sql wrapper with a different syntax.
What we call consciousness may have same relationship to what creates it as Plato's cave shadows to what generates them.
> with Chinese EV companies.

No Chinese EV competition exists in the US.
Which is one of the arguments the ancient Greeks (Aristotle in particular) used to argue that God must exist. Things are clearly ordered to ends (have goal-directed behavior). Others came to the conclusion that all things that are are part of one enormous goal-directed-entity, but that conclusion involves a bootstrapping problem on the part of that entity (which is composed of parts) and so I don't hold with it.
The post-modern data stack is going to be PRQL + DuckDB + Prefect, and it's going to be much smaller and cheaper for most analytics.