skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let’s assume for a moment that AIs turn up as you say, and that there is nothing nefarious.

The parent comment didn’t say “nothing nefarious” at all. It just said we overestimate the short term impact.

This comment section is full of people acting like AI is going to make most jobs obsolete within a matter of years. One of the top comments as I write this is from someone writing melodramatically about Sam Altman taking jobs away from their tradesman relatives with “plasticized fingers” from the comfort of his “pretty offices”. This is the kind of histrionics you get when people identify a trend and extrapolate it to absurd conclusions on unrealistic timelines.

I can’t tell if these people actually believe that robots are coming to take our jobs (including physical ones) in a few years or if this is just pearl-clutching at the way the world is changing when they’d prefer that everything stayed the same.

> There probably will be a set of skills incredibly difficult to get that will earn you enough money to live a comfortable life. And that’s the problem. Even now, lots of people never attain those skills, and they end up working at a factory or at an Amazon fulfillment center. If we don’t fix things somehow, how much worse will it be in the age of AI?

You’re making the same mistake I see throughout this thread, which is assuming that AI can only be a subtractive force and nothing else will change about the world. An AI-centric world isn’t going to look exactly like today’s world but with fewer jobs. The price of those “comfortable life” things would go down and availability would go up if everything was automated away.

If you treat the future like a carbon copy of today but with workers replaced by robots then it’s bleak, but that’s a failure in acknowledging that economies evolve with technology.

It’s the same reason the world didn’t collapse when technology enabled people to do something other than work on farms.
I'm not saying this is a good practice, but it's not valueless. Exceptions are failures. If you have code that is straight broken -- refers to an undefined variable, assumes something that's not true, syntax error that could make it past initial app load
-- a test that at least makes sure the code is runnable without throwing an error is better than nothing.
This can be extended to infinity, with many styles, shapes and forms.
What about Disney looking like avatars https://i.ibb.co/zbk8DnN/3c31a768-d244-47d9-b5ba-0f902e097f8...
I'm fighting against this now. We already use linters built and tuned by engineering, we have custom rules that solve real paint points and disabled everything that the team doesn't like or doesn't think provides value.

Then management sweeps in and is trying to add sonar, and it's a nightmare. Besides tripling our total build time to run this horrible tool, they want us to waste time rewriting our codebase to follow these insane rules like "cognitive complexity", and editor integration that takes several seconds to update after every file change.
Great interview!

Love how much thought is being put into what you “gold-plate”. I’ve always felt that my best work comes around on round two (or three or four…).

Curious what you are planning for the ability to script the configuration? I haven’t played with zed much yet; is it possible today? Would something like Neon [1] help bridge the gap from VSCode and old Atom users?

[1]: https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon
> And then to extend the argument further, "App Clips" or "Instant Apps" aren't much success either from an adoption perspective, despite having full access to the APIs native apps have.

They never had full access to the APIs native apps have, what are you talking about? Last time I tried to develop instant app on Android (and that was like 4(?) years ago), it didn't have access to network interfaces or something like that. It was a great idea on paper, but terrible in execution.
> In this specific case: it is up to Microsoft to decide what the semantics of “printing on an Xbox” are. It could be an error; or it could be something that “could be supported in theory in the future, but for now has no way to actually accomplish it.” This is a design choice, not a development choice.

Anything wrong with "print to file"? There'd be no dead tree output but (file) output nonetheless & printing as a function should work.

Btw love the title of this article!
Next thing you see is letter from Rundfunkbeitrag suggesting to pay for the whole year in advance because your cancer doesn't have good prognosis. Nothing personal or fraudulent you know... it will be convenient.
Must reads:

- Categorizing Variants of Goodhart's Law [1]

- Building less-flawed metrics: Understanding and creating better measurement and incentive systems [2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04585

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638992...
In case anyone is confused, the Part B “negotiation” is essentially price-fixing: If you reject the government’s final offer, your product is subject to a punitive federal excise (sales) tax no matter who you sell it to.

That’s in no sense what we typically think of as a “negotiation”.
Game Font Forensics
Here is Steve wanting headphones for video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W8HjoBL5fbU
That's... not actually how that 30/70 statement is meant to be read.

Imagine as a simplified analogy, applying to get into Harvard. Imagine Harvard has 1000 spots to fill, and that there are 10,000 applicants with roughly equivalent credentials (because they all have: near perfect test scores, high GPAs, strong extracurriculars, etc.).

In that environment, one might conclude that, for people who successfully get into Harvard, it was 30% their own skill, and 70% "luck" that the they happen to be semi-randomly picked by the admissions committee who could've easily gone with a nearly-equivalent alternative.

So sure, in that environment, "luck" is a factor, but this is by no means a "free lottery ticket" because the near-equivalent applicants had to work hard and be smart to reach the point of being near-equivalents of each other... So it is with promotions in competitive tech companies at least, where good talent is the norm.
It seems the AM station was missing for at least a year, so evidently the FCC wasn't paying very close attention. They probably didn't notice/care until somebody else brought it to their attention.
The age parameter should accept more granularity for 50+. There is a huge difference between 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, and 80+.
There is no difference in a single member LLC. All profits from the LLC pass though as income which is ultimately taxed at the same rate as salary (including SSI, Medicare, etc).
In fact anything that pharma companies say about a drug must be information from a clinical trial. One of those little surprising but obvious in retrospect facts. Clinical trials must be designed not just to 1) find out whether the drug works, 2) find out whether it’s safe, 3) ideally avoid information that it’s not safe, but also 4) generate the numbers they can put on brochures to compare it against alternatives. Then all of those are balanced against the immense cost (to pharma) and complexity (to pharma, CROs, trial sites, and trial participants).

It’s a ludicrously complex business process.
Loosen up that tinfoil hat.

Apple banned flash when web apps were the _only_ apps on the iphone (besides the preloaded apps). The App Store [1] is ~18 months after the iPhone [2] was released.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(Apple)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
It's a cultural issue that exists at the very core of American business and by extension, American society.

Technical people are expenses to be squeezed, restrained and controlled.

Management and sales people are productive assets to be lavishly rewarded.

It's a class oriented "country club" mentality with insiders and outsiders. Insiders would rather destroy their club than surrender too much to the outsiders who are essential to it's function.
There is always a greater good that can be used to strip people of what they want is their right to a private and quiet life, what was yesterday, encryption in communication for safety, their medical data for research? There is always something to take away, I don't care about medical research, it is my right to have my medical data not shared with researchers, if someone else wants, then it's their right, I don't see why the default has to be to take away
> We shouldn’t blame companies for doing what’s financially best for them; we should change the rules to align what’s best for them with what’s best for the rest of us.

Why not both? Corporations that size are actively working to change, skirt and fight the rules in their favor. This idea that the elected make the rules in a vacuum and companies are just following them isn’t true in reality.

If we insist on having the market be responsible for drug development, it should work for us. We should be leveraging the benefits of market based capitalism in order to achieve a desirable outcome. Standing on the sidelines and hoping for side effects of profit-seeking to trickle down both dogmatic and defeatist. The best way to do markets is competition. And the best way to have competition is a lot of independent companies. A few mega-corps is more like institutions than markets. And the prices follow.
It is not legal to operate a remote transmitter site without full telemetry coming back to a human (studio) operator, or (more recently) an automated system which will alert a chief engineer, which is a required designee of all licensees.

The question remains: in what ways were they operating noncompliantly?

However there's almost zero possibility that they were unaware of their antenna loss until the brush crew showed up. Unless the theft happened overnight (some AM stations shut down at night).

Even if nothing else clued them in, a transmitter without an antenna will basically shut down, and the electric bill will go to near zero.
I find that exercise increases my hunger. I exercise quite a bit (5-8 hours per week) and it makes me eat more, not less. And I find that I need to channel this into food that meets my macros rather than junk, but if I don’t plan, I’ll end up with empty calories.

It surprises me to hear that people don’t get hungry when exercising and how energy expenditure curbs hunger for some people. I wish it worked like this for me.
This is a common pattern in history:

- Person 1 makes an observation that they assert is true

- Person 2 refers to this observation as “Person 1’s Law” for convenience when discussing the observation and whether or not it is true.

There’s nothing wrong or “graceless” with Person 1 then using the term themselves, even for the purpose of arguing in favor of their assertion (which is what this web page is doing).

Some examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say%27s_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
Calling it child abuse is too far, but I think the real problem is that it sets them up for contrarian beliefs in the future.

When I was younger we were put through similar exercises with “peak oil”. Our teachers taught that we were going to run out of oil and the world was going to be in extreme trouble when fuel was so scarce and unaffordable that our quality of life would collapse, wars would be fought, and the things we enjoyed like being able to travel and heat our homes would become extreme luxuries.

Then none of that happened at all and now a generation of people have learned not to trust extreme claims about the future. This has made people numb to acknowledging real risks, which are generally more boring and subtle than the scare tactics used to pitch them.
> You can code on it

In castrated terminal that is walking on the edge of what is "permitted" by overlords.

Or are you talking about open thin IDE that connects to a remote machine in a browser?
In my opinion, you have a very good point here. Why do we want to abolish or automate something that most people enjoy?

I think very few people enjoy laying tiles or connecting a toilet, so a robot in combination with an AI would be the more obvious target for a company. I guess one answer is that it doesn't scale, it's not pure software and the market for tile laying robots is limited. An AI that can easily generate artwork for anyone to offer via a subscription service generates more money.
How much memory is lost when you enable ECC? That's why consumers will disable it.
Your observation is just that conflict exists in the world and it seems to have existed at many times in the past. Of course you can state that fact with an aura of mystery and intrigue, but it’s plainly obvious and not that interesting.
XFCE total conversion
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Chicago was the code name for the development version of the highly anticipated Windows95
Pi-hole to block ads and tracking for my less technically savvy relatives

https://pi-hole.net/
Lack of alternatives.
Tip: To be taken more seriously, don't use such childish language. I was reading the first part and nearly switched off without checking the comments here. I'm glad I did, because I see now how serious (and maybe _illegal?_) this is.

Don't turn your audience away with emotional wording, for something that can easily have impact if you communicate it purely for what it is.
This is neat, but it bugs me that it generates email addresses with real providers (Gmail, Outlook, etc). This can lead to accidental emails to real people during testing. I would recommend using @example.com for all emails.
I could never figure out how to watch it when Trevor Noah hosted. The John Stewart show on Apple TV was basically unwatchable.

I don't have high hopes.

Hopefully, they decide to air it somewhere with a decent sized audience (so, not whatever "Hulu Live TV" or "Fubo TV" are, and certainly not Paramount+), and the writers from the original Daily Show are still there / coming back.
The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen
Almost all of google3 is basically open to all of engineering.
> have A/B system partitions and upgrade system with full partition rewrite and changing active one

What’s your upgrade process like? How do you make the new disk image? Do you log into each device to upgrade it, or do you have automation?
Oh man was just day dreaming about calling work - Corporate Neoteny - goal is to ensure people mentally never reach maturity - domesticated. The internet is freaky.
The FCC cares, but they do not monitor.

They do not have the resources or the coverage to monitor broadcasters.
Weird, it should go to a login

try: https://aistudio.google.com/app
Looking at it myself it's somewhat right, but it's an enormous pile of useless LLM blather - the response to "analyze the factory layout and activity" has nothing actionable, and most comments are generic ("well-organized and appears to be optimized for the efficient production of science packs"). Likewise the "analyze and optimize" requests don't seem useful enough for players to do anything with, though a lot of that is the prompt. As with most LLM stuff it just seems like someone threw a bunch of Factorio forum/Reddit posts in a blender and filtered out the stuff that was blatantly wrong.

Some specific errors I did notice:

- In the section with a processor unit subfactory, "The specific items being manufactured are not directly visible because the UI for the assembling machines is not expanded to show their recipes" is false, the player has pressed 'Alt' and the items being manufactured are shown. So this part of the response is plain wrong.

- " There are four distinct colors of science packs visible on the conveyor belts: red, green, blue, and purple, corresponding to the various levels of research complexity in the game." Only red/green/blue are shown. ChatGPT didn't make additional references to purple science but it was odd that it mentioned them at all.

- "In this Factorio image, we see a railway intersection that includes train signaling and a train crash" this is a deadlock, nothing has actually crashed. This is a minor nitpick but ChatGPT repeats the error throughout the analysis. And it also suggests that ChatGPT might not fully grok the "race condition" side of train scheduling, since deadlocks occur specifically because you're trying to avoid collisions.

I didn't want to spend too much brain calories reading all 20 pages in depth :) My general conclusion is that it's not useful enough for GPT-assisted Factorio play, and too flaky for any sort of automation of trivial Factorio tasks. I think it's plausible to make a FactorioGPT, but I doubt OpenAI's pretraining and RLHF resources covered this specific niche.
Title should be updated: “Frog”, not “Fro”.
Can you elaborate in what sense you find it simplistic ?

What I would personally add to that model is that if the music is "too easy" to predict for the brain, there's no challenge hence no reward. But that complements rather than contradict the initial theory.
So the straightforward answer is no, an ESP doesnt work for your situation.

They only asked that people consider it; no need to get snooty because it doesn't work for you, despite being very obviously inappropriate for your use case
That is a cool trip down memory lane. Not only macOS, but also when updating Linux distributions it is always fun to see new eye candy on the desktop.

Apple has excellent photos and other wallpapers, I would be (slightly) curious what percentage of people just stick with the default?

Off topic, but I like to use my own pictures of places around the world where my wife and I have travelled for desktops. I also like to use high resolution pictures I have taken of favorite art work I have purchased.
They couldn't be more precise than that because each team and project has their own set of constraints and capabilities that determines how they achieve the Agile goals.

I think the only problem is that the authors took for granted that everyone understands that it takes an actual empirical process and not just a bunch of magic incantations to do that, like the enterprise world seems to think.
If this app supported Xbox OS, then how come:

"The app that the user installed on the Xbox was probably tested primarily, if not exclusively, on a PC"

??

Note that Xbox OS is not Windows. If an app says "requires Windows", then it means requires Windows.
Relevant Scott Alexander's article : https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-canal-papers
"Legal bribes" with dedicated budgets and departments at corporations are absolutely a thing (lookup Siemens), only in Europe we avoid the word "lobbying". It's not conspiracy at all.
This is bad but not in the way most people consider. The US military has contributed to popular media since about the time I was born to get young people interested in military service, so nothing new there. What has changed most over the decades is lifestyle choice.

People exercise less and focus less. The result is artificially induced ADHD and more physically fragile people less capable of completing initial entry training without severe or catastrophic muscle/bone injuries. Initial entry training is never meant to be that physically challenging, it’s not special forces selection.

In the very near future only a tiny percentage of the American population will be capable of serving in the military due to fitness limitations mentally, physically, emotionally, and intellectually. That will become the new elite: something that money and late preparation cannot restore.
Most people I know in geek life don't use business cards in person any more.

I would recommend that you build a simple website in HTML and host it on something like GitHub Pages with a custom domain, and use that as contact info.

I also use LinkedIn quite a bit.
Posts that I want to see without using Twitter. I run several reposting accounts over on Mastodon.
That actually sounds great. If it were particularly smart, it could even take apart the bits of the language you were having problems with — and unbeknownst to you — concentrate on developing those with you.
People often forget this, but before the App Store, the idea was that you would use HTML apps, added to the homescreen. It was in the very first iPhone. It was not called PWA then, and technically a PWA need not be a homescreen app either.

Whether Steve hated the App Store I do not know, but it was not in his original vision for the iPhone.
You can set Windows to display in grayscale if the colors are the problem - search for the 'Ease of Access' control panel, then go to 'Color filters'. That would not help with movement, but could resolve problems with the brightness. There is also an option to set up a keyboard shortcut to toggle it on/off easily.
In a healthy society, learning emotional control is part of growing up.

If people in a society are constantly engaging in angry outbursts, it means they feel the need to engage in some kind of threat display, which in turn indicates they're living in fear. If you walk into an organization and discover all the bosses are constantly screaming at their obsequious underlings, who are in turn screaming at their underlings and so on down the line, it probably means everyone's afraid of losing their jobs, and it's a good idea to turn around and walk out the door, if that's an option.

People who deliberately get angry (or sad) in order to get others to do what they want are engaging in emotional manipulation practices, which should be treated as a huge red flag. Such behavior is a common side effect of growing up with manipulative, unhinged and/or abusive parents, and it can be overcome, if the person wants to - but some people get addicted to their emotional highs and lows.

Fundamentally, making good decisions under stress requires a calm rational mind not given to emotional breakdowns and outbursts, and people who don't have that capability should never be placed in positions of responsibility.
And here is me, who is running a Pi1 in my cellar for 10 years straight, which logs all my temperature sensors over 433Mhz + triggers my door openers via physical relay over WIFI, without doing anything special. After some years I only connected it to a UPS, after the sdcard filesystem died after some power outages....
Zuck is an authentic demo faker. Period.

That is not what pass through looks like on the device plus there is a delay with the feed. Wii level graphics. Hand tracking is terrible thus the need for controllers. Facebooks metaverse takes over a 40% cut from developers yet he whines about the app stores 30%.

Previously He faked his avatar leg demo with motion capture and the “Improved face Graphics“ both of which are still vaporware.

The quest line has dominated the VR headset market for years yet continues to lose billions (over 40 so far). Remember He stopped the Facebook phone because of the huge losses.

Sooner or later facebook is going to stop subsidizing the cost of the headset. Then we’ll see how many folks will pay at least double for a face game console toy.
Seems like a good thread in which to recommend Chimp Empire on Netflix. It's beautifully shot, and quite dramatic. I wondered whether they had manufactured some of the storylines from the thousands of hours of footage, but according to a couple of interviews with uninvolved scientists that I read, it mostly checks out as an accurate portrayal.
totally agree

in the end, freedom of choice, diversity and innovation would make every service find its optimal incarnation (native or web)

in addition, web security is actually so robust via sandboxing that I feel more secure in a top browser on any web domains than downloading stuff from app stores

native apps have a built in "layer" of bot security, however... a website has to implement security itself because even a smart fridge can make GET requests :)

but I just play the devil's lawyer... I think 999 out of 1000 "standalone UX" better off delivered from the web
“The potential for large scale” I think was the operative phrase. A PoC at 2x2, 10x10 etc demonstrates scaling characteristics and potential.