skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And none of them still work for Google. It’s truly baffling that Google’s CEO still has a job after how badly he fumbled on AI.
When I first announced Caddy, our website downloaded everything as .gz due to high traffic load -- a lesson I learned very quickly and a mistake I never made again.

This probably falls in the same boat. :)
You do you.

Personally, btrfs just works and the features are worth it.

Btrfs raid always gets brought up in these discussions, but you can just not use it. The reality is that it didn't have a commercial backer until now with Western Digital.
I'm so glad I left the USA and moved to The Netherlands. Public housing in NL isn't perfect, but the one thing I really really do not miss is listening to my fellow Americans share their opinions on the subject.
This essay resonates as it touches upon many long conversations I've had with a friend around our attempts to create a postmodern PKM system strung together with glue code, duct tape, and bailing wire while juggling chainsaws and bowling balls as GPT infrastructure exploded in the post-COVID era.

In particular, I've found myself drawn to my early enculturation around the dichotomy of control implied by the mouse's Cartesian implications on what has increasingly been a 3-dimensional or n-dimensional thought space in the spectrum from API to GUI to HCI.

LSS: the faster I type the slower the distraction of mousing becomes - mentally and physically! If only more people read Fitts!

In my journey, this has involved everything from Microsoft and IBM's early joint venture work around CUA in OS/2, MAYA Design's introduction of mouse-manipulating Z-order (zooming) in DEC Workscape (noted by Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research... I'm not certain whether this was before, during, or after Bederson's work on Zoomable UI at U Maryland), Synergy's liberating the mouse's physical computer-monitor confines between Linux, Mac, and Windows twenty years ago, to tmux, tiling windows managers such as hyprland and the combo of sway and the Logitech multi-platform keybaords and mice on which I'm typing, Oh, I forgot my daily usage of helix. But I digress. The guys who wrote the post-modern computing tongue-in-cheek paper twenty years ago in Canada (IIRC) weren't wrong, at least satirically.

This has all served the quest to find a spatiality of computing that mirrors and moves at the speed of thought. I've come close, but none of these has really worked in the holistic and integrated way that I've sought. Time will tell whether Brett Victor or the like has a beyond-Englebart-or-Kay moment.

I'm hopeful while remaining cautiously optimistic.

Sway and hyprland could certainly benefit from integration with software like synergy, hardware like the logitech devices, or any notion of "beyond Cartesian" at the keyboard. The obvious challenge is scaling usability in light of exploding complexity of the controls, mechatronics of control, and targets of control, both mental and physical - literally the origin story of the mouse itself. In much the same way that AI divides the room, so did the need for metrics that could start with Fitts while crossing the mental and physical chasm from API to GUI to HCI. Sadly, we're not there yet.
My thinking on this subject is based on this criteria:

How do you measure success of an organism? Another way of putting it is how do you measure the fitness of an individual to its environment?

The only thing that makes sense to me is by counting the offspring, or even better grand-offspring. Raising many offspring that are, in turn, able to raise many offspring, is proof of fitness.

Similarly, on a larger scale, we can measure the success of a group of organisms by their birth rate. A declining birthrate is a sign that the group is no longer flourishing. Each generation is able to squeeze fewer and fewer copies of their genes through the barrier that separates one from the next. The barrier is comprised of the environment and the challenges of life that we are all faced with. The more copies of genes that make it through this barrier, the more successful the originals were at facing modernity.

From this standpoint, it is clear that the dominant cultures of the world are in decline. They are tautologically doomed to fail because producing people is success, and they are not doing it well enough.

If you want to know what the future will look like, look to the sub-cultures that are still producing many children. Children are the future.
> It's just not true that everything not transformer is outdated.

Am not expert, do you have some links about this? i.e. a neural net construction that outperforms a transformer model of the same size.
Whether you like it or not the government does tell you how much your house is worth through monetary policy.
> Using an unofficial client at all is against Discord's Terms of Service and may cause your account to be banned!

Remind me again, why do people still use this garbage?
The people who have to live with them are not the rich or the people making the decisions by any means - it's just the middle class who has to put up with it.

The rich don't take the metro, they are driven from place to place.
Yeah I think with 31k stars on github, youtube videos reaching hundreds of views..

I think it's safe to assume Nintendo knows about Ryujinx haha
paris proper is already one of the densest areas in the world (and definitely in europe). when i lived there i wouldn't have noticed any problems with crowded grocery stores or community spaces compared to the comparatively low-density city i currently live in.

there definitely were a lot more people in the streets, other cities feel deserted in comparison.
Yeah but the margins may go down, and a lot more players may enter the market.
Can I ask as a genuine question: why use twitter at all for a post like this? I’m not trying to be a Luddite or even just anti-twitter. I just don’t understand using it for long form deep topics like this. And yes I fully understand many people do use it this way, and to them I’d ask the same question.
Does a bunch of atoms arranged into proteins have a soul?
Quantized models could absolutely be run in-car. They can already be run on cell phones.
Wow so totalitarian, amirite guyz?
The solution applicable almost everywhere with some dozens of thousands of population is multimodal. Public transportation supported by infrastructure for cycling and cars relegated to their place in a multimodal system: inconvenient for shorter/regular trips, accessible for when it's needed.

Stockholm doesn't have mild weather all year long, it's not flat, and still people will use public transportation or a bike. Oslo is definitely not flat, definitely not mild year round and even there people take public transportation, bike, etc.
Whoops TB. It was a while ago, but what I did was set a "deal alert" on slickdeals for "NAS" and "16TB shuckable". I think it's a Synology 218+. I vaguely remember it was about $200+$100+$100. I had to "shuck" the drives (meaning throw away the case). For some reason they're cheaper in an external USB case, and the internet calls them "shuckable" if they secretly contain high end NAS-friendly models. I got 4 and shucked 2 into the NAS bays and plugged 2 into the USB ports (the USB ones are for like movies and easily replaced downloads, so I can access over the network but theres no mirroring - if they die they die)
Seems like a toy solution, sqlite is the easiest to set up for someone who isn't familiar with databases
The language APL\360 of IBM (August 1968) and the other APL dialects that have followed it have used a single "|" as a monadic prefix operator that computes the absolute value and also as a dyadic infix operator that computes the remainder of the division (but with the operand order reversed in comparison with the language C, which is usually much more convenient, especially in APL, where this order avoids the need for parentheses in most cases).
cmon, this is just a renderer

They have tools but you'd have to pay for them, big bucks
Congratulations on shipping!

Just yesterday, I needed it for a hackathon, but had to switch to a cloud IDE instead.
You missed that anything against "illegal migrants" must be racist, at least according to some. There cannot be any other reason.
>Massachusetts prevents hard sea walls. Long term that seems like the only solution.

Depending on your definition of long term, the ocean always wins. Sea walls destroy the beach and environment. We have to decide what we're saving here, you can't save both.
> American culture doesn't like to think about how much of "success" is down to luck

Think it's more surprising how little of it is down to luck. Even working slightly harder reaps rewards quickly that outweigh the extra work.

It's most just most people are not even putting in the minimum.
With respect, not hostile to beginners but adding complexity to the build to support this kind of implicit sugar, when beginners are 100% going to be using AI to write code and answer questions- seems like not the right tradeoff in 2024.
So I've thought about this before because the city I'm in has received the same critique. I'm in a 200-something thousand population city that's carrying a billion in debt, so about 5K EUR per inhabitant. Given your numbers that's pretty much about the same amount of city debt for each Parisian.

Big number scary, but looking at it on a per citizen basis is it really that big, or unreasonable a number? Assuming that this debt has been spent rationally on say infrastructure, social housing policies, QoL upgrades for xyz?

Yes, good fiscal policy to keep debt stable or reduce in the long term is necessary, but it sure doesn't seem as doom and gloom as people make it out to be.

You should see how much debt some countries are in... It's an order of magnitude more in the extreme cases.
Gross. Thanks for the heads up!
By that measure (number of organisms) prokaryotes are the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_organisms_by_populati...

(as to birthrates, cursory googling suggests they have birthrates from on the order of 10e30 individuals per year to on the order of 10e30 individuals per week)
First generation immigrants are still a tiny minority of the population. The fact that the entire team consists effectively of first generation immigrants says something, probably both about higher education and American culture.
Not everyone agrees there's a shortage: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-...

A few choice paras (if people don't read the full article):

"The forthcoming general election is once again likely to be dominated by claims about a housing shortage and a dire need to build more homes. Housebuilding is an article of faith across the political spectrum. The evidence, however, does not support this thinking. Quite the reverse. Over the last 25 years, there has not just been a constant surplus of homes per household, but the ratio has been modestly growing while our living situations have been getting so much worse. In London, as the Conservative Home blog notes, there is a terrible housing crisis “even though its population is roughly the same as it was 70 years ago”, when the city was still extensively bomb-damaged by the second world war."

"The supply issue continues to dominate the discourse despite the US having more homes per capita than at any point in its history, and the UK’s homes-per-capita ratio actually exceeds the US’s."

"In terms of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, the UK has roughly the average number of homes per capita: 468 per 1,000 people in 2019. We have a comparable amount of housing to the Netherlands, Hungary or Canada, and our housing stock far exceeds many more affordable places such as Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic."
That pricing sheet is for Posit Workbench; RStudio Server[0] can host as many people as you have the compute for, and it's free and open source. It does only support one session per user, but might meet the needs of a small research group.

[0] https://posit.co/download/rstudio-server/
Know when to leave your existing design alone as "good enough", even if it's not perfect. Know when to improve the existing design. Know when your existing design cannot be improved to meet the need, and therefore you need a new one.

How do you know each of these "whens"? There's nothing there that I can see. But there is some value in knowing that those are the three options that you have to decide between.
The article is a bit light on these details; did Sony, Universal, et. al. show any proof of these damages or was it the usual conjecture of "if they bought instead of pirated, we'd have made more money"?

The damage should be considered more dubious if they can't show that someone pirated instead of buying.
Jews made Israel thousands of years ago. They're the natives.
Biden is giving Intel $8.5B for big semiconductor projects in 4 states
At first I thought your equation sums it up perfectly, then caveats started to appear and then caveats to caveats. And in an hour I realized a PhD could be built around it :)). So I won't give you a simple answer, but I'll write some loose thoughts, likely incoherent, etc., OK?

- I think the only real/tangible/measurable/graspable part is the `achievement` side. Although personally I wouldn't call it `achievement` but sth like `present state`. It's because `achievement` invites comparison, and if someone already compares themselves to some idealize figure, then I think it would be more helpful to use neutral terms. Also, it cannot be measured--you can measure net worth, but not empathy or compassion.

- On the right side of the equation I would treat both the potential and the adversity as unknown and fixed. By fixed I mean that in each moment of the past they had some fixed value, and by unknown I mean that it's practically impossible to measure their values. We only know the result (i.e. the left side), but not as a measurement, only as a state, so to speak.

- I can see that thinking about the potential and adversity as separate terms might be useful if someone beats themselves about wasted potential, but then can look at the equation to remind themselves that the potential is always tied with adversity, they go hand in hand together and looking only at the potential is like looking at your assets but not on your mortgage.

- Another useful angle of the equation might be that if someone is beating themselves about not working to decrease the adversity, then they might notice that working on it would "consume" the potential points! (E.g. time is required to use your potential, but if you spend it on dealing with adversity..). (But then it might be dangerous as it also conveys they idea there is a measurable, standalone thing called "one's true potential", which I don't believe exists.)

> People implicitly assume the 'adversity' term is negligible.

I thought about it for a short while and my take would be that people share (discuss) their adversities with others all the time, but when it comes to formulating the equation they often tend to end up with sth like:

expectedAndMandatoryAchievement(person) = perceivedHighPotential(person) /* - adversity(person) */

I guess I'm saying that people don't think the adversity is negligible, but they tend to completely cover it with a newspaper when thinking about the potential vs reality.

And this is a straight path to depression...

OK, let me end here! I hope my LLM didn't hallucinate too much, but it's closer to stream of consciousness than to well though out arguments, so buyers beware!

Last but not least, thank you for a great prompt--it made me think about the topic from a different angle!
I felt this one.
Yeah I still think Ryujinx should be safe for a bit since they don't monetize the emulator as much as Suzu did, who knows, Nintendo Lawyers are ready for anything
That sounds spicy, do you have some links?
Also:

- Remote work being pulled by ancient management (average age of US F500 CEO is 58) even though quality of life bump is proven.

- If kids are desired, they cost $310k 0-18 (Brookings Institute 2023) each, not including daycare and college.

EDIT: - Climate change data and early impacts being realized.

> unfortunately, the older generation screwed up and failed the new one.

This is the crux. Great comment overall. Society grows great when trees are planted whose shade we won't sit in; instead, we clear cut the place. A whole cohort is trapped in a dysfunctional socioeconomic system they didn't build, but are forced to exist in. Would you be happy?

Related: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/20/world-happiness-america-low... ("Axios: U.S. hits new low in World Happiness Report")
Also, the worst polluters are militaries and various industries that arguably may or may not actually need to exist.
It seems food packaging is at fault here [1], and fast food has much more individually wrapped items, small ketchup bags, and even before preparation often is single-portioned. Meaning insane amounts of touching packaging material compared to real food.

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/dan...
I was thinking the same. R studio is certainly not new, either.
Yes, this is one of the actually admirable qualities of the US and California in particular. CA has one of the world’s largest economies because it attracts and embraces people from just about every part of the world.
Just like Xerox and Bell. Innovation isn’t necessarily their most important job, at least when innovations are being made.
When good journalism flourished, newspapers and TV "forced" alternate views on the public too. That is the missing factor on the internet that leads to radicalisation, as you can choose to mute those alternate views and hang out in exclusive "echo chambers" that further harden your beliefs into political values that you do not like or want to be disputed on. It's kind of like the virtual version of the white or black or Muslim only neighbourhoods.
The US is still the place to be, despite its problems…
A hidden premise of this piece is that the author agrees with the current economic system, which requires exponential growth at all times, which ends up also requiring that most people have children.

Otherwise, the criticism of low birth rates becomes pointless.
Brazilians are causing deforestation. Capitalism is not needed. It's not like other economic systems protected the environment. Capitalism is just concurrent with deforestation, but not its inherent cause. You might as well say sunrises are causing deforestation because with every new sunrise, more trees are being chopped down.
Because this seems to cater to the cryptocurrency/blockchain culture.
Sorry, maybe it's too early in the day but I don't get what the lesson was. Could you explain?
> And then once you have it, there's even less incentive to try to "move up" from there, because there's now a cliff in front of you. You have to make the whole jump in one go, because if you only take incremental steps, you lose eligibility for your subsidies.

I don't know about other places, but I think this is a major issue in France. Many things stop altogether if you get above a certain limit of income. So many people end up working for minimum wage, because if they got 1 € more, they start "qualifying" for more taxes, lose access to social programs, etc.
You may think so, and I encourage you to watch the video I shared. I held many of the same conclusions/approximations until learning of Grin's experience.
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Imo, that's all there is. Money drives everything.
Nearly all of SLS's delays were because of Boeing's failures. You can see a list/timeline of all the years of delays here. [1] I do agree Boeing was a great company decades ago. The 747 was basically synonymous with high quality commercial airflight in the same way the Falcon has become synonymous with high quality commercial spaceflight. But a lot changes over the decades, and now the 737-MAX is synonymous with what the company has become.

You cannot look at SpaceX's financials, as they are a private company. And the nature of their business makes intelligent estimates anything but intelligent. For instance the recently 'leaked' $1.8 billion contract to deploy a spy network for the NRO is hardly surprising, but something few were privy to until recently.

But in any case the reason they remain private is so they can focus on the long-term vision instead of working to maximize short-term revenue, which often comes at the expense of the former. Ultimately though, none of the side projects they have carried out has posed any economic risk to them even in the case of complete failure. In fact one can argue that Starlink was a complete failure relative to their projections - yet it's already profitable.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System#cite_note-...
I think the author might be mixing the tech with the capitalist model that governs tech nowadays. All new innovations eventually get corrupted by the need of making the shareholders happy and that’s the danger here with AI.

Not saying we should go full socialism here but there might be a smarter way of giving incentives (and punishments) to companies so that we can reach an equilibrium of all stakeholders interests (including the shareholders of course).

Otherwise there is no good intentioned (don’t be evil) tech/AI that will resist the ruthless capital markets.
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> - Significant artificial inflation in consumer goods, no solution in sight.

I don't put a lot of stock in this. Inflation was double digits ~10% a few times in the 70s due to the oil shocks. And the FED interest rate was >10% as well. What we have now is nothing close to that.

Where inflation has been impactful is housing/healthcare/education. Consumer goods are quite cheap thought, all things considered.

> - A challenging dating scene, influenced by numerous factors.

Those factors are largely social media. Tinder is not a good way to find a stable relationship in my experience. But online dating is considered the default for many younger people. There's also unrealistic expectations created by watching a constant stream of Instagram influencers.
> First generation immigrants are still a tiny minority of the population

Not in California. Last I remember, something like a quarter of the state’s population is foreign born.
Kodak did plenty of great things with digital cameras in the early 2000s. Their CCD sensors from then are still famous and coveted in some older cameras. Go look at the price of a Leica M8 (from 2006) on eBay.

The problem Kodak had is what the person you're replying to is alluding to. They got outcompeted because they were a photography company, not a digital hardware manufacturer. Companies like Sony or Canon did better because they were in the business of consumer electronics / hardware already. Building an amazing digital sensor and some good optics is great, but if you can't write the firmware or make the PCB yourself, you're going to have a hard time competing.

It's not chemical-wing vs digital-wing. It's that Kodak wasn't (and rightly wasn't) a computing hardware manufacturer, which makes it pretty damned hard to compete in making computing devices.

(Granted companies like Nikon or Leica etc did better, but it's all pyrrhic now, because the whole category of consumer digital cameras is disappearing as people are content to take pictures on their phones.)