skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reads as a cynical description by someone who identifies as a "skilled pragmatist" (as I do, incidentally), but it doesn't seem to have a useful point of view. For example, "playing the system" and "making waves" have other names -- "driving initiatives" and "cross-team collaboration". They seem like "mushy" phrases because they are not well-defined sets of tasks like "deliver feature A" can become.

Are skilled pragmatists undervalued? Maybe, but this article doesn't do an good job of making me believe that.
That's not true. sbf was about that, but EA is not. Are there other cases of EA fraud?
I don't know how much Descent 3 shares with the original in terms of AI code, but Descent 3 seems to give NPCs a dynamic list of goals that's initialized based on their class ("stalker", "evader", etc.).[1] Each goal has a priority/weight, and criteria that will cause the goal to be enabled or not. Some of the goal enablers are straightforward, but others look more like state machine "emotion" states - fear, curiousity, etc.[2]

Seems complex enough to meet the description on the box for the original Descent.

[1] https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3/blob/86141b82295e71...

[2] https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3/blob/86141b82295e71...
_Why_ do you think someone can't have that early of a memory? It seems inane. Ok, here is a study:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09658211.2021.1...

the earliest reported memory in this study is 14mo. We are not talking about aliens who's travel to our system defies our current understandings of physics. We are talking about memory. Similar, you have to rely on people to describe pain. Does that mean pain doesn't exist? Or doesn't exist for babies? We've studied memory a lot. Just because _you_ don't have an early memory doesn't mean someone else also doesn't.

I don't understand your position.

To assuage your faulty memory worries, the study's methodology and analysis included longitudinal interviews with children to go over memories over time and the researchers were convinced that they memories were valid enough for the study.
Some substances (particles) interact with the Higgs field, others do not.
>To my knowledge, Trump has not actually taken discriminatory actions nor proposed any legislature to systematically oppress people again.

What a brazenly dishonest and bad faith statement.
Every time race comes up on HackerNews i am shocked at how horrifyingly racist (some) users of this site are. Not only did a user somehow think that this context would exonerate this very racist man, both you and I are getting immediately downvoted for disagreeing. There was a post last week or so that was so full of racist comments it just got taken down. I wonder what on earth brings together HackerNews and racism like this.
You're not making your point very well by attacking others. Feel free to elaborate on your position instead, though I won't hold my breath
A use case I’d like to see is having VSCode (e.g. code-server) or any other web IDE for that matter, and being able to attach a debugger process that’s connected to my usb device (e.g. Android phone) for app development.

I can setup a (macOS) VM and expose the web IDE securely to myself, but I wasn’t able to find a working solution about a year ago.

The closest solution for me right now is using Google’s IDE ‘IDX’, basically a web VSCode with a right side panel containing an actual Android/iOS emulator. It’s neat, but I’d rather use my physical devices over USB during development.

PS. If anyone knows how to set this up, please share!
I remember "The God Particle" media craze of ~2012 and how it was supposed to reveal the source of mass in the universe, and it being a huge letdown when they said there is basically a cosmic molasses permeating all of space, and that mass is "draped" over particles by the molasses.

Everybody immediately lost interest in the subject when we realized we were all being played. The authors of the books and scientists who received the funding are all richer than before, but we're no closer to knowing where atomic mass comes from.

CERN and the Large Hadron Collider - <JoeRogan>sometimes I don't know man!</JoeRogan> My conspiracy gears start turning knowing how many billions of dollars have flowed into this project with relatively little innovation & discovery coming out of it.

This article both: 1) Acknowledges that previous Higgs claims aren't true and 2) Descopes the role of the Higgs away from its "God" like mass-giving properties and to something a lot more niche and speculative:

> "In fact, the Higgs field only generates the masses of the known elementary particles. More complex particles such as protons and neutrons — and therefore the atoms, molecules, humans and planets that contain them — get most of their mass in another way."

So atoms, molecules, humans and planets - anything you can actually observe and test doesn't get its mass from the Higgs. Only invisible stuff that you can only see at CERN works that way?

It's too bad this work is not generally observable, testable, falsifiable, and that it requires a $5 billion black box and literal nobles to even conduct experiments (don't worry, they're planning a $25 billion one by 2038).

And besides... "soup"? "molasses"? These sound so dreary, might as well call it "cosmic porridge". They should call it the King Particle and say that it "bestowes" mass unto the particles by Divine Right - that should make everyone happy.
Neither are complaints.
Widespread Internet surveillance isn't going to solve this when it's being done below board, without the use of devices, etc.

Sure, it might catch some instances, but at the expense of everyone's privacy?
What is this gibberish?

> It is unusual to begin at the enforcement of contracts end of our discussions, I realize, but it is important for us to know if the document we eventually create is practical from our point of view.”

Very poorly written
The thing that caught my attention (and nobody else has commented on) is that things we take for granted, most notably a command-line interface, is something that had to be invented.¹ A big part of my first job (at the UIC computing center in the mid-80s) was helping people figure out what was wrong with their JCL jobs they were sending to the MVS half of our IBM mainframe which had a command line (TSO) but which was an unpleasant thing to work with, especially compared to the CMS side of the mainframe which even had nice screen-based interactions. It’s a bit startling to realize that I’m older than the command line.

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1. Similarly, the idea of arranging the words in a dictionary by alphabetical order was something that only happened for the first time sometime around the 15th century (plus or minus a century maybe?) if I recall correctly. It seems obvious now, but why not arrange the words by, e.g., what sort of thing they’re about? After all, perhaps what you want from a dictionary is not to find out what a word means, but to find the right word to describe what you want to write about.
I don't understand what responsibility a reviewer has to a company, other than acting and reviewing honestly. It's a VC-funded startup with lots of cash, right? Did Brownlee misrepresent something about their product?
> This desire to be able to understand absolutely everything on your system seems kind of absurd to me.

There's a difference between having a desire to be able to do something and having a desire to actually do that something. I intensely want to be able to understand something, if I have the time, energy and motivation. The fact that it's possible is what matters, not whether or not I actually do it.

You're not making that distinction, it seems, but it's a very important one. Arguing for choosing complexity that removes that option because otherwise we're irrationally afraid of the unknown is really one heck of a take.

I can't understand every intricacy of my systems, but I know several NetBSD developers who have intimate understandings of literally every aspect of their computers. Because this is possible, and because people with this level of understanding exist, I trust what comes from the NetBSD project more than I trust anything from any of the Linux distros.
There are so many variables though ... most of the time you have to compromise on a few things.
8 bit is 149G. 4 bit is 80G.

I wouldn’t call this runnable on most laptops.
WizardLM-2 8x22b (which was a fine tune of the Mixtral 8x22b base model) at 4bit was only 80GB.
As a DBA I have a very hard time properly tuning parameters like random_page_cost and the default of 4.0 is no longer applicable for most database servers.

I don't want to be tuning this, it takes a lot of time to do it properly and I haven't retested this in a long time. I just set something that has worked in the past which is probably bad.

I completely agree that Postgres should be able to figure this out on its own. This is just an example, there are more such parameters which should be adjusted to the hardware but most people will leave the defaults.
What I don't think comes out of the article, or is more of a side note, is the carbon footprint and unnecessary resource consumption that results from the increased use of AI alone. Not all data centers are powered by renewable energy, and I don't see how Generative AI, the main consumer of electricity, is going to give us any meaningful suggestions on how to combat global warming instead of churning out regurgitated text, audio, and video. So if you're going to spend so much money developing AI, make sure that AI helps solve our most pressing man-made problem, not just makes it worse.
Many countries you can build nuclear plants safe, fast and cheap. The regulation is the problem. Of course some regulation is needed, but nuclear is one of the most overregulated markets in the world.
> I guess, to me, all else equal - that is, for the same work at the same company, without getting promoted or taking on new responsibilities or switching into a new role at a new company (or a different organization within the same big company)

Seems a bit of a strawman to me, because I don't think you can realistically stay in one place this way without taking on anything new or extra over time

Some new tool is built or purchased that makes you 5x more productive, so half your team is cut and now you're doing the work of multiple people. Or maybe they just downsize and toss extra responsibility onto you. Or you get promoted just because of seniority. Or frankly, because of seniority you now have knowledge few people do so you are responsible for mentoring

The "static, never done anything extra, no new responsibilities" is not realistic

And the productivity thing is massive too. Computers mean that one person can do the work that entire teams used to, in a lot of industries. But they aren't earning as much as entire teams. Workers have captured basically none of the value of our increased productivity

So, yeah. I think it's actually just plainly obvious that our real money incomes should have grown faster than they have
To assume all organizations reward or value expertise the same way is to cap your maximum lifetime earnings, methinks.
Scott's work is really just a small part of a particular subset of quantum mechanics, but he seems set on expanding its domain to cover all of it.
It's better than wasting that electricity on Bitcoin mining
Surely it was Oxford, the institute older than most nations, being incompetent, and nothing to do with the easy money tap called Sam Bankman Fraud being thrown in jail. Oxford just seems like a easy scapegoat as they can’t just say “our biggest donor is in jail for the foreseeable future and we have no money left because we used it to buy a mansion [0]”

[0] https://twitter.com/paulmainwood/status/1600433194691502081
You can get a finger back but only if your medical science is sufficiently advanced. Full fingers have been re-attachable since the 1960s, and soon we will be able to grow new fingers like a newt. The key is to continue the progress quickly rather than slow things in the name of onerous safety.
My bad, I remembered wrongly it was Apache too.
I don’t think I can agree that 75% of the workforce falls into one quadrant. Particularly this one.

If I’m very lucky the semi space contains 60% of my coworkers, if I’m unlucky (or arrive after the writing is on the wall) it’s more like 1/3.

I suspect part of the confusion is that there are some people with enough political acumen to appear like frustrated agents of change without actually having the drive or skill to do so. If you create opportunities for these people to show up, you may be shocked to find them making excuses for why they still can’t.

And truthfully the industry is not full of untapped brilliant people. It isn’t even “full” of brilliant people period. maybe 1/4 of the human population could be counted as very smart, and we get a disproportionate share of them for sure, but it’s definitely not more than half.
I think there was a point in time when hydrogen looked like it might be a realistic option for personal cars. I think that time has now passed. Electricity is just so much more ubiquitous, which makes battery electric cars much much more attractive.

However, I think hydrogen makes a lot of sense for fleets of vehicles that need to go long distances between fixed depots where infrastructure can be built. I think hydrogen buses and trucks are a natural choice, because you can build fuelling stations at their depots, and then you don't have to lug a battery around. Whether that ends up being more cost effective than battery electric, I don't know.
> I don't know why some intrepid coder hasn't released an easy to deploy, self-hosted, p2p encrypted platform allowing limited sharing of files, comms, sites etc.

You mean https://geti2p.ne?
You're excited... at the yet unexplored military applications... of humanity finding ever more efficient ways of killing each other?

FML, that's dark.
> Just give me some JIRA ticket and let me read books while I get my job done in 1-2 hours a day.

Aren't we all (normal and decent people) doing this already?
I agree. Yet, I assume professionals (with VPN) would definitely attract more law enforcement action due to size of transfers.

But if you can prevent script kiddies, why not? The current barrier to entry is so damn low. Paying VPN is indeed a barrier to entry.
Am I misunderstanding? They’re no longer using lasers but LCD?!
And also because it's a generation old. A card like 1080 was high-end during its time, and still works well, but it isn't high-end anymore.

High-end gpus right now are the 4090 and 4080.
Thanks. That did it.
I found it in the official brochure from Etak printed in 1984, it says "80 ips"
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I think that either the link has changed or that the statement has changed, because the statement I'm reading is very different from your quote "in both content and deliverance" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UGtlUMMkOU))
we've lost the ability to build things quickly in western society. if you want to build nuclear in under 20 years, you'll need to either hire a chinese company to do everything, or turn it into a military-driven Manhattan project.
To make that an apt comparison you need to put that hypothetical pro-slavery CEO in some place where slavery is legal and a majority of the public there supports keeping it legal.
Fake trending crime stories based on misinterpreted viral trends - and the content remains posted for over 5 hours despite being immediately recognizable fake news.
To me, pragmatism is set of knives by which I decide what to leave on the cutting room floor. The biggest one I have is that there are only so many hours in a day but more issues on the board than can fit into it. The second one is that my time billable, and anything that doesnt count towards my utilization is de facto not valued by the company.

The overrunning theme seems to be 'how do we get more from a pragmatist' but my response is you can look at my todo list and rearrange it whenever you want. I am happy with my work, the metrics are on target, the feedback I get from clients is great and they ask for me on their future projects. Only one person is unahppy and its the guy who squints at spreadsheets all day. I think he is the one who is wrong.
The fuel that powers your marketing engine is great content! But how do you actually get that traffic flowing? That's where the real challenge lies.

1⃣ Ads: With the power of targeted advertising, you can buy the traffic you need and turn those visitors into loyal customers.

2⃣ SEO is another powerhouse when it comes to driving traffic to your website. By crafting killer content and optimizing it for search engines, you can attract a steady stream of organic traffic that's hungry for what you have to offer.

3⃣ Social media: With its massive reach and engaged audience, social media is a goldmine for traffic generation. By creating compelling content and engaging with your audience, you can turn followers into fans and fans into customers.

My advice is don't rely solely on AI-generated content to save the day. Sure, AI has its place, but it's not a magic bullet. Instead, focus on crafting authentic, value-packed content that speaks directly to your audience's needs and desires.
Children's safety online has been an excuse for excessive surveillance for a long time. Not so long ago Apple was going to scan every file on your device for this reason.
It's a gentleman's agreement before Imran Khan entered the political arena.

Imran Khan leaned pro-Qatar, which irked KSA, especially because IK turned down joining Saudi's coalition in Yemen.

It was around this time that KSA began charting it's own independent course, just like UAE.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

Progress in robotics is beginning to look non-linear and it will have only positive impact on the world.

Skynet won’t be humanoid terminators. Or even drones. The real threat of AI is if/when it will be applied to the field of virology.
Lords of midnight and its sequel Doomdark’s revenge. I still think its one of the best strategy games ever made and it was released 40 years ago on the ZX Spectrum.

You can get the modern version for free at https://www.icemark.com

There is also a multiplayer version playable in the browser at https://www.midnightmu.com/games_home.php
The real value of Stable Diffusion models are the finetuned models when the base model is released.
Logitech intros free tool for ChatGPT prompts plus a mouse with an AI button
Tailscale lock looks interesting -- I had not seen that before.

ACLs still come down to "just trust tailscale is working as advertised." And while I generally do (I'm a happy user), if that last few years have shown anything, for the vast majority of companies/products, it's not if you get compromised, it's when. Given that I'd prefer to have multiple distinct layers between the internet and my boxes.

Though definitely see the value in terms of being able to easily tie SSH access to ACLs and your SSO provider -- as with all things security it's a trade off between ease of use and locking everything down.
A model that is able to perfectly describe and (more importantly) predict everything is effectively indistinguishable from “reality”. Yes, there might or might not be a completely different, and maybe even weird, process underneath that gives rise to that model, but assuming that nothing whatsoever of that underlying process “leaks” into the model, it does not matter and may as well not exist for us.

Luckily, we’re still pretty far from a model which fully describes reality, and it may be entirely unobtainable for us. (Also, we only assume that spatial and temporal locality isn’t a thing, i.e. that the laws of physics are the same everywhere and everytime, so there’s that as well.)
These anti-features are almost always a requirement coming from either a cyber security or compliance department, not from product or engineering.
Are air miles taxed in the US? United airlines has a bug bounty program and they send you a 1099 for the miles and they say the points are valued a 2% of point value (you are taxed on this).

After calculating the point value and the amount I would pay for flights, I would actually pay more money in taxes than I would if I just paid for the flight myself, making the points mostly worthless.
The second and third line of arguing, underlining the technical issue rather than privacy, might still work for those individuals.

There will always be people you cannot convince however, either because they have different ideologies or being in a place in life where all arguments wear off and they have no reason to spare it another thought.

We only need a majority in the voting group, not everyone.
out of curiosity, when and/or how often do these high-performance math libraries get folded into game physics engines? Like would Blaze offer any sort of advantage if you were to develop a new 3d soft/hard body physics engine?
I have not read any paper by Tegmark that seems hacky: https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Tegmark,...

Could you point to some?
At least in Spanish the literal meaning is as you said - overflowing, but it comes with the "feeling" of exultant, joyful. For example,

"El entusiasmo del público fue desbordante" would translate to "The enthusiasm of the public was overwhelming"
A long, informed, and funny essay about this recently https://docseuss.medium.com/the-biggest-threat-facing-your-t...
Negative numbers are very natural to me. Math isnt just about counting real objects, but also transformations through space/time. The notion of duality or things going in reverse is extremely natural. -5 is just the inverse of 5, such that if you go 5 and go back 5, you end up at the same place.
Does anyone else think the joints seem stiffer than the hydraulic version? The head and torso are receiving a lot of shock forces with each step. That seems like a downgrade from the previous one.

It clearly has a much larger range of motion and if it is also stronger as claimed then I can't wait for the acrobatics videos that are surely coming.

But I think the most exciting thing is that it has hands from the start. Atlas didn't have hands for most of its existence and so couldn't do much in the way of useful tasks. I think controlling hands is actually much harder than walking or doing backflips. Hopefully Boston Dynamics will be able to make this version useful.
Why not assume that the OP knows the definition of the word "faculty" and that when the OP writes, "suffocation by Faculty bureaucracy", he meant suffocation by academic staff?
> PCManFM-Qt (catchy name ha?)

I believe PCMan was the original developer, and FM for "file manager" made sense. Then it was ported to Qt, so add -qt?

That's kind of a mess, isn't it?
Hamas is the favorite to win an election in Palestinian state:

> If elections were held today, Fatah would lose to Hamas 17 to 34 percent.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/22/poll-hamas-remains-p...

They are also the party that won the last (and only) election held by Palestinians, as well as the current rulers of Gaza.

Their explicit goal is to kill every Jew in Israel, and they have acted it out in the genocidal 10/7 massacre.

So not only do Palestinians support a party that promotes the genocide of all Jews in Israel - by all available evidence, this party is currently the favorite to control a Palestinian state.

Not to mention there's pretty solid ground to believe that if Fatah (Hamas's only viable rival) controlled a Palestinian state, they'd also support the genocide of Jews. Just look at the education they provide to West Bank children, describing Jews as subhuman monsters that must be eradicated.
“Vote with your wallet”