skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A neutral transcription of the article's content could be "Streaming video content has similar underlying economics to TV. Now that money is no longer cheap, everyone is converging on the TV model of 90% standard-fare and 10% prestige projects."

The really sad thing is that public broadcasters operate in the same way with regard to content quality. Sure, they have (almost) no ads, a lot less complete garbage ("reality" TV, voyeuristic game shows), but on the whole they make the same clinic dramas, soap operas (and sometimes spend billions for the rights to sport).

For-profit media companies cut shows because they're unprofitable, public broadcasters cut them because of a "lack of demand by the public". Media companies make terrible programming choices because they think it will be profitable, public broadcasters make them for political reasons (no matter their structure, they cannot actually be independent of their funding source, the sovereign that organizes their funding).

It would have been nice to read an analysis like that in TFA, but alas it was published in jacobinmag.
Yes, if you want full control, only external Assemblers will do the trick.
Just substitute money for tubers.

Hunter Gatherer: collect nuts, tubers, kill some bison.

Modern Man: get the money, collect some skills, fire some underlings.

Maybe our brain has adapted those base instincts. And modern burn out is more equivalent to what early man would experience in a famine, during times of scarcity.

If you can't get the money, you starve.

Burn Out is the Modern Man equivalent to the stress the Early Man would feel in a harsh environment and near starving.
One of the things that's stopped me from doing something like this so far is that the benefits are intangible, difficult or impossible to measure, but the costs are obvious and often measured in dollars.
Was it ever any different? I’m very skeptical that there was ever a time when the average person did personally meaningful and constructive work.

I think we all have this sense that life should be nothing but personal fulfillment, and anything getting in the way of that is a problem. And maybe it’s even true that that’s how things “should” be, but I really don’t think it ever has been.
I’m sure this is the threat that the brilliant asshole types would want you to believe. But there’s no limit to the amount of talent that one single toxically anti-social team member can deter from joining an institution, or that they can chase out of one for that matter. Especially if they’re a senior team member.

There’s also essentially no limit to the amount of damage they can do in companies. Even if you put aside the potential impact on company culture, I’ve seen many engineers needlessly waste huge amounts of company resources pursuing solutions that they considered to be technically brilliant (and which may have been), but were completely misaligned with the company’s objectives. I’ve personally witnessed one (especially brilliant) Rust engineer drive a company completely out of business with this approach.
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One of the problems with being a beginner is an inability to tell which projects are easy and which are hard, especially if you're doing a "real" project, which is to say, one of your choice from some real problem you have in life, rather than some pre-selected project just for the project's sake.

I've encouraged my kids to use their school years to try out lots of different things, and a consistent theme in all of them is getting them to just scale down their first try. Do not expect to replicate Minecraft. Do not expect to film a feature-length special-effects movie. Do not expect to create a dishwashing robot. Do not set out to write a decalogy high fantasy series. etc. The beginner doesn't know what they don't know.

Robotics has the particular problem that small-scale robotics are often frankly just not that useful. It's been a problem with the field for a long time. The learning curve is quite steep with robotics, and given that the beginner is likely to destroy some equipment along the way, expensive. There still isn't really that much the field can do about that right now. It's better than it used to be, but it's still pretty hard.
Simple- expand anti-trust law. Private equity just recreated the trusts of old by using investment funds as the vehicle.
Brains are networks of neurons, e.g. neural nets. They also contain other structures like blood vessels, etc, but it is completely reasonable to say they are neural networks.
The problem is you can message the person who got fired on linkedin.

I've had coworkers who had sudden "family emergencies" and the like who really just took a better offer.
I don't think enough is made of this aspect of Valve. Who knows if it's accurate, but a report claimed they did $1 billion in Counter Strike cases last year.

https://insider-gaming.com/valve-cs-cases-earnings/

And you have a skin that has sold for over $1 million now.

https://www.ign.com/articles/counter-strike-skin-sells-for-o...
>This is a very welcome counterpoint

The article contains no real information, in fact can't even support its own title because apparently stablecoins are more attractive to those living in high inflation environments than Bitcoin.

The reader is left with no more information about "The Meaning of Bitcoin" than they entered with. No attempt is made to inform the reader about how cryptocurrency solves inflation or any of the other proposed issues with centrally-controlled currencies, besides reminding the reader that "stablecoins" exist. Well "stable" is in the name so it must be true, right? End article.
Just tell them they can give the office to someone else!
> The biggest mistake with AI is making it appear human.

100% this.

Its just too early for AI to impersonate human characteristics. The initial wonder or sense of amazement from what AI could do very quickly got mired with horrendous obvious logical flaws, clear lack of sentience and hallucinations being emphasized.

If it was marketed as a tool, it would have immediately put the burden of its appropriate use on the user and the focus on the amazing things it can do. Once people get used to it, more human friendly behavior could be introduced as "enhancements".

But instead we see this ridiculous parade of mimicking human like behavior from transformers.

Its a marketing blunder.
How would you solve the problem of keeping track of new comments in the HN model (threaded), assuming you'd like the conversation to continue over a few days or weeks?

I think the HN model is superior in almost every ways, except when it comes to following new comments, which is painful.
Was the quote in English or a translation?
That is certainly what people think and why I feel I need to pipe up whenever these threads get started.

While certainly some with ME/CFS are so bad that they cannot get out of bed the vast majority have good and bad days and you don't see them on their bad days and they look just like everyone else on their good days. One of the reasons it's considered an invisible disease. It's a spectrum and some people manage it better than others.

Sometimes the burnout isn't so temporary - even this article talks about how repeated burnout becomes an problem with the person entering a state of depression which bares a lot of similarities to ME/CFS.

Most people with ME/CFS will never be diagnosed and those people will often think they just have issues with burnout. That's what I though for over 20 years and I have a severe form of it. I though I was managing burnout and then graves disease. It never occurred to me that I would have something like ME/CFS until I stumbled on a random twitter comment that linked ME/CFS with hypermobility which I also have a severe form of. So here I am adding my comments to the internet.

There are generally a whole bunch of rather weird and rather rare comorbidities that occur in people i.e. it is known by its associates. That's what a lot of Dr. Jessica Eccles work goes into.
I highly doubt it. Look at artists, what they do can hardly be described as "survival" or "productive". Yet they seem to get a great amount of joy from their work. Even if no other person cares.
Well it certainly describes this Monday, but I don't think we talk about same level of things
It's even easier to disrupt than dollars, at least exchanging dollars as cash is popular whereas cryptocurrencies rely predominantly on exchanges and bank transfers.
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That's incorrect.

> one might argue [bitcoin] is [a Ponzi scheme] by its current holders

Going on Twitter and saying "buy BTC!" isn't a Ponzi scheme...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
They are completely different things.

I send my research to Elsevier for free, and surrender all my publishing rights & copyright to Elsevier to be able to publish it.

When/if it's published, I have a paltry "author's copy" in return, which I have to be very diligent while giving copies of it away, otherwise Elsevier might punish me.

At the end, it's a paper which bears my name, but I have none of the rights attached to it, and Elsevier gets literally millions of dollars from each country which licenses its publications.

Their expenses are a mere rounding error for what they charge, and they are doing this to protect their income, not my research.

Copyright infringement / ethical issues in AI is something else:

Crawlers reap & providers sell my data without my consent, and I get nothing in return, except the ability to poorly imitate my writing/art style, making my work, blood, sweat and tears I shed over these years to create that style worthless.

Both parties earn exorbitant amount of money with my work, for free, and suck me dry in the process. One at least gives me a paltry PDF file and maybe some recognition, and the other one threatens my livelihood while raising hype and applauding degeneration of human achievement and reducing it to a mere set of numbers.

Both are cutting the tree they're living on, though.
Oh hey, our new CEO did the same exact "hybrid 4" bullshit so he technically didn't violate our employment contracts that said we were hybrid employees. Literally at his 6 month mark announced a thing that made everyone hate him which is a pretty bold move for a new CEO. The only person who supported him was a newly hired director who was kissing ass so hard it almost a rimjob. I just don't get it, there was no issue that caused the change, no metric he was looking to improve. He even told us he was willing to eat 20% productivity to be in the office.

But turns out the overlap between someone willing to write code all day and adhd is pretty strong so my team all put in the paperwork for ADA exceptions and got them, literally the only reason I'm still here.
In every model of a theory, you can just consistently relabel elements in order to get another model. But that doesn't really tell you anything because that model is just isomorphic to the old one (that term has a precise meaning, but I think the "relabeling" intuition captures it).

So your NPA is just a consistent relabeling of elements n to elements -n - it's fully isomorphic to PA. There's nothing particularly interesting about it. Notice that "the product of two negative numbers is positive" doesn't help because in your alternative model, "positive" (or rather, "nonnegative") just means something different (or more precisely, it doesn't even make sense to talk about "nonnegative numbers" because that's all of them).

It only becomes interesting when you have different non-isomorphic models of a theory - that then means that there are (distinguishable) properties of the model that the theory can't talk about.

In the case of the complex numbers, if you just exchange i and -i, I believe that you get a field which is fully isomorphic to C.
The author didn't imply that Bitcoin is anonymous.
The link to your public key is missing the colon after the https
> Its just not sustainable.

Everything feels like that all the time. And yet we constantly find
ourselves 10 years down the line, with years of exponential growth
piled on top, and some post-Malthusian explanation of how "actually it
is sustainable if we just keep pushing through and believe in
progress".

I'm not saying this or that _is_ sustainable, just that the point
people declare it "unsustainable" is often only the beginning. It's a
(mis)perception David Goggins speaks of a lot - about just how much
deeper an organism can dig in crisis, or how low our pain/risk
thresholds are set. Maybe we unconsciously factor that in.

Personally I think that's reckless and we are better heeding warning
signs. But if we'd done that in 1970 climate change wouldn't be a
thing, right.
Francis Ford Coppola's “Godfather Notebook”
I could same the same of depression (in my case, arising from divorce). Difficult times enable values clarification.
At least with Kagi you can manually adjust the ranking of certain domains
HN usernames aren't case-sensitive:

> That username conflicts with an existing one. Names are case-insensitive. Please choose another.
Would cialis likely have the same benefits?
What are you replacing it with?
Yeah and industrial robots are generally pretty easy compared to other parts of automation. They are pretty much turnkey and have a bunch of options for integration. That's not to say that they don't take any skill, but if you're doing material handling or welding or something you can often just buy the entire package from <robot company> and apply power and it works. It does all of the advanced kinematics math for you; you will be better at robots if you understand the math but it isn't a requirement and the vast majority of people programming, maintaining, and working alongside them don't know the math behind it.

It always bums me out when people just want to look at a pretty robot drawing a line or picking up a heavy thing and ignore much more complex and difficult parts of factory automation.
Curious if anyone here has quit due to RTO and, if so, did you make it clear on the way out? I'm going through it right now. Our company is pushing RTO and the policy is really senseless. We're not purely a tech company and the CEO has gotten earfuls from across the departments and it hasn't budged him. I worry as much about the annoyance as I do about leadership being completely unstrategic. This is costing us cycles and we are just trying to understand what outcome he is trying to drive and there is no answer.
I just noticed that all the thumbnails are AI generated, I think most of them look quite good, only a few need to be replaced in my opinion: "What Do I Need to Get Started?", 8, 25, 26 look pretty bad; I would have chosen the same style as "1." and "2." and used it for all images as they do not have the typical AI look.
NeXT, Sun, Silicon Graphics, 3D/fx. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
My first computing experience was on the MIT-AI KA-10 (which was the first one ever installed). It was already semi-obsolete by then, with CADR lispms in use as well.

Having the debugger always available (no need for the old fashioned idea of core dumps) and the tight integration of the the PDP-10 instruction set and MACLISP (the ‘6 and then ‘10 were explicitly designed by Gordon Bell to run Lisp) was the perfect introduction to the power and fun of computing, as was the early state of Emacs.
> they'e always unable to be honest in their headlines

To call this “odd” implies that other news-sources are well known for their headlines accurately representing the body of their articles?
view kling ai examples here: https://klingai.org/
where did I imply bitcoin is anonymous?
The issue in the US is that often part time jobs do not include health care, so switching to 4x32 is not something I've really considered.
My parents had the Desiderata on the back of the toilet door. I've read it innumerable times, but it didn't really start meaning anything to me until well after I'd moved out and needed that kind of perspective.

Also, I like all the points you've made and they ring true because I've experienced them more than a handful of times, but I still struggle to grasp their usefulness when I need it.

It's funny how emotional states can be the exact opposite of what may be best at the time.

Lastly, respect for parenting a child with special needs. Putting most of yourself on hold for an unknowable number of years is a rocky uphill trek. Keep a hold of yourself, but a tighter hold of them.
AI Hype is completely out of control – especially since ChatGPT-4o [video]
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This course is really good and beginner friendly:

https://www.udemy.com/course/100-days-of-code/
Are you talking about lootboxes? That's only for one or two of their games, isn't it? Meanwhile Steam single handedly remade the PC gaming industry.
Georgia had an appallingly bad DMV in the 90s and fixing was a focus of Governor Sonny Perdue's gubernatorial race. Between 2003-2011 it was overhauled and when Nathan Deal was governor from 2011-2019 it was boosted further.

They had kiosk you could go to that would fulfill most of your needs and you could schedule appointments online. It was fantastic.

Then Brian Kemp came into office, cut the budget, and screwed it all up. I wouldn't at all be surprised if it had something to do with business interests in the state.

There's a strong privatized driver training and rehabilitation lobby in the state. Many traffic courts in the state refer you to these private companies as part of the resolution to tickets.
I would absolutely, 100% expect professional behavior from a bunch of arabs and a Jew who found themselves working together, and it's frankly illuminating that that was your go-to as a scenario that would inevitably cause workplace friction, especially following a line about "innate traits."

And that's before we get into nerds being a minority which is just... no. Nerd shit is so mainstream at this point and co-opting minority status to talk about you really being into geology or something is... a lot.

There's a lot going on here and I'm not interested in unpacking it, have a lovely day.
Almost all MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows 16 bit, Windows 32 bit and Windows 64 bit compilers you can think of, that aren't GCC or clang forks with their UNIX architecture, and support inline Assembly.

For C, C++, BASIC, Pascal, Delphi, Modula-2, Oberon-2, Component Pascal, D,...

Traditionally PC refers to IBM/Microsoft's linage of computers and operating systems.
Lately we had both our tenants in our other house (on the same lot) leave, my wife trapped two stray cats inside the house, one escaped, and we are trying to tame the one who stayed.

I moved the TV, XBOX, a $50 PC and almost all of my optical discs (but no books) over there because (1) I won't be so mad if a copy of Disney's Frozen gets pissed on (he's a tom), and (2) if it does the disc will be undamaged and at worst I can discard the package.

That room gets really dark and it doesn't have a switch controlling an overhead light so turning off a floor lamp and then sneaking out the door without creating an opening for the cat to escape (though he's much more inclined to hide than run) leaves me quite happy for the little LEDs and stuff that create just enough light to get from the couch to the door.
> By adopting these practices, you'll elevate the quality of your code and enable LLMs to provide more precise and efficient code suggestions.

Those practices sound like good practices to follow in general, the LLM here is sort of irrelevant?

It's like suggesting that drivers use turn signals and maintain safe following distance, in order to adapt to self-driving cars.
Employment is strong. Job openings are low. Offer values are down because it’s an employer’s market.

Every job opening attracts an incredible number of applicants. Big Tech is going in and out of hiring freezes and even laying more people off still.
> Threading, new-only, relevant context displayed systems without point systems but with personal killfiles encourage discussion and viewing other participants as people.

What do you mean by "new-only"? And how would you show relevant context with personal killfiles and without a point system? :)
I think customers chose that. GOG has been around forever, but Steam is so much better that DRM was worth it to millions of gamers.
> The world relentlessly marches forward. However, I've learned human resilience is AMAZING. You'll be surprised at what you are capable of when life asks for it.

What I'm about to say obviously pales in comparison to raising a child with autism, but entering an ultramarathon/triathalon is a quite good way to experience something like this first hand in a safe environment. The amount a human can actually "go through" when it's asked of them is entirely remarkable.
Just want to add, for some there is the issue of post exertional malaise (PEM) when cardio becomes counter productive. Those can often still weightlift without triggering PEM. This is predominantly how I managed it for most of my life and worked ok until the covid vaccine triggered another setback.

It's directly linked to stress, I think the predispositions are linked to not being able to ameliorate stress so anything that helps manage stress will help.
I understand where you're coming from.. My takeaway is that a HN post is not the right tool for the job in this case. (pun not intended)
It's only difficult to disrupt if the people involved stay entirely in the crypto ecosystem. The moment they want to interact with the real world, they open themselves up to the hard power of the state. The US govenrment has been very successful in disrupting crypto offramps; they don't need to break crypto math when they can just put the squeeze on people wanting to trade it for something else.
Here's something to think about: A dog was chasing 2 kids to attack them, one fell to the ground and the other kept running. The dog kept chasing the running one and passing by the one that fell. He attacked and bit the kid that was running.

Dogs for example, have an instinct to hunt on things that run. Plenty of my friends have been bitten while running. I always start walking when I see a dog, and never been bitten.

Don't underestimate instincts in both humans and animals.
Without HiDPI (sic!) scaling that means that a correctly-sized display for that resolution would have a 30" diagonal on Windows (standard PPI: 96) and 40" on Mac (standard PPI: 72). If you don’t have HiDPI (sic!) scaling enabled in your system and your display is smaller than that, then you’re basically browsing everything zoomed out.
I learned about Desiderata from my computer science class at secondary school in Poland. We had to style and type in a text from a piece of paper, and that was what we were given.