skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read both collections after, like others, getting introduced to Ted Chiang because of Arrival, and both rank highly among my favorites. Chiang can write some beautiful prose (best exemplified by "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate") and excels at taking a single interesting idea and taking it somewhere fascinating. With very few exceptions, his stories don't have real characters - they're just named tools to express ideas - but that works well with the kind of stories he writes.

Highlights for me from Exhalation:

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate - beautifully written story in the style of Arabic literature

The Lifecycle of Software Objects - resonated strongly with me due to its criticism of the software industry, and raises great ethical questions about AIs

The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling - I was intrigued by the Tiv tribe's concepts of truth, and blown away when I later found out that "mimi" and "vough" are real concepts and not Chiang's imagination

Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom - a great and plausibly seeming examination of the psychological and social effects of communicating with alternate realities
Also workstations. Why would i want an RTX 4090 for music production for example. Or a laptop which will be permanently attached to a bigger display a keyboard a mouse and a USB hub.
The US is unable to refine the oil it produces. We're setup to refine Saudi oil and no, they're not the same thing. Also no, you can't just change the refinery without a significant capital investment. That money has to come from somewhere.
To be fair its mostly the consultants who are brought in to figure out how to squeeze more blood from the stone. People in the trenches often aren't given the time to be so imaginative.
Take the study of history. The sequence of events and causal relationships are what is important, not the exact dates and times.

Research (in prepublication right now) done by my wife has shown that students are more engaged with the study of history the less it has to do with Jeopardy questions and the more it has to do with situating their life experiences, goals and passions into the flow of humanity through time, often letting them choose to focus on aspects of history that are traditionally ignored, like fashion, household labor, just to name a few.

There is extensive literature on how rote memorization is counter to many of the goals of education, which I can point you to if you have access to an academic digital library (and after consulting with my wife and her peers as this is not my area of expertise).

Higher education recognizes the unimportance of memorization in that the frequency of open-note and open-book exams increase through undergrad to graduate education.
Carta threatens to cancel a company's securities
I mean to imply that you’re straight incorrect on top of being pedantic. The dictionary link provides definition 1b for turf as “an artificial substitute for this (as on a playing field)”.

Not only have you added nothing of value to the topic at large, you provided incorrect information. The intent was obvious enough that you felt confident “correcting” me. Thanks for playing.
Thankfully exercise can also help strengthen the immune system. (source: I've been exercising a lot lately after years of feeling like I had chronic fatigue - more accurately it seems to have been sleep apnea - and have had 3 diagnosed cases of mono in my life)
Somehow, I manage to work, have an ambitious career ahead of my peers, clear said-pay, pull the ol’ code lever at the code factory as it were… I.e “work and advance,” while seeing my spouse consistently from 9-5 instead of Brad in marketing, and seeing my community consistently because I buy coffee and lunch in town vs StarQdobaDonalds. That adds up, and I hope you get the chance to experience it as well. And those conversations you mention - nothing that can’t be achieved by Zoom, modern Slack usage, and quarterly off-sites or similar models. No ceiling found yet but maybe depends on what ceiling one counts as mattering. But so far, I haven’t found any yet.
That would be sacrilegious to the American identity of requiring driving to do anything.
I read the letter [0] and am deeply confused.

For context, I agree with the basic philosophical premise. I'm a Jew, but Israel is a repressive apartheid state, and while it had a right to defend itself, it's approach in Gaza absolutely meets the internationally accepted definition of genocide. The positions of individual Jews and Israelis are on a wide spectrum, but it's also not controversial to say that as far as the current Israeli leadership, this genocide is not an accident, not even from a lack of care. It is absolutely within their goals and desires to have all Palestenians eliminated from the territory administrated by Israel, and they're going as far as they can without losing the international support of the United States.

With all of that said, I have no idea what PEN has to do with this. If they are endorsing it, they should stop. If they're funding it, they should stop. If they're invested in organizations directly supporting the Israeli government, they should stop.

But if all they are is "an organization in the US", then their tax dollars are going to fund the genocide. And every single American taxpayer is equally complicit here, which is to say not at all. People SHOULD be fighting for change, and advocating for it. But not through empty speeches or statements. Statements from PEN do not protect or save the rights of Palestinians.

I also think this is meaningfully different from the BLM era when protestors stated that silence is violence, and a lack of a statement is a tacit rejection of the movement. BLM was/is about an inherently American problem of systemic racism. White Americans benefit from systemic racism through no action of their own, so acknowledging it and at least making an effort to get woke to it (the original meaning of the term) is at least a necessary step to choosing to helping to dismantle it. American Corporations do play a part in that.

But on Israel/Palestine, I just think these moves do not help the cause.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VEF-Hrg8wN7WHiSljqwd9IqH...
I'll be very interested to read the report when this is all over.
I think there is a whole group of vim + tmux people out there and their primary use case may not be session persistence, but to construct an IDE like environment, which is also my use case.
What's a reasonable wage like for a developer with 20+ years in Warsaw?
Somewhere in 5-10k USD monthly ballpark?
Trivia: Lisa Su and Jensen Huang are relatives: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-f....
There is no way to prevent this on the OS level without making an OS as locked down as iOS.

Anything less, and the user will find a way to accidentally give admin permissions to random apps.

NB: I don't believe that it's the OS's job to protect the user from themselves. Shielding people from consequences of their own actions results in people making worse mistakes later on.
And then get bluescreens while driving. Modularity will always come with some degree of flakiness, which is acceptable in PCs, but not in cars.
Caring more about what your immediate family thinks doesn't mean you change your sexual preference to suit them - in fact it's exactly why it would be upsetting that they were 'all homophobes' in that scenario, more so than the fact that there do exist substantially more than [size of immediate family] homophobic people in the world for most, I imagine.
Relying on data from the 70s and 80s a have very little bearing on the construction timelines expected in todays advanced service economies.

Even getting a finished reactor in the west is a good project. Most have either been cancelled or never progressed past the investment decision.

Through all of nuclear powers history we have seen negative learning.

The costs of the French nuclear scale-up: A case of negative learning by doing

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...
>human skin turned into lamp shades

a human skin lampshade was reported to have been displayed by Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch and his wife Ilse Koch, along with other human skin artifacts.[2][3][4] Despite myths to the contrary, there were no systematic efforts by the Nazis to make human skin lampshades.[5]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampshades_made_from_human_ski...

>soap made from human corpses

The Yad Vashem Memorial has stated that the Nazis did not produce soap with fat which was extracted from Jewish corpses on an industrial scale

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_made_from_human_corpses

The German Corpse Factory or Kadaververwertungsanstalt (literally "Carcass-Utilization Factory"), also sometimes called the "German Corpse-Rendering Works" or "Tallow Factory"[1] was one of the most notorious anti-German atrocity propaganda stories circulated in World War I. In the postwar years, investigations in Britain and France revealed that these stories were false.

[...]

Rumours that the Germans used the bodies of their soldiers to create fat appear to have been circulating by 1915. Cynthia Asquith noted in her diary on 16 June 1915: “We discussed the rumour that the Germans utilise even their corpses by converting them into glycerine with the by-product of soap.”[7] Such stories also appeared in the American press in 1915 and 1916.[7] The French press also took it up in Le Gaulois, in February, 1916.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Corpse_Factory
> 90% of our Slack history is just "good morning" and "good night", repeated for 4 years.

Better write a bot for that! Save your company some serious overhead right there =)
> Also notice that the interests on US debt come dangerously close to the whole of US government revenue.

That is no where close to true, interest on debt last year was 985b, tax revenue was 3.29t
research department != product department

Microsoft Research also puts out some really cool stuff, but that does not mean the "same" Microsoft can't show ads in their OS' start menu for people's constant enjoyment. I noticed this interesting discrepancy in Microsoft some years ago as a teenager; it does not surprise me at all that Facebook has a division doing cool things (zstandard, etc.) and a completely separate set of people working towards completely different goals simultaneously. Probably most companies larger than a couple hundred people have such departmental discrepancies
What an incredible piece of technology. I'm very impressed.
Google relies on power for their datacenters, so if they get into the generation of it, they'll further vertically integrate and save money. Once they dominate the power generation market, they can raise prices on others.
These types of geopolitical shifts are not ones that will unfold over a matter of weeks, but rather over years or even decades. The intricate and multifaceted discussions around energy and economic interests between the BRICS nations and the West will play a crucial role in shaping this long-term transition.
Really well said but I'm afraid of it actually
Everything you do does. Question is how much.
One is a failure to act as an agent - to control the car and make decisions. Another is a failure to even be a reliable tool - to do what the operator commands. Very different.

Creating Agents is a lot harder.
As much as I enjoy the original Blade Runner, it really does not feel like a masterpiece the way 2049 does.

Note the usage of quotes from Nabokov's Pale Fire during the baseline test. A few I liked:

Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing? Interlinked.
Did you buy a present for the person you love? Within cells interlinked.

* spoiler alert *

Joe (aka "K") has to pass the baseline test to demonstrate his lack of emotional state.

There's a scene early on in the film where K will be giving a present to his hologram love, Joi. She's the opposite of K - full of emotion, joy, sadness. Joe just had a rough day, comes home, and she tries to cheer him up

Joi : Would you read to me?
[gets up, crosses to table, 'picks up' Nabokov's Pale Fire]
Joi : It'll make you feel better.
'K' : You hate that book.

Yes, of course she hates that book. She is a glowing ball of emotion and doesn't want to ever give that up. She's the most emotional character in the whole film.

It's clear the film is a true labor of love from Hampton Fancher and Michael Green. They put their entire being into this work.
I think I can add this feature, so you can open the clipboard window on the screen with the currently focused window. I think a screen with the currently focused window should be treated as active. It's because I can keep my mouse cursor on secondary screen and work (type something) inside a window on the primary screen. Or just add both preferences, so you can decide yourself which screen should be treated as active.
If all the pipeline and the vector index is keep in memory... does Pathway still persist state somewhere?
They have +6 bonus and Advantage to Charisma roll, what can we say?
Yeah, quite a few times. Mostly in Jakarta and Bangkok. Common reasons include:

* Driver is hopelessly lost and stands no chance of getting to the destination

* Driver has no idea how to read a map

* Driver is obviously very inexperienced and can’t handle the chaotic traffic

* Driver is obviously too tired to drive safely (or reach the destination in a reasonable timeframe)

* Driver is too hungry to drive/read map/think at all (common in the afternoon during Ramadan)

* Driver is obviously high on meth or drunk (especially in Indonesia where there are no laws against driving under the influence)
Consider the counterfactual - no ads and lower distribution. This might make some products unviable (due to high fixed costs) or cause others to be viable only at higher prices (again, due to fixed costs).
JetBrains warns of IntelliJ IDE bug exposing GitHub access tokens
I live in Phoenix now. My wife and I are planning to move away from here in two years. We were only here because of circumstances outside of our control and now those circumstances are no longer applicable.

Phoenix's main economic driver is real estate development and speculation since the 60s. It has very little in the way of real wealth that serves as a foundation (other than ASU and the two silicon fabs that are there now). A lot of people come here thinking it is affordable cost of living (and it is not that affordable in 2024), but I don't think many residents here really know why they live in Phoenix either.
This is tangential, but I have been wondering: is there anything to prevent Apple from reading both sides of the exchanges between the user and OpenAI, and training its own models based on that data?
Yes, but isn't non determinism a feature of AI.
Climb or ski, depending on the season.
> All time high as of producing small amount of very expensive stuff

You’ve made a series of wrong, uncited claims. This is another one.

> Is USA capable of producing huge number of electric motors?

Siemens is the world’s largest manufacturer of electric motors. They have massive plants in Germany, Ohio and Missouri [1][2]. Toshiba, the second largest, in Houston and Canada [3]. ABB, third largest, with plants across 8 states, directed from Arkansas, as well as in India [4].

China has cheaper labour and laxer environmental laws than America. But we have some of the world’s cheapest and most-abundant energy. Motor manufacturing isn’t dirty or labour intensive. I’m not sure where your obsession with electric motors comes from, because it’s an example of Allied manufacturing vastly outstripping China.

> Remember how the west wasn't able to deliver enough artillery shells simply because it can't produce enough?

Yes, in part because we want to maintain reserves. We matched Ukraine’s military budget to the entirety of Russia’s [5]. As a side project.

[1] https://www.siemens.com/us/en/company/about/siemens-in-the-u...

[2] https://www.siemens.com/us/en/products/drives/electric-motor...

[3] https://www.toshiba.com/tic/inside-toshiba/manufacturing-ser...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABB_Motors_and_Mechanical

[5] https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/news/w...
Looks like this is sort of a lifetime achievement award you can't withdraw from. Other authors donated their winnings to Palestine in protest, so maybe he will as well.
Isn't that good for their numbers though? I would imagine there are some advertisers who are buying out their own bots to juice click through rate. Why not? Incentives are high, disincentives are a slap on the wrist if you manage to even prove anything at all.
So, you're saying that tech that didn't exist was the problem, not the design for the tech that did exist???

That makes no sense.
Now all we need is for pre-2000s web to come back and we could have instant web surfing.
re: “”I wonder whom the USA will be a vassal to.””

I hope not (!) and don’t think so. We have major natural resources and advantages. I can’t imagine a future where, assuming we mostly withdrew from the world’s stage, that any country would mess with us.
==Also notice that the interests on US debt come dangerously close to the whole of US government revenue.==

This is not true. Revenue was $4.44 trillion in 2023 [0] and debt interest was $650 billion [1].

[0] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/gover...

[1] https://www.crfb.org/blogs/2023-interest-costs-reach-659-bil...
Right? Its a card in the Saudi Royal Family's pocket to be played when it suits them. Not something to just throw down all willy-nilly.
I did, see my other comment here (it is a ghost town compared to twitter).
Talk about jumping to conclusions.

You jumping to a race lens says more about you than me. Economics and numbers don't care about race. If you have a system with fixed supply and you flood it with demand, what happens genius?

Also, the flood of immigrants started in just the last few years - and I've been dealing with these issues with the Canadian system for 8+ years.
I would love to read his documentation! Even if I don't know anything about the topic.
Sabine has a summary and opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm1B3Y3ypoE
I just started using this and it is indeed awesome. Only thing I need to figure out how to do is make a tab truly full screen. It's much nicer, more intuitive, has more built in support for things and is super lightweight. It's great.
> Its not like Saudi Arabia was eagerly awaiting to burn some major
bridges with the US.

Bridges aren't typically their target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_Saudi_role_in_the_Sept...
Scale is a meritocracy, and we must always remain one
based on his other videos, either he's actually a Chinese missile scientist or you can pretty much make an entire rocket fleet in your farm in modern China
I wish he would write more often, especially if he decides to tackle non-fiction using his distinct prose style. His creativity, combined with factual writing, could make for a deep/transformative read.
> Nobody's ditching the dollar. However Saudi Arabia and China significantly reduced their investment in US bonds lately. Also notice that the interests on US debt come dangerously close to the whole of US government revenue.

Revenue for 2023 was $4.4T[0], debt servicing cost was $624B. This year it's projected to be in the ~800s.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/216928/us-government-rev....
The US is the largest producer of oil in the world. If the price of oil went way up a lot of things would happen including the US would start producing more oil as marginal projects would start to make economic sense.

The second thing that would happen is people would start buying more hybrid and electric cars.

I have no idea what will happen to the price of oil. I do think that in general people who say things like "finally the US will start paying its bills!" are often not very sophisticated investors. They don't have finance degrees, work on wall street, or have long history as investors. Not that that precludes them from being right! But they could also just be people with an axe to grind and little to lose.
For someone who is "not even sure what RCS is," you seem very certain of that.

Per Wikipedia:

"In early 2020, it was estimated that RCS was available from 88 operators in 59 countries with approximately 390 million users per month. By November 2020, RCS was available globally in Google Messages on Android, provided directly by Google if the operator does not provide RCS. By 2023, there were 800 million active RCS users on Google's platform and 1.2 billion handsets worldwide supporting RCS."

Per my calendar: 2020 was << 15 years ago.
Telegram isn’t end to end encrypted and you should uninstall it from your device.
I don’t follow.

By pretty much every measure, Biden appears to be the establishment candidate. Who is out to get him?
Being a PWA lets you hide the real URL bar.
No it doesn't. You need to fool the user into installing an app that loads from your own domain. Now that obviously isn't impossible, but it requires getting the user to ignore or be mislead by the clearly-displayed URL in the web page and/or installer UI.

As the commenter upthread conjectured, this is indeed perfectly isomorphic to fooling a user into loading and interacting with a faked web page. That's a real threat! But it's clearly not a new threat with PWAs and IMHO this article is mostly just spun clickbait. This isn't remotely a novel vulnerability.
How to Reuse the Operation Warp Speed Model
It's been known for a long time and is called post-viral syndrome and post-acute infection syndrome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-acute_infection_syndrome

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326619

Measles for example wipes out the immune systems memory of everything it has learned to defend against, leaving people newly vulnerable to everything they were immune to before:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-...

There's a good chance that a lot of the "mystery diseases" are due to longer lasting damage from viruses, to organs and to the immune system, including ordinary colds and flu. Colds and flu are probably spread via the air also, yet this also remains unstudied (otherwise known as "there is no evidence") and hospitals don't take precautions for most patients, probably because the cost would be large to treat the air in all hospital rooms. It would mean ending practices like putting two patients in each room as well. I think that in the past a lot was overlooked as being too complex to deal with ("we can't cure flu, it mutates too fast") or too costly (but so was mapping DNA), or both (drugs personalized to each persons DNA) so a certain amount of death and disability was allowed and drugs and surgery statistically only work for some people (see "number needed to treat", NNT). Now we have better tools and understanding and these things should change.
True, but Covid also has plenty of asymptomatic or low symptomatic cases. I’ve known a few who tested positive while reporting no symptoms.

A Chinese field study estimated people got the flu once every five years. It is simply much less contagious. Flu collapsed globally when countries put in place Covid precautions.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-31698038.amp
> It was getting so bad, people were actually suggesting building more homes.

This sounds like some where suprised by that... of course we need more housing, if there are more houses than people who need the, the landlords will have to fight to keep renters in, to at last get some of the money.

Somehow, back in communist times over here, we managed to build a lot... both the government, that built large apartment buildings, and also people themselves, that were allowed to build single family houses a lot easier than now, and they did that mostly by themselves and with help from friends. Housing wasn't an issue.

And now, we act as if we're incapable of building anything anymore... no new neighbourhoods, no new schools, no new infrastructure projects... no nothing.