skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem - solution perspective is also a pitch to customers it's your value proposition.

IF you aren't solving a problem why do I want to give you my money?

Entertainment is a thing for sure, is your product entertaining? Isn't this HER?
To go further, drone models will improve. Drones that last, Drones that can be repaired, the drones that can be maintained cheaply. These things should happen unless a monopoly forms...
I don't think defunding studies on mental illness to fund those who suffer with it is the way to get progress on helping. You're entirely right to be unimpressed with this study and to feel some despair that essentially no study that comes out today will materially affect your life.

But nevertheless, if these studies don't happen, there will forever be people who have to suffer like you do.

Instead, there are many other places where money is being wasted on things that not only have 0 chance of helping, but are actively hurting people. The war budget is many times over all of the psychiatric research money ever spent - maybe we should target taking money from there to help people people struggling with mental illness or homelessness or both, before taking that money from research.
In terms of mental structure - good memory is partly learned. If you have had less stress or a good chance to build these habits and muscles, then they will tend to hold you in good stead, even during times of impairing cognitive loads.

Also I suspect age will play a part.
The thing is, the replaced 20% people can always revert to having economy i.e., business among themselves, unless of cause they themselves prefer (cheaper) buissiness with AI. But then this just means they are better off in the first place from this change.

It is a bit like claiming that third world low productivity countries are suffering because there are countries with much much higher productivity. Well, they can continue to do low productivity business but increase it a bit using things like phones developed by high productivity country elsewhere.
- Most people are not as interesting as they think they are

- It's unlikely that your grandkids would have the same interests as you

- If anything in your NAS was relevant to the family, your SO would have kept a copy of it in her icloud instead of using your self-hosted photo viewer over tailscale

- Once you're old you almost certainly won't be using modern software and file formats. Accessing your data will be incredibly inconvenient
Having written algorithms for CV and satellite image processing, I can tell you that advancement in the field more or less halted in 2018 when everyone decided to dump money and time into CNNs.

I wrote a cloud detection algorithm that would run well on a 20MHz microcontroller powered by 4 AA batteries. But my bosses were worried they couldn't find devs to replace me if I retired, and figured a CS intern and a trained dog [*] could train a CNN to do the same thing. $600k and 2 years later they got something that worked until the dog got a better job and the intern returned to school. None of the surviving engineers could make heads or tails of the solution so they hired a PhD to replicate the work. After publishing his research paper he left and found a job at an east coast university.

So... Sure... CNNs are doing all sorts of things, mostly things we did with DFTs in the past and not quite as well.

* the joke here is the dog does the technical tasks while the intern's only responsibilities are to feed and walk the dog and give it a treat when it completes it's user stories before the end of the sprint.*
[Best non-ironic usage of bullet-time class of edits.]

PEx: s/entropy/surprisal/? (Just a nod to Memorious, for the now)

REx: to keep, barely, out of my Conscious, using lagniappes.

L (for the plainsmen): https://youtu.be/FspytbymxpI

EDIT: the ironic (Kutznets哈哈）thing about Mongols, they overwhelmed the other barbarians with advanced tech (gunpowder, siege engines, biowarfare) but now we admire their neolithic technik.
Apps don't have ad blocking, have more tracking options, etc. Of course they want to push you to an app.
Most people have no use for the things their parents or grandparents found sentimental or worth keeping, so they toss it.
If you don't mind spending money, waking up has been pretty good so far, or you can try out the beginner course during the free trial to see if it fits you, I started meditation when I first watched headspace series on Netflix, it was world changing for me, remember, it's an exercise, it's not about meditating for a long period each time but gradually build up the habit of meditating, hope you enjoy the benefits and the journey of this!

ps. if you think the app is helpful, don't rush into the subscription, check out its scholarship
Fair. But he's unrepentant. It's like the book author who adds bad review blurb to their book on the basis controversy simply feeds readership.

But yes. Clearly self aware. Just doesn't care. Which is fine too: it's his blog.
I would think your first couple points are actually better on a merged system - if /bin==/usr/bin and /lib==/lib64==/usr/lib then scripts can use either /bin/bash or /usr/bin/bash and it'll work (and ditto for libraries). Granted, removing those symlinks would then be painful, but I haven't heard of that being proposed; if it has been and I'm just out of the loop then yeah that'd make me nervous. (Though in fairness, scripts really should use `/usr/bin/env bash` for portability anyways - /bin/bash was never more than a distro-specific quirk.)

As to testing... yeah obviously this stuff should be thoroughly tested long before it hits users, but I was rather under the impression that it was tested extensively before getting to users. Again, if you've seen actual problems that made it past testing, feel free to point them out since that would greatly strengthen your criticism.

> I just want an OS that works without having to fight someone every 3 weeks because "everyone else is doing it, so we should too".

Are you super committed to Linux OSs? Because you might find the one of the BSDs or illumos more comfortable. Not that they never change (er, well, illumos might not), but at least it's not because of what anyone else does.

(And as an aside: Don't take this as an endorsement of merged usr; I actually prefer a separate /usr myself because I lean towards thinking that it's reasonable to have a read-only root and a rw /usr, or /usr on shared NFS, or any number of other "weird" systems... but I also culturally favor the BSDs, so take that as you will. I just think that if we're going to find fault, we should have the best evidence/arguments possible.)
Second this. It is not very convenient to self-host and configure the clients for self-hosted version, but after an initial period of "press the three dots next to the number... yes... now switch to tab xxx" it works well enough. The configuration UI has room for improvement. :)
Holy hell please knock on wood, this is the kinda comment that gets put in a museum in 10,000 years on The Beginning of the End of The Age of Hubris. We've avoided side effects from our new weapons for 80 years -- that does not exactly make me super confident it won't happen again!

In general, I think drawing conclusions about "history" from the past couple hundred years is tough. And unless you take a VERY long view, I don't see how one could describe the vast majority of the past as a win for the optimists. I guess suffering is relative, but good god was there a lot of suffering before modern medicine.

If anyone's feeling like we've made it through to the other side of the nuclear threat, "Mission Accomplished"-style, I highly recommend A Canticle for Lebowitz. It won a hugo award, and it's a short read best done with little research beforehand.
You're right, but this seems to be a rare boundary condition where some users think it's fun/interesting and others are triggered by it and the two groups are the same order of magnitude.

In such cases the story is going to keep showing up no matter what we do. If we don't yield after 14 submissions we're destined to yield after 140! I'd rather yield after 14. It's just one thread, and easy enough to move on from.
Interesting that this report is produced by an academic institute in the US (in this case Harvard), in the UK the government releases statistics annually [1] around the same issues of affordability and access to housing.

1. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/...
What motivates the uutils project? I get rewriting things in language X. I don't really get naming your thing the same name, making a pretty website for it, and apparently trying to replace the original thing.
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I still have amazing memories of playing with Dorling Kindersley CD ROMs as a kid

The Way Things Work.

Encyclopedia of Space and Universe.

Encyclopedia of Nature.

And looking back at those on YouTube, they were pretty great! There is nothing like that in iPad era for kids. What comes close are those interactive iBooks that Apple tried to push when iBooks were new, but they never really caught on
Ergo, people should just own houses instead of working
> In fact it's the other way around—at least to judge by the HN inbox.

That’s hilarious, and a look behind the curtain I didn’t expect to get when making this post.

It does leave the question of why, but I cannot begin to imagine either.
Rich people love the housing ponzi so it's only going to get worse.
How about this possibility: The good guys will be one step ahead, they will have more resources the bad guys will risk imprisonment if they misapply super intelligence. And this will be discovered and protected from by even better super intelligence.
Perhaps, but it seems they just succeeded into turning it mainly into a platform for profiteers and scammers to advertise their bars' happy hours, their dating events, their MLM seminars, etc.
> Is that because I added a TL;DR line, or my entire post?

The TL;DR was a fine summary of the post, I was talking about the whole of it. Though, now that I re-read it, I see that you were cautious to not make complete generalizations - so my reply was more of a knee-jerk reaction to the implication that most people who oppose the author's style are just "temporarily embarrassed C-suites", unlike the sane people who didn't feel uncomfortable about it.

> I didn't mean to criticize having interest in it.

I don't think you personally did - I was talking about the original post there, not about yours. The sentiment in many communities now is that machine learning itself (or generative AI specifically) is an overhyped, useless well that's basically run dry - and there's no doubt that the dislike of financial grifters is what started their disdain for the whole field.

> Do you mean the discontent outside the C-suite?

Yes.
The way I see it, this is simply a repetition of history.

El dorado, the fountain of youth, turning dirt to gold, the holy grail and now... superintelligence.
Indeed. These are often predictable outcomes when there is lack in economy of scale or scope.
Or Geoffrey Hinton, or Ilya Sutskever, or Yoshua Bengio, oh look those are already the three most cited researchers in deep learning. François and LeCunn shouldn't be categorised together anyway, François is a reasonable person and LeCunn was the second-best head of AI at Meta until the best head of AI at Meta used theories Yann LeCunn has railed against for years to release some of the best AI research Meta has ever released only to get replaced as head by Yann because Yann was better at corporate politics.
Meat farming replaces artificial fertilizer, by providing a source of manure, so doesn't that relationship run the other way?

But having 1/4 of the land under soy beans or other locally appropriate nitrogen-fixing plants doesn't seem like it would hurt yields too much.
I agree. A bunch of his other posts have similar style. I like it. It is witty, mixed in with serious technical subjects!
You can DIY and get any level of customization/integration you want

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40713603
I still wonder how an alternative world, where BSD won instead of Linux, would look like.
> Because you might find the one of the BSDs or illumos more comfortable

You know, I would... but Linux has already won the battle... FBSD and Illumos corporate support is already jumping ship to Linux.
> As someone that works in the crypto industry, I feel this every time I see the news or articles report on it, or comments here talking about it.

It was the same way during the 90's Dot-Com era, journalists would explain the World Wide Web with word salad, e.g., the "Graphical portion of the Internet".

With regard to Crypto, I decline to discuss it without mentioning the 3Blue1Brown video, sometimes the gambit works and triggers a better discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4

And I love the comments in that video about being "Confused, but on a higher level".
Thanks, I don't recall seeing Lmod ( https://lmod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html ) before, I'll have to look at it. Kinda reminds me of GNU stash.

Though part of me agrees that there are reliability concerns to keep in mind, the other part of me still thinks root on NFS is normal, at which point /usr seems rather minor in comparison:) I suspect some of this is cultural or a result of what you're used to.
I suppose I was lucky 20 years ago, because the instructor for my weed out class really enjoyed the topic and included a lot of historical information and stuff, the people who dropped it or failed, did so because they thought computer science would pay well but didn't have any technical skills and weren't willing to pick up any. A lot of people just don't have the logic thinking skills for STEM type programs or have no idea what programming actually involves and these sorts of classes work because they are relatively easy for the people who succeed but still allow the people won't succeed in the field to find out early on.
Are You Weather?
> The tech is good enough to make incredible demos but not good enough to generalize into reliable tools. The gulf between demo and useful tool is much wider than we thought.

One thing it is good at is scaring people into paying to feed it all the data they have for a promise of an unquantifiable improvement.
Imagine what will happen if all that extra cash went into private space exploration instead.
The next step book wise is Arora and Barak, Computational Complexity: a modern approach. Of course that book is already out of date. The breakthrough that comes to mind is Ryan Williams' circuit lower bounds. He wrote a nice explanation of the proof here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1261
He defines all the key terms pretty well but probably requires a bit of "maturity" to understand. There are also various breakthroughs to do with interactive proofs.
Oh no, I always envisioned and drewamed about 3d extension of TTD like this. Someone finally did it. I'm doomed.
Update : Controling the max size can be achieved with a custom setting... and it's beautifully done. Give it a try, that app is absolutely perfect already. The mouse setting is really fast and very efficient. Congratulation to the team.
yeah that sucks. My workaround for that is that privacy.com lets me give each new thing its own credit card number, and their service lets me say that credit card number can only ever be charged $10, so then even if I do forget to cancel, they can't charge me more money.

That, and sometimes you can cancel as soon as you start but still have access for the month.
What value is gained from using these terms over just saying nth derivative?
Author here. Someone sent me this comment this morning (along with a note saying: "I am not afraid of you") and it absolutely sent me. Probably because he knows I am of exactly average height and exactly average build, and I quit Muay Thai after one day of getting conditioned against knees-to-the-stomach.

But if you don't tell anyone, I won't tell anyone.
Not only that, but the thing is that it’s all fake in our industry and the companies that we work on. People seem to be very sensitive today to showing any kind of actual emotion or feelings, be it anger or frustration. Everyone puts on the fake american service industry smile, say words like I hear you, we’re a team, we must be constructive. Then in the background all do the most insane political backstabbing, shit talk about other teams, projects, people walk over the careers and the future of others just to advance themselves, but as long as you put a smile on your face in the meetings and in public, none of that matters.
This is true, but depending on what the data is, hopefully that stuff could be donated to a library if the stuff lasted long enough to go into the public domain. Of course, if it's family videos, no one's going to care about that crap, but if it's pirated movies or whatever, some of that stuff might not be available otherwise. Just look at all the classic games from the 70s-80s that would be gone forever if people hadn't copied and distributed them.
Got to love that it appears all based on the title given on HN, because the original post under “Don’t mention AI again” stayed up and got lots of comments.

While technically being against the ‘rule’ against editorializing titles, I guess in this case it was to make it less sensational xD
"Unfortunately, I stopped playing when progressing became too dependent on farming and building"

Same for me. The micromanagement of storing stuff needed for new things to build and organizing it all put me off.
Aren't the Rust binaries significantly larger? Wouldn't that be a problem for embedded system and containers?

I'm also sceptical to the whole idea. There are tons of more interesting problems to solve than replacing an stable solution with a new one just because you don't like GPL.
The sort of drones the military are going to pilot in the next few decades are going to be nothing like what you can pilot as a consumer. Either way the youth is trained pretty well for electronic warfare. Just mate the drone to a video game controller or a mouse and keyboard and people will be elite immediately just like they are the first day a new video game is released to the world.
Conversely, I find the lack of per-app grouping on Windows (outside of the taskbar) irritating, particularly on multi-monitor setups. I understand that it’s not everybody’s preference but it should at least be an option.
I'm not American, but ~1850 is quite a long way back to go to make this point (especially when the US was quite a young country at the time). And it's small if you've comparing to the atrocities of other countries being discussed here (not that that excuses it!). Do any country histories remain pure with such a long timeline?

US is one of the very few countries that has been tested in a position of power over the world — speaking post-1945— and they've largely opened world trade and allowed most countries of the world to prosper, including allowing economic competitors to overtake their own (eg, Japanese car manufacturers, among many others). They have also not shown interest in taking territory, nor doing mass extermination. There are undeniable flaws and warts in the history, but they're quite marginal when compared to any other world power we've seen.

(*beware when replying to this that many people in the US only know their own country's flaws, not the abundant flaws of other countries — the US tends to be more reflective of its own issues and that creates the perspective of it being much worse than it actually is.).
Locked bootloader. Locked into windows until they no longer support the device and then it's garbage.
But all of them are based on courses that define nth derivative, and the notion of continuous vs non continuous functions. What is the value of giving them names instead of just using nth derivative?
To me "let's rewrite X in Y" seems like a wasted effort, but what do I know.
> We can't even come up with a framework to avoid seemingly reasonable goals doing great harm in the process for people.

I mean it's not like we're trying all that much in a practical sense right?

Whatever happened to charter cities?
Working independent because I can’t stop my curiosity.
/shrug It really depends on your usecase; I have laptops running FreeBSD and illumos and I won't say there's no extra friction but it does in fact work for what I run. If you need software that only runs on macOS, you might need a mac. If you need hardware that only has Windows drivers, you might be stuck with Windows. If you require software that works on Linux but not another unix-like, you might have to use Linux. But there's plenty of software and hardware that work fine on more OSs. It just depends on what you need.

Edit: Oh, if you do need Linux, maybe look at Slackware?
>Once you're old you almost certainly won't be using modern software and file formats. Accessing your data will be incredibly inconvenient

This isn't true. Sure, no one uses WMV or ZOO these days, but you can still get tools to read them. But those were also not-so-popular formats/codecs that were replaced quickly by better stuff. MP3 is also old, but still very ubiquitous. Furthermore, the specs and software for modern file formats (like audio/video codecs) are all publicly available. People will still be able to read h.264 videos 50 years from now, don't worry.

It's not going to be like the Domesday Book.
The military doesn't rely heavily on skills developed by hobbyists. In the vast majority of cases, you learn to shoot a rifle or drive a tracked vehicle or weld a nuclear reactor at the military's expense, after enlisting, even though you could have learnt those skills as a hobbyist. This isn't 15th century England where every man was required to keep a longbow and cricket was banned because it distracted from archery.
These rankings are based on page views and are easily manipulated. Imagine how many people click on one of the top 20 distros they aren't familiar with to see what it is, which just cements its spot that high up.
This story is the same nearly all over the world. The earth is getting pretty full.
FPGA is the only thing where I haven't seen any progress in my understanding after trying to get anywhere for hours and hours.
Archive Link: https://archive.is/5nXkR
> Uh what!? About every single Linux distro has .iso files available.

That doesn't really mean much. The point is that there's practically only disadvantages to ISOs and using image files instead would make more sense nowadays.
All good points, and I'm not arguing that we should go full nuclear. But I'm still of the opinion that 100% renewable is an almost impossible target to meet (at least with current technologies) and that if we want to meet climate change targets, nuclear needs to be part of the mix. Not saying it'll be cheap, but the consequences of continuing to burn fossil fuels will be much more expensive.
I dont!

What is the news anyway?

Its just unimportant current events

Manipulated gossip

Banal story telling

Real news is human news.

Like my nephew phoning me to tell me about the birth of his first child.

That is news.
Whats up with Mozilla buying ad firm Anonym? Its all about 'privacy-centric ads'
I never considered this angle. (Yeah, I am a sucker -- I know.) Are you saying that they cherry pick the best samples for the demo? Damn. I _still_ have high hopes for something like Copilot. I work on CRUD apps. There are so many cases where I want Copilot to provide some sample code to do X.
Gentoo Linux will always have a special place in my heart. I learned so much about Linux doing Stage 1 installs back in 2002. I also learned patience with the long compile times and I heated my apartment during the winter. Pentium 4s kicked off a lot of heat. :)

Leaving the should uutils be used over coreutils debate aside, this was a fun read for me and the urge to install Gentoo one one of my many old Thinkpads is flaring up hard.
The aim is to make it totally foldable and flat.

For example: In life rafts they often have inflatable balloons, which have metallic foils inside in this 3D - configuration.