skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. All of magic is like that and has never really been mysterious... the people actually practicing it have mostly always understood that it was psychological hacks: that people are mostly holding themselves back from what they want, one just needs to align their unconscious desires with their will, and it will happen.

(in)famous occultist Aleister Crowley was asked if magic is "real" e.g. can you actually do physical things like light a fire with your mind. His answer was basically that he didn't care or it doesn't matter- because the magic that aligns your unconscious with your conscious will is more powerful than people even imagine that type of magic would be.

"Magic" in its various forms is alive and well, and is actually widely used (although often on the down low) by creative types to create things that far exceed what confused/ignorant lay people historically imagined magic to be capable of.
I keep a root folder (VS Code workspace) and within it several folders, nested or not, with Markdown files. Anything that is not Markdown goes into “_assets” directories.

I’ve got certain scripts that iterate these folders and merge the notes into a single huge document that is automatically sent to Pandoc (to make EPUBs and PDFs) and to Calibre (to make Kindle-compatible ebooks). In some cases, separate documents are generated for specific folders.

These scripts also validate the notes with markdown-lint, proofread them with a custom extension, and remove all footnotes from them. By convention, my notes do not have any duplicated content, and all footnotes in them are secondary stuff that can be removed from the ebooks to maximize readability.

To use within VS Code itself, I’ve created some extensions. They enable things like reformatting text before pasting, clicking a single button to send a note to the printer, and validating that certain concepts and names are written in a consistent manner, to facilitate search.

I used to generate websites from the notes, but decided to stop doing that for the moment. It was like a rudimentary static site generator, lacking in features, so I decided it was best to integrate a proper SSG into my system in the future.

My goal is to automate anything that can be automated in terms of note-taking, so that I focus on actually writing notes and reviewing them periodically.

Hope this helps :)
I know nothing about Olympic weightlifting! What makes snatching so unique and humbling?

Aside: you don’t have to, but a one sentence definition of it would be awesome too - my lifting has been limited to the classic stuff, no fancy Olympic “bend and snap” stuff ;)
Looks like a site you could build in WordPress with some custom plugins like ACF and host on a single VPS for the most part.
I was diagnosed with "glue ear" as a young child, which I don't think any doctor admits to these days! I had two lots of grommet related operations which involved inserting tiny plastic hollow cylinders into my eustachian tubes, to try and widen them. After a couple of years they were removed by a doctor with a sort of hooked probe. So two lots of treatment spanning around six years. That was in the seventies.

I remember being put into a sound proof booth and wearing headphones and being played pure tones from a generator and being told to press a button when I heard the tones. With hindsight, tinnitus would have played merry hell with those tests, especially at the frequencies they seemed to concentrate on. Yes, my memory is fine!

Did the treatment help? Probably not. I recall what the sounds of tinnitus were as a very young child and they are same now.

Since around aged 45 (I'm 53 now) I have experienced brief spinning/dizzy spells. I find them quite easy to counter. I first noticed them whilst wearing skis which was a bit disconcerting.

Having read up on your link to "Meniere's Disease" - that's probably what I ... have, for want of a better word. However, the dizzy spells for me are transitory and not certainly not minutes or hours.

I gave up smoking around six years ago after 30 odd years tabbing. That probably doesn't help either.

My point is that your faculties are very complicated and the science is somewhat lacking. Putting a name to a basket of symptoms may not even be helpful in our case. I am a (was) a really good swimmer but diving below around two metres deep used to really hurt unless I gently worked down and popped my ears.

In the end I think I have mild symptoms compared to many but I don't have many people to compare notes with. What becomes normal over years and decades hides a lot of things.

Based on my personal experience, you will automatically get better at lip reading or deducing what is going on via body language etc. I also have to wear glasses ...

Anyway, I wish you all the best and hope you find a way to live with whatever conditions you have. We have a surprisingly impressive array of sensors and back end processing gear. The eyes are amazing in being able to scan a scene with a tiny aperture and the brain to stitch together a very accurate scenario of what is where and doing what. Touch and all the rest are available, all the time. The next time you catch a ball, pick up a pen, kiss the missus/husband or whatever, remind yourself of how amazing that is, and you are.
‘Slow is smooth, smooth is fast’ is a mantra about how to go fast. I’ve heard it in a number of contexts - racing drivers use it, so do woodworkers, so do musicians. None of the people using it are trying to tell you to not try to get things done fast. Speed is still the goal, it’s just about the approach you take in how you act moment to moment, while trying to get things done fast.
> Plex doesn’t enable you to distribute content beyond your household

I believe that's incorrect. See Plex Pass, and Plex shares are a common form of sharing pirated content.
Good to know my single ipv6 address that my ISP gives my home router can be used to get the whole /48 ratelimited by ~everyone
Maybe, but some counterpoints:

1. They specifically say it's not: "As many of you correctly assessed, we're actually a real company in the Boston area. We're working hard to assure and secure vaccine and other biological manufacturing production."

2. A company focused on paperwork compliance sounds pretty realistic and not the sort of sexy work like you'd expect for fictitious company in a marketing campaign. I think in the game Black Mesa did scary bio research -- very sexy -- not compliance, although tbc I don't know the Half Life universe well.
And slow is smooth... and smooth is fast. Just think how much longer the article would have been if they'd used fewer words.
I think it's not so much "missing" it as it is dismissing it as a red-herring. ARGs often have fake-outs. And the site's code/logo lean hard enough into the fictional Black Mesa lore that people are skeptical of it.
You can post whatever you want to LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/company/aperture-science-enrichment...
So how much of a book of poems can I assemble from other books of poems and spit out as an ebook on amazon before it is not "transformative and fair use"? Few words, sentence, chapter?
My friends at Aperture Science are displeased...
I had issues with gpt4 last summer confusing which characters did what and hallucinating characters.

his may of been a context/chunking issue (if that particular section doesn't name the character performing an action), but maybe its better now.
It's easy enough to imagine, since the Google Book Search project to scan all of the books dates back to 2004.
>They'll appeal to conservative and neoliberal circles.

So, no different than every company on any given day under capitalism?
Addressing your other points:

Especially in the 19th century, many newspapers were explicitly partisan, often organs of various political parties, e.g., the Arizona Republican (GOP) or American Federationist (labour / AFL/CIO).

Emergence of a (nominally) unbiased, nonpartisan press largely followed publication of Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann (1922), and probably came to a fore during WWII, which in many ways was the high-water mark of American journalism as a near-universally-purchased service.

I.F. Stone's 1974? interview on public broadcasting's Day at Night is an excellent insight into the state of US media at that time. It had reached another high-water mark with the Watergate scandal, in which two reporters ultimately brought down the President of the United States. Still, Stone saw many faults in the US media landscape, most of which have grown since then:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qV3gO3zxQ1g>

Edward Jay Epstein's News from Nowhere: Television and the News (1973) also affords strong insights to video news and how it is constituted. Again, technology has progressed but many of the fundamental issues, particularly around audience development and narrative-fitting, remain:

<https://archive.org/details/newsfromnowheret0000epst>
Yes, agreed completely. “All hands on deck” can work really well for time sensitive things like this, but… it has to end relatively quickly, there must be a reprieve afterward (celebrate, take a day off, something), and it can’t happen all the time.

If it happens all the time, nobody will pay any attention to it when it actually matters.
I enjoyed most of it except the moments it turned my GPU into a leaf blower for no reason. I’d look at the floor and my computer began melting and then I’d look ahead into the level and it would settle down.

I swear the game is trying to create an IRL resonance cascade in my house.
Long ago a cousin challenged the uncle for a swim. Both are acceptable athletes. He started faster, was ahead for 50m or so and then came back cooked. The uncle started 30% slower... but he kept at that rhythm forever until we couldn't see him and came back unphased. Very telling lesson.
Faust himself didn't get tricked. He was offered the chance to get out of it until the very last instant. There wasn't any sneaky wording. There wasn't anything to outwit.

At the beginning he somehow convinced himself that his soul didn't really exist, despite the presence of a literal devil in front of him, offering the power to do genuine magic. At the end he somehow just couldn't bring himself to repent.

In between he uses his power for absolutely nothing of interest. The most earth shaking thing he does is that he plays a prank on the Pope.

I'll be honest that I really don't get the point of the story. It's not about the devil being a trickster. If anything it reads kinda like a self critique by Marlowe, but that reading is also kinda shaky. It's more like people just wanted to see an academic get taken down a peg.
Recently I encountered a piece discussing "The Prestige" as a counter to the opinion that science dulls the wonder of the world by removing magic from the equation.

The idea is that the machine in The Prestige is stipulated as being science as a conceit to allow the audience to experience an unexplainable phenomenon as the people of the time of the film would have experienced to technology of today.

The distinction between magic and technology is shown to be that the wonder goes away for magic tricks once you know how the trick is performed. Technology maintains wonder even after you know how it works, because the wonder is the appreciation of how the goal is achieved by known principles.
Yes, the article is pure noise. There's nothing there beyond the title, which seems to be what most of the commenters want to talk about.
When the countdown reaches zero, it displays the message "That's it."
Amen. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Consider that some technical books have a potential target audience of thousand or so people. Then ask how many hours the book needs to save you to be worth $100. Depending on the book that can look very cheap.
>tech companies are more trusted than most political parties

The bar is that low huh?
Agree with all.

Yes and: Most of what we now label "news" is actually infotainment. aka USA Today. Which is distinct from previous incarnations of tabloids, yellow journalism, phamphleteering, etc.

Ad supported media (structurally) cannot sustainably create real news. It just doesn't pencil out.

FWIW I happily pay for quality media creating real news, opinion, and analysis. (starting with Propublica, Five to Four, Volts, Know Your Enemy.) More so over time, as I discover more good stuff.
On the other hand, the about us page lists an apparently real person as the founder, and there are links to a talk by him at a real conference: https://www.youtube.com/live/mRmjKZVkYgw?t=15681s

They've owned the domain since 2022, and changed it to explicitly say that it's not part of an ARG in June 2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20230630002958/https://blackmesa...
Basically slow doesn't mean slow, it means knowing all the necessary details to go from A to B.
The Global Race to Control A.I
I don't buy the NYT, but the Sunday print edition of the local paper is not the same product as the Sunday print edition of the local paper back when people paid for news.

Back when people paid for news, the Sunday edition was three inches thick and weighed around 5 pounds. I know because I used to deliver them on my bike.

Sunday mornings sucked as a paperboy, but you really could spend all morning reading the thing.
Also from LinkedIn it seems very legit? Like this is their CEO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesfracchia/.

Profile has been around for a long time, lots of corroborating info elsewhere on the web (like https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200625005037/en/Dot...).
I invent something practically every day and I record the best ideas for the future. For example, one of my inventions from the 2000s was car displays on discs which I tried to implement and even bought a car for, but nothing came of it due to the toxicity of the people I was working with at the time. The idea was stolen, sold, implemented, and stolen again multiple times while I was trying to find co-founders. The ideas I didn't talk about were never realized, while those I did mention were immediately copied, including an installation at Burning Man. I think I was ahead of my time, before AI became mainstream. I don't use AI much now, but I think soon AI will replace all our old technologies.
Ditto from Phase 1 to Phase 3. Side effects always an issue. One could say only half in jest that humans are not particularly good models for humans. Exceedingly expensive and all kind of environmental and compliance confounders.

At least when using rodent you can control the environmental factors in a randomized controller “clinic” trials. Compliance not so hard to ensure.
I opened this thread to recommend the same book series! They were translated to pt-br and my daughters love them.
Year of the NYT paywall was 2020, my "TK-year" note above not having been caught by me before the edit window closed.
I'd say the computer architecture can vary _greatly_ and there are a bunch of cores in modern SOC's that kind of break the assumption of how a computer works. I recently listened to this:

https://youtu.be/36myc8wQhLo?si=sWdKyW3w2vln93SP

Cache coherence, accelerators, various takes on pipelining, ISA extensions. There are many many things that change all the time.

Not even touching the SW glue stuff that changes. I don't know the history of react and what is going on in modern browsers, but I suspect there are OS constraints, evolving web standards, extra capabilities, evolving browsers that shape and force the framework to adapt. I am doubtful people change it just for the sake of it.
it's the classic vendor lock-in, it's the feudal serfdom model.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/weva2v/did_p...

we can see that as long as there were "expoitable resources" competition led to "good times".

as long as "software lordships" are competing for users, users tend to enjoy "lots of rights".
You're not taking into account that the work was far riskier in the past - a much higher risk of it being wasted. It also required much scarcer knowledge in order to understand the value of bitcoin.

You buy bitcoin at the price you deserve.

Bitcoin is inheritly more equal than fiat because the cost of issuance is the same for everyone i.e. you don't have a select group of people who can legally counterfeit it and accrue enough power to effectively control the world.
Apple's Next Big Thing Is Reportedly an iPad on a Robot Arm
Look up creatine as a candidate treatment for sleep deprivation.
AppArmor tends to break less because it doesn't resolve around esoteric file metadata for labeling, IME. Keep the policy definitions separate.
Alas, you're missing some bits. Sticky bit in particular can be associated to each of those too. There's probably others that I don't remember off the top of my head.

> It's counterintuitive that the owner can have less rights than the others

I completely concur. I've also never seen it used in the wild, but I know about it because I stumbled upon it more than once building scripts and not being careful about what flags are set.
I did not have great luck with 405b on an M1 Max Mac Studio with 64 GB of RAM via olama. I think memory was this issue. 70b runs with acceptable speed
> You wouldn't want to spend a year writing code for your micro-SaaS product and then have a hacker breach your infrastructure, steal your work and sell it on their own website.

> It's really a grand piece of irony for software engineers that depend on enforceable copyright law to put food on their table to call this arrest tyranny. If nobody can go to jail or be fined for copyright infringement then I hate to say it but you are going to need to quit your job writing software and start driving a city bus or something.

For many (if not most?) software businesses nowadays, the code itself holds little intrinsic value. If someone were to steal my SaaS code, it's unlikely they could deploy it and sell a similar product. The value of my business lies in its domain expertise, not in the code being a trade secret. Many internal projects aren't open-source simply because opening them to the public would require significant maintenance. Otherwise, there would be no issue in sharing the code, as much of what's built today is based on open-source projects.

Similarly, if I'm selling an application and its code is leaked, people would still prefer to install it from the app store. Few would go through the trouble of compiling the code and deploying a "hacked" version.

This contrasts with the 80s and 90s, when illegal copies of floppy disks and CDs posed a significant issue for some software businesses. However, times have changed. Nowadays, people prefer to pay for the support of a SaaS or the convenience of installing an app from a store, complete with updates.

There are exceptions, but I believe most software engineers don't work on projects where the code itself has significant value that needs to be protected by copyright laws.

The situation with music is somewhat similar. People have stopped buying physical media because it's no longer practical. Even those who collect CDs, vinyl, or tapes typically use streaming platforms for most of their music consumption.
Now I have seen everything! The people section there is particularly creepy.
Sure, but getting a bunch of apparently real people to edit their LinkedIn profiles to list this as their fake full-time job (in place of whatever real job they presumably have) seems like too much work for a prank
This is a really big problem for me in general, actually. I have ADHD, and so my brain is always telling me to go faster, so that I can get the dopamine hit and move on to other things.

It has to be extremely intentional for me to remind myself that pace matters. I really envy those who can just do that naturally; my wife is one of those people.

Meanwhile, when I forget, I find myself 25 minutes into what was going to be an hour-long strength/lifting workout… in the bathroom at the gym throwing up.

And then I remember to pace myself for like a year or two until I forget again haha
I can’t speak for .gov.uk but in .gov one of the big factors is staffing and support costs. If I need to store some stuff, maybe I am looking at S3 and Minio. If I decide that I want a full open source stack running on my own Linux boxes, that’s a super valid reason but it immediately increases my ops staffing requirements considerably: not just to keep the service running (minio is hardly needy) but now I have to do all of the mandatory security and compliance stuff which AWS handles – failover and backup testing, hardware security (building access, shredding disks, firmware updates, etc.), infrastructure and software security setup and auditing, capacity planning, etc. I have to do some of those things with S3, but it’s multiple orders of magnitude less work and regulated environments often have policy challenges (e.g. slow change management processes, mandatory use of tools not intended for your situation) which AWS’ much larger team doesn’t even have. Again, there are reasons to consider it anyway but if your goal is to show a new capability you probably don’t want to first spend a year or two on infrastructure nobody can even see.

The other thing is the ease of replacement versus the cost of abstraction. ECS is a very lightweight service (as are many things like SQS, RDS, etc.) and if you have to migrate to something else that part of it will be the least of your worries, but unless it’s highly likely that you’re going to switch cloud providers you are likely to have many years of not needing to spend time running an internal cloud. Similarly, unless you anticipate switching on a hard, near deadline it’s likely that the effort of porting later will be less than the time you’ll save in the years before the mandate comes.

That’s a room full of people who can be working on the things your users actually ask for rather than treading water, especially because one big challenge for an internal PaaS is that you have to build a ton of services to even be an option: if a project needs one feature your PaaS doesn’t offer, they’re going into AWS and you get none of their business. I suspect they hit that trap of just not having enough resources to stay competitive with what their users needed.
For most cases, yes. Antibiotics discovery? Sure, mice are awesome.

But mice make really bad models for anything to do with brain, aging, inflammation, and cancer. That's why comments "in mice" are appropriate in these areas.

And it's not at all controversial, here are my citations:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1222878110
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6615039/

Mice studies are not useless, for sure. But they're almost always are not directly translatable to humans.
I took a compilers course in university and the course culminated in having a compiler for C Minus (a subset of C). The professor noted how each year the line count of the compilers was dropping as students found ways libraries or languages that made it easier. I think the evolution was Java -> Antlr -> Python. I used OCaml and emitted LLVM and blew that metric out of the water.
Sign languages is nothing like spoken language and so reading a spoken language is hard.
He says two things. My reply was responsive to:

"I could buy the entire f*cking Sunday paper for $1.75 and spend three hours reading it on Sunday morning, and take a fun article to work on Monday. I miss those days..."
"Truth or Consequences" is a place in New Mexico, so at least on theme.
Protecting the projects at the heart of the Matrix ecosystem
As with all catchphrases, it's a type of truism. Not that that's bad per se, just that it's better to takeaway that by going slow, you'll be better at identifying, planning, and avoiding "blunders".

The tradeoff is: you're going slow. (c.f. Uvalde)

There's a kind of corollary on how to get fast from music: you practice as slow as you can perfectly play the etude, then go one step faster until that is perfectly played.
This is just about having a strategy.
Should be fixed now; could you try again please?
I agree. I'd go further and say that the modern attitude is to discard everything "old", regardless of whether it is understood or not.