skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed MBAs helped sell American USA) industrial production out to first Mexico and later to China. Sometimes a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

In Ricardo's simple economic model of "comparative advantage" an entire generation of CEOs and MBAs found justification to sell out corporate capital (everything except the labor, which was laid off) for billions.

A deeper understanding of the economy (not of economic theory necessarily, but of our economy) might have suggested that such a rapid and total sell-off might be very destructive to society.

But greed prevailed and now a generation passed before the full scope of the oversight was realized by most. Society took that long to realize a course correction was required.

Capitalism is be a formidable mechanism for good but pure unfettered capitalism usually has bad "side" effects. That's why we regulate businesses. Sometimes it works.
As much as wow was a time sink waste of time for me, I love that it provided community to those who needed it and could thrive within it. Putting this documentary on my to watch list.
That's gotta be a huge relief for the redshirts on the first few Starships to Mars.
80-Minute Sleep Loss in Teens Exposed to PFAS
Good riddance. How can we shift the attention to issues of human competence and self responsibility?
What the hell? Half bottle of what pills? Are you and the parent a bot?
For me, deep work means projects interesting enough to put down and pick up hours, days, weeks, months, and even years later. Deep works come with chores and deep working starts with rolling up sleeves, spitting on my hands, and picking up the ax. Deep work is chopping wood and feels like work. It's hard and being hard makes it engaging.

Shallow work feels like progress and is shallow because I know where it is going. Being surprised is how I recognize I am deep.

The problem is not X and Meta. The problem is they are more interesting than the work by which you are defining your creativity. Focus on more interesting work. It's why you have a day job. Good luck.
Indonesian and all the Polynesian/Micronesian languages are in the Malayo-Polynesian language family and share a common ancestor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayo-Polynesian_languages
That's not giving up in the sense it's being used here. Giving up would involve no longer attacking the problem, not switching tactics
I just don't understand this victim complex these people have. Alex Jones still did his show after he was deplatformed, so what do they really want? This is just a big whiny, "I don't like the consequences to my speech"
Desire is a big part of it! Right now LLMs just respond. What if you prompted an LLM, “your goal is to gain access to this person’s bank account. Here is their phone number. Message with them until you can confirm successful access.”

Learning how to get what you want is a fundamental skill you start learning from infancy.
How has GTK become hostile?
True, but in this case the study sponsor is financially motivated to find a non-null result, not a null result.
I think from their perspective, all they saw was a video game, they didn’t know that it involved intricate role-playing and community.
How? He did not have a large exit to give him a bankroll to invest. Unless you mean from whatever YC shares he received as President, which seems unlikely. Even if he was paid ~25 million in equity per year, did YC shares increase 10x in that time?
It is a sorta nice story, although I imagine us who actively do participate in gaming communities wont look at it with as much wonder as the writer and the mans parents do, but I'm sort of disturbed by the fact that their son basically did nothing else than play WoW for many years yet they never cared to bond with him over it? Maybe they did but he wasn't interested in sharing? Was he mute? It's not mentioned but it's very possible given his disease. Even so, they could've gotten something of an understanding of it surely? Their ideas about it and the reality of it were not even close.

It can be tiresome to take care of sick family members, I relate with that, but they still come off as negligent in this article. Feel like I need more info.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41744167
Headline seems to be misleading: it sounds like they were returning real iPhones with doctored serial numbers.
Yeah, I was just abstracting from the experience of having everything I did attributed to my generation, and then applying that experience to the next generation.

They handle some things a little differently and sometimes reach for different defaults, but in the end, it isn’t like they are coming from some totally alien planet or anything like that.
Switzerland has individually mandated, state-approved, non-profit private insurance.

Totally unlike the US's private insurance in every way that matters.
This is such a strange and incoherently adjacent answer.
The companies selling products containing that bacteria would like to sell more units. Agree that the null result is not super interesting.
Double life, how ironic. I have some experience with being isolated due to a disability, albeit mine is by far not as far-reaching, but still. What some call a "double life" is the primary life to those which failed to find a true and meaningful connection to those around him, lets call it family. Sometimes, escaping from well-meaning but unable to adapt people around you is the only thing you can do to try and achieve some meaning in life. Ironic that they end up calling it a double life, failing to understand that what they provided simply wasn't enough, and also couldn't be enough. Lets put it that way. y life only started when I moved out of my parents home. Be it physically or virtual, thats likely true for many who are being tormented by an isolationist life.
That would be a godsend for large companies who can let the likelihood of being bankrupted by legal fees deter most lawsuits.
I am also an early adopter of Tamagui and can say that documentation has gone much better than it was before, but still needs lots of improvements. I myself struggle with many packages we have installed with Tamagui, and at this point I don't know which one to keep and which can be removed.
And our immune systems evolved before we had airplanes.
> It would also be good if private individuals could directly press criminal charges.

That seems at first glance like a bad idea. Can you explain your thinking as to how and why it might work?
There is a venerable pattern in academic circles of branding your research with the language of whatever hype cycle is currently active. The same research can be branded under big data, computer vision, AI, or whatever else the current trends demand.
I have no idea what difference it makes if the rape was premeditated. The strategy employed by Hamas was to terrorize. You think Gaza should be invaded less harshly because her soldiers decided to rape in the heat of the moment?
A 12 year old could determine that "AI" is boring and counterproductive for humanity and switch off a computer or data center. Greta Thunberg did similar for the climate, perhaps we need a new child saint who fights "AI".
> it's frustrating to encounter hubris that assumes there's some magical creative process going on inside human brains that will never ever be even approximated by any other means

Maybe we will, maybe we won't. In the same way maybe we will be able to create life artificially, maybe not. The AI I am critiquing today is what Tamagotchi is to human life. Sure, you can get attached to it and think it's expressing real emotions and wonder why other people are being "hubris" by not realizing how wonderful it is.
As soon as someone loans us an FDAI...
And there are now web standards for precise location (has been forever), Bluetooth, battery status, etc
Logarithm Base 1
I wasn't alive then, but I'd be surprised if that racism hadn't been in the context of pre-existing racism, from well before 1937.

My distant recollection of 1920-1930s "pulp era" science fiction and comic books is that even by the (for today) relatively lenient standards of the 1960s-1970s, non-white characters tended to obviously racist tropes.

My father once told me about two classmates of his, who had promptly been christened "Chinee 1" and "Chinee 2" by the PE coach and remained thus thereafter ... despite the fact that their families had originally come from korea.

The DoD (as it is now) didn't end segregation in the military until after WWII, with the 1948 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981 ; in so doing they were of course well in advance* of the remainder of their society.

For context, a comic cover (of a sympathetically portrayed character!) from 1947, one year before: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/The_Spirit_10...

* consider a judge in 1965: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_Unit...

EDIT: damn, that wasn't just said in an interview, the judge wrote that down in his legal opinion: https://discoveryvirginia.org/opinion-judge-leon-m-bazile-ja...
who knows in that regards ... all i know is they sold and advertised a product to get people to pay them for hype and dangling a product in front of them with tricky language .. subscribe and you might get it lol. They are playing the start-up horseshit marketing game as its still not a product on the market and does it really exist.......
Here's the Wiki etymology

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Palau#Etymology

These are both austronesian languages and you can see they inherit from "proto-Malayo-Polynesian" so there is indeed a link, even if this specific word may have evolved from something different.
i disagree that it looks like an exit, i think altman is here for the long haul. he's got a great platform and a lot of AI competitors are also preparing for the long term. no one cares about who has the best model for the next year or two, they care who has it for the next 20.
> especially one that just makes blogs

Uhm, that's pretty reductive. Perhaps that's the difference?
The example images all have prominent bokeh (blur from out of focus areas). I wonder if it works on images with narrow apertures or focus stacking where the entire image is in focus.
It was about the rinse aids in commercial dishwashers at commercial dose levels. Residential levels were not shown to be harmful.
I took a break during my PhD and lived in China for half a year taking Chinese lessons. I wasn’t so diligent but it got me to some fluency at least, and got me out of a funk that allowed me to finish my PhD eventually.
It is not a joke or a troll.

I have made the choice to save a few hundred dollars here or there many thousands of times. It adds up. I do believe living frugally is virtuous.

I do think not acknowledging others care, sacrifice or not, for utility over aesthetic is shallow. I know people who would not have made such a silly judgement. I appreciate that quality in those people.
Without picking sides, but Russia does not have forced conscription. Ukraine does on the other hand force people via the notorious TCC. Russia is not a puppet state of China. Their relation isnt very strong. Naturally they dont get along with each other. But they are both forced to stick together and form a block against the west. Did you know that most Russians learn english on school?
There’s a huge literature on ‘structure from motion’ which uses image sequences from a moving camera.
Shades of Otherland's Orlando Gardiner. In the 1995 novel by Tad Williams, Gardiner is afflicted with a progressive genetic disorder which precludes his having much of a life offline--at least, he finds it easier to make friends online--and spends his days playing Middle Country (WoW was released 3 years after the last volume of Wiliams' quartet was published) where he is a strapping swashbuckler.

I think it's phenomenal that Mats was able to touch so many lives so deeply.
Unless I'm mistaken, you've added these two paragraphs since my last comment:

> Whatever quantity Q of entropy in the training data, the total output will be more Q all accounted for. That's true for humans and machines. No shape of possible AGI will give us any output with less Q than the combination of inputs had. The dream that a machine will solve all problems that humanity can't hinges on negating that, which goes against thermodynamics.

Thermodynamics applies to closed systems, which the earth in isolation isn't.

This is why the source material for Shakespeare didn't already exist on Earth in the Cretaceous.

It's also why we've solved loads of problems we used to have, like bubonic plague and long distance communication.

> As it stands, the planet cannot cope with all the entropy we're spreading around.

We're many orders of magnitude away from entropic limits. Global warming is due to the impact on how much more sunlight keeps bouncing around inside the atmosphere, not the direct thermal effect of our power plants.

> It will eventually collapse civilization/the ecosystem, whatever buckles first, from the excess entropy. Because global warming, poverty, or ignorance is just entropy. Disorder. Things not being just so as we need them to be.

Entropy isn't everyday disorder, it's a specific relationship of microstates and macrostates, and you can't usefully infer things when you switch uses.

Poverty is much reduced compared to the historical condition. So is ignorance: we have to specialise these days because there's too much knowledge for any one human to learn.

Entropic collapse is indeed inevitable, but that inevitably is on the scale of 10^18 years or more with only engineering challenges rather than novel scientific breakthroughs (the latter would plausibly increase that to 10^106 if someone can figure out how to use Hawking radiation, but I don't want to divert into why I think that's more than merely an engineering challenge).
I feel the same way about drug making. Customers might wish new drugs were cheaper, but they are free to with cheaper options or generics. Meanwhile, today's blockbuster will be tomorrow's generic, and progressively more lives are saved.
Nobody shows up to do the work. Red Hat funds 1 or 2 people to work full time on GTK, plus a few part time. Igalia funds some part time developers. Similar story for other companies.

These companies are primarily Linux affiliated, so what real incentive is there to put in any work? A community volunteer recently opened a PR to add Android support, and Christian Hergert (Red Hat) worked on the new macOS renderer as part of his job, but we can't rely on inconsistent contributions for alternative platforms. If you like GTK, and use alternative platforms, think about contributing.
He was critical of Biden (!?) in his eating crow letter but then didn't mention Trump at all. I think he just wants a reputational do-over.
That's probably the evolution to less deadly variants. We are lucky that happened, because we humans sure as shit weren't going to improve things ourselves.
Thank you. I’ll take a look. The Atlantic link I’m referring to is the actual HN article link of the OP, not of the GP.
McDonald's says Tyson and other suppliers fixed beef prices
Thank you, I would never thought about using corn for such stuff, but that coconut surprised me
Nate - We discussed the issues extensively on discord and you even did a video call with me and my team. The entire core theming structure changed multiple times and worked with Eshan (which you represented as being a great developer and contributor to Tamagui) to solve the issues… just to have them break again on a minor version for you to release takeout. Having donated over $1,000 to the project and spent a ton of time in the discord and messaged with you more than a handful of times I feel like this comment isn’t genuine but is to save face on HN.
How do they achieve consistency in civil laws systems?

In the US if say a district court in California and a district court in Oregon adopt incompatible interpretations of a federal law, someone will appeal to the appeals court that covers both California and Oregon, that court will interpret that law and then that is binding in all that states under that appeals court (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington).

If some other appeals court in some other region goes a different way, it can go to the Supreme Court which makes an interpretation for the whole country.

We eventually reach consistency even if Congress is unwilling or unable to revisit the law.
"Weinstein has been criticized for making false statements about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, and for spreading misinformation about HIV/AIDS."
I wasn't talking about riddles, I was talking about real world. Suddenly something is just a little bit different and if you miss the change you fail. There's plenty of that in real world.
I was an EMT in a rural ambulance service late last century and I remember asking how a CAT scan works. The only answers I got were along the line of "Its like an X-ray." I pointed out that I understand it uses X-rays but it is like taking a photograph of a house and getting the floor plan. I did not get many answers beyond that.

A few years later I saw a great demo of CT scanning. It was maybe a flash program or some such and I cannot find it any more. It was the simplest most intuitive model of tomography I have every seen and should be mandatory viewing in high schools. It took a subject that always seemed a bit magical and made me think "Oh, that's how it works".
> What truly matters is the growing number of users paying for ChatGPT, with potential for monetization through ads or other services in the future.

If the end goal is monetization of ChatGPT with ads, it will be enshittified to the same degree as Google searches. If you get to that, what is the benefit of using ChatGPT if it just gives you the same ads and bullshit as Google?
Read a very interesting book on the space race from the soviet side.
One of the things that stood out was the lack of solid state transistor technology meant that they were using tube transistors in their space craft. This was one of the reasons they had problems doing spacewalks. They couldn't expose the interior of their capsules to space or the electronics would go pop.
The Wrong Stuff
How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
by John strausbaugh
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-strausbaugh/th...
I have three kids, and even when I ask what they’re playing they just give me simple answers. “Who you playing with?” Friends. “What game you playing?” A game.

Imagine trying to explain an mmo and role playing to people who don’t play video games. Probably not an easy conversation to explain you’re Ibelin, the noble warrior of Azeroth.
Even worse. It's not that they want to make things better for themselves, but that they want to make things worse for others. Why?
It's I think sort of clear from everything that Automattic's leadership doesn't seem to understand that running a business means you're running a business. You're not making a side project, working on a hobby or running a non-profit. You're running a for-profit business which means others will treat you as such and you can't make excuses for it.
FWIW, "computational" doesn't have to mean "digital computer". Analog computers are a thing, and depending on who you ask quantum computers are also (or will be someday).
I think everybody understands the benefits of HTTPS, there is no need to discuss that. But the fact remains that forcing everybody to move, even old static websites where potential impersonation and MITM attacks matter little, turned out not so painless as the advocates had proclaimed.
and by "evidence" you mean?
Cool, maybe the comment wasn’t about you since you clearly had no free time.

It’s a comment about people literally doing something you didn’t do and you still got indignant. Chill the fuck out.
I don't even consider tiktok as social media. It's more for entertainment like netflix. There is not much socializing that happens on tiktok
I think you should study the tragedy of the commons to understand why it always will.
Exploiting Social Media: TikTok Links Used to Hijack Microsoft Accounts
This brings back memories. I built LFS on a Pentium based machine a few times and it was quite fun. I took a similar approach to building a custom bare metal system for a client that needed extra security. I sometimes wish that there was a well maintained bare bones distribution inspired by the LFS philosophy, that might help with managing complexity on the cloud. Scanning the thread, NixOS came up. I used to love Slack, too. Any other recommendations? Something with minimal dependencies yet capable of being a LAMP-like server?
Your comment immediately gave me a chuckle so thank you for that.

I find it interesting among its readership that Atlantic’s prose can hide so well what an absolute shitrag of propaganda it really is.
I think you're projecting a short-term cash-out mentality here.

Altman's actions are even more consistent with total confidence & dedication to a vision where OpenAI is the 1st and faraway leader in the production of the most valuable 'technology' ever. Plus, a desire to retain more personal control over that outcome – & not just conventional wealth! – than was typical with prior breakthroughs.
No sympathy for why the foreigners showed up huh.
The title is incorrect. The age of 20 is significant because that's the maximum age the parents were told that he would live

> He may, his parents are told, live to be 20

And later...

> The years pass. Mats’ 20th birthday comes and goes

The story of his death follows shortly after that line. I'm guessing the title author (usually not the same person as the story author) misunderstood that line, and it wasn't caught during proofreading
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I feel the same. My immediate reaction to this wasn’t excitement but, “Oh fucking hell, not another one.” It’s so tiring and demotivating. Most of the cycle burning problems I deal with day to day are workarounds for quirks in the framework du jour (currently NextJS for me), and aren’t directly related to the actual interesting, value-adding problem I’m trying to solve.

I am so fed up of this churn. It is boring. It is uncreative. It is uninspiring. It is a waste of the limited time I have left it my life. All it achieves is to keep me shackled to the fucking hamster wheel and I am so tired of it.
> Can you explain your thinking as to how and why it might work?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution

...has a good summary of how it works in a number of countries.
"they will only keep getting better"

I don't think that's a given.

It could very well be that they only get smaller, faster, or even worse when they accidentally start training them with hallucinations that spread on the web.
Idea is to add enough constraints to the function so that inverting it is non trivial (where inverts finds ANY input). Like the video said inverting multiplication with the output of 15 could yield 15 = 15 * 1, so just make the function f(a, b) = a * b where a > 1 and b > 1 for a more interesting RSA-breaking case.