skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLOL:D Yeah, the other thing that really helps get nice tech into the hands of cheapskates like me is the truly relentless march of time:P

If it makes you feel any better, this machine replaced my previous daily driver because I realized that the machine I'd been thinking was "surely just like 5 years old right?" was 11 years old.
It’s amazing how much Wittgenstein anticipated. You can see here how his philosophy anticipated meaning as being fundamentally a probabilistic superposition of the relationships between words,
with no fixed form, predicting today’s model architectures:

> for instance the kinds of number form a family in the same way. Why do we call something a "number"? Well, perhaps because it has a direct relationship with several things that have hitherto been called number; and this can be said to give it an indirect relationship to other things we call the same name. And we extend our concept of number as in spinning a thread we twist fibre on fibre. And the strength of the thread does not reside in the fact that some one fibre runs through its whole length, but in the overlapping of many fibres.
About a quarter through this one:

https://effectivetypescript.com/

Also, for a deeper, theoretical understanding of functional and generic programmers, I highly recommend Programming Languages Part A by Dan Grossman on Coursera. That single class did more to open my mind about what is a “programming language”, than anything in my career.
Many businesses build walls around themselves like this.

Hiding the customer service number. Making an FAQ that is missing the common but time-consuming questions. Chatbots instead of people.

I remember when amazon sent me a package once, said it was delivered, but it was nowhere to be found. There was no way to get help. They did have an FAQ at the time that said to check in the bushes.

What was annoying was the search auto-complete had many variations of "package not found says delivered"

Now, it is a little more filled out but still.
> In general unions are pro health and safety procedures

Management and non union workers at Boeing would make the same claim.

> You're simply having a cheap shot at unions here rather than making any observation of depth.

I could be wrong. The part we do have evidence about is who did the work - it’s the union workers. It seems to me like some think the people doing the problematic work somehow don’t share in accountability at all. I think it is unlikely that only management or executives or the “company” or whoever is solely at fault.
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I'm using a Lenovo ARM (8 core) ChromeBook on the road. Works very well and only cost a fraction of an Apple MacBook Air.
This is exactly what we built WorkOS for.[0]. I’m the founder and we launched on HN a few years ago.[1]

Our auth service is free up to 1,000,000 users. We charge for enterprise features. Send me a note if you’d like to chat![2]

[0] https://workos.com/user-management

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607402

[2] mg@workos.com or https://x.com/grinich
In the article, there are human agents involved at all times; sometimes people create accountability sinks even without humans.

You're a neolithic farmer, and plant your barley, but that year there's a drought; you suffer the consequences, but who (or what) do you hold accountable?
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The "Blogosphere" represented something like Livejournal. You'd write your daily thoughts, not so much imagepost at all, and there would be your friends doing the same thing whom you'd check on. Some countries still have internet ecosystems like this; NAVER is the main one I can think of, in Korea; Livejournal itself was sold to a Russian buyer nearly 20 years ago and lives on in that country mostly intact and widely used.

But longform internet posts are gone nowadays in America, largely - due to English. It's too widely spoken for things to be found easily. Think about finding information about heavy metal concerts in Finland: that's probably doable from Google purely based on the fact you're not imputing English.

Last point:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/990899/livejournal-users...
Excellent article. I would add two things:

Negative DNS responses are possible in two forms:

1. nxdomain and a

2. NODATA response.

They both mean that a DNS record is not found but they have different scope. NODATA response rcode is NoError, not nxdomain yet the answer is still negative, like http 404. To understand the difference, read this short rfc https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2308

Also, I would point to an excellent series around this subject of Linux application obtaining network address from the DNS, covers gnu libc and musl:

https://biriukov.dev/docs/resolver-dual-stack-application/0-...
> I very strongly suspect that my non-verbal (performal) IQ is much higher (around 130) than my verbal IQ (around 100).

I very strongly suspect that you're overestimating yourself.
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I've been using a third-hand T480 for many (5? 7? Can't even remember anymore) years now, and it's probably the best Linux experience anyone can hope for. Performance vs. efficiency is crazy - easily hitting 20 hours, screen-on battery life after all this time and many full discharges.
> However, it also seems plausible that you could build an abstract representation of the world through studying a vast amount of human language and that'll be a good approximation of the real-world too and furthermore it seems possible that reasoning about that abstract representation can take place in the depths of the layers of a large transformer.

While I agree this is possible, I don't see why you'd think it's likely. I would instead say that I think it's unlikely.

Human communication relies on many assumptions of a shared model of the world that are rarely if ever discussed explicitly, and without which certain concepts or at least phrases become ambiguous or hard to understand.
It seems to me that we’ve always had many people both on the spectrum and with ADHD, but our modern society has such stiff norms that the people who are the most involved with society sees these otherwise often fairly benign variations as diseases to be medicated away.

Schools herd children through something so rigid that a lot of people are told they’re problematic, lazy, stupid, or insufficient in one of millions of ways. And then that continues into adulthood with work and, in a context familiar to many around this site, frameworks for how work should be done. People talk about estimates, and working in bursts or worrying about something your professionalism tells you is important but your boss tells you to ignore become a problem to fix. Finding a level in the hierarchy and a pace that works well for you and being content there is lacking ambition and being lazy.

I guess when a society is sick, its members are diagnosed.
> The HoloLens was discontinued because there was no team left.

Chicken or the egg?

I don't believe that they couldn't find more people to work for it. Pay double, no one would leave. If they let a whole project die, they just weren't interested enough.
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Is it actually performant? I've got a https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Lenovo_IdeaPad_Flex_3_Chr... that I like - also for on-the-road use, actually - but it's not exactly a powerhouse.
No, but it does betray your lack of formal exposure to the topic.
I feel like to really get to the level of hypothetically useful it should be able to take the samples from an input source.

I wonder if you could do it on the full 28*28 by never holding the full image in memory at once, just as an input stream.
say a 1d convolution on each line as it comes in to turn a [1,28] to [3,7]
buffer two lines of the [3,7] = 42. Then after there are three results of the third line convolution are produced [3,3]=9, start performing a 2d convolution using the first two lines [2,3,:3] replacing the data at the start (as it has already been processed).
>They said Japan would collapse with their spending

Who exactly is "They"? What did they mean when they said it would "collapse"?

>Not only has that claim been proven false it has been the opposite.

The general claim is that Japanese economy has stagnated with low growth for decades and I don't think that has been proven false. For example, in the last year or two, the Japanese stock market has finally reached the values it had in the late 1980s. I am sure some Japanese economic indicators have done ok, but for example, one indicator of how well people are generally doing is to compare the GDP per capita over a period of time. In Japan, the GDP Per Capita in 1960 was about $500. In 1990 the GDP Per Capita was about $25,800 and in 2023 it was about $33,900. (In comparison, the USA GDP Per Capita in 1990 was about $23,900 and in 2023, it was about $81,700.)

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni...

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/jpn/jap...
That wasn't a thought I had articulated before I read your comment, so your comment was also very productive for me.
we can argue semantics all day but when I see 'accountability' to me it means 'this person's ass is on the line'

shared accountability is spreading that risk around to a group (but I don't think it necessarily eliminates that accountability – you can fire an entire department if you need to)

author's point, which I think is interesting, is that there's bermuda triangles where accountability cannot occur and that these can manifest naturally, outside of any traditional RACI
Similar, I assembled a system with a board/CPU purchased from Sun Microelectronics and we ran part of a small ISP on it for years on Solaris. We also put together a couple of DEC Alpha 21164's on the AlphaPC 164LX boards running Debian Linux. Those were fun times you could find some neat non-x86 stuff if you looked back in those days.
> If there's one thing surgeons like, it is advice from other surgeons

I’m guessing that /s applies here; but since I’m married to a surgeon and through her, understand that the truth around that, and around advice-taking and -giving behaviour in and out of the OR is far more nuanced than you might imagine.
"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore all Management Decisions shall be made by a computer." - Management, 2 seconds later.
Industry will do absolutely anything, except making lightweight sites.

We had instant internet in the late 90s, if you were lucky enough to have a fast connection. The pages were small and there were barely any javascript. You can still find such fast loading lightweight pages today and the experience is almost surreal.

It feels like the page has completely loaded before you even released the mousebutton.

If only the user experience were better it might have been tolerable but we didn't get that either.
Dating back to ancient times - specifically Aristotle. Aristotle also believed that women are deformed men. That some people deserve to be enslaved. That deaf people are incapable of reason.

So, just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s true. Just like “kids these days” or “seems like nobody wants to work anymore” some bad ideas are evergreen.
While getting confirmation of this relationship (or lack of it) is exciting, none of this is surprising: language is a tool we "developed" further through our cognitive processes, but ultimately other primates use language as well.

The one thing I wonder is if it's mostly "code duplication": iow, would we be able to develop language by using a different region of the brain, or do we actually do cognitive processes in the language part too?

In other words, is this simply deciding to send language processing to the GPU even if we could do it with the CPU (to illustrate my point)?

How would one even devise an experiment to prove or disprove this?

To me it seems obvious that our language generation and processing regions really involve cognition as well, as languages are very much rule based (even of they came up in reverse: first language then rules): could we get both regions to light up in brain imaging when we get to tricky words that we aren't sure how to spell or adapt to context like declensions of foreign words

> But you can build these models that are trained on only particular kinds of linguistic input or are trained on speech inputs as opposed to textual inputs.

As someone from this side of the "fence" (mathematics and CS, though currently obly a practicing software engineer), I don't think LLMs provide this opportunity that is in any way comparable to human minds.

Comparing performance of small kids developing their language skills (I've only had two, but one is enough to prove by contradiction) to LLMs (in particular for Serbian), LLMs like ChatGPT had a much broader vocabulary, but kids were much better at figuring out complex language rules with very limited number of inputs (noticed by them making mistakes on exceptions by following a "rule" at 2 years of age or younger).

The amount of training input GenAI needs is multiple orders of magnitude larger compared to young kids.

Though it's not a fair comparison: kids learn language by listening, immitation, watching, smelling, hearing and in context (you'll talk about bread at breakfast).

So let's be careful in considering LLMs a model of a human language process.
I'd argue the problem is that nobody enforced a strong peripheral API.

We could have had a system like Commodore's intelligent peripherals-- a defined set of commands issued on predictable ports-- and it shouldn't technically matter how the device chooses to implement it. This lets the vendor do whatever custom special sauce they want, but it also means that any operating system that speaks the standard API will be able to support it.

It could even have been moved one layer up-- letting them have some shim code running on the local machine, as long as it honoured a standard API at a sub-OS level. BIOS interrupts were a good example of this: everything from MFM hard discs to modern flash drives can all be supported with option ROMs providing interoperable INT 13h support.

It fell apart first when software chose to bypass the BIOS and twiddle the hardware directly, and second when BIOSes became vestigial, not really reimagined for 32 bit/multitasking use cases.
Why Mind Wandering Can Be So Miserable (2017)
So couldn't you design a GPU that uses or supports this algorithm to use the same power, but use bigger models, better models, or do more work?
And it can't move at the speed of light. It can approach the speed of light which isn't the same thing as moving at it.
In past Google notoriously 10x prices once it’s no longer the main pet project and they can’t just lose cash on it
2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866877
Where are you finding them for that cheap? OP is talking about 20GBP for a run of fiber. If I look at, for instance, Ubiquiti their direct attach cables start at $13 for 0.5 meter cables.
Norms change as they are imposed on a culture by outside authorities. Peer "persuasion" is more like eventually-accepted commiseration.
> Recent news stories are claiming that the shroud cloth may date back to the 1st century.

Those recent news stories are based on a bogus study in a no-name journal written by people who invented the method they are applying to the "shroud". It is equivalent to citing a blogpost. The real science was done in the 80s, using a well-established method that is still the gold standard for dating organic material today, C14 dating, and showed what the historical record also shows: the cloth is coming from sometime in the 14th century.

So the evidence for a forgery is: extremely well-established science says it was made around the 14th century. The earliest sources we have on it, also from the 14th century, are a Bishop calling it an obvious fake, to which a Pope acquiesces. It only starts being considered a real relic almost two centuries later, after an up-and-coming noble family makes it their claim to fame and a political object.

So not only is the evidence of it being a fake pretty obvious, there is also no evidence whatsoever that would suggest it's not a fake. So it is quite annoying when people keep insisting otherwise.

And no, the fact that we're not sure what precise technique was used to create the image 650 years ago is not evidence of anything. I've already written multiple comments in this thread on this particular point, I won't repeat them again.
> When people are focused on their 'perfect wedding'

Perfect wedding? Who said anything about that?

> Marriages need to built on decent foundations

Well, yes. Did someone argue against that?

> not just feelings

"Feelings"? Which parent commenter said anything about that?

> So, I can agree with you that a feelings-focused marriage in an impulse-driven society is unrealistic.

Who are you talking to?

You have no idea who I am. How seriously I take commitments. How constructive I have remained in trying times. The end of my previous relationships involved serious circumstances, real people experiencing trauma and tragedy, and a great deal of lasting pain and loss.

Another person's misfortunes, which you have no knowledge of, are not a blank canvas you should be painting your careless assumptions and selective "values" on.
Don't you think that using a time format strongly tied to a religious calendar and a operating system with a distinct philosophy is a bit problematic?

GPS time is a bit heliocentric and imperialistic but certainly more free than UNIX time.
Ideally make it a group session. If there’s one thing surgeons like even more, it’s advice from a bunch of other surgeons dialed in from lunch, all giving advice at once.
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Could you even measure or experience variable speed causality? Or, it doesn’t matter what made up constant you assign the speed of causality. You’re just bits on a page and you only perceive anything as the clock cycles.
I used to play netquake(not quakeworld) at up to 800 ms lag, past that was too much for even young stupid me.

For them that don't know the difference. netquake was the original strict client server version of quake, you hit the forward key it sends that to the server and the server then sends back where you moved. quakeworld was the client side prediction enhancement that came later, you hit forward, the client moves you forwards and sends it to the server at the same time. and if there are differences it gets reconciled later.

For the most part client side prediction feels better to play. however when there are network problems, large amounts of lag, a lot of artifacts start to show up, rubberbanding, jumping around, hits that don't. Pure client server feels worse, every thing gets sluggish, and mushy but movement is a little more predictable and logical and can sort of be anticipated.

I have not played quake in 20 years but one thing I remember is at past 800ms of lag the lava felt magnetic, it would just suck you in, every time.
I’d just like to note that i disagree with your summarization. They defend their perspective quite well imo
also was at a wedding there and people daring others to smell the oil jar. apparently the smell is absolutely rancid
Because it offers experiences you can't get otherwise e.g.

https://www.lapz.io
Yeah, commit message formatting as a proxy metric for how closely aligned your engineers are. Another one might be “do they all dress kind of the same?”

Lots of successful teams literally dress identically (Real Madrid, Biles et al., Seal Team Six, Destiny’s Child) or at the very least have an underlying culture that joins them. An actual culture, not just a list of corporate touchstones, that you can visibly see either with a dress code or behavior.
From the article:

> Rocha explained that KOBO’s bone marrow is actually “full of oil,” even though the whale has been dead for more than two decades.

> “It’s seeping out through the pores of the bones,” Rocha said. “The outer edges of the bone are a little more porous than human bones and [gravity is] just pulling the oil out.”
Who's going to do all this highly-detailed work and who's going to pay for it? I can imagine low-quality feints in this direction, but not the revolution you're describing.
Agreed. Maybe better: ‘Poor Perception of Friendship Inhibits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change’.
you can't have accountability in a world where you can be a good family member and work for a company that manufactures bombs that kill families. This doesnt compute in humans. They cant deal with that. If you cant handle accountability for that ... who cares about you getting into your hotel room a little later or missing a flight or not getting health insurance ... no biggie.

what you can have is a discussion about this or a blog post that is read by people and maybe some new subscribers, so no worries - all is not lost. :)
Let me scan a plant before I sign up. This kind of specialty app requires proof before anything else or users skip it. I am.
I think "accountability" here was the wrong word to begin with. I believe they are more talking about "ability for feedback" or even better "just in time corrections". Feedback exists, but from my experience nobody reads those form submissions - maybe an AI these days that will create a summary... The latter is purposefully removed from all processes :(
Size, battery and price are huge problems. No one wants to be seen in public with that thing, only use it for 2 hours and pay 3 months worth of salary for it.

Show me something on my eye glasses, let me charge them overnight, charge me $700 and you bet I'll be using them daily.

Just look at the unlikely success of the Apple Watch. Nobody really needs it but it's practical, it replaces a piece of wear that people already used, and it does not cost a fortune.

Tech just is not there yet for glasses.
I also joined HN in 2009 and I agree with you. HN isn't perfect but it's about as respectful and intelligent of an organic community as it gets on the public web. When I do analytics on my blog, an upvote on HN is worth 10 on Reddit. Manipulative paywalled media pieces usually stay off the front page. I love how when I read news about a famous CEO like Matt Mullenweg, I can see him commenting here like the rest of us. I also think we're very fortunate to have dang running things.
>The pirates lost

I believe this is not mainly due to big companies and/or governments cracking down on piracy, but a massive loss in knowledge and shift in perspective about piracy, especially in younger generations.

It's true that piracy numbers have been declining, but this largely comes as a result of "piracy is dangerous, don't do it! you'll get viruses!!1!"
First it depends what kind of i7 it is, I have a laptop from 2017 with a budget i7 cpu and it's slow as hell even on basic coding tasks. There's so much variance in i7 cpus that you can't guess from that alone.

And then Moore Law might be close to dead but the performance increase of newer cpus isn't, the new Ryzen are pure magic and a big leap forward.
Mind Wandering: More than a Bad Habit (2018) [pdf]
I am currently de-javascripting a React app of some project I am working on.

It's a blast. It's faster and way more resilient. No more state desync between frontend and backend.

I admit there is a minimum of javascript (currently a few hundred lines) for convenience.

I'll add a bit more to add the illusion this is still a SPA.

I'll kill about 40k lines of React that way and about 20k lines of Kotlin.

I'll have to rewrite about 30k lines of backend code though.

Still, I love it.
But then it gets weird and the time axis changes scale relative to other elements in space.
> precisely none of it went to aesthetics

Prada? I know they're being pitched as a manufacturing partner but I think it’s similar to others who make spacesuits choosing a design team.