skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A non-trivial amount of Bluesky posts are people dunking on screen caps from X. For me these seem to be default follows/feed items since I've tried (unsuccessfully) to only follow interesting tech accounts and avoid "Did you see the dumb political thing person A said, here is my clever comeback".

It does not yet feel like it stands on its own yet until it moves past that.

On a related note if anyone else could recommend tech follow and/or political block lists, I'd love to see it. I've tried several so far.
In this regard, I see a lot of projects aiming to "optimize user experience" that are actually optimizing for imaginary users at the expense of real ones.

GNOME is a great example of this -- they're constantly removing functionality over the objections of their actual userbase in order to implement features that fit the speculative needs they project onto people who don't -- and likely never will -- use the software.
You actually might be interested in:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
>Would you accept a datacenter to use your potable water and then release it for you to take a shower? Would you drink any kind of water

If it were deemed safe by experts in the field certainly. If if were deemed unsafe, certainly not.

That's all I'm asking for here, is for decisions and arguments based upon the actual impact, not by assumption that water or electricity supply is uniform and by implication, bad.
Because the most important part of therapy for a lot of things is the human connection, not so much the knowledge. Therapy is important, the US system is just stupid
I dont know, I came away basically agreeing with Ivan's ideology. Was a pretty depressing experience personally just to further confirm my ideas of society fracturing without religion without really offering a realistic replacement.
If that were actually the choice on offer, in such simple and clear terms, that would be one thing.

But it isn't. There's a reason that every company wants that top 0.001%. Employees who give a damn and can be trusted to get things done effectively without supervision or managerial pressure are rare. Even at the best organizations, they're often a minority. At weaker organizations, and (typically) at older and larger ones, they're somewhere between "very rare" and "totally nonexistent".

If you're the latest highly-funded startup, maybe you can pay enough and create a good enough work environment to attract that person. But what if you're a random 30-year-old contracting firm in Overland Park, Kansas, paying $85k a year for software engineers? Do you think you'll attract that vanishingly rare talent? Can you rely on the idea that all of your engineers are so motivated and so skilled?

If you want to argue for that level of managerial hands-off-ness, you can do that. It's a legitimate managerial philosophy, and it might even be the right one! But I think it's hard to deny that many people don't think that's the right managerial philosophy, and that's all that they need to believe to favor RTO without any particular malice.

My point isn't to argue for RTO. Again, I run a remote company, and if you ask me, I'll tell you your company should probably be remote, too (depending on exactly what you do). My point is to argue that people who are arguing for it need not be doing so out of any particular malice.
Capitalism works to extract value from technologies that create efficiency savings. As such, capitalists - and people who aspire to become capitalists (i.e. to live off returns on capital rather than money paid in exchange for their labour) - are fascinated by new technologies that promise efficiency savings.

This is not new. It is why a lot of people are interested in YC, and this forum as a result.

The problem with that system though is that it creates misaligned interests. As consumers, we want technologies that make our lives easier. But the people who are running the game - the people with money and therefore power - want to just make the extraction of value more efficient.

Social media exists to sell advertising against content you don't have to pay anyone to produce, and is therefore one of the greatest utopian ideas of capitalism. There is minimal material cost, labour costs are reasonable even when you pay 95th percentile compensation packages, and to boot you are seen as a media entity that powerful people want to influence, so you can help them influence others, thereby giving you access to all sorts of mechanisms to protect your value extraction machine.

The system is working as intended. This isn't a bug.

If you don't like it, you need to start supporting other economic systems within these industries. Technological utopia is still achievable, but not while the people building it are so absorbed by return on capital and extraction of value.

As a side point, Elon Musk borrowed money to pay $44bn for Twitter and seems intent on driving it into the ground, which we might all say is an example of the capitalist system self-correcting. Except since Trump got elected - the candidate he endorsed and heavily personally promoted on that platform - the value of Tesla has gone up over $200bn. That's not self-correction, that's the system working as designed. You need to decide for yourself if you think that's healthy for you and your descendants. I'm not convinced it is.
I thought it would be cool as a wallpaper so I added a bit of blur to it, pretty fun: https://photoshop.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:1779ee13-d89c-...
They have partly changed their position on that. You can listen to their podcast on their distributed block storage solution.
Many things to be said for sure, but most of them inappropriate in polite company.
Invert the assignment, provide a prompt to supply to an essay writing AI of the students choice, but the assignment is to provide critique for the veracity and effectiveness of the generated essay
I don't remember believing in any tech utopia for a very long time. On the other hand I regularly see people who still believe we are a few years away from AGI creating one for us. So while it's over for the author it's not so for others.

Personally I can name both areas where tech improved my life beyond expectations (not having to live near work for one) as well as huge disappointments (such as people willingly choosing to believe lies en masse despite truth becoming easily accessible).
Elon Musk Highlights Boring Company's TBM Innovations
I was just watching a youtube video comparing the driver assist between Tesla and VW group (specifically an ID.3 in the video but commenters mentioned other group vehicles) and somewhat surprisingly to me, the consesus was that the VW tech was far better.
Where is there a higher quality of life and are there better cars than in Germany? Maybe Japan?

Germany is arguably the most successful economy in the world, with the most successful manufacturing. And it benefits others besides the shareholders and executives. Maybe others should be following their model.
I don’t understand the tax implications. Employee salary is subtracted from gross earnings and not taxed. You have employment taxes but you have to pay those regardless. So how is an employee salary categorized as r&d a tax benefit?
Measuring by cars sold it's actually close to 5x. In 2023 I see 9.2 million from VW, and 1.8 million from Tesla.
Wow, what an intelligent and even-minded way to respond to the blog post. Very nice!
I know somebody who worked, planned, and saved to spend their retirement traveling the world. It was their life ambition.

A few years after retirement they got early onset Alzheimer’s.
For any of these advancements, it depends how they are used. Some people will use them for good, some for profit, some for their own personal advancement.

Let's just hope there are enough people out there using these things wisely that the future will be a better place.
> 99% of Silicon Valley did it without him.

Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, the entire PayPal Mafia, all of SV's big players did the same things or worse than Musk to create their trillion dollar empires, except more low-key and with less public exposure. They were all ruthless strong men. You don't get to build empires by "being nice".

Musk is the hate poster child of SV due to his excessive personality and massive social media exposure, but he's no worse than the other SV giants that don't leave the shadows and stay out of the limelight.

>That's the strongman argument, also used for people like Mussolini.

I should have stopped responding to you right here. Comparing a controversial tech entrepreneur to Mussolini is the ultimate -200 IQ exaggeration since comparisons like these denigrates the actual suffering people under Mussolini and other dictators had to endure.
Then, no. This isn’t text you generated. No one cares on Internet forums though.
Eh. While not great given bandwidth availability at the time, most Quake hosted servers has excellent ping and latency for most people domestically. The main issues were honestly people hosting from their local machines across the world, which obviously had very poor results.

I am a former Quake 3 champion, have a lot of experience dealing with Quake 3 servers :)
Terabrain Project: Simulating billions of spiking neurons on standard computer [pdf]
We describe a computing architecture capable of simulating networks with billions of spiking neurons using an ordinary Apple MacBook Air equipped with a M2 processor, 24 GB of on-chip unified memory and a 4TB solid-state disk. We use an event-based propagation approach that processes packets of N spikes from the M neurons in the system on each processing cycle. Each neuron has C binary input connections, where C can be 128 or more. During the propagation phase, we increment the activation values for all targets of the N neurons that fired. In the second step, we use the histogram of activation values to determine the firing threshold on the fly and select the N neurons that will fire in the next packet. We note that this active selection process could be related to oscillatory activity in the brain, which may have the function of fixing the percentage of neurons that fire on each cycle. Critically, there are absolutely no restrictions on architecture, since each neuron can have a direct connection to any other neuron, allowing us to have both feed-forward as well as recurrent connections. With M = 2 32 neurons, this allows 2 64 possible connections, although actual connectivity is extremely sparse. Even with off-the-shelf hardware, the simulator can continuously propagate packets with thousands of spikes and millions of connections dozens of times a second. Remarkably, all this is possible using an energy budget of just 37 watts, close to the energy required by the human brain. The work demonstrates that brain-scale simulations are possible using current hardware, but this requires fundamentally rethinking how simulations are implemented.
The old Internet was definitely my support network, I met a lot of people I could relate to back then, totally different from "IRL people". The Internet is the opposite of that for me now. Where did all the weirdo super-introvert nerds go? Do they all feel as lonely as I do?
data to support this claim? you are (incorrectly) assuming that since employees are not commuting to work
they are just home and cars are just collecting dust in a garage… but of course you go to the store and mall and park and … in the middle of the day and you see a whole other story :)
Most shocking of all is how almost every free-software, anti-big-government, anti-big-business, and libertarian advocate swallowed these allegedly "smart" alleged "telephones" -- which are obviously computers that someone else controls and utterly disempower the users -- to the utter disregard of every principle they said they believed.

Don't call it a "computer" (computers are scary), call it a "smart" "telephone." Or call it a "device" as if it were a can opener.

Don't call it a "program" (programmers are geeks), call it an (ugh) "app" [which is just short for "application program" of course]

Never had one of those nefarious handheld treacherous computers, never will, thanks.
> protecting themselves at the expense of the industry

Don't management and shareholders and finance do that? German car companies are among the most successful in the world - Germany and Japan sit at the pinnacle of car manufacturing.
spend 1-2 years learning consistently _any_ undergrad math. id recommend focusing on “mastering” multivariable calculus, dependencies included. but keep taking peaks of higher level stuff or just articles as these. doing this is important as the math can be contextualised in many ways and being exposed to those ways helps you internalise intuitions
They have a big problem with producing modern engines and won’t catch up with the demand without Western suppliers for at least a decade, which means that in a couple of years this is going to be a huge problem.
If you are on call for infrastructure, then I could understand not wanting to be on call. If I'm there, I'm on call for infrastructure as SRE.

I get all political reasons that your code may not work. However, refusing to be on call doesn't fix any of those reasons, it's just ignoring work. Flip side as SRE, I ask if Devs are on call. If they are not, I don't take the job because there is zero incentive for them to fix anything vs churn out 5 features, chuck it over the fence and be like "Ops problem now"
Difficulty training juniors is easily the weakest argument I’ve heard related to RTO.

I’ve trained dozens of people remotely and helped them level up. Sure it’s not the most *effective*, but given the immense benefits of WFH, I have no problem sacrificing the ease of my job so that my juniors can have a better life.
That's not "ad hominem", it's noting how once your argument has been invalidated, you raise a new argument incompatible with the previous one. I'm not attacking your person based on the hypotetical side you are with; I'm criticising your rhetoric, which is clearly not ad hominem.

Once again, as I see you're clearly out of arguments I consider this discussion resolved.
Local Heat Therapy to Accelerate Recovery After Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage
You ramping up your skills will do nothing for you if a machine can otherwise be delegated your job due to the overhead of human worker vs. just owning a machines output. Not having to negotiate is extremely valuable to a business owner. Mark my words. Until people realize that the whole innovation around AI is to sidestep the labor class, things'll continue getting much darker before they brighten.

And the saddest thing is, the fools think it'll work in their favor, and won't blowback with massive unintended consequences.
I asked about remote and was told the company was up to 4 days a week remote.

Apparently I should've asked specifically about the role? Even though we were already talking about that role?
The problem I see with free software advocates is they're basically trying to paddle upstream to a destination that is not particularly desirable. Most people don't care if they can go visit their local water treatment works and propose modifications – they really, really want their water to be drinkable and would prefer some regulation and oversight from the state.
When the quality AI images are created, like these in the post, that description doesn't really apply. If you hang out in those discords, you'll see people obsessing about details and inpainting things that don't look like what they wanted. The high end of results is very specific in the implementation.
If you have the discipline for them. Some of us find maintaining rituals deliberately very taxing, and find having them imposed on us useful. (I'm with the previous poster, in that I actually kind of liked commuting. I like remote work because I don't like cities.)
Also trips to medical conferences abroad, at least in Europe.
Who did Gates publicly call a pedophile? Who did Zuckerberg incite mass harassment against in order to terrorize them and drive them out of their workplace? Which of those people spread and incite hatred against Jewish people, immigrants, trans people, and endless more? Which of them openly backed a political candidate? Which openly and intentionally lied to their shareholders and the market?

In fact none of them did any of that - all these people succeeded, on incredible levels, without doing any of those things Musk does.

>> That's the strongman argument, also used for people like Mussolini.

> I should have stopped responding to you right here.

Why? Just address it on its merits.
Still the case. It’s a good system IMO. My team is low toil and low page it’s basically free money/time off
A "Manhattan Project to build AGI" seem pretty questionable. With the actual Manhattan project it was only the government that was able to work on the bomb as they had most of the resources. To this day it's hard to do a startup to knock out better nuclear warheads.

Whereas with AGI loads of companies are already on it and there isn't really reason to believe that a government entity would get there faster.
AI is the new calc
I suspect this will happen here. We seem to be a long ways off from an actual enforcement.

I also assume part of this sudden and intense recommendation is in part due to the upcoming change in power. While the case has been going on for a while, this admittedly feels like an ill-timed overreaction.
I credit the Ig Nobels for alerting me of the "blue zone" myth.

For people who don't know, it was about research related to communities around the world that are known to have a high number of centenarians. Lots of researchers have studied those populations to see how their genes/lifestyles are different from ordinary folks and try to take lessons from them.

Then one researcher came along and showed that most/all of those communities have poor record keeping, and it's quite possible they didn't have as many centenarians as claimed. What's more, for the folks in those communities where the records are reliable, the average lifespan is actually average or even below average.

One example: I think it was Okinawa - most of the records were destroyed due to heavy bombing in WW2. So we just had people's own claims of their age.
One off excursions are totally different than a 5 day back and forth. I don't have data but one can guess.
The fact is, it not the Internet that failed us, but education. Education quality in the US has declined a lot since the 60s. Now education is only used to create bio-robots, not people who can still think critically.

In the 70s, we saw many people really believing in astrology, flat-earth and doing all they can to be stupid. There was a time being smart was considered good and to be admired. Now, stupid people and bullies are society "heros".

When I was in school (public), classes were divided into "Smart", "Average" and "remedial". That disappeared in the 70s because parents did not want their kid put into remedial classes. So what happened ? Many smart kids were bored out of their mind in class and the "cool" kids acted stupid to get attention. So many kids started following that coolness trend and ended up dumb by not learning anything.

So here we are.
I hope the stuff you talk about at the end of your comment come to fruition, but I think you’re very wrong about the attention economy. The issue is simply that these platforms are companies that need to optimize their user retention, so their algorithms have learned to prioritize the most gutturally stimulating material, whether mukbangs or drama, implicitly at the expense of everything else.
If people want to live far from the office, that is not the employer's fault.
Factorio: Space Age – Graphics mode tests [video]
I am not the person you’re replying to, but I read their comment to be suggesting that earlier waves of technological development addressed those chores first—successfully! To the extent that the robots for both chores are utterly commoditized, and well within the economic means of pretty much all people living in modern economies (even if that means renting time on a machine via laundromat, it still beats a tub of water out back with a posser and a washing board).

Those mechanical techniques weren’t up to these more abstract tasks: why would it be reasonable to expect the new computational techniques to generalize immediately to these mechanical problems—much less that they’d immediately achieve better results than the time-tested incumbent techniques?

Although, of course, such work is very much underway, e.g. Physical Intelligence’s splashy promo ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42098236 ; 14 days ago, 218 points, 189 comments)
The Rorschach test is quite literally an example of people finding meaning in randomness.
Yea, they seemed more professional in the past. There were big finance education youtube channels that were advertising it suggesting that the average prizes worked out to be higher than the interest on other high yield savings accounts. The first year I had money in it, that seemed to be true, but interest rates at other banks were going up and I moved most of the savings I had there to another bank.
But isn't know-how how you got to this world view of yours? If you could do it, so can others, and technology does improve the global know-how. Even if some also use it to "control, destroy and sow despair" as you say. There would be people doing that anyway, as history shows. The printing press was the same, but I think we can all agree that the net result is positive. So is, in my view, the modern "tech".
...and then the author talks about his autistic son.
This is important, the reproducibility of information made the potential for endless bounty seem so prominent at first. I also don't think the antithesis is discussed here; copyright law, the DMCA, and all the ways in which IP helped make tech the dystopia it has become.
How We Built the Fishtank Live Site [video]
At some point in my life (when I briefly worked on LuaJIT for DeepMind) I have written a stack walker which can stitch together native and Lua frames: for each native stack frame it checks if that is actually an interpreter frame or a trace frame - if that's the case it finds corresponding `lua_State` and unwinds corresponding Lua stack, then continues with native stack again.

This way you get a stack trace which contains all Lua and native frames. You can use it when profiling and you can use it to print hybrid stack traces when your binary crashes.

I was considering open-sourcing it, but it requires a bunch of patches in LJ internals so I gave up on that idea.

(There is also some amount of over-engineering involved, e.g. to compute unwinding information for interpreter code I run an abstract interpretation on its implementation and annotate interpreter code range with information on whether it is safe or unsafe to try unwinding at a specific pc inside the interpreter. I could have just done this by hand - but did not want to maintain it between LJ versions)
I've been in the industry for >30 years ;)

I'm not sure what's the proposal?

- Don't use an OS. Write your own. Linux? Boring.

- Design your own CPU.

- ext3 or xfs? Nah write your own.

- Write your own database.

- Ethernet. Too boring. Create a new physical layer for networking.

- Naturally create your own programming language. That'll make it much easier to find people when you have to expand the team.

Seriously, build vs. buy and NIH has always been with us. There's a time to build and there's a time to buy/reuse. Where are you adding value? What's good enough for your project? What's strategic vs. tactical? How easy is it to change your mind down the road? What are the technical capabilities of the team? How do different options impact your schedule/costs? How do they impact quality? In the short term? In the medium term? In the long term.
In our field you needed / need to learn new things to stay relevant yet now the new thing does it almost all for you.

As well if one generation is using AI to get things done why wouldn't a younger generation do the same? Do as I say and not as I do.. that never has held well over time.