skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> #1 : Focus. Disconnect. Do not be distracted.

People are hating on this, but I largely agree, or at least I agree more than the common advice of "just enjoy college!".

College is the one time in your life that you have all the time in the world at your disposal, purely to focus on your studies and (in the case of Berklee) master your craft. You might as well make the most of it. Obviously you don't want to become a complete social hermit, but I think most people swing way too far the other direction.

There's an old proverb:

> it is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

which I think is kind of applicable here, albeit to academics/craft, rather than physical strength.

> Nobody will teach you anything. You have to teach yourself.

100%.
Our prof repeated always (literally translated to EN):

"For every debit there must be a credit"

or

"Every transaction has two sides"
From end user perspective I think the desktop environment that i.e. gnome gives users is good enough from ui/ux perspective. It’s not worse than macos or windows. The thing where Linux distros can improve at is still at stability and making things just work for the end user. Especially around hardware support and os version upgrades and packages upgrades that often just don’t work.
Be like Ekalavya, self-taught
its changed. Investigative journalism is done by non-profits specializing in it, who have various financial motives.

The budgets at newspapers used to be much larger and fund more investigative journalism with a clearer motive.
Just be careful of inventions assignments. If you live in the US you probably signed paperwork that says anything you invent or create is property of the company you work for.

If you signed one of these and hack on the side… successful business could be owned by your previous company.

You can always ask that they release the IP which requires the lawyers to officially sign it over to you.

Before you quit your job make sure you own it.
> but is training an AI copying?

If the AI produces chunks of training set nearly verbatim when prompted, it looks like copying.

> And if so, why isn't someone learning from said work not considered copying in their brain?

Well, their brain, while learning, is not someone's published work product, for one thing. This should be obvious.

But their brain can violate copyright by producing work as the output of that learning, and be guilty of plagiarism, etc. If I memorise a passage of your copyrighted book when I am a child, and then write it in my book when I am an adult, I've infringed.

The fact that most jurisdictions don't consider the work of an AI to be copyrightable does not mean it cannot ever be infringing.
quite interesting to see the application of language and speech models for automating current trends.

i wonder about its efficacy, however. don't recall any brainrot videos whose information ever retained with me after the fact.

while i don't actively consume such content, this is definitely an evolution of past internet trends that many of us might have interacted with. like the someone speaking over an unrelated game playing in the background is reminiscent of "commentary" channels on youtube. this is why i would refrain from making any active criticism for those who enjoy this.
As far as I know, Mr. Zuckerberg still owns a controlling interest in Meta Platforms.

Since he has 57% of the votes, he can tell everyone to pound sand.
In addition, it was an objective economic factor. There were few workers because in 1946, the Depression generation started getting into workforce and they were few in numbers. So in the post-war 20 years or so, there was a persistent dearth of workers as WWI vets aged out of work and less numerous Silent generation replaced them, so people enjoyed good salaries because employers had to compete for them. Then, Boomer generation which was by far the most numerous yet, kicked in, and an era of persistent unemployment and stagnating living standards, resulted.
I appreciate your response! I feel like the AI efforted this response - I've never seen an answer from an agent that takes both perspectives and goes back and forth almost like a debate within a response. The answer (no solution) exceeded my expectations, based on how the AI arrived at it.

Thanks again
The aggressive push to cover LEO with Starlink satellites is starting to make a lot of sense.

This worldwide communication and telekinetic infrastructure has the potential to change the global economy in dramatic and unpredictable ways. Your imagination and experience can fill in the blanks here. Brilliant foresight and execution ostensibly by Elon.
> I did not say any of this, ever. Read my comment. Don’t put words in my mouth.

Sorry, my bad. I assumed if you blame innocent people you'd also blame people who were actually responsible.

> The German army adopted Nazi symbols and swore an oath to hitler.

And forced hundreds of thousands of innocent people from occupied countries to join it. Many of which escaped as soon as it was possible and fought against them when they could.
Well this path feels incomplete:

Having kids early precludes education and career focus -> Education and career focus gets you money and prestige -> Folks want money -> Folks want to avoid having kids early -> Fewer kids.

It's all based on a couple misconceptions that a) you can't have what you want now if you have kids and b) you'll want what you want now when you have kids.

Try this thought experiment on for size:

Initially, you don't have kids b/c you don't want to avoid this vacation ($5k?) and that opportunity (A few years at a good job?)

But consider the reverse: If you had kids, and they were going to die if you didn't turn over $X, what value of X is "too high"? There is no value of X that is too high, you'd happily give everything you have to bring your kids home safe. Why don't we give a meager few years of our lives to have kids and get them through the infant stage until our lives return somewhat to normal?

Why do we all pretend that $5k before kids is somehow not the same as $5k after kids? It's not a trap - parents do want their children, do love them, and are willing to drop money to have them, but we only recognize this after they have them. Substitute money for a job change, a spouse choice, etc.

It's a weird cognitive dissonance that we don't recognize this for ourselves when we're young, and I'd argue it's mostly this cognitive dissonance that stands in our way. So, some tangible improvements and a slight increase in number of successful people having kids would probably dispel that misconception.
The plan was regulatory capture and defanging. It worked.
https://archive.ph/Rt1QD
Which sides are you referring to?
Considering The Guardian have discontinued their X account recently it's evident they've got a chip on their shoulder about Musk and the recent election. I'd expect anything to come out of them to be a hit piece.
I’m not convinced we need to engineer sleep in the general population. Once shorter sleep times are available to everyone, they’ll be expected and then simply assumed just as cars are right now in most of the US.
Being smooth socially IS a skill. We should stop dismissing the talent/ability to interact with other humans.

People have to make trust decisions with limited and imperfect information. The world is full of danger and risk. Being able to develop trust through relationships skills enable others to make choices regarding who they should associate and spend time with.

Then you say: a lot of these people just pretend to be something they are not for personal gain. Well, sure, ANY skill can be used for personal gain at the expense of others.

I've worked with amazingly competent, but unpleasant (not an asshole) people. And with mediocre, pleasant people. While I recognize that the amazingly competent, unpleasant people are also deserving of a portion of our riches, I would rather spend my day with pleasant people. And, more often than not, so do customers.

If I'm dealing with another company, I'd rather work with people with good communication skills and let them sort things out with the unpleasant ones. No wonder the people with good communication end up becoming the bosses.

My own career really took off when I stopped focusing solely on technical minutia (I had always been a "hardcore" engineer) and spend time, instead, learning about behaviors for developing trust and smoothing personal interactions. That when I became the boss.
Related anti-fascism propaganda that I like:

"Don't Be a Sucker", 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4
qwq went through a two screenfuls of tokens to try all primes under 123 twice, but eventually gave the right answer.
Gotta love a new age of slavery where human drones in the colonies are serving us without us having to look into their faces.

Now the anti immigrant push makes perfect sense, it’s priming demand for the slave labor matrix
What happens in the event that the LLM starts halucinating and driving at 100mph in the oncoming lane?
Humm I wonder if there's some truth to that, some kind of pattern matching, like "at this stretch of the road usual behaviour was: speed X mph, turning at this and this points, etc"
There’s a big difference between being punished appropriately for doing something, and being able to present your mitigating circumstances, and being prevented from doing something.

By all means fine me for going through the red light, then allow me to explain to the judge the mitigating reasons (carrying a heart attack patient etc)
well,
you could do this, but it would make world much more complex when working with the numbers in the code - todays highlevel languages like Java or C# have a "decimal" datatype which should be used for money/accounting, these types also offer several digits of accuracy, if required.
Honestly I haven't used TeXmacs in a while. I was an avid user of LyX for a long time, until Overleaf enshittified its way into everything and became mandatory for at least the collaborations I was involved in.

TeXmacs always appealed to me, but I couldn't manage to get it to tangle out source code the way I wanted and ended up falling back on lesser tools like Jupyter for typesetting-CAS-code interaction. I really should revisit it, it's definitely an underappreciated gem.

I'm also delighted to note that Guile Emacs is scheduled to rise from its grave next week and I'm quite optimistic about its success this time round. Robin Templeton is apparently back working on it and they'll give a talk at Emacsconf: https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/guile/
Have you tried searching for your question online? I found plenty of results.

https://superuser.com/questions/828907/how-to-download-a-web...
I think people prefer ecosystem with many resourceful components

https://github.com/brillout/awesome-react-components

This point is not directly covered in the article.
But it excludes people who don't have easy access to international banking.
Thanks for the advice - do you use melatonin every night or just nights where you know youre going to be restless?
Most in Germany want Australia-style social media ban: poll
You may not understand that creativity and work are literally one and the same thing.
The documentation is not good enough. It's OK at best. My wife has a habit of putting phone to vibrate. I used Automate to turn the volume to full if I was ringing. It was not as simple as macro droid (may be it was some other tool) and documentation was a bit frustrating.
What is you question here? Plenty of sites use animated images rather than video to demonstrate their product.
he bought the white house fair and square!
Where is an anti-drone laser when you really need one ?
They are huge because android has hundreds of smallish makefiles but the generated ninja file is a single flat file.

The advantage in android is that the different build systems will generate ninja, so they can interoperate.
They are clearly not.

"In short, nobody should start a new project in the 2020s based on React. Full stop."
Some SNL cast members in the 80s would have been glad for that (not sure it was Richard Pryor)
I suspect that computer misuse / hacking laws could apply. I’m also certain that there will be small print if you bought it from a dealer.
As much as I would enjoy some Elon-bashing, this is a bit unsurprising.

I used to write remote dashboards for autonomous vehicles, and if we had been able to fully support remote operation (latency was just unbearable at the time), we would have gladly done so, if only to unstuck vehicles from tricky situations.

Also, it seems like it's already done in other robotaxi setups.

It makes sense for the company, as long as the remote operator only drives a fraction of the miles ran by the vehicles (and if you can keep the wage low enough, while still ensuring driver engagement.)

It makes sense for the user as long as the vehicle reach its destination, and they don't have to car about driving.

I would still heavily fine Tesla for calling it "Full Self Driving" or "Autopilot", because it's a plain lie.

But Elon retired from science & engineering to focus on running an ad-funded political campaigning platform, so "truth / lies" is a bit of moot point.
The primary reason is that calories used to be a very valuable commodity to come by and predators expend a lot of them when they're hunting or exploring, which includes us humans. Also the reason cats nap a lot.
I've had something similar (post-concussion syndrome) that's slowly improving, though I'll never quite be the same.

You live a life where you're intelligent and capable and happy and then it's torn away from you. You remember when you were capable, but you can't do it anymore. Somehow the things you learnt on a whim before it happened become your defining knowledge. What was trivial becomes incredibly difficult; what was difficult becomes impossible.

I'm mostly over that now, fortunately. But if it were permanent I'd see it as a fate worse than death.
“Most people are prepared” is a great situation. Regardless, we still see folks in vulnerable situations die when the power goes out in extreme heat or cold. The minority that aren’t or can’t be prepared are the ones that need these guides most.
Imagine someone less privileged than you tries to make a living this way. It's completely legitimate
Moot point for sure but can and should be criticized and made fun of repeatedly.
I don’t want to sit in a taxi that’s remote controlled by someone who has low stakes (their body not in the way of harm). There will be a number of accidents attached to the self driving mechanism, so I can make an informed decision, but there won’t be such a number for the person taking over remotely.
So... why should I buy a $35 introductory programming book in 2024?

Here are some free introductory Rust books:

- The Rust Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
- Rust 101: https://www.ralfj.de/projects/rust-101/main.html
- Rust by Example: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/
- Easy Rust: https://dhghomon.github.io/easy_rust/
- A Gentle Introduction to Rust: https://stevedonovan.github.io/rust-gentle-intro/

Although I typically show people Rustlings, because it teaches programming workflow.

What am I getting for $35 that isn't covered excellently for free already?

Here are some books I spent money on in the last 5 years:

- Functional Design and Architecture, by Alexander Granin
- Production Haskell, by Matt Parsons
- Thinking with Types, by Sandy Maguire

Being a seasoned developer, I would pay money for someone to fast-forward me through advanced concepts.

Here are some examples of free Rust books covering advanced examples:

- The Rustonomicon: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nomicon/
- Rust Design Patterns: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/
- Effective Rust: https://www.lurklurk.org/effective-rust/
- Rust Atomics and Locks: https://marabos.nl/atomics/foreword.html
- The Little Book of Rust Macros: https://danielkeep.github.io/tlborm/book/index.html
- Burn: Deep Learning Framework: https://burn.dev/burn-book/
- API Development with Rust: https://rust-api.dev/docs/front-matter/preface/
- Rust Compiler Development Guide: https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/getting-started.html

I'd pay money for any of those. Not sure about an introductory book, considering the availability of good, free books.
I asked it to just count letters in a long word and it never returned an output (been waiting for 30 minutes now)
Compare whether Java or C# had the better update path
I am writing a paper comparing Java and C# and their ecosystems from an enterprise perspective. *None of the performance / syntax* bullshit. I'm trying to focus more on the way that evolution of Java and C# affected enterpsies. How the fact that Oracle sued Google, or the fact that Microsoft had C# being closed source for so long, affected them, etc.

I would really appreciate if you would spend 5 minutes evaluating +- 5 updates for
Java: https://forms.gle/jRdUbTQC7G8GQQD39
or C#: https://forms.gle/JcWBqHp6Ja7SJjwq8

Thank you so much!
Didn’t realize Teslas were sold on Kickstarter. Could you show us where?
I understand the concern about youth. However, adding age controls means proving your identity. No more pseudo anonymity.

First, that is hugely valuable data for the tech giants. Second, that data will be leaked, stolen or abused - so literally everyone will be doxxed.

As too often: well-meaning idea with horrible consequences.
I suspect that the remote driver will not have unilateral control of the car. It'll probably be something along the line of giving hints when the car asks for them.
Women are more grounded in reality, while many men believe any fancy.
If you havent tried melatonin, give it a shot; but critically, use a low dose, like 3mg sublingually. In my experience, people often take too much and have counterintuative results.
Formance claims:

"It’s customary in classical accounting to treat money as fungible, because classical accounting is expressly for the purposes of evaluating the overall situation of a business—assessing its financial health, detecting irregularities and fraud, and providing tools for auditing and verifying any claims about the overall situation by looking at whether assets and liabilities are balanced."

The problem here is that fintechs seem to want to run basic accounting software instead of banking software. These problems in banking were solved a _long_ time ago; banking wasn't the first application of computers, but they were certainly one of the first (with Bank of America having a purpose-built computer in 1959 for cheque clearing, and Barclays also in 1959 using a computer for more general purpose banking).

Banks already figured out how to solve the problems fintechs seem to be puzzled by now, and did it with first entirely paper based workflows and then later punchcard-assisted workflows for tabulation, such as "how much money does customer X have in his account?" This included things like a "local cache" of such data (for a customer with passbook savings) and dealing with all manner of fraud, and detecting that fraud without the assistance of computers.

Formance's idea here is not particularly innovative or new, and also reflects a rather common mistake when designing ledgers. A unique combination of "attribute" (which these people are calling "colours") is simply another account. This results in a somewhat undesirable proliferation of accounts.

If you use double-entry accounting and make sure your accounts are balanced and your balacing accounts are zero at the end of the day, your statements are finalised and printed and sent to your accountholders at the end of the month, your executive management refers reports of such balances each quarter, and your books independently audited each year, you will have the same results that have come from conventional banking from the days of the ancient Sumerians to the present day.

Or, y'know, fintechs could just keep inventing "new" banking models, which I guess they need to do to pretend they're doing anything more sophisticated than finding a way to juice up debit-card transaction activity at tiny banks that are allowed to charge more than big banks.
The Material Foundations of Intellectual Production
No. I have only seen what I would call violence once in the last 25+ years. Those stories tend to be over-hyped. I've seen countless residents with dementia yell randomly, but not be violent.

My mother has worked in long-term care facilities for around 40 years, and has only seen one violent resident in that time.

Care homes a) have protocols in place and b) can boot violent residents if they are unequipped to care for them.

The people who are really, genuinely dangerous tend to be in very specialized care settings.

Also the nursing home staff in the activities department can tell you which residents to work with, even on the special care units (Alzheimer's and dementia sort of things). They know the residents and know which ones are lonely, what their history is, and which ones will enjoy your company.
Yeah it’s hilarious (frightening) when Tesla cultists say that the surprise in FSD’s behavior makes it exciting.

That attitude is why people who share the roads are tired of Tesla’s and their loyalists’ constant excuses for this stuff.
A sniffer for Bluetooth 5/4.x (Classic / LE) using TI hardware
2018!
I completely agree about the importance of defaults. I’ve always believed in the phrase: “It’s the defaults, stupid.”

In my experience, 90% of users just stick with whatever defaults they’re given, while the other 10% are the power users who customize things.

This explains why you see poorly designed defaults like the Windows 10 taskbar, where the search bar takes up about 33~50% of the space by default:

https://www.isumsoft.com/images/backup-recovery/install-wind...

Another thing I think Linux distros should focus on—and I know some already do—is renaming default apps to be more intuitive. For example, instead of calling it “Caja” (or is it “Kaja”?), just call it File Manager (Caja) so new users know what it is.

As for including an Office Suite during installation, why not? At the very least, make it a pre-selected option that’s easy to deselect if someone doesn’t want it.
Comms is the reason. DSN dish time is not a particularly abundant resource even today.
A related pet peeve of mine is UIs that round off your investment holdings or cash.

Sometimes to 2 digits. Sometimes 3. Or 4. How many significant digits are there even in fractional SPY holdings? You just resort to looking in all the places (statements, transaction history, overview dashboard, …) and going with the one that shows the most digits, and assume that's all of them.

Big and small companies do this. And when I've reported it, they don't care. They don't see the problem.
If you do anything visual, nodes provide significant iteration advantages (albeit with some other disadvantages).

Given the examples, I believe this is targeted to such uses.
Rebels Control Most of Syria's Largest City, War Monitor Says
https://archive.is/Kfdt3
Imagine if we put these remote operators inside the car, the latency would be unrivalled.
Alleged hacker behind Snowflake hack unmasked after threatening woman online
Here is the police interacting with Waymo support staff to clear in the vehicle...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/6/24193094/phoenix-waymo-car...
None of what you said here makes sense in the context of what you replied to.

> Tell that to the Amish.

The Amish have large populations in the northeast US, not rural southern England.

> Car dependency is something that we've learned, not the natural state of things.

What does this have to do with the fact someone was unable to drive due to medical reasons and learned first-hand how much society was set up to need a car?
Guardian audience editor says Bluesky delivering more traffic than X