skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Next time someone's unemployed, try doing nothing but social media for 8 hours a day, 7 days a week on a couch and see you'll eventually get bored."

I think this can be true while also further enforcing the point. I was a child in the 80's and would ride my bike all over town just doing stuff. Sometimes alone, sometimes with friends. Yes, I know that sounds like older guy nostalgia.

But the idea that a full work day is the only reason that adults aren't "bored" seems absurd to me. The world is full of low-cost wonder. We have allowed ourselves to be captured by low agency tasks like watching TV and scrolling through phones.
Because web browsers are a massive hack and nothing works 100% so theres 10 different flows to cover which sort of broken is acceptable to your use case.
Nuclear power has always been heavily subsidized by the federal government. I'm not making a narrow point about bomb technology per se, I'm pointing out that the industry only exists because the government wanted it to exist. And that the government wanted it to exist because making bombs (and "nuclear" stuff more generally) was perceived to be an issue of national security. And once that perception shifted, the subsidies shifted and fission couldn't compete.

Your response amounts to "the government was mistakenly subsidizing civilian nuclear power". Which might be true, but doesn't refute the fact that they were.
This. The left needs to admit that they are guilty of this too and exercise forbearance to stop this cycle if they lucky enough to get the chance.
"According to a report on grid security compiled by a power industry cyber clearinghouse, obtained by POLITICO, a total of 1,665 security incidents involving the U.S. and Canadian power grids occurred last year. That count included 60 incidents that led to outages, 71 percent more than in 2021." [0]

Uh, no. There have been a massive number of attacks attempting to take down the power grid. It's just that the protections in place are currently working most of the time.

Unfortunately, the official stats tends to combine both physical and cyber attacks, so there's no clear sense of which is dominant... But, frankly, there isn't a need to separate them. The attacks are happening.

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/power-grid-attacks-...
Europe 'must not be bullied' by Trump and Musk on tech laws, NGOs say
I think it's pertinent. Ppst 2008 was essentially disinflation economy whereas inflation has been high running into this and people are struggling a bit. To launch something you gotta be hungry but not too hungry. Maybe people are either retiring on thier 401ks or uber driving 24 hours a day to make rent. That or the demo here got old and acquired responsibilities.
Agreed - it is worth a close read.

"On a lighter note, aren’t we all so sick of looking stuff up? You know what, maybe I go to a restaurant and it’s bad. Maybe I don’t know what’s good on the menu before I get there. Maybe I throw caution to the wind and put something in the dishwasher without googling if it’s dishwasher safe. Maybe I get a flip phone and get comfortable saying, “I don't know.” While you’re looking down at Google Maps, the love of your life is walking past you on the street. To feel sexy, we need risk and spontaneity. Our phones kill both."
The latter explanation is interesting, thank you. Experimentation is fine.
But there are thresholds of commercial viability in all of this. DeepSeek's technology gets you over that line with less sophisticated hardware.

There's already some pretty impressive work being done with folks using just a pair of M2 Ultras with r1 in a "home lab" context that goes way beyond what you could previously do with llama.
Nah. It's well-written but I disagree with pretty much all of it. Having a powerful tool to hand has made me more confident, happier, healthier, and yes, sexier. My relationships are better than ever (well, they took a hit when I moved internationally - but that would've been much worse without a phone). I don't want to go back to having to go downtown to look up a fact at the library, or eating at terrible restaurants, or having to endure hours of tedium and pretend to like it because there was no alternative.
> same, high, late 1950s standard of living

.. I suspect this is wildly less good than most people would expect, along with forgetting about how widely distributed it was or wasn't.

Just look at the first chart here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42182497

If you could get people back to 1950s level of travel, whether in 1950s vehicles or (way better!) modern EVs, that would make a huge difference to the environmental impact. But of course if you actually suggest measures to force that people (correctly) notice it would reduce their standard of living.
> This generates Answers which are sequenced according to "frequency-guided heuristic searching" (I guess a kind of "stochastic A* with inlined historical data")

This sounds way too simplistic of an understanding. Transformers aren't just heuristically pulling token cards out of a randomly shuffled deck, they sit upon a knowledge graph of embeddings that create a consistent structure representing the underlying truths and relationships.

The unreliability comes from the fact that within the response tokens, "the correct thing" may be replaced by "a thing like that" without completely breaking these structures and relationships. For example: In the nightmare scenario of a STAWBERRY, the frequency of letters themselves had very little distinction in relation to the concept of strawberries, so they got miscounted (I assume this has been fixed in every pro model). BUT I don't remember any 2023 models such as claude-3-haiku making fatal logical errors such as saying "P" and "!P" while assuming ceteris paribus unless you went through hoops trying to confuse it and find weaknesses in the embeddings.
It's my new notepad. When I don't need the bloat of VSCode, or any JetBrains editor, etc. nor have the will to fight with Vim and, yet, still need something that supports code syntax.
I guess it is intentional, otherwise you couldn't select and copy stuff at all
A "Pay Penalty" is keeping men out of classrooms
FYI the latest update on the site and when updating via UI says "20 Jan 2024", not 2025.

Great product, thank you for being awesome :-).
Doesn't it use regular cellular frequencies? You might be able to "disable this" by using manual network selection, but if they use the same mcc mnc as tmobile (their partner), it'll be impossible to distinguish.
I guess my question about the current events is: Are people really locked out of LLMs due to price? It seems like everything already has AI in it and that virtually every end user hates it. I could see a shift to more local models or something, but not an increase. I feel like LLMs have largely been oversold as a solution in search of a problem.

Or are people just applying this as everyone and their mothers are going to start training competing models to carve out their piece of the market?
Those are actually some of the reasons why I use Sublime.
Useful if you have a JSON-keyed table, for example: JSON lacks a useful (standardised) equivalence relation, meaning you get weak and/or implementation-specific guarantees about how key lookup works. Equivalences were the motivation for developing Preserves: I was (and am) working on a generalized approach to messaging middleware, you might say, meaning that things like "patterns over values" and "filters" and "value-keyed tables" are all things I need to talk about. (This all comes out of RabbitMQ/AMQP thinking back in the day and my PhD-and-after work subsequently.)
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FAA post authorised the alien drones to fly out of the sea and hover over people's rooftops. case closed and no lies told.
I think this blog post covers a lot of ground while not really diving deep into any of the points it tries to make. I just want to highlight a couple of them because they are particularly important to me.

The concept of "you can desire only what you don't have" coupled with "you borrow your desires". Every thought in our head comes from a previous input, a lot of the same kind of inputs will spark a lot of the same thoughts and naturally they will spawn desires. I was on a work trip last year with two of my colleagues. They are into music (I'm not) and naturally a lot of the conversations were around singing and producing. I left that trip feeling an intense desire of trying out mixing/DJing for the first time in my life. I definitely attribute that to talking intensely about music for a few days for the most part.

The other one is: there's value in being wrong and in experiencing negative things. I'm not going out seeking traumatic experiences or anything but I yearn for new experiences for a variety of reasons. Even smaller ones such as a new restaurant to try out sometimes can suck, can be a waste of time/money but as long as the negatives aren't that impactful I think that the small gems you find a long the way paired with the funny stories you get about the bad ones are very much worth the potential negative experiences. I often talk to people that "feel stuck" or on "autopilot" and I do think that always doing the same things over and over has diminishing returns on happiness and joy. Trying out new things I'd say is generally a good idea (common sense applies, as always).
are people not into nerdy women now?
Listen , take my words with a grain of salt because I admittedly waste a LOT of time .

But from what I've heard from great people / self help books in general is that

Getting bored isn't bad. I think you need to get bored sometimes to fetch back to your default.

Are we humans to not get bored or are we not bored / constantly stimulated / this drive towards higher and higher satisfaction that makes us human?

My brother used to joke that we should have some device that just injects the maximum amount of pleasure possible (like drugs) , I was like uhh that makes them unproductive and he was like : what is productivity to individual if he isn't happy?

Though I wonder if happiness and satisfaction are same. Satisfaction feels chemical , happiness feels spiritual.

Blaming phones isn't a distraction. I use a dumb phone and it didn't even had songs till yesterday (had no sd card , read my other comment)

And I had to constantly spend 3 - 4 hours 3 days per week in car travel. Guess what? I like to look at visuals and maybe reading book (though it gets vomit-y , I am going to now listen to AUDIOBOOKs , it's so fun!) , and maybe interacting with other human beings. I love dumb phones. I am seriously thinking of never buying a smartphone
The real social menace is how few "third spaces" are available without some sort of overlarge fee. Instead every location is surrounded by large parking lots so we are further isolated by driving everywhere.
> Why is it always seagate when there's something wrong with HDDs?

WDs image was IIRC already not the best when the WD Red SMR thing blew up. I recall feeling smug but forget the background. I think they have a strong claim on title of most scandalous HDD maker.
Elon or SpaceX? It's important to separate the person and their actions and the company. I wouldn't be surprised / hope that long term Musk leaves or is ousted from SpaceX entirely.
Proof of concept WMI virus (zero-day)
This is a tremendous piece. It rings so very true.

I was 18 in 1990. I'm undoutebdly rose-tinting it but it was indeed edgy and weird and loaded and cool and unknown and just basically fucking brilliant.

I look at my teen / 20's kids now and although they're brilliant and doing rad things and out there in the world being great - they're also slightly reserved, spoilt for choice, their generation less able to take hard knocks or deal with unknowns. It's kinda sad I think. Here's hoping we'll find ways to get back to more of what's actually real and important and well, sexy...!
But the "Make America Great Again" movement is explicitly regressive because they want to return America to its "past glory". All of trumps messaging has been about how great the US used to be, before it was hijacked by communists/the left/transgenders, and that he will protect you from the cultural changes taking place. This is reactionary/regressive. You can play word games with "progress to the goal of returning america to the past" but it's just spin. People know what "progress" means.
Yes, hydrocarbons have major advantages as a form of seasonal energy storage, and possibly you can burn them in cheaper, less efficient power plants. Round-trip efficiency is inevitably going to be pretty low with electrically generated fuels, but they still ought to be able to outcompete fossil fuels economically once production scales up.

Gas has the advantage that gas turbines are less inefficient than conventional steam, though ultra-supercritical steam (mentioned in the EIA paper) could conceivably take that away, and of course it's easier to ship around over short distances.
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We all know the dangers, dude.

It's always a ROI and other analyses: stakeholders don't care much about malware in transitive dependencies, they want feature X within timeline Y.

Do I like it? No, I hate it with all my heart, but that's the reality we live in. I am not paid to just tinker with the computer; I am paid to deliver stuff, within various deadlines, and of certain quality and that's not the highest possible, otherwise I'd thoroughly use fuzzers and fiddle with property tests for months, if not years.
Oh, maybe I didn't mean the same as you. I can create as many email addresses as I want, but they all go to the same inbox. Multiple inboxes would cost more.

In the pricing page it is listed in the "Individual" plan as "+ Extra email addresses for personal and work".

Edit: It is possible to create an extra email address and set it up so that all emails it receives are sent to a different external email address
>sound more indignant or "called out" than anything else.

Yes - some people are very defensive regarding their phones.

This underscores the point of the article.
Voyager and Pioneer used RTGs, as well as some more recent longer range missions and the planned Dragonfly to Titan. Agree that solar has much better unit economics, but I don't see any reason why the same wouldn't be true of fusion too.
https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/d...

translation:

AI: Privacy Guarantor asks DeepSeek for information
Possible risk to the data of millions of people in Italy

The Guarantor for the protection of personal data has sent a request for information to Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence and Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence, the companies that provide the DeepSeek chatbot service, both on the web platform and on the App.

The Authority, considering the potential high risk for the data of millions of people in Italy, has asked the two companies and their affiliates to confirm which personal data are collected, from which sources, for which purposes, what is the legal basis of the processing, and whether they are stored on servers located in China.

The Guarantor also asked companies what kind of information is used to train the artificial intelligence system and, in the event that personal data is collected through web scraping activities, to clarify how users registered and those not registered to the service have been or are informed about the processing of their data.

Within 20 days, companies must provide the Authority with the requested information.

Rome, January 28, 2025
Deepseek is 651B, GPT models are suspected to be <200B. Where are they getting the idea that Deepseek is more efficient?
In fact I meant it in a general sense, and both ion drive and a more classic confinement engine like design that expels the fusion products. I don't know enough about the intricacies to argue for one vs the other, but fusion fuel is the most energy dense fuel we have within reach, by a huge margin. The variable then becomes the mass of the engine (and supporting plumbing), but we have control over this.

Can we shrink a fusion reactor small enough to make the rocket as a whole feasible? I don't know. My hope is that for space travel, we can make certain tradeoffs that are not feasible on Earth - e.g. expelling radioactive waste products into the environment. A rocket engine doesn't need to be all that efficient at generating electricity either, it mostly needs to be efficient for propulsion, which might make it's design much simpler.
> Who'd pay that kind of money today for a commercial flight?

Nobody. That's part of Boom's plan: they want to make the Overture jet cheap enough to fly that tickets will cost about what business class costs on regular intercontinental flights. They're keeping the problems of the Concorde in mind as part of the design process.
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This is a common misunderstanding!

Capitalism: ie. the idea that you can spend money to make money, (ie. shareholders) is extremely compatible with monopolies. If you wanted to make an investment and get maximum returns, a monopoly would do it best.

The free market is what's being destroyed.
reading someone express the idea that NEETs "are robbing /themselves/ of agency" is surprisingly upsetting.

what is someone to do when they've grown up undersocialized, not in-tune enough to hang with the normals yet too prideful to debase themselves and consort with the common nerd? when they've no real skills, no hobbies, and (stemming from their failure to acquire any thus far) no drive to try and find some?

the phone is to blame, sure, but only for creating a highly-social, fast-paced civilization where everyone else is waiting to leave their fellow people behind the moment they fall out of cultural lockstep.

video games and pornography aren't taking these people's agency, they're providing a buffer. a way for shut-ins to pass the time so they don't up and kill themselves.
People just paint their existing prejudices over the article, often without even reading it.
For example, here's a fission-fusion one that looks like it only needs engineering to be workable:

https://www.nasa.gov/general/pulsed-fission-fusion-puff-prop...
> One could make a joke that seagate did start selling refurbs in EU, just without telling anyone.

Regulators and prosecutors/lawyers would probably be the only ones laughing about that. AFAIK, consumer protections are much worse in the US, so if anything it would be the opposite.

> Why is it always seagate when there's something wrong with HDDs?

If it isn't Seagate, it's someone else. Wasn't Western Digital caught selling NAS drives with some shittier technology than they were advertising? Feels like a rite of passage for HDD sellers to somehow defraud consumers sooner or later.
Renewables are already 30% of world energy generation and growing rapidly: a quick google says that 86% (!!!) of new capacity is renewable. This part of the climate puzzle is effectively already solved, and didn't need nuclear.

Transport fuel and combustion-based heavy industry are the hard nuts to crack, and reactors don't help there.
Yea, it appears this is a going trend.
I certainly agree there's a connection from the gut to the rest of our body (including mood) that we still don't understand... But I'm curious if you've done anything to rule out psychosomatic ? I saw a brief mention that you think there is a link to childhood experiences, which means you do agree there might be a mental connection... Have you tried a blind experiment at all? I could see it being relatively possible if you had someone prepare something liquid, steps were taken to conceal the flavor, and perhaps using a straw to limit how much you can notice.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/13/21514030/microsoft-xclou...
it was 2-3 days after deepseek paper release on Christmas Day. I read this paper too and drew the exact same conclusion (that nvda was due to decline)

but I dont think its insider trading, just informed and reactive trading - not eoy profit trading either though
> I did see one picture of Kamala making the same gesture as Elon though.

A picture lacks context. And if that is the one which I think it is, it is clearly an utterly different gesture due to the context. Misrepresenting that is not acting in good faith.

He often does not look normal.

He gave a nazi salute to the USA flag. He saluted once to the crowd, then turned around and saluted to the flag. Sadly many people have not seen the full video.
Does he not understand the situation even when you lay it so bare in front of him? People tend to get off the course sometimes on their own, but smart mature ones prefer honest correcting feedbacks (to certain extent), if it means ie better more stable relationships with closest ones
"interesting" is a word for that I guess
> "its in your head"

insane that it's still so common...
The one new factor is the route fragmentation that occurred over the Atlantic with the 757 and 767 and the fragmentation that occurred over the Pacific with the 777 and 787. These changed from a model where only hub to hub flights where every seat had to be sold to be viable from a financial point of view to enabling many city pairs to work, and airlines still to make a profit, even if the business class seats are not fully sold. This led to a much larger market, which plenty of room for 3-10k "business class" tickets on these flights.

If boom can hit that same number, they will have success out of the USA <-> Europe market and premium intra-asia flights - the two most profitable route systems in the world.
I remember reading about the importance of getting bored/stuck in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", from 1974. Long before the phone.
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Does any WD model have its own Wikipedia page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001

(I had one, it died just after its warranty ended but Seagate did send me a replacement after bitching about it for long enough.)
Just curious, but do you think LLMs have the ability to significantly increase the productivity of a person who generates code to produce business results (note, I was very careful to not say “software engineer”)?
> You don't have the time or energy to go to the library for books on a work day, especially with a commute. Same with any other activity.

I hear this repeated a lot on the Internet, but in real life I do things during the week and meet up with a lot of other adults with jobs and commutes for them.

This came up a lot when I was mentoring younger engineers. Every time we did a deep dive into their daily routine, they had a lot of unaccounted for time. They’d list their work day and commute, obviously, then add things like getting ready in the morning and eating dinner at night. Then one of two things happened: Either they’d start to exaggerate their daily routine chores (getting ready in the morning, making dinner at night) until they took 6 hours every day, or they’d be confused about how they couldn’t get the numbers to add up.

Upon further gentle pushing, they almost always realize that they’re spending hours and hours watching TV and on their phones every time. Some times they’d pull out a phone with screen time tracking, be stunned by the number of hours, and tell me it must be broken.

There are some job and commute combinations that won’t leave time for anything during the week, but most people don’t have those. They just have poor time management and their revealed priorities differ from their stated priorities. People will tell you that reading books and going to the gym is a priority for them, but then they’ll spend 3 hours watching Netflix every night and scroll social media for 90 minutes every morning.
Exactly correct, and excellent real-world example!