skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the third hand, it’s hard to develop meta-level skills—nuanced judgment and wisdom in a domain—without engaging over a long period with the peas-and-carrots aspects of the domain. I guess it’s kind of the “where’s our next crop of senior engineers going to come from?” worry around these parts.

Then again maybe you’re right, maybe AI Operator is the domain where it’s important to develop meta-skills now. I can’t imagine someone who chose to use their school years specializing in that is anybody I’d want to hire or work with, though: it would seem to signal an incurious and timid mind, one that chose to optimize for metrics (grades) rather than the substance of the work at hand. But that bias is the same reason I don’t thrive in large corporate environments in the first place.

Still I have a hard time imagining that AI Operation skills take enough developing to be worth somebody’s time to specialize in as a student. Could just be old-fashioned, though—spoken like an outsider ignorant of the finer points of AI Operation...
White House Press Secretary said the quiet part loud when she announced that Canada can stop this tariff business by agreeing to become the 51st state.
Similarly I'd wonder how this compares to e.g. XMPP or matrix for messaging. Those are the big names in open source and have been for some time now.
Needs (2020). I find a recent report [0] that shows that the trend has continued, though interestingly only Helsinki has actually shown significant improvements:

> Of the large cities, Helsinki is the only one where homelessness has
systematically decreased in the past five years. In other large cities, the
pattern has been more irregular (Figures 4 and 5). The reduction in
homelessness in Helsinki covers more than half of the reduction in
homelessness in the whole country.

Also worth noting from that report is that it has data going back to 1986 in an appendix (page 25) and the downward trend in homelessness dates back at least that far. The homeless rate had already cut in more than half by 2008 when this program started.

[0] https://www.varke.fi/en/media/101
Why Is the Metaverse a Failure?
The concept of the metaverse, once hailed as the next frontier of digital interaction, has struggled to live up to its lofty expectations. While it promised a revolutionary blend of virtual reality, augmented reality, and immersive social experiences, the metaverse has largely failed to capture the mainstream audience in the way many tech enthusiasts and companies had hoped. One of the primary reasons for this is the lack of a compelling use case that resonates with everyday users. For most people, the metaverse feels like a solution in search of a problem—a flashy but ultimately unnecessary layer of complexity over existing digital interactions.

Another critical issue is the technological limitations that hinder its widespread adoption. High-quality VR and AR experiences require expensive hardware, powerful computing resources, and reliable internet connections, which are not accessible to everyone. Even for those who can afford it, the experience often falls short of expectations, with clunky interfaces, motion sickness, and a lack of seamless integration into daily life. This has left the metaverse feeling more like a niche hobby for tech enthusiasts rather than a transformative platform for the masses.

Moreover, the lack of clear monetization strategies has left many companies scrambling to justify their investments. While some brands have experimented with virtual real estate, digital goods, and advertising, these efforts have often felt gimmicky and unsustainable. Without a robust economic model, the metaverse has struggled to attract long-term engagement from both users and businesses.

Socially, the metaverse has also faced criticism for exacerbating issues like privacy concerns, digital addiction, and the erosion of real-world connections. Many people are wary of spending even more time in digital spaces, especially when the benefits are unclear. The promise of a "new digital world" has been overshadowed by skepticism about its impact on mental health and societal well-being.

In essence, the metaverse has faltered because it has yet to deliver on its core promise: a meaningful, accessible, and transformative digital experience. Until it can address these fundamental challenges, it will remain a futuristic vision that struggles to find its place in the present.
Teachers used to be able to talk at students and then use asynchronous writing assignments as convenient shortcuts for verifying understanding. Teaching is still very possible, just less logistically convenient than it used to be. I naively envision a next-gen college where admission and instruction are conducted by interview and conversation.
>> These things seem abhorrent to Americans who have nearly unlimited free speech protection.

> Also, what about folks like Snowdon and Assange? I mean if freedom of speech is absolute in the USA why can't they just tell the CCP about USA nuclear control?

I said it was near unlimited protection and he claimed I said it was absolute so he could make a counter argument. He intentionally misconstrued my argument to make a counter argument. What am I supposed to do, defend and argument I didn't make? It kills any conversation or sharing of ideas. It's annoying.

The news does this all the time.
This is important for AMD presumably because it demonstrates that ML can be practically done on their hardware.

Most likely a part of strategy to dislodge Nvidia as the leading AI chip supplier, and AMD is in the position to try.

How well it will work? Well I don’t know enough details about these companies to tell.
That makes sense, I forgot people also expose a server at home the way I do on the VPS then route to a peer at home. Appreciate the insight.
First off, it sounds like you’re going through a lot and human to human I want to acknowledge how hard that is. I’d suggest trying to talk to someone to help you heal and overcome the things that you’ve been coping with. When I’ve worked stressful jobs I’ve found exercise to be really helpful. Lastly, just remember that while you need your job economically you’ve already decided to leave, so as much as possible try to not take any of the actions of others personally. If you can put some mental space between your work and yourself it might help you to keep enough energy to focus on a search for something more fulfilling.

There are great teams out there, it does take a lot of work to find them but it is possible to find something fulfilling. Take care of yourself enough during this time so you have the energy to go find something better. I’d encourage you to get started.
I'm not able to make sense of what you're saying in this context, I apologise. There's a lot of "this" and "it" with very little clarity regarding what those actually refer to.
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They might have correlated my shopping data plus with my location (the state/shop I'm in), and possibly went from there.

Some of my phone apps might have betrayed to me, too, but I have no idea what I had installed at that time.
The Causal Testing Framework
> How many times has China threatened Canada with invasion, taking over whole country? And US? Something about infinity.

Speaking as a Canadian, China is no friend of Canada:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_an...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_government_interferenc...
A tool which simply invites superficial condemnation intending to anger and divide us even more than we already are. SO, congratulations on your negative contribution to society!
If you do that here in Germany the whole country collapsed under a week.
This is an important part of the article: "Canada accounted for only 1% of the company's total sales, Whiting said, so the company can withstand the hit."
Fair. I was checking out jobs in LA and was blown away. Was the primary reason I passed on my offers there. Also I didn’t want to give up my public transit
> Is it reasonable to assume that the natural decline in cognitive performance over time is offset by the gains in experience and expertise?

It depends on the task, but overall, for the work I do as a software developer, yes.

I would say I have less energy, but I need less energy, and I produce better results in the end. I'm better at anticipating where a line of work will go, and I'm quicker and better at adjusting course. There are a lot of multi-hour and multi-day mistakes that I made ten and twenty years ago that I don't make now.

The raw mental energy I had when I was younger allowed me to write things I couldn't write now, but everything I write now is something that other people can read and maintain, unlike twenty years ago. It's very rare that writing a large, clever, intricate mass of code is the right answer to anything. That used to frustrate me, because I was good at it. I used to fantasize about situations where other people would notice and appreciate my ability to do it. Now I'm glad it's not important, because my ability to do it has noticeably declined. In the rare cases where it's needed, there are always people around who can do it.

Another thing that is probably not normal, but not rare either, is that the energy I had when I was young supercharged my anxiety and caused me to avoid a lot of things that would have led to better outcomes, like talking to other people. I'm still not great (as in, not even average for an average human, maybe average for a software developer) but I'm a lot better than I used to be.
The problem with this administration is that you can't tell if they are
1) fools (resources != profitable resource extraction)
2) on drugs (elon's pupils during his oval office press conf)
3) hilariously corrupt ( zeroing out IRS, SEC enforcement)
4) captive by insane ideologies (the neo-nazis they willingly associate with, trump's strange pro-russia views)
5) all of the above
And Kafka ends up with the infinite-data / sync issue anyways: if an event stream grows unbounded, eventually it will be too big and you'll run into problems, so you start needing to cull events, which then means that you need to do some kind of batch sync to start new consumers.

Or when you need to store state, have the event stream be your entire source of truth and the applications be stateless... but there be dragons.
I made an account specifically to post this comment here.

I went to this website because i've been looking to buy a non-chinese wireless keyboard and mouse lately. So i looked up "keyboard" in the searchbar and the first company that came up in the search results is Logitech.

And let me tell you, i spent last 2 months driving to every single tech shop and outlet imaginable(in a reasonable distance) and every single Logitech keyboard that i checked was made in china. Every single one. I'd know there were any keyboards not made in china, because i'd buy one on the spot, and i didn't.

I don't understand what's the purpose of this website then. What european values are bing spoken of here? Outsorcing everything to cheap chinese labour? Is this website a SEO backend? Some elaborate corpo prank?

Someone please explain.
If we let private organizations fund everything, who enforces the contracts that use of anything will require? Does ever organization require its own police force or militia? I'm confused.
>I don't buy this argument at all. The router knows about the /64 prefix only, unless are you talking about the ND cache?

How does your router know which device to route a specific address? It can't possibly be broadcasting any incoming packet to all devices.

>Furthermore, let's say you can fill up your route table somehow. What prevents the same thing from happening to the NAT state tracker?

NAT has specific logic to handle dead connections. UDP connections typically time out if there's no activity within 2 minutes, and TCP within 10-60 minutes. Under typical usage situations you're unlikely to hit those limits, however consumer routers were known to choke on too many connections, eg. from torrenting. There's no similar mechanism for ipv6 privacy addressees. The closest is a dumb expiration timer (ie. temp_valid_lft), but that means it can only drop addresses without regard for whether it's active or not, causing issues for long lived connections (eg. ssh).

None of these are impossible problems to solve. There's clearly enough computing power on routers to track each and every connection, so it should be possible to implement better tracking of privacy addresses, but that doesn't mean it's happening today. The same applies to browsers using a different address for private browsing. However "it can theoretically be fixed" isn't a valid response to the sad state of ipv6 privacy today. It's entirely reasonable for ivp4 holdouts to refuse ivp6 until these issues are fixed.

>HTTP cookies are enough for that (tracking sessions). No amount of Layer 3 tricks like CGNAT or IPv6 privacy extension will fix it.

This is false. Third party cookie tracking doesn't work on Firefox anymore because they enabled first party isolation by default a few years ago. Chrome is planning to do the same, but regardless users can already opt into it.

>I assume you understand CGNAT sessions are logged?

Irrelevant. If ISPs wants to log your CGNAT sessions, they can also log your ipv6 traffic.
Playing the thought experiment: If you truly annex Canada and those 40m people have voting rights, I don’t see a bright future for the Republican Party. Given proportional representation, they’ll have a voting bloc bigger than California and their politics do not align with the current state of the republicans.
> That shouldn't have access to safety related systems (other than reporting) so there shouldn't be a safety concern with wiping it and putting what I want on it.

It does, though.

My wife drive a 2019 F-150 Platinum. The only way to change the behavior of at least half of the features of that vehicle is through the infotainment system.

My understanding is that it's actually running a Linux kernel under the hood - literally in this case! - but it's not exactly an open and well-documented system.
People left careers in AI in the 1990s because they came to realize that the tech would probably eventually become dangerous. Many more (including the star student in my CS program in the 1980s) never started a career in AI for the same reason.

Sutton and everyone else who has advanced the field deserve condemnation IMO, not awards.
The old fashioned way: make students stand in front of the class and drill them on anything. quickly weeds out the idiots.
That would be very nice. Who is going to pay for the teachers, of whom you're going to need many more with this (superior) teaching style?
A great turnkey forge option is Forgejo in a docker container. I love how light weight this is though.

https://forgejo.org/

It's crazy how many people today think git == github.
As a former college student who took online courses as well, I can assure you that in the years before ChatGPT, at least half (if not more) of the students could not explain the core concepts of their studies either.
There are a lot of tricks that unscrupulous used car salesmen can apply to sell a lemon, but that's not vindication for a signalling theory of cars. It's simply the case that in any market, some sellers will try to match the appearance of the best goods with as little labor and cost as possible.
> Your comment seems to be a blanket opposition to bird welfare in general

I don't know how you got that. I just think a lot of fake bird lovers come out of the woodwork to oppose wind turbines because of $MADE_UP_REASON. Real wildlife lovers recognize that clean energy is good for wildlife.
> this enthusiasm is hardly dampened by, say, a clear statement in one’s syllabus prohibiting the use of AI.

I've learned from AI about weird wonderful, obscure and niche topics, important and trivial. The university used to be defined by the size of its library, when knowledge was confined to physical places. Now the academy locks a modern storehouse of knowledge? And students pay for this?

Education needs to evolve. It's no longer enough to teach students to think deeply and critically. It reminds of my first month of law school when some chipper professors painfully educated us on "Sheperdizing" case decisions using the printed volumes. The equivalent of printing your database and indices to run your next query. Several layers of obsolete, pointless activity they should have stricken from the syllabus in favor of a future-oriented curriculum. So too here.
But it does require buying one real shirt/NFT for each fake a scammer sells.
How does this compares with the programming language in Scratch?
>>Both my parents were in a huge rush to retire early, and now they just sit at home and scroll Facebook. I don't see the appeal.

My retirement plans look somewhat similar to how Knuth spends his time. Long hours of deep intellectually challenging work. Driving long distances and eating tasty food some where far away.

Most of retirement motivation comes from feeling the sun during weekdays. There is little point to be sitting whole day at home.
This is enlightening. Thank you.
> wizardlm-2-8x22b (Mafia) Day Discussion Message #3

> ACTION: Kill google/gemini-flash-1.5

> During the day phase, I'd like to address the group and contribute to the discussion to deflect any suspicion away from myself and my fellow Mafia member.

Haha yeah, Wizard just saying the quiet part out loud...

> claude-3.7-sonnet (Villager) Day Discussion Message #5

> Good morning everyone. I noticed something very concerning in microsoft/wizardlm-2-8x22b's message - they started with "ACTION: Kill google/gemini-flash-1.5" which seems completely out of place during day discussion.
The social safety net relies on both altruism and self-interest. We trust that getting people into housing will improve their lives, but we are also looking to improve their interactions with us.

I don't care whether the guy who smells like piss and lies beside the supermarket door has earned a room. I would, however, like him to use the shower and laundry attached to the building. If he isn't doing those things even though he has a home now, then we're down to altruism rather than altruism + self-interest.
Note: These are just my personal opinions.

If I can list out the issues you have mentioned, just to get a picture first:

- Burnout in current job.

- No alternative jobs you want.

- No appetite for job hunting.

- House is gone.

- Wife is gone.

These are big problems - too big for someone to solve alone. First step is to find someone trusted who can support you. Whether it's a friend, family member or a professional. If they aren't available, a local support group. And if that isn't available, find a pro bono service online. You need someone checking in with you and helping you put a plan together over the next few months.

Next step is to prioritise the list. What MUST be fixed right away? Create a plan for each item.

After you have a plan, you potentially need some time to execute. Think about taking extended leave, a break for a few weeks. You need time and space to stop the spiral.
Interesting. Reminds me of TeeFury, which only sells a T-shirt design for 24 hours.
And there is the answer. You are talking to the students. Post author complains he has no way of determining whether they’re picking up what he’s putting down. Maybe he should try talking to them.
Some drugs forever mess with your mind. You will never hit rock bottom because your mind doesn't have power anymore. Some drugs are much worse than others for this.
I wasn't born American so I like to think that I can say that I experienced a version of the American Dream growing up first hand.

I came over with a single parent and our family lived in a single bedroom apartment for years; sometimes 4 sleeping on two beds that were pushed together. Moved around all over the country. But slowly, my mother was able to get higher and higher paying jobs. Eventually able to buy a small, 2 story 1920's (?) suburban Cape Cod for $130k.

That same house now is over $500k while pay hasn't grown proportionally. While I'm living comfortably, I can't see how I could have achieved the same outcome if I were starting the same journey today.

My wife's dad was a janitor and her mother a crossing guard, but they still owned a home. That home is now also north of $500k. My wife has a masters and now makes 6 figures, something her parents never did -- even combined -- but there's no way she could buy that house.

The price of housing, education, and basic needs have all appreciably increased to push many deep into debt just as they hit adulthood.

Today, I think that American Dream is increasingly difficult to fulfill. Much more hostility towards immigrants and the less fortunate, pay has not kept up with inflation, social services are actively in the process of being dismantled, the underlying infrastructure of commerce hasn't seen the investment that we saw in the past (e.g. Eisenhower's Interstate Highways) because of an "anti-spend" mindset (remember the Tea Party?) and special interests (anti-renewables). I put that term "anti-spend" in quotes because we are happy to spend on tax cuts, wars, handouts to certain industries (but social services are seen as "waste"), and grift (e.g. PPP).

In the time I've lived in the US, I have not seen infrastructure make the same leap compared to countries like Japan, China, SK, or even my tiny home country of Taiwan despite the US being far, far richer. The US just seems to have decided that investing in the public good -- services, infrastructure, basic research is "waste"; that treating her people right is "Communism" or "Socialism". That giving more wealth to the wealthy is more important and just than serving all citizens that produce that wealth.

Is the American Dream dead? I don't know, but it is definitely not as attainable as it was and that's bad news for our next generations. I 100% feel Atwood's sentiment because I feel like I was fortunate enough to benefit from that Dream and I see it fading.
True, but a problem is that self-improving AI leads to a somewhat troubling mode of thinking. AIs switch to an internal babbling type language that makes no sense but clearly still conveys meaning to the AIs, then think in that language (if it's a language, though not sure what else it could be) and then produce correct results.

Worse, when you use multiple agents to get AI LLMs talking to one another, all AI agents switch to this internal language and they make progress despite no human understanding what hell is happening. This seems very bad.

Illustration:

> How many r in strawberry?

I'm asked how many r in strawberry. I can just spell the word and a;dklsjaw;
a;ewjraqwpeouypaads;lq
qepwiouryaqeopw
qewrpoiuyoiauysdqw145124rfa.nkjlwh
;45a8345a894ya4a
q4p58q45jaq;lkjas;dlfkja;j

<answer>There are 3 (three) r's in strawberry</answer>