There's this one GitS (SAC I think) UI thing that I think about pretty often: a bot needs to work faster so its fingers pop open revealing a huge number of additional cursed sub-fingers, such that it can type on a keyboard massively faster. I love thinking of this as such a wonderfully naive early 2000's view on HCI — there's no direct-access data API, the bot needs to use the keyboard so.... more actuators!! How much of technology has this same flavor?
Readit Newsglup commented on $900k Median Package for Engineers at OpenAI levels.fyi/companies/open... · Posted by u/zuhayeer
Definitely feels like there should be a "law of headlines" coined to effect of - something must always either be surging catastrophically or plummeting disatrously.
And that’s an inclusive “or”, mind you-- I remember an Al-Jazeera news story that opened with the line “Some say the new measures go too far… but do the new measures go far enough?”
I'm missing how this is an advance over https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2105646118
glup commented on The world has more trees than it did 35 years ago (2021) goodgoodgood.co/articles/... · Posted by u/bilsbie
This is a near-meaningless statistic for evaluating the health of the environment, obviously. Maximizing the coverage of intact ecologies supporting biodiversity should be the management objective. The problem here is that you can plant more trees, but the forest is monocropped and doesn't support the rich network of species it did previously. Hence, the importance of conservation (and corridors between protected lands) rather than restoration.
glup commented on Postico: A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac eggerapps.at/postico/... · Posted by u/modinfo
What are your opinions on DBeaver? https://dbeaver.io/
It's not pretty, but, everything else seems like a toy for children by comparison.
glup commented on I have formally accepted the CEO job at Cruise once again twitter.com/kvogt/status/... · Posted by u/vehbisarikaya
> the way e-ink patents have limited product creation
Such incredible confidence in that statement that there is not even a hint or need to offer up any evidence or anything at all. HN is amazing. Dunning Kruger rules here.
Note the question mark in the OP’s comment. Also, pretty sure the e-ink limitation is common knowledge on HN. Yep, HN is amazing.
glup commented on The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) newyorker.com/news/letter... · Posted by u/nicolast
I "think", most of those debate ties with technology one way or another. Say Joe Rogan's issue may not have been allowed on HN if it wasn't for Spotify.
And more broadly speaking, what are the roles of technology in an extremely political sensitive climate. Should Telegram do A or B, and what about Whatsapp, Facebook moderation, Apple App Store disallow certain group, is that a curation problem or a political problem? Fake News, Yellow Journalism, none of these are "new". But now they happen on Tech rather than traditional media, is that a tech problem or a political problem? We just dont have any concrete answer.
There are other Geopolitics issues. I mean if WW3 did start surely that is important enough for HN submission. Or China decide to invade Taiwan, so to speak. Surely the threat of TSMC Foundry supply is important enough for submission even if the article itself doesn't mention TSMC.
So while the rule is not black and white as zero politics discussions. I think the moderation is fairly consistent. Still dont know how Dang manages it. To the point I sometimes worry about him leaving YC, and HN may never be the same again.
This sort of reminds me of what happened to the Slashdot... everyone was playing video games, hacking with Arduinos, doing silly things with homelabs, arguing about OS X vs. Linux, etc. and then suddenly so many people in the community moved up through the ranks and started to interface with politics, policy, and international business, just as those things started to really change with tech. So ya, tech overflows itself.
In light of this pretty natural scope creep, I agree with the above point that the moderation feels pretty consistent, and am, for one, extremely appreciative of Dang's work.
glup commented on How big was the Tonga eruption? graphics.reuters.com/TONG... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
For western US trained geoscientists, the Bishop Tuff [1] (from the ~750,000 years ago eruption of the Long Valley Caldera, near Mammoth Mtn. in California) is a "modern" comparable ashfall deposit.
This was quite a bit larger (edited to add: I meant in areal extent, not necc. volume erupted).
I was vacationing in Mammoth one time and started reading about the geology... quite a shock to find that basically everything to the east is a giant caldera [1]. Also 760,000 years ago is really quite recent on geologic time scales.
It makes sense because tree search can be endlessly optimized. In a sense, LLMs turn the unstructured, open system of general problems into a structured, closed system of possible moves. Which is really cool, IMO.