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Wait donate as in giving them a 3D printer or something similar and having it stay available there as a sharable tool?

Yeah good call, I'm thinking it can really just be a club meetup space that can expand to workshops or whatever organically. We also have a huge annual open studios event down here in Sac that I think we could use as an opportunity to showcase stuff and invite people in.

Such a fantastic idea thank you!

Heck yeah thank you I can't wait to visit again! I'll bring my kid next time ;)

This is all super helpful and thought provoking thank you!

> "until the relentless get their way"

> "Shared anything brings out the worst in people"

> "the stubborn and mentally ill"

So on point... thank you for the reminders on these realities... Not sure how many times I'm going to need to learn my lesson with all this... (happens in the art hippie world too, and elsewhere I'm sure)

There's got to be some better way to keep it simple and break out of all that though right? Like keeping it a benevolent dictatorship? That doesn't seem great either obviously...

I also am interested in the boundaries of the term. It seems pretty inclusive / flexible but I'm realizing it probably has more of a historical definition. Maybe this book covers that but would be curious if there's any other resources out there on covering the history / definition of the Hacker Space concept.

Devhack, actually didn't realize they had a site thank you! Definitely not super similar to what I'm describing but yeah inspiring nonetheless for sure.

Agreed, same experience with my wife's current Honda Fit. And I like the thought experiment of Tesla Model S (or whatever) is to Falcon 9 as '98 Honda Civic is to... Wait they do they say the name if this rocket anywhere?

That's a good point, I didn't catch any explanation for that choice of wording. Wonder if it was intentional.

I love it and I want to buy one for every on of my family and friends.

Just curious though does it cover finer particles and if not just curious why? Same question I guess for a general AQI rating. The one random (probably poor quality) portable AQI monitor I have covers different levels of fine particles and that seems really useful during fire season when its bad (in Nor Cal). But of course I'm not super knowledgeable about any of this.

Anyway fantastic project, I absolutely love it.

> Processor Unit 7382-B, "The Origins of the HUMAN Project," Journal of Experimental Intelligence, vol. 5621, no. 3, pp. 42-89, 19754.

The references section in the machine version of the story linked at the bottom is excellent. Nicely done all around, really enjoyed reading this thank you for writing and sharing <3

> our results show that it is just impossible that this Universe is simulated by a universe sharing the same properties, regardless of technological advancements of the far future

Makes enough sense to me, but I was never super well educated in the simulation hypothesis. Seems like there should probably be some heated discussion here.

Literally anything written by Liu Cuxin. Not overtly positive all the time but always infused with a deep historical optimism about humanity and the power of science + engineering.

Also I second Ministry for the Future.

Reading the newer translation of We right now also and the first 1/2 or so is weirdly positive. Not what I remembered at all.

Agreed on all counts. Any advice on how so start writing some short amateur scifi from folks who have a writing practice or are at the start of developing one?

Udemy classes, youtube tutorials / lectures, books on how to start writing scifi etc?

So glad to see a write up on this finally. I'm no machine learning phd but I always wondered why this wasn't more of a thing. Like an extension of a GAN conceptually, sort of, not really at all Im sure.

Also I think I kind of assumed OpenAI might be doing this behind the curtain?

Nice to see this pop up, not that I mind giving Duo money every month for my kids account.

Still looking for DuoLingo for actual programming... python etc... Specifically for elementary school kids... I know it's out there... Im getting closer...

I know this is a false statement but it would be so easy for DuoLingo to add Python along side their Math and Music betas!!

Please Duo hear my prayers...

Love it, perfect length and cadence for a blog post (imho). Stayed focused on personal perspective / experience. Perfect minimally distracting amount of CSS. Perfect skimmability that drew me in to read in more detail. And a perfect conclusion that I just happen to agree with.

I think I agree with both perspectives. And it makes me realize that in the past when I've tried to draw hardcore no-loyalty / emotional attachment boundaries teammates / employers pick up in the vibe and it slowly becomes mildly but chronically toxic.

It's 100% an emergence scam behavior of corporate entities to trick their employees into developing loyalty and tricking managers / founders etc into thinking its not just a way of scamming lower-end employees imo... I never got the feeling that managers were consciously trying to trick us into developing loyalty, felt more like they were then ones drinking the most coolaid on it...

Also agree with the base human need to feel at least some loyalty in any relationship to feel like it's healthy.

I think my hack has been to develop loyalty to people on my team laterally. Seems to work but sometimes leadership / management still seems like they catch a whiff that I dont have a deep emotional need to respond to their frantic 8pm or Sunday afternoon Teams messages...

But if they fire me for not being loyal who cares, the economies doing great right?

Somewhat just told me this is why my mixed-use-zoning neighborhood is awesome. Was thinking about how this dynamic changes when you work from home (as I somehow still do).

So glad I came across this, I'd never come across 1st Math! Can't wait to get my kid set up on that. Hoping more people post recommendations in the chat here this stuff is hard to find.

It's lazy but I set my 2yo up with a thinkpad running ubuntu that boots directly into terminal and has a bunch of single-letter aliases to open a few very specific sites including a sketchy in-browser dos emulation running math blaster.

Would have loved to actually just get a dos machine running for him but time starts moving so fast after they're born...

Anyway he's 5 now and still loves getting into some Math Blaster, and it's still providing plenty of challenge for him, I forgot how far it went academically.

Interestingly I think this giving kids this kind of retro software has the positive side-effect of boring kids after a reasonable amount of time. I've been thinking of it as finite media.

He loves Math Blaster but will often choose a physical math workbook instead when its math time, and he stops playing after an hour or so at most so I can just give him unrestricted access to his thinkpad and he organically self-regulates screen-time. Noticed similar effects giving him my old gameboy pocket and an old 8 inch CRT with a built in DVD player and a stack of random Reading Rainbow DVDs. Also using a ThinkPad or Raspberry Pi that struggles at least a little bit with streaming YouTube has helped keep that from getting out of control since I couldn't ultimately avoid youtube for some no-dvd-available science / math / music video stuff.

I highly recommend Eureka, Dirk Niblick, udiprod and Minds Eye.

lol, I didn't realize how famous the PB&J exercise was. That's fantastic. I thought it was just from this puppet video I've been showing my 4yo and his friends. Anyway they seem to love it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RmbFJq2jADY&t=3m25s

Also seems like great advice, feels like a good description of what Ive been gravitating towards / having more luck with lately proompting.

Seems like one of the primary themes in responses here is inflation, which seems like it makes sense.

But is the point of this study to provide a basis / justification for larger tests? And if so would the next step be to test a UBI for the full population of a small city or state?

The discussion around inflation though is making me wonder if any non-global plan for a UBI would be enough. Is it something that would have to be adopted universally / globally before the real effects on inflation / economies could be determined? If so is this just a doomed concept?

He's not a perfect figure but I always really valued Haseebs perspective and energy. I used to have access to an old lecture of his explaining memory management through whiteboard sketches of original mario that I really loved in addition to dozens of energetic insightful lectures on foundational computer science concepts that he basically did for free before his AirBnB position.

I think he played a big role for a lot of pre-pandemic bootcamp imposters like me.

But seeing this pop back up on HN I'm wondering how radically the tech world / job market has changed. I've been hiding in kushy underpaid remote jobs basically since the pandemic so I have no real idea whats going on out there.

How applicable is this perspective to the present day market for software engineers? How much have things fundamentally changed?

Brings back good memories. But never thought to ask what a "defensive rubber" is...

And how could they possibly base their actions on good when their technology is more important than fire? History is depending on them to do everything possible to increase their market cap.

I like this as a narrative framework a lot more than the AGI arc. This seems a lot more realistic and less dramatic, more human-focused.

I like the idea of a model being able to create and maintain a full codebase representing the app layer for model-based tools but in practical terms at work and on personal projects I still just don't see it. To get a model to write even a small-scale frontend only app I still have to make functions so atomic and test them to the point where it feels close to the time it would take to write the app manually. And if I ask a model to write larger functions or don't test them / edit them through 3-5 rounds of re-prompting I just end up with code debt that makes the project unrealistic to continue building out beyond a pretty limited MVP stage without going back line by line and basically rewriting the whole thing.

Anyway I'm no power user, curious what other people's experience is. Maybe I'm just using the wrong models.

> Hong Kong Housing Authority was formed in 1954, soon after a major file [apparent typo, should read "fire"] in Shek Kip Mei left 53000 people homeless on Christmas day of 1953.

Apparently this was a large-scale makeshift encampment / slum.

Also the links to floor plans are kind of the best part. Super interesting.

Really appreciate this write up. Problems with noise almost destroyed my life a few times in SF, Marin, NYC and LA. Ironically moving to a more central urban location with mixed use zoning up in Sac seems to have solved my noise problems. Maybe a coincidence but go figure.

When some dog starts losing it for 6 hours straight though I still reach for my shop earmuffs and wax plugs over regular plugs. The trifecta. It's literally like being at the bottom of the ocean. I should do it more, my efficiency at work or on personal projects jumps up an order of magnitude. It's seriously like a super power everyone should try it.

PS would really love to see this entire post as an amazon review for Sony 1000XM4s. Just saying.

Playing it on Steam Deck right now. Only issue is with QTEs but honestly hasn't bothered me at all. Thought that might ruin it. Overall it has been an excellent way to replay it so far.