skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a US version of the Maoist Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries is imminent.
3. Never give a student a solution to a problem they don’t have.

This reminds me of when I just started high school and realized, "school is just a bunch of answers to questions nobody asked."

It's not that I didn't want to learn, nor even that I didn't want to learn those exact things -- just not have them fed to me at arbitrary intervals with total disregard for my actual state of mind.

(The original Dalton school mine was inspired by did this right, over 100 years ago, but most of the methods -- ie. letting kids learn what they actually care about, when it interests them most -- are illegal in my country.)

As for presenting the question first, at university this was often done, they would present us with some real world problem -- but then they would spoil the fun by instantly revealing the solution on the next slide! I like figuring things out, so in those moments I'd usually cover my ears and try to figure it out on my own.

Somebody else's solution only becomes interesting to me once I've invested the effort to make my own, and then I can compare and contrast.
I'm not saying civilisation will end or ALL humans will die out.

I'm saying expect famines in places that are currently breadbaskets. Ditto floods, droughts, hurricanes, plagues, heart waves etc.

You may well die in any of these, lots of people do, it's very popular and no one expects it to happen to them...

So maybe move way from the coast and to higher ground, get an air conditioner, stay in shape and take weather warnings seriously.

If I actually thought civilisation or the species were going to end, it wouldn't make sense to do anything except maybe party till its over...
It's a deliberate filter - if you fall for the grammar you're much more likely to fall for the full scam and keep complying even after you've been scammed already.

Otherwise the scammers are wasting their time on people who have better infosec practices and are therefore low ROI targets.
I’d like to see more studies done with the effects of psychedelics on ADHD. I’ve personally had greater focus control and mental clarity through them (specifically LSD and moreso mushrooms, although DMT did give me a pretty large six month break from my symptoms). However there is virtually no information regarding this out there. Good luck going into most ADHD communities and bringing them up
Not really, they signed a bunch of deals with Russia to legally import their IP wholesale. For example, the Shenzhou spaceship flown today is a direct descendant of the venerable Soviet Soyuz. (Which is still being flown to the ISS as well.)

I know it's easy to think "cheap Chinese copy fnarr fnarr", but so far they have a perfect track record for human spaceflight (and no, even the CCP couldn't cover up a space accident).
This makes sense for scams, but not in the case of a hacked Ledger physical device that doesn't involve any human-to-human interaction. They just need you to plug it in and follow the steps; the skeptical don't waste their time like they would if you had to spend weeks/months winning trust over a messaging app as some 419 scams involve.
> On the other hand, if we had started years ago regularly arbitrarily shut down the internet for a day, as apparently Syria does, we probably wouldn't have come to rely on the internet for so much basic infrastructure.

The question then is, is that a good thing?

I'd bet on "no". Right, people on Syria get to know how to buy gas on a no-internet day, but they also have to maintain that knowledge and infrastructure every other day of the year.
ISPs have a high cost to entry: you have to run fiber everywhere to offer service and you don’t get revenue until you do that and people sign up. Major players can slash prices below cost until you fold and then jack the rates up (I live in an area with 3 gigabit options: service here is cheaper and better than only a few blocks away where it’s just Comcast - and everyone you call on the phone knows whether you have competition at your address).

The model I’d like would be having fiber either be owned by the city or a highly regulated utility, with a market for ISPs to provide service on that infrastructure. It’d be much easier to enter the market if you just need to peer at a few locations rather than each house, and it’d be nice if there was a no-frills option for people who only want reliable IP without all of the add-on services.
One could imagine a 365-day excuse calendar which provides a cover story for any time they want to shut down the internet. Today’s excuse is exams.
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I get what you're saying, but honestly the Quest is in a whole other league, as a product. I had an original Vive, and understand that Cosmos has higher fidelity etc, but the Quest inside-out-tracking is good enough, and can be used with or without a PC, with or without a cable to said PC, the resolution is great, and the compression on the PC interfaces while noticable is, again, good enough.

I sincerely don't miss the lighthouses and cables, and can make a new area in any part of the house, at any time.

I just wish it wasn't owned by Facebook. But there's no competitor, unfortunately.
Different drugs have different effects on different people. People with ADHD are often calmed down by stimulants, at doses that would have “neurotypicals” bouncing off the walls.
isn't it similar with other scam emails where poor grammar basically filters out smart people and only the more gullible carry on?

other option is that they are doing a/b test of different messages
Not entirely, there were violent riots and at least one policeman died as well. It's unclear if Mustafa was actually involved though.
Certainly not a good thing, but I'd be surprised if this has a measurable impact on the overall attractiveness of a location. Even expensive internet is likely less than 10% of overall expenses and, in my experience, it's very hard to tell if your internet will be good or bad without literally plugging in a modem, which realistically most people won't have the knowledge or means to do.

Call me a cynic but I guess my thought is that if incremental decreases in qol and poor planning were enough to drive people away from the republican party it would have happened long ago.
It's all about compatibility to be honest. PyPy has done yeoman's work and it's still lacking in compatibility for important packages (e.g., psycopg2). Performance means little if we can't use major parts of the ecosystem.
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> The results have to be worth the analysis time

On modern systems it may be possible for a JIT compiler to run in the background on cores not being used by the application code.

> JIT isn't a technique that can optimize memory layout

As I understand it, compiler optimizations for memory layouts aren't very well researched in general. Why would the JIT model be a hindrance?
PyPy is a JIT that doesn't produce standalone executables.
I live in WV and work a job based in PA.

Working on a communication (will call and email) to Ohio reps now, but they have less than zero reason to care about my opinion on the subject.

I contacted my ISP to see if they think it would impact them and asked if I can help in some way.

Apparently something similar passed in PA recently
https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
While it may have been a happy accident, it's a pretty big market.

Precovid, on any conference I went to, professional or academic, the amount of Apple laptops was insane. I'm sure they're running things locally or on Linux servers, but the fact that they work pretty well between them is important.
On the other side, voice based interface makes it easier to supply context - for example, am I searching for a book called "Apple", the fruit "apple" or the company "Apple"?

A (future) AGI-based search engine can go even further than that, and generate the answer for any problem based on the knowledge it has ingested.
I suppose exams of which answers are googleable are not very useful for anything other than pushing piles of facts (temporarily) into students' heads. But I also suppose that the Syrian governement is probably not the best counterpart to argue about progressive education methods with.
oh no we don't need to rename them again. Especially not to "X-Formers"
Yeah, but in the first case you go from 1000 files to 2, whereas in the second you go from 2 to 1, which is much less impressive.

Metrics are fun!
If you think that access to information networks is critical to a functioning modern society, then you can't leave the provision of that service up to the private sector, because the private sector can always just decide to close shop.

If we had a powerful bureaucracy, robust oversight, and a lot of subsidies then I'd see it differently. We have all that for food, which obviously is critical. We almost have it for electric power, also critical. We don't have any of those things for networks.
It's really cool to see this released.
I've already been running some experiments to see what framework models work well for gleam based browser apps, which I hope to share soon
Doubtful... it seems neither party is interested in breaking up monopolies. They'd both rather bend them to their interests is some selfish power move.
> That's bullshit.

Dude, there is literally a link with references.
There's a serious argument to be made to keep the government out of areas which ought to be free market territory. If there's not enough demand for internet in these areas to justify multiple service providers, perhaps that's OK, because to provide the service would be a waste of resources... Just because internet is a utility does not mean the government ought to be the one providing that utility.

Also, this just reinforces the argument for projects like Starlink -- which could change the game in rural broadband. Conservatives have a lot of motivation to oppose government programs and that does not necessarily make them corrupt.

What America needs is more intellectual + centrist + pragmatic conservatism to counter Trumpist BS, not necessarily more government programs....
I think being an air force pilot is a suitable background for becoming an astronaut. Possibly even a better background than being a billionaire in a mid-life crisis.
True: the angle I was focusing on is the demonstrated interest and willingness to spend time and credibility on it (see also Crypto AG). It’s safe to assume that will continue as society moves further online so we should assume well-funded concealed attempts to compromise implementations will continue.
Voting for The GOP really is like being a slug and voting for more salt.
In what part of the US does this ever happen? Where are all the small “mom and pop” ISPs? Oh, right.
Microsoft repos were silently added to Raspberry Pi OS earlier this year, ostensibly "in case anyone wants to use VSCode" and definitely not just as a super shitty way of adding telemetry to every Raspberry Pi OS install without asking the user if they were cool with this.
I don't think either of those are appropriate use cases for hash avatars. Print as a QR code maybe. In the latter case you can capture a video to share.
I really believe in VR.

I despise Facebook and advertising.

We need an alternative.
Once thing I've always wanted in Solvespace is the ability to type up a file using a description like to OpenSCAD, then open that file in Solvespace --- is that on the radar?
Reminds me of one of my favourite Star Trek scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i3gp_aN1cs

"My god, what is this, the Dark Ages?"

"Sounds like the goddamned Spanish Inquisition."
As a full stack developer who works on tons of PHP and Laravel projects…I don’t care. It’s the 3rd thing I install on every new machine: Firefox, Homebrew, then latest version of PHP. This will have an effect on developers who create tools that rely on PHP but I’m not sure how big of a market that I’m really is so ok.
Schmidhuber has done a lot of important, fundamental work, at the time when none of it was “cool”, but whenever I stumble upon his writing it always reads like a bad history book, where when and who are more important than what or why. I get (and moderately support) his obsession with proper attribution, but I wish he first talked about ideas, and then delved into the intricate historical details.
Yeah, but I’m pretty sure they don’t publicize the use of tech that they pilfered.
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I know I'm pretty inept when it comes to this subject, but can someone help me understand how the first three points of Turing's philosophical justification listed above can be true? For example, in computing the sequence of n values of an infinite series or the first n digits of pi, how can the claim be made that this can be done in a finite amount of space or with a finite number of states?
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I never found autocorrect reliable - at least in Android keyboards (both Gboard and Samsung) - so I learned to always keep that deactivated. Swiping is the only place where keyboard layout would matter to me, so indeed virtual keyboards make sense to match the input. Physical don't have swiping (yet?) so I'll stick with the one with umlauts and never bother to change the input keyboard - although Windows keeps insisting after updates.
A shame, but very likely true.
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Wow, another Gentoo user!

One great thing about Gentoo is that you can have multiple versions of packages like PHP, so you can run legacy and the newest, at the same time, on the same system, without having to deal with docker.
Could you explain your reasoning here?

Do you expect a ban on municipal broadband to improve either the quality or price of internet service and if so are there any examples of this happening?
Aren't Oculus games typically $20-50?

The price points for games always seemed very high to me. In an ideal world they'd offer a "no ads, full price" version and a "discount with ads" version. My guess is we'll probably just be left with "full price with ads" as the only option.
I've been like that with everything for most of my life. One trick I use is to allow myself to begin something without committing, or deciding that my next actions are going to be exploratory, making them non-concrete and easier to start.

Giving yourself license to change your mind gets rid of a lot of anxiety behind starting. I do have to balance that with the need to actually finish stuff, but I'm better off getting started regardless. Better to be in it and involved than sitting on the sidelines. Like some of the other comments have mentioned, making any decision is better than no decision, even if you later find it was the wrong decision.
> Last week I typed in the exact title of a book. The book way way down in the search results.

I've had good results searching for the ISBN rather than the title.
Time to find a buyer for my Oculus, why the heck I should pay for game and then see ads there?
Surely the "high quality ISPs" would easily outcompete the "low quality local alternatives". Let the market decide, and let ISP customers vote the local alternatives out with their wallets! And if a local authority were to insist on using public money to subsidize a thoroughly outcompeted municipal broadband, then the locals will be free to vote them out with their, well... votes.
I mean if dreaming is any indication, the mind is actually pretty good at “simulating all the particles, light, and physics”, with of course some “rendering issues”
Politics is business. Business is about making money. From those foundational facts, it's fair to infer that if state Republican politicians are working to ban cities from providing basic services, the politicians are doing this because they think they can make money doing it.

It's wrong. But then, politics, in its current incarnation, is business.
the conclusion you stated here is what everyone says --> "Fine for tinkering, not practical for actual work." And that is the exact reason why i posted this here. Because i do not have a good reason as to "why NOT have it as a production server" when (1) those guys in the article did just that and served millions of requests per day (2) they even have a hosting service of Raspberry PIs and have had this going pretty well for some time. These are all examples of PIs used in production, but everyone still says "dont do it" and my question is why? The difficulties you mentioned above is easily accounted for, so i was wondering if there was any other points i was missing?
Lots of assumptions in that statement, care to elaborate preferably with links to reputable data?

TIA
Seriously asking, is there any other inside out system that works well? From my experience, WMR is terrible at that.
Kinda doubt that. For example, stitching the wound's edges together is pretty damn primitive if you ask me but it's not going away anytime soon. And so is excision: if there is a part of body you'd like to be absent, then cutting it away is a pretty obvious, straightforward and reliable way to achieve that.

"Doctor, my ear hurts, and the surgeon told me that he'd have to cut it off" — "Ah, those surgeons, they only know how to cut things off. Here, take this pill, and your ear will drop off on its own".
x86 has two logarithm instructions, FYL2X and FYL2XP1.

FYL2X takes two arguments, Y and X, and computes Y log2(X).

FYL2XP1 takes two arguments, Y and X, and computes Y log2(X+1).

As you note, x86 and ARM are by far the most used, and I'd guess that when it comes to Java you are more likely to be running on x86 than ARM, so I figured it was arguable to say "many" when the only one I was sure had a logarithm instruction was x86.
Yeah I’ve encountered some really fun bugs on more than one occasion due to zero-width spaces sneaking into places they shouldn’t be. I hate Word documents as a medium for sending around API instructions or content for a CMS for this reason.
Yes, it is. But the ground rule has always been 'follow the money'. Expect companies, and their paid for legislators, to protect their revenue streams, no matter how badly it screws any individuals.

This is the fight we are in, and have been since the post-WW2 boom.
Is there ever bad fiber internet? If a place has fiber to the home, there is a pretty high probability that it is better than whatever garbage the coaxial cable company is peddling.
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Ask HN: How do you find a co-founder you trust?
I’m a former CTO, good at tech and product stuff, but newbie with sales prospection, growth, and many other areas.

I think the new idea I have worked on recently could have a great potentiel, but I know I can’t execute it all by myself, as it’s not an “indie” project, based on the quantity of tasks and diversity of skills required.

I have previous experience as a founder, in which I tried to find a business co-founder after working one whole year on the project. It was a mistake for many reasons, and I don’t want to repeat it.

For now, I’m struggling to find the right way to find the co-founder I need. I’m hesitating between two opposite ways of searching for:
1. Browse people I know (friends, former colleagues, etc.) who would accept to create a startup with me. I trust them with human qualities, but most of the time, they are not the right professional profile for the tasks to be done.
2. Go to speed-dating-like events with strangers to find the right professional profile. But that way, I’m always thinking I can’t know and trust someone I just met.

I have a deep feeling it would be a mistake to start a business with someone I can’t trust on both professional and personal skills.
Do I sound like a risk-averse person? Do you think the problem is that my network is too small?
Should I give up my startup idea and find a smaller project to work on, as an indie dev instead?
Am I missing other better ideas?

All experience sharing would be appreciated, thanks!
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I've used everything from Evernote to Emacs (primarily for text manipulation and org-mode project/task tracking), Bear to Apple Notes, Workflowy to OmniOutliner, etc. I had been keeping a lot in Apple Notes but then I must have synced incorrectly somehow because text I had written on my desktop disappeared after I wrote text in the same note on my phone, and I couldn't find a way to get it back. I've been using Obsidian (offline) and I really enjoy it.
... Yes it's not apples fault they allow huge half page adverts not related to the search term.

Stop defending the system thats causing the issue.
And to think you could have politely explained to someone who has never owned an android device that Google Messages is what Google calls SMS for some reason, like the other replies did. But you chose this response, which I think says more about you than me.
I'm not sure about at the state level, but several republican controlled cities in Utah also have or are building municipal broadband.
It's like a fire drill. The government wants to desensitize people.

They want people be to used to the fact that cutting internet is something mundane so the next time they do it because of a protest, nobody will care.
Yeah, I've used PHP for a decade and have always never used what comes with MacOS. Always installed a newer version.
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No. The scam emails tend to lead to a human-to-human interaction, sometimes over quite some time. Romance scams may take months to pull off; a filter early on is useful there.

In the case of the fake Ledger devices, there's no similar overhead. A more convincing letter is almost certainly going to lead to more people plugging in the device and going through the steps. The incentive is reversed here.
And more importantly, make money for themselves and not for the city/state etc.
This whole story belongs under April 1st sadly
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Sigh. I remember when people used to put up websites for fun.
Three possible options, some possibly far-fetched, but most likely not impossible at some point, that come to my mind?

* Non-surgical body modification (organ regrowth?).

* Brain treatment of dysphoria.

* Developmental treatment of the fetus to prevent body-brain mismatch.
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So you're not seeing any concerns about letting the government control your internet? Not at all? Especially when this idea is proposed by a party who is vocally against freedom of speech and a few other freedoms?
Appreciate those notes! Will be redoing a lot of the documentation very soon, and will keep this in mind.
Von Neumann is also german-speaking by the way
That high cost of entry is paid to the municipality isn’t it ? Why build and run a business when you can just collect rent / taxes instead.
Yeah, after I remembered that `cut` exists shortly before needing to grab some fields of an input, I thought "oh, I'll use `cut` instead of `awk`". And lo and behold, `cut` couldn't do the thing I wanted. Why learn two tools when one will do? The only reason I can think of is the principle of least privilege, but if you can convince me it applies, I'll convince you should write a single tool that adheres to it instead of using countless tools for any given transform/privilege pair.
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Check out "one page marketing plan" - "how to become a rainmaker" - "traction" -

"way of the wolf" is a bit manipulative but can help write the sales script