skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Build a decoder that knows just the vowels are missing, and you can make a simple dictionary of all the candidate words for each compressed word. Then if you know the probabilities of different word pairs, you can probably pick the correct word almost all the time.

The downside is that by reducing redundancy, you reduce your resilience to errors. A single typo could even propagate decoding errors to neighboring words. So maybe get fancier, and include at least one-letter errors in the list of possible words, with lower initial probabilities.

One way to do this would be to use the Viterbi algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viterbi_algorithm
At 10:00, it becomes obvious why the suits are needed. I think the cloud of brown vapor (!) is Dinitrogen tetroxide. I found the whole process interesting in their use of checklists and rigid procedures, as one does in the military.

https://youtu.be/Ejap_EFlriA?t=600

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(rocket_family)#Titan_II...
you can do both, the normal markdown way:

`$a$` squared is `$a^2$`, which is good to know for the pythagorean theorem:
```equation
a^2+b^2\eq c^2
```
"The west camp is equally rotten"

I don't think you realize the depth of the cleptocracy that is Russia. There is a reason why all the nations from behind the former Iron Curtain would rather fight to the death than end up under their control again.

Of all the bloody, miserable empires of the world, the Russian one is the most dysfunctional and has been so for centuries. It is a historical outlier, a poor and underdeveloped nation conquering its richer and more developed neighbors to the west by sheer brute force. Hopefully it seems that the recipe no longer works.
Nobody is saying it’s all one or the other. One you can control, so that is where it’s useful to focus your attention.

It’s not a simple made up equation with two variables and an outcome. It’s an iterative game you play over and over again throughout your life.
When I started being into mechanical keyboards (19 years old, late 2000s), I learned about the "classics" first -- IBM Model M, Cherry G80 3000 -- and "hacker" successors later ("Das Keyboard" is a good example, although I never owned it). I was also quite into Vim, terminal and proper typing back then.

It took me several more years to learn about ergonomic mechanical keyboards, and I ended up sticking with Ergodox both at work and at my gaming PC for 7-ish years now.

The point of my anecdote is that I would just expect that most of the "visible" people in the mechanical keyboard community are younger, and might grow into the ergonomic keyboards later, just like me.
Why not have the best of both worlds with Chess Boxing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5TQSKmS3o
Do phones like that still exist?
Locals celebrating independence on the streets is propaganda? OK.
I strongly agree.

As someone who is aging, and who lost an adult child during covid, I can say that I face these last decades (I hope) with a wary eye toward loneliness. Such introspection leads me to want to invest more deeply in the relationships that are strong, and those that I would like to be stronger.
The breadth of bad takes about the situation is absolutely incredible. I'm currently on the ground in eastern europe, I speak a slavic language natively and can communicate okay in a few others. Even in countries with a vivid memory of soviet occupation there are vocal supporters of broad concessions to russian aggression and even people who outright believe in russian propaganda. Several of my friends are housing Ukrainian refugees and are afraid to make it publicly known. A friend of mine was debating removing the Ukrainian flag on her profile for fear it would result in her children being bullied in school. It's fucking wild.

THE FUCKING RUSSIANS WERE OCCUPYING YOU A COUPLE DECADES AGO, IT WAS NOT A GOOD TIME, HOW DO YOU NOT REMEMBER THIS?!?!?!

fwiw I would say the plurality of people are in support of Ukraine but I never imagined there would so much visible support for russia, or even concessions to russian aggression. It's very disheartening to see any question about the validity of Ukrainian sovereignty.
We've been using RealVNC's Instant Support (https://www.realvnc.help), it's been the easiest we've found yet that matches the level of complexity customers can handle. We'll check out Rustdesk, as the Web interface would make it even easier for the team to jump on for help when on the road.
Thank you for putting this collection together.

This is exactly the kind of 'old web' site that I wish I would find in modern search results.
Good stuff! Keep it up
Actually, his grand linguistic theory (universal grammar) has been comprehensively disproven. So I'm not so sure he's regarded as an excellent linguist anymore.

Though I suspect he hasn't changed his mind about it. Evidence and logic are not really his thing, are they?
It'd be great if there was an entire network of these kinds of services, so as to skim what's going on in any field. I've long been interested in summaries + news curation and worked for many years doing just that but I've also had some tiny personal projects (years ago) where I tried doing something similar to Ancient Beat but on niche topics.

Another thought: There could also be a differentiation between news article curation and research curation, though I understand they'd intersect at times. Often, looking at the research as it's published gives you good lead time on any news articles that will be published about said research, though it requires a lot of reading.

In the professional news curation I did, a "lead time" approach I used for the industry we dealt with was to locate and skim non-English news and publish summaries on what's happening worldwide, which put us ahead of the pack (ie, English-language news sites picking it up) by at least a few days, if not a week.
Sure, what we really need to avoid the "warmongering media" is a British RT journalist rocking up after the last defenders have surrendered to talk about how the war has turned Mariupol into a "marvellous Russian City" and interviewing the celebrating leadership of the Donetsk People's Republic talking about the Great Patriotic War...
> This is not an interesting conversation honestly.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals" - HN Guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Some Americans think that the US Healthcare way is “the right way but Slightly Off-Track(tm)” and will not be suaded.

"Be kind. Don't be snarky... Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." - HN Guidelines
I recently wrote a Reverse Polish Notation mode for my Ti-84+CE.

It's significantly more efficient when you have an entire page of calculations with tons of parentheses to get through. Try it out, especially if you're nostalgic for your old engineering calculator—this brings the best of both worlds.

https://github.com/arjvik/RPN-Ti84
Related post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31424048

Accelerated PyTorch Training on M1 Mac (pytorch.org)

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Plenty, just not flagship as far as I know, check out the Samsung Xcover or FairPhone for a couple examples
Yeah, it annoys me that so little infrastructure is built with no attempt to make use of the low grade waste heat. Imagine if thermal power plants were built alongside vegetable growing greenhouses etc.
Because this is hardly an option anymore
I agree. The main problem is that in spite of the good intentions, a project like this will attract a lot of scammers, and people will lose their savings faster.
Weird how the US has taken no casualties. Clearly their military is even stronger than we thought.
Are they though? Doesn't Apple just ship Lightning to USB-C dongles with iPhones to satisfy EU requirements?
For what it's worth, I've done maybe five Android screen repairs using the iFixit tools. One repair I messed up and the new screen broke almost immediately. The others looked good. Price wise, I wasn't able to find cheap replacement displays although my net cost is maybe still 70% the cost of going to an unofficial repair place. I'm not sure it was worth my time, or stress when moving tiny ribbon cables with tweezers.

Going forward I think I'll just buy phones that have screens that don't die when dropped. I'm OK with a cracked screen, but the display needs to work.
And thanks to that now they are a developed, safe country.
I am not a user of rustdesk. But from its source code[1], I think does have some warnings about the change. It says,

> "Warning"
> "Current Wayland display server is not supported"
> `Fix it` => a button triggers system gdm config change
> A 'Help' link to github, showing how to change the config manaully.

I wouldn't count it as malware. But I don't think it's OK to change the system configuration by pressing a button of a remote desktop software. It should simply provide a link to user instead.

[1] https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/blob/45375517b960add901...
This article badly misrepresents Chomsky's position, and refers to a neo-nazi conspiracy theory as if it were fact.
The baseline model is that people find a way to muddle through. Betting against that is a great way to make a small fortune by starting with a large fortune.

In the late 1970s, after my sister was born premature and died in the hospital my mom got really pessimistic about the future of the world. At the time watergate and patty hearst and Jonestown and disco and the hostage crisis in Iraq were top of mind. We thought we were running out of energy, nobody thought the U.S. couldn tame inflation, etc.

That’s not to say civilization can’t collapse because it can and it someday will. But people underestimate the resilience of humans and natural ecosystems.
"I am very disappointed by many of my fellow travelers on the "left" on this issue. "

Me too.

I am also very disappointed about their reactions to other issues too. Seems a lot of people on the left like to philosophize about issues but don't really like to acknowledge real world issues. I saw this when the rioting after the George Floyd went on. A lot of people refused to even think that maybe burning down shops is not a good response to racism. Instead they just kept on talking about systemic racism while ignoring the riots.

And now the response to Ukraine is often "Why do these Ukrainians make so much trouble? They should stop the killing and give up. They are losing anyway. We are pacifists, we don't like war". I agree that there may have been ways to deal with the situation better before the war but there is simply no excuse for Russia to attack the country and bomb cities. If somebody has responsibility to stop this, it's clearly Russia and nobody else.
I’m not using an M1 machine yet, but I think is extremely useful to be able to do some small scale experiments for testing and debugging purposes locally before starting a full-scale training job in the cloud.

Further, in general, I’m really charmed by the potential of having unified memory; the idea you can test some batch training iterations with a batch size that fills almost all 128MB is a unique capability!

Last, a large amount of unified memory allows to do inference and “prompt engineering” with very large models, locally. E.g. Using GPT-J like models (6B parameters).
> Some other western leftists do sound like this

Even Lula said something similar on a Time interview recently. Brazil is very dependent on Russia's fertilizers and is a big (biggest?) food exporter. Brazilian politicians have been very careful to condemn the war while being light on Putin or the result could mean a significant rise on the price of food and even famine.
I've found it shocking that people on the left have willfully taken up de-facto support of Russia in their zeal to oppose the US on ideological grounds. The MAGA crowd and the far right in the US are no better and perhaps much worse, but these people should know better. It's a deadly trap for them.

That people can say that Ukraine is being manipulated by others into defending their country to the death makes no sense at all. The remaining claims are wife beater logic: Look what you made me do! Russia had to invade Ukraine because they wouldn't behave, because NATO wasn't cowed and showed no respect!
How does the West make money? We’re giving away billions worth of military equipment and ammunition. While also implementing oil and gas bans that will hurt Western (the EU mostly) economies really bad.
Company founded to exploit applications of Nitinol: http://www.tinialloy.com/

Buy some wire of your own: http://www.tinialloy.com/livewire.html

(I worked there quite a while ago)
"Locals". Are you really so obtuse?
There is a Greek paper around this topic which I came across long time trying to answer this very question: https://www.academia.edu/2582910/%CE%91%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF...
Not a hacker, not even a good programmer, but I can relate from another perspective.

I have been working as a BI developer->Data Engineer for a few medium size modern corporations. Modern in the sense of FAANG-like. Each company gives me the feeling that the data infrastructure is siloed and unhealthy.

When business grows, different business units drill deeper into the data domain. Each business unit quickly develops its own shadow ETL which works to certain extend but without proper structure or any data governance. Once business grows to certain size, it is mandatory for business leaders to realize that such siloed and unprofessional data practices should stop and data requirements should be consolidated to a central data team that consists of data engineers and maybe a couple of BA or a PM who mediates the engineers and the business stakeholders.

Sadly in none of the corporations I worked for I found this transformation happened. Some prefer to keep data siloed and people are getting used to it. Some tried to transform to a central data team but it failed to maintain expectation of all business stakeholders so each business unit keeps its data unit around, for convenience. These situations create more headcounts, more costs, more bad practices and more frustration.
I also expect not to notice when the real ones explode close to Europe, much better than deal with the fallout thereafter.
Chess deals in perfect information which you cannot fully process in time to make a move, which is not functionally different from lacking perfect information, and similar to most life decisions. What it doesn't have is asymmetric information and chance. Both chess and poker have formal rules unlike most real life situations.
Haha, yeah me too. And I think calling the area an ancient "thing" is about right. We don't understand it. But it's something.
TiNi Alloy Company
Does Apple require you to rent all of these specialty tools to replace the battery? Or is this author just getting all of the specialty tools to make a point?

Obviously, people have been replacing iPhone batteries without 79 pounds of special tools for a long time. The fact that Apple provides the option to buy their special tools is great, but this author is digging deep for a reason to spin that as a bad thing which is kind of silly.

At this point I don’t even understand what people who are complains about this actually want (other than to complain about Apple?). Do they want Apple to completely redesign every phone to use old school screws and gaskets and other features that double the size of the phone just in case somebody wants to repair it without having to improvise tooling? Or do they want Apple to just not offer the custom tools at all and instead sell the battery with a “Good luck, you’re on your own” mentality?
It is very disheartening, indeed. I fear also that the almost universal emotional support that the Ukrainian people had from the average westerner is going to chip away as the actual cost of the war continues, and as the Russian propaganda machine keeps pumping. What happens after the US midterms in the fall? What happens when gas prices continue to be high?

JFC being implicitly in favour of a powerful military occupying and bombing its weaker neighbour is not an edgy or contrarian or clever position. It's ethical bankruptcy.
Criticizing Noam Chomsky for not being sincerely anti-imperialist is a pretty remarkable.
That’s exactly what he is saying?
Let's agree your description of Russia is right. Does that mean we have to lower the barrier of what "rotten" means to us?

Is Russia more rotten than the major western players? Ok let's agree on that too. So i should change the wording "equally rotten" to "also rotten". Still rotten as to my standards and still hypocrites.
>extremely specialised tools which ensure every repair is perfect with little room for any human error.

I'm not sure I see the problem. Apple is saying that this is the "right" way to do the repair. Alternatively, you can have them do it. You can also, although Apple won't endorse it, take it to a third-party, order a kit from iFixit, or otherwise do it yourself.

Ford will also not endorse doing repairs yourself, using an independent mechanic, using parts from a junkyard, etc. but they don't generally prevent you from doing so.
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It is absolutely possible though, see https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.free... (And it really should use this on X11 too, and have the current X11 way as a fallback to insane systems that don't have portals in 2022)
85% of the search market is not searching for the email address of a spam suspect.
Too many of us have been fried by hustle culture but if you read HN along with a coffee and have food on the table, along with someone you can trust your life, you're already pretty much in the realm of success. But thanks Sam for projecting your definition of a liveable life.

And here's the gist of it all: Manage to survive long enough for luck to go your way.
Right what we see is a kind of world of (at least) bipolar competing imperialisms, of which the "Russian" side (roughly speaking) is less powerful but attempting to assert itself. Sergei Lavrov has tried to carve out an ideological space in which this sphere around Russia has inherited some sort of anti-colonialist sheen. But in large part it is frankly worse than "the west" in almost all respects.

Lavrov talks like an anti-imperialist while actually basically being the Mouth of Sauron. The talking face of a failing autocratic petro-state.
I deeply wish this was more of a thing. If you look at the way law firms work, this is how they take their specialized knowledge and keep more of the value they create for themselves. I don't see any reason we can't/shouldn't have a similar model in software engineering be the de-facto now that the field is mature enough to support it.
It’s interesting that so many people now deem to authoritatively speak of the agency of a country whose geopolitics were relatively unknown until recently. Chomsky and others simply have the benefit of having watched this completely avoidable tragedy unfold. Putins rise to power, Russia’s ostracization from the western order, etc. And I could say the same in the inverse: there are many who had no interest in anti-imperialism until it aligned with anti-Russian and pro U.S. sentiment. It’s easy to tell from the fact that U.S. imperialism that has been going on alongside the Russian invasion has gone almost entirely ignored. (Somalia being the latest example) Ultimately this is a pointless argument — the stage has been set, the rules agreed upon. The U.S. and EU will fund Ukraine indefinitely and NATO will continue to take in European countries. I hope and pray that the war comes to a resolution that allows Ukraine to keep its sovereignty on its own terms.
I was going to ask if it's real or just CGI and a waiting list, but apparently it's real https://living.ai/delivery-process/
> But what is “it” which is not worth the risk of being hit?

Crossing the road when a car is close. Even if they could see you and you have the right of the way, you never know whether they abide the rules and are paying attention. It's much safer to wait until it's free enough that you are out of the way when the next car arrives.
I am reminded of this open letter from a civil engineer accusing the city of Springfield, Massachusetts of gross negligence for refusing to put a crosswalk between the main library and its parking lot, directly across the street.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/5/29/an-open-letter...
Apple can’t win here. If they had sent the sleek, easy to carry tools this author asked for, the author would complain about the pathetic tools they are providing.

Really disappointed in The Verge on this article. Could have been a cool piece about the specific tech that Apple provides, but instead it’s framed so disingenuously that I come away not feeling particularly good about right to repair in general. It no longer sounds to me like people trying to get access to their own devices. It sounds like people taking potshots at BigCo because big co bad.

By the way. The tools this guy used are common, dead-common in China. Go to any repair mall in Shenzhen and you’ll see hundreds of these.

Does he actually want to repair his phone? It doesn’t seem like it.
Battery has an identifier which, if mismatched, causes the phone to work but present a warning that the battery may not be genuine and does not report battery health.

Honestly, that sounds pretty fair/reasonable to me. (It would be outrageous if it had “DRM fail: phone shuts off”. “DRM detects possible non-genuine battery and works but reports battery as possibly non-genuine” is a lot more reasonable, possibly totally reasonable.)
Not to mention the color spectrum is much more akin to natural light. I've never liked LEDS even high-CRI ones and will continue to buy incandescents. Also they work pretty decent as heating in the winter.

A whole sort of subtle health effects are related to light.
Stronger seems to mean afraid in this case. RF are taking care of business. Americans dont have any on the ground tactics, in this case, they are taking notes how to fight.
Does this also mean the independent shops can get the official kit for $1200?
> We had mathematics long before we had physics.

I disagree. People haven't had a Mathematics before Pythagoras. All Mathematics people had at that moment was that 1 golden coin + 1 golden coin = 2 golden coins or one copper knife. But trading is not mathematics if not talking about modern things like HFT with broad using of probability theory (and we obviously are talking about ancient times).

Physics is understandable even with way more simple (and way more ancient) species then humans. For example, an ape can take a stick and use more heavy end to make a more powerful hit. Birds seems to understand physics quite well - starting from setting wings while flying and ending to general intelligence of crows.

And BTW why are you concerned that in the pyramid of knowledge (Biology is a science > Chemistry is a science > Physics is a science > Mathematics is a language) there are three sciences and one a non-science?
This is clearly a professional repair kit, to be used at a local shop or maker space.

And now that the devices are available to the public, anyone can use the ideas in them to develop less fancy alternatives.

Maybe it's time to accept that a tiny powerful computer, radio, camera, and display is worth the base price plus $50 for and extended 3 more years of use?
One thing that the article gets wrong is accusing mathjax of being abandoned. Development has moved to a new repo for the next version.

https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax-src/graphs/contributors
I think the reason things were so brutal on both sides in haiti was that there were about 32 French for every 500 slaves. So in that context terror and genocide in reaction to terror make more sense.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1070615/estimated-popula....

In contrast outside the black belt and the delta regions slavery in the US was a minority thing.

When you have a oppressed majority then you have a potential powder keg.

Slavery was wrong regardless.