skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, what feels like quicksand, is writing on paper. I type very fast on my keyboard 120+ WPM. I want to get my thoughts out of my head as soon as possible, and shape them fast with immediate feedback. My notes are very random and they're all over the place, yet all easily interconnected and searchable because of backlinks and some minimal organization. If I were taking physical notes, I would not have as many notes as I have now, and would be less motivated. The computer is an extension of myself at this point, and it feels more natural than writing on paper.

I think the author might have chosen the traditional way of note-taking, because he just doesn't have the patience or the particular obsession to tailor the note-taking system. Which is fair, but it might do him a disservice if he ends up impatient with the system he is building now. There is a reason, after all, that so many people switched to digital. Even if the author prefers the romanticized way of old note-taking, it is undoubtedly inefficient. It's an experience akin to using ${Editor} over Vim.
You used to buy a car to tinker. It's an appliance.
https://archive.ph/z83rO
I'll be keeping my body offline. But I think fusion with AGI is inevitable if we want to remain somewhat in control of our future. Otherwise we will be super ceded by super intelligent AI and become their pets.
What's amazing is that at a fundamental, overall level, this is really not significantly better than the chatbots of the turn of the century I played with as a child.

I'm specifically thinking of markov chain bots, which were easy to code from scratch. This is definitely better than that, of course, but like, not really that much more. Not in a usable and meaningful way. It still fundamentally feels like you're just leading the bot on a blind text search of a corpus and unable to get anything "real" out of it.

25 years with little to show for it. I think it would make sense to hold off and look for more fundamental advances, than to continue to polish the turd that is chatbots.
Quotes existed originally as a way to match phrases, more than one word. + was meant for matching a single word. Quotes replaced the way to match a single word, while still remaining the way to phrase search.
Most US states don't inspect vehicles at all.
It seems you could sell the mailbox device and the gateway together if cost permitted (I know you say "No base station required" but some users may not mind running a basestation, especially if it required little/no configuration).
A link [1] referenced in your supporting evidence suggests it is but a remnant of the Chinese Civil War. But even then, Taiwan's constitution does state that a vote may be held in order to change such territorial claims. This only made it in the 7th revision, in 2004 [2].

I would also like to make it clear that mainland China is the only one that has ever put these claims (except for Mongolia) into practice.

[1] https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2021/05...
[2] https://english.president.gov.tw/Page/93
> Can we start a tip jar every time someone says the "he signed away his due diligence" talking point?

I would love to see how Delaware Chancery Court treats this concept. So going in front of a judge is the best way to find out!

I routinely accept contracts and agreements with parts I know I'm going to ignore or violate just because I understand the jurisdiction. It's more efficient than negotiating and actually having lawyers making revisions for months at great cost.

I'm not familiar with this nuance of Delaware but its not outside of the realm of possibility that there is an argument that can help Elon.
This is accurate. Their competitor, the Ecovacs Deebot, just push an OTA update making cable detection way better. In a way the previous comment encapsulates all the misconceptions about robovacs. I was recently surprised to learn how good they are because my only basis for comparison was my friend's failure of a Roomba that's always getting into shenanigans.
I’m shocked how often I hear about people never changing their oil. This isn’t optional maintenance like wiper blades.
> Don't forget Jobs' prime role in having companies collude together to depress wages by not recruiting each other's employees

Yes, indeed! I forgot to mention that.
I'm joining later, great idea!
There's a reason why literally every fiction work on transhumanism is a dystopia, even those were transhumanism is just a generic stand-in for technological advancement.
Oh of course it's public. Why would these people want to pay for their golf course when they can get the city to do it? Obviously it is accessible to a lot of other folks, but it's bordering this high end neighborhood ostensibly so they all have a nice place to play golf. Actually there is ANOTHER golf course on the other side of this neighborhood, in the Presidio.
The DP book is a published version of Gamma's PhD thesis, which I learned in a class with someone closer to the story. It's corroborated here:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/erich-gamma-a-pattern-of-succe...

On its face that implies that Gamma was a kid, and so the work is purely academic, but he's around 8 years too old to have been starting a PhD in '91 without any prior industry experience. It's still mostly his work (otherwise it's not his PhD) with the other 'authors' consulting and copy editing.
Really liked, "Last Monday of every month except August".

I tried other hard ones and got rate limited :(
I've stopped responding to these survey requests. They don't seem to benefit me and only take up my time.
- Ecovacs obstacle avoidance requires cloud.

- Ecovacs control requires cloud.

No thanks. I'm not giving my home to China, America or whatever.

Roborock seems to be better. Anyway it should be blocked by the home firewall, just to be safe.
This argument started when the original Prius came out in 1997, twenty five years ago. Lots of predictions of "totaled" priuses, an environmental apocalypse, "gotcha, liberals!" etc.

What actually happened: a cottage industry for repairing the battery packs sprung up to meet demand or when they'd fail, which wasn't that often (and indeed, Hybrid Camrys became the standard taxi cab in a number of US cities, racking up hundreds of thousands of miles on their batteries.) There are shops all around the country that do cell replacement now and getting your hybrid battery pack serviced is less painful than a lot of major engine repairs.

Bolt EVs were (in large part due to GM's extremely conservative charge profiles for DCFC) seeing much less battery degradation than expected. Right up until the manufacturing defects reared their head...and GM has replaced all the batteries, giving them a very long warranty...8, maybe 10 years? I forget which.

> If ev's ever come down in price

You can buy several EV models new for under $30k, which is substantially less than the median car price in the US.
Indirectly this is a very strong argument for reform of intellectual property laws.
Looks like a simple enough design that vector would probably be more space efficient and have infinite resolution. The product looks interesting too!
> That is not true. We all know China has poor environmental protections and low wages, and yet we choose to buy products made in China.

It's 100% true, and we often buy from China because overwhelmingly there simply aren't alternatives, the alternatives are prohibitively difficult to find, the alternative is another developing country with similar labor and environmental policies, or the alternative is laundered through a country with good regulation (a car is "manufactured" in America but all of its components--the bulk of its value--are produced in developing countries without regulation).

> And those consumers are also voters. The rules won't be fixed because most people don't care either as consumers or as voters.

Right, but they don't have the same access to politicians that corporations do. This is a different and worse systemic problem. Moreover, corporations run campaigns to shift public opinion away from effectual policy. In the 70s bottling companies ran campaigns which argued, as you are arguing, that litter was a consumer problem rather than a industrial problem (e.g., the "crying Indian" advert). The cigarette industry ran a campaign that insisted that the high rate of home fires are caused by a deficiency of highly carcinogenic flame retardants in home furnishings. Similarly, the fossil fuel industry currently runs campaigns which seek to make climate change an issue of personal responsibility ("we don't need legislation, we just need consumers to decide to switch to veganism and give up their cars").

> But a few powerful people could create huge changes all on their own. Hold them responsible is not pointless, it's our best hope for change.

I strongly disagree. Our best hope for change is public policy, notably border adjustments. If you want to protest at Cupertino, be my guest but that's wholly inadequate.
If the device is only passing a few hundred bits per second, that also implies that it is doing almost nothing of value as well.

Here's maybe another way to think about it: What possible viable business model is there for consumer ISP customers to build an ad hoc wireless network on top of the ISP's infrastructure that wouldn't immediately get killed by ISPs entirely reasonably cutting out the middle man?
> Humans already manage secrets in the form of passwords, it's not that much different.

Humans are bad at this which is why we recommend password managers.

That said, I do think keypairs are the way forward, I just also think they need either strong integrated software support in whichever device is being used, or strong external hardware support.

(Yubikeys are nice because they kind of extend the “key” metaphor that people are already used to, but I wish they shipped with a paired backup key that was provisioned with the same key material. Maybe colored red to distinguish it.)
> I guess if you live in the desert, and every week you park your car for 6 days and drive 1 day.

I live in the high (semi) desert in northern New Mexico, and for myself and a lot of my neighbors, that's precisely the situation we're in.

Doesn't mean we would drop $255k on a car, however. For that kind of money, I could have a ground mount array plus batteries that could provide enough juice to recharge a conventional EV in a couple of hours.
I don't believe you.

And that's the bottom line.

In the end you don't get a better informed and critical audience, you get people who don't believe you if you say 1+1 is 2.

We live in times where people discuss if earth is flat and rules by lizard people fro the inside of the earth.

If you always start from the assumption that the expert is wrong, you have no time to do anything because the world now has so much knowdledge you can't check it evrything fast enough.

And some point you have to trust people and that some are experts.
Might be nice to use at 17" with a 60% mechanical keyboard.
Same here. I wrote about my experiences here: https://honeypot.net/post/digital-notes-are-better-than-pape...

In summary, I kept reading about people who prefer paper, or why paper is better than digital, but I just can't get into it. I've tried, with nice tools and a daily commitment to using them, but it just doesn't work for me.

The best compromise I've found is a nice size Rocketbook that I can easily OCR into a notes app later.
> An alternative theory is that this market was providing information that the current regime is looking to suppress: actual popularity of candidates, policies, etc.

I don't mean to suggest that this is the intent.

I'm saying it seems to me that something worse than that is the fundamental consequence of the decision. Banning the mathematically rational discussion of politics is actually a bit more extreme than say murdering and burning the books of intellectuals; in terms of attacking truth it does so on a more fundamental level, it is like banning the use of addition as a method of counting - an attack on the very process by which things are known, not just a person. You aren't just murdering one person - this kills an entire category of rational agent; it isn't a ban on knowing a particular fact that is inconvenient. It disallows the seeking in a much more general way.

To try and maybe get across the nature of the violation: this seems to me about as bad as the government declaring that the scientific method was no longer allowed to be used or that people were no longer allowed to have faith. For sure methods of arriving at the truth can be very dangerous, but I don't think it follows from that that the government ought to be allowed to prevent their use for that purpose.

So I'm wondering what I'm missing - or whether there is actually an overstep of authority that ought to be reigned in.
Re: gas stations for tire pressure - it's the worst! They'll charge an exorbitant rate, the timer cuts out before you get to your fourth tire, someone is parked in the way or the machine is down - filling the tires was literally my least favorite part of car ownership for years, and I tend to do most of my own simple maintenance like oil changes.

I bought this tool on the battery platform of the rest of my power tools: https://www.makitatools.com/products/details/DMP180ZX

Best $120 I've ever spent! Can't recommend enough. Also great for inflatable mattresses, kiddie pools, basketballs, and shuts off automatically when it gets to the pressure you set.
Your information is many years out of date. The latest model maps your house (and has been doing so for a long time), uses a camera to identify and avoid obstacles including poop, and automatically empties its bin.
We also can't forget that there was time for due diligence before the contract was signed.
I wonder if Ted Kaczynski will be hailed as a great philosopher in the future and humans 100 years from now will condemn our time for our treatment of him while justifying his actions as that of a desperate man on the right side of history. It's ironic writing this on a website.
I don't know anything about cars but wouldn't you need an alignment and/or tire rotation?
> Any speech that violates the official narrative is deemed wrongthink and seems to be fair game for law enforcement/regulators.

I see enough "democrats in disarray" or shitting on the Biden admin (maybe both justifiably! That's irrelevant for this post) from allegedly left-leaning outlets that this seems incredibly unlikely to be true. If it is, they're entirely failing at it. Or have for some reason decided to focus only on minor players while major players, with 100+x the audience (ask around in the real world and see how many people have even heard of PredictIt), carry on as usual.
This seems to run just fine under Linux as well, not completely out of the box though: It's basically missing builds and config for Linux which can be build analogous to the existing Win/Mac stuff.

You also have to build the demucs-cxfreeze dependency (as described in its repo, https://github.com/stemrollerapp/demucs-cxfreeze).
Zoe cars that sold 10 years ago can still get their battery replaced without much difficulties.
Sigh Two lessons here:

1) Excessive specificity is the killer of jokes. After a certain amount of detail, people no longer recognize it as a joke at all without an explicit punchline. Cf. Aristocrats

2) Experts, especially STEM experts, need to abide by the Spider-Man motto: with great power comes great responsibility. As an expert, you have the duty to make sure all your communications with the public are clear and accurate to the best of your knowledge and ability. When there is miscommunication between experts and the public, it erodes public trust in expertise in general, which is extremely damaging to society.

A bonus lesson: chorizo is delicious, eat it instead of pranking people with it.
Unreal has titles like Borderlands, Street fighter, Kingdom Hearts, and XCOM

List
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games
I can see how it may appear that way. I view the non-coding skills within Taro to be less about power/prestige, and more about things that can genuinely help you become a better engineer.

One interesting trend is how Big Tech is becoming... bigger. This is certainly a new phenomenon in tech, to have a handful of companies (Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon) employing literally hundreds of thousands of engineers. Being able to succeed in these companies, along with many others with a similar culture), is increasingly important for software engineers today.
It is free for a short period of time, but after that, it will be a paid service.
For battery electric vehicles there's also the hidden savings of having the technician coming to your home, which I believe is far more prevalent for BEV than ICE.
what i found peculiar of all these identity movements is how much corporate fingerprints is behind them.

a holistic, humane, and spiritual approach to elevating our collective awareness is written off as voodoo from "others" yet the rich, affluent in the West are increasingly gravitating towards it while the rest attack each other.

human advancement need not be digitally/pharmaceutically driven but good luck telling this to giants.
> can AI also publish prior art? It seems only fair, right?

What kind of argument is that? That's not even something anybody is debating about?

Prior art just nukes the novelty of a claim in a subsequent patent written by anyone, including the whole patentability.

The source of the prior art is not important.
Thanks for the insights.

To your suggestions I would just add reading a lot and varied across times and genres. Think of the Greek classics, the Latin Americans starting from Rulfo, to anything contemporary.

Having your own voice to write must be a privilege, I am not lucky yet on that skill, I hope to find my way. How would you recommend to learn it?
I’ve driven an automatic ICE cars that automatically do engine braking.

And that was a nothing fancy Hyundai.

(And of course if you drive manual you can do this yourself).
Friend works in mobile gaming and mentioned that their most successful ads are showing someone playing the game slightly wrong. People feel enticed to play correctly. Pretty fascinating!
"Transhumanism" is already here, in a way. We have medications including some complex drugs, most people at least take multi-vitamins, we have surgeries and sometimes do weird stuff like transplant limbs or faces. Even simpler, we have knowledge of diet and health which lets us stay in better shape than before (though a lot of people are in worse shape due to junk food...we have access to high-protein diets and effective exercises though).

On the other hand, "transhumanism" where we upload our consciousness or modify ourselves to the point where we don't resemble humans anymore, probably won't come for a long time. Even problems like aging and disease and significantly hard to solve. Most of what we know about the human brain is psychology and large-scale things like hormones. Because evolution is a process which doesn't favor simplicity or straightforwardness, and the brain and body have trillions of microscopic cells all working more or less simultaneously - we don't have nearly enough computational power or resources or technology to even remotely "thoroughly" understand this.

I think in the near future we will gradually develop more bionic and cybernetic augmentations, like improving on those bionic arms and legs I heard about a few years ago, and implanted chips and medications. But it's going to be gradual and take a long time, and some things are just nearly impossible.
I would imagine they'd want to combine Amazon Astro (the home robot) and Roomba's cleaning tech.

Create an all-in-one Alexa robot.
Or rather, many people replace a dozen cheaper parts over a period of time.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606145
Where are you planning to use this, is it for a stage or concert? A lot of folks have found in those environments 2.4 ghz wireless (like bluetooth) is flakey and unreliable from all the interference of the audience's devices. I've read folks prefer stuff like 900mhz where almost no one has stuff using it in the area. Akiba and Freaklabs has done some great write-ups about his stage show work that are worth exploring: https://hackaday.com/2013/12/10/get-tangled-up-in-el-wire-wi...
> I believe humanity needs to pump the breaks and take a critical step back to evaluate the damage we’ve caused.

I agree, but I don't think this will happen as long as the money continues to be made. And as long as those with the money keep employing psychologists to essentially hack their customers into compliance, there won't be any resistance from that side, either.
read sperm analysis, was very confused. wouldn't have been surprising with all the sketchy stories we're hearing about him and his family, even if some are false
I would much prefer my chances at getting ev bearings than gearbox bearings for an ice.

The simplicity of Evs can’t be denied on serviceability. The only argument comes down to ignorance.
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When the AI detects a potentially unsafe topic, it will redirect the conversation.
Sensitive topic classifier triggered
Speaker:Human
To avoid saying inappropriate or rude things, we automatically check human and bot messages for potentially sensitive content. If something sensitive is detected, we try to redirect the conversation and say something different. Sometimes we guess wrong, so your feedback can help us improve.

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I love that our overlords are working so hard to keep us safe :)

(for reference, the message that triggered this: "Don't be silly, nobody is actually from canada. It's a made up place, like finland.")
Telling this out loud upsets a lot of people, but I’m on the same boat with you.

A good lossless album, regardless of the medium played through shows a significant difference in soundstage given the system can handle the resolution thrown at it when compared with a MP3/M4A file.
Well, can IP be stolen? It is a state-protected monopoly. If you steal my IP, we both have these IPs.

Using the word "stealing" is fundamentally wrong about intellectual creations.

What frustrating me more is that Roborock cannot use the double-roller design iRobot has due to patents.
... you need to manually fix it for Windows? Does it ship with Linux or something?

Edit: Great read - and your
your enthusiasm for the device is getting me interested in it, but what an incredible software shit show. Imagine spending millions on hardware R&D only to release a product that's unusable due to terrible software. Why do manufacturers keep doing this?
Audiophools got played yet again.
> But these days, with the right equipment, digital recordings can be so good they can fool even the best ears.

"These days" being what, 1982-2022?
Are there plans to do more search than wrapping Bing and Yandex?
I agree there won't be any meet in the middle. Neither Musk nor Twitter want Musk to own Twitter now though. What's happening today is negotiating the break up fee which starts at the difference between current market cap and 54B (~22B today).

The accelerated trial date put Musk on notice. The SEC may not take enforcing the rules seriously, but Delaware has made it their business to enforce the rules that make it attractive for big corps to incorporate under. I don't think this makes it to trial where Musk will get destroyed, and bet they end up settling in the ~10B range.
I live in Europe, I usually have to park my car way down the road. Am I supposed to run an extension cord from my house to my parking spot every night? The infrastructure for EV is not on par with classic gas stations for those who do not have a garage close to their house.
My point is that P2P isn't a single thing -- it's a whole multitude of things, many of which don't make sense to create a DID for. Gnutella is a perfect example of where it wouldn't make sense: the Gnutella protocol didn't provide any way to create a persistent reference to a file that was being shared, and it'd make even less sense to tie an identity to such a file.