skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can hold my phone in one hand, and type with just my thumb, and my thumb covers the full spread of the keyboard. Or I can type with two thumbs for things that are longer than a few words, and again reach the entire keyboard without shifting grip.

But also I don't type much - in fact as little as possible - on my phone, and certainly not code. I will switch to my laptop for anything more than a few words if it's possible.
BRL-CAD was open-sourced in 2004. MIT Scheme was released as free software in 1986 after being started somewhere near 1979 (which was about the time I started programming in Basic, using the TRS-80 and Apple II). The initial revision of the MIT git repo is dated December 1986--I think it started in RCS. The original license was some variation of the MIT one, which requested that changes be sent back to the team if at all possible, with a request to tell them what the use was. They changed to the GPL around release 7 or 8.

My first language was FORTRAN 66, learned from a book in the library, but on paper only as I had no access to a computer until a couple years later in 1979.
Biggest question here I think is the geopolitical things about this: Where will this be developed? My understanding is that the only fabs this is possible is within Taiwan. That's a massive issue with the current posturing of war.
> If the USG prevents you from contracting the services of publishing platforms, I think that would be a proper 1st Amendment issue.

You don't have the right to compel a third party to enable your free speech.

And nothing is stopping Tornado Cash from running their own public Git server.
U.S. Ship Sunk by Germans in 1917 Is Found Off English Coast
I was suggesting an activity subpoena from LE to Facebook.
This is a flame graph I'd be interested in seeing from him on April Fool's Day
I have seen some amazing work with my own eyes. Like buying a rusted farm implement from one vendor in a market and taking it to another to have it sharpened and getting back what was basically a brand new scythe.

But the vast majority of these amazing "look what I built" videos from Vietnam are staged and are actually the work of production companies with teams of people. Here is an expose of the primitive building genre where this got its start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvk63LADbFc
Well the person I was replying to seemed to be implying that we can't be mad at people who hurt the US unless we'd also be mad if they hurt say Russia or Saudi Arabia, but that's just extreme rule brain taking over. We can totally say Saudi is bad and therefore leaking their secrets is ok and, in fact, that's how it's always worked. Rules don't have to be blind to values and probably shouldn't be
Guitar is much easier since it's just notes... whereas on piano a given interval can need a different stretch depending on the notes.
What other examples can you think of? And how many Republicans have you tried discussing the consequences of abortion with? Recent polling[1] doesn't seem to agree with your characterization, so maybe you have just had bad luck with your delivery or respondents?

1: https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/HHP...
I mean, at least at the highest level, businesses have to be political in their areas right? Internet companies should be involved in SOPA, car companies should be involved in emissions regulation, food companies should be involved in FDA regulation.
IR does not work for warm-blooded creatures. You will be jamming your own IR vision with heat coming from your body. That, or having eyes on beanstalks.

And archosaurs were at least partly warm blooded.
> rather than mindlessly reaching for the phone and scrolling through news, I choose to pull out the Micro and read some code.

That's the gem here. I'm looking for ways to stop reaching for my phone. Looking at many people around me I definitely do pretty well but I want even more.

That's why I was looking at various small machines, even some modern reimplementations of LISP machines but nothing caught my eye.

Maybe the GPD machines are it.
Not directly related to the realtime server. But anybody that tried both Supabase and Hasura and can give their thoughts on how they compare?
You don't even need a legit business account on PayPal. You can send these from a sandbox account. Easy peasy. Quick.
At least one complaint is that a lot of content has moved on. And maybe you can just ignore that content. Which I'm not sure would be wrong.
Take your pick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Poland
> Seems pretty clear to me that the American people do not believe money transfer systems without AML/KYC are a right that people have.

Maybe it's just because of the area I grew up in, but nearly everyone I know that is from outside the city or government circles is strongly against AML/KYC. I'm nearly certain if you took a democratic vote of everyone in the US they'd vote against AML/KYC. Same goes for TSA, yet somehow they still exist.
The Tex Shinobi is an excellent upgrade if you've got the cash. I've been using one for a few months now and absolutely adore the typing/tracking experience.
IIRC, Aero was the Windows Vista UI disaster, while Luna was the reasonably usable (albeit excessive) Windows XP theme.
Thanks for sharing your experience. The overall dynamic is much broader of course.

Have you studied statistics? Conducted an analysis? Read a statistical study? Designed an experiment?

This (statistical analysis) is where I'd like to take the conversation, but I wanted to pause and see if that would be mutually interesting.

I'm been "done" with non-systematic understandings for a long time. Typical opinion / "analysis" (as seen even in decent newspapers) is good practice for trotting out arguments, but it rarely synthesizes information broadly and convincingly.
did this twice -- didn't notice much effect the first time (measurable effect was tiny). When I did it again, I was distracted a bit (mind wandering) and sure enough, when I switched back to the "normal" control, my performance was destroyed. Surprisingly effective.
Sure, but the US gov't provided no seed money or had any role otherwise in founding of Intel, unlike TSMC. Up until recently the US chips companies were pretty much on their own without much special pampering. TSMC has little or no desire to expand beyond their tiny island -- not only b/c of the gov't investment's national stake in TSMC, but also TSMC's business model doesn't work -- and certainly can't maintain its fat profit marign -- without gov't largess and econ protection.
Actually yes, FedNow will only support one way transfers (push credits), when the owner of the account can initiate a transfer. Request for Payments supposed to support this as well, when merchant can send you a request to pay for something, but the account owner is the one who authorizes the transfer (ad oppose to direct debits in the ach world).
> it is one standardized language (with formalized and verified semantics, IIRC).

Unfortunately the spec defines too little, and there are large deviations between implementations. See

http://mlton.org/StandardMLPortability

http://mlton.org/UnresolvedBugs

http://mlton.org/SMLNJDeviations

SML/NJ is the most used implementation afaik. mlton is a whole-program optimizing compiler
I guarantee there are a large number of people who vote Republican but who are willing to discuss abortion and maybe even are pro choice. There just might be other issues they want more that they think the Republican party will deliver on.

Those people probably don't go around identifying as Republicans publically.

In my experience, the vast majority of people don't let who they vote for define their identity.
In my experience, RSS isn't close to the level of widespread high quality support it had in the early "web2.0" days on the server side - picking an RSS client even with the demise of Google Reader hasn't been my issue with RSS in recent years anyway, its just the content isn't there anymore like it once was.
TC just has a lot more liquidity. I mean had...
That's fair. There are a lot of big news sites that don't have RSS anymore, like axios.com
We'll it looks like CNN covered it in may in a dedicated article [1], as well as mentioning it in a number of other articles about related things, such as fentanyl drug busts. So they may not be covering it weekly or daily, but it's not like it's going 5 years between mentions.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/health/drug-overdose-deaths-r...
Very cool!

Is anyone using SML these days for major projects? Feels like all the hype is around F# and OCaml.
In my personal experience, TDD helps me produce better designs. But, thinking also helps me produce better designs, too. There's a lot of documentation that Creepy Uncle Bob isn't the most thoughtful person, and I think this blog post says much more about him than about TDD.

The code is definitely a horrow show.
> Imagine what our past would look like now if instead we had replaced all coal and gas with nuclear back then

It's not hard to imagine, I'm French and we did replace most things with nuclear back then ^^

The result is that right now we are purchasing (probably coal made) electricity to our neighbors because around 50% of our theorical nuclear capacity is unavailable either for maintenance or because we don't manage to cool them enough with the current heat :)

Nuclear is certainly a good thing overall but not the obvious and only solution to all problems as some would like to believe.
It's even worse when you take into consideration quality of life. For many people their last decade may come with severe medical issues.

That's why you need to let go of this idea of some awesome 2 decades of retirement where you finally get to enjoy and do all the things you want.

You'll be broken, half your friends are dead or dying, the kids won't visit, and you have no energy.

I'm being intentionally brutal to make it as clear as I can. Whatever you want to do, do it NOW. During good years.
Should a random person with no scientific background or familiarity with medical studies trust their doctor and the overwhelming consensus of epidemiologists and virologists over Joe Rogan and a two hour youtube video? Yes, clearly. That this is even up for debate shows how insane things are right now..
Some cultures have four-part scripts, some three -- not all two.

I once read a book about Ulyssean aging, IIRC. It described persons such as Thor Hyerdal who in essence started new lives (full of recognized accomplishment) near age 60.
"Burgers?"

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-you-sure-this-will-help-u...

The meme creator is unfortunately quite racist. I see it is a problem if extremists are the only ones comfortable making certain obvious true statements. It attracts the support of people who might otherwise remain moderate.
Wow, damninstersting.com! What a throwback. I remember loving the posts there back when digg was still popular.

That being said, I have a hard time swallowing the premise of the article.

> When we ask them what caused the assumption of our demise, they invariably cite the fact that our posts disappeared from their Facebook news feeds.

I would expect reddit to frequently link to damninteresting, but I can't recall seeing them on reddit since digg was still around, which to me points out that there is probably a larger problem than extortion for traffic.

I distinctly remember a post from the owner of damn interesting explaining lack of content and/or shutting down at some point too.
> Years later, for many, Jordan’s brand is intrinsically tied to this choice.

I really dislike this kind of journalism. How many is "many"? Is it just the author and their circle? Is it just people who insist that everything is political? I think this is a lazy assertion, which is a shame because I enjoyed the content that followed it. Surely there's a better introduction available.
In my country, the state-owned bank (normal bank that happens to be owned by the state, not the central bank) came out with an automatic, free checking account so that everyone can use cards. It's not perfect because it has some less than ideal fees, but it helps getting over this problem.
You're welcome, and thanks for your kind words!
With CSS grid you can define row & column template, and assign names to them. Then name your fieldset to be placed in there. Search CSS Tricks Grid, if you want to know more
I suggest Hanlon's Razor applies here: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
CNN has covered it fentanyl deaths increasing increasing.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/health/drug-overdose-deaths-r...
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/vVXjO
I started reading this book in a bookstore. In the intro, I recall him mentioned how he felt a blandness of middle age starting in his late 30s -- soon after he got tenure in his faculty job at a university.

As a "recovering academic" myself, it sounded more like the very particular rat-race of "tenure track, emeritus, and die" had disappointed him more than anything about midlife in general. So, I put the book back on the shelf.
Does it hold on for Instagram as well?
The only company I have seen use the secret icon was a bank...and that was quite a few years ago. I forget which bank. Maybe Wells Fargo?
Writing code isn't that important anymore in Web Development?
If it's like Firefox, the menu bar shows up when you press Alt.
In psychology, I am actually coming to the conclusion that experience is better than a study. I have seen so many counter-intuitive studies that have later had huge methodological issues. In addition, a lot of studies have small sample sizes, or unrealistic tasks that come from the Procrustean process of forcing a question into something you can run a study on.

With regards to learning styles, I have been around enough students and been around enough teachers to think that there actually might be something to it. That different people might learn better with different modalities.
Shannon says that the bit rate is the bandwidth times the logarithm of the signal to noise ratio. Adding more power helps with the bit rate but you have to increase the power exponentially to linearly improve the bit rate.

Regulations limit bandwidth but so do concerns with the antennas and electronics. At some point the power consumption of the signal processing electronics become unreasonable.

There is also interference, if there are a large number of these devices in a small area they will cross talk. This is particularly a problem in nexuses of marketing such as CES and Best Buy. (I’m convinced that the problem of demoing Bluetooth devices at CES has an impact on what gets sold.)
i got the GPD pocket 1 with 8GB ram and a 128GB ssd. for comparison i had a 2012 macbook with 4GB ram and 128GB ssd. yes, the mac is snappier, but i always admired the irony of this tiny thing having similar specs. for extra fun i put an apple-logo sticker on it and used them side by side.

the battery died after about 2 years of use. and i could not find a replacement battery, so i got a onemix 1s whose battery died less than a year later. ironically i was then able to replace the gpd pocket battery, but not the onemix battery.

my next device though is going to be the pinephone with its keyboard extension. i found that i only use the pocket when outside when i don't want to carry a real laptop, and that happens rarely enough that an even smaller and much cheaper device should be enough. i still want a device with a keyboard because typing shell commands on a touchscreen is just painful.
At the single photon level, the photon that goes into the polarizer and the photon that goes out of the polarizer are not the same photon, so it's not right to say that a photon is changed or transformed.

For a photon coming in at 45 degrees to the polarization angle, the probability that another photon will be emitted is sin(45deg) =~ 70% and the probability that it will be absorbed is 1/sin(45deg) =~ 30%.

(This is also a simplification; polarization angle is similarly quantum in nature, and I have assumed it to be collapsed here)
Name your Harley Z.A.A.M.M.
No, they are not called “mid-air diversions”. They are simply called “diversions”.
> Because the predominant ideas of pedagogy consist of what education academics would like to believe is true

This, times 10. I worked in a lab on education-related subject at a top university and it was wishful thinking all the way down: from Ministry bullshit like "education 5.0" and grants to whatever buzzword heavy proposal was thrown, to researchers ignoring obvious flaws in their dumb but cool things that are set to fail from the start, to arranging the reality of collected data (from weak protocol) and their interpretation, etc. It was full of people trying to make a name for themselves but very few solid research. Most of the papers were flawed, irrelevant or kinda stretched reality.
The EM spectrum is pretty heavily utilised by a variety of uses and its not all that easy to deregulate spectrum. Much of the 5 and 6 Ghz spectrum overlaps with radars and other uses and has to detect collisions and shut down frequencies if it interferes. So its already a problem at the current spectrum use in a variety of locations and that will get worse the more spectrum is shared.

Even with Wifi 6E we are only really talking about less than 10 gbps theoretical bandwidth, which practically even with a device using 4x4 (which none of them do) would be half that. That is well below the 32 gbp/s of Displayport 1.4a that monitors typically use and that is ignoring DP 2.0 and HDMI 2.1 standards that offer even more.

Its a lot of spectrum that is required to reach monitor levels of bandwidth without significant compression (which is how VR headsets do it within 500 mbit/s on wifi 6@5Ghz). Its technically possible but not without significant costs to other users of EM spectrum.
This is like mukbang for people who like to watch money burn.
I don't use any social media and I've found that many businesses at least neglect their website and quite understandably resort to posting on social media. The few local news sites that I use usually will have an article about a business or a news story and then link to instagram or twitter rather than their website.

I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything but the usefulness of the web lessens year over year. Now that the platforms have locked down even viewing an instagram or twitter fee without an account I almost wish I could just get rid of all links pointing to them.

The easiest thing would be to give in an make an account but I'm too stubborn ha.
There is WiGig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiGig?wprov=sfla1
That's a huge reach. People aren't entitled to have everyone else take personal risks on their behalf. That is why it is worthy of respect when people do stick their necks out for others.

And yes, standing up against injustice is very often a personal risk.
This seems to fit in with my idea of general happiness, and actively enjoying oneself.

Playing only video games, I can enjoy myself but my general happiness often suffers from lack of variety.

Sometimes, when I'm working on something hard, I might not be particularly enjoying myself, but I can be overall happier while being given a challenge.
I think we're using different definitions of a "free market" here. I'm using something close to this one from Oxford which Google shows when googling "free market definition":

> an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.

"Unrestricted competition", to me, clearly says that businesses should be able to compete without such restrictions as being split up by the government if they become too big.

Or this definition from investopedia (the first actual result on Google):

> The free market is an economic system based on supply and demand with little or no government control.

The government splitting up businesses is certainly a form of government control.

However, Wikipedia's first paragraph is:

> In economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are self-regulated by buyers and sellers negotiating in an open market without market coercions. In a free market, the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government or other authority other than those interventions which are made to prohibit market coercions. Examples of such prohibited market coercions include: economic privilege, monopolies, and artificial scarcities.

Apparently, the government imposing control and restricting competition is part of Wikipedia's definition of a "free market", so extremely harsh anti-monopoly and laws against anti-competitive behavior fits perfectly well in Wikipedia's definition, but makes the market less free according to the definitions I've been following.

The important part is, I agree that a lot of government intervention is required to make markets function efficiently. I just personally wouldn't call that a "free market", rather a well-regulated market.
Yeah, reading his statement again, I realize he's not saying Republicans are people too, or businesses shouldn't discriminate, or any of another positive things he could say that I think others are reading into, he's basically admitting, whatever my values, I can make money. Some articles say he said it as a joke, but it doesn't really say what the joke was.
Alternative way to look at it. The advertisement portion of it takes away from the video.

It would have been better without it.
Nike is not a shoe company, they are an image company who use shoes as their medium.
To be fair, the 80286 introduced in 1982 fits in 47mm^2 of silicon. Chips haven't shrunk that much but gotten immensely more powerful instead.
IE is outdated and unsupported by the maker. Time to let it die.
Also this: Do other people have time for your midlife crisis?
> You don't have the right to compel a third party

Sure, but that's not what's going on here.

The USG is compelling all third parties to refuse to provide the sanctioned entities with any services, which includes publishing services.

> nothing stopping Tornado Cash from running their own public Git server.

They will need to find an ISP willing to sell them bandwidth, which may prove difficult.
Apple releases iOS, iPadOS and macOS fixes for two zero-days under active attack
People I want to follow don't have the technical chops to self-host. One can say it's sad, but I think it's worse that one needs technical chops to self-host.

Come up with a way for anyone to publish content from their phone, with no subscription, and no need for an always-on server, and you'll have the basis for something less centralized.
I added some localization settings to KDE