skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://computerengineeringforbabies.com/ Not sure if the author is doing another order or not
I spent ~150€ since 2018, mostly for productive apps.

Canarymail (A mail client which supports SMTP streaming + PGP) - I think was about 30€ lifetime.

StrongBox Pro (A Keepass 2 client) - 80€ Lifetime

ProCreate - 10€ Lifetime

Affinity Designer 1 - 12€ lifetime

FEZ - 5€ Lifetime (Game)

TweetBot - 5€ Lifetime but now abandoned for Subscription Software. Doesn't work anymore, I'm using the normal Twitter App now (became usable over the last few years). The only app where I was disappointed in doing a lifetime purchase. It was abandoned really quickly after my purchgase.

Blitzer Pro - 10€ Lifetime

Threema - 4€ Lifetime

DWD WarnWetter - 2€ Lifetime. Most accurate weather app for Germany

Facetune 1 - 4€ (Didn't fix my face! Surpise!)

Reeder - 5€ RSS Feed App, I use this together with Miniflux Server

My last purchase was in 2021, Reeder. I made most purchases when I got the devices, and all lifetime over SaaS purchases have paid for themselves by now. :)

But honestly, this was more than I expected.
That's not a rando, that's Vinay Gupta https://twitter.com/leashless/

Edit: staying more factual
> always test products in a hidden area

maybe they should provide you with a 1'x1' square of painted metal to test on, I'm not sure where on a car is hidden and still painted.
> For instance one manufacturer was found to have such incendiary marketing around their assault rifle it had risen to the level of a "call to arms".

Which case? Corporations have free speech rights. They have artistic license to advertise their product as they see fit. I don't see how that's a "call to arms" anymore than military movies are.
Something that is very little known to most lay people but has profound implications on how the industry is structured are laws loosely called "Corporate Practice of Medicine" (CPOM). A little more than half the states have some version of them. Simply put they require that the organization legally practicing medicine must be owned and operated by people holding medical licenses only. This defacto creates a medical entity for that purpose and a sistered non-medical entity for business operations. Not speaking to the broader reasons of why those laws can potentially be good, the practical result of those laws all but requires many "middle men" in the operation of medical organizations.
Localize Google Search Results Checker
This tool simulate Google search results from different locations and devices that how you can see changes in website rankings and SERP Ads ranking according to user location and device.

It allows you to select device, language, country, city, and other custom search settings and show Google SERP results based on selected parameters.
It is helpful for performing Google search as if you were somewhere else without any proxies or VPN.
This tool can be useful for SEO and internet marketing companies in order to preview Adwords Ads and track their marketing campaigns using different locations and devices.
The same way that humans do. By redefining "doesn't halt" as "didn't halt before my patience ran out".
How broadly generalizable is that result though?
I don't really need Neuromancer to be a movie. I'd rather they make a new cyberpunk story that is just as stylish and creative. Something that will influence the next 30 years. I know there are people in the world who have the talent to do that, and would like to do it. I bet they're all working on licensed IP right now though, since that's where the work is. I guess we get the culture we pay for.
This reads like a "my dog can sing!" "yeah, but it's too flat in parts" comment.
The raw transcripts are linked to from the article.
How certain are they, that the source data is not biased due to our own galaxy rotation?
The computing world should just freeze while I develop the latest and greatest AI gizmo app that the market has ever seen, Using publicly available learned machine data.

Sorry, astronomers.
Scenes from our favorite books often get left on the cutting room floor. Personally, I hope they don't only nail the flechette-ridden action scenes but also some of the quieter and more poetic ones, like when Case wakes up in the loft and is able to use the matrix again. Getting his fix again after being on the wagon for so long.

“And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face.”
This is pretty amazing, we could potentially use it to bring back dead languages. Currently we have a basic example of how ancient Egyptian would sound like because of the rosetta stone, but we could create a data model relating ancient Egyptian to what we already know of demotic and the other contemporary languages of the time (which we do know how to pronounce)

Good candidate words for this kind of correspondence are things like city or place names, people's/ruler's names and so forth.

However using poetry we can establish which words the people felt rhymed and hence that lets us better establish the phoneme sounds. Additionally jokes and plays on words can help us find homophones in the target language too.
I guess Zoox would like to have a word on the feasibility of such a concept...
I went looking for a comment I remembered posting on a previous occasion of an impending Neuromancer adaptation, and found the story from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2565734

I think it still holds up 11 years later:

> It's almost certainly too much to hope for, but my impossible dream is that this gets done up like it's the 1980s with circa-2012 CGI. A bold kind of retrofuturism we haven't seen yet in film.

> Thing is, you can't take Neuromancer out of the '80s. The newness of computer networks, the ascendancy of Japan, the aesthetics of computer hardware -- boxy, whirring things with stark, green CRTs spewing masses of indecipherable alphanumeric incantations, big clunky cables, heavy briefcase-size mobile units; it's all there. And the mash-up of digital and analog technologies is no less integral than Gibson's opening lines to the book, comparing a halogen-hazed night sky to the analog noise of TV transmission.

> Neuromancer didn't arrive into a world comfortable with computer technology like ours today. The book stands as a fantastic trip back into a time when technology could be dark, dangerous, and foreign, a zeitgeist Gibson leverages to dazzling effect. "Updating" Neuromancer would bring its entire shadowy world out into the unthreatening, mid-day sun.
Adding to that ChatGPT can also generate working function code for many different programming languages given the right description in your prompt
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There are models that work with barely any ads and subs. Google Maps is a great example.
Which will be your phone in version 2, with a little software magic to retune discordant voices prior to the reverb.
There is nothing intimidating about gray-- it is as utilitarian as it gets, and just happens to be useful for camouflage at sea (hiding...not threatening).
it's interesting that it's very common to have a disdain / discomfort with showing that you have that money, but no such corresponding problem with just having it. if you're not going to give the money away, i don't see how there's any benefit to not spending. you're still way richer.
This could become the next EUV light source with further development. No doubt ASML is watching.
Interestingly there have been two major technological shifts since that was written; the metaphor has shifted from a static grey, to a vibrant blue, to a solid black.
Cheap, seismically stable, land.
I find it amazing from the point of view that this is not a linguist or a grade schooler, but a general purpose computer program. Have you seen a computer program that can do these things, especially one that wasn’t written to do these things but can also turn itself into a plausible linux box, translate python to rust, and all sorts of other wacky party tricks? That’s the amazing thing - not that the feats themselves are novel or unique, but they’re novel and unique for a a general purpose computer program to be so adaptive and flexible in both what it takes as input but also how it interprets that input into remarkably coherent and salient outputs.

Taking into account it’s a beta and that the underlying tech is really new, you can extrapolate that some of these gaps can be tackled - then will you be amazed?
https://www.steuerklassen.com/kinderfreibetrag/rechner/ with 100k€ income and 2 Kinderfreibetrag and no further deductions comes out at 18k€ taxes which is 18%. So to reach the 15% I predicted you only need 3k€ in additional deductible expenses like trash, cleaning, gardening, daycare, etc.
This might be the biggest PR disaster I've ever seen. Suddenly, the media is full of stories implying that the Canadian government is trying to kill its infirm citizens. This happening with the backdrop of a culture that habitually prolongs life way past the point of cruelty.

This will not end well.
Amazon used Oracle until a few years ago, Google accounting teams used Excel, etc.
Especially something like brain surgery. Superglue is bad enough on the fingers.
This probably goes without typing, but that is amazing to think about. Thanks for sharing!
To make a solid from moon dust just by pressure would need a too high pressure.

Nevertheless, it should be possible to sinter the dust into ceramic blocks, by moderate pressure and temperature, together with some kind of binder.

As a sintering aid that works as a binder, there are various oxides that could be extracted from moon rocks, e.g. yttria, though some of the more abundant oxides, e.g. of magnesium or calcium, might also work.

So I think that the most difficult part of making solids from moon dust or broken moon rocks is the extraction from the rocks of the oxides that can be used as binders for sintering.

Sintering has the great advantage that it needs only energy and materials that are abundant on the Moon. Cements and adhesives, which are cheaper on Earth, need materials that are very scarce or absent on the Moon.
If I were into crypto, this might have been neat.

But you know… if these guys thinks that crypto is a real currency and think you should use it for trade…

Why do I have to pay for it using “real” money? They don’t really seem to be fully invested in what they’re selling.
Fanatics Hits $31B Valuation in Latest Funding Round
The reality of is that for profit insurance companies want an opaque and high pricing structure. This allows them to charge higher premiums across their entire set of customers meanwhile the number of people that are getting seriously sick or injured is small allowing them to create huge profits.

So these higher prices, create higher premiums, which create higher profit, so there is no actual incentive for the insurance companies to get hospital prices down because the majority of their insured users are not going to be getting massive bills throughout the year and also they can still litigate or pass healthcare costs back to the customer due to coverage issues and let's not forget deductibles.
One of the things I like about Gibson is that he'll spend a great deal of time talking about some technology whether it's mundane or fantastic from the perspective of the frustrated user of that tech. He'll do this early in the book so that later on when that technology comes into play, he doesn't need a segue to explain it.
Wired's coverage on this.

Tony Fadell Is Trying to Build the iPod of Crypto

https://www.wired.com/story/tony-fadell-is-trying-to-build-t...

In his (Tony Fadell's) mind, the wallet should be about the size of a credit card and have a touchscreen. ...envisioned people owning several wallets, one for each category of digital collecting or banking. He liked the concept of stacking them on top of each other, like a cash bundle of $100 bills. He came up with the idea of having magnets to snap the units into a tidy stack. That feature provided the name for the device: Stax.
I think people don't really understand what's happening, and therefore why it's impressive that it's happening.
But:

the likelihood of becoming infected may rise with the size of that "dose."

So a small dose might still prime the immune system even if you don't get sick.
Is it really though? Logic would dictate that while the market for a non-neutral color might be smaller, supply would also be smaller which should cancel the demand side out.

Anecdotally, and this might be a poor example because it's an enthusiast car and not something that most people are going to be encountering, I was looking at used Porsche Boxsters earlier this year, and the more interesting colors actually commanded a premium over silver or black cars because they're much harder to find. I do wonder how that translates to something more practical, but I have a hard time believing that it would negatively impact resale value to a huge extent.
Landing pads are part of this deal and are critical to Artemis. More info here: https://www.thespaceresource.com/news/2020/6/how-will-we-han...
I'm surprised that Snow Crash hasn't been adapted yet. As others commented, most of Neuromancer's plot has become recycled by what came after. But Snow Crash is to cyberpunk what The Boys is to superhero movies: a satirical take on corporate America. This should be especially popular at our current moment with the impending collapse of Meta's Verse (I refuse to let them own "metaverse")
Interesting that the blog author dreads a serial adaptation. If anything I would dread a movie adaptation as the limited time and the pacing requirements make it difficult to avoid rushing through the story and skipping much of the worldbuilding.

They use Foundation as an example of why serialized adaptations are poor, but this understates the difficulty of the task in adopting a set of short stories that sprawl over worlds and eras, featuring complex ideas. I have a hard time believing a movie format could do a superior job with Foundation.
Why isn't that presented as an option then, rather than mandated? I could want to do my own testing
Valid. I've accepted much larger risk by storing all of my other sensitive information in my password manager though. What crypto needs is a form of 2FA - turns out I don't care enough to have another factor that's only useful for crypto.
Oops! Less memorable than I thought. Its concept is, at least: it's close to being the villain of the story, Case its hapless pawn, yet it's also a captive. There are some parts of the plot I do like, even if it's not a draw as a whole.
This matches what i see in the past 5 years or so as well.
They could offer stickiness settings, like only change the price once the FX rate has moved 10%.
Earlier i was saying it isn't scary but maybe it is.

It is impressive how ChatGPT keeps track of state and the flow of the conversation. How does it do it? Is it some kind of memory or some other model? ( I asked it, it keeps lying to me that it does not have memory)
I'd pony up for apple tv in a split second for this if they make it. Must read if you're into sci fi with AI and cyberpunk themes.
EMDR therapy may help with something like that.
to be fair, there's not much in the book, either.
> the situation is the same for Lisp with its dynamic typing

Common Lisp and Smalltalk (quintessential dynamic systems) both track the existing instances of a class. If you update the class definition then they can update the existing instances of the class. In CL you'd want to specialize `update-instance-for-redefined-class` to handle the update.

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_upda_1.htm#update-instance-for-re...
This is why I find it so baffling that there are so many devs/companies chasing the golden ring of app revenue with sincerity when clearly is a very warped marketplace. What types of useful, non-scam apps do people look for and buy that lead devs to believe there's some opportunity? Why create it as an app and deal with all that BS when you could just make a nice web site/PWA?
More detail about the originator of this architectural style

His ‘Revenge’ on Architects Was the Vancouver Special

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2019/12/17/Vancouver-Special-Reve...
Apart from what sibling commenters say, the problem is that cmake's original syntax was introduced with the same glowing fanatism (over plain old Makefiles) that's now on display with cmake 3.0 (or is it 2.0?) over "old" cmake, making this enthusiasm not quite justifiable.

If your old lib can't be build due to a deprecated build system, that's already the greatest possible disaster for a build system, as all your automatic tests etc might not run anymore and you lack a basis for releasing anything at that point. You need to setup an entire new project for recovery.
I have this happen to I've always assumed it was an anxiety response. The interesting things is I am able to control it to some extent, I used to hit myself, now I mutter profanities. Anyone else do something like this?
It would be great if benefits unions are known for fighting for like health care was guaranteed by the government, but there's some things that a union closer to the workers, which is focused on one thing, can better fight for than the government, like standards for safety beyond OSHA, standards for scheduling, training, discipline, etc. If I understand what you're saying right.

If you think unions are a smaller extra government entity, how do you view Apple in that same lens? Likely, the unions have the least power in this triangle (besides individual employees not covered by a union), and Apple has more power than the government in some, but not all, respects.
I see posts like this and don't understand how they are made. I asked chatGPT this morning if it "remembered" something I asked in the previous prompt, and it said something to the tune of "I am simply a NLP machine learning model, I provide a decent output for good inputs, I don't have a sense of context, memory, or time."

That's why I really don't understand these contextualized multi step conversations. Especially by the fact this is a payed for substack... I'm inclined to beleive that the both the responses and or flow of conversation (or both) are partially (or more than partially) fabricated.
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I don't know if you care about this kind of thing, but the copy-paste has exposed your name. (The icons in the chat have your account name as the alt text).
Also, I would think that lots of water is needed, and Arizona is pretty dry.
AIUI, Childe proposed a number of criteria for civilization, all of them correlating one way or another with 'increasingly complex society'. Some of those we'll never know if the very ancient past had them (and I think even Graham Hancock would acknowledge this), the others are pretty much in line with the article you link to. So I'm not sure how much genuine disagreement is involved, as opposed to scholars holding on to untenable viewpoints and neglecting to put two and two together.
What nobody has sufficiently explained so far: why is it white? The explanation, that it is used for daylight operations seems insufficient. Basically all civilian planes are white and can be seen from ground.
> You could even imagine something like a ubiquitous transparent P2P background computing grid as a big shift in software that could matter.

That's not really Moore's law, though; it's changing how you use the transistors rather than how many you get.
I was frustrated trying something with Mapbox today and asked GPT to do it... And it returned fine react-mapboxgl code that was mostly correct. Got me a bit more angry.

Then I asked for the same "but as Dutch song lyrics"... And got a song with three verses and a chorus about setting map layers and longitudes and latitudes and stuff, in Dutch.
i don't think anyone is claiming it's going to trickle down
I have to admit, and probably just because it is on HN, I initially assumed from the title that this article was about Dwarf Fortress.
This is The Onion's "we're thinking printers", but for karaoke machines. What a world.
Not Mid-Atlantic, but I've heard that one way to acquire a "standard" Mid-Western US accent is to speak along with a trained speaker, such as a particular newscaster. And "You are supposed to stop before sounding just like that person."
Probably? I can't fathom how people are unimpressed by an AI that can output coherent sentences on a topic, let alone invent a language!
Every mind sees things different. The artist struggles to put that to a medium. The successful expression of their vision is extremely common, but the ability for anyone to even iterate on another artist's work is basically nonexistent. Even with AIs cranking out art, the obsessed will continue to fight to share their mind.
It's still very useful mental tool, since a centralized server + clients is still a distributed system.

But yeah, you shouldn't use the really complex CRDTs in that case. (And in most cases to be honest.)
Ilmselt sellepärast, et lihtsalt ei ole piisavalt eestikeelseid veebilehti, mida maha kraapida :)
I don't see it this way; Without curated information we wouldn't have a resource of valuable Q and A's for AI to base itself off of. I'm ignorant on what particular text the model was trained on but I have to assume it had a lot of details from online resources. It knows about coding languages and common problems so it has trained it's information form something. Without stack overflow or some kind of relationship between openAI ChatGPT suggested answers and confirmation that it was valid the information would becomes pointless for future frameworks since everyone would be stuck using ChatGPT for answers and it would have no place to find the answers. Maybe I'm missing something a context of some kind but I don't see it providing valid answers without the wealth knowledge like a place that stackoverflow can provide.
I started watching, because I was lazy and Prime recommended it, and stopped after about 20 minutes in. My impression in that time was "Rebel teenage girl outsmarts everyone in overdone and ugly CGI but we've added something about neuro to make it look sci-fi". It felt like the Hunger Games, but less realistic. I did not know at the time it was written by Gibson, who I admire as an author, but also it did not come to my mind that it could have possibly been written by him. Is the screen adaptation so different from the book, or did they add filler to make 8 (or more?) episodes?
CYA. Send an email to the higher up stating the negative impact that their decision will impose, and ask them to confirm that they would still like to proceed. Then don't do anything related to that decision until they respond.
Yeah, I was reading this and thinking it's mostly substituting English for another vocabulary. It's even referencing English when it comes up with something new, eg. referencing use of the "sl" consonant cluster in English.
The value is there. People buy useless shit all of time to show off their wealth. Is there any difference between having a $10,000 app or having a $100+ cosmetic skin in a game?
It's disappointing that JetBrains did not move out of Ukraine when the country started a war of aggression against the Russian people in the eastern breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, where thousands of Russians were killed since 2014. Why the double standard?