skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Davids: https://learnpracticeplay.com/

Don't start with a Ukulele unless that's the instrument you want to play. It's fun but a guitar much more versatile. If you want to learn music theory then it's easier to grasp the concepts with a piano / keyboard. I can't play piano very well, but if I want to think about a scale on a guitar then having the piano there is helpful.
Mine is https://attejuvonen.fi

It's a blog with a mix of written articles & showcasing products I've built.
Now I'll have to use Pages app again, I'm not going to pay a subscription service for invoices, it's ridiculous for someone who need makes 1 invoice per month.
...but why?

I was happy to switch from my original Oculus/Facebook account to a Meta account back in October when I was prompted to, I never wanted the (originally mandatory) Facebook association in the first place.

But why wouldn't Meta just migrate these accounts automatically? I'm baffled by how the pros could possibly outweigh the cons for Meta here.

For people who don't touch their Quest for a year and a half that was associated with an e-mail account they don't check regularly, and then decide to dust the Quest off to play a game when their niece or nephew visits... and discover all their games are gone?

What the hell? The resulting hatred towards Meta is going to cost more in the long run than any extra money resulting in re-buying a couple of games.

I usually feel like I can understand when companies take user-hostile decisions because it's still easy to see how it makes sense for the company/investors. But here, I'm utterly stumped.

Nevertheless, this is where there need to be laws around this kind of thing. It should be illegal to delete digital purchases or delete accounts like this, end of story. Consumer protection laws are desperately needed here.
Cf. Unix for Poets: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs124/kwc-unix-for-poets.pdf
Just blow the dust out like a NES cartridge.
Sounds like the good life to me; where do I sign up?
And you're way more "you're distracted". It's barely an exaggeration to say: sugar is in EVERYTHING. It's so ubiquitous and normalized that you're blaming a handful of oils. When every meals, every snack, mucks with your insulin levels...ill health is going to happen.

But yeah, let's blame oil. Makes sense. Smh
It depends.

I live in an exurb of a major US metro on the East Coast. It's hard to compare costs directly as I own a house but anything remotely equivalent in the city on public transit lines would be much pricier. As for desirable? Well I have forest trails right out of my house. Don't care that much about walking to cafes and restaurants.
40" Dell U4021QW UltraSharp Curved Monitor. It's a great monitor, but what really makes it amazing is the built in KVM. My personal machine is a Linux desktop with displayport, but my employer gave me a Mac laptop which I have to use for work - lovely machine, just not my preference.

The keyboard and mouse plug in to the monitor, the Mac plugs into the monitor by USB-C (which changes it, drives the display, and routes the keyboard and mouse there), and the desktop plugs in to the monitor's USB and displayport connections. I can switch the full screen between machines, with keyboard and mouse following, or do picture-in-picture or split screen stuff with the input routing switchable through a reasonably decent on screen menu. It works really well.
I'd add overhead presses and weighted pullups and pushups to squats and deadlifts. Bench presses are for impressing other gym rats. Overhead presses are much more beneficial for your shoulders.
It's an Employee Handbook, not an Engineering Handbook, but Valve's is very, very well produced[1].

[1] (PDF): https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmplo...
A tangent on the peer-swapping thing.

I grew up at a strange intersection between physical media and internet piracy. In Russia. I don't remember anyone swapping music on physical media often (we did swap computer games on CDs tho, that's how I first experienced GTA Vice City), but in high school we had a better thing for music: VKontakte. It's the Russian Facebook, except it had, and to some extent still has, an enormous catalog of streamable MP3s. You have your personal playlist on your profile where you add music you find in the search or upload your own files. You can also post music to people's walls. As VKontakte was such an enormous part of everyone's life back then, everyone you knew IRL was on your friends list, and then some. And you could flip through their music (subject to privacy settings, but most had it open for everyone or for friends) and discover something amazing. People would often point to their VK playlist when asked "what kinds of music do you listen"; I still do sometimes. Ah, and of course the human-ness of all that — some people would edit the title and artist fields of their uploaded tracks to say something personal. This one is mostly gone though because VK started doing talking to recording companies a while ago and replaced all mp3s for which there is a licensed version with one.

IIRC Spotify has a somewhat similar feature where anyone can create a public playlist. You can even follow people. It does have some of the same properties, but it's not quite the same thing because it's a separate app. The social features in Spotify feel like an afterthought. The separate social graph doesn't help either.
The Sharpe ratio gives you a good score if you lose everything (-100%) and then you gain a 20% return for 10 years.

But once you lost everything, there is no capital to invest, so the score should be infinitely bad.

Arithmetic averages are dangerous in geometric environments.

Use the expected log-return or the geometric mean instead of the arithmetic one in Sharpe's formula.

But maximizing log-return was proven by Kelly to be optimal, and you don't need to further penalize volatility.
I miss XSLT every time I see megabytes of JavaScript converting some JSON into a soup of HTML to display in browsers. A bunch of JavaScript with a bunch of overwrought "components" is serving as a very complicated templating system.

A lot of really stupid JavaScript could be done fairly easily with XSLT natively inside a browser engine. An XML document can point to its own XSL(s) so get rendered to the appropriate delivery format or just used directly as data.
That's probably a level beyond where the majority of people who frequent the climbing gym get to. Even pro climbers might not be able to do any muscle ups.

Here's Alex Honnold talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDUeh8nyLT0&t=490s

He demonstrates he can only do 5 pullups (though it's possible he was being modest).
Any story need have start, middle end. Halo me played maybe back in 2001? It now over twenty year later story should ended long ago. but they focus on make more money even if it no purpose.

many company do this. was big fan of avengers and infinity movies. very nice build up and conclusion. then they throw water on it all and because of multiverse it make everything cheap.

these companys no passion or respect. do what it take to make some more dollars. very sad.
https://archive.is/7qbkR
TL;DR: X11 itself does not have any concept of “icons” or a “minimized” window, but the ICCCM & EWMH (the standard for how X11 window managers and applications should interoperate) does. Additionally, most window managers don’t use window icons anymore, but instead moves minimized windows to some sort of task bar, and do not, therefore, show any “icon” image which the application might have configured using the old standards.
"painted and engraved non-figurative signs from at least ~42,000 BP and figurative images (notably animals) from at least 37,000 BP"

At least so far, no one has found any DNA trace of these people among modern Europeans. At least for now, it seems these Homo Sapiens went extinct the same time that the Neanderthals went extinct. Europe was re-populated around 15,000 years ago by a group that expanded from Anatolia. This group has left a DNA trace that still exists in modern Europeans. But at least for now, it is not clear that modern Europeans have any ancestry that goes back to 40,000 BC.

https://marketbusinessnews.com/dramatic-population-change-in...
https://archive.is/JwHDn
Nah. I'll still charge that it's laziness if this is your job. I get that this kind of practice is common, but I still find it lazy.

I compare it to using gmail as your professional email. It's a bad idea; even if it never bites you, because the cost is so little and the harm is so great if it ever screws up.

Except I can see why average joe user might not think about it, and I don't think developers have that excuse. You should know and understand that tech is risky enough. Same reason there was no excuse for the kik zero padding debacle. The fact that a LOT of people did a lazy dumb thing doesn't make it not dumb or lazy.
I pay about $400/year for $1.5 million in commercial property liability insurance for a small office space. And the risk of somebody "slipping" and collecting $1.5 million is far, far more likely.

Every time you drive your car or bicycle you take the risk of running over a star athlete or CEO, and facing a $10 million judgement on lost earnings.

Anyhow, banks will typically require liability disclaimers from deposit box renters, so their exposure is de minimis (probably of freak incident * probability of ineffective disclaimer).

I'm guessing the real reason for not wanting these deposit boxes is the same reason banks are shedding branch staff--labor is costly; and the same reason retailers spent the past few decades selling and leasing back store locations--inflate their quarterly earnings reports by dumping accumulated real estate assets.
conveniently?
Who said anything about he should have had to give it away? All I said was the story was an uninspiring one about domain squatting for money not an inspiring one about someone who refused to sell because of their love/use for the domain. What they had to do at the time this was occuring was very unrestricted but these days it'd be governed by the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy where you really don't want to give something like that as your reason for not wanting to sell to a good offer. After all domains are not owned by you just because you are currently registered them, they are owned by ICANN.
Unfortunately I think the solution is very much the users and content, not the tools. What I mean by that is you need to have documentation on processes and workflow. That needs to be drilled into peoples heads and routinely audited.

As empowering as software is it really can allow for chaos when it comes to knowledge base. I don’t think there’s going to be any amount of integration with any one tooling that would make a solution click with all users. It always comes back to who the individuals are and how they perceive productivity.

They may be right as an individual. Tool X may be way better for them. A lot of us are working on teams though and with that we have to learn to adapt to what works for the team.
yup, true. i can’t wear them on long flights for example.
> This is an existential threat to California…

California was doing just fine when I was a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s. No doubt it’ll be doing just fine when the tech bros take their ball and go home.

There’s absolutely nothing in California that is essential for the tech industry but plenty to offer that turned it into an economic powerhouse before that time.

Pretty depressing that the only way I could possibly permanently move back to the land of my birth is in a casket.
I supercharged Telegram group with automation
https://learnbyexample.github.io/ - programming topics like regular expressions, cli tools, vim, etc and some posts about my ebook writing experience

https://learnbyexample.github.io/escapist-reviews/ - reviews about fantasy and sci-fi books I read, many are self-published as I read a lot on KU
Hmm.. I have two tape decks in my house, maybe I need to check their worth.
We're getting confused I think, these are typical powerlifting movements now. But classically, by which I mean in the past, those compound movements were big in bodybuilding circles as well.
> Another way is that Nest built subpar products that was hurting Google's brand

“Hurting Google’s brand” of what?
Haven't tried it yet, but I expect that you can use the scheduling menu to set up what you describe once, and switch them onto that schedule as needed. You'd want to set up a schedule with multiple station commands, each with a dwarf count of 1, on each tile you want them to stand.

Then you can swap them with a couple clicks between training, off duty, and whatever station schedules you need.
Would this (technically) essentially open up a path to disable Computrace on "permanantly activated" machines by forcing the Computrace variables back to disabled?
“We are on the cusp of applying the advances we are seeing in the development of AI for human language to animal communication,” said Katie Zacarian, the CEO and co-founder of Earth Species Project

So that's fusion but for ML/AI and animal human communication. Give it some unspecified future delivery date and we're done.

We already "know" how to interpret some animal communication as fear signal, maintaining territory, mating call, request for food or a piss break. The advance here would demand some belief in rich syntax and semantic intent.
So happy for those two devs.
Games, music, movies, and telly shows, primarily. Got a DVD boxset of Star Trek (no subtitle) which I like to rewatch every couple of years, for instance. And there's a bunch of stuff that's easier to buy on DVD and import than to try and jump through infinite hoops to get digitally.
Trust me, if that propeller had hit someone in the head, they would have experienced forces that would have exceeded the survivable limits of human G-tolerance.
I did say "at one time," not necessarily now.

But if you've been watching, literally the only reason they don't hate it now is because they lost the open source v. proprietary battle.
> this is a common myth

Do you have a source for that? It's pretty easy to google the smoke points and most charts indicate olive oil is fine for sautéing but not for frying.
It's a poor summary anyway.

The Dispossessed describes an anarchist society on the impoverished moon of a verdant planet, and a scientist's struggle to reconcile his anarchism with his wish to further his research, which requires more resources than the anarchist society can provide. It is one of my favourite books.

I also don't remember distant communication being relevant for The Word for World is Forest. That's far more about the conflict between the natives and the colonizers, and passive vs. aggressive societies.
Good disclosure. If they're offering $20 for a review, that means they must be throwing big money at negative reviews to try and make them disappear too.
it doesn’t really matter though because they all share the same common characteristics that make them unhealthy…eg high polyunsaturated fat content that easily degrades in high heat.
Detroit is a crime ridden and cold place in comparison to San Francisco. I moved to a similar city (Cleveland, OH) and I see why people may want to live in SF instead of this place. The neighborhoods look very depressing, it's overcast most of the time and despite cold weather adequate house construction quality is just not there, so maybe I'm paying less for the rent, but living in these old houses with leaking foundations and walls full of holes is just not comfortable.
If they can make these two (which are quite competitive, mind you), that's proof enough they don't need to "steal" any designs from the west.

Cheers.
From the actual paper:

> Methods Non-resistance-trained young adults were assigned to one of the four groups: CON-ECC (n= 14), CON (n=14) and ECC (n= 14) training groups, and a control group (n=11) that had measurements only.

Not sure why this is getting so much attention. Evidence wise it’s only a hair stronger than the anecdotal stories / advice in the top comments.
Agreed. And I think the road to technology hell is paved with convenience and "free."
That kind of blanket term for the most basic entity that can hook up to the event and paint loop exists in all GUIs. I believe it's also "window" in Windows. It was "widget" in Amiga's UI library, Intution, and it was "view" in Borland's TurboVision.
see bone conducting headphones like Shokz products mentioned in a different comment in this thread
C/C++ Windows build minefield
They're just remarking about how Canadian you are.
Just make most of your economy based on mass manufacturing weapons and vehicles, problem solved
The issue with scaling up data is that these models are already trained on effectively the entire internet. Additionally, humans learn to speak and understand the world with a tiny fraction of the language data given to LLMs. So, there’s pretty obviously a missing ingredient. I’m not convinced Marcus has the exact right answer, it’s actually somewhat difficult to suss out what he thinks should be done on a concrete practical level. That said, there’s a clearly a missing abstraction that allows much more efficient learning in humans.
This is a case of apples and oranges. Modern people expect more from their government than the Athenians so more people need to pay taxes to finance it. I agree that the more you earn the more you should pay in terms of percentage of income but the idea that only the rich need to pay taxes is unmaintainable. Also, when it comes to taxes no one is rich, just ask the high income people. There are plenty of people that earn 200k plus and feel that they don't have enough money left after taxes. And I'm sure there are many people in the million dollar plus club that feel the same. It's just human nature. No one likes to give away their stuff. It's better if someone else does it.
>"It doesn't 'really know'..."

You write this out as if this is an idea you formed yourself and not a tired/expired talking point - it's such a funny comment because it's pure regurgitation, but the argument in it is against regurgitation being "real thought". So are you a bot? Or are you intending to actually proving that there's no difference between ML and 'real' intelligence by showing you do what ML does? Mind spinning stuff
Not only is the universe infinite, but for all practical purposes what we have here on Earth is infinite. We may be running out of oil and fossil fuels (in some quite distant future), but they are compound molecules. We will never be running out of carbon (of which we have too much in the atmosphere), or hydrogen and oxygen, and of any element that has stable isotopes.

Oh, and I'm aware Helium is not gravitationally bound by Earth. We will not be running out of that either (it's being continuously produced as alpha particles in the decay of Radon deep inside the Earth).
Pippin, a housing factory startup, and our backyard home (ADU) brand Rent the Backyard

Ok, not The Pippin:

The Apple Pippin is a defunct open multimedia technology platform, designed by Apple Computer, and marketed as PiPP!N.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin
In Capital and Ideology, Piketty calculates that 19th-century European states (such as France and the UK) collected about 7% of their national income in taxes (most of which was spent on defense, courts, infrastructure such as roads, etc). 19th-century European states did a lot more than ancient ones, so I think <5% of national income is a reasonable estimate. Suffice it to say that at such a low level of taxation you wouldn't expect many people to be taxed directly.
> Using a dumbbell, Professor Nosaka recommends using two hands to help with the concentric (lifting weight) phase, before using one arm for the eccentric phase (lowering weight)...

The two-hand approach just feels like a headache.

There's a common trick people do to take advantage of how you can handle more weight in the eccentric phase of the motion. You "cheat" to get it up, then lower it controlled with strict form. Push press up, military press down.
Got it. Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately my company is relatively diverse and we have different departments that do vastly different things. I would settle for an unambiguous narrative from our director though, who manages all the silos in out department.

I think that’s what me and my team of managers are on to (hopefully)
Potentially long covid? No trauma but I have felt this recently a bit, no where near debilitating but noticeable, perhaps I'm just aging
The US political situation isn't remotely consistent with it being a country that has just freed up 20% of its energy for alternative uses. It is acting like a country that is being squeezed and has an increasingly desperate underclass that has gotten quite disgruntled.

20% is like having no energy on half of Saturday and all of Sunday. The improvements you listed are not comparable.
A common misunderstanding of evolution is that it means a population of X becomes a population of Y. In actuality, it means a population of X becomes a population of X AND Y. If X and Y aren't competing for the same resources (speciation commonly happens to take advantage of a different set of resources), then there is no reason they can't coexist indefinitely.
A basis for argument by low tax fanatics that think a modern Athenian state is possible, drugs, TV shows, VLSI and togas, all in with jets and retsina.

UK income tax was notoriously applied as a temporary expedient. The low tax fans want a return to the pre Victorian levels of poverty that went hand in hand with the non-welfare state.
And because not even the experts know all the possible variables, from a practical perspective it's a half truth... so what there's conservation of energy, that doesn't give us any meaningful information to use for the application at hand.
Marcus continues to fight the wrong war and the last war...

+ One thing we've seen happen is learning systems consistently improve on benchmarks. If you want to see systems improve, you should proclaim loudly that they can't do a thing, and then /release a benchmark that proves it./ People will then work like hell to build something that works. The success on question answering, for example, is driven by exactly this kind of incremental progress on benchmarks.

+ One of the most important things happening this year is multimodal /really working./ This means we have not just text-to-text generators, but text-to-image generators. These work by having an almost-shared embedding between text and images. There are already text+speech embeddings available and image+text embeddings. Start plugging them together, and you'll have your 'world models' in short order, with points in the embedding space shared by images, descriptors, and video/physical memories.

+ An under-appreciated side of the multimodal coin: We are also getting better at combining text embeddings with databases. See RETRO from Deepmind. This will ultimately drive more reliable systems ('only report facts that appear in the database'), and can potentially unlock the interface between neural systems and other programs (eg, letting the neural network 'call out' to a calculator to help answer a question about arithmetic).

+ More generally, we're also getting to a place where we can build other systems on top of the embeddings from foundation models. My hunch is that the things that Marcus wants from symbol manipulation are relatively cheap to build on top of a good embedding, which does the work of compressing or condensing the 'useful' information in an input stream.

Finally, I think the 'symbolic manipulation' track is just wrong. It hasn't produced anything useful so far, and furthermore, I think if it /did/ work it would fail in many of the exact same ways that our current systems do. An expert symbol-manipulator doesn't /need/ to have any real understanding of time or jet-planes, and so it won't.

The one critique in the interview that /does/ feel like it holds weight at this moment in history is the question of abstraction. I really don't see a convincing road to abstraction right now.
Blow dryer.