skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding software can help.

Alfred can either replace spotlite or run along side it. I’ve found it much faster and easier to use. You can customize it pretty well. (Just don’t download the Mac App Store version as it’s multiple versions behind)

There’s a ton of windows managers out there that help you setup hot keys or modify windows to work how you want. Mac overall is much better with native software not doing its own thing than windows so changes tend to be pretty consistent. I’m using MOOM because it’s on the app store and lets me hotkey all my windows into specific sizes but there’s plenty of other stuff out there depending on what you want to do.
Law of attraction is bs.
MN University President, "Muslim students supersede academic freedom”
Could you use machine learning to reconstruct the original screenshot?
> Plus those with something more in-depth to say now tends to do it in video form.

And, with video form it's even harder to separate the signal from the noise.
I vaguely suspect that this is a product of the sort of environment where you have to fill out a form in triplicate to get the static analyser to let you concatenate strings (which, to be clear, may not be inappropriate for something like this).

I do object to the variable being called ‘percentage’ tho, as it clearly isn't one.
They do have spinning blades (just not exposed) a hidden propeller, so I'm skeptical of the claim for no noise, but if true that would be great.
Looks like a good innovation, especially for countries like the UK which get lots of wind but little sunshine.
What if the genius drops out because he thinks there is an even smarter person that doesn't actually exist?
I neither stopped programming nor took on a new role. In fact, I think if I were younger I would have sough a new position more aggressively (have been in my current role quite a while).

I did however prioritise family and more recently self-care (both physical and mental). I have young children and they won't be young for very long so I am trying to spend as much quality time with them as I can (while remaining sane!). I am conscious though that as they grow up they will need me less, so I am considering where I want to take my career next - it's a big subject!

My time is also very fragmented and I do find that frustrating. I have a pretty interesting side project which I think could be popular and useful, but I really struggle to make consistent progress on it.

The issue I am working on at the moment is trying to balance doing stuff with my time (hobbies, career development, time with kids) against not doing too much (and ending up stressed). Tricky!
https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/
For confidential data you could use one of the plugins that add authentication - datasette-auth0 or datasette-auth-github or datasette-auth-passwords are options there - but yeah, you're probably better off deploying to internet hosting if you already have an auth proxy setup somewhere.
The Norwegian welfare agency publish most of their code on github: https://github.com/navikt/

It's the organization you use if you're sick, lost your job, where you get your social security etc. Basically a huge behemoth of all kinds of social or labor services.

While most of the code probably has little value for others (2000 different repos), I think it's quite noble that it's public, given it's made with tax payer money and serves our people. And when working there I found it quite cool to work in the open, a sense of pride in publishing everything we were doing. Also a bit funny, just checked the project I started 5 years ago: "last updated 42 minutes ago".
Lessons Learned from a Power-Cut
I don't think I've ever used DigiD to verify my passport, I was vaguely aware it had the capability though. On the other hand I use DigiD all the time to login to websites. My health insurance, government websites, etc. Super efficient and simple.

The passport feature is a new one to provide an alternative safer method of verifying ID for the times you need it. It isn't the default use of DigiD and is meant as an alternative to physically taking your passport places.
I think this person is just deeply confused.
Because the operating system controls that and you can tell the operating system to deny these features.
> STOL

I suspect the "V" is still "in theory," because it probably relies on those fans being rotated, and it looks like the ones in the demonstrator are fixed.

Once the rotation happens, a lot more factors come into play, and those problems are not new (see "Osprey").

I think that SCRAMJet engines also use fluid dynamics, in a similar manner.
> You’re more likely to roll a 6 if you roll more dice

Yes, but you're also a lot more likely to roll a 1 and run out of bankroll. One could go on and discuss all the points in there but that's a lot of theory crafting that misses the point that created opportunities are not be luck by definition.
I just don’t understand people who still want to play music from huge plastic disks.
One of the benefits of HTTPS everywhere was breaking the bad versions of those systems: I remember Vodafone ES having one which cached resources far longer (months) than the Cache-Control headers allowed, and mobile ISPs used ByteMobile to over-compress images.

You still see opt-in proxies, which are at least better in the sense of the user being able to see the config & trust relationship when something breaks.
I don't have fb or twitter accounts either, but I have been exposed to it regardless.

People will post whatever crap they eat. It tends to be very unhealthy food, and too much of it. Which normalizes eating non-food. Which affects health quite negatively.
Probably because it’s also tied in with DRM video decoding / HDCP where the prevailing opinion of those bodies is that it very much isn’t your device.
Fixed it in the blog.

I have to say I'm impressed you read that far and found my error. I enjoy the fact that I can post something technical like this and someone would read this much into the details. I debated writing up my debugging notes. I might try writing up more of my debugging notes.

Made my day, thanks!
remind me the microsoft AI chat bot few years ago. 2 hours after being made public, people managed to make it say racist stuff and they prompted pulled th rig
That's nice, I was under the impression only ApplePay had access to read and write data via NFC. Still no ability to write arbitrary data via NFC, but for the purposes of this app that's good enough.
I'm sure by now there is enough content on the internet that says racism is bad. It's got to outnumber racist things said online by like a million to one. Why not just let the model learn what it learns? If people care so much about racism then that should reflect naturally in the model.
The grass is always greener, etc.

It might be better to spend some free time cultivating a side project or two where you can exercise your dev skills without endangering your income. Who knows, it might take off and turn into your own company down the road.

Once you give up salary and seniority, though, those are gone with the odds stacked against getting them back.

And there is the cynical (but non-zero) chance that many people will assume you were demoted for poor performance / behavioral issues / insert your own negative perception, instead of a voluntary move.

Tread cautiously, I'd say, don't do aything to endanger your current position and income.
I honestly don't know what they're talking about, I had a mac until recently and very often I'd get up to 500ms delay in writing in a Chrome text box.
I've used MacOS for about 15 years now, and I almost _never_ use full-screen [1]. What I do instead is group windows in the different desktops by task / context. These windows are mostly sized to take ~80-90% of the screen, but I make them all different sizes and slightly offset from each other. That way I can switch from one another by clicking on the small sliver that peeks out from behind the current foreground window. That type of context-switching is a bit more rare; the most-used action is the 3-finger swipe / ctrl-arrow.

One thing I miss from Leopard is the ability to put your spaces into a grid instead of a line; made for a bit more efficient switching between them.

[1]: The only exception which is pretty much always full-screen is my terminal. I use tmux for multitasking in that "space".
It’t that precisely embeddings API from OpenAI? It has all context so very useful for search
Collection of ASCII art fonts for Figlet
> The first British colony in India was established in 1608.

These were trading stations established by the East India Company. You can't really talk about colonization till much later - arguably Clive's successes in Bengal in the 1750's marks the start of real colonization.

The dynamic of colonization after that was very much caught up with the desire of English manufacturers and merchants to find export markets for finished goods, especially cotton.
> Dock to a different dock (hot-desking; same brand and size of monitor) and the entire display options need to be re-written - no option to preserve it

Does anything do this properly? I use i3[0], and wrote some super janky automation to preserve my layouts when I switched from dock to no dock and back. It has the concept of layouts that can be stored/loaded. So I had a script that would dump the layout, I had to manually run it before disconnecting (couldn't figure out how to detect the monitor disconnect and dump the layout before i3 re-arranged everything). And another script that would load the layout when new monitors were connected (this was easy enough to automate).

I'd be _really_ impressed if something did this correctly without any user hacking.

[0] https://i3wm.org/
> btw I see that attaching an nfc reader to your computer is also supported.

Theoretically supported, or actually possible?

As it stands, DigiD must be used with either the Android or the IOS app in the 'Substantieel' mode of authenticity verification when accessing health care records. This is likely to be pushed to other uses of DigiD as well eventually.
The XFCE whisker menu is an excellent start menu.
I thought these bladesless fans were sort of a gimmick. (And the fan is still there internally right?)

Does this offer any benefits over regular props?
I would definitely support some rules like that for pre-orders: once you start accepting money you have to be very up-front about the state of the product and test results. If that’s too much, do conventional R&D and tell people they can buy it when it’s ready.
And until science figures out how consciousness and time work, it's better to assume that physics is completely fair (symmetrical) and the other half of the population might end up with 2usd in their next incarnation, living in the same time.
Why the hell does windows think it's ok to secretly phone home with crash reports by default, especially when sending those makes the problem worse by slowing down the crash recovery? In this case the problem would probably have been insignificant if not for super slow, blocking, error telemetry. At least store these and send them later, sheesh.
I highly recommend famed computer scientist Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research" [0] which covers "creating luck" from a researchers perspective.

[0]: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
Is it bigger than the Stable Diffusion model? (4-5 GB)
From looking at their website [1], it looks to me like they are just using a jet turbine and routing the air through pipes to those ring-shaped outlets.

[1] https://jetoptera.com/technology/
Any discussion about Jews in finance not held by Jews themselves is a hair away from devolving into an antisemitic /pol/ discussion about 'white genocide'. Any professional who touches the subject with even a ten foot pole immediately gains a nefarious following whether they want it or not. Having such a following of internet nazis is a liability for any professional reputation on a number of axes.

Edit: I'm curious what ChatGPT's answer the same question, but posed about Black or African American males would be. Would it state the fact of underrepresentation or would it refuse to answer?
Heh. Computers used fill an entire room, and cost the equivalent of a house. And now everyone carries one way more powerful in their pockets for the cost of a few meals in a restaurant.
I did have classmates that operated like this, but they all failed out. Perhaps it depends on the university :)
I’ve been doing the same, except I went one step further. I’m currently extending Micropython to add a DMA class to the RP2 port.
I can build and debug Micropython via VSCode and use Thonny to write some Python to test.
I could with the setup being a bit quicker (maybe an 8GB pi 4 would help)
> As for individuals, once the licence fee is paid I expect Stability AI to remove infringing training material (with artists requesting to opt out), update their model significantly and publish a new an improved model that (perhaps not completely guaranteed) convinces individuals to switch.

It seems like it would be really challenging to improve the model for users while removing a lot of the training material. I'll be interested to see if and how it happens!
Not relevant to the present but my dad worked at LLNL in the early 70s. We lived in Santa Cruz and he commuted to Livermore, so best of both worlds (good job, nice place to live). This would be insanity today since in 1970 San Jose metro was a fraction of today's size. Was hired straight out of UCLA undergrad (UCLA's very first CompSci cohort) so req's were different back then. Also grew pot and had long hair so I honestly don't know how he got a job there.
The Case for Taiwan's Statehood
Plenty of new faculty are more interested in research than teaching too.
But it does not require there to be higher dimensions for the universe to expand into.

It's an analogy that works in our experience that we can visualise.

There is no reason to suppose that the universe requires something "outside" it to expand "into". It could just... get bigger.
An increase from 0 to a tiny and insignificant amount is an increase of infinity percent.
An amazing online exhibition about one of the best painters of all time, Johannes Vermeer!
> This is scientifically and necessarily (due to the architecture) true.

Given we assume Kantian the framework you just outlined

> you do not actually possess omniscient knowledge of reality

The usual response to this is that if you can't possess omniscient knowledge of reality, how could you possibly make a statement about reality

Imo the way out of this: talk about things being true in the context of logic only, the second causality comes into the picture the word "true" means something entirely different. Trying to reconcile the two is like trying to write a mathematical proof of the existence of God
What if OpenAI decides to close or charge for access to it's API? Is there a compromise of keeping it open somewhere? What's the plan B?

There's a really strong dependency on their service and I sometimes get doubtful about dedicating time to build things on top of it.
I worked for LLNL. Got to see the NIF. Super cool projects. You should seriously consider it, however they also work on bombs and other things that are destructive to society.
Iceland does the same: https://github.com/island-is/island.is
Good post, thanks!

I have a gut feeling that hustling is a more effective strategy than being the best. In a winner-takes-all economy, (as many real economies are) you can do an excellent work and go unnoticed because someone else is already capturing all the attention.

You can argue that if that happens is because the other thing is best, but I'm not very convinced about that. Look at HN itself: if a submission manages to get early traction, it is more likely that it will raise to the front page as upvotes attract upvotes, etc.

Ofc, you can try to do both.
This is a great elaboration of something I realized in my early adult life, after feeling perpetually unlucky throughout my adolescence. In my youth, I found myself frequently disappointed that things didn't happen for me, lamenting my bad luck.

The beginning of college coincided with my recovery from an episode of depression, and I guess fueled rebound energy, I started prospecting. I just said yes to as many things as I could. It didn't take long for this to start paying dividends, and I started getting lucky.

By the end of college, I could see how luck compounds. I think the world is very random, practically speaking, but that probably distributions are highly mutable. I found that decisions I previously made set me up for higher likelihood of being chosen for subsequent opportunities. I parlayed this into getting a grad school fellowship that took me to an Ivy League university, needless to say, that opens further doors.

Suddenly, I was quite lucky, and I've remained lucky for my adult life to this day.

This, incidentally, is the problem with meritocracy. Meritocracy showers opportunities on the lucky, rather than the needy or the deserving or even the highest leverage. For the privileged (as I am, in many ways), this starts before birth. Merit is manufactured and compound. Success justifies the perception of merit, but ignores the extent to which successful people are often the beneficiaries of massive overinvestment.

Nonetheless, this is the system we live in, and I think it's good for people to know how to navigate it.
Does it need all that much space though? I mean Stable Diffusion was trained on hundreds of terrabytes of images, and the model only needs 4-5 GB of hardware space and a decent GPU to run.

I haven't read anywhere any stats about GPT3/ChatGPT yet (like how big the model is)
Suggestion for the author:

Jason's friend Gabriel Weinberg (also the founder of DDG) wrote about Luck Surface Area as one of the portable mental models in his best-seller, Super Thinking (https://amzn.to/3weREdA).

I like patio11 and all but I don't think his guest podcast many years later was key in popularizing the idea. It had also already been mentioned on many podcasts over the entire previous decade and on the front page of HN multiple times.
Yeah they do handicapped chess engine Vs grandmaster matches.

Time advantage is not been enough so what makes you think you a typical human could beat a chess AI given enough time if a GM can't?

You probably have to switch the computer off to give a typical human a fighting chance.
> Oh and for some reason, it's less stable than my prior windows machine. Apps just crash a lot, but that's probably due to the Arm64. I mean, remarkably stable compared to computer back when, of course, but compared to Windows 10, I have more crashes and even had to restart a couple of times!

This is not normal: you might have a hardware issue or possibly some kind of invasive corporate security software. The two M1 devices I’ve used have never had a system level crash and application crashes are rare except for the things I’m compiling myself.

For window management, I use Rectangle.app - Macs are all about keyboard shortcuts and that adds all kinds of resize patterns.

For search, I’ve used Launchbar since before Spotlight existed. It’s notably faster for app launching and customizable, and the clipboard history is invaluable.
Glad the author took the time to mention the commodification of relationships.
(author here)

one of my favorite classes at Wharton was Richard Shell's the Literature of Success (https://apps.wharton.upenn.edu/syllabi/2016A/LGST227001/) where we, no joke, studied The Secret as a way to understand the "Think and Grow Rich"/manifestation philosophy of success

my favorite joke of his about the topic is "when two sports teams compete against one another, if both manifest their desire really hard, only one can win"
That’s cool, is that from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/feldman19a.html ?

I hadn’t seen that result before, definitely interested in related work
If the lies start that early, you can usually just not read the rest and lose nothing.
> personal websites still exist, there are just fewer of them

And my point is that this isn't true. There are more weird, wonderful, random single-purpose and eclectic websites today than ever before in the history of the Internet.

It's just that they are suspended in an ocean of so much more Internet than existed before that they feel absent compared to the halcyon days.

I'm not trying to invalidate anyone's personal experience, obviously there exists a population that moved away from hand-crafted HTML to blogs and social media, but that movement is trivial compared innumerable, inconceivable, content dilution of the net that happened over the course of the 2000s.

Most people on social media would never have created those hand-crafted sites to begin with, they weren't members of that self-selected group of early web pioneers. They were only ever going to engage with easy to use systems. We didn't miss out on a similarly sized web of artisanal websites, that future was never in the cards.
From https://www.anandtech.com/show/8377/usb-typec-connector-spec...

1,500 connect/disconnect cycles for A

5,000 for the Mini

10,000 for micro and type-c
Certainly better than in my country where you need to have a windows machine w/ a card reader to use the certificate from the ID card to login.
Doesn’t PNG also support infinite non-image data? I thought things like the PICO-8 would share programs as .png images. Or is this a hack?
Overloading the Ethereum Virtual Machine to avoid gas costs
The issue isn’t taking equity. In theory, taking equity aligns incentives between the agency and founder for the long term.

The issue is with how these firms are marketing themselves to founders. It’s misleading and clouds the (already cloudy) entrepreneurial support space.

I wish I could post examples but that would be inappropriate.
> The reason his students find his problem sets "emotionally trying" is that they're getting a taste of what real work is like.

What? No, it's because they're already overworked with their actual research and don't have time/energy for this fake research on top of that.
These things get posted here from time to time. Most of the time they don't post numbers, or when they do the numbers don't make sense. Eevblog / Thunderf00t debunked so many if them.
> It is not anywhere as bad as you're picturing it.

It is If I want to bootstrap a kernel that isn't Linux.
and I'm baffled by the insistence that "go build it" is a valid answer
i have actually played underground poker for a couple years :) and then was a hedge fund guy so i guess pro poker for a little more. Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets is the eigenbook for this sort of thinking. But even Annie is playing the metagame around monetizing her poker career outside of poker rather than inside it, maximizing her luck by doing all the speaking and writing she does.
Kinda clickbaity

They walked back that statement
This is highly dependent on upbringing.

I grew up with extremely religious and controlling parents. I spent most of my childhood believing I’d go to hell if I didn’t dedicate my life to the god the church worshipped.

This had a huge impact on what I believed about myself at that age, and I’m still actively working against the indoctrination in my 30s through therapy.

I still wonder how things might have gone if I pursued some form of research. I have evidence now to believe I might have been good at it, but haven’t convinced myself the cost to pivot makes sense at this stage of my life.

My story is not unique, and church/religion are just one implementation of a form of parenting that works hard against your claim.