skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"having trouble identifying the subject and the verb"

In my experience English class was primarily about reading literature with the goal of teaching morals and values. There was very little information about the structure of the English language. I actually learned far more about grammar, syntax, articles, etc. through learning Spanish.
> And an even hotter might not work

Indeed. >1000F is into meme-like territory regarding cook speed vs temperature tradeoff. If you had an extremely consistent process & everything was tuned you could maybe pull it off, but the stability of the system would be really bad.
Back in about 1998 I lived northwest of the asshole of the universe, Houston, Texas.

We had a screen door on our house and no porch light. I was heading into the house from the driveway when I saw a cockroach fly up and onto the screen, evidently attracted to the lights from inside the house and intent on getting inside. I grabbed a baby food jar from an outbuilding and went back to the screen door where I found the cockroach, still pondering the issue of how to gain entry. Cockroaches usually don't seek out the light but this one did so that was interesting enough for me to want to capture this insect.

After capturing the cockroach and sealing it in the jar I noticed that it was light to medium green colored. It was clearly a cockroach but all the ones I had ever seen were various shades of brown to red. I dialed in to my internet at the time, probably AOL, and searched for cockroach pictures hoping to identify it.

I finally found a photo and write-up about this insect. It was a Cuban cockroach. Evidently they had only been noted in the United States in a few places in Florida, probably brought in during one of the refugee waves of the past few decades. They were not common at all and had never been found on the Texas Gulf Coast. There probably had been a lot of Florida men moving to the Houston area and they carried their insect bros with them, probably inadvertently, though you never really know.

I contacted the University of Houston entomology department and reported it. They were interested but not enough to need to see it.

I ended up keeping that cockroach inside that sealed jar until it died since I didn't want it to spread. After more than 30 days alive inside, a large collection of dots appeared on the inside of the jar. I wondered what the heck those things were since they were not excreta as the insect had run out of that a while earlier. Eventually the question was answered as the jar suddenly filled with activity from dozens of small cockroach kids, each looking for a way out of their predicament. The adult died shortly after the little ones hatched.

After more than 3 months, the last one of the baby cockroaches died. I eventually threw the jar out, I think. It may still be in a box of crap I have hauled around for unknown reasons though.

People in southeast Texas living near the sweltering bunghole of the state and the universe can thank me for the small contribution that I made to preventing the spread of an invasive species. The last thing we need is a cockroach that loves to mix and mingle in a well-lit kitchen.
Thanks for sharing! I’ve been using some TTS to make audiobooks for my kids. Sometimes there will be weird artifacts (sounds like someone brushing against a microphone), or the voice will change from masculine to feminine during quotes, or it will struggle to speak a phrase and make guttural sounds.

My next task is to figure out where this might be happening so I can rerun those segments. The books can be hours long so it’s hard to catch.

Could audioFlux be used to support identifying some or all of these?
Why should I collaborate with someone on my personal notes and GTD tasks?
You guys, as funny as this is to follow, pls take a break from the computer.
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Out of curiosity, what do you think people who write in the English language write about? Even if you plan on specializing in children's literature, you'll have a survey of all broad trends somewhere in your college courses.
Funny, I've authored probably half of my presentations at work since around 2016 using Org. Either export to Beamer or use org-reveal. No one cares.

Of course, Powerpoint is superior in some ways, so I still use it. And if the manager needs a document he can make changes to, then I'll use Powerpoint. But these are exceptions, not the rule.

> but you have to ask yourself, is this really better than using Bear etc. in 2023 for 99% of your note taking needs?

Only works on Apple? A non-starter for me. I type way better on a keyboard on my Linux machine, so any note taking app needs to work on it. And Org mode has been around for 20 years. I have notes I wrote almost 15 years ago in it. I want some guarantee that whatever tool I use will work 20 years from now.

As a general rule, if you have to pay for a niche tool to use it, do not expect it to last two decades.
I mostly use org-mode on a computer, with a screen and a keyboard. Markdown uses fewer characters for some things like code blocks (source blocks in org-mode), that is true. That said, not only does org replace Jupyter notebooks, LaTeX, and a dozen other things, it also has markup capabilities, which are simply lacking in Markdown (common mark if you want). For example checklists. Or citation. Or datetimes. Or spreadsheets. Or inclusion of other documents/files at a specifiable heading level. Or tagging of headings. Or marking headings "TODO", "DONE" and similar.

Many things in org-mode are modifiable. For example the "status" of a heading like "TODO", "DONE" and so on. You can add new words in document wide properties at the top of an org file.

I know there are markdown dialects, that partially cover this or that feature, but none to cover all that org provides out of the box.

The org format is much more suitable for any technical or scientific or academic document, that has any slightly raised requirements. In Markdown one often finds oneself using workarounds to make something look nice in the rendered output. Similar to how restructuredtext is powerful and can be used for academic paper writing and all that. Markdown is merely the lowest common denominator, too minimalistic for my taste. Good for a chat or messenger, but not really for good technical documents.

I still have to see a tool for writing markdown, that works as nicely as tooling for org-mode in Emacs, with all the things like changing heading levels for 1 heading or a whole subtree and export buffer or subtree, or cut visible or subtree, widen, narrow, folding, and all those nice things.
Google has an app that mixes SMS and messages as well transparently. They put this in the android SMS app at some point.

Then they started to ask me daily to switch to using their messaging thing whenever possible.

That's when I went on f-droid and downloaded the first SMS app I found. I can't understand why the SMS app should send anything else than SMS.

After all, I'm aware that using any messenger made by google means constant migration.
And, to add a bit more nuance, simplicity can also depend on the stage a project is at... It may be really simple to implement core functionality to demonstrate an idea, but developing on that code can add a lot of complexity later. For example, adding security late in a project is almost always much more difficult than adding a small amount up front. Even the simple to implement metric can be a difficult judgement call.
There are plenty of people that want to be electricians - the schools only accept so many applicants. It's the same issue with the artificial doctor shortage - artificially limited supply to keep wages high.
I have this belief too, then I watched a video on finance or something to the effect and it showed what commercials portray what retirement looks like; people fishing, and dancing and all that stuff. Shortly after, it showed what real retirement looks like: people sitting around a nursing home, waiting to die. Of course there may be a few years dancing and the like, but most of your retirement years will likely be sitting in a nursing home, waiting to die (if you are lucky). You only have one life and you need to earn money to survive, but find a balance you won't regret when you are sitting in a nursing home, waiting to die.

The comparison was stark.
Best of luck! This feels very much like Algorithmia and a previous startup that I built a few years back. The challenge I experienced is the model productionization process and accountabilities as opposed to the infrastructure. No amount of tech I built mattered even if models could be deployed in seconds. Mind you - I was focused on enterprise. The hard part with startups for me was finding technical folks who already “know” how to deploy a model and don’t want to admit they needed a tool.

For a recent enterprise client, developers deploying models is just a non-starter. My advice is to talk to as many customers as you can, hone in on businesses where rapid model deployment is an absolute necessity and double down on them.

Good luck!
Switzerland has been war free in 171 of the last 176 years. It can be done, just not if you plan on being a major power.
Floating Calculation in Mesopotamia [pdf]
You're right, I'm from the West. I spent 5 years in Asia in my 20s, which is where a lot of the wisdom comes from. I've lived with Balinese families, and I've spent a lot of time in rural areas in Cambodia, Thailand, and India. I know exactly what you mean when you say informal communities. It was one of the things I spoke about the most to the people around me when I got back.

I could literally turn up at my friends house uninvited and make myself breakfast in the morning or grab some things I need for a long trip. I'd regularly get invited to all kinds of events, weddings, gatherings, and it all culminates in such a flowing state that you really get to enjoy being you as a person. I miss it.

I never had to look for anyone, because from the moment I entered a village to rent a house/apartment, I became part of that community.
I don't think that having two numbers will help much. I'd guess that most sim-swapped cell numbers are leaked in data breaches or acquired through data brokering. Enrolling a number in 2fa is letting people know your number, because you're tying that number to the account.

A separate number for each account might help. Maybe.
>It would also be great if a generic Linux executable could be provided, for those of us who don't run Debian-based distros.

Seconded, I have a few cyberdeck projects in mind built into old boomboxes. I'd love a visualizer that could be run on a Pi and PiZero. I'm not familiar enough with linux to know if it would work with the distros I plan to use.
How SMS fraud works and how to guard against it
Younger me was so excited by bootstrapping new connectivities & systems, resented government survelliance of personal lives. The Manifesto of Cyberspace was scrawled across my brain.

But wow, my dislike for how many vast powers in the world are so very un-observable was also high then, & the implications of bitcoin & cryptocurrency to let these systems grow & be harder to deal with has only gone up & up & up ever-more.

Ultimately we're far more tracked by corporations anyhow now, and that only barely has to do with the currency we use.
You don’t get mailed the title, but it’s your name on the title that the state holds (whether on title or electronically). So you don’t have the ability to sell it directly, you still own and are responsible for it.
> He's got a point: increase in minimum memory and increase in CPU performance means that superior programming isn't always necessary.

Fun part about this is that it might actually make it slower! Between cache misses, pre-fetchers and branch mispredictions the more naive search may make things significantly more predictable for the out of order execution on modern processors that the result is actually faster when you don't try to be clever with some of this.

You still have to benchmark and not do things completely wacky but it's kind of interesting how things have changed because of the scale of the pieces.
Adl was formed to clear the name of a guilty man and frame a black man in his place, and fosters more hate than they provent.
A really nicely laid out landing page. It managed to convey what it is and what it does at a glance.
I have to disable hardware compositing on X11 to get a reliable desktop (and HW rendering in individual apps like firefox). I'm not sure if something similar is possible on Wayland.
For all intensive purposes, "begs the question" is acceptable these days.
I wonder how costly it would be if one of these self-driving cars killed a bystander while repo-ing itself.
Out of curiosity, which cultures have this strong sense of informal community? It sounds kind of great.
Generally Available in software terms means out of beta, i.e. launched.

Whether it is available to everyone for free, requires a specific plan etc. is not part of the determination.
Who was he offering to pay to? The repo guys? Western Union just makes it sound like a scam.
100% of the developers who know anything about how graphics works under Linux are focusing on Wayland. Development on Xorg is moribund, with only Xwayland getting significant attention.

Hint: X was optimized for 1980s graphics, which was 90% simple blits, line draws, and fills mediated by the CPU perhaps with special fixed-function accelerators for those operations.

In 2023, graphics is done with the GPU -- period. You post draw commands, geometry, and textures to the GPU via shared memory and let it do the work. Programmable shaders open up vast amounts of capability that X11's graphics primitives just don't get you.

So you may be right that Wayland isn't good at what X11 is useful for. But nobody's doing what X11 is useful for today. What people are actually doing, Wayland is excellent at. You will be running a Wayland desktop soon, because toolkit maintainers and distro packagers will simply drop support for X. The Gtk maintainers are already talking about dropping support for X in Gtk+5.
This is cool. At first I was skeptical that the sketch had nothing to do with anything and it was just feeding the prompt into an AI. But using the example "sun behind mountains"[0] it seemed to work alright. What really blew my mind was when I paired the sketch with a prompt that made no sense at all[1]. Somehow the AI cobbled together a picture that used the prompt, but also has all the same geometry of the sketch.

[0]: https://scribblediffusion.com/scribbles/elun6gwkxrcr7eqy5jao...
[1]: https://scribblediffusion.com/scribbles/tpsty6qcxjfrxbxz3n6b...
I wonder if it would be possible to make a small power bank that would charge a device at a speed close to that. I don't think it would be very safe, but in my mind it would be more like an emergency thing (like a little "jerry can").
I would love to be able to paste an image in and resize it and other basic stuff.

Ie. Let me stage a mock up. Because I can’t draw a cat.
This will improve once the EU's Digital Markets Act takes full effect on 2024-03-06 and will force Apple to cooperate with other chat providers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act
Check out Blue Bubbles (self hosted, open source), Beeper, Sunbird, and texts.com.
This is a good example of why we must not abandon the humanities.

It is, in fact, an illustration of Adams' point: that in times of great conflict and injustice, the finer things in life must be put aside to help fight to ensure liberty and justice for all.

As long as people are oppressed because of their social class, gender expression, or any other innate aspect of their identity, it is our duty to, at the very least, try to understand that oppression, and stand up against it where we have the opportunity to do so.

Those who turn a blind eye to it because it's oppression of people they don't think deserve consideration are complicit in that oppression.
Most of the jobs that people point to for English majors are things that any well-mannered educated person who went to college and has decent people and communication skills can do. This is not to say they are not much better educated in language, nuance, literature, much more than me. I'm a math/cs educated software engineer. They have skills I don't have. My tortured syntax here might be indicative of my terrible writing skills but I think I actually communicate reasonably well in my field.

All those english majors who could do a lot of things need more skills to get started in other fields. Partly that would be because companies are interested in more skills coming out of college. But this whole thing comes down to lack of good jobs for english majors.

Writing is a skill, but the vast huge world doesn't need so much of it, or we get along with terrible blog posts etc. The world is at a weird point, at least the western world. A lot of countries have significant labor shortages but many of these shortages don't require the education people might get in such an area in college. Plumbers, engineers, medical field.
Vitess 16
I imagine getting someone job-fair hired under assumed credentials and ghosting after one full shift of abusing their access, or giving a very poorly paid CSR just enough cash to make it worth the risk is probably more straightforward, but I don't know anything about that stuff. Most restaurants/bars I worked at had hourly staff working under 'borrowed' SSNs and names for years, though.
Am i as a visitor, supposed to push the buttons on your badge?
Do you know how expensive it is to support physical keys for a large organization? I'm not talking about the cost of the key. I'm talking about how many people lose, break, or have another problem their keys (data corruption, software issues, USB port is broken, etc). You need dedicated staff at every physical location with all the support capability to troubleshoot those issues and replace keys. Every time a key doesn't work, that's one less person working, plus time taken up by support staff. The TCO is millions of dollars. It's much cheaper to use software tokens that have fewer failure modes and simpler support requirements.

Even if you do use physical keys, malware on the machine from a phishing+0-day attack can simply wait for the user to log in with their physical key, and use an existing, valid session to inject an attack. This has existed for at least 15 years since I first saw the attack, and it still works great, even with FIDO2.

What happens to T-Mobile if an attacker takes over an account, regardless of security method compromised? Basically nothing. Yeah, some customers get sim-swapped, who cares? T-Mobile has not lost any money. So there is no incentive for T-Mobile to have better security in those cases. Hence, no need for physical keys, which wouldn't stop all attacks anyway.
Is VP9 streaming already supported?
Maybe this is a good thing. A lot of stupid patents will all expire by the time they could actually be used.
I’m cautiously optimistic, because two decades is the lifespan of a patent. E Ink the company has been a terrible steward of the technology. May they lose their state-sponsored monopoly and fade into irrelevance in peace.
Perhaps this[0] plugin will help? It's only for Firefox but I'm sure there are equivalents for other browsers. You can set a plethora of options, including auto-selecting playback quality of videos, playlists, pop-up players, embedded videos, when in full-screen mode and more.

[0]: https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube
Adjusting for a particular item is nearly impossible, but an oven somewhere like Denver might have a different configured speed and temperature than an oven in Texas.
This reminded me of a Mr Wizard's World episode I watched in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdz_8AjIgfA

In it he demos the UI of a word processor of that era on a green screen monitor. As I had a CGA screen/PC at the time word processing was pretty novel to me ... in white and black, but most of my friends did not own computers and those that did had Commodore 64s[0].

[0] I sat jealous despite sitting before a $3,000 8088 w/FPU, 10MB HDD and 640k of RAM that took 2 minutes before it started booting from the hard drive (I learned to count in powers of two up to 640 that way).
What wrong with that if the work is getting done? I would be much more productive on the weekends because the whole time is a change window so I don’t have to wait for people to get off my apps, but I don’t want to waste a weekend at work so I work during the week instead. If I was my employer I’d be happy to hear that I want to work weekends instead.
just wanna point out here, there are limitations to the size/length of videos and even the pictures sometimes get downscaled to the other imessage user
Yeah, the installed base of manufacturing capabilities on earth is quite staggering. It would take an enormous number of launches to get enough materials to mars for it to become self-sustaining at any scale. Just look at someplace like Guam or Antarctica. The difficulties are staggering despite the far more accessible transport medium of ships at an air-water interface. Guam takes millions of tons a year to sustain. Antarctic camps need less because smaller, but also far less capable of self-sustainment.
Have you missed how much spam a regular phone was getting regularly? Doesn’t seem difficult to regather such an operation to do SIM swap attacks. With AI the mechanisms are even easier.
I always thought the problem with a "purely" functional view is much more practical: From my limited Haskell experience, I gather that you have to use recursion instead of loops, since loops (and GOTOs) work by iteratively modifying some state, unlike recursion. But humans think in loops. If you look in a cookbook for a recipe, it will almost certainly contain loops and rarely any recursions.

Recursion programs are provably Turing equivalent to WHILE or GOTO programs, but that doesn't mean they are equally natural for our brain to think about. (Not to mention things like tail recursion, which is even less intuitive.)
> But it's not magic, please STOP TELLING ME IT'S MAGIC. It's not better than what's out there.

While Bear has some cool features, so does Org mode. I personally like that I can author blog posts in it, put in some code in SageMath within my org document, and whenever I export the org file for publishing, it will execute that code.

I like that I can make a note and simultaneously link to an email I have, link to some code in a .cpp file, and link to a Jira ID.

I like that I can log how many minutes I spent on a writing project, and have it automatically enter that data into Beeminder.[1]

And so much more that I'm sure Bear doesn't do.

[1] https://www.beeminder.com/
In my experience, using a service like Cloudflare or Fastly creates a gap between what you're working with locally and in pre-production environments. It quickly becomes a single point of failure, but you can offset some of this with having a staging environment that mirrors production alongside e2e tests.

Admittedly, it's pretty hard to roll your own DDoS. If I was on bare metal or a service that doesn't provide its own DDoS protection, I would absolutely use something like Cloudflare despite all of the downsides.
Sure, just to be very clear, I'm not boasting about this. And I do certainly hope that the exact opposite happens as we move forward to the next generation. I'm certainly hopeful.
Wow, that's great, look at the level of detail:
https://scribblediffusion.com/scribbles/pnj5qy3libhjvp3ybjaf...
"Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL."

https://github.com/vitessio/vitess
Humans are the primary face of natural selection in the modern world? For mammals, certainly, but probably also for most non-microscopic species.