skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The origins of the cursive method are associated with practical
advantages of writing speed and infrequent pen-lifting to
accommodate the limitations of the quill. Quills are fragile,
easily broken, and will spatter unless used properly. They also
run out of ink faster than most contemporary writing utensils. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive#Origin
LOL

The red lines are lines where (PRIMARILY) skilled labor is required for products and services essential to human life.

The blue lines are lines where unskilled labor in Shenzhen factories in pump out unnecessary consumer goods.

Medical costs are rising because people like him are pumping money into hedge funds and they are squeezing every red cent out of the systems they have captured-- not because doctors have to have licenses.

Housing costs are rising because people like him are pumping money into hedge funds and they are robo-buying every property they can while simultaneously lobbying state and local governments to restrict building-- not because you need to follow safety standards.

>In 2022, Andreessen advocated against the construction of 131 multifamily housing units in their affluent Atherton, California town. In a letter, Andreessen and his wife wrote that they opposed permitting more than one house on a single acre of land.

What the fuck is wrong with libertarian tech bros? Were they dropped on their heads as children?
It honestly baffles me that people think handwriting does not constitute something useful.

I’d die of shame if I were ever caught unable to write. The whole concept is ludicrous.
They are domestic dogs. Yes they can fend for themselves but are bred to be and will be happier as human companions.
Interstellar, the Martian and Gravity are my three "Kerbal Space Program" pillars.
I wouldn't consider them scifi even though they are. More like "close future"
The supreme court has said repeatedly that she has the right to refuse treatment but not the right to be free while doing so. They can force isolate her indefinitely until she’s not a public hazard.
Or if Elon Musk tried to buy a social media company it would be successful?
I have no special love for this guy as he said some stuff that pissed me off in the past, but what is your specific argument against this post right here?

> Hospital services? AI is clearly going to be involved, at least in things like radiology

This is very far from the main point: accuracy of the claim that AI will wipe out (in this case health-related) jobs (and/or make health-related services cheaper). "involved" here is so vague as to be meaningless.

> clearly AI is going to open up educational opportunities in a way that brings the costs way down

It may be crystal clear to you that AI will bring the cost of popular education down, but it is not clear to me at all, and adding "clearly" and "obviously" to some future claim does not make it any more convincing. He's trying to work with existing trends and data, you are saying "clearly the trend will reverse just because".

I realize the original post was written by somebody who has a reputation for saying one thing and doing something completely different, etc. etc.
I've been using Hotwire[0] for a while now (Turbo + Stimulus) which works with any back-end, it's been great. It builds on everything you already know and doesn't require rewriting your app. Everything is treated as progressive enhancements.

It's not the same exact model and I wouldn't classify it as a replication of LiveView, it's more of an extension of the Turbolinks model from 2016 with a decent story for adding in frontend JS where needed.

I think it's comparable from a bottom line point of view of it being a solution that lets you send snippets of HTML over the wire (literally the tagline of Hotwire) to very quickly build nice feeling web apps with minimal to no Javascript.

Instead of going all-in with state and Websockets like LiveView, Hotwire sticks to a stateless HTTP model and sprinkles in Websockets only when necessary such as when broadcasting an event to any connected clients. I've used it in Flask before and it took a few minutes to get going. For the broadcasting bits server side, it works with Rails out of the box since this toolset was extracted from Hey and Basecamp. Other frameworks have their own ports tho.

[0]: https://hotwired.dev/
I kind of feel that they do influence my buying occasionally. A blurb from, say, William Gibson might lead me to pick a book up. I doesn't matter what was blurbed, but gives the idea that the book is something adjacent to ideas and topics and style of Gibson.

Actually, the quote on the cover of Murakami's Dance Dance Dance lead me to consider, and buy the book:

"If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see Blade Runner, he might have written something like Dance Dance Dance" -- The Observer.

Now, I don't think that's strictly accurate, but does lend a little of the philosophical flavour and slightly sparse writing style, and I did wind up buying and then enjoying the book, and others of Murakami's, enormously.
Remember when signals - aka the observer pattern - were a stupid overengineered enterprise design pattern object oriented programmers had to use because they were too dumb to understand functional programming?

Now they're back, baby. Happy to see them used again, even if we've had to razzle it up a bit with a new name.
We can soon expect and in most place and in some places it already is in effect, that number to be close to 20 to 30 instead of 15 because all good officers left or retired in droves due to defund the police movement.

Most tech people here do not realize what conditions these officers work in. If they are in shady part of town, they will get cursed, get called every name just for being there. They have to be on their heels for any kind of violence at all times. On top because of woke leaders they are not allowed to use force because they know, police chief and mayor will not have their backs when they use force.

Good one's who left are not coming back and good one's which were once planning on joining the force so many have changed their plans.
It’s legible, but it takes a bit of active effort which makes it tiring to read more than a few sentences in a single sitting.
It's used by court reporters. I've been in a couple of depositions, mediations, and a lawsuit. The court reporters use a special device that works for fast shorthand typing, and their fingers blaze across those devices.

I know that shorthand would decrease the time that I spend taking notes or would increase the quality of the notes.
This was basically Memnoch The Devil's [0] argument against the legitimacy of Jesus Christ's sacrifice - it didn't count, because he did it with full knowledge of his own immortality. Through crucifixion he suffered and died, but he never faced the existential dread that plagues humankind, and therefore giving up his own life was an inauthentic act.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memnoch_the_Devil
What are these websites??
Time for my periodic lament that products the market would prefer, e.g., cars of which some external entity cannot assume control, are at risk of being unavailable.

"Oh, that's all tinfoil hat, Smitty."

Sure. Maybe commuter diesels with manual transmissions are just a personal fetish (I own two). But where can I buy newly-minted replacements?

"Oh, that's just capitalism saying you're a niche market, and the business case is absent."

Perhaps. I guess it's different than retro computing or something. However, I would contend that the same authoritarian behaviors that are being used against firearm manufacturers are repeated against car manufacturers.

A rebirth of actual, free-market capitalism is needful, IMO.
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects/
> i do hope this isn't more than a couple per year, worldwide.

Why? Unless you are the person involved, or part of their family, why would you even have a concern about someone else’s gender choice? You’re not the one who has to live their life and there’s a pretty low chance you’ll have any knowing contact with them whatsoever.
I have a cherished (really) old piece of code, the APL\11 interpreter, originally written by Ken Thompson. It has gone through several incarnations. My version is at git@github.com:gregfjohnson/aplette. I did a rewrite to make it work with 64-bit CPU's and compilers. It leaks memory like a sieve. There was some logic for memory management and garbage collection in the original code, but that has ended up broken over the course of multiple rewrites by multiple people. I'm thinking of integrating Boehm-Demers-Weiser to deal with the memory leak issues. Coincidentally, I had the honor of being acquainted with two of the three authors, Alan Demers and Mark Weiser.
> The bad news is that there will be a few people who reverse engineer the AI graders and get millions of readers despite not being all that good.

This happens anyway regardless. I can't think of any other reason why The DaVinci Code was ever a thing, other than that.
Yeah, no problem here. I've been learning japanese for a while and have encountered the phenomenon though. Still if you look at e.g. the front page of JP wikipedia: https://ja.wikipedia.org/ there's plenty of kana there, be it words that are habitually written entirely in katakana or hiragana, or even kanji words that still have some attached kana to disambiguate readings.

After more practice I've found myself starting to pick up on common dividers, like particles, verb endings, adjective endings, etc. I assume native speakers do this instinctually, much like native English readers aren't really reading letter by letter (wichh is why txet lkie tihs is rbleadae at ntiave seepd for most)
The world of humans is just not meant to be this efficient.
See, this is the difference between a productive engineer and a purist.

You are a productive engineer. You see a fast library that needs a different encoding, so your first thought is to add a transcoding step and make a 2x gain in a short timeframe.

I am a purist. I see a fast library that needs a different encoding, and my first thought is “ok, I’ll fork that library and make it work with UTF-16 natively”. 24 months later I’ll be found, bearded down to my kneecaps, staring at the bottom of a bottle of scotch, mumbling a mixture of curse words and “PowerPC”. But Id get a 2.05x speedup eventually, so…
How it is different from anything else? If willpower is all you need, why do you have lack of willpower to be kind and compassionate?
it’s because they’re using the API rather than the chat
that's a reason to refuse treatment, not a reason to deliberately put the lives of others at risk.
It's called the "euphemism treadmill."
Juice companies extract the volatile components and them send them to perfumers who transform them into a specific flavor profile which is then added back to the juice. The flavor packs are derived from oranges so they don’t need to be labeled as an ingredient but provide a consistent experience.
Humans have bodies that interact with the world. We have to concern ourselves with things like survival, relationships, and what not. An LLM is just a tool for generating human-like text. It's not biological, and doesn't have any drives. It's not trying to hookup, obtain food, or climb the social ladder.
That's actually an entirely reasonable question, Rust's memory model is scarcely as well nailed down as the Java Memory Model (which is a GC model that does promise memory safety under concurrency and is worth reading about if you'd like to see how much thought is needed).

https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr133/inde...

(section 17.4 of the full specification)

However in a sense Rust is cheating. Java has to do a lot of work because they can't stop you writing a data race in Java, so they want that to be safe anyway if it happens. (Safe) Rust just won't emit the data race in the first place.

A data race requires (as mentioned below in the thread about Python concurrency) that there's mutation concurrently with access to the same memory. In Java that's a bad idea, but it does happen, usually by mistake. In (Safe) Rust mutation requires that nobody else has a shared (immutable) reference to the object, so the data race can't occur because if we can mutate something by definition nobody else has a reference to it - programs with this mistake won't compile.
It does actually. Under the framework of the government in the US the Supreme Court decides what’s over reach, not your internal feelings. One could argue the existence of a government at all is over reach and they’re in many ways right. But they’re also irrelevant opinions because they have no authority. Ultimately those who hold the guns and prisons decide the scope of their power and we have collectively agreed that scope is the interpretation of the supreme court and the constitutional laws passed by the legislature. So, until you can provide something that is the opinion of the Supreme Court, you’re just factually wrong. Your opinion of right and wrong, while you’re entitled to it, is completely irrelevant.

The notice is relevant because it’s indicative of due process and an attempt to respect her individual rights and balance it with the public good, which she has repeatedly ignored and results in the escalation to the rightful isolation.
"Police also say he had an "inactive" meth lab in his home and admitted to using methamphetamine as a replacement for Adderall during the shortage" - yes, stimulants can cause all sorts of dysfunctions, I worked with that kind of addict once.
you don’t need a jailbreak here, this is an implementation of (presumably) da-vinci-3, not ChatGPT itself. if you tell it to be more chaotic, it’ll be more chaotic
In my experience, it isn't perceived as bitter/sour as it feels in cold water.
> plane travel.. space ... cars ...

But that is literally what a lot of us want, no? No one says it directly but when people talk about taxing carbon to fight climate change, this is exactly the consequence they are advocating for. You want to reduce carbon footprint? Make flying so expensive that only rich could afford it. You want to advocate for public transit and reduce cars in the cities? Only way to do so is make parking and gas expensive along with congestion tax and only rich could afford it. Need hobbies requiring space? But big houses have bigger carbon footprint so either go for shared spaces or find hobbies which need less space. But don't think about having a spare room in your house.

When you connect all the dots, fight for climate change is essentially about reducing carbon footprint by making everything (planes, personal cars, single family houses, ...) affordable only to the rich.
What's wrong with pyqt?
> The CDC estimates that 13M Americans have latent infections

that is BONKERS I've gotta read up on this more.
I’m not sure. For any configuration of the model parameters, there is a straight line to many other parameter configurations that are arbitrarily “bad”. If you can find any set of input tokens that follows one of those directions then the model will behave badly. The problem is that you can’t really tell the model “don’t process tokens that move you in a bad direction” because it has to process the tokens to know the direction it is moving and it has to keep track of which _endpoints_ (not just directions) are bad. Otherwise we could do something the conjugate gradient steps to move towards where we want to go without ever stepping in that direction explicitly. So…I think that the problem is that the attack surface is huge, which means you’ll never be able to plug all the holes—and there’s likely no good function for easily determining the badness of a position or direction of change.
The Ethernet port on my Thinkpad workstation thunderbolt 3 dock simply stopped working after upgrading to Windows 11. From reading online its a known issue without any obvious fix. Killed the port so bad that it stopped working in Linux as well.

Well, at least that was until the dock had been unplugged from the power for a couple of weeks. The Ethernet port sprung back to life when I booted my laptop straight into Linux. I don't dare boot into Windows 11 again whilst docked.
This is good, right? Having to learn all those characters seems like a dead-weight loss, from the outside.
What’s the difference between a nano particle and a molecule?
I love hearing the differences from the different styles and ages of mics. I wonder if these are in working condition? Having a sample recording from the various mics in the collection would add a lot to the site. Maybe not every single mic, I'm not trying to be greedy, but at least one from each style and pick up pattern.

In the category of unknown pickup patterns, I wonder if maybe they are not in working condition as it seems like it would be a matter of testing them to determine the pickup patterns.
There is nothing boring about this quine, that is the general approach that works in any language
Bullying isn't logical.
> The GPL can't force a license on your code.

It doesn't. It just doesn't give you permission to use the GPL licensed code unless you comply and use GPL.
Pretty offensive to people with a real disability called Dysgraphia.

Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder of written expression that impairs writing ability and fine motor skills. It is a learning disability that affects children and adults, and interferes with practically all aspects of the writing process, including spelling, legibility, word spacing and sizing, and expression.
I mean, that's true today. I'm sure you've seen plenty of shops egregiously misrepresenting the sizes of products via forced perspective or outright editing in images. If they were to upload a 3D model it would only get more difficult to mislead about the physical characteristics of the product.
It's funny, I love Stage Manager. I was worried about what I'd do after the Ventura upgrade because TotalSpaces is on life support, and so there was a chance it might stop working and I'd have to go back to 1-dimensional spaces after relying on two-dimensional spaces, and various 2D window manager workspace things, for many years.

But Stage Manager is what I actually wanted all along: let me group windows together, and then when I switch to one of them, bring the others along.
For my typical workday I have my "slack, mail, mastodon" stage, a stage with a couple of browser windows, a stage with VScode and a couple of terminal windows, a stage with Obsidian and Omnifocus, and then ad-hoc stages as I need them. I add a terminal window to stages as I need.

I end up with the same benefits of two-dimensional TotalSpaces spaces, without having to care about the spaces' relative positions anymore! When I cmd-tab to VScode, I get my VScode "stuff", and when I cmd-tab to slack or mail, I get that "stuff", and so on. I wish I could make the transition faster, but with "Reduce Motion" turned on to skip the animation, it's not so bad.
> Though [the dynamic microphone] type is not in wide-spread use today, it is the most common microphone type in the Steele Collection.

That doesn't seem right - dynamic mics are everywhere in the broadcast industry. The Electro-Voice Model 635A on that page is used for news gathering, and the RE20 is in station booths everywhere.
I reached the same conclusion ("climate hell") with a slightly different thought process in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35026113

Luxury and convenience need energy. Most of the energy still comes from carbon. Ergo...
I started using a fountain pen early in college, and have never gone back. It takes such a light touch that handwriting is easy and quick. If you have shitty pens, cursive makes a lot of sense to minimize the chance of an RSI. With high-quality gel pens or a fountain pen, either script or print is painless.
Since pyside was discontinued once already, I tend to not trust it any longer.
First, realize that almost all advice you get in your life will be awful.

Second, say yes to any and every social invitation and opportunity you have.
With the way things are going, reading analogue clocks is about as useful as reading Roman numerals.

Something culturally relevant that's taught (and probably should be taught) to everyone in school, but not something that's actually useful in real life.

Don't blame kids and the younger generations for the bad education their elders have given them. Reading analogue clocks is hardly a difficult test, but it's impossible to expect someone who's never been taught to to just "know" that clocks are three rudimentary base-12 progress bars how far along the current half of the day we are; it's just not intuitive.

It's like IT people complaining that kids these days don't even know how to fax anymore, society is moving on and old skills will disappear and become niches as a result.

It's a shame for the Japanese/Chinese culture that this relatively unique cultural aspect is disappearing, but I'm also quite surprised it has taken so long since the introduction of foreign alphabets.
I doubt it. There’s no reason to suppose that any configuration of the parameters is any more or less susceptible to this type of attack. If the paper I cited is true, then the “thing” transformer-based language models learn is a function to predict the gradient update via the forward pass evaluation. That means that forward evaluation is an approximation of fine-tuning. That implies that the very act of evaluating an input changes the behavior of the model, regardless of the current parameter settings. The model would have to “give up” the powers of in-context learning in order to avoid this weakness.
Doctors' handwriting in China is as unreadable to mere mortals as everywhere else. Thankfully, nowadays everything is digital or printed.
> Converted to South African rand, it’s about 7.2 million.

> To put that in context, the average home price in South Africa is about a million rand. So at most they would have been able to buy 7 properties

That’s... not how averages work.
I mean that kind of is the subject of the post…
I recommend CyberChef for this kind of utilities.
Very curious how Matt Hancock’s messages got leaked .. pegasus maybe?
A History of 'Snake Oil Salesmen' (2013)
> How does this work for ideographic scripts like Japanese Kanji or Chinese?

For Chinese, it’s usually not difficult. If a stroke or two is off, or if it’s the wrong radical, you can usually figure out pretty quickly with a similar effort to a misspelled word what they meant from context. If they incorrectly used a homonym, you likewise can tell pretty quickly, like “queue” vs. “cue”.

In Chinese this partly happens because you don’t just memorize individual characters, you also memorize pairs/clusters of characters as the actual semantic units.
you bought a license. this is not the checkmate you think it is.
By "Open Core" are they referring to "Open Source"?
Man, Ford must have a real problem with delinquent payments or some sort of belief in a cultlike market following because this seems like a horrible idea. I’ll ride a bicycle and rent cars if the rest of the automobile industry follows suit. The words I would use to describe how stupid this is are not welcome on the internet anymore.
Can't you just use an empty file, considered as a sh program?
A format cannot and will not get adoption until there is support. Who would sign off on using JXL when any of the large browsers don't support it?

This is a chicken-egg problem, not a popularity contest.
ANC earbuds though have emerged for a much shorter period. Until about 4 years ago this was exclusive to expensive over the ear headphones.
The open-core model is a business model for the monetization of commercially produced open-source software. Coined by Andrew Lampitt in 2008,[1] the open-core model primarily involves offering a "core" or feature-limited version of a software product as free and open-source software, while offering "commercial" versions or add-ons as proprietary software.[2][3]

From here -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model
Facts from feces revisited (1997) [pdf]