skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't believe how many hours I spent doing that xD

TBF the software tools for it were very helpful...plop down exhausted at the computer after 6 hours of church meetings and burn through a bunch of formal-ish handwriting data entry while half-braindead, necktie knot pulled down to the chest, black synthetic socks petting cat down on the floor, and bowl of favorite cereal at the ready. (Mormon alcohol equivalent is basically sugar)

I have friends who set regional records for processing those old forms. I want to say hundreds of thousands of pages or some wild amount like that. There was a lot of interesting geography and plenty of bio-stats to read, so for natural readers it was quite a comfortable hit in its way.

I did get into handwriting analysis later and that was more consistently fascinating on the other hand. There was always an open invite to bring found samples to the next meeting (this was not a Mormon thing, to be clear).

Everyone would then take turns pointing out possibly valid observations, ooh there's a felon's claw, anybody else see that, etc. Then at the end of the meeting they'd ask the submitter to share the general or specific identity of the sample. "That's my uncle so-and-so, the rascal was on a chain gang for 10 straight years" and so on.

But sometimes you would remember seeing the sample somewhere, so you had to brace yourself because it was definitely a serial killer and you'd spend the rest of the week thinking about that sample afterward.

In the society library there were texts about individual letters...like people have authored multiple books about the written letter T, and so on.

For my part I was paid for some analysis on the side and learned the hard way that you have to kind of hold back sometimes. It's nice to know you're accurate but a lot of people just. Don't. Want. To know that others can tell this or that about them. Lol. You can effectively front-run an individual's own self-reconciliation/processing capabilities and this often brings unwanted results.

One of my own specialties was that I could usually get a good idea of someone's MBTI type through their handwriting. I had already finished my certification in Jungian typology at the time. So then, bouncing back to handwriting traits, I could identify a kind of sub-type, and this would give ideas of the various cognitive-function perspectives that were probably relevant to the individual's current stage of personality development.

I never met anyone else in the field who I could really talk to about this, though it was very useful. Sometimes you have problems in life that are less conscious, so you can't Google them, LLMs don't help, etc. As a result, finding someone who knows "people _who think like you_, and how they made it" can be really helpful.

Even took an IQ test based only on my handwriting once, pretty neat experience.
Custom coreboot firmware and firmware utilities for your Chromebook/Chromebox
This feels like a bit of a BS comparison. Consumers pay many other fees beyond wholesale electricity to actually get power. It would be much more useful to compare what actual households pay (for US by state probably rather than a meaningless average).

For example, Edison in SoCal publishes these rates: https://www.sce.com/residential/rates/Time-Of-Use-Residentia... ($0.36 off peak and up to $0.57 peak usage)

PG&E: https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/rate-plans/how-ra... ($0.36 off peak and $0.50 peak)

When comparing these to the German $0.39, it doesn’t sound all that bad and at least they are dealing with a gas price spike because of a war. What’s Californias excuse? Also, many California residents have to deal with the stupid “public safety power shutoffs” because of unmaintained/poorly designed aging infrastructure that causes wildfires.
This is super cool! Curious what is the advantage to carving from glued wood laminations rather than carving from solid wood? Is it just more consistent (i.e. you control where the knots are)? I know nothing about woodworking - apologies if this is a silly questions.
https://archive.is/mn841

A most curious collection indeed.
I don't believe that I said language had no impact. What I said was, "the particular technology used just doesn't make the difference I would like it to".
So if you have to babysit it anyway (which is actually a correct way of using it, instead of getting fooled into assuming it's an expert: Use ChatGPT for brainstorming, have a human in the loop to validate): Wouldn't it be faster to write the code yourself?

And if you have to come up with the code yourself, wouldn't that allow you to come up with a better architecture for your whole project?
Maybe it's because I work on so many slapped-together projects, but I barely use my table saw anymore. Instead I use my cordless circular and a reference, usually my speed square. If I don't need too much precision I just hold the short piece and square in one hand, lean it against the corner of my deck, and cut. Other times i'll grab some squeeze clamps and scrap wood, make a quick fence/jig on a table, and cut against that. It's just so much faster than setting up the table saw outside (I don't have a woodworking bench). If I have to make a bunch of cuts in succession I might use the table saw, or again I might use the circular. I've been too lazy to build a crosscut sled; if I had one I'd use the table more often.
OK thanks for the link to Wikipedia. Here's what I think: the term "cancel culture" is amorphous, and deliberately so, so people upset about it can act principled while engaging in blatant hypocrisy and motivated reasoning.
I'm kinda surprised Carlsen is bowing out before he is the confirmed GOAT (he has 5 world championships to Kasparov's 6).
Electronic Frontier Foundation

I used to have a larger list, but it seems like every non-profit that reaches a certain size or age starts to drift, until one day you see their current projects or grants and realize a lot of your dollars are going to tangential projects.
Related:

Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21794327 - Dec 2019 (23 comments)

Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8222487 - Aug 2014 (47 comments)
I’m a grad student at Tulane in New Orleans I was being sarcastic
A better source of information (and fun) for this kinda thing is definitely TVTropes[1]. A wikipedia article on the same thing is a bit sterile in comparison. The best part is that TVTropes includes copious examples of every such trope in every medium imaginable. Be warned though, internet adventurers have been known to go down a TVTropes rabbit-hole and never return...

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacGuffin
using GPT to define agents like this is such an exciting opportunity.

I'm looking forward to the stacked layers of agent + environment definitions that will really explode the ways we can interact with AI.

I'm working on a project to use GPT agents/scenarios for smart contract arbitration. i.e judging contests, civil disputes, etc.
With something like protocol buffers, you have an explicit schema, parsing is well-defined, and you rarely (if ever) need to manually inspect the serialized representation.
"There is no person behind what the algorithm emits, therefore no intent - hence, it's not an accusation."

At least that's how I'm imagining the line of reasoning behind this point of view goes.
I address this in my OP. If you watch the video of the proof, you will see that the "law of sines" is 1 step away from the ratio definition of sin. You just drop one altitude, apply the definition again to the similar triangles, and re-arrange. It is almost content free as a result -- I see no reason using this in a proof would have special significance. For example, the standard proof using similar triangles (https://sumantmath.wordpress.com/2020/08/16/proof-of-pythago...) is implicitly using the law of sines.

The hype part is the implication that impossible trig barrier was shattered by their proof.
At the risk of being the guy who explains his own joke: It's just a reference to how laid back operations in digital modes (JS8 being one, but FT8 being more common maybe) seem, kind of set it and forget it.

On social media you see some people saying things like "I woke up the next day to find that my laptop digital station made contacts in all these countries"

First example I found:

https://twitter.com/OH8STN/status/1611596504481038338?t=XuYc...

JS8 is interesting because it has a P2P aspect where it can relay messages through various stations/ continents to a destination.
This is amazing! I work with ruby in my day job (unsurprisingly, Rails), and had no idea about existence of measure, though admittedly most of our codebases run Ruby versions older than 3.
FYI, the company Clear Channel was bought out long ago and split up, with the billboard company keeping the name Clear Channel while the radio/ broadcasting/ media company re-branded as iHeart.

You may think the radio stations are still awful, but it's an entirely different company.
Yes. That’s why UBI is a neat idea as a replacement or enhancement for welfare, and other social services. That’s not the context in which we’re discussing it though. We’re discussing it as an alternative to work in a world where almost all human jobs have been automated. In that context it’s not a good solution, and in fact it’s dangerous because it leaves everyone reliant (and obedient) to the government, and a select few mega corps.
I dunno, works ideally for me on both mobile and desktop, both Firefox.
I think you have your dates confused, as the Kerala school was only a few hundred years before Newton, and pretending that what was discovered in India is the same as what Newton discovered is misleading. If we're crediting whoever first made theorems about infinite sums or derivatives to be the inventor of calculus, then calculus also predates Newton in Europe.

A lot of people contributed theorems over the centuries that would now be considered part of calculus. Developing a mathematical framework like calculus is more of a gradual and continuous building of knowledge than a single event. There's a reason Leibniz and Newton happened to independently create calculus at the same time.
Software blitter. Rectangle based. To a frame buffer. It knows NOTHING about rp2040. It just writes pixels to a memory area. The rest I do with PIO and DMA. I am publishing an article in a few days on how to drive this display properly with RP2040 here: http://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=09.ComplexPioMachine...
I’m not advocating for authoritarianism but at some stage it will become a national security issue.

You cannot have people building robotic assault weapons in their garage then unleashing them on the public. This won’t be far off now we’re getting closer to solving computer vision.

At some stage no one would be safe, the good bots will be in danger and so too the public.
Yes, here it is paid couriers or nothing. Even street names and building numbers are lacking. The postal system is just a gotcha.
Bruce Sterling consistently had some of the most far-out and far-sighted ideas. This old comment - pre-ChatGPT! - points to one of his stories written in the 1990s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18546242

Just a casual paragraph, but rich with prescience!
WHAT'S CLEAR IS THIS IS A HUGE pr VICTORY FOR sUBSTACK (APOLOGIES FOR THE CAPS LOCK).
You can define sine and cosine together using the functional equations

S(X)C(Y)+C(X)S(Y)=S(X+Y)

C(X)C(Y)−S(X)S(Y)=C(X+Y)

The only solutions to this are the constant 0 functions and the sine-cosine pair.
Not wild at all. It's a standard cognitive dissonance technique, widely used in advertising.
I'm happy that it works for you.

This has been a very controversial comment, but a lot of people who disagree are reading things into it that I did not say. All I'm saying is, people are different, and something working for you doesn't mean it will work for everyone. You don't need to let your enthusiasm for something lead you into making categorical statements which gaslight those for whom it doesn't work.

I guess there is something badly worded about my comment which appears to insult you, which was not my intention, so I apologise for that.
I'm sort of the opposite of GP. Having worked with SQL Server the first 5-6 years I've transitioned to using Postgres more over the last 3-4 years and really prefer it. That said SQL has some nice features, off the top of more head:

* It's pivot/unpivot query syntax is a lot nicer than the comparable Postgres extension.

* The ability to define a clustered index for a table that's maintained automatically.

* The ability to define materialized views that are maintained automatically.

* The db engine can automatically use materialized views to accelerate queries matching the view definition.

* It has some really cool support around temporal tables. Not just defining them, but using them in queries. Like, there's a pretty simple query syntax that lets you join together multiple temporal tables and say, show me what the data looked like at this point in time, or show me how it changed during this time period.

The main problem with SQL Server IMO is that many of the cool features you discover are gated behind a SQL Server Enterprise license, and it's crazy expensive. Upwards of $10k per core per year, IIRC. The last time I looked at RDS instance prices I believe SQL Server Standard was about 4x more expensive than Postgres, and Enterprise about 8x more expensive.
Prompts are being summarized before feeding into the core engine.
LLMs predict the most likely text to come next, so they have a tendency to hallucinate URLs based on existing patterns. It's not really a big, it's the core thing it does.
If only there was also a country where GPUs are cheaper by the same factor.
At what point do we allow people (in this case the Iranian regime) to have free will / self agency?
And also - we usually don't allow ourselves to go 50 years back to explain someone's behavior. At least in court - that kind of testimony wouldn't have much value.
Everybody needs somebody to love. It could be anybody. You just need someone to love.

Seriously, are you ok? Life doesn’t have to be meaningless, but that’s up to you. You get out what you put in.
What ever u say, he's a very good writer.

I often have to make these practical considerations too.
Videolan.org Security Certificate Expired
People after 2010 can't read cursive? Really? So weird to me.

The examples in the article are crystal clear to me, no?
https://web.archive.org/web/20010223104840/https://www.qrg.n...

All but the first link work in this snapshot.
> You don't have to be alerted, wait, and restart your whole computer for every little thing. I'm surprised how Mac/Windows still never bothered to catch up.

Cannot comment anything on Mac, have no experience.

On Windows side, your statement is simply waaay overestimated and honestly speaking is not true. Using your words - Hell, it's even can update video/networking drivers _online_, without restart, not even mentioning smaller things like Defender definitions updates.

Those apps installed from Store, do autoupdate without requiring restart as well.

Firefox, shows a tip on update is available and patiently waits, nothing "require an immediate browser restart".

Heck, you can even configure to use devices in your local network to act like caching of downloaded data and to not redownload the same stuff from internet to each workstatation in your network.

You either stuck in the past of WinXP era or producing defamation on purpose.

Coming back to Ubuntu, question regarding

> In Ubuntu, there is a setting to have all security updates happen automatically every day in the background

will it honor you are on metered connection like WiFi hotspot shared from phone?
I’m helping to run a preschool right now, I don’t think it’s a matter of “early enough” - if there are family issues, if they’re feeding the kid crap, not helping them get enough sleep, sending the kid to school with crap food, there’s frequently not too much the school can do, even with very high ratio of highly dedicated staff per student.

The school can work on behavioral issues, but then they go away on break, and come back with big regressions.

We should stop blaming everything on the schools. There are ways to raise a kid that are conducive to behaving well in that environment, and there are ways that are not conducive to that.

But we can’t blame it all on the parents either, they seem to have a lot less slack than I think US parents have had historically.
an http request can take an unlimited amount of time to complete

the initial response headers can arrive as fast as you like, but the body can be streamed, which can have potentially infinite data, and take potentially infinite time, and it can't be interrupted without terminating the connection altogether

(before you say it: streaming response bodies are in no way abnormal, and can't be dismissed as irrelevant)

as http/1 serializes requests over connections (even with chunking or whatever else) clients cannot in general re-use connections for independent requests for this reason (and others)

if a client makes request A at t=1 and request B at t=2, and request A creates an unbounded length SSE response that lasts until t=999, request B should not need to wait until t=1000 to begin, yet this is what http/1 requires
thanks, that was definitely something enriching my vision out of my bubble.
Pandora's box has already been opened. There is no way any government could prevent what is coming.
It's definitely correct, and quite trivial to verify. It's possible it has been discovered before, but none of the proof compilations I've seen (e.g. cut-the-knot) has it, and the trigonometric proofs I can find involve using angle-sums (https://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2009volume9/FG200925.pdf).

This is definitely a much more elegant proof than the angle-sum proofs.
That's why this is the last facility that does this job—all the other ones are now unnecessary because machines can process enough of the mail.
Related:

Weber–Fechner law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17301360 - June 2018 (6 comments)

Weber–Fechner law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240806 - Feb 2013 (1 comment)
This gives Kurupt FM vibes
Honest question: with the amount of debt Twitter as a company has, how?
> not viable anymore at a medium or large company

That's not really the point made in the article, he mainly talked about the difficulties of maintaining a hybrid codebase split between Elm and another framework, and how their specific company situation nudged them to choose React to go all-in with
That's not the product that's doing X, it's the company

I would reckon that to the good (if not the vast) majority of those who will see their jobs either yanked away from them entirely, or otherwise negatively perturbed in some significant way by this technology; or who are acutely affected by the toxic content it will just as inevitably produce -- this distinction will be entirely moot.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-barnes-985020a2 His LinkedIn lists his job as "Pirate Radio" lol. (archive: https://archive.is/9UHfk)
Twitter Circles are not private right now
> painful periods of adjustment

sure like hunger, losing houses, unable to have kids or send them to decent schools or schools at all. but totally worth it right?
I think tables for layout are severely underrated...
If you had bothered to read the article before commenting you'd see that the proof is indeed novel, and is unrelated to the previously found trigonometric proof.
The picture is drawn really poorly : The first composite angle : alpha+beta at the top of the A side, is a right angle and should be drawn as such (if comes from the hypothesis of the Pythagorean theorem that the two sides are orthogonal so alpha+beta+90° = 180°).

Otherwise you can't understand why the ration A/C would be sin(2*alpha).
I pre-ordered it from the linked website. Maybe it's only available for certain regions?
US Courts (and others) will lock up or send to death row some on evidence that they killed someone 50 years ago (and more) .. murder has no statute of limitations.

US actions set the conditions (a foreign puppet ruler) for a people's overthrow which itself was usurped by the worst form of theocrats (your "Iranian Regime") who maintain power by murder (public hangings in squares, etc) .. and act which, again, US Courts have no time limitation on the consideration of.
This is a real hand wavy way to look at it. How about on the individual level? How is an individual affected by this and can you put yourself in their shoes?
Even more ridiculous IMO is the requirement for a REAL AND VALID SSL CERT for localhost. I made https://github.com/ip2k/I-Dont-Care-About-HSTS-For-Localhost to share some of the frankly ridiculous techniques required to work around this in temporary and more permanent ways.
What Happened When Uber’s CEO Started Driving for Uber
Last time I checked (stock Ubuntu circa 2018) I couldn't even select files in the file manager with mouse selection rectangle if the view mode was set to table-like, like "Details" in Windows Explorer. This was my last straw, actually. I mean, how hard could this be to implement? How could they ship it without something basic like that?

I am not sure about CPU usage, but I haven't experienced compulsory reboots on any of my two Windows PCs, both running Windows 10 Pro. I know reboots happen in the background from time to time because sometimes one of these wakes to a "blank slate" state, but hey, I can live with this.
What I often notice when reading articles like this is people aren't aware of how electricity is priced in different countries. When I was in the UK I had one headline figure of price per KWh that covered everything. This seems to apply in a few European countries too. In Canada however I have a price per KWh and then about 7 or so different extra charges on my bill (local access fees, trasmissions charges, rate riders, distribution charges, administrative fees, etc). All the charges seems to be variable but not necessarily exactly variable based on my KWh usage. From what I've seen this seems to be happen in the United States too.

So whenenver I see someone say oh I pay 10c per KWh I don't know if that's just the posted figure or the actual amount they pay per KWh if they took their entire bill and divided it by their usage.
If We Pay for GPTs Like We Pay for Internet Service, What Will We Get?
The other big paint package was Brilliance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliance_(graphics_editor))

It never caught on the way DPaint did, but the cover art - one of my all-time favorite pixel art illustrations - still holds up today: https://amiga.lychesis.net/artist/JimSachs/JimSachs_AmigaLag...
Proof by anecdote?
The non-arable land meme comes from a paper that considered land non-arable if it had 25% crop yield (due to things like bad soil or too rocky or too much of a grade). Yet the things that make land non-arable also reduce their yield for animal ag on that same land.
Hardly. LM002 tires are $5k each. $2k is what I you spend on tires for a WRX
Just before the end is the likely reason for that: "70 hours a week".

This is the last such facility, after all the others have been closed, so needing more people is not incompatible with the fact that they've scaled down overall.
> He talked about his own fears: I want to hear Priya's opinion.

Why? Either he's right about GPT or he's wrong, and if he's right (which I think he is) and she disagrees, then she's probably just in denial, like so many HNers who aren't worried about their job, let alone worried about protecting themselves from the massive societal disruption this tech is likely to usher in.
Mapped: How Much Should You Tip in Each Country?
I see tuition of several thousand (e.g. 7,800 for 8-11th grade): https://smaneworleans.com/tuition-fees

Still quite a steal as private schools go, and significantly less than one would have to pay in yearly rent / mortgage to get their kids into a good school district.
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