skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One has potentially infinite supply an can be used by governments to grow the debt to infinity, the other has a mathematically demonstrably finite supply.

The supply being finite is not that relevant. The relevant part is that the supply is predetermined, and that yearly supply inflation is acceptably small [1].

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
Criminals and anyone wanting a guarantee of security(politicians, lawyers, journalists,etc...). It would be an alternative to signal, because unlike apps it would guarantee your device will not be compromised. The entire OS is call and text. Period.
I think this article also was making an assumption that the iPhone was a once-off product rather than just the 1.0 of an ongoing program. The challenge for Microsoft and all the other incumbents wasn't to catch up to the original iPhone, but to overtake the trajectory of the iPhone product line.

It also missed the ramifications of the smartphone industry being in an exponential growth phase at the time: being able to upgrade existing phone hardware to Windows Phone 7 and work around the missing sensors needed for the new features was not a competitive advantage. It was Microsoft wasting developer effort for the sake of hardware that would rapidly (within a year or two) decline to a trivial fraction of their install base.
It’s begging for new sub-genres of the philosophy of the mind.
Curse of Dimensionality
Nice, this got me to thinking on variations on the topic: https://win-vector.com/2023/04/22/the-sell-as-scam/
Same. The moment you held it and unlock it you can tell that this is the future. It was flawed in some ways but it got so many things so right that it felt like from a different era.
The Sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ Scam
One thing they missed was the importance of two things. A full 32 bit pre-emptive multitasking workstation class operating system with a full TCP/IP networking stack under the hood. Combined with a desktop class object oriented GUI application framework, of course tailored to a small screen touch interface.

These are not visible features of the device. You can’t tell just by looking at it or even using it, except that they enable a fluidity and consistency in performance and functionality. It also provides a sold foundation of back end operating system services, made available as a solid platform to developers.

Google was incredibly lucky because their under development Blackberry clone happened to be based on a Linux kernel, using a custom Java engine. This gave them all the same core advantages to build from. A workstation class OS, pre emptive multi tasking, full TCP/IP, solid back end system services and a desktop class object oriented application stack.

On top of that, Apple maintained absolute focus and discipline in building the user experience. The many different interaction modes the author was so impressed by in WP7 were all possible on the iPhone, it had all those capabilities. Apple just composed the interactions into a much more coherent and approachable interface. Again, discipline and focus.

Eventually yes, Microsoft came up with a really decent phone OS, but that was around 2011. Way too late. iPhone and Android were already far too established with deep and wide ecosystems of peripherals, applications and services.
It’s actually not clearly mentioned what PII is exposed in the article. Feels like the usual fear mongering blogspam.
Wikipedia has a page on single-user personal wikis that are great for organizing your notes[0].

If you're looking for something simple and unixy, Zim is a pretty good choice[1]. It's an offline GTK-based GUI application for creating personal wikis that saves all the wiki pages as Markdown files and can export your wiki as HTML using various templates. Zim has been available in many linux package repos for over a decade and is GPL-2.0 licensed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki?useskin=vector#S...

[1] https://zim-wiki.org/
Was Apple insisting on exclusivity with Cingular/AT&T, or was that just the only carrier that would cede control over the phone's software to Apple?
Biceps for best viewing.
x-Si panels require neither Cd nor Pb. What did you think the Cd was for, btw?
>> Antimatter just has the opposite electrical charge.

We don't know that. It may have the regular charge but after computing the force it may experience the opposite behavior via F=ma since the mass is negative.

We don't really know if the charge is opposite or the mass. Blindly using the equations you may get similar results depending where you stick the negative.

Also, I seem to recall Dirac predicting the existence of antimatter because some solution to an equation had an m^2 term and when you take a square root to solve for m there are two solutions. Then the positron came along and this was forgotten and people just assumed it had positive charge rather than negative mass.
If anyone needs a quick scripting language, there’s JavaScript or Python.

There’s no niche that PHP needs to fill except for “a language for people who don’t want to move off of PHP.”
I just checked, I wouldn't equate the end of lesson material with what I'm asking for. I checked both Korean and Spanish. Spanish had more. Both had a few example sentences. Spanish has a few "tips" like "you also use esta when you're talking about something that's only temporarily true." This gets slightly better for Spanish as near the end it includes some conjugation (part of what I'm asking for) but Korean never has more than a few examples.

I'll admit that I was a bit too critical on the Korean about letters. There is an existence of a specification of learning characters. It did explain the consonant-vowel relationship, but once through I don't see how to access these slide again. Humans are far from one-shot learners. It is good practice, but it seems like a weird way to start, especially given that Hangul can be picked up pretty quickly (part of why it is interesting linguistically). This makes Duolingo a good side app, but I still maintain the position that it is poor for learning and that there are clear additions that could greatly improve its utility. That's my main argument: Duolingo could do more and a small amount of effort would greatly increase the utility.
Funny side story about this publication. I worked at a company that sold a network monitoring appliance that was ‘reviewed’ by them. We found the review… surprising, prompting us to inspect the demo appliance that they’d sent back to us.

They hadn’t even fired it up. The review was, as far as we could tell, entirely fabricated. We brought this to the editorial team’s attention. They responded by adding a few points to our scores.
Isn't that a question with multiple variables? If you wait longer to fly Starship then it's longer to get data about how it flies. What if it has an unknown flaw that blows it up on the pad? Now you're at rebuild plus 2 mos. How much was a lack of the data gained from this test holding up changes? What if the test had been more successful?

I'm not saying you're wrong but I don't think the answer is as simple as the amount of time it would have taken to put a flame diverter on the stage 0.

I've heard from 2 sources about time to repair+improve stage zero (Musk saying 2-3 mos. and a E. Burger quoting someone saying 4 - 6 mos.) That says to me that 8 weeks will be a miracle.
The power of abstraction!
Jugaad. In Greek we sometimes say πατέντα.
I've never seen the name before, but "Soaring Twenties" is a great little label for our times. Besides the play on the original twenties, it has that connection to the universal description of today, that it's the best of times and the worst of times. We had the roaring last decade of (somewhat empty) exuberance in tech, leaving much of the rest of society behind in economic opportunity.

We have built so much useful as well as destructive capabilities in technology and science, yet caused so much damage with social media. Society is still as broken as ever, with people working for the fascist takeover of the government at least based in part on weaponized false claims (freedom through removing your personal choices and library book preferences), millions of hungry people living on the street in the US, terrible health care in the US even though we spend vastly more than others. And the world seems just as close to war as it did in the second and third decades of the 20th century.
That's a pretty bad optimizer then.
Why pay $8 for a checkmark when you can get one for for free?
I walked into an ER in Tucson, Arizona last winter, and was out within an hour with a CT scan and clear diagnosis. Took me another 2 days to get the raw data. It was awesome.
I think you're just not thinking hard enough of ways to use it -- use cases where "close enough" can be augmented by deterministic validation, cleanup and iteration to perform real-world work that is "all the way".

I'm currently littering my platform with small, server-side decisions made by LLM prompts and it's doing real work that is working. There are a ton of other people doing this right now. You can be as angry as you want about it, but in a year or two you'll be using the result of this work every day.
> Am I correct in reading your comment as stating that democracy is undesirable because it holds back those who are exceptional?

No.
Mostly because of economic theories that turned out to be empirically wrong during the 20th.

Most countries where free banking was the norm had very stable financial systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking

Note that the United States never had free banking.
Ask HN: Should companies remove personal information of inactive users?
Would you support a law, that requires companies to remove personal information in case of inactivity during let’s say 1 year(can vary)? Yes/no/why?
DuoLingo is a nice addition to other things such as Tandem or a good grammar book. It will slowly build your vocabulary.
The FBI discourages using their data for simplistic rankings [1]. The linked Wikipedia entry in the article [2] reiterates this in the section entitled "Criticism of ranking crime data". The simplest criticism is that crimes happen in San Francisco that involve people from outside San Francisco who are present there during a crime, but the denominator for per-capita data is the census data.

Ignoring all of that, I have to say that I continue to find it strange when people take total crime as a correlate of safety. Specifically, quotes like this from the article:

> So, what this tells us is that just by virtue of walking around San Francisco, you will witness and experience significantly more crime (235% the rate of Chicago and 266% the rate of Baltimore) than in any other city in the United States.

are pretty divorced from reality. If you instead sort the Wikipedia table by the violent crime rate, you have a totally different answer and conclusion.

Do people feel unsafe knowing that there are people shoplifting? 72% of the crime per capita in San Francisco is listed under Larceny/Theft. Only 8% is motor vehicle theft. And finally, another 8% is burglary, which involves actually forcibly entering a premises. Burglary is the primary form of theft that people usually associate with feeling unsafe. That's what Nat Friedman cited as his reason for leaving San Francisco [2]. Muggings are under violent crime, listed as Robbery, at 5% of total crime.

tl;dr: Total crime is a poor measure of safety. Simplistically using per-capita information is also explicitly discouraged for cross-location comparisons.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/ucr-statistics-their-proper-use

[2] https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1644736970139267072
The last few times I asked for $100s, the teller counted it once, and then ran all the bills again through a counting machine. I'd bet a kidney the newest counting machines also log serial numbers now.
The title is completely not what the paper says. What the paper says is that there is no difference in impairment between ICU and non-ICU COVID patients, not that there is no neurological impairment.

The fact that the impairment is equivalent between ICU and non-ICU patients is a surprising finding given the extra brain bleeds. No conclusion as to "why" is hypothesized.

Quoting the paper:
"Some limitations need to be addressed. First, our study was designed in 2020 with the aim of clarifying clinical observations of neurological and neuropsychological sequelae in ICU and general ward COVID-19 patients. Whilst conducting the study, it became apparent that also mildly infected patients without the need for hospitalization develop serious long-term complaints. Including a non-hospitalized post-COVID-19 group and a control group of ICU patients without COVID-19 would have been of added value."
> got me to the point of mostly understanding the general conversation when visiting my girlfriend’s French family. Enough of a baseline that I’d probably become conversant with a few months of immersion.

Keep in mind about a third of the English language comes from Latin (the precursor to French) and another third from French itself (thanks to the Normans). See Anglish [0]

[0] https://anglish.org/wiki/Anglish
5k/yr? I've saved 5k+/mo on some clusters, by optimizing lots of 100-1000ms queries into the <5ms range!

It's really fun.

Also agree on the reporting vs transactional stuff. One reporting cluster I run I don't really look at queries that take 30 seconds. Optimizing them that much just doesn't matter compared to the queries ran interactively.
Yeah. Except, we've gotten rid of those large bills we used to have - which included the $5k bill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_...

Cash is terribly inconvenient to the powers that be. In addition to the irritating ability for me to transfer value to other people or companies without an overt trace, it puts a reasonable lower bound on the effective interest rate - you can't go much below 0% without people just paying to hold cash. It's not relevant right now, but a few years back, the noises about how awesome negative interest rates would be to properly stimulate demand were rather loud. There are a few books written as cover fire for this concept as well. If you put $1000 in your bank account today and will have $995 next year, may as well spend it to stimulate the consumer economy instead of "hoarding" it, right?
its not clear how much of an audience they "have built" if that audience is so fleeting as to only watch your "content" if its smashed in their faces.
Visual Blocks for ML: Accelerating ML prototyping with interactive tools
I just fear that if people here remain hostile, it could give regulators the support they need to get rid of it. I don't care whether the technology becomes big or not, and I don't think it's suitable for business models. However, I do think that since 2008, the banking system has changed for the worse. People are now suspected of committing a crime if a transaction looks odd. Sometimes, I receive emails from my bank asking about the source of money I've received. This is a huge invasion of privacy, and many people may not have documentation about such transactions anymore. It's unfair to be treated like a criminal when you haven't done anything wrong. I believe that Bitcoin provides great relief from this situation. The community can be inconvenient at times, but I don't think that matters much.
Interesting. I've not seen that behavior, but I'm willingly in a pretty rural backwaters. I'll keep my eyes open for it, thanks!
The latter. Apple didn't want exclusivity; they wanted control.
Back then the network operators had full control over the devices on their network. They even dictated what features these phones will have. They wanted to sell services like ringtones, so the device manufacturers were almost like their subcontractors.

Apple simply didn’t have an option to do it by itself. Back then Apple wasn’t that powerful, they had a firm grip on music player and music store market but nothing else.

So the story goes, Steve Jobs meets with the CEO of AT&T(called something else back then) in a hotel room and show him the device. Apparently the guy was sold the moment he scrolled the setting and see the rubber effect and accepted to let Apple do the phone in Apple way in exchange of exclusivity.
> "Microsoft Research has a technology concept that uses the device's camera as a motion sensor, enabling motion control while using the device. This means devices will not need accelerometers and other complicated gyroscopes to get these features, and that existing Windows Mobile devices could be upgraded to full Windows Mobile 7 functionality."

Even to this day this makes no sense. How could a camera, which could be obscured by a case or finger, possibly determine the user's motion? How would this work in the dark? To say nothing of the battery this would consume.
I think this is an issue with Duolingo’s target audience. Its niche is definitely not people who need to learn a language because they are moving abroad.

The gamification is a perfect example of how Duolingo is optimized for people whose motivation is low. It’s specifically for people who just casually want to learn a new language. It’s successful not because it carries people to fluency but because it provides a fun way to learn the basics. Those basics are an unmanageable hurdle for people who don’t actually need to learn a language.
For a counter perspective, think about home ownership as not stable, but inflexible. It doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it?

A lot of this comes down to what an individual values and my argument is that what individuals value when it comes to housing will change drastically over the coming 50 or so years.
>Only Google was capable of throwing away their work and starting fresh. Android was blackberry-like just until iPhone came

Danger, Inc made Android, not Google. Google bought them. Android didn’t exist (publicly) until after the iPhone was released. It took until Android 2 (2010?) for it to feel anything like the iPhone (the HTC Dream had a physical keyboard and a trackball).

They didn’t really throw anything out. They added stuff like auto-rotation due to gyro and touch-first APIs with swipe gesture callbacks and what-not. Brian Swetland (from Danger) is a genius and wrote a mobile OS initially for the T-Mobile Sidekick form factor that could have all the touch-first stuff added on without breaking everything. Google’s most genius move of the era was buying the company employing Brian.
For someone trying the learn new information (and thus lacking the ability to discern), its not possible to let the content speak for itself
Cloudflare is OK if you are already using them.
If a person's income is low enough that probability of being fined * percentage of income per fine * income is less than price of parking, then it's economically viable for them not to pay for parking and risk the fine.
Since there are certainly people unfamiliar with the symbols, here is the Wikipedia article on them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantifier_(logic)
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systemd, a suite of system components for Linux, whose name is inspired by System D.
I don't understand this mentality at all. Why do you care how they maintain their property if it doesn't harm you directly?
I never understood why anyone would harass someone else over their lawn. It's only a matter of time where you end up with neighbors who don't share the same mindset to start micromanaging the neighborhood.

I live in north Seattle area where non-HOA homes are priced higher than HOA homes. The area has a couple of older somewhat rundown houses and no one cares. Prices are still at least $100k higher than the new builds with HOAs on the next block. So there goes the old excuse for maintaining home value.
ok lets ban life tenure for supreme court justices
It isn’t just engineering vs blind prompting. There is also “prompt vibing” where intuition comes into play.
Local LLMs are in production as the backbone of highly valued businesses. That will increasingly be true with the advent of commercially licensed foundation models currently in training such as StableLM and RedPajamas.
> this just isn't a rational argument.

Taurine, Creatine, Carnosine, and B12 are not found in significant amounts in plants. Heme Iron is much more bioavailable than Plant Iron or Iron supplements. Plant-based diets can also inhibit the absorption of many more nutrients, including Iron and B12. You cannot get the right type of omega-3 fatty acids through a normal plant-based diet, either, you must supplement it with an algae-based supplement.

In fact, a lot of nutrients that are abundant in meat and readily absorbed and processed by our bodies probably needs to be supplemented with a pill to get enough of it on a vegan diet. Choline can be found in plenty of vegetables, but are you actually getting enough of it? Incorporating meat into the diet makes it very easy to get enough of many nutrients that our body needs without having to take a half dozen supplements.

That doesn't even get into how a plant-based diet can negatively affect gut health and the composition of plants can inhibit nutrient activity and absorption. Nor does it get into how these diets can negatively affect children, either through the quality of nutrition derived from their mother's breast milk or from adhering to a plant-based diet in general.
You can use this observation to build a "buck-boost" topology that can make the output voltage larger or smaller than the input voltage. This is common for 1sNp Li-ion batteries that need a high-current 3.3V rail - buck from 4.2V to 3.3V at full charge, boost from 3V to 3.3V at low charge.

There's actually a bunch of ways to make buck-boost style converters that can do both functions, like the cuk and sepic topologies. There's also bidirectional bridge converters that can change input and output direction - you see this a lot on hybrid vehicles (12V to 48V or vice versa) and electric vehicles (48V to 400V and vice versa).
I interpreted that quote as more of an observation by Kissinger, as opposed to statement of official US foreign policy.
Antimatter isn't some unobserved theoretical thing. It's produced daily at most large hospitals. We absolutely know that its electric charge is opposite that of the normal matter counterpart.
What's your day job, out of interest?
Even more relevant (and certainly more recent) cases would be McCreary County v. ACLU [1] and Van Orden v. Perry [2], though they are even less decisive than your example, given the former ruled against a Ten Commandments display in front of court houses, while the latter rules in favor of said displays in public parks.

Despite this particular case having a much stronger establishment of religion argument given it's a legislative mandate to display the Ten Commandments, I don't know that I'd make any bets on how the current Supreme Court would rule, though.

[1] - https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/695/mccreary-county...

[2] - https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/697/van-orden-v-per...
As mentioned in a previous comment, I believe that crypto has limited utility as a business model, primarily serving as on- and off-ramps and for transaction fee handling.
I can't share anything much more specific than what I already have, unfortunately.

All I can really add - Binary classification is like a super power once you understand the statistics around it. If you can find clever ways to combine multiple binary classifiers, you can quickly narrow down relevant context. You can also use the statistics to do things like determine if a query is too vague to be serviced by an LLM backend. You can also answer questions like "Why didn't we consider a table or join when writing the user's query?".