skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, I fear Wendy has already vanished from current culture as I cannot access her work, only reams of writing on her. I have the Clockwork Orange LP that I bought in Canada for $5 back in 1998 but attempts to get much else have failed. It’s just too expensive, and while I can be a fan of the artist, I would like to be a fan of the art.

Maybe whoever inherits her works will make it available for a new generation to discover, and hopefully there’s enough writing and analysis that contextualizes her achievements.
thanks for this insightful comment
> Google is in the attention business

This is probably the best description of their business model.
I am a big fan of Kagi and a happy paying customer for more than year already. Thank you for such a great product and pleas keep going and growing!
yeah, I think that is a big part of it. Or people who have friends, social groups, ect.

It can also have to do with what you focus your attention and spend your time on. Maybe watching the 40+ hours of TV a week that average Americans do doesn't actually make people happier, and sitting around a coffee shop and playing games (a cheap and common past time in some poor countries), is better for mental health.
There’s a good video showing it working here:
https://youtu.be/BeJVv0pL5kY
My apologies if this is an inappropriate question (if you feel this is the case, please feel free to tell me so and to bugger off etc).

Mind if I ask the "how" question? Was there a particular 'event' or chain of events that led to your being homeless?

For context, I am researching / hoping to research "hospital admissions" as a precipitating event of (first) homelessness, so I am interested in people's lived experience with that topic (as well as practical pointers on how I could materialize this research in more practical terms).

> I joke that if I were to give up and become an addict at least someone would help me because it'd be their job. I've always been a hard worker and hate being unemployed.

I could totally see how that might be the case. This has "Shirky Principle" written all over it, doesn't it? It's weird how the system is wired like that... In fact, that's partly my motivation for this research, actually; the idea is that, if a first (and otherwise avoidable) episode of homelessness could be detected and avoided prior to discharge, that would be much more beneficial than allowing people into that mess in the first place and then having to prioritise who "deserves" the most help after the fact.
It's hundreds of devices that have been supported at some point. It's far fewer that have official builds of the current version. The Pixel 3 line (2019) for example, doesn't have builds of LineageOS 20 (Android 13), though there are still updates for the LineageOS 19 (Android 12) builds.
Google Scholar found some uses, like Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: The Experience of Play in Work and Games. by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Review by: Murray S. Davis
Source: Contemporary Sociology , Mar., 1977, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Mar., 1977), pp. 197-199 at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2065805.pdf

> Sociologists will find most provocative the author's alternative to Erving Goffman's analysis of self-consciousness. Both are mystics in the sense that they investigate the conditions causing someone to lose self-consciousness. But Goffman is what I would call a pessimystic, for in Frame Analysis (1974:378ff) he examines how the self disappears in the "negative experience" that results when situational contradictions increase its stress; Csikszentmihalyi is an optimystic, for he ex-
amines how the self disappears in the "flow experience" that results when situational consonances decrease its stress

and "Anglophonia and Optimysticism: Sebastian Knight’s Bookshelves"

> The Anglophone universe becomes a linguistic afterlife in which Nabokov optimistically hopes to resurrect his Russian art, just as he “optimystically” (the pun belongs to Sebastian Knight’s “Dean Park”) expects that the otherworld preserves the spirits of his dead.

Further, https://archive.org/details/libraryjournal122sep/page/n489/m...

> Coauthors Taylor and Crain discuss the concept of "optimysticism," first intro- duced in Taylor's Messengers of Light. The phrase refers to the ability to see beyond the worst of situations to the mystery of goodness at the core of life.

and from 'The optimystic's handbook' at https://archive.org/details/optimysticshandb00tayl/page/n15/...

> Optimysticism is the choice we make not only to experience the best of this world but also to see beyond this world into eternity, and in doing so, to live the mystery of the fullest here on earth.

No well established meaning.
Libraries ChatGPT told me about were libraries I could have found faster with a search engine and libraries it made up. It can be handy if a library doesn't have examples though.
It seems to mash up the concepts of moving northward from the equator (which the sun does before June 21st) and moving southward from the Tropic of Cancer (which it would be doing on July 4th).
most of the federal budget is actually used for entitlement programs.
That’s not how wealth works though. Billionaires don’t literally have tens of millions of $100 notes in their hands. So where is all that money? Almost all of it is in the form of shares and bonds, which represent control of and investments in the economy. The control is in the form of deciding what products are produced, where and how. Those investments create jobs and produce goods and services.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet don’t have huge money piles in warehouses. Their wealth is active in the economy.

Wealth is actually economic control. The people who have it run large chunks of the economy. Historically there have been two answers to the question of who do we want running most of the productive forces in the economy and directing investment in it, private citizens or politicians and government bureaucrats? The former is capitalism and the latter is socialism. Even the Chinese Communist Party eventually went with option 1. Who should run Microsoft or Ford, investors and professional managers, or the federal government?

Actually there is another option, Russian style oligarchy. That’s what real corruption looks like. Every system has some corruption and waste, the question is how we manage and limit that.
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36006446
An Unexpected Open Water Challenge: 40 Miles Across Arizona
Note that Neeva wasn't exactly a small player, managing to burn through $77.5M in VC funding over the space of just 3 years[0]. Note also that, at least at the start of that 3 year period, they simply bought in results from Bing rather than build their own index[1].

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/neeva

[1] https://www.protocol.com/neeva-search
https://archive.ph/36k9q
This is just a way to avoid failures and not try new stuff. Let's revive Indiana Jones or others, young people are not going to the movies anyway, better invest in the old folks that like old movies.
I took GP to be mean that it's sad that the man felt the need to end his life. His final sentence seems to support that sentiment.
Wanted to try Neeva since they launched, but DuckDuckGo has served me well over the years and I can't really complain about the results. Only on a rare occasion do I need to make a long-tail query where I surmise Google/Neeva will do a better job at results. That's once every ~1000 DDG searches though, and I append a !g command to my query to redirect to The Google in that case.

I will continue to use Kagi[0], keeping in mind that could be shutdown without notice too, so I'll probably end up using it more now.

[0] https://kagi.com/
> The active photocatalyst would get quickly contaminated anywhere with magnetic grit in the water.

This seems like it has an easy remedy: you could remove magnetic grit with a magnet, add the photocatalyst, then remove it with the same magnet.
Neeva failed because they didn’t understand distribution. Sundar became a rising star and ultimately CEO of Google because he directly managed more paid distribution and user acquisition for Google search than anyone else. Not a coincidence. Google promotes the narrative that they organically grew to dominate the search market when in fact they spent many billions of dollars on user acquisition (while also, for most of that time, having the best product).
Researchers found neurogenesis (the creation of new neurons) occurs in adults. Certain factors can inhibit or promote new neuron growth.

Hippocampus - learning, mood, emotion, memory - new memories - new neuron growth

Exercise, proper diet, and sleep--the usual things--help mood (depression) and contribute to new neuron growth.

And, mechanistically, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) (manipulated via Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy [SMT]) may help treat (extreme) depression:

Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35975353 - 3 days ago (308 comments)

From the link's source,

> “It’s almost as if you’d already decided how you were going to feel, and then everything you were sensing was filtered through that,” he said. “The mood has become primary.”

But challengingly,

> “Even things that are quite joyful to a patient normally are suddenly not bringing them any pleasure.”
I wish there were better ways to use UPI as a tourist. Like if wise.com could support QR code payments to it. Right now the system isn’t very accessible to those on short term visits.
It’s a symptom of the wider mentality in media production nowadays: why innovate, when you can recreate?

We see this time and time again. Live action X, sequel Y, reboot Z, ad nauseam because once a company reaches a certain point the marketing budgets and brand loyalty can convince anyone to see anything. So, why take on “risky” new ideas when the old ones still work?

We also see what happens to these “new” ideas, even when successful. Cartoons such as “Infinity Train” and “The Owl House” getting canned partway through their run for literally no reason while other shows like “Raven’s Home” and “The Legend of Korra”, both spinoffs of mid-2000s shows, were pushed to extremes with the former still running to this day.
The audio recordings they captured are pretty compelling to me as someone with a bit of interest in and experience with id-ing birds by sound.
It is a valid question. The way i see it is that the equipment sent to ukraine is either old and rusty or not in use. So while in theory you spent money by shooting an arrow, in practice you havent since it wasnt in use anyway. But since it does have accounting value you can claim you spent 1$ by shooting it in the forest. Once the war is over the us can get the 1$ back from ukraine in various ways, and therefore it made a profit out of nothing.

Edit: if the equipment is new then the 1$ spent is basically a subsidy for the local weapons industry and the workers building it.
Related:

"Almost all founders learn brutal lessons during the first year, but some learn them much more quickly. Obviously those founders are more likely to succeed. So it could be a useful heuristic to ask, say 6 to 12 months in, "Have we learned our brutal lesson yet?"" - https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1659122079071870977

"The most common lesson is that customers don't want what you're making. The next most common is that it isn't possible to make it, or at least to make it profitably."
I think here is something that helps me understand intuitively how volume goes to zero in an n-sphere

I think the counterintuitive part for me was I kinda misunderstood what volume really means

So lets think instead in terms of how hyperdimensional volume relates to a basic concept of the "amount of stuff" contained within an n-dimensional object. The "amount of stuff" in a cube increases as you go from a 2d hypercube (i.e. a square), then to a 3d hypercube, and so on to higher dimensions, even though measurement of the volume (volume for 3d, area for 2d, etc...) stays the same

Another way to think about this "amount of stuff" is to imagine some kind of infinite dimensional "fluid" with extremely small particles that covers a square with one layer of particles. Thats going to have X**2 number of particles right? Where X is the approximate number of particles along each dimension. Now if it covers a cube, that will then have X**3 number of particles. So the number of particles of that fluid thats covering an n-cube increases exponentially as you increase dimensions of the n-cube

Similar thing happens with the number of particles blanketing first a circle, then a sphere, then to higher dimensions, the number of particles increases, but not as fast as the unit volume. I think this can be more easily seen where the diameter is 1, rather than the radius being 1, and comparing that to the unit cube

So the volume is really kinda like the ratio between the number of those hyper particles in the object vs the number of those hyper particles in the sphere

And this ratio converges to zero at higher dimensions, even though the amount of stuff increases (Perhaps to infinity as well? I suspect so but not entirely sure on that one. That would take a mathematical proof and I'm not quite cut out for that right now)
throughout this journey, we’ve discovered that
it is one thing to build a search engine,
and an entirely different thing to convince
regular users of the need to switch to a
better choice

On the other hand, ChatGPT is the fastest growing product in human history. Because it beats Google for many types of searches. A friend of mine recently said that a good old Google search now feels like having to go to the library.

I wouldn't be surprised if the future of search comes from an unexpected angle. The cost to train a model which has basic understanding of the world and human language might drop enough that hobbyists can do it. And then domain specific knowledge might be learned on top of that seperately, creating "specialist LLMs". A web of such LLMs with domain specific knowledge might be able to answer questions better than a single large net. Similar to how humans work in teams of specialists.
I'm in the US so I have no clue about other countries.

Like I said in my post, the doctors visits while carrying the baby, the PVT due to stress and other factors, and the maternity/paternity leave (at companies I've worked they allow 6-9+ months maternity and 2-4 months for paternity). Companies know they will offer these leaves, but the in the lead up to that there is a lot of OOO and unrealized effort.

There are people at every company and at large who are crunching efficiency numbers while we sit there hammering out features and fixes.
Rob Deniros curb stomp scene in The Irishman is hilarious because of this. A 75 year old actor made to look 40, supposedly beating up the store owner, but looks like he’s trying not to break his hip as he shuffles around.

Jump to 1:15 -

https://youtu.be/XqGV0IuodWE
T-Mobile has yet to fully sunset 2G/3G support.
No, that was ethically conscious vehicle surrendering to the police for the crime committed. Now vehicles needs some compassion.
> require five fuel transfers in orbit, a technology that has never been demonstrated

SpaceX does transfers a lot more complicated than fuel (including human beings) all the time and it's fine.

> land a tall rocket vertically on lunar terrain

is the real hurdle here, along with differences in gravity. Though lack of said gravity does make the landing part a lot easier.
My 1985 HP-11c is probably on its 4th set of batteries now. Would love a 15c but have the Retro 15C and Free42 emulators on my iPhone now.
As in, the java compiler formally provides extension APIs, and Manifold taps directly into those?

Hm, ok, in that case, slightly less hacky. Probably more comparable to using gcc extensions then... in that, I'd still hesitate to call it "this is evidence that c supports x" ... but it's the kind of statement that could be argued both ways, and discussions would probably quickly devolve into semantics and pedantry rather than anything of practical significance.
No, it would be a gross misunderstanding to think ChatGPT has anywhere close to all the data possible. Not even close to all the data on the internet. Not even close to all text. Let alone data available by directly interacting with the world.
He gets to the bottom of things and isn’t a trend rider. His algorithms and concepts will be used or are being used in the development of AI technology and other fundamental technology for years to come.
> The funny thing is that the people who feel aggrieved that "everyone has found some way to be a victim"

Explain how I'm claiming to be a victim. Does calling out spineless and characterless people imply I've been victimized?
> vm86 mode doesn't work in 64-bit mode.

vm86 doesn't work in 64-bit mode, but you can simply temporarily switch down to 32-bit mode, and them vm86 works just fine. Early amd64 Linux would do this, and there was even a kernel module to do it after they dropped support for it.

Microsoft had other reasons to drop 16-bit support in Windows 64.
Yes, there is a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nazi_moon_base
I think that quote just indicates he doesn't know the details of what that setting means and hasn't looked, which is okay.
Absolutely. Piling on tech debt forever is like trying to eat endlessly and never to go the toilet, pardon the analogy. Legacy needs to be dealt with constantly and relentlessly. With a suitable overlap window for transition (but we've had enough x86-32 compatibility window already).
Compare that to the lead time of electronics, though. I just started in PCB design which is leagues more time forgiving than silicon design and fab, and even then if a non-generic component I'm designing for goes out of stock, the lead time for a new batch is anywhere from a month to a few years, on average around 4-6 months.

Thinking about the design process, testing and revisions, all the way to fab and then market, we're probably talking years just to see a single design reach your test bench (I'm speculating). Oh and millions, because the major chip fabs only do things in large batches.

Compare this to software. It is, indeed, seconds in comparison.

I'd love for semiconductor fabrication to get fragmented out like it sounds like it will.
Would you mind sharing what your native tongue is? The negative connotation of "wooden language" is fascinating. [1]

[1] Just a note for others similarly fascinated by these sorts of linguistic items, there's an excellent book that explores this concept space: Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
But then there's mental overhead figuring out / remembering what the function does every time you go through the parent function. Once you have it in your head, may as well just label it so you don't have to do that every time.

> In longer and more complex examples, declaring a function inline like this is potentially confusing because you don't get to see where it is used

It only exists in the scope of the parent function, the only place it can be used is right next to where is declared. Unless you're in the habit of making functions hundreds of lines long, I guess...
Unlocking the bootloader on many Android devices is not a jailbreak; it's officially supported to varying degrees, though Google also has official support for helping apps sabotage users' ability to run them on unlocked devices so it's a bit of a mixed bag.

Ultimately, it's easy and reliable enough for someone who's interested in tech and likes to tinker, but I cannot recommend it for (to use the canonical example) my mother.
mr knuth has dedicated his life's work to mathematical correctness down to the typographic level of the books he wrote.

last i heard he was not much into hallucinations...

what he wrote i read as a huge praise for the field.
Some special effects just look bad, regardless of the time period. The lightsabers from Star Wars: A New Hope (the un-remastered version) still look pretty decent. Gollum from the Lord of the Rings trilogy looks ridiculous, and he always did.
Sorry for being OT. But any chance you have a blog or any kind of material explaining your experience with your hobby, sounds very interesting.
Ha, literally thought about this 5 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35942727
If they are occupying the same environment then the same argument applies to native species no longer regularly exposed to fire. But unless its being actively selected against, then it disappearing through random drift alone would, I'd think, be a pretty slow process, even by evolutionary timescales.
Kagi is great. Please have a look at perplexity.ai and get inspired. We need more good options available
Testing a Formally Verified Compiler
Wall Art Generator – Rasterbator
1. User assigns name under the onboarded prefix instead of automatic creation, for example let say, your id is lazyasciiart then you may share your id as the names you bookmark publicly

2. You may use groups as you create mapnames, for example coffee as a group then you may say lazyasciiart.coffee then it will map to several locations

3. Your experience is socialised so that you may follow relevant content, overtime you build what you interested and where you interested

4. As you are creating content such as movie or documentary you may annotate it with the mapname prefix then you can point out all the relevant locations within the app without referring to it

for the next few features will focus on adding more organisation features such as boards, guides, todo lists where collection of mapnames presented and also once you create a mapname relevant apps will be available for navigation

you can also consider this as a nickname for your what3words instead of saying apple.art.love you may say lazyasciiart.1, Which one would you like to communicate is up to you as both available once you view a mapname

as a shorter answer you may think mapname as an anonymous social network for organising points of interest
I know it stems from the bias of western music, but this is really not enjoyable to me. Those weird scales to my ear just sound wrong, like a synthesizer with some frayed wires.
> If I say "she came from school" it is clear that we're talking about relative motion today or in the recent past from one nearby location to another.

Unless we mean that she came from one school of philosophy or art to another. Or she came from the school long ago to move somewhere else.

> If I say "her family came from Japan" it is clear I'm talking about ancestry and/or a long ago emigration

Unless her family came from Japan as part of a cruise before going to Thailand. Or her family moved out of Japan because they were American military stationed in Okinawa.

Getting rid of copula gets rid of only a small portion of the ambiguity in natural language.
What a shame. I really liked Neeva the times I used it, although not quite enough to replace Google for me. They were the most credible alternative for an English-based true competitor to Google and Bing, the distant second.

Genuinely surprised they aren't annoying being acquired; their traditional search expertise would make a great companion to someone doing LLM-based information retrieval. (Not to mention their in-house LLM expertise).
Ask HN: How do LLMs do arithmetic?
Thats awesome. i still have my TI-Programmer (with LED display) that did binary, 2C, octal, and hex calcs. Bought it for my IBM OS/360 Assembler 1 & 2 semesters.
Oh Ashton. SMH.
Success as an individual is doing well for yourself. Success as a society is building a system where people do well for themselves by making other people better off.
I wonder if there are LLMs with a full set of TAOCP sitting on their bookshelf just to show off. :-)
Yes. I suggest checking out the full project source: https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold

It's very impressive and far bigger than the operator overloading stuff. The other videos in that series cover some of the other features.