skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://jsavage.xyz

I write mostly about travel (been living nomadically the last 5+ years, currently in Asia), random thoughts I have (eg. on mindset, politics, occasionally even touchy topics like dating and sex), and updates on side projects I'm working on. I originally started the blog as a place to rant about wage slavery and the need for universal basic income, but I've already said everything I wanted to say there (also that topic is very depressing) so now I focus on other things. I'm a software engineer but I don't talk about tech here (currently using my Reddit / HN alternative as a pseudo-blog as a I build it out https://zsync.xyz/) - any serious technical writing I'd rather post to my personal blog under my real name or maybe Twitter.

I try to be as unfiltered and polarizing as possible - not because I'm an asshole, but because that's the type of content I personally enjoy the most. I don't plan out posts, just brain dump and never look at it again. Here are some posts:

- Tokyo Trip Reflections – The Nicest City https://jsavage.xyz/2023/06/30/tokyo-trip-reflections-the-ni...

- Left Bali, now in Hong Kong https://jsavage.xyz/2023/05/30/left-bali-now-in-hong-kong/ (at the end I question the conflation of love and sex)

- When AI Can Execute, Your Job Will No Longer Be Necessary https://jsavage.xyz/2023/05/09/when-ai-can-execute-your-job-...

- Addiction is a Lack of Self-Control, and Every Choice You Make is Interlinked https://jsavage.xyz/2023/02/11/addiction-is-a-lack-of-self-c...

- Execution is The Most Important and Underrated Skill https://jsavage.xyz/2023/01/03/execution-is-the-most-importa...

- Life Needs Challenge to be Fun (thoughts on work, happiness, and fulfillment) https://jsavage.xyz/2022/08/31/life-needs-challenge-to-be-fu...

- Happiness = Fulfillment + Community. Should You Do What You Love? https://jsavage.xyz/2022/05/07/happiness-fulfillment-communi...

Was going to post some older posts as well but looking back at them now some of them look like they were written by a different person, which is cool because it shows how much I've progressed.
> So many large corporate-run projects do this ...

Ouch, that's pretty bad. Any stand out projects doing this that you'd care to mention?
Not yet, nothing's a failure until it's done.

Please don't understand that as any call to action. It's an accounting standard. Keep going.
That's why I use https://github.com/laurent22/joplin

It's markdown, open-source, free. With desktop and mobile support.

Syncs notes to any cloud of your choice for free. (I use One Drive)

Optionaly you can pay them to sync your data on their cloud. So they even have a compelling business model!
I can't load tweets on people's profile pages, but navigating to a specific tweet works. That probably kills a lot of indexers.
Anyone else have trouble opening the link?
The front page it showed me I do not want.
Perhaps the GCs are unaware of the surveillance themselves
Google+ reached 10M users in 16 days (2011)
i was talking about the fact, that if suggested to desalinate water only during sunny hours it requires overbuilding desalination plants. not solar
>> I am not sure how the non-tech masses book their trips

My non techie friends and family do everything on their phone. From my teenage nieces and nephews, to my 75 year old parents and in laws, they are far far far more comfortable on phone, which they feel they understand, than on a computer, which they feel is scary and mysterious and dangerous. (I'm not saying I agree with that ; that's just a perception we have groomed in them).

They do their banking and purchases and mortgages and trips on a teeny little screen, even teenier keyboard. And here's the thing, they're good at it. It works! Vast majority of time they accomplish what they want effectively and efficiently. Turns out I'm a massive exception. I just feel claustrophobic and enclosed and uncertain without my computer which is my comfort zone.

I have a friend in royal Bank of Canada and they have terminology for that - I forget the details but it's something like shoulders down vs shoulders up. They have detailed stats on what are peoples preferences in doing stuff on phone vs computer. Apparently in Canada people do vast majority on phone except in usa. Apparently that makes Canadians odd - they say Americans and a lot of world does their mortgages on phone too. I found that shocking until I realized my wife and sister do too
You underestimate the revolutionary role of patents in allowing to innovate in the open.

Do you want to know what is the active substance of a new medicine? Do you want other researchers to know it and critique it, and build upon it? And for FDA to have easy time learning everything about the medicine? Allow the medicine to be patented.

Otherwise every other factory would start producing it, having not paid anything for years of R&D. Nobody would be able to secure a loan or investment for said R&D, and especially stuff like clinical trials.

The alternative is trade secrets, quakery, and loss of knowledge forever if a particular project fails.

Patents have their downsides. The fee structure could be different (progressive with time), the duration can be discussed, some areas should rather not be patentable (large families of substances, or software), but the idea is pretty sound and important.
Try https://github.com/laurent22/joplin + cloud drive of your choice (I use One Drive).

See my reply to your parent commenter.
Can’t you just do a chargeback on the next subscription charge? If enough people do that, the card issuer will probably hit them with fines of some sort.
Crypto.com cuts 20% jobs amid ‘significant damage’ to industry from FTX
Surprisingly? Why shouldn't you be allowed to record the things you hear?
> But it's been years since I tried notion so perhaps this has changed.

It has changed dramatically.
I'd bet most of us have to remember a lot more than Plato did. What did he have in his day to day that's similar to the steps I have to take to log into various systems, or recalling the structure of different file systems so I can find things, or the ever growing and changing number of apps and tools? If I were a philosopher, I probably wouldn't need to write things down as much either and it'd be easier to see the need for the written word as "weakness".
This is what virtual Credit Cards are for... Each site gets a separate number and I can expire them as needed. Unfortunately, if they get popular vendors will figure out a way to detect and refuse.
> We introduce Voyager, the first LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent to drive exploration, master a wide range of skills, and make new discoveries continually without human intervention in Minecraft. Voyager is made possible through three key modules: 1) an automatic curriculum that maximizes exploration; 2) a skill library for storing and retrieving complex behaviors; and 3) a new iterative prompting mechanism that generates executable code for embodied control.

It looks like being LLM-based is helpful for generating control scripts and communicating its reasoning. Text seems to provide useful building blocks for higher-order reasoning and behavior. As with humans!
That was already true; you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public place, and never have. I can legally video and audio record anything I wish in a public park.
Genuinely curious: what's the problem you're trying to solve with Git plugin that the official Obsidian Sync [1] doesn't solve natively (besides cost)?

I've been using Obsidian Sync for a year, and it works flawlessly for my use case. Is syncs not only notes, but also configuration, plugins, allows creation of multiple vaults, works on mobile, fine-grained control over which folders to sync in each device, and even allow controlled sharing with collaborators. Oh, and full encryption with user-provided key, which is a must. All for $96/year.

[1] https://obsidian.md/sync
Yeah "toot" is not great and "post" isn't specific enough.
2.7BTC total, apparently
Here is an (incomplete) list[1] of random note-taking apps that you can try if you are leaving Evernotes.

Or you can try ours, which is based on Markdown (not open source) and a nested notecard format (not documents). Heavy emphasis on getting out of your way and just letting you write notes, though still with plenty of power if you need it. It has plenty of other cool features[2] and we're prepping for a pretty big 3.0 release in the very near future which should be exciting.

Yes, this is a very shameless plug. But in the spirit of Threads capitalizing on the upheaval at Twitter, I suppose I can do the same for Evernote.

[1] https://supernotes.app/alternatives/

[2] https://supernotes.app/features/
I was just writing some python code these days for ida debugging and a simple dump(type, address) function took me 2 days to implement. I still don't know how to get a tinfo_t from a struc_t. The api is a thin layer over the c++ implementation, is very non pythonic and poorly documented. The debugger freezes so much that i had to use the windbg backend. It still doesn't support multi databases, or at least a builtin way for multiple module analysis in a single session. I have to keep 8 windows open and calculate rvas by hand between them. It doesnt even tell you in which module you end up in, or when it does it's wrong. Not fun. The c decompiler is nice though. But i definitely wouldn't pay my own money for it.
I do use Git for source control-purposes, but this is the first time I hear of Syncthing. Would that allow for completely automated and frictionless syncing?
> The idea that the capabilities of LLMs might not exceed humans by that much isn't that crazy: the ground truth they're trained on is still human-written text.

This is a non sequitur.

Even if the premise were meaningful (they're trained on human-written text), humans themselves aren't "trained on human-written texts", so the two things aren't comparable. If they aren't comparable, I'm not sure why the fact that they are trained on "human-written texts" is a limiting factor. Perhaps because they are trained on those instead of what human babies are trained on, that might make them more intelligent, not less. Humans end up the lesser intelligence because they are trained less perfectly on "human-written texts".

Besides which, no one with any sense is expecting that even the most advanced LLM possible becomes an AGI by itself, but only when coupled with some other mechanism that is either at this point uninvented or invented-but-currently-overlooked. In such a scenario, the LLM's most likely utility is in communicating with humans (to manipulate, if we're talking about a malevolent one).
So, it's app only, no browser? LAME.
Just because a 5xx alert is sent doesn't mean that someone will do anything about it, even if they didn't just lay off the entire staff. I'm sure some PM triaged the 5xx notices and anything coming from close account just gets pushed to the bottom of the queue. Obviously, I have no knowledge if that's what actually happened. I'm just continuing the advocacy of the devil
Is it different in different jurisdictions? I get 1 month of Prime at a time and cancel all the time.
Obsidian.md for the win. I used to use evernote way back when they started, was cool software, then they started scaling and added worst search UI I have ever come across. That day, I deleted my account and went markdown with my own storage.
Don't see the benefit of why your notes should be controlled by others.
OneNote 2016 was revolutionary for me. Since then I’ve found it less and less usable with each new update.

I think the tension between having a good web app and a good desktop app with the same interface is difficult to resolve.
What's industry scale? We have the technology to burn hydrogen and we have megawatt-scale electrolysis. What else do you want?
I feel like Evernote is a prime example of the pains of trying to convert free users to paying users for the same features, something we see in many VC funded software from its era. Once you give something away, it's damn near impossible to take it back, even if you plead your case as honestly as Evernote did.

Evernote was great. Honestly, it was worth paying for. But they gave away the farm too early, and folks feeling like what they had was being taken away from them spurned a lack of trust. Obsidian made the smartest play by giving you the editor, keeping the files outside of a database so that they're portable (so they feel safe if they ever have to move away), and telling you that if you want to own the sync story that you can, but you can pay to have the cohesive experience on every device.
I don’t want a 2.5-3 hour dry cycle

??? That's excessively long. Our heat-pump dryer takes about 20-30 minutes to do one of our loads.* The dryer invariably ends up waiting for the washer to finish.

* Our loads aren't excessively tight in the machine. You have to allow room for the clothes to tumble loosely thus allowing lots of surface area for evaporation.
Pro-musks activists keep telling us it’s no big deal but how exactly is it better for users to kick them all out of tweetdeck and force them to pay for twitter blue?

More and more accounts are getting off the twitter bandwagon. Clearly it has an impact on users to keep losing features, being asked to pay and now being limited in how many tweets they can read per day. How’s that an improvement for the normal user?
We're building a device to secure your most precious secrets. https://betrusted.io (project overview) and https://precursor.dev (details). It has the form factor of a screen-and-keyboard retro-phone.

Our hardware is simple and Open so it is easier to verify. There is no "hard CPU" (it is all FPGA based) so you don't have to trust anyone about what's executing your code. The entire system runs on a pure-Rust OS (Xous) which is an async message-passing microkernel, details at https://betrusted.io/xous-book/.

Out of the box it comes with U2F/FIDO2, a TOTP authenticator, and a password vault. It's one of the few U2F/FIDO2 tokens that you can make a backup of. As the system is fully open source, you can extend it with your own favorite apps.
I also keep hearing this. I keep hearing the “American infrastructure is built to last 50-100 years” (I used to regularly pass a handrail at the Wall Street station that was over a hundred years old, so example of one).

But is China’s really so bad it is going to crumble in half of that?
Massive-scale desalination with nuclear has been proposed for decades by many nations. Here's a proposal (originally pushed by JFK) for using them to transform the Middle East into a luscious mecca, thereby solving any arable land scarcity issues (from 1967)

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b643596&view=1up...

More modern take here: https://www.iaea.org/topics/non-electric-applications/nuclea...
Probably pre-warming.
HmThat very heavily depends on the specialization. E.g, you did image processing, basically useless now, you did GANs, diffusion models took over. It's like that for probably most phds but the research skills, writing skills etc are with you forever.
By contrast, the generation that grew up in the USSR remembers what it’s like to have the “brotherhood of nations”,

Oh sure. The older generation in Ukraine knows all about the "brotherhood of nations", and how great things were in the Brezhnev era.

Way too many other hallucinations in your post for me to unpack. Simply put, the "proxy war" narrative is pure bunk. And you will not find any meaningful contingent in Chernivtsi, this place where you claim to have friends and personal connections, who subscribes to it.
Why would you invest?
Our house (in Europe) is relatively old and not well insulated by modern standards, and all of the advice we read and receive from experts is that heat pumps are not a good fit without additional insulation.

The gist is that we’d need to spec larger units and/or run them harder than usual, removing savings vs. gas.
Looks like a really cool app, it reminds me of period tracking apps I’ve seen before. Congrats on learning this in a few months, thanks for pointing to the resources you used!

What can you tell me about data storage and how it gets used within and without the app? I’m interested in giving it a try but I also want to be convinced that this is protecting privacy.
There is no example in our knowledge of any lifeform prioritizing (writ large) the well-being of a different lifeform over its own.
I doubt Threads can hurt ActivityPub much, it’s either valuable to users or it isn’t. If it is, Meta can’t really kill it, if it isn’t, it’s a nice pressure release valve for people who dislike Meta or prefer custom clients to still interact with their platform and provide content to people on Threads.
Isn't taking out the forks as well pretty much standard?

So you have to clone the repo (forked or not) somewhere instead for it to be effective.
How did you buy it?
Didn't Evernote precede Notes? My understanding is that Evernote was the first "notes" app, but I'm old; I could be making shit up in my head.
I'm not an expert but have served on BRT CAC for Geary. They could have done side running and defer utilities to another agency at a later date, after which point move to center running. Or any other of the plethora of options that didn't involve a transit agency running a utility project.
Yeah right. Back in those days we had a page view counter RIGHT ON THE PAGE

And get thrilled when someone who in your "guest book".

The only thing all generations have in common is their despise for the following generations. But we keep on doing the exact same things. We just forget how it really was in our days while remembering only the good stuff.
Replacing the Bios on the Book 8088
The Löve game development framework packages games like this. The games are nominally Alia scripts but if you cat a zip file to the end of the Lua script the framework lets you access assets in that zip as if they were in the game's cwd.

It's a cool abstraction, during development you can have assets just living on the file system and then "deploy" a flat file that accesses those assets the same way.
I upload one demo video, it will act as the facial expression vividly.... I thought it nice a tool, it's free to use. if it will provide more facial will be better.

Also. I use ai generated picture to upload to do face animation. pretty well. I will recommend it.
Indeed, the crux of the matter is:

"What we are pushing towards with the current fast draft is more of a holistic approach to how the different science concepts interact with each other rather than a purist, siloed approach."

Buntting said the draft was very high-level, as were curriculum documents for other subjects but it was clear it needed more clarity about where teachers should expect to teach various science concepts.

Education Minister Jan Tinetti said there was no question the final curriculum would include chemistry, physics and biology and other core science topics.

I read this as a basic first draft floating the notion of looking more at the interplay of Physics + Chemistry + Environment + Math + etc in early pre-secondary school in order to gain feedback on final education mix.

Broaching change ruffles feathers, and playing up outrage makes for good eyeball catching news fodder.
Heard directly from impacted employees. 30 to remain of ~300 pre-acquisition. 98 laid off today. No press release, which is why I’m saying something, but you should be able to find people posting on LinkedIn about it.
About as believable as Facebook video counts?
After? You're seriously going to claim that Threads -- an app entirely for threaded conversations -- is named not after the ubiquitous term of art from Twitter, but it's named after a 39-year-old animated horror film that most people have never even heard of, let alone seen? That's your contention?
This made me laugh as my soul shriveled from the memories of codebases I’ve worked with

:’-)

I’m surprised at how some software companies actually survive!
Any proof of first real Apollo Moon landing ?
> If you’re still using Evernote, probably a good time to stop.

I doubt many people do anymore, which is probably the reason it's being dismantled. Sic transit gloria mundi.
> but are frugal

That is a potentially grave mistake to make. They are in no way frugal (the very concept of being frugal with an unlimited faucet of "other people's money" is truly ridiculous). If they forbear to go to trial and/or appeal adverse rulings, it is only because they strongly prefer never to suffer adverse precedent. They would rather lose the same case a thousand times, than have precedent which restores the rights of ten thousand all at once, let alone 300 million. In a way it's quite the opposite of frugality.
They laid off all the employees based out of Chile too.
Oh, I missed that they basically copied Twitter. Yeah, it's just as stupid then.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64697560
Kagi summarizer is good indeed! But after trying out Kagi search for a while I feel like it just can't replace Google :(
Great that you brought it up. I will fill in the perspective of what I am doing for solving this in Marmot (https://github.com/maxpert/marmot). Today Marmot already records changes via installing triggers to record changes of a table, hence all the offline changes (while Marmot is not running) are never lost. Today when Marmot comes up after a long off-time (depending upon max_log_size configuration), it realizes that and tries to catch up changes via restoring a snapshot and then applying rest of logs from NATS (JetStream) change logs. I am working on change that will be publishing those change logs to NATS before it restores snapshots, and once it reapplies those changes after restoring snapshot everyone will have your changes + your DB will be up to date. Now in this case one of the things that bothers people is the fact that if two nodes coming up with conflicting rows the last writer wins.

For that I am also exploring on SQLite-Y-CRDT (https://github.com/maxpert/sqlite-y-crdt) which can help me treat each row as document, and then try to merge them. I personally think CRDT gets harder to reason sometimes, and might not be explainable to an entry level developers. Usually when something is hard to reason and explain, I prefer sticking to simplicity. People IMO will be much more comfortable knowing they can't use auto incrementing IDs for particular tables (because two independent nodes can increment counter to same values) vs here is a magical way to merge that will mess up your data.
Threads will be part of the Fediverse
Of course not - it is live action drama, not animation
Anyone know what the laws around this is in South Africa?
Not sure of OP's source, but a friend of mine worked there for several years and can confirm. He got let go, too.
Looking at "professional" projects.

There is so much objectively terrible code out there. Not only does it exist, but it actually generates revenue. I recall being simultaneously amazed and disgusted.
I mostly use Google Keep, which works pretty well. Though the "clippings" feature saving Web articles is pretty cool and doesn't have much of an analogue with that product.
LLM is obviously useful for something like Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant, or so you would think.

There doesn't seem to be a rush because it makes the implementation a lot more expensive, and those things are, I suspect, not profitable products (revenue sources) to their respective companies. They are a kind of enhancement to a layer of products and services; people take them for granted now and so you can't take them away.

A smarter Google Assistant would do nothing for Google's bottom line, and in fact it would cost more money to operate.

If it's not done right, it could ruin the experience. For instance, it cannot have worse latency on common queries than the old assistant.