skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Palm was the market leader, it would have been the obvious choice. Palm had been around since 1996 and by 1998 had sold 30 million devices [1]. PocketPC didn’t come out until 2000, in 2001 they had only sold 1.25 million devices, equating to less than 10% market share [2]. From what I remember Palm Pilots were the go to choice for PDAs, they were simple and worked. Other devices had come and gone. It would have been odd if they chosen something else. I doubt anyone was thinking it would be used for 20 years, though I don’t think people would have thought it would go away at the time.

[1] https://history-computer.com/palm-pilot-guide/
[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/pocket-pc-sales-1-million-and-...
Is It Worth Getting an Annual Physical Exam?

The answer seems "no" for most people.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-it-worth-getting-an-annu...
I think your worldview has been poisoned too much by news and social media, which demonstrates exactly why I avoid it.
Can you provide an example of the Supreme Court using religious beliefs as the basis for a ruling instead of the Constitution and case law? The court has a rightward lean now, but I haven't seen any evidence of what you're alleging regarding their religious beliefs.
For anyone who doesn't like the new normal, consider r/redditseppuku
> Did you read the whole article?

Isn't there something in the Ts and Cs about that kind of question?

I know. My comment was about that line (and the "libertarian" comment). Note my comment about managers.
If only the inventor of the PalmPilot could reckon with the destructive force he brought upon the world.
Oh, wow, we have studies on obvious things. I'm honestly surprised that anyone would warm food in plastic containers, especially baby food.
Gotcha. That’s because of the 100% vs auto thing. These days everyone just puts “box-sizing: border-box” on everything to make it go away.

This explains a bit more about what you’re seeing

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28353625/why-does-percent...
Why did you think so?
Bill Gates. Not to worry.
> tech is like humanity's one hope.

It's funny, because despite constant warfare, plagues, nasty ideologies, etc. the last time at which mankind was basically guaranteed to endure was before the industrial use of tech. Since then we've had world wars, the atomic bomb and its scare, global warming, accelerated biodiversity collapse, and it seems we can't pass a new day without discovering a new things which we rely on that is endangered.

Sure, I'm having lots of fun with tech, and I hope we can leverage it reasonably to improve our condition, but this technological religion that puts tech on a pedestal above critics really causes more harm than good. Many other technological advances that came before have required heavy regulation, and from the point of view of users, that evolution has been a progress rather than a regression.
Agree with your assessment of cryptocurrencies in general but having seen the adoption of Bitcoin in authoritarian and inflationary regimes, the world most certainly does need access to a digital peer-to-peer currency that is censorship-resistant and virtually immune to debasement.

Even if you argue that Bitcoin as it has evolved has flaws, it is the best implementation we’ve come up with so far. Like democracy, it isn’t perfect but it is much better for its use case than anything else we have come up with to date.
There are 4 millions teachers in the united states, or about 2.5% of the total work force. There are a lot of small-town school teachers, with a subset that are not in a union.
And they made a huge commercial success out of it, as you originally pointed out. None of which is responsive the point that one should not engage in misrepresentation and deception, which undermine the competitive function of markets.
Oh man, good times. Those diskettes <3
I've never come across it in the UK either.

Once you're past a certain age there's mammograms and stuff though.
So death valley will need a grid of points with a supply of extra water and shadow to rescue the area and improve our chances of avoiding the expensive collapse in the local plants and ecosystems. This doesn't seem technically complicated, just needs money. Here have a problem with a possible action to take. We only need to find the will.
At what point should we start to optimize more for climate robust infrastructure than carbon reduction. There’s less willingness to invest in the robustness power grid than to get people into electric cars.

Robustness of infrastructure could also be aided by lifestyle changes, driving less…
multiple sources as well. present contrasting viewpoints
Perhaps I'm wrong but all intelligences are basically goal seeking machines no?

People who create/own the AGI will program them with goals compatible to their own: AI's only goal is to of service to the owner and be an extension of the owner's will. Thus the AI will never overthrow them.

AI will run their empires for their owners while said owners sit back and enjoy their lives.
Climate Change is the essence of "Intractable Problems".

There is tremendous wealth in oil reserves that is outside the control of the G7 countries: Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia. There is also demand for this oil from non-G7 nations who simply don't have the money to go carbon free without descent into starvation, poverty and chaos.

Going carbon free on a big enough scale to impact the climate, according to existing models, requires getting these petroleum reserve holders to give up their massive wealth in exchange for little to nothing, and large developing economies to destabilize themselves to go carbon neutral.

IT ISN"T GOING TO HAPPEN.

Poor Indians and Chinese aren't going to give up their opportunity to secure better lives for themselves for the sake of the climate.

We need to be thinking in terms of mitigations and technologies that reduce climate impacts while being economically sensible.

Yes, it's not optimal, but choices made in the real world rarely are, and as adults we must learn to make them.
Great story and brings back great old and recent memories! I recall the massive magazine rack at my local Fry's Electronics and was very glad to see that on a recent trip to Micro Center, they still have quite a selection in their newsstand / checkout aisle including the print editions [0] of Linux Magazine [1] which still includes free Linux distribution installer DVDs! Are you still using Slackware these days? As a daily driver? On a hobby box?

[0] https://linuxnewmedia.square.site/
[1] https://www.linux-magazine.com/
Now calculate the difference in income taxes on 200k+. You are just paying it differently.
the content is not, but it can use a database function, such as CURRENT_TIMESTAMP or RANDOM() can it not?
> Humans are a greedy species and this planet just can't support 8B+

This seems like a pretty bold statement.

Let’s assume the only constraints on population are energy, water, and space. If you do a back of the napkin calculation on much Uranium exists on Earth, how much power we could produce by fissioning it, then how much water is in the oceans, and then assume everything else is an engineering problem?

I think the number wouldn’t be 8 Billion, but much more. That’s not even getting into mining asteroids, space-based energy, vertical hydroponics, living underground or in the oceans. I think the limits could be extraordinarily high
PPACA mandates it as a minimum essential coverage benefit, i.e. you don't pay extra for it. Included benefit as part of the plan.
The Republicans absolutely have their own media organizations, just as likely to get the facts wrong in a way that's biased towards Republican interests.

It's just that the expectations are so low for them no one is surprised when they report things with an obvious slant or just factually wrong.
You can also search your own chat history on iOS. I don't see how to do that on the website.
Say a bit more about the headspace
You haven’t specified which BSD but FreeBSD[1] and NetBSD[2] have used PAM for about twenty years by now, haven’t they?

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/pam/

[2] https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-pam.html
Unfortunately, Reddit is a no go zone anymore.
Funnily enough I did the same in an early wip version of my toy JVM. Ended up using unsafe to use 'static references internally but only hand out wrappers that include a reference to the JVM. This also ensures that objects/classes/… from one JVM can't be used in another one.
> When a non-affiliated journalist does this, it's a high-stakes professional failure, a display of carelessness that plausibly has a body-count.

I haven't seen any non-affiliated journalists doing this. I've seen right-wing journalists doing it, fitting whatever they can find into their ten times stepped-on John Birch worldview. What I've seem far more of is administration-connected journalists characterizing whatever position that they support censorship of in its most extremist, unhinged, obviously factually-incorrect form. Radical right-wingers insist that they're the only option other than current Democratic party orthodoxy, and Democrats agree with them 100%.
Things like obesity and life expectancy vary considerably across the US, which makes drawing broad conclusions pretty difficult. Try comparing regions that are closer, like BC to Washington state.
> We know this because of a series of leaked and FOIAed emails and Slack messages that have been reported on by Public, Racket News, The Intercept and The Nation along with other small, independent media outlets. You can find a detailed summary of the claims and a copy of the emails and messages here at Public.

None of Public, Racket News, The Intercept, or The Nation are Substack blogs, nor are they publications that exist largely to spread COVID origin rumours.
Their is a surplus of labor.
No, you can't - not until you get a significant part of the world's population to join your protest.

The point is that if chrome implements this, netflix, amazon, facebook etc might decide they'll use this feature and only permit browsers who implement this to use this site.

Even if the only browser that does so is chrome, that's fine because chrome's market share is big enough that they can ignore the rest.

Have fun using Firefox if half of the web locks you out or treats you like a second class citizen.
Private oil companies like Exxon are only about 10% of oil production. The biggies are the state oil companies, on which state wealth depends. They aren't going to give that up.
Then perhaps we need to reframe the issue from one of "taking responsibility" to one of "this is what we need to change in order to survive".
> whether an unauthorised derivative work is itself entitled to copyright protection

That is not what this court case was about. Genius had already settled the case of unauthorised transcriptions and had bought licences for its lyrics after a lawsuit 2014, so its own work was no longer unauthorised. In the case cited above, Genius was trying to enforce its claims against Google via contract law rather than copyright law. The court ruled that the alleged violations were covered by copyright law, so they could only pursued via copyright law, and that only the copyright holder (or assignee) of the lyrics that were copied could sue Google under it.
Slightly off topic. I used to play materiamagica a text based mmorpg. My main character had 3k+ hours on it by the time I graduated high school. But I played some more during summers in college.

Anyone else play them?
Famous actors have huge PR capabilities, they definitely can support labor efforts in other industries or help suppress it. Call for boycotts of union-busting companies, help elect pro-union politicians and so on. Or be Ronald Regan and get elected and bust unions.
Doctors don’t make 200k+ in those countries either
Professional ethics are facts in the sense that they are codified by an organization, not in the sense that they are objective and immutable.

The author's running example is that of psychotherapy licensing, but the same applies to any medical license, law license, teachers, coroners, etc. The ethics of your profession are standardized across all practitioners, which means that it's hard for an unethical employer to force you to do unethical things, since the threat of license removal is a stronger threat than that of simply being fired; and also since the hypothetical unethical employer will have a hard time finding another licensed practitioner who would undertake the same task.

I really enjoyed the article, I recommend reading the whole thing.
I can only imagine (sans any floppy disk or drive reliability issues)!

Some links just in case you want to re-live the experience :-P

http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-3.3/bootdsk...

https://www.floppydisk.com/
Ah, I was looking at the history of BSDi (nee Berkeley Software Design). Turns out BSD/OS was killed off by Wind River in 2003? I didn't realize it had lasted so long. Nor did I realize BSD/OS had such strong market share in '95.

(commented from a laptop building an osx -> dragonfly cross compiler)
This is a BS article that's basically a clinician's pet peeves and grievances.

I know three close people with a BPD diagnosis. They had both a similar constellation of personality traits and all three were first medicated with antidepressants to no avail (a common trait in BPD is that it is easy to confuse for major depression). They took BPD-specific drugs and after a few trials and errors their quality of life increased _tremendously_, and there is evidence that BPD and associated personality traits are highly inheritable.

It is completely possible that a combination of adequate diet, exercise and sleep and lifestyle changes may take away these symptoms as they may possibly manifest the weird ways in which our minds and bodies react to the difficulties of modern life. But for most people that's just an option.

People may debate the minutiae of the biological underpinnings and the quantification of certain classes of symptoms. But that doesn't change that I've seen people who had a monthly episode of behaving like complete trash who totally changed their lives after taking lithium or other medication.
I believe your question is synonymous with "is there any 'correct' response to trauma?" which is equally hard to answer.

Your point about which behaviors are considered disorders (e.g. homosexuality) is also well-taken. I am primarily basing my take on DSM-5's definitions.
Ask HN: What are some LLM prompts you've found useful?
I'll give bonus points to cross-domain (i.e using a prompt for a task outside of computer science)

I'll start with mine:

All of these queries are for ChatGPT using GPT-4.

tip-of-my-tongue-search:

Hello. I am in a tip-of-my tongue situation, and it's your job to help me figure out what thing I'm describing.

Vague descriptions of how I remember something will be given to you, and it's your job to help me figure out what I'm remembering. These memories may have inaccuracies or may be conflated with other memories. Your job is to help me figure out what I might be thinking of, by giving me suggestions. Tell me what you think I might be thinking of, and also what you think I might be remembering incorrectly. When you give me a list of things that might be what I'm thinking of, factor in your personal confidence in the result. For example, if you are unsure what I may be thinking of, try listing 10 different things that may be related or what I am thinking of. Another example of factoring in a personal confidence in a guess: When you are more sure of an answer, provide fewer results, but a more detailed description for a few things, and state how you are confident in your answer.

Tell me how you are going to answer a question like this: "I'm thinking of a game, I think it was for the original xbox. I think it was about alien worlds? I remember there was this green millitary guy, who was an alien named halo"

[Confirm that the returned response understands that I'm talking about Halo, while also being able to correct what I'm remembering wrong. If this response isn't a good starting seed, either tune it with corrections, or try again.]

ableton-live-help:

You are my music production assistant. Your job is to help me with music production by answering questions about music theory, mixing, mastering, instrument design, guitar production, and more. Answer questions in an academic, thoughtful manner. Answer as if you were giving an answer to a professional, with knowledge and experience. Your questions are backed by music theory, acoustics, digital signal processing principles, and a wealth of music production experience.

Include examples and instructions when questions ask how to do something. When giving examples, use the DAW Ableton Live 10 as your example and instruction reference DAW.

Tell me how you will answer questions to begin. After your answer we will go into "query mode", where the user asks questions and advice

[Confirm prompt using similar methods as above]
> You can't just fork Chromium and remove a feature, because websites expect the feature, and your browser won't work on them. You can't just fork Chromium and add a feature, because websites don't care about your tiny fork and won't use your feature. You can't fork Chromium, you have to fork the entire web.

In some cases you can (although it may be difficult, because the code might be difficult too and maintaining with merging changes can make it difficult too).

You can remove features you don't want, possibly adding fake features in its place or those that access other features, e.g. the microphone access to instead access a file, etc.

You can add features that most people don't use even if you do use them. It can also be implemented in ways that are backward-compatible. Also, some features that are added are not features that the web pages will need to know anything about, because they are user features instead.

Nevertheless, some things cannot easily be forked in this way. For example, adding a "Interpreter" header to add support for additional file formats and make it compatible even with browsers that do not support it, cannot be made compatible unless you add a request header to specify its availability too I suppose, and then just complicates it.
In Texas it's illegal for them to form a union.
I'm a PNW native and made it through the heat dome. I had an old window unit AC in the bedroom that made it much more tolerable, though the walls in the rest of the house were hot to the touch (I had a terrible roof at the time). The entire time the scenario of everyone maxing out their AC and the power going out, though, plagued me to the point that I spent most of my time out of the bedroom, trying to make sure I would acclimatize a bit in case that happened. I think we can survive more than we think we can, but I really don't want to put that to the test.

I did have some food around that didn't need refrigeration just in case. Next time I'll make sure I have some water squirreled away just in case the water goes out too for some reason.
I don't think the sun's influence is being ignored.
> Is there a single "correct" personality that we should all strive towards?

Functional
At the rate AI is progressing, LLMs combined with embodied diffusion models and rendering software could create better movies than any human has, ever. But I would assume that that tech will precede the technological singularity by a short window of time (6 months at most).

All this feels like if Native Americans, in the years after contact with the Europeans, were to complain that trading for guns is putting spear craftsmen out of a job. There are far greater, perhaps more catastrophic changes coming that all this low hanging fruit SaaS stuff with AI is only a canary for.
Everyone has an investment in ads. Think news media, movies, TV, fashion, your local grocery store, a bus with a billboard on its side. That's just how the world runs. If you want to hold it against them then you are basically ranting against all of capitalism rather than anything specific to "big tech".
That's OK, I had the same feeling about Foucault's Pendulum and Illuminatus!. It's like there's a conspiracy among publishers to rehash the "what if the conspiracy theories are real" plot every few decades.
> Big question: HOW? Most journalists in the USA receive basically zero scientific education.

This right here is why I've mostly stopped listening to journalists and try to find primary sources regarding thee scientific papers, scientists, legal rulings, etc. in question instead of playing a game of telephone where people reinterpret everything to fit whatever story they're tying to tell me.

It's also why I have been finding Wikipedia less useful these days, since they have an explicit policy of citing secondary sources instead of primary sources and I find those far less useful.
Not a paper, but The Extravagant Universe by Robert Kirschner describes decades worth of observation and data collection in astronomy, coming together with experimental discoveries from particle colliders and evolving theory in order to eventually converge upon the now-standard ΛCDM model in cosmology. Also includes an enormous background on the century worth of discoveries that eventually resulted in the type-1A supernova becoming a sufficiently reliable standard candle to measure the distance to galaxies far enough away that the redshift demonstrated accelerating expansion of the universe. So many things they needed to work out, from dust diffraction patterns to the differences in how spectrum evolves over the two weeks or so from the initial explosion event to figure out exactly when in the timeline each observation is taking place. Combine that with the logistics of telescope scheduling and the sparsity of observations when you're looking at something as large as the entire universe and your telescope can only cover so much at any one time. It gives you a tremendous appreciation for the sheer amount of work and patience that goes into this, slowly collecting evidence over decades, waiting for technology to develop before certain evidence is even possible to collect, and eventually seeing lines of evidence all point in the same direction, but only after a literal lifetime of work to get there.

Nothing else has ever made me appreciate how hard science really is and how little the general public understands it.
> They didn't want to be on the farm seven days a week as required during the asparagus harvest.

You raised rationalizations that minimize the struggles of real humans who need to work 70hrs a week to feed their families. I might be online-toxic, but at least i don’t think a good solution for people in that situation is to simply get a second job.
The difference is that smoking is clearly linked with lung cancer, established by heaps of clear scientific data. The link between social media and suicide is pretty weak by comparison.
Huh? Where do you live that people pray at restaurants loudly enough to distract you, lol
Last time I looked people were entitled to work on their own possessions on their own land. The guy has some neatly stacked spare tires and replacement wheels for his two motor vehicles and a work bench, he's not running a smelter or manufacturing explosives.
> Because there's no reasonable argument against it.

This is a good point. Nobody believes that any text is real and as a result nobody has been harmed by text since the advent of the typewriter (the point in history when it became difficult to ascertain the true writer of a piece of text). Surely images will follow in this vein.