skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem with home-row typing is that your wrists are bent.

People keep saying that and it confuses the hell out of me. Keeping wrists straight while still landing the fingers on the row seems... natural?
The net result, as we see with basic skills such as growing your own food, cooking, purifying water, building a shelter, fixing the tools you need, etc. is a bunch of adult babies that are completely dependent on others for their wellbeing.

I'm not saying we should all grow our own food etc. but it does seem as though we are headed to something where we make such a great system that we only breed weakness and helplessness.

Maybe that is the price of progress.
I believe this is the first paper on arxiv that links to www.bilibili.com:

Supplementary video 1：Meissner effect for sample 2.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV14p4y1V7kS/?spm_id_from=333...
c8fec748481fb4b933932e80c

Supplementary video 2：Exclude ferromagnetism of sample 2.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13k4y1G7i1/?buvid=XY81B1F84...
A291&is_story_h5=false&mid=jLEqsyica5eHkvtMXQ2K1A%3D%3D&plat_id=193&share_from=ug
c&share_medium=android&share_plat=android&share_source=QQ&share_tag=s_i&timestamp=
1690894807&unique_k=B6gawMH&up_id=7590247
As I recall my professor didn't have us ask any specific questions. He just went off our accents.
Many OEMs want us to believe that we have to sacrifice modularity and serviceability in the pursuit of miniaturization, better performance, privacy and security. I'm not so convinced. It feels like they were neglected and perhaps intentionally undermined and then blamed on the other features.
How do you find the choc switches on Glove80 compared to mx on KA2? Is the small amount of travel more problematic, because you bottom out more?

I am thinking about getting one, but am unsure about the choc switches and which type I should get.
The last plumber I hired had a website, spotted a leak with a flir camera (and had a pile of interesting niche electronics), and sent me an invoice he generated through an app on his phone via email... Maybe there are places where you can hire some analog types on the cheap, but where I am the computerized ones are way more efficient.
I thought I sort of understood how computers work until I saw that.

I really can't figure out how to do a full screen video game with state in 128B
> 1 Gb down won't save your Zoom calls if you only have <=20 Mbps up

while i agree with you, i just want to make everybody notice that almost no video-chatting application let's you lower your video quality or resolution.

I might be perfectly fine to stream a 640x480 version of me, it's not mandatory to always stream a 4k version of me.

I wish more video chatting application would allow for resolution and quality selection.
For me personally, I chose terraform because it can work with AWS and a heap of other 3rd party services and software (Cloudflare, PostgreSQL, Keycloak, Kubernetes/Helm, Github, Azure)
If AGI is something that becomes real, I don't think it would be recognizable to us for long, I don't think it will be a type of steady state even like humans, reading books to it's chidren in the cloud and get really good at coding and similar tasks, and improve itself infinitely (into what?). I think life has a special property in that it is constrained, so it exists. Imagine being able to become pretty much anything, what would you choose?

We can't even comprehend what a system like you describe would evolve into, but I don't think we can even fathom it, it's not going to be like some ultimate task master who gets 18 whole in ones at gold on Friday and take all our jobs, for some reason ?

What I think we're doing is applying our problems and the things we'd want (infinite self-improvement) because they're things we feel would be an advantage to us. A robotic system though? Not sure it would care.

It seems like AI is the ultimate end game, but I'd imagine if we survie the AI era, we'll be past it pretty farking fast.
It’s objectively not well. Or at least it is nowhere near as ubiquitous as it once was, which is fatal to a social network.

The simple act of requiring one to login to view any content has muted it everywhere I once saw Twitter content.
It' a general problem with the US.
From the outside, their backend tech has loopholes they don’t notice that bleed money for them.

I had a pair of modest-sized accounts with them that I didn’t use much. I kept them at $3000 to avoid hitting monthly minimums and paying fees.

My mortgage then got sold to them and linked to the two accounts. This qualified me to have no monthly minimums. I drained some of the money back to my main bank accounts elsewhere.

I refinanced the mortgage; then I had no mortgage with them anymore. Yet I then received paper statements for years and years, for a pair of accounts with $0 and $0.05, paying no minimum balance fees before I finally bothered to close them.

I didn’t mind (“bank error in your favor!”), but I wasn’t impressed by whoever coded that up. Perhaps there was a good reason they left the loophole, but it didn’t seem a well designed system if so…
If anybody needs links to Evolve & Kittens, here you go:

- Kittens: https://kittensgame.com/web/

- Evolve: https://pmotschmann.github.io/Evolve/
you're right, there also are some other network parameters on the side: latency (ping time), packet loss and jitter.

needless to say, they're often overlooked.
I think a lot of short haul flights make less sense than people think when you account for travel time to the airport, security, boarding, taxiing, etc.

Trains suffer from intermediate stops of course, but overall it's really important to do a comparison of the true door to door time.
He's just emphasizing the amount of creativity you need in mathematics research.
heh. when i read the title it suggested completely different tangent.. - that pure technical stuff is always eventualy consistent with business needs/goals. Sometimes very close (success). Sometimes very perpendicular (failure).

Nevermind, bi(tri)-temporality is amazing concept (together with "relations Are Objects too" someone mentioned long time ago... ; Back in the days ~2006-7 i wrote a library [1] to allow for it over plain SQLalchemy.. in a bigger project that did not see light. Heh, recently i made a wrapper for xtdb for python [2].. for another project which may or may not happen too).

But it is very difficult to grasp for common programmers, let alone common people. (Actualy, similar to time jitter, and other dimensional inconsistencies. wow-and-flutter). People like to think proceduraly i.e. in sequence..

Now, 20y later, temporality of things should be default way of handling data - not a quirky write-your-own-wrongly or use whatever weird extension..

have fun

[1] https://github.com/svilendobrev/timed + https://github.com/svilendobrev/dbcook

[2] https://github.com/svilendobrev/py-xtdb-datomic
Not very good, I wouldn't think. It didn't have many instructions or registers. There would be a LOT of memory reads/writes, a lot of extra finnagling of things that modern architectures can do in one or two instructions very cleanly.

Assuming no extra modern stuff was added on top of the 6502 and you just got a bog-standard 6502 just at a very high clock speed, then as the other comment mentioned there was no memory caching, no pipelining (though there have been lots of people interested in designing one with a pipeliner), and not a whole lot of memory space to boot as it had 16-bit wide registers.

Thus, most 6502 applications (including NES games, for example) had to use mappers to map in and out different physical memory regions around the memory bus, similar to modern day MMUs (just without the paging/virtualization). It would be hammering external memory like crazy.
Good guess but it wasn't varargs, those were default value overrides IIRC. Thing that was objectionable it was that each an every argument was Object type.

Absolutely no affordable whatsoever
Because the results and actual efficiency gains are flaky, inconsistent and mostly limited to boilerplate?

GPT and friends are very impressive, yes; if you’re also impressed by your intern blindly copying stack overflow.
In many cases air travel is more convenient and cheaper to operate than rail (no infrastructure needed).

Air travel is not going away so there should be efforts made to decarbonise it instead of pooping on it at every opportunity.
> e-ink is still governed under a patent you must license and pay royalties to if I recall correctly

Recall correctly meaning you were involved and have direct knowledge or meaning you read it as an unsubstantiated comment somewhere here?
Unusable might be a tough word but I come from a viewpoint where I had wmaker install 10 years ago that could rival big desktop environments in usability and sleekness and looks but it was still NeXT-alike.

Big part of it was GTK2-GNUstep theme which made GTK apps feel "native" and there was something for QT too.

Can you put up some screenshots with GTK/QT "modern" apps floating around too?

Also I can't believe you are not finding that text size too small. I have 27" screen, great vision, sitting at a normal distance, everything is just too small. It's not unusable in strict sense but if you have problems with tiny text on big screen it would be.

P.S. for firefox stats I think we're mixing apples and oranges, OP asked about "workstation", and those are are worldwide client stats, so you have a lot of laptops and a lot of legacy computers in it
All assets were also inflated. Anyone who stayed invested in something reasonable (example, S&P index fund) is up at least 40% since 2020, so it all works out. People who invested aggressively have done way better obviously. We’re single digit percent away from the 2021 high.
I dont understand anything you wrote here
DBS hardware seems to work - does it also have these issues or are you excluding it for some reason?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_brain_stimulation
> A baker with a website and an online presence is finding more customers than a baker who only exists in the real world.

I can say for sure that this is simply not true. There are bakeries without websites that make a killing, while at the same time there are smaller ones in the same areas trying to drum up business online with less success.
Increasing accessibility for for specially-abled population leading to some really crazy talent in workforce. Thinking about seamless conversation between someone who cannot hear/speak (sign language) and a recruiter (who does not need to necessarily learn sign language (convert sign language to text/voice in real-time).
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There was no framebuffer in those consoles [1]. So you pretty much only have to store game state and some auxiliary data in those 128 bytes, which starts sounding a lot easier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Interface_Adaptor
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Do people really spend significant amounts of time arguing whose phone is better in the real world?
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> Hyperterminal would give up after a few hundred kilobytes, because it was programmed to do that. You had to find and transfer a less stupid piece of software then use that instead.

Hyperterminal didn't have file transfer limitations built-in to it. I used Hyperterminal regularly to transfer files much larger than a few hundred kilobytes.
For 1080p and 1440p certainly not. Something like an RX 6750 XT will carry you all the way.

(The PS5 GPU was comparable to an RX 5700 XT / RTX 2070 Super at the time, although it's apples and oranges as the PS5 is an integrated system target whereas the PC is an open platform)
Absolutely amazing work! Wow!
Think of climate change like a car driving off a cliff. The car is “safely” on solid ground until it isn’t. The problem is that at some point to avoid the emergency you need to hit the brakes or turn, and this particular car might not be able to turn or brake very hard without catastrophic effects on the occupants. Moving away from this metaphor, there is a possibility we cross a tipping point in the climate system (and may already have done so) that can be “reversed” through emergency geoengineering: but it’s not clear that the necessary level of intervention would be compatible with global agriculture and civilization.
Fine-tuned MedPalm is worse than GPT-4 on most Medical Challenge Tests.
Fine-tuned Minerva is much worse on arithmetic benchmarks.

The LLM space is just different. There's no guarantee a fine-tuned model will beat a bigger generalist one.
You're picking exceptions to the rule and claiming that those exceptions invalidate the whole rule. Sure some bakeries are just better than others, a good bakery with no website will do better than a bad bakery with a website.

But all things considered, having an online presence always helps your business. A fantastic bakery with a website will get more customers than a fantastic bakery with no website.
I’m familiar with this principle as “Alternate your mistakes.”
What's with these strawmen arguments? How will cash prevent a dictatorship?

And all cash users don't just keep their all cash under their mattress to be eaten away by rats and inflation, but still use banks and assets to hold their money and use ATMs to get cash as needed, so the government can still lock your banc account leaving you penniless regardless if you used to pay by cash at the supermarket or by card.
The EPA approved a component of boat fuel made from discarded plastic
No division, no floating point, only 8-bit multiplication and addition, no pipeline, no cache, no MMU, no preemptive multitasking, very inefficient for higher level languages (even C). But you would get about 450 of them for the number of transistors on a 486.
I think it's an overstatement to suggest mutual unintelligibility but they can be extremely distinctive though.

I don't know if this happens in the US, but in the UK it's not uncommon to adopt the accent of an area. I had a cockney accent as a child but now live in the north with a softer, hybrid northern accent. I tend to switch back when I am in London.

I am also familiar with people who have moved to places like Newcastle and Liverpool and picked up the accent to some extent. I even know a guy who has an Australian wife and some of his vowels slide into the Australian accent despite having never lived there. Not to mention all the young British techies who've spent more than 2 seconds in the US and start dropping their "t"s to "d"s.
What about the foundation models, i.e. davinci and code-davinci-002?
I’m concerned about this ideas about weakness and helplessness. I mean, if we look at history, we can see that these “resourceful” people were often malnourished and victims of natural calamities, although we have a survivor bias as we can only see those who were lucky enough to survive.

I wonder if this romanization of struggle is related to the statistic where 6 percent of Americans believe they can defeat a bear with their bare hands.
> governments and rulers to protect themselves from other tribes.

More like it facilitated small groups taking over larger communities or communally-usable resources, creating governments to manage their wealth and underlings and armies to attack and loot other tribes.
Air travel is almost as subsidized as road travel, I don't think 'cheaper' is a good argument for it (not even counting externalities).

Convenience though is a great argument for air travel.
The techbros were so focued on whether or not they could that they accused anyone who asked if they should of being a luddite. And dinner that night was crow, and dessert was humble pie.
>there's always bigger fish to fry and therefore we cannot talk about the smaller ones?

Why not focus on the bigger fish that actually impact everyone? If I'm bleeding from my severed artery, I'm gonna care about that more than my chipped tooth.

Politicians focusing on mediatizing bogus issues to keep voting population attention away from the real issue is the oldest trick in the book ("hey don't look at our corruption scandals and the rising CoL, look at how we're gonna defend your use of cash").

>However, I'm also not a fan of being forced to use a private company just to pay for my basic necessities.

What about your bank? Necessities are more than just paying for groceries at the supermarket by cash, you know.

All your other actual necessities like salary, tax-returns, insurances, utilities and sometimes rent are deducted automatically via direct debit from you bank account, not via cash-in0hand trasnations. You can't live cash-only without a bank as an intermediate anyway.

>handling cash becomes so expensive that it will be shut down for cost reasons.

But handling cash the right way (counting it, accounting it, carrying and storing it securely, etc) already IS more expensive that contactless transaction fees, but cash-only businesses offset that by doing tax-fraud, and as an honest tax-payer I want tax-fraud to end. Getting rid of cash completely is just a bonus and a means to ending tax-fraud. Tax fraud is a bigger issue in Austria.
Or in past years, or in adjacent climate cells, etc.

Check the equations, there are lag terms .. heat transfers take time.

The factors here are increased insulation gases (CO2, methane, water vapor), decreased Saharan dust, decreased shading sulphates, changing swing of the ENSO cycle.
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You will then love Paul Erdos sending a colleague an earnest letter saying he was “praying for his soul” for publishing a paper in the Journal of Applied Probability.

This kind of militant snobbery for pure math is common with the greats and shouldn’t be taken personally.
I live a little north of Bountiful. I was a big advocate of municipal fiber and pushed my city to build a network. In hindsight, I'm glad the city didn't do it.

The neighboring city (Kaysville) voted down a municipal fiber network in 2019 (the vote was super close). The fiber contractor (Connext) Kaysville planned to use to build the network decided to build it themselves (they were a small WISP in the area).

Covid happened and suddenly there was a lot of money for infrastructure like fiber networks. The fiber contractor expanded and it's now installing fiber throughout many cities in northern Utah including mine (the fiber is in the box in front of my house but hasn't been run inside yet).

I'm the meantime, T-mobile and Verizon began offering home ISP plans for low rates.

All of this means that most people in my area have a choice between five ISPs--Comcast, CenturyLink, T-mobile, Verizon, and Connext. Our city has also granted a franchise agreement to another company (Allwest) to build a second fiber network. I'm doubtful it will happen, but who knows.

If my city built a fiber network, I don't think its prices would have been low enough to get the required take rate for it to be self sustaining, especially with the entry Tmobile and Verizon as ISPs. The fiber contractor, on the other hand, is able to offer low prices because it is building the network at cost and making profits off the subscriptions. The end result is great for our community. Lots of competition and low prices.
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Also "new urbanism" that's just people who want more bike(-only) paths for recreation. Yes, there is such a thing as better urban design that reduces car dependency. There are real bike commuters. I totally respect and tangibly support both, due to environmental and other concerns. But I'm not interested in hearing from people who oppose mass transit, abuse pedestrians, and regularly drive their bikes (as aggressively as they ride) to the rally point for their recreational large-group rides. That's not advocacy for anything but oneself.
Because that work still has to occur somewhere?

And they can do that work internally, privately, in the dark, where they cannot benefit from any community engagement, or they can do that work in the open, engaging with the community.

I suspect the difference in cost between the two is not significant enough to be relevant, and the open variant has more benefits.

Note that this was RH's stated intent when the whole CentOS non-Stream EoL shenanigans went down - they said that Fedora & CentOS Stream benefits RHEL, CentOS non-Stream does not.

[After writing this, I was curious about Fedora project costs, they are lower than I thought: https://budget.fedoraproject.org/budget/FY20/overall.html - Red Hat's contribution was ~$196k for FY2020 (in cash, there's probably more 'soft' costs in terms of staff and hardware time/resources)).
Yes some people have been doing web development for more than 12 years (:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110412103745/http://w3fools.co...
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How does a mobile GPU work? [pdf]
Maybe we have skins cells that look out at the freedom and autonomy of some single cell organisms and think to themselves that something has been lost participating in this human project.