skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, I don't have code, cash or technical knowledge. Also, the Amiga was cool, but like say an SGI workstation (or any Unix workstation really), or an AS/400 or Tandem Nonstop (my personal nerd favs) I don't know what I'd actually do except run some demos. So my blog post would go something like (this is supposed to be deadpan truth, not caustic sarcasm) :

Hi, I've never owned an Amiga, or used one on a daily basis, but I play around with Amikit on my pi400 sometimes because it's interesting to me. Also, I played on my neighbour's Amiga around the time that Hot Shots came out. It had text-to-speech and a flight simulator (Falcon?) but we couldn't figure out how to take off.

I think it would be cool to have a sort of Carbon API for Amiga cleaned up and modernized, so apps could be ported to a new kernel relatively easily.

Sadly, I have zero money to donate to this cause. As well, I don't have the technical knowledge to document an API, and/or note its shortcomings and/or write a new one.

So, lazy-webs lets do this!

ps. I did write a mini-game called "Time Waster 2000" in Visual Basic 3 sometime during the 90s if that helps.
The only non-renewable resource is time. My own time. I am reminded of this every time my manager threatens me with some arbitrary deadline.
You are probably thinking of forward-mode autodiff (which is more useful when the dimensionality of the output of your function is comparatively large), which is different from backward-mode autodiff (which is more useful when the dimensionality of the output is comparatively small). Both will work, but one will be more efficient than the other (depending on the context). For things like "training neural networks", people tend to use backward-mode (since you often want to optimize a single loss output w.r.t. many things).
I tried this years ago and it ended in failure. From what I learned it seems like your soil down to the level you want to drill to has to be basically 100% silt/sand/clay. In most areas there are various pebbles, some up to the the size of a dime or so, and what I found was smaller particles would wash up and out of the hole, but these pebbles would accumulate on the bottom.

I switched from using low-volume water sources to a 1.5HP well pump pulling from a swimming pool. The pool would empty in about 20 minutes, and I would then have to wait for it to refill from a regular hose. However, while this very high water volume was able to clear the pebbles (which is how I know the floor of the hole was covered with pebbles at all, it was maybe 12 feet down at that point), there was diminishing returns and eventually the pebbles no longer cleared the top.

I'm sure I was doing something completely wrong, in the end if you have sandy/silty/clay soil you can just buy a sand point (aka driven point) and sledgehammer it down as deep as you need to go. It's a lot more heavy labor but it is also almost certain to work.
> I never said that.

Never claimed you did.

> You should also try re-reading what they wrote.

It was hyperbole, and given the moment we find ourselves in, I'll take it over the popular complacency that has characterised the last many decades
Unintentional lie is an oxymoron, because that's just a mistake.
Thank you—we have received this feedback a few times, and will definitely be decreasing the size and amount of text on our homepage. With 2 FTE (me and my co-founder & CTO Vikram), we haven't gotten around to it yet (but it's high on our list!). I think right now the website reflects a bit of my writing/speaking style, which is a bit of "oversharer" but working on changing that.

The biggest difference between Shimmer & e-therapy is that we offer Coaching. Coaching is a partnership for action—for goal-oriented action. You partner with your coach and make changes in your life to reach those goals: e.g. you may be perfecting your morning routine or working on your habits for work-from-home, whatever it may be. For e-therapy, or therapy, it's more about unpacking past to present, talking, processing, etc.

Lastly, for Typeform, we are also working on moving off of it, bad reason but also because we are a lean team and test each part of our flow first (with 3rd party services) and have slowly been migrating to build in house for parts most important. Right now many of our priority features are focused on member experience with coaching for building in-house.
I'm coming to appreciate this view increasingly, why HN chooses to align itself this way, and the difficulty and precariousness with which that balance is attained.

I'll still say that the instances of HN moderation with which I have the greatest reservations tend to resemble what antisthenes describes above: poorly-conceived articles which would themselves be legitimately flagged and admonished if posted as HN comments to which the rather understandably heated or snippy response instead draws moderator action.

And yes, HN mods can't read everything or be everywhere,[1] so moderation is inconsistent, though I know what it strives toward.

And I can often identify how a response might have been improved or what elements run aground on HN's policies. I'm not convinced that the occasional exception or leniency would utterly wreck the ship (though having seen what, in dang's words things that strongly encourage that a "thread will lose its mind"[2] there's some reason for caution). But in a world where, to borrow from Tim Minchin, there's frequently a contingent which "keeps firing off clichés with startling precision like a sniper using bollocks for ammunition", diplomacy dikes do on occasion break.[3]

And tone-policing that, particularly unilaterally, strikes me as a greater wrong.

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Notes:

1. Which you've noted, 2 days ago <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37225175> and eight years ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9979719>. Another HN perennial...

2. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22176686> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17689715>.

3. Tim Minchin, "Storm" (2009), <https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Tim-Minchin/Storm>. Animated video: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U> and live performance: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KtYkyB35zkk>.
It's 2023. We're way past doubting the existence of internet addiction, and other such negative effects of technology on our health and healthy habbits. Might as well doubt thermodynamics.

The reaction you have is in the long tradition of the naive "it's in the brain and concerns wetware, not material stuff we can measure, so it can't exist". Might as well argue that trauma doesn't exist, or conditional depression doesn't. Or any kind of mental pathology not seen as brain matter damage in a scan.

Not to mention that in this case, what they describe, unlike something more abstract like addiction, wwould be easy to objectively measure with people wired to some lab equipment too.
There’s actually two ways of seeing this: the three-domain system and the two-domain system.

The three-domain system divides life in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. In this system, Archaea and Bacteria can be grouped together as prokaryotes.

In the two-domain system, the division is between Archaea and Bacteria. In this case, eukaryotes are seen as a subgroup of Archaea.

Hope to have cleared up some of the confusion.
Slashdot also did a few things that allowed this to work. They limited how many votes you had. It made you think of whether something was Insightful, flamebait, or funny, etc. If you give people unlimited votes, 1) Would the bother to categorize something as funny? 2) Would it still get boosted to the top, drowning other comments, and like reddit, eventually make the site useless?
Dunno what kind of extra power consoles have but laws don't seem to apply to them the same way.

People are screaming to let them install 3rd party software for Apple devices.

But why doesn't anyone want the same for the Xbox, Playstation and Switch? They are arguably even more "general computing devices" than an iPhone for example.

If Apple is forced to allow 3rd party app stores, why can't I get the same for my Playstation? Why is it different?
Would forcing disclosure of non-authorized parts not address that? If you were willing to pay the premium for authorized parts then you’d have the information to choose the right repair shop.
I tried to use this to drill a well some years ago on the west coast of Florida near the ocean. Worked great through the sand about 20 feet. Then we hit a shale deposit. There was no getting through it. Some pro well drillers came and couldn't make it through either. The neighbor drilled his own well a couple years prior and told us the secret. Blasting caps. We gave up.
this is not a practical answer but it's an actual answer..

Straws are useful for drinking lemon water, and maybe other drinks which have the wrong kind of acidity that can damage tooth enamel.

The straw can help to prevent the liquid from making contact with the teeth as you're drinking.

So, there's 2 different untested theories there, I am careless spreading around without having tested either of them myself, because I have unusually strong teeth, which is an uncommon but not rare thing.
I use transparent plastic pens as straws,
its a bit shorter but the plastic is way more
resilient and its reusable forever.
example of such pen:
https://i0.wp.com/phenomenex.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10...
>I think there’s some pretty cool applications to be built upon homotopy type theory/ univalent foundations.

constructive type theory and TDA are very different things even if they do both have `topo` in their names.
I love this question! This is the exact problem (or one of them) that we're solving. All the info is out there, but it's about practice. With your coach, you'll be experimenting each week with different skills or habits and trying to arrive at the system that works best for you. Your coach will help you prioritize & keep you accountable, but also help you remove roadblocks and learn from reflections. There are also "hacks" as well that our coaches and members share with each other, for sure.
Reddit launches moderator rewards program amid sitewide discontent
I don’t really hold out hope for Musk, personally. I’d like to, as much as I’d like to hope that anyone can change. All of his actions point to someone who is very sad and doesn’t apply the tools he has to actually tackle it, instead he uses what he has to try and be the “cool guy” on the internet and it worked…mostly for white supremacists and other alt righters, and trolls.

An analogy I like is that he’s a guy who did open mic stand up but no one found him funny except maybe one or two people. His solution was to buy the comedy club and be the only performer.

Musk also has a long history of narcissistic behavior going back pretty much for as long as he’s been in the public eye, and I’ve seen indication that he’s reflecting or trying to change.
> many of our members struggle with phone addiction

Perhaps the phone addiction is actually the root problem…instead of some totally unproven neurodevelopmental theory.
You don't need to remember since you don't need to hold it down, you can toggle
Or both, hold for shorter totp codes, toggle for longer data entry sessions
Or you could have a one-shot modifier where for single numbers you wouldn't need to hold anything (while avoiding having to frequently move your hand back and forth just for a single symbol). This works similar to one-shot shift for a First Letter Cap

And the mistake in your first response with the numbers on the opposite ends isn't about "personal habit"
I don't think it would be worthwhile to make your own hydraulic drill if there are rental alternatives.

More specifically, around 1981 my Dad rented a drilling rig to supply the irrigation pump for our yard in Miami.

See, the city was phasing out septic systems, and had installed sewers to our neighborhood. They charged for sewer based on water consumed. By drilling a well he could avoid paying sewage fees for irrigation water.

I think he hit water at 8 feet, and put the well down to 12. This was Miami.

It also drilled through some limestone.
Not Postgres-based (but wire- and mostly syntax-compatible): cockroachDB using column families is much like a columnar MPP.
Yugabyte is PG-based and MPP but not columnar.
If you haven't seen it, Louis Rossmann has a nice video discussing this [1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/0tB3t7xGWjk
Yep, this was my guess too. Apple was dragging their feet because their stuff wasn't repairable.

They made it repairable in steps and most likely the generation starting from next month will be repairable enough to match what the California bill and EU laws require.

...and I'm pretty sure Apple knows some of their competition isn't ready yet so they're trying to catch them off guard by pushing for the law to pass now.
GPT4 has been beyond our expectations by a mile. What in the world is this person even on?
His cloud VM was supposedly hacked. That was not hacking crypto, it was hacking a generic cloud account.

And why presume what I may or may not be advocating?
The comments in this thread come from a very privileged subset of highly tech savvy users, who incidentally believe their higher opinions are somewhat objective when applied to hundreds of millions of Apple users. I think what you say about the comments here “disproving” my arguments is actually proving how skewed the perspective is in here.
Even if you could find investors,I'm not sure you'd find any customers.

Firstly, only a tiny fraction of people are interested in building a house. And the number that build 2 are a rounding error.

Developers already have architects on staff, already have libraries of plans, why would they pay for this?

Then, every detail of the generated plan would need to be checked. Every. Single. Detail.

Most people who build a house do do because they want to make a mark, or they need something they can't find. They are all literally edge cases. They'll sit with an architect for hours trying to get that dream out of their heads onto paper, adapting to limitations of budget, planning approval, local regulations, budget, site, budget and so on.

There is no market for a product like this.
But you can only know that by having a large sample of very “stable” (have few genetic irregularities) gene samples compared to a large pool of samples from people with very narrow and pronounced gene irregularities, right?

Is this why it’s so hard? This feels more like a healthcare records keeping people and less like an “actually reading the data problem”.

I can’t help but feel like some form of single payer healthcare is truly the way out of this problem. One where all disease record keeping is uniform and complete.
> At least people a generation from now can go to GitHub and fork the btc or eth open source code and make a run at starting their own chain.

And that will help them how exactly? There are thousands of chains and coins with total adoption and value of zero
I can take a bet that it haha already failed - the hype cycle has already made a promise that LLMs can’t keep.

Hallucinations to the normal person are a bug.

The issue is that only humans can hallucinate. We know there is a “reality”.

For an LLM, everything it does is a hallucination.

That’s why you have more POCs than production goods. Your “hallucination rate” is unknown.

Yesterday Ars has an article that described LLMs as a new type of CPU for a new type of architecture.
Others want “LawLLM” or “healthLLM”.

These are simply not going to happen.

If you even get it to 80% accuracy- it’s a 1/5 chance you have a relevant answer.

The issue isn’t a technical one.

It’s expectations.
The first 3 sentences of the article are implying that the whole thing is written with "if you must" attitude.

That said, a lot of companies have front-end teams, and those front-end teams commit years to building React components. So even if you render server-side, this is how you'd put data into those components. I'm a backend dev. I don't like some of what frontend is doing, but you gotta work with people, right?
It's a bad idea to use stuff that is not certified as food safe for food. Not only because some chemicals may come loose, but also because you might have bacteria growth in unexpected areas.

Myself, I prefer metal straws, with came also with a tool to clean them.
Yes think the replication crisis makes it pretty clear that even with all the fancy software, we still can't remove confounders today (and probably never will).

You can pretty safely translate we removed confounders to: we slightly cooked the data and got this significant result.
I've seen the same ads, and we definitely don't advertise to "cure" ADHD in any way. We actually don't even do a free trial, as we want our members to be committing to the coaching process intentionally. We try to make our processes the opposite of predatory—e.g. if a member is inactive for 40+ days, we check with their coach and automatically cancel them. If they forget and tell us when the bill comes, we refund them.

Unfortunately ADHD-specialized therapists are few and far between, especially once you layer in insurance. We are working on creating recommendations & databases of other ADHD-specialized helping professions like therapists to informally connect our members to when they need that!
This guide is great. Before reading it I was always chipping my water. Now I know how to do it!
I think I know what was going on here. I can't find a source (too many false hits on tech news sites), but a batch of counterfeit displays for one model of iPhone used a touchscreen controller from a much older model. When a new version of iOS was released which no longer supported that older model, Apple removed the drivers for its touchscreen controller from the OS, under the assumption that they were no longer necessary. This had the unexpected effect of making those displays stop working.

This wasn't intentional -- it was an inadvertent result of routine code cleanup -- and Apple added the driver back in a later OS update to restore functionality, and added messaging to indicate to users if their display wasn't a genuine Apple part.
For what it's worth, I can actually tell the hype around AI died down a little. 8-10 months ago you'd hear AI from grandmas and their interest in playing with gpt. That's gone. From programmer's perspective, it is still useless. I can't still get chatgpt to give me a useful ffmpeg or a basic php database script. I don't know who is really using ai for what, other than crappy chatbots.

They are saying JSON works perfectly with chatgpt (gpt4) and still out of 10 queries I get 1 or 2 messed up. I can't depend on it yet. Image generation is still terrible and useless, can't use for programming, text-to-speech neural still sucks big time, not sure who is doing what with it. Almost feels like crypto-hype.
Anglo-Saxon naming patterns remind me of modern practice in Korea, where there are sets of common first-half and second-half name elements that parents choose from. It is typical to have siblings all share a first-half.
People underrate how much good stuff CSS gives you for building UIs.

If you did everything in canvas you’d just have to reimplement something like flexbox to center, align, stretch, and animate all your icons text, boxes, buttons, etc.

Why not just stay in HTML and use a layout engine that’s already implemented, and highly optimized for literally every platform.?
Yes, definitely! Would love to chat and hear more about what you're building, and share whatever we can to help. Email us directly at hi@shimmer.care, both Vikram & I get emails from there!
I like this one. It's nice to see it utilizing a lot of browser enhancements that didn't exist when I had a go at making one.

How much server side infrastructure does yours use? I used just a tiny shim to do login, serve static files, and establish a websocket for a FileIO. It provided a socket on the server side that processes could connect to and run things on the browser side, much like X11 processes connect to the X server.

Every now and then I do a couple of tweaks to update mine. The first few things I tried out with ChatGPT were things that I wanted to make for my desktop environment (an IndexedDB filesystem and a transmit API through a messagePort system)

It may seem like wasted time, but you never know how things turn out. In the last week I extracted a lot of the little paint program I made for my desktop and turned it into a ComfyUI plugin.
Are you using GPT-4? If not, it's understandable.

If you don't pay for ChatGPT, you get GPT-3.5. You can also get access to GPT-4 if you use the playground.
I can't recall when I last used a straw. Years ago. I don't drink soda or sugary drinks often though and that seems to be where they're most popular. It's probably good to avoid both. Soda in moderation. I'm pretty sure that straws encourage consuming those drinks in much larger quantities than you would otherwise.
One angle corporations sometimes take when supporting regulation is "we've already decided to do X, so if the law forces everyone to do X, it puts an extra burden on our competitors but doesn't cost us anything". So it's possible that's what's happening here
One mechanism behind that is the EURion Constellation. I believe there are others out there as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
We have a community of ADHD, Autism, and generally mental health founders that we build alongside of. Starting a startup is hard, especially when you're mission-driven, so we love helping wherever we can and will take the help we can get to! It's a big, interrelated problem we're solving and we need to work together to get us closer (because we are VERY far off).
Aging skin usually accumulates pigmentation abnormalities, like hyper- and hypopigmentation. Ascorbic acid might be able to help both. That’s not exclusive to Caucasian skin types btw.

In my case, I‘m just taking it as a sign that it’s working, as pigmentation is only one of the areas AA affects.
My Apple products:

1) iPhone 3GS, screen backlight stopped working after 3 years. One component change fixed it
2) iPhone 4S, zero issues
3) iPhone 5S, zero issues
4) iPhone 6S, battery didn't like the cold after 2 years, swapped a new one for 50€, my friend's kid still uses it
5) ... etc up until the current one. No issues

Along with multiple Apple laptops, I'm still daily driving a 2015 MBP for my mobile needs. I did get a free battery and topcase replacement due to a recall around 2020-ish.

Multiple M1 and M2 work laptops, zero issues.

The best part is that I could resell every Apple product I've bought for a decent amount of money because people know the software is still getting updates for years and the hardware is solid.

The chicklet keyboards were trash though. Touchbar would've been nicer if it didn't replace the F-keys.
Some of the research about being able to make simple animals grow structures from other animals in their evolutionary “tree” by changing chemical signaling—among other wild things like finding that memories may be stored outside the brain, at least in some animals—makes me think you need more than just the “code” to get the animal that would have been produced if that “code” were in its full context (of a reproductive cell doing all sorts of other stuff). Even if the dna contains the instructions for that reproductive cell, too, in some sense… which instructions do you “run”? There might be multiple possible variants, some of which don’t actually reproduce the animal you took the dna from.
>This entire piece is based on one massive, unsupported assertion, which is that LLM progress will cease.

Sounds like a pretty good guesstimation. Well, not cease, just fizzle out.
Great idea - is this your product? I'm getting into Sveltekit and would like to know how it's working for you.
FYI, the license you chose doesn't seem like it would meet the Open Source Definition.

https://opensource.org/osd
This ignores the most difficult part...getting a permit