skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I currently don't own a >=5k but I have previously, my currently daily is 3.5k (GBP).

> Do you wear it every day?
> Does it impact my plans?

I do wear it almost daily but it does vary, if I'm doing anything manual (gardening, working on my bike, painting/decorating) then I'll either not wear it or take it off during those activities where I'm likely bound to bash my wrist against something.

I'll often swap it out for one of my other cheaper ones sometimes.

> Why?

I've liked watches for God knows how long and I was fortunate to work at a luxury watch shop where I got some great discounts.

I've always said my collection is my funeral fund for once I go!

> Do I consider myself "well off"?

Personally, no. I just make very bad financial decisions.
I studied using ML just over a decade ago. I actually compared MLPs to SVMs and had a similar thought to this. It does seem like there is a regression on understanding some of the fundamentals and older tools of the trade.

I guess everyone gets focused on the newer things.

Really does seem like people rediscovering older endpoints.
You can see things that way, but it could also have the wrong UI layer and people wouldn't like it, here you have freedom.

But I'm an emacs user so obviously that fits my psychology :)
Both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice are descendents of the original OpenOffice (what you're probably thinking about.)

LibreOffice is under very active development and can be downloaded from https://www.libreoffice.org/

Apache OpenOffice is effectively abandonware at this point, see https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Product_Release It's mostly been maintenance releases since 2013.

If you want LibreOffice with support (or just want to support development), you probably want Collabora.
Using the Interstate Commerce Clause to Restrict Intrastate Commerce
You use the word “forced” like it’s a problem? I hated it when my bank got rid of a nice secure card reader (which required my physical card and pin).

If my phone breaks or is stolen, I can’t actually buy a replacement phone now, as that requires spending money, which requires 2FA which requires my phone.
There's no need to be rude! I haven't proposed alternate definitions, I have merely commented on how successful the words used for the AI jargon terms fit with the words in the english language. (And I've appreciated your links on the historical development, which would not have sought out on my own.)

I think what's interesting in the jargon vs. plain definition tension here is related to what you noted in this most recent comment. It's that the words "neat" and "scruffy" - that is, just the english words, not the AI jargon terms - are not really symmetrical. A scruffy thing can easily become more neat while remaining scruffy, but introducing scruffiness into a neat thing tends to just make it scruffy. Neat is more totalizing.

So you say LLMs still fall into the "neat" camp - AI jargon this time - because of their mathematical core and lineage, and that's fair enough. But you also say that they incorporate "scruffy" techniques - jargon again - and I think that makes them - switching to the english words here - seem pretty scruffy, because the scruffy techniques are themselves scruffy, and incorporating all these different techniques is itself a scruffy thing to do.
The "hacky" part is that he didn't use the official "Windows XP-era wizard" development environment.

Instead, he works under Linux with standard Makefiles, using wine and calling the compiler directly.
I can tell you for one thing - avoid graduate school for now. You will find yourself becoming a 40 yo postdoc with barely a living wage.
cmd is pretty much deprecated in favor of powershell. And both have the best terminal application available on any OS.
Hacktoberfest 2023 is dropping the t-shirt
The Transformative, Alarming Power of Gene Editing
If they are booked out, there aren't enough slots
Wickard v. Filburn (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37370108) should fuel a similar sense of outrage.
> making an aimbot look human by bezier curving the mouse path to the target

I can't remember the reference precisely but I believe in the film Dune some missiles follow Bezier curves to an estimated target position because it gives a more interesting flight path. Or something like that.
The Suidperl Story
OTOH Europeans read reports that the US has an average of more than two mass shootings per day and think that the US is a failed state
In the before times there were phones owned by AT&T attached to landlines in every home and business. Attaching your own phone and repairing the phone company's were not allowed.

This seems a lot like the same business model you're saying didn't exist before.

In fact, AT&T was more draconian. People can pay off their cell phones today. The old wall-tethered units had a monthly rental fee in perpituity.
> I want it everywhere badly in west as well as east and middle(-east).

It's already there.

With the exception of the US, almost every country I've traveled to in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe has tap-pay enabled. The Middle East has virtually everyone paying with their phones via NFC. In India Apple Pay doesn't work but when I travel there I can use my phone every time. NFC cards are also the norm.
Now there's a product. "Universal safety and security".

Universal safety and security is pushed almost ubiquitously. Like it's a holy truth. Trumping all other concerns. And anybody who argues for anything else is just selfish or whatever.
I would love to know which software was used on this project. Amazing!
Generally I do wear it every day. I bought it because, after many many years of finding all mechanical watches ugly and tacky, I found one specific model that I find to be absolutely gorgeous and I adore the way it looks; a $300 Apple Watch keeps better time and has more functionality. A $20 Casio has equivalent functionality and way, way better timekeeping. It's jewelry and I wear it daily just as I wear an EDT and deodorant and clean clothes. I actually subscribe to the jwz theory of "if you need you to know what time it is that often, your life has gone dangerously wrong", and I have a radar filed because there are no Apple Watch faces without a time display.

It also has the added benefit whilst traveling of signaling to customer service staff (I fly commercial and not always in first) that I am a revenue opportunity (ie don't ignore me), as I am quite utilitarian and my 'fits are almost always sub-$200 (not counting shoes and scarf). My daily driver tshirt is plain black and costs $25, for example, and I loathe brands and visible labels. It's not immediately obvious to retail staff that it's profitable to provide me with good service.

Expensive watches aren't about timekeeping. They are jewelry and status signifiers.

Also, my daily driver watch is under $10k; theft no more enters my mind about it than it does for carrying my laptop; a maxxed out Macbook Pro ($6k) is approximately the same value as my watch and I never think about whether or not I should bring my laptop somewhere.

I also collect sunglasses and luggage; I'm not much of a clothes horse but I do adore stylish accessories.

Edit: I have friends who are "expensive watch guys" and one such new money friend, despite growing up poor, now personally grosses low double digit millions of USD annually. He recently told a story to our group about being in a 10 person business meeting where his $40k Rolex was the cheapest watch anyone had on, as a way of communicating how impressed he was and the gravitas of how many corporate heavy hitters were involved in his deal. Perhaps this sheds some light on their purpose and utility. (My $7k stainless steel daily driver doesn't even rank among these sorts of guys.)
Ah yes, politics wants it to be uneconomical that is why NuScale's nuclear power plant has doubled its costs. It is certainly not the cost of input materials or changes in the interest rate, which makes long financing durations significantly more expensive. No way, it must be a political conspiracy against nuclear power (but somehow the nuclear hating politicians don't seem to mind paying the inflated bills).

https://ieefa.org/resources/eye-popping-new-cost-estimates-r...

"Remarkably, the new $89/MWh price of power would be much higher if it were not for more than $4 billion in subsidies NuScale and UAMPS expect to get from U.S. taxpayers through a $1.4 billion contribution from the Department of Energy and the estimated $30/MWh subsidy in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). "
I'd love a technical explanation about that bug, it was so fun
I've always enjoyed the humor throughout the stories:

> "So many strange things have chanced that to learn the praise of a fair lady under the loving strokes of a Dwarf's axe will seem no great wonder."
it seems that it would be enough to just have to specify the name, and not be able to change it, which is the way it works in germany
Nah, in theory you’d buy/rent a house somebody sold to move into slightly nicer one [repeat 5 times] somebody who bought the Central Park condo.
please do stop with that xenophobic nonsense. yes, dishonesty in academia is rampant. including in publishing.

everywhere.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184289296/harvard-professor-...
what is the actual price? can’t understand how someone builds "Get Rider" button without communicating the price. Is it 500€ after the discount? Is it 10€? Who knows? But I’m not gonna start filling in forms (two next steps already ask me stuff without, again, telling me the price). Bizarre.
Let’s Make a Rubber Button with HTML, CSS and SVG
Bots can book an infinite amount of slots. Like the parent said, it's an orthogonal problem.
It has a supercap and a 2032. Look at the AEM10941.

According to the schematic at at least. There is something that kinda looks like a battery in the images.
How is the F# experience on Rider compared to VS Code and other options?
I used the Cheq app to make UPI payments via smartphone / QR code, during a holiday in India in July. The app listed locations for completing the Know Your Customer (KYC) process - I did this at Transcorp in Bengaluru.
It was worth the effort - it is far more convenient than cash in most cases. Most vendors kept little change, and even restaurants were not keen on receiving a 500R note for a 200R meal. Similarly for museums, art galleries, historic buildings. Auto-rickshaw drivers were happy with cash, and had a reasonable amount of change. I did find a couple of vendors who weren't registered as merchants for UPI, and I could only transfer to merchants, not other users.
For travellers I'd suggest setting up UPI beforehand if possible; as mentioned you can do it as you fly in (Thomas Cook offers this service in the airport), but the KYC might take a while.

(Side-tracking from payments to SIMs : )
Several historic buildings had an online-only ticket process with a QR code displayed outside. The user experience of the websites was variable (navigating the forms and input widgets on a phone while standing in the street could be trying), and they required a lot of information, eg. Passport number and sometimes home address, usually including authentication via one time password sent to mobile phone number and possibly they only work for Indian SIMs. Those sites accepted credit card payment, including international.
I couldn't count the number of times I gave my phone number, for all sorts of purposes, e.g. when checking in my phone at a temple, I was photographed and gave my number - simple id and method for finding the phone among all the others (when I realised that I switched the phone back on). And for all of these a local phone number is required, so pick up a local SIM at the airport or in the city. I did both, and I think the airport process was quicker. They do require full id for SIMs, including a local address, e.g. a hotel. A 28-day SIM cost only 299 rupees so I got a second one for increased coverage and capacity, because the networks are over-subscribed. (That's less than the daily rate at home). A dual-SIM phone makes that easy, and I could also run with one local SIM and my home SIM to receive SMSs. I was able to download maps and apps while travelling on buses and trains, and use tracking apps - which helped with knowing when a bus was approaching my stop.
Tried to create a slide rule UI/object/thing for the web. My knowledge of Web is limited: got as far as this:

https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SlideRule
> companies are booking new tests as soon as they're released because they have no choice

Companies don't need driving tests, individuals need the driving tests. Companies have no business taking them all off the market, leading to the condition that the individuals cannot get any. That isn't how this works, that isn't how any of this works.
I don't use chatGPT because I don't believe in oracle oriented programming - oracle because the whole notion of asking chatGPT for something and then interpreting the answer reminds me of the ancient Greeks and the Oracle at Delphi.

Because we as programmers can no longer understand, we consult the oracle who surely must know. One day we too will have great myths to explain the world.
The New CSS Math: Round()
The only outgoing phone call I've made within the past 12 months is to the taxi company when their app said there were no cars available. The person on the phone said the same thing, so the call was just a waste of time and money.

I have gotten incoming phone calls, mostly from daycare when a kid has been sick.
Hybrid watches are pretty appealing, i can imagine they unlock a market of people that just can’t get past mechanical watches are a bit crap at their primary function.

High end watches are somewhat appealing - the craftsmanship & precision engineering appeal (although today even most high end stuff is machine assembled i think?). Still there’s that huge sting in the tail… they’re just not great timepieces[1].

Your (network connected) phone is going to be more accurate. I can’t help feel like an absolute plum if i were to part with 5k+ for a watch with less accuracy than an £8 Casio.

The article talks about spring drive and that i can get behind, the constant smooth movement is mesmerising, the accuracy is entirely respectable and it charges itself just by wearing so you still get the benefits of an automatic. Then, depending on the model you choose, you get a hand-finished casing that uses a polishing technique that takes a craftsman years to qualify in. To top it all off, these GS spring drives are some of the cheapest “high horology” options out there. I’m sold…

[1] one exception, i’ll never be able to own one, but the H. Moser & Cie “Swiss Alp Watch” which i think i like mostly for the complete absurdity of everything about it
Good look, hope you're doing okay out there :-)
I had this watch about 15 years ago. Among other things I could track:

0. Where my next class is going to be

1. Store the bus schedule to the bus stops I used

2. The phase of the moon

Checking the bus schedule on your watch before smartphones looked like a James Bond move :)

I wish they still made watches like this, at this power consumption you could keep your watch charged from solar power indefinitely
You can’t expect the urban core of an entirely town to be even remotely as dense as that or a 10+ million city.
I agree with you, even as a native English speaker.

I reside in Northern Europe where almost everyone speaks truly excellent English with a kind of formidable grammatical correctness. However, it is definitely spoken as a business/technical/lingua franca and not as a beautiful, poetic language in its own right.

I would love the people who speak it non-natively to truly own it by learning and caring about the nuances, idioms and poetry of English. Know and care for instance what it means when you have me in stitches, or he's a square peg in a round hole, or they got her goat or when someone sighs about a path not taken or says Ay, there's the rub.

English is as much about these idioms and aphorisms as it is about making grammatically correct declarative statements like "They write an email. I train an employee. It costs 17 euros. They respect the treaty. She prepares a speech."
Copy the terms from a Mastodon instance. They're usually pretty exhaustive. Things like no hate speech, no NSFW material (unless your community tolerates that), no harassment, no doxxing etc
It's brilliant for my 200+ cookbook collection as well, I can basically search for recipes by ingredient.
> Register a company

I think that works everywhere, not just in India. I'm getting spam to my Estonian company's and my Russian sole proprietorship's email addresses at least every week.
Do you mean the TI MSP430?
Gave me sth like 65 eur or $ annual license after giving my email.
yeah it does. the EV market wouldnt exist if they hadnt stuck to their guns. people were adamant that EVs could never be real cars before the roadster and model s. when somebody invents something, we allow them to have a monopoly on that invention for a time. it incentivizes innovation but it also gives power to people who actually have the right idea, see things as they could be rather than just follow the herd. tesla definitely invented the modern EV market and the modern EV drivetrain. and now the same people who called me an idiot in 2011 are here saying that tesla is morally obligated to make their cars “hacker friendly” or whatever nonsense? all i can say is if youre so smart then why werent you asking for this in 2012 and 13? you could have asked musk directly at the shareholder meeting.
You must have large pants
Yes, and then go here:

https://instagram.com/accounts/remove/request/permanent/
I worked for a company that used Discord as the main internal coms tool. Aside the privacy and infosec concerns, staff would get suspended and quarantined often. And not for messages, but for things like using multiple accounts for business needs out of one machine/IP (like over VPN).

I think that even to this day, verifying multiple accounts with one phone number raises red flags for Discord. It's just built as an end-user product, not fit for business needs.

We would always be anxious around meeting externals or release dates for our sw because Discord could knock staff offline at any moment.

Don't use it for anything serious. Not as it is in 2023. Things could change in the future.
I would love to see an option for qualifying participants to still be able to get the shirt for a reasonable fee.
Then of course the solution is to simply limit it to 1 appointment per person (or license number) at any given time. And not allow name changes. Seems like a fix that can be done in a couple hours at most.

> A provisional licence number and candidate name is required to book a test but this can be changed once the slot is sold at a profit. Some of the brokers use business accounts that are intended for instructors to book multiple slots for students.
UPI doesn't just work based on phone number. Phone number is just the username equivalent in this context. You still need to put in a pin.
Companies don't take tests. There is no reason for a company to book a test. There would be much less pressure on the system if it was only the people taking tests that were booking. I'd bet many of these high price re-sold tests go un-sold because of their price, but still take up the time.
Battery life is probably relative. I lost one of my Casio F91s in 2018. Found it last week while packing for a canoe trip, the time and date were within seconds of the Casio F91 on my wrist.
Who said anything about forced open sourcing?

People naturally tend to give things away in a gift economy when the marginal cost of making a copy is zero. Dan Pink explains it here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Consider science: it is a privilege in most scientific disciplines to publish one’s discoveries openly for everyone to build on. Except in the bio and pharma departments — there, the intellectual property system has made generically engineered crops trap farmers and has made drugs extremely expensive in the very country that enforces this system. I wrote about Open Source Drugs a whopping 12 years ago: https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=93

Newton said, “if I saw further, it’s because I stood on the shoulders of giants”. He didn’t pay rent to the giants for those shoulders.

Thomas Jefferson said, “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

Albert Wenger, a friend of mine who is a venture capitalist, general partner at Union Square Ventures here in NY and who raised their climate fund, wrote an entire book called World After Capital about this very thing, and is giving it away: https://worldaftercapital.org

Back then, USV and other VCs were really bullish on Utility Tokens as a way for the participants to own the network, and to incentivize open source voluntarily, without government force:

https://avc.com/category/blockchain/

I also mentioned Meta open sourcing ML, and said you should be thankful to Zuck’s tendencies, which he can exercise in an area that isn’t a core business proposition of facebook. The capitalists have stranged Mark Z’s tendencies in every area where Facebook could extract rents and profits from its ecosystem. And in this, it could have easily gone another way had an IP-loving Steve Jobs type been at the helm. Had FB chosen to branch out into it, like Apple did into, say, banking or cars, then you would see FAR LESS open source competition in AI. Maybe Bloom model?
How good was the visual studio for mac?
> We don't expect these things, we merely observe them.

Sure, but your original claim was that

> It's the tensor product because there are logically no other possibilities. The tensor product says everything you can possibly say about the interactions of two systems whose states are described by a (possibly infinite) set of numbers and whose interactions correspond to some basic constraints, like being time-reversible.

I merely wanted to point out that your claim sounded quite broad and you need to assume many things about the mathematical structure of QM here (based on established observations of course). So, unless you simply take those for granted, you would have to come up with an explanation for them in order for there to be

> logically no other possibilities

In this case, though (if you take all those observations for granted), your claim becomes almost tautological IMO.
Then companies will make everything a service. You need to make a downside for dearing that.
£41.65 a year plus tax. If you login to a jet brains account then it just gives the price.
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Last time I tried, about a year ago, it was a mess of multiple pop ups telling me to download things and console windows popping up with progress bars etc. Really confusing. DE at best, not IDE
> If I land on a desert island the very last thing I need is a watch. A watch is there to be able to synchronize with outside events, and those are in short supply on a desert island. If there are no other people that you need to meet, trains whose time tables matter or ships that need conning you don't need a watch.

A watch lets you calculate longitude, which could be very valuable indeed.

There's a reason why accurate time keeping was one of the holy grails during the age of sail.
Midjourney is a great example: Discord offers a customer base of potentially hundreds of millions of individual people using it to generate and send images to one another.

You seem very dismissive of it, but what about businesses running on other chat platforms like Whatsapp, WeChat, QQ, etc?

Sure, it CAN be fulfilled by anything else, but is that where your customers are?