skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Also calling them sentient is probably misleading as they are angelic entities and they cannot change ever. They made a decision when they were created (follow God or not), and that’s that. So sentient yes, but most definitely not Human-like.

As I recall the Biblical narrative, they were convinced to turn against God when Lucifer led his rebellion against Heaven, because he and a third of the other angels refused to humble themselves before the newly created humans. The premise of angels as being unchangeable in their nature is a modern fantasy stereotype - in Biblical canon at least, they are clearly presented as capable of free will and decision making.

Obviously this doesn't entirely make sense within the framework of original sin - angels shouldn't be capable of turning against God, since that capacity is by definition sinful, and no sinful being can stand in the presence of God, but clearly angels do. Mythology rarely if ever includes what we would consider "coherent worldbuilding" from a modern literary point of view - that isn't its purpose, and what we have is an attempt to correlate the remnants of thousands of years of oral tradition and folkore with all of the myriad strangeness that entails.
https://sit-together-toy.vercel.app/
In the meantime, I'd highly recommend PlatformIO over the Arduino IDE for writing code for embedded- besides having a much nicer UX, (they recommend using their VSCode extension, which is great, but they also have extensions for a dozen other IDEs) it natively supports way more boards and frameworks.
Not only but also.
There's an important thing that is easy to miss if you just use a Google Takeout for the export – your Shared albums will only contain pictures that you yourself added!

I went through this journey a few months ago, and it's pretty hard to catch because those albums will appear in the export, and they are not empty, so you don't expect that they are partial exports. The way to export them was going one by one in the regular Google Photos app, and downloading each album as a ZIP – that way you get pictures also from other contributors to that album.

Funnily enough, I also experienced some rate limiting and had to wait a few minutes after every 6-7 albums.

My end goal was importing the Takeout into Apple Photos library locally stored on my Mac. Some other steps I had to take were:

- Fixing the metadata [0] so they showed up with a correct date

- Importing albums first, and the "Stream" (a folder per year) second, because otherwise the deduplication would mean the pictures already in the stream wouldn't get added to an album.

[0] https://metadatafixer.com/
They can always create a new index and a fund that follows it. But getting people to buy into such a fund is much harder then a fund following some well known index.
I've got a 14 year old imac that says otherwise
Which option? To write wrappers now instead of later?

I just see no way to be able to use current C++ code in a profiles world without wrappers or even a rewrite. For some code with decent semantics, a modern enough code base and clean APIs that wrapper might be just slapping a "compatible with profile FooBar" somewhere. On the other hand those are the APIs that are the easiest to wrap for other languages, too.

> As an example, while Microsoft slowly adopts Rust, it keeps putting out best practices and improved tooling, they aren't going to rewrite the whole Windows, XBox and Azure C++ code into Rust for the next couple of decades, or how long they would still matter on the market place.

So they are making the jump away from C++ now, wrapping their existing code to reuse it from safer languages. Smart :-)
I have crafted a concise guide on optimizing your sales strategy for the Black Friday season: https://designmodo.com/black-friday-emails/
Root canal was much worse, even with good local anaesthesia. Unmedicated colonoscopy is just very uncomfortable.
Curious if hosts file based blocking, or a PiHole, would trigger their block as well.
> from Russia-poisoned company to their Israel company.

That sounds really offensive, and not to the companies.
I’ve posted above justifying what I said. In the commercial world all the top performing/talk of the town visual work in the Uk is very often done by foreign designers and Creative Directors and artists. I work in this so I would have some idea.

Builders Club, the top agency right now is headed by a Swiss Creative Director. Panoply, whose 3D artists and directors were once the top talent at ManVsMachine, are Swedes I believe.

The Uk quite simply does not have a strong graphic design tradition. They are strong in product design, fashion and engineering. They import good design.
Elon Musk strategy. It's popular these days. More with less. Just pointing out the trend.
The core of science is iteration based on experiment and hypothesis generation. The scientific approach to UX is simply a hypothesis that a UX change is superior, and an experiment with a measure as to whether or not this is true. Yes, of course you can optimise scientifically for user-antagonistic KPI's (no need to invoke Hume, his point is true and also useless) but the alternative to not adopting a scientific approach is literally just opinion which on the whole is far worse (would you want your airline cockpit's UX to be designed based on a designer's opinion, or real scientific approaches to how people process information and intuit controls?). Of course one would take a good designer's opinion over some MBA-ridden process but a good designer is likely intuiting what would be validated by a more scientific approach anyway.
In the last couple years there was more than ample opportunity to see how badly this approach fails, you have droves of these "public intellectuals" as TFA calls them for every crisis (COVID, energy crisis, russian wars, gaza etc.) and almost all of them are just Average Joes dishing out their BBQ-level hot takes in public. Remember all the math and physics PhDs in 2020 suddenly being genius experts on disease modelling? The same people who suddenly became experts on warfare some time in early 2022? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
The future of warfare: A $400 drone killing a $2M tank
>According to Thomas S. Ray and others, this may allow for more "open-ended" evolution, in which the dynamics of the feedback between evolutionary and ecological processes can itself change over time (see evolvability), although this claim has not been realized – like other digital evolution systems, it eventually reaches a point where novelty ceases to be created, and the system at large begins either looping or ceases to 'evolve'.

But of course, evolution merely reaches equilibrium, which takes finite time and then stagnates. In real world evolution continues due to change of environment that moves the goalpost of equilibrium, extincts overoptimized species, so evolution can go further. Just add slow change to environment, like ice age or warming.
It should, and the whole thing is a run-on sentence anyway. Par for the course from the British school system.
I don't see how they will enforce many of these rules on Open Source AI.

Also:

"Establish an advanced cybersecurity program to develop AI tools to find and fix vulnerabilities in critical software, building on the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing AI Cyber Challenge. Together, these efforts will harness AI’s potentially game-changing cyber capabilities to make software and networks more secure."

I fear the end of pwning your own device to free it from DRM or other lockouts is coming to an end with this. We have been lucky that C++ is still used badly in many projects and that has been an achilles heel for many a manager wanting to lock things down. Now this door is closing faster with the rise of AI bug catching tools.
Comparing it to my favourite countries in Europe. Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy. All have more innovative and interesting visual design (for the most part).
Alan Wake sits very comfortably at the top of my personal chart as the best game experience I have ever had.

I truly look forward to a year or so from now when the game finally makes it's way to Steam, fully patched and ready to go for Linux play. Until then, I'm content with playing the vast catalogue of non-exclusive games available.
> Yes, it would be really easy. You "just" have to be able to buy thousands of official controllers and solder a microcontroller on them. And then resell them. Without getting sued.

That's exactly what people did back in the day, First-sale doctrine allows for this (Heck some modders I knew back in the day simply brought them in bulk at wholesale). Modders either brought controllers retail, modded them and put a mark up on them, or people would send in their own controller to be modded.

But those selling wired K&M convertors just decided they would pass though the challenge/response commands to a offical wired controller the user would have to purchase themselves (saves the manufacturer the need to purchase them).

> Or teach people to solder the microcontroller themselves.

There were plenty of sites with open source rapid fire microcontroller firmware and install guides for those who didn't want to pay others to mod their controller for them. It was simply VCC, GND, each of the trigger inputs, a connection to the sync button, and a connection to one of the LEDs to give feedback to the user which mode the controller was in. Heck it was on the skill level needed to mod a PS1 and those services were ten a penny. Heck it got to the point where drop in PCBs where being created where castellations on the PCB were in just the right spot to solder.
Interesting, I've never read about that. Who are those people ? Unless you mean people forming Kibbutz, then yeah
Related. Others?

Silence Is a Commons (1983) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28431541 - Sept 2021 (17 comments)

Silence Is a Commons (1983) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26007100 - Feb 2021 (31 comments)

Deschooling Society (1970) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821855 - July 2020 (195 comments)

Deschooling Society - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21578620 - Nov 2019 (1 comment)

Tools for Conviviality (1973) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21512587 - Nov 2019 (6 comments)

Deschooling Society - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13408250 - Jan 2017 (1 comment)

Silence is a Commons (1983) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5402711 - March 2013 (2 comments)

Deschooling Society - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=285107 - Aug 2008 (45 comments)

A vision of social networking from 1971 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=257094 - July 2008 (1 comment)

Edit: a bunch of comments from other threads too - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> Senior designers [from top agencies in the UK] are very very often from abroad

This is unsurprising in itself. About 40% of London residents are foreign born, and in any international industry, the chance of top talent being from the same country as the hiring company is low for obvious statistical reasons. You can see a similar effect in e.g. academia.
IMO people take Narayan Murthy's comments out of context frequently.
My mistake, I mixed up a Macbook pro and an Air. The Air was from 2014, the pro is 2017.

Could it be regional differences ? I rechecked on the online support page - both Jp and Fr -, and repair support falls off right at 2015 (which is nothing to sneeze at for a maker, but I'd still wish for more)
> You can buy an RTX 3080 for $400 or a 3090 for $650-700 right now

New or with 10 000+ hours of 100% load mining coins ?
Seconded on platform.io. Unsurprisingly, they support the Digispark: https://docs.platformio.org/en/stable/boards/atmelavr/digisp... .
You aren’t ever doing nothing. That act of doing nothing is something.
https://youtu.be/WXgx7Uzislo?t=33
Mumford and Postman also expand that list.

Of Illich I've only fully read "Tools for Conviviality", which I'd say
is a manifesto for Humane Technology of a kind.
> I was hopeful (but not expectant), that it would use the chatgpt internal API's rather than using the public API..

They started adding captchas to prevent that, unfortunately.

Looks like training data is worth quite a bit for them.
Hmm, I certainly can't agree in the case of Spain. Spanish ads feel quite dated to me. There's obviously a subjective component here, so probably not much to discuss.
The mystery of the British government's vanishing WhatsApps
My wife recently discovered "Young Sheldon", and one of the most egregious goofs so far is the idea that Sheldon would suffer from stage fright. We both agree that stage fright is something probably only suffered by people who care about the opinions of strangers.
> Just a straight wire transfer, but depending on your bank you might get wrecked in exchange rate.

We sent 50 Euro to Bangladesh because wise.com doesn't support that country yet. Our bank charged 49 Euro in fees.
> Why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
That was an interesting rabbit hole, thanks :p

Found this to be the best resource:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/how-to-force-region-in-cl...

Guess it's a bit more work than originally expected.

An alternative would be to use proxy ip's to hint regions, which would resolve to other locations. And then parse the Colo from the request.
Code refactoring: how often should you refactor your code?
We recorded a walking tour at Gitex 2023, please watch on YouTube and comment if you like that.
Related to this is I watched a fairly recent talk by David May who worked on the implemention of the transputer in the late 80s together with Tony Hoare:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUWmHgLiyU

At the end of the talk, he mentions the staggering complexity of the design and manufacturing of chips with billions of transistors. We have long reached a point where nobody fully understands how the chips work. IIRC, only two companies can do the manufacturing.

That modern chips work at all almost seems like a miracle. Do we really need chips this complex?
Show HN: Veloxi – UI engine for building smooth interactions in the browser
Camptown – HTML-based audio player
It doesn't matter who's "worse" - everyone always feels like the other person started it and did worse. This is the most common response to moderation that exists, and it's beside the point.

The point is that if you post things like "The communist propaganda you are spreading here is really something" then you're doing exactly the kind of ideological flamewar we don't want on HN—regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We need you, and other users, to follow the rules regardless of what other people are doing. Especially accounts like yours which have been around for many years and posted thousands of comments!

If you don't want to email, then I need to ask you here: can you please change your password and confirm that you changed it? There's reason to believe that your account was compromised.
Better advice would be to look at some of the open source RISC-V cores. They are nowhere near as complex as Apple's Axx silicon (probably not even 0.1%) but they demonstrate at least some of what goes on at the lower levels.
Nobody here is disputing we have values that are not scientific.
There are the SwissMicros which have an STM32 and a very nice LCD. Which is perhaps slightly hungrier than e-ink, but looks much nicer especially when refreshing. Calculators benefit from very, very fast response times to keypresses and e-ink slows it down (e.g. when typing into an ereader).
> Why shouldn’t they go thermonuclear?

Why shouldnt users go thermonuclear if Google tracks you everywhere. Why was Google allowed to buy Double Click and become a giant in ad space?
As people have said, once you know that you can run the distance, why not see whether you can run it faster? Having said that, I never timed the runs I did by myself or with friends.
Happened to my university account (I'm alumni now). They got rid of Google Drive entirely and Calendar entirely from Google's Workspace suit. It was unlimited Drive storage before this which was so convenient.
Zenly (recently went bust) did this!

https://blog.mapbox.com/clear-the-fog-with-zenly-fc7778b06c3...

> Zenly’s location tech works in real time to uncover the map as you cover more ground. Zenly’s location tracking runs in the background, updating automatically as you check out new neighborhoods and take road trips.

(it's very social though I think, more "compete with friends!" than "explore your neighborhood & find delight in small things)
> A game must be in a shipping ready state when it launches. End of story.

I agree but reality doesn't care about our opinions, it is how it is
Rising Mortgage Rates Squeeze Landlords: UK Property Market Faces Unprecedented Challenges. Here are some of the insights.
I was very confused for a moment why HN promotes russian fascism :)
It did not work out excellently, as there are now big problems regarding interoperability between old code and new frameworks, while at the same time finding people willing to work on those projects.
Again, euphemisms have always and will always exist, they are not the same as newspeak which again had the goal of making certain concepts literally unthinkable. Also you're missing an important part of 'collateral' which is that the deaths were unintentional (whether or not someone cares is another matter - but by definition it means the collateral damage was not the goal).
This also allows for hilarity whispering to users in other channels who will respond to other users who couldn't hear the initial message.
You mean you don't get an upgraded version for free when buying a new console. While I'd like that Nintendo is not big on 'for free' ;)
>All that's left for C++ is gamedev

Okay we gotta agree on some baseline reality. C++ is everywhere. Google and Facebook probably work on more active C++ code than there is Rust, Nim and Zig code multiplied by 100 in the entire world. Most machines, web browsers, airplanes, routers, databases, all machine learning libraries, toasters and tanks run on C++. There's about 30x more open C++ jobs than for all other system languages combined.

>C++, by comparison, has been losing marketshare

That's not true either. As flawed as I personally find these indices, C++ has been, quite rapidly , gaining marketshare over the last few years.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3684848/c-plus-plus-wins-p...
I'm sure they would. I think there are points worth considering at least in there. If the only takeaway is that you need to talk to different people differently then that is valuable. This guy has seen many people and couples and I have not so it was interesting to see his observations, even if they may not hold water.
I was 100% sure RISC-V was the future until I read that.

Wearables?

They're doomed.
Resetting the maintenance reminder is a trivial operation (doesn't even require a scan tool, as it's designed to allow people to change their own oil). You should absolutely not trust this.
Is that the star wars movie?
Time to resurrect the hp-01a https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp01.htm
In the "Dave's Garage" interview of Dave Cutler, Cutler has a lava lamp behind him, doesn't he?
Paper is here:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aur.3012

I'll save you the read, in light of the replication crisis, this is the important bit: 33 autistic participants
A touch less related perhaps, but there are many links from The Convivial Society newsletter whose name is taken from Illich’s work: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=convivialsociety
not as technical, but for KZ I'd recommend Abai Qunanbaiuly for a series of short essays on what it means to prefer culture and education over the blind pursuit of short-term profit... (our age is apparently not alone in this opposition; he felt solitary enough in his opinions that he committed them to text in the hopes of eventually finding a sympathetic reader)
>Comparing nominal vs PPP doesn’t really change the USA rankings

It changes substantially, when PPP is used China surpasses the US with a significant margin.
Why do mathematicians hide their natural way of thinking ? They provide their finished work and everyone is supposed to clap. Why can't they write long articles like about false starts, dead ends and so on. It's only after magazines like Quanta and YouTube channels that we get to feel the thinking process. Math is not hard. Atleast the mathematics we are expected to know.
Do realize that viewers are not YouTube's only "customer". They spend a lot of time and energy courting video creators as well, and their monetization program is one of the few that allows even mid-sized creators to record videos for a living.
These are quite beautiful.

I remember I was on a "fractal" high when I first discovered graphics programming and relied on the exercises in this book https://archive.org/details/advancedfractalp0000stev

It had a chapter on L-systems with some very nice examples. One of my earliest programs which I put online was a Tkinter based GUI to do this. https://github.com/nibrahim/PFractL
The cartel leaders don't sell drugs, street pushers do.

MS just have to sell licenses to sell certificates.
hehe, fully defmacro capable even

also, hp RPL was stack+lisp in disguise
> There's no sense of communicating difficulties, or any sense of humility.

If there's any difficulties, that would be financial, no? Does SiFive publish any financial reports? And if so, do those show the company is in financial trouble? Are there well-informed insiders claiming so?

Unless that, I'll take the company CEO's word for it. Who writes:

"We are very well funded for years to come, with engaged, highly supportive investors, and we are realizing revenues and compounding royalties from many of the world’s leading semiconductor companies."

There. So if no money trouble, then what?

RISC-V ecosystem growth slowing down? No. SiFive's customers shopping elsewhere? Seems unlikely. Portfolio growing stale/uncompetitive? Hardly. Revenues not (yet?) matching expenses? Who knows. It's a young company still, in a rapidly evolving market.

More likely imho: SiFive transitioning from seed stage -> investment rounds & rapid growth -> some kind of 'maintenance mode'.

They have an IP portfolio now. So developing that is done. And decided to re-adjust the size of their workforce to better fit what's needed near-future. Leaving 'just' 100s of highly skilled people to work on SiFive's next products.

All in all, looks more like a storm in a glass of water to me. It's sad for the people who were laid off, but they'll have good opportunities elsewhere.
Former computational mathematics major

You absolutely can contribute meaningfully

The maths world is incomprehensibly broad and deep, even if you just take the Erdos approach and go for interesting but shallow problems
Perhaps Microsoft should start addressing that by pulling their own fully certified "build your controller" kit [1] from the market, or banning it from online multiplayer games. If they really want to get serious about it they could even add anti-tamper seals to their controllers to stop cheaters from opening them up and soldering wires to the button pads, which is still a surprisingly common thing to do. Granted, both approaches require expensive parts and a lot of work, but I would argue that cheaters are a minority and are going to cheat no matter what (and most of the more advanced cheating devices I have seen are not particularly cheap or easy to buy either).

Third-party accessory manufacturers are the real target here. While I appreciate Microsoft's desire to crack down on cheating and make sure players will only use high quality peripherals rather than AliExpress specials, enforcing cryptographic attestation to lock competitors out is not the right way to accomplish it.

[1] https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adap...