skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My brain just seems to prefer having a tool to reach for with a clear purpose. For me, availability of a thing that does what I want is generally the difference between being able to do it or not. I've tried learning to code on my own, but I always hit a "now what?" situation since the available tools for the things I make are already better than I have any interest in improving on. I'm not a programmer by interest and don't foresee ever being one by trade.

I wrote some words on the topic: https://kyefox.com/2022/08/05/learn-to-code-or-dont/

Node editors like Blender's are the best thing for me: you get all the tools, but they're composable with other tools. Your hammer can be a screwdriver. Worst case, I need a new tool no one's figured out how to make with nodes, but odds are someone already wrote that code as a plugin. Looping back to the "now what" issue: it already exists in a state beyond anything I could get up the motivation to improve on.
Grants for Operating Systems
Gnome gets €1M funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund
I am using Mint Mobile’s unlimited plan and paying peanuts compared to my partner’s Verizon plan. But their signal is often completely fine where mine even an hour or two outside of a major metro is bad to unusable. Doubly so in large buildings.
Woah, this just gave me a trippy thought.

If the universe of complex structures is limited to those that can be produced from simple rules, and the rules are uniform throughout space, then extraterrestrials (if they exist) are likely more similar to terrestrial life than different.

Which means that there are likely aliens with leopard print and zebra stripes.
Paperwork is my nightmare. I don't forget to do them, I just can't seem to get started on them even if they're simple and quick. Things I've done in the past

- Put off paying a traffic citation until I got a late fine that doubled the amount

- Put off gathering paperwork for taxes until my accountant told me if I don't send it now he won't be able to file this year

- Drove around with expired plates for 6 months until the car got towed parked on the street

Looking back, it feels silly to procrastinate on these simple tasks for so long but I guess that's the ADHD brain at work.
Being much more integrated isn't actually that valuable. VR compositors already render a full screen frame that goes straight to the display. The window manager for VR is typically in a separate process from the compositor.

You could add Wayland support to an existing VR compositor, but that wouldn't force you to combine the window manager into the same process.
Glassdoor but for Equity
Is there a place where I benchmark what equity i should ask for in a startup? Kinda like glassdoor but better? They only show it very high level. Looking for things like # of options, vesting schedule, etc...
This title is click-bait. It sounds like it's talking about comets picking up life from one planet and delivering it to another, but that's not what the article (and paper) says. They're just talking about space-generated biomolecules being delivered to planets (as has been found on Earth); the only "bouncing" involved is a comet losing energy by going through gravity wells in a dense planetary system.
Maybe they don't have a choice:

"in May 2000, legislation passed that required network operators with significant market power to open up access to their infrastructure."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_opera...
Azure is now leasing capacity from Oracle.
> aesthetics/artistic sense of UX designers is absoutely trumping usability in very many modern applications

Indeed. And I get totally stupefied by how much freedom and authority they are given in relation to the other people supposed to provide inputs for the project.

My stock broker did that. They had a web app that didn't just work -- it was acknowledged as very good. Fully customizable, you could open many sub-windows and monitor an arbitrary number of quotes depending on your strategy. The screen could turn into a mess, but it was your mess, and that's ok as long as it made sense to you, the user. I used their web app for more than a decade.

Last year they replaced it by something they have the guts to call "the enhanced experience". That fuming pile of sh*t enforces a certain geometry for the screen that makes it absolutely clear that the kids who designed that garbage never traded stocks in their lives.

But what scares me most is: what the hell the managers who approved that crap had in their minds?
My understanding is that if you are renting your data center space right now, power still is the limiting factor and you will need to leave some rack space empty to be able to run GPUs.

On the other hand, if you are building your own data center, which is the case for Microsoft, presumably you can arrange high power zone to run GPUs.
If you get service through a cell tower and all other network infrastructure owned and operated by AT&T then you are on AT&T's wireless plan. Whether they sell it to you directly or through a discount MVNO isn't that big a distinction.

A small number of people filling up a tiny bit of spare capacity on a big carrier's network is hardly the revolution the article makes it out to be. You are simply on AT&T/Verizon/TMO's lowest tier plan, which just isn't advertised as such to preserve their brand.
Yes, it's actually deprioritized: Just as fast as always when not in a congested cell, but essentially unusable otherwise.

At least that was the case when I was still using their "deprioritized by default" plan (the non-deprioritized plan has only been around for a year or so).
> do have to make phone calls with my existing number, and can't always use wifi or app calling, so I am more inclined to use roaming. I guess for many esim apps work well.

Your existing number can be routed via a 2nd/data eSIM via "Wi-Fi calling", for voice and text.
This is already possible with kernel patches in https://github.com/osresearch/safeboot-loader . It is extremely cool, but the README there also explains why it's not necessarily a good idea.
I second this, reading Antifragile had the biggest impact on my mindset in approaching big and small decisions in life. Optionality as a principle is not complex, but it is a powerful tool in decision making.
This is not, not, not good. How am I going to convince my 8 year old that it’s worthwhile to learn to draw if an ai can do it for her? Or how to code or play a musical instrument? These skills take decades to perfect. And that means to maintain them they need to be useful and necessary for society.

Look: when a factory is outsourced to a different country, the people who worked there have no way to pass on their skills. In one generation the community knowledge is gone and if you move the factory back, you’re starting from scratch. Technology can be lost. It’s an emergent thing that comes from clusters of people doing the same thing and learning from each other.

If we stay on the path we are on: only hobbyists will be able to do these things, human effort will be unnecessary, and our minds will degrade and cease to be any use. Despite decades of Hollywood warning us of terminators and Hal 2000, the ai’s don’t need to attack us or try to kill us off to defeat us. They can destroy us just by trying to help.
Link to study: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP12678

> the pooled effect [...] remained negative in direction across all meta-analyses

> the strength of evidence of an association between higher adult [organophosphates] and [N-methyl carbamates] insecticide exposure and lower sperm concentration is sufficient enough to warrant concern
Levels.fyi?
The Maia chip Microsoft announced it's also for training.
I don't see it like that. I see it as the system having only one interface with all peripherals. Or conversely, all peripherals get treated exactly the same way.

Maybe something as simple as:

"Are you ready to send me data?"
"Send me data" (Some predefined size of data, maybe an 8-bit byte, maybe a 32-bit word, but only one defined size of data.)

"Are you ready to receive data?"
"Receive this data."

That goes down into the bowels of the system, probably at the hardware level. And the architecture of the interface has to be part of the low-level system language otherwise it gets fragmented.

But then again, I'm not a systems programmer so what I'm looking for may not be possible.
The Mint unlimited plan is still only $35/mo, and I’m sure there’s something cheaper out there. That’s still a whole lot cheaper than the big carriers, with zero of the data usage management.
NewsGuard's For-Profit Censorship Model Merges Government and Corporate Power
I'm a big advocate of The Small Web[0], and care deeply about the internet being a creative space. Something to keep in mind is that the way people use the internet has changed completely since the days that small, independent websites were the norm. When I first started using the internet in the late-90s, if you wanted to find information you would probably end up reading a page curated by a single person, devoted to a single topic. I remember having favourite sites devoted to bands I loved. Now, the main resources for information are collaborative platforms like Wikipedia. These days, if I want to find lyrics to a song I'll probably find them on genius.com, rather than someone's lovingly crafted fanpage. These days I can just right-click 'Search for <term>', and I'll have an answer within seconds. Even though this has taken a way a lot of the creative, human aspects of the internet, I think that the ease at which people can retrieve information on-the-fly from known sources has made the internet a much more powerful tool. I think what's missing is our desire to actually look for, and find creative spaces.

Having said this, I'm not giving up on the small-web. I run https://webri.ng/ which is a platform people can use for hosting webrings.

0: A term that I borrowed from Parimal Satyal: https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/
> It takes billions and billions of dollars

Apple and Microsoft are trillion dollar companies ( both nearing $3 trillion market caps ). They can afford it. Heck they have the balance sheet to acquire both tsmc and samsung if either were up for sale.

I thought Apple was moving towards being a full-stack company. Where all the hardware and software is developed in-house. If anyone has the resources, it is apple.
I’m not familiar with the format used by Obsidian. It’s probably not text files to be opened by any editor.
The signs chosen to teach to babies tend to be pretty simple. Things like "more" or "milk" are very easy.
If you vaccinate the entire flock, none of them end up with salmonella.

Not washing the eggs means the outside might have some chicken crap on it, but A) you wash that off before breaking the egg, and B) you're cooking anything the eggshells come into contact with.
> In fact that is why ADDERALL is not addictive for us but is addictive to a normal person with the normal count of dopamine uptake receptors as cocaine, meth, etc. work on the TAART stretch of the dopamine uptake receptor.

What evidence do you have to support this claim? I have plenty of anecdotes of little value that would conflict with your claims. I find your claims hard to believe without evidence. Addictions are highly circumstantial and complex disorders.
More like ASML is solving the physics problems and TSMC is the one with the most capital and experience to run their EUV machines. It’s not that other competitors don’t exist, it’s more like they’ve given up or can’t keep up. Global foundations I believe isn’t making the investment past 16nm. Samsungs latest node doesn’t perform as good as TSMC and intel is being intel.
I've seen plenty of cardboard moving boxes in my life, and I've seen the archive icon uncountable times, but it never occurred to me that's what that icon is supposed to be. A thin wide rectangle on top of a square could be a bajillion things. If they wanted to depict a box, they should have shown 3 dimensions.
I really thought the whole article was building up to a code example like

[fwalrus, twalrus] = split(walrus, condition)
frobnicate_batch(fwalrus)
transmogrify_batch(twalrus)

And instead went for

if condition {
for walrus in walruses {
walrus.frobnicate()
}
} else {
for walrus in walruses {
walrus.transmogrify()
}
}
Inspiration to not inspiration from (unless they edited)
I've also cloned his voice, it's trivial.

That said, it'll be interesting how the legal side of this shakes out. Does one own their likeness and voice? Who decides what that is? There are plenty of voice actors that can do a great Morgan Freedman or trump. How is that different?
Exactly. If there is something new to learn and both sides are somehow beneficial there is no problem.
Oh man, I just watched this whole video and I am in awe of this guy.
You mean Truth Social where Trump called his enemies "vermin"? Or do you mean something like the NYTimes, which Trump calls "Fake News"?

I have no idea whether Trump would be an Authoritarian or not if he wins president again, but propaganda around Jews was why Germany had no issues with death camps being run in their name.

Unfortunately all media is profit driven, with the notable exception of PBS and NPR. At some point you're going to trust someone. My neighbor across the street trusts Fox News, e.g.
I have invested copious amounts of time into building VBA libraries (https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA) and as much as I love vba there are some highly limiting actual problems with VBA (https://sancarn.github.io/vba-articles/issues-with-vba.html) which really hurt the language. But yes a large portion of the hate VBA gets is from the state of VBA projects (https://sancarn.github.io/vba-articles/why-is-vba-most-dread...)
I know it's a very common meme about geocentrism, but heliocentric models which would be pretty familiar to us existed all the way back ~300 BC [1] and potentially were on par with Copernicus' work ~150BC [2].

The geocentric interpretation was largely forced due to religious dogma and not due to a belief that it was simpler. It's honestly crazy how close people 2000 years ago were to a more contemporary understanding of the universe and how all that became lost and suppressed for ~1500 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos?&useskin=...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_of_Seleucia?&useskin=...
This is truly amazing, many thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fund! This is something open source advocates have been asking for, and this news should be everywhere.
Just a few decades ago it was absolutely correct to state that:

Scientifically the only planets I can prove exists are here in this solar system. We have found no evidence of planets anywhere else.

I question whether it was then totally reasonable to claim that it was likely there were no other planets anywhere.

Today, of course, we are over run with evidence for exo planets.
The first heart transplant (1967, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6062759/ ) made newspaper front page headlines and was not smooth sailing: "Although the patient, Mr. Louis Washansky, died after only 18 days, Barnard soon carried out a second transplant, and this patient led an active life for almost 19 months. Remarkably, Barnard’s fifth and sixth patients lived for almost 13 and 24 years, respectively."
> Profit is exactly how we make sure individual and societal interests are aligned.

That's interesting, I disagree, but I'm curious why you think so? Slavery is extremely profitable, the only reason it doesn't happen is because it is illegal - a distinctly unprofitable decision made and enforced by a government for the sole purpose of it's better for mankind. Arguably all regulation under capitalism fulfills this purpose, outside of those designed to form regulatory capture. If what you say is true, wouldn't we be able to just remove all law and let the divine will of profit determine our every action? Or, where do you see the line?

> Otherwise, how do we know what "benefits humanity"? Who decides? One says "let's feed the poor". Another "let's explore space". Yet another "let's build an AI". Who decides the allocation?

You genuinely feel that profit motive will allocate this better than the normal way of "who decides," that being debates and appeals to rationality and ethics? What profit is there to be gained from feeding the poor? The most profitable thing to do is to collude to ensure there is a class of people who are one paycheck from a missed meal or missed rent, therefore you can pay them as little as possible and they have to accept that because they can't afford to spend the time to look for a new job. I just don't see how profit could possibly align with actual human ethics. Sometimes, certainly, but rarely.

> During Cold War, everything USSR did here in the Eastern Block was "for the benefit of all mankind".

What do you mean? Where does that statement come from? I'm searching for uses by USSR fokls but the most definitive historical usage I can find is from a US navy officer saying of the nuclear weapons, "We are testing these bombs for the good of mankind." Hm, I agree, that is a crock, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the USSR or why you brought it up. The USSR was a state capitalist nation, it suffered similar issues with profit motive, though exacerbated by a centrally planned economy. Hence the holomdor: caused partially by the purging of wheat fields in Ukraine so as to plant cash crops instead to fund Stalin's feverish mega-projects. That's the heart of my argument: profit almost never puts the needs of humans first.

Edit: IIRC "for all mankind" is also inscribed... yes, on the moon, by the USA lol. "We came in peace for all mankind."
Might be bad example, just of top of my head. It's like with security -- one can never prove there's nothing important.

Some other examples I can think of:

1. A future employer may want to filter out women candidates that recently went to a pharmacy, what if they are pregnant?

2. A prospective employer might want to know how often a candidate goes to a liquor store.

And that's only for employer/employee relationships. Location data is a gold mine of private and sensitive data.
Cultural differences aside, aren’t most colds viruses?
I doubt we've found that yet, but probably safe to assume they are. And it's not being suggested that the comets create the life or amino acids in the first place; likely they have picked it up after being ejected from a rockey planet with an ocean during a large collision or something.
I think this might be it: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-B...

I'm not sure if the large networks are called Local Exchange Carriers (LECs), but if they aren't I presume there are similar resale requirements for them anyway.
They don't just allow them, in some cases, they own them.(ex: at&t owns Cricket). There's a lot of price discrimination happening to try to get people to pay their maximum price for service.

For example, I'm on Fi with my android, but my wife has an apple watch with cellular connectivity, and the only game in town was to shell out for at&t.
it's a truck. throw a honda genny with a 240v output, and a couple of gallons of gas, and charge it overnight. it's not about being perfectly environment pious, but going away from rolling coal.
Thank you! 100
It's funny you say that. Reading over a lot of the comments here sound like a lot of people obsessively dismissing a swiss army knife because it doesn't have their random favorite tool of choice.
You've accurately covered the facts I think.

Beyond that, as you say, would require legal analysis and courts, and there has been a lot of hand wringing and not much legal analysis and the courts have mostly ignored the issue.
The only three are Samsung, Intel, and TSMC. Idk why going on with Intel but Samsung should BSs doing better but that institutional knowledge that TSMC has is crazy. They all technically invest in asml that makes the machines. If I had to redo my education I’d get into electrical engineering just for this.
I found this when living in Thailand, where it was difficult to walk out of a Doctors without a prescription for a drug and a collection supporting medications like anti-mucus and pain killers, I think because the hospitals accessible to foreigners were private and made bank on the pharmacy. Not that we saw the GP for most infections, common in that atmosphere, instead just buying antibiotics over the counter as needed. Here in regional Australia, maybe we just hit a good GP, and in the rare cases we get to actually see them never prescribes antibiotics unless pretty darn sure it is an infection. And of course we can't just get them over the counter, as even pharmacists apparently can't be trusted to prescribe them even if the green snot is visibly pooling behind your eyes.

So if Australia is top of the list, I'd certainly want to know more about the sources of the data. If hospitals have started giving out prophylactic antibiotics, that for example would skew the statistics and help identify the source of the problem.
So it's actually political and not technical. Thanks for the hint, I did not get it.
If the fighter is paid to take a dive, then the fight is rigged and the bettors on the outside know which way to bet. It's fraud, and yes, generally illegal.
But then Apple, e.g., is testifying it chooses Google not because of payment, or its amount, but because Google is the "best". As such, this analysis falls short.

Assuming Google really does provide a valuable service, then why aren't Apple and Samsung paying for it. Instead, they are getting paid to use it.
they invested heavily in coreweave and gave them H100 allocation
Make sure you're salting them to draw out the bitterness of the zucchini. You can blanch them for a few minutes then throw them in an ice bath, or sprinkle salt on them about half an hour ahead of time then rinse them off after. Either way, pat them dry and your zucchini should be much tastier.
That’s just Tmobile - we have plans both directly and with Mint and the coverage is identical. There are some other first party MVNO’s like Visible which run on Verizon you might be interested in.
I've worked in America for 20 years and I never knew about this either. I just thought that was a regular cardboard box, and it never occurred to me the archive icon is trying to depict such a thing. I always just thought it was an ugly file folder or something.

I never had to use such a box in real life.
It’s not for a lack of trying on Samsung’s and intel’s part that tsmc is dominant ;)
Vax VMs used to do that.

Also anything the compiles to a C shared library also does that
US Mobile's "Warp 5G" (Verizon) has the same priority as Verizon's own plans as long as you're using a 5G device.
The Design of SQLite4 (2014)
Got curious as well (I use Roam which exports in Markdown and JSON).

The files locally are in Markdown but that may be a consequence of importing it from Roam. Obsidian doesn't seem to have a native exporter as far as I can tell so you have to use a community plugin exporter.

As you have hinted at, yes, the exports from Roam and Obsidian generally lose your graph so you only get the plain-text.
Is it that much cheaper? I'm on T-Mobile's $70 plan (it is $5 or $10 more expensive now I believe) which includes unlimited 5G data (no throttling), unlimited tethering, unlimited data when traveling abroad, HD video streaming (all discount carriers limit this to 720 or even 480p), Netflix, Apple TV, free in-flight internet, and a free iPhone 14 Pro that will be fully paid off as long as I keep my plan active for two years.
Every reasonable company in that situation needs to play all sides of this. Even the comically bad management at Google understands this: Google has their own LLMs, their own hardware for ML, and they also buy a ton of nvidia chips for cloud customers. It's a no brainer.
No, your toddler has qualia
Could even charge while loading and unloading.

And thinking of the automated rides at disneyland, why can't the bus be automated with mostly just big green and red mushroom buttons.