skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sorry, but it just still seems the same concept to me. Am I misunderstanding something? It all seems to be about having some sort of signal travelling through various pathways where there's a mechanism to reward/punish the signal which will get adapted by whichever method of storage.

When I said the picture is getting more complex it was in response to your statement that you thought astrocytes were just for cell maintenance, not computation, so I was providing some details about how those cells are involved in computation (not just cell maint).

> I can't guarantee it yet, but seeing the difference between e.g. gpt-4 and gpt-3.5 and open-source models, then there seems to be clear different in power of understanding instructions and coming up with very impressive ways to solve problems in my view.

While I think ChatGPT is very impressive, I don't think it has "understanding", otherwise it wouldn't happily explain to you how to calculate the 4th side of a triangle. A human knows that a triangle has 3 sides and questions about the 4th side is inconsistent with his/her internal model. ChatGPT just has statistical data about the relationship between words, which is why it told me how to calculate that 4th side.

> I'm not sure what you mean by 4d - is that including time, like video?

Yes, time, but not necessarily video. Time is incorporated into the patterns we detect and the internal models we build.
In part, by replicating computation instead of state.
When buying isnt owning, then piracy is ethical.

Its gone too fucking long towards extreme copyright and gimmee programs like the DMCA. Piracy is that counteracting force.

Pirate it all. No other lever can make these companies correct.
Woah. Very cool. Is this something specific to Microsoft Edge, or also available in other Chromium variants, including Chrome?
it started as live pathogens (cowpox) so it must have gone through many iterations if that were the case
I have tried. Landholders these days are locked into loans; be it initial mortgage or equity loans. They can’t barter land away, as the banks (with government backing) demand fiat capital.

Most cannot afford to own anything; most rent from a back but semantically claim ownership. The rich propagate hallucination their portfolio of assets gives them greater leverage via the sycophancy of their large flock… er… shareholders.

Take the metaphor, analogy, poetry out of the Bible and you’re left with rudimentary framework that became capitalism. A few shekels and goats for a daughter.

Makes sense. In the US sense of obligation, participation in religious activities only began to decline in the early 2000s.

Brainwave sync with prior generations, true believers, was embedded implicitly.

That signal is being attenuated by generational churn.
It's too bad that so many OS games get abandoned. It seems like the most successful projects aren't full "games" per se -- they're more like engines, like ScummVM or one of the many Doom engine remakes.

I guess it keeps the scope a little smaller to only do the engine, without worrying about the artwork, music, etc.
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A GPS can guide you to a pinpoint in a featureless landscape where there is nothing to follow on a map.
https://archive.ph/Pm7M4
Shrinkflation, shitflation will be the mega trend for the next 5 years, started from 2020
Yeah, and that's one of the reasons plan9 was dogshit and never amounted to anything. "Everything is a file" is bad enough, "Everything is a file which might be 'transparently' across a network" is insane.
the video starts out with the question and then says you can pause if you want to work on it. Then it the next thing it says is something about the answer.
The approach now would be to use an FPGA. See Analogue Pocket, but other kits exist.
Meh I donate to Wikipedia every year. Those peels go away if you donate, not that it bothers me all that much anyway.
For the same reason why he brought up his iq tests in the first place.

Because he self-identifies with some definition of iq.
They're in a dark patterns class of their own
Surely Jeff Bezos is filthy rich because he was giving away $3/month to anyone who asked, is that the logic here?
> PDF/A standard

Yes, the United States Library of Congress makes heavy use. I imagine their evaluation process to select a digital archive format is very tough!
Perfect world. Thanks for those classic gems in new setting and caring about them.

Ah, and I am grateful for that comment giving official blessing to the part of my mind that loves Squeak and Applescript to also be that happy about the expressive coding feature integration that JS has become. Incredible how well all the parts fit in the end (the language perfection unfortunately not being extended to that limited canvas to HTML integration. Seems we still can only draw in boxes and structure with text and objects.)

Excellent work. Thanks so much.
the ability to focus for long periods on a single task, longer than the rest of the family

Practical focus on any task that needs doing? Or borderline obsessive, and only on tasks that really interest or motivate you?
I did a Classics major and an MA, started on a PhD, and carried on studying since then for a few decades. I was a Hellenist in school, not a Latinist, and I share your admiration of the Greek's intellectual development, but your understanding of Rome is deeply ignorant. I saw younger students who fell for that ignorant view for a while, but they tended to outgrow it. Your view is an especially common one among the poorly educated, it's very immature which is just what makes it appealing, but it really is a foolish take to cling to, and does you more harm than help.
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Some people have done this, but you need to transplant at least the CPU from an original. Those chips weren’t built for anyone else. https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/s/FEAH2VhBRT

FunnyPlaying recently came out with an FPGA-based version for an affordable price. https://funnyplaying.com/products/fpgbc-kit?variant=40858870...

They also have a new, populated motherboard for the Game Boy Advance, into which you have to transplant the CPU and RAM.
I guess if you're smart enough to realize that 4 is the right answer, but isn't one of the choices, then the next question is "what were they thinking?", which is why 3 would be the smart guess to get your answer marked as correct.
They deliver themselves? In my area they use DoorDash from their app.
Though not for the same purpose, some of the tricks described remind me of the “compact slot map” described here: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/33905, including the “swap and pop” for deleting from the middle of the array.
I just canceled my annual subscription and found out I get a refund for the 5 unused months I paid for. Cool!
What’s the most difficult thing about setting up a crypto wallet?
Your ideal system forces people to involuntarily provide labor for others at no cost.

No thanks.
You can do all of those things on a PS5 or Xbox, Sony and Microsoft just don't let developers publish apps that let you do that.
What's worse is that they explicitly know that they don't have that title, because they do have that title if you visit from a different region. But they waste your time with showing you irrelevant results instead.
No big loss. There's been nothing original and good on PV for 2 years. It's basically Amazon's streaming nearly content-free shovelware service and overpriced Blockbuster with zero investment. Sorry, but I refuse to watch shit without ads, or now with it.
I would be angry about this but there isn’t very much on Prime anyway.

That said, I can’t say I’ll ever buy their hardware again.
On that note, I've seen quite a few zer0s in my time!
I think it took off because we finally saw behind the curtain.

By and large, people could ignore copyright for its first few centuries-- it simply wasn't in the face of most people.

In 1799, or 1899 you couldn't reasonably print a commercial-quality newspaper, novel, or sound recording at home. If there was anything resembling commercial-scale copyright infringement, it was a business-versus-business play, and usually the 'knock-off' product was an obvious inferior substitute, or a clear attempt to defraud buyers. You weren't just paying for the "legitimacy" of official works, you were paying for a product higher quality than you can generate yourself.

By 1999, a normal upper-middle-class consumer could buy some sub-$1000 printers and produce his own copies of documents and photographs that looked as good as anything you got from a publisher. He could get a spindle of CD-Rs in a neighbourhood shop and make audio CDs that played as well as commercial ones.

At that point, the obvious question is "this costs me 75 cents to make at home, what am I paying $15 for?" The answers-- "it's legitimate" or "the artist gets paid, blah, blah", did not prove satisfactory enough. The "artist gets paid" one especially rang hollow when we saw plenty of artists sell millions of $15 records and earn enough in royalties to get a Big Mac but not fries.

Only the fear of prosecution was remotely viable to force people to ignore the question and go back to buying "official" media.
You just basically restated the problem, and given no explanation for L2 specifics.

L2 is called unstable above. So orbiting around it instead of hovering immediately at it should be like trying to spin a ball slightly off the tip of your finger. E.g. you wouldn't want to do it.

Sibling replies have proper explanations.
I predict a resurgence in torrenting. The internet interprets rent-seeking profit-price spirals as bullshit greed and routes around them.
The author seems to want a different result from iMessage antitrust: they want to be able to disable iMessage on the specific phone/email account (or even better, have this disablement happen automatically); while most other articles want to enable iMessage on new platforms.

The former is a great idea and I believe Apple should be forced it to do it ASAP. There is no reason to for Apple to "contaminate" phone numbers and force their iMessage on anyone.

The latter is a bad idea. Let's not make iMessage better, there are plenty of good messengers already. Let's make it easy to turn off and stop using.
Live poliovirus vaccine continues to be used, and continues to cause occasional active cases and transmission.
I have also seen purchases on this card bump to 6% if you choose the no rush shipping option (which realisitically is the same as standard anyway...)
Cool, so we’re back to commercial television , what’s next programming ?
This is really cool and I see myself using this a lot. I tried it out but one thing doesn't seem to work now

I was able to toggle language using `⌥ + Shift + F` once before, but that does not seem to be working anymore.
Imagine: you are a single techie living in SF, you get the notice and move to another apartment :D.
Cool, so we’re back to commercial television , what’s next programming? I mean I’m sure there is more money in it. Sponsored content etc.
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When we go back to the moon, I wouldn't be surprised if Zilog-Z80s were a major part of the hardware. Well known, well understood, predictable hardware goes a long way. There's a bunch of other considerations in outer space and z80s have proven robust and reliable there. Also I'd expect a bunch of Kermit and Xmodem to be used as well.
The only ambiguity there would be revolution/rotation about what center - the small disk's own center or the center of the large one. It seems pretty obvious they are expecting you to calculate something, so assuming this is a trick question and the answer is 1 would seem a risky interpretation, and anyways wasn't one of the answer options.
I've heard of Russian maths teaching style.
I remember reading that you could block ads on smart TVs using pi-hole, but I don't know whether it covers all streaming services.
There’s also at least some definition of why it’s called forbidden here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_mechanism
Yeah, you can replicate how i use it for recipes with notes + tags.

However sometimes tags are meaningful enough they should have their own page. And I'd like to know the surrounding context around the creation of that page, which I can do because the first link to it was from my org roam daily.

Or I want to know which friend shared the recipe with me.

Maybe those examples can answer the unspoken "why not simpler notes?" question.
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CSS, motherfucker: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
It's because the first vowel in 'about' is an unstressed schwa. It sounds unnatural in English to stress or lengthen a schwa.

(The only exception I can think of is 'evennn'. e.g. Bob and Sue are at a dinner party with friends. Bob tells everyone that he likes all vegetables. Sue knows he doesn't like broccoli, so she nudges Bob and says "evennn...?". This makes sense if 'even' in fact contains a syllabic nasal consonant rather than schwa: /'ivn=/.)

That said, I don't think it's a big deal!
I think we can go further. Copyright is a terrible hack. Creative works are not scarce, but they're subject to front-loaded costs. (Write the game/book/song once, and then every subsequent copy is essentially free).

Copyright said "let's force everyone to pretend this non-scarce item is scarce, so we have a way charge a non-zero price and recoup costs." It allowed us to continue to use market-economics tools, because we couldn't think of anything better. However, it also creates an ugly and immoral distortion of how we handle the precious commodity of knowledge, and ends up creating only a few winners at the expense of everyone else in society.

But it's by far not the only way to answer that question. Why not bail on using the market at all? Massively expand the public funding for creative works. Hire armies of software developers and artists to earn a decent wage creating, and we'd probably still spend less overall because we could eliminate the opportunity for a few short-tail bazillionaires and the parasitic industries parceling out "rights".
There are certain entanglements which are weaponized from which we cannot see them, nor can we escape them. Largely in the finance sector, then the corporate consolidation/profit rush.

There well be a large churn of apps/upstarts and incredible progress on so many levels, but the monied are not only another tech-era in, WRT the savvy-ness but now they have AI GOLEMS on BathSalts being tooled up to reap.

Congress will continue to launder, philander and war, and Media will run interference.

Ai gunna make smarts a darn bushell full of crazily creative teens and shenanigans be afoot.

I do hope something profound does occur due to GPTs (Can you create a GPT swarm? to create sophisticated multi-vector attacks/DDOs (What does a GPT ddos look like?)

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Where do they say they lose money on ad free paying subs? Maybe they make less profit than on free ad users.
> We’re going to get amazing shows in the next couple years because production cost is going to be so much lower thanks to AI assistance. Then there will be a short era when phone is just instantly will generate custom video on demand for you when you raise the phone. And then societal collapse due to non-viability of current economic structures.

Either this is master satire, you communicate with the future, the timeline model you’re running coalesced into the Singularity, or all of these simultaneously.

Do you by chance have a newsletter?
Practically every order I ever get has free shipping by just ordering enough stuff (doesn't take much, but more than a single $10 item) and being willing to wait a couple more days. Stuff comes fast enough regardless because as someone else pointed out, they aren't set up to specially slow your order down while still delivering all others fast. It would actually cost them more to take an order and then sit on it for a while rather than process and dispose of it as fast as possible. Now that I think about that...it means the entire scheme of paying for faster shipping is really a huge scam, getting everyone to pay extra for something they already would do for their own reasons anyway.

Anyway, as a user, if I need something today, I find a retailer and drive to them. If it's weird enough that there is no retailer I can drive to, then I wouldn't have got in in a day or two even from Amazon anyway, since it won't be in a local Amazon warehouse any more than it was in a local Walmart or AutoZone or PC Richards etc.

And these days, you no longer even get a good search result to find the right things, you just get pages and pages of no-name chinese crap versions of things. The selection used to be the one real killer feature of Amazon, but now you effectively don't even get that any more.

There is really hardly any reason to use them any more. I'm actually pretty suprised they allowed that to happen. Even when they were being evil in the sense of taking over the world, they were doing it by making sure their product was irresistable, maybe by unfair means, but still the case never the less. Like them or not you could not deny that. Now, it's no longer true. Their value proposition is actually gone. I never would have thought that would happen, but I'm glad it is starting to.
For me.. I hate ads, but it’s also how the ads impact the ability to pause or rewind/fast-forward a show. I’m gonna un-renew my Prime. They won’t miss me but it’s the very least I can do, and I will.

They already took away key/garage delivery by default.

And really, I still have plenty of other streaming options.
> Your last point is also hysterical because yes, the research needs massive investment, the state provides it, and then allows private companies to run off with it

A research is only the beginning. It usually takes many years and lot of investment to bring a drug to the market. There is also high risk that none of the investment will be recouped. That’s the role that private companies can do well. They don’t just “run off with it”.

ASML, for example, benefits heavily from EUV research done in the US with public fund. Yet you can’t say they ran off with it. They invested heavily, and it took them many years to perfect the technology.
Sorry, bad phrasing -- they don't lose money in an absolute sense, but make less on full-paying users than ad-watching ones.
It is amazing they were able to miniaturize a computer to fix into a spaceship.

Previously calculators were a room full of people, all of which required food, shelter, clothing and ... oxygen.
Not so much for the seed box, but the hosted plex (or whatever) server with the various pieces and parts (things like sonarr, radarr, bazaar for subtitles, etc.) The seed box providers tend to offer these also, but I don't know what to call the bundle.
Also in Canada.
The process feels a bit strange - especially when the receipt is just sent electronically as well.
There is a great deal of pain and suffering that you dismiss with faulty assumptions. Things at the bottom are worse than ever due to the K-shaped pandemic "recovery" and extreme inflation in inelastic necessities like food and housing.
To me, intelligence in general is ability of solving things in a generic and abstract way.
That’s something you do if you’re poor. Not if you’re rich but your parents want to teach you the value of hard work and self sufficiency.
Doesn't that still use unscoped global variables, though? That, to me, is the thing that causes unmaintainable spaghetti code more than anything else (in any language).
You can't delete all your photos from Google Photos without a JavaScript hack
Yep.

Q: How big is the 90th percentile text file?

64KB? That text file fits in some some level of cache and not RAM.
An array is just fine most of the time.

Use a different purpose-built editor for those multi-GB text files.
Cynicism like this is poison for changing the political system. Not only have you ceded all ground to the copyright industry - you also discourage others from trying to make a difference.

The public isn't as powerless to enact change as you make them out to be.
> I'm fairly sensitive to adverts

It's amazing we all don't develop PTSD with the way amazon product listings are going these days. "Sponsored" everywhere.
wow, impressive. Colors could be better, but overall, it's pretty informative and cool.
Hi Forrest!
I worked at a Pizza Hut 30 years ago. It's absolutely banal shit. The reason it's mostly shit is because it's not NYC or Chicago. There are maybe a handful of excellent pizza places in all of California.
Why not just use it on a TV instead?
Cool! I enjoyed blacksmithing as a hobby decades ago, and I'd do it again for making or repairing tools and hardware. It's energy/carbon-intensive, so I hope it doesn't get too popular, but it's great to see more people being active and making things.
> It can't be great to cover so much of nature.

You don't have to cover nature if you cover buildings.

Los Angeles, for example, could provide a very significant amount of it's electricity needs if it got a 5 mile radius of commercial buildings to all cover their roofs with solar panels.

Now, we can argue whether those buildings, themselves, are a good thing. But, given that they exist, we should cover them.
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The only way out of this is to find a way to make ads not make as much money. Something like a consumer union but we attempt to organize to reduce the ROI for advertising. Boycott things you see ads for, purchase fewer things overall, and of course, relentlessly block ads.
The Prime unsubscribe flow is a master class of darkness.

Try it. It takes several clicks, multiple word-heavy pages, hard choices, flat-out lies, and in the end maybe you just accepted to be reminded 60 seconds before the renewal date.
I mean yeah obviously. But it still benefits you.
Congrats: what you’re asking for is exactly how things work now! The feds do not set currricula, each state does independently. Common Core is an opt-in, state-led initiative, which was based on the idea of examining the latest research and practices in education across the country, and adjusting curricula to match.
You mean gain market share.

At some point the problem is how do these entities play nicely with other entities.
Seems like a huge gap in worker protections if its as simple as running all your delivers through third party contractors at below minimum wage.
I won't use door dash for pizza. I really like that most pizza places have their own drivers. Door dash is too unreliable and loaded with fees.
Ought the bookmarklet for submitting links[1] be mentioned?

Granted not exactly undocumented, as it is linked on the /submit page. But I think worth including, as it is not in the Guidelines or FAQ.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
I think the Amazon Key Garage had to be taken non-free because the semi-monopolist, Chamberlain, realized they could charge Amazon for the ability to open your garage door.
I guess you may have to forgo delivery pizza if more chains go this way and realize the entire business is not profitable with higher labor costs and simply stop offering the service entirely.
Just another reminder that the actual minimum wage is, in fact, always $0.
I actually can't figure out how to cancel my membership on the web or mobile. "Manage my Membership" just redirects to the Prime page.