skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the only person in my life who expressly desires a “dumbphone” (which is to say a severely locked down version of Android with access to various messaging apps, the basic functionality of a phone, and maps) is that he is mentally unwell with various difficult-to-control urges and believes the only solution is to block his access to web browsers or anything that can be used as one.

His secondary reason is he misses the early 2000s aesthetics, which is something I am more in tune with.
In an alternate universe, I’m a Milton scholar. One of the things¹ that actually led to my not getting there was when I transferred schools and became a full English major instead of an English-Math double major. While I was the latter, I had registration priority at Pomona College as an English major even though I was enrolled up the street at Harvey Mudd. When I moved to Pitzer, I lost that priority and was bumped from the senior Milton seminar that I had hoped to be in.

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1. The other factor is my tendency to be a crappy student. Being more concerned about learning than grades (or even doing the expected work) is not a recipe for being able to get into a good humanities PhD program.
I don't like to put current projects on my profile because I jump to new ones fairly regularly, it would get out of date quickly. I'll go and put a link to my personal site on there, though.

You can see the project here: https://azstatic.danieltperry.me/steamvibes/build

I’m not 100% satisfied with the performance of the search, but it is what it is. I wanted to get what I had out instead of perfecting it all, since there's a ton of different things I can do that all have ambiguous amounts of impact to the results.

I might switch to using a different embedding model in the future since the current one I'm using seems to be fairly dated by this point.
You at least acknowledge there's a CO2 problem though, which was my only communication goal. Even if the end result is mostly ignoring it for the time being, I think our efforts will be much better spent if we agree that problem exists and decide to side-step it for rational reasons than if we bury our heads in the sand.
Some of the Nancy Drew games are supported in ScummVM, which means you'd be able to play them in higher resolution on many different platforms.
If you are into Music, you can give a go to Urban DJ https://urbanpoll.com/dj. It's an ongoing tournament of ordering 5 songs from a specific topic. Disclaimer - I've built it. It'd be fun if more people took part though.
Yep! I got some old word files off a floppy disk from 1996 and LibreOffice was the only thing I could find that could read them.
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Originally, US copyrights were 14 years with an optional 14 year renewal and you had to register it with the government and deposit a copy of it in the Library of Congress [0]. Copyrights were also limited to Americans because the purpose of the law was "the encouragement of learning" not allowing corporations to profit off of stuff they made a century ago. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution also says that the purpose of copyright is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" and specifically requires that copyrights be for a limited time.

In other words, we basically had that and politicians created the current system of copyright out of it thanks to 200 years or so of lobbying from special interests.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1790
You can use AGPL for commercial use. The limitation is that you will have to opensource any patch you make to it.
“Me no likee” - Joseph Agassi

This post of yours sent me looking for this and I ended up with (now reading) Agassi’s provocative (& brutal) takedown of this book. As to the content of the book, Agassi pointedly mentioned Weiner. I will of course read Weizenbaum after this. (thanks.)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286058724_Computer_...

p.s. continuing on, the review turns very positive. Initial vitriol apparently more related to the “two worlds” matter.
Regarding #5, the main reason why these substances are banned is that they have long-term health consequences beyond what normal performance in the sport might do to the athletes. It's not just a matter of "ok maybe we just have separate clean and doped leagues so we can have literal supermen running around the sportsball field".

That being said, the NFL already chews through athletes anyway so maybe they've already silently decided "football[0] is just inherently doped now".

[0] American football
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When you’re able to get a decent first-pass response on the prompt “AI, make me a specialized film restoration application and make it F/OSS”, will that be enough to tip the scales?
The Frame has become such a hit that Samsung is making a speaker version
I’m confident that you’ll figure it out on your own.
I don't think running raw llama.cpp under termux in a shell on your phone, after downloading and compiling it from scratch,, is really comparable to 'I made an app'.
You should be able to run these under WSl2 in Windows 11 then, I assume?
Rare out of print books are, of course, rare. The vast bulk are relatively worthless in the used market.
For those not noticing, all the posts were made in 2021.

I'm regretting I didn't get more done during the pandemic, but then I was a "critical" worker and I didn't get to stay home.
I had this exact same scam a couple months ago! I never figured out how they spoof the courthouse’s number though — any idea how they do that?
You might want to rethink how you communicate with people regarding subjects you have no clue about. A little humility goes a long way.

The original discussion started with XP/Agile and Kent Beck where you quite clearly had nothing to defend their achievements against Barry Boehm's whose works you seem to know nothing about. So instead you drag in Djikstra's works which are not under discussion here and somehow think that is valid? Also twisting my words to read non-existent meanings into them is merely a feeble attempt at trying to mask one's ignorance.
This would be my reason for a “dumbphone”, as a less distracting alternative. They also tend to be, in my limited research, cheaper, so if I am out traveling and it gets stolen I am not out hundreds of dollars but rather only $75-$100.
Lots of military analysts consider it unlikely that the patriot have ever intercepted even a single one of those hypersonic missiles.

Given the failure of the Patriot system to protect the Saudi from the primitive Houthi missiles I think that those analysts have a point. Ukraine is sometimes too enthusiastic on the information war front, to put it mildly.
Okay, the risk-free rate had been zero for so long that excess return was essentially equal to mean return.

That nit picked, the addition of any source of return greater than the risk-free rate, if uncorrelated to the rest of the portfolio, will improve Sharpe. If the return is small, then the optimal allocation is small as well, but still nonzero.

In CML terms, the existence of hedge funds as uncorrelated strategies changes the shape of the CML curve.
Seems like a stretch of the imagination. VC funding is already bone-dry so there are about 1000 different reasons not to get funding as it is. VCs are only investing in strong conviction plays. I'm skeptical that an investor would have strong enough conviction to want to fund you and then back out if you use Carta and put that in writing as the sole reason for not investing.

Even then the onus is pretty big for demonstrating damages for lost opportunity rather than direct financial losses. For example if you called your broker to put in a trade and they missed it and the stock 10x the next day, your SOL even though there is a theoretical missed financial windfall. its a different story if you asked them to close a position, they didn't and then you lost money since the latter actually has tangible losses as opposed to missed theoretical gains.
Withings' latest gadget combines a thermometer, pulse oximeter, EKG, stethoscope
They are content nodes.

a point of reference.
> you deprecated achievements like oberon as 'mere software'

This is a straight-up intentional misrepresentation of what was said. It was in response to your claim of Kent Beck's achievements and nothing whatever to do with Wirth's.

If that is what you understood then you need remedial English comprehension classes.
>a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed

As opposed to all other forms of financial mediums of exchange and money? I suppose they magically don't bring out greed in people? I never understood this notion of some mysterious, ambiguous "greed" demon that's only triggered by some X thing that someone naming it personally dislikes for some reason or another.

People are just people, trying to improve their state in life and using whatever new tools and resources exist for doing so, and in some cases having higher or lower levels of aquisitiveness based on their personalities.. Their levels of greed don't magically explode because some specific new thing comes long. Amusingly, it's common to see certain behaviors named as greed by people who think their own specific and subjective idea of how much another should want is correct. This of course is usually self-serving nonsense.
Trying to imagine the freedom one feels when working in a corporate that owns the town one lives in.

Schools, clinics, police, and other community aspects are all controlled by the same entity.

This is not communism per se, but perhaps even worse in some aspects.

Feels like a ginat kibbutz (1) to me. And all was done in the name of capitalism and the free world.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
I clicked on the link thinking it was about parasitic extraction and capacitance tables; referred to as "cap tables" in industry for circuit design. I was very disappointed.
Visualizing Ext4
China is lowering transaction costs for greater innovation
Age of the students? Is this a voluntary class or a school class?

I got better results with practical classes, each student in one computer. Two or three teachers for 20 students. Wander from student to student givig small advice. Never type, hide your hand behing your back, so the student must write.

I math classes, for homework, I like to write the assigment in the blackboard. If I have time to write it in the blackboard, they consider it more serious. It increase the voluntary homework answers from 10% to 30%. Only one exercice, not two, not ten, just one, but tell them it's important. (We have also a official long list of exercices, but this are additional selected important exercices.)
Windows XP was arguably Windows 2000 with a Fisher-Price UI bolted on, which in turn was "just" Windows NT with the Win98SE shell bolted on, so there's that, too.

(My MS kernel developer friends might disagree with this assessment, though)
Have you thought about use flutter for web as well? It seems a lot of effort to maintain 2 codebase for web and desktop
> At root, we must overthrow the persistent delusion of rugged individualism — the perverse American mythology that everyone must fend for themselves, no matter the cost.

I don't think the author considered their own bias since there is no mention of movements like gender ideology that are the epitome of individualism, which says that anyone can declare their own gender and identity. If you can define your own identity, how is society supposed to function in any coherent way? People can't predict your role in society, and so the default behavior is to ignore people and let everyone live their lives in whatever way they please. I'm not saying whether it's right or wrong, but it's a blind spot of the article's analysis.

Progressivism is aiming for the maximum amount of individualism, as it aspires to maximize individual freedom and create technology that empowers the individual, from cars to VR. The alternative is to maximize the family as the basic unit of society, but in order to do that you have to define what a family is, and right now it seems the status quo is dismantling the family structure and giving individuals direct control of their role and identity in society (which amounts to having no roles).
It’s great for all the people still living in 1992. The rest want good collaboration tools with a grammar checker
it has double the VRAM on a single card, thats significant
Well, that's the genius in the Military Industrial Complex propaganda.

Russia is either pathetically weak and so we can push their buttons at our heart content or it is a all powerful evil entity and we need to spend like a trillion to close the missile gap.
Disabling auto-lock is definitely a thing, as anyone that's ever tried to use an iPhone in a car for navigation knows.

It's very possible the phone has a passcode but was sucked out while someone was using it, and never put to sleep.

Also worth noting the owner had a screen protector, so that may have quashed that everlasting debate.
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> special cells in the Cerebellum (Purkinje cells), which can even do single-cell learning.

As a neuroscience novice, I've always assumed that something about the gross model of the neuron, as far as I understand it, cannot be correct or is incomplete. Because I never understood why single cells aren't already performing single cell learning, given that there are always far more dendrites than axons.

Since this characteristic turns each neuron into a lossy compression function, there has to be some process by which certain dendrites are considered 'more important' carriers of information than others, in order to make a tie-breaking decision about what to include in the compressed signal, and what to throw out, as the cell decedes whether or not to transmit an impulse (including whether or not to override prior inhibitory signals) back up the axon.
Yes, how dare you have an hour of leisure time per day. Unthinkable.
The question driving AI hype
Knowing Better put together a pretty good vid on the history of Comapny Towns in the US:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rzFyBdKLvU
jeffbee worked at Google.
> can there be a company that provides a service, is profitable, the customer are happy and that is that?

Sure, but with every artistic medium except video games you are making very little or even losing money on the medmium itself. The average episode of a TV show costs 1m dollars per episode (and I'm unfortunately being very conservative here. feel free to look up how much your favorite show costs) and it's being offered on a streaming service that people pay $5-15 a month for. BUT it is also offered alongside hundreds of other shows and payout is based on views. Even if you were the only show here, were talking about needing 100k-200k views per episode to be sustainable. But no one is paying $5/episode to begin with.

Video games only succeed because they charge these sorts of premiums (or because of various f2p monetiztions, but that's another rabbit hole). People will pay $60-70 per new release. But of course, your average AAA video game is much more expensive to produce as well, so it still has issues.

For the scale of presentation desired and the amount of money people are willing to pay, you really can't have a profitable service from the service itself. And unfortunately that mentality is part of why companies are jumping so hard into AI. pay less people, make more content faster. It's a win-win-win if you only care about money and not artistic quality and integrity.
The time period was 2010 to 2019. Even since 2019, the NHS has several hundred billion in planned budget increases.

My favorite thing about dysfunctional UK political rhetoric is when someone will say "the Conservatives are slashing the NHS!" when what they really mean is that they've slightly decreased the rate of increase, so by every metric it's still skyrocketing (but not enough to those who want to dump infinite cash in the middle management growth machine).

Another fun factoid: the pro-Brexit crew were chided for claiming they'd increase NHS funding by 350m Euros a week. Since Brexit, NHS funding has actually increased by more than double that.

Nothing can stop the NHS cash burning. Expand middle management at all costs. Nevermind that we're outspending comparable countries with comparable health pressures.
Grasshopper, a low-level programming language for the 6502 (1981)
Contacts and calendar are nice to have in the same place as email, because of needing to email contacts and because of calendar invites. Then again, if you use an email client you can use a mix of providers even for those features.

I'm not sure I see the need for any other additional apps next to email. Let alone the feeling of being forced to.
This article was written in 2014 and I do not know if the specifics are still true. However, I think mathematicians and biologists work in two different levels of abstraction.

One is a lawful good with occasional venture into chaotic good, only to reform the chaos. The other is a true neutral with lot of expeditions into chaotic evil just for fun.
Thanks for writing this out, I appreciate the super-long feedback.

1. Nino competes with a better foundation and architecture. It is true MSFT and GOOGL have more engineers, but I'd say startups don't compete with thousands of them, just a dozen or fewer actually working on the product. Btw, pivot tables are supported, check out the "Widgets" button at top right corner.

2. You have good points here. The communication on the use cases can definitely be improved. As you and others have pointed out, Nino's landing page does feel like a documentation page for other devs right now...

3. It is solo and I view it as a life's work in progress. It is precisely because I want it to stay for the long term that I've resisted seeking any VC for now, to not dilute and lose too much control in the beginning.

Thanks for the recommendation on the possible directions going forward, I'll think about them!
Standard government procedure. Neglect investment for a few years, let things degrade, and then you have an emergency where nobody is going to question you why you are building the whole fucking thing again from scratch, no expenses spared! after all, it is an emergency!

You can do this with the educational system, with health care, and with infrastructure. Of course they would also do it with Defense. Lockheed/Northrop/Boeing/etc executives need to have their bonuses too!
Stallman knew exactly what was coming
I have my books divided into two sections. The books I’ve read and those I’ve not yet read (or that I have read but desire to re-read). The latter currently takes up a bit less than 18 80cm Billy bookcase shelves. Allowing for incoming books,¹ I estimate I can clear a shelf a year, so I should get this down to zero before I die. I also keep a list of books that I plan to check out from the library, which currently has 1,255 books on it. This would be 25 years of reading if I never add anything to it, but if books go on at the same rate that they go onto my to-read shelves, it’s more like 50 years, and I doubt that I have 50 years of reading life ahead of me.

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1. Barring sudden influxes of books which does happen on occasion. Moving most of the books off of my Amazon wishlist into a wishlist at my local indie’s website² has reduced the chances of this happening at Christmas or my birthday which has happened in the past.

2. Which has about 130 books on it right now.
I knew it was capital tables, but I do think we’re the only people in this thread who have absolutely no idea what’s going on. Sure sounds scandalous though.
I respect the Navajo beliefs but I'm thinking: some day the moon may be colonized. Colonists will die. So what is what they would propose so they wouldn't object? To ship the corpses back to Earth? As I said, it's a belief worthy of respect but I don't think it's going to be future-proof.
Nooooo!!! There are 2.452.267.994.236 genders in the world! How dare you put only two of these?
Not living. But liveable. Not alive but not dead. Sort of pre- death, but post- life. How about: statically being
SEEKING WORK, REMOTE - WORLDWIDE

Remote: Yes. I have been working remotely with clients from USA, UK/EU, AUS/NZ for last 12+ years.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Senior Ruby on Rails developer with 12 + years of experience, Rails upgrade, Rails security audit, Rails tech-debt reduction planning, DevOps, fractional CTO

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvnKGKM6T2yAtkMhShAyxJtS...

Email: skfix@outlook.com

I am Sunil, a Ruby on Rails specialist with super happy clients from all over the world. I am open to part-time, but will prefer full-time opportunities. I work on a contract basis through my firm incorporated in India.
> I was their age myself

Gotcha. It’s hard to reason about in that case and I agree it’s really frustrating when you’re in the same peer group.

As much as I struggle to understand why someone would fall for something as obviously bad as smoking, I have ADHD and routinely have to explain why things that are easy for others are hard for me. We all have strengths and weaknesses. One of the only universal weaknesses is that we are all bad at understanding what is hard for others.

I teach 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. Executive function is a skill. Some people are better at it than others.

I think the ULTRA hard thing to realize about other people is that they’re not like us. Even when we are comparing a peer group. What is easy for you and me might be hard for others. The inverse is true as well. Empathy is hard.

When it comes to smoking, I think of it like cult indoctrination. It doesn’t work on everyone, but it REALLY works on the people who are susceptible to it, and intelligence unfortunately has very little to do with it.
I stick to PDF for that sort of thing. No need for them to edit your resume, right?
I agree. At least just publish the solution of RSA260 in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge
oh!! I understand what they are.. but the sentence struck me as funny. Maybe juvenile humor, but still humor :)

We used to be slabbing and slobbing, but now we are just slubbing and I am blabbing about it.
I think they’re referring to CUDA (and possibly other similar runtimes) being able to schedule floating point ops non-deterministically, combined with floating point arithmetic being potentially non-associative. I’m not personally sure how big an issue that would be for the output though.
LibreOffice supports grammar checking with LanguageTool, which blows Word's grammar checker out of the water.
I do both of these with my xReal Airs. The airplane head tracking doesn’t work stellar due to the movement of the plane, but the fixed screen mode works there. Much more comfortable than using the laptop screen.
SEEKING WORK, REMOTE - WORLDWIDE

Remote: Yes. I am working remotely with clients from USA, UK/EU, AUS/NZ for last 12+ years.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Senior Ruby on Rails developer with 12 + years of experience, Rails upgrade, Rails security audit, Rails tech-debt reduction planning, DevOps, fractional CTO

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvnKGKM6T2yAtkMhShAyxJtS...

Email: skfix@outlook.com

I am Sunil, a Ruby on Rails specialist with super happy clients from all over the world. I am open to part-time, but will prefer full-time opportunities.
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