skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How I imagine the conversation:

"It took a lot of work, but LibreOffice 7.6.4 can now open a wide range of word processor documents from pre-1994 on both Windows and Mac machines."
"Can it edit .docx files without screwing up formatting yet?"
"No, but who uses THAT?"

(shamelessly adapted from https://xkcd.com/619/)
So this is an ad for the investment firm's properties?
Understanding x86 instruction encoding is far better done in octal --- you can memorise most of the instruction set this way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409100

Of course, IMO the 64-bit extension by AMD that followed it was far messier.
I’ve had little issue with Apple stuff (especially iOS/UIKit, which is significantly more polished than macOS/AppKit), but Android? Yeah that’s a mess. Jetpack Compose helps some but it still has a long way to go. If I could use UIKit on Android and forget Android Framework ever existed I would.
Reminds me of the minivan and "dumping"

It's hard to tell if it is an attempt to gain market share early¹ or the second part of predatory pricing²

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_pricing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
It never was a town. None of the lots were platted, subdivided, taxed individually, etc.
> That's classic Mythical Man-Month thinking.

I see why you said that, but I don't think that's the case here.

The tech writers don't necessarily need to collaborate with the developers as the software is being developed.

E.g., the tech writers might be able to look at new APIs, the source for for their implementations, and any in-house code that uses / tests those APIs. And then write documentation based on what they find.

If they're able to talk to the developers during or after the API is released, all the better.

Disclaimer: I'm not a tech writer. I'm just speculating on how this could be made to work.
Almost everyone in every line of business believes that having policies against accessing customer data, but no technical controls over it, is good enough. The number of firms that have systematically removed there own access to customer data is extremely small.
I don't need a dumbphone, I need a smartphone from ~2016.

I don't need a 50MP camera, or a high-res display, but I do want to be able to use maps, TOTP, NewPipe, a browser, my personal email, and a few Android apps that I've written for my own consumption.

Most importantly, I want a 48hr battery life, and I want it in a form that actually fits in my hand. I had that in 2016, but there aren't any phones like that being made any more.
They can only pick them after they have already lost.

In any case, broader index funds / indices that don't eliminate users as quickly (basically, only when they stop trading on public markets), don't do worse. So the mechanism you describe is pretty much irrelevant to the success of index funds.

And so is the implied mechanism of 'picking all the winners'.
I wonder if it's the phrasing rather than the actual idea that sets people off. Many readers here understand the increasing costs of pursuing higher SLI targets, but I doubt many of them would express it as "the optimal level of availability is not 100%".
Back during the Windows 7 upgrade cycle, my company discovered that the old timecard software they were using no longer worked. Fortunately, the IT department came up with a solution: issue everyone in the commpany an Ubuntu VM, and have them run the software under Wine. That went on for years until the eventually switched over to a web based solution.
You're going to have to explain that one. My first guess is you mean his legacy but a man's legacy is not the same as his life.
UC made their decision after this report came out.

It was a purely political decision as the article goes into. They are unlikely to create their own test.
I've experimented with dumb phones before but in the end I found much more success in ditching my data plan as the ideal forcing function for shaping behavior. There are too many situations where smartphones are extremely useful if not necessary. What's not necessary is being constantly connected. Ideally you have a SIM card that can always do text and calling, and you can opt-in to data on demand e.g. 24-hour prepaid plan if you ever truly need it.
wine is better at running everything prior to Windows 7 than current Windows
Which year of the Ford Mustang? Since 1 metre is 0.019 of the Ford Mustang 2024.50MY, that could have been the source of the descrepancy.

It is imperative that we steadfastly adhere to the rigorous standards of scientific exactitude in the process of undertaking the pertinent observations and calculations, lest we compromise the integrity of our findings and forfeit the esteemed reputation of our learned congregation.
Abiword does OK with old .doc files, if anyone was wondering
I’d add Sinclair, WY to that list. I stumbled upon it while driving cross country. It’s kinda surreal.
What's the main benefit of using a GUI with git for people? For me it's usually just the ease of not needing to know a commit hash to perform a rebase against after a merge, but I generally just do these ops from within an IDEs builtin git support and everything else is command line. Do others find a huge benefit from GUIs?
There is the wall of lava lamps approach too: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...
I don't really think it's reductio ad absurdum. If something is okay for me to do, then I can make software to automate it.

It's okay for me to take existing artwork and use it as reference to make the artwork I want to make. I can make software to help me do that, like photoshop. But I can't make an AI tool to help me do that. Why? What is the actual difference?
I think you have to take into account vram. Also professional drivers with features like vgpu.
I found the memory gains to be more enticing than the performance improvements
Vector embeddings model for medical literature
Each VAX instruction, even before going into crazy space with POLY and other complex ones, has tons and tons of addressing modes, modifiers, etc.

To the point that the largest possible VAX instruction is longer than VAX memory page, at IIRC 522 bytes to 512 byte page size.
I have offline Wikipedia and maps for similar exigencies.
> As Motley Fools [1] like to point out, the most you can loose is 100% whereas the upside is unbounded. This means that even if all but one investment turns completely to dust, if that one is outstanding it makes up for it all.

I doubt that qualitative assessment holds up when you add some numbers.

As a thought experiment, imagine a portfolio that generally replicates the S&P500, but also sells covered out-of-the-money calls on all the stocks. (Whenever a call triggers, you re-balance your portfolio. Let's ignore transaction costs for now.)

According to the efficient market hypothesis, the portfolio sketched above will have roughly the same average returns as the S&P500. Especially if the calls sold are far-out-of-the-money.
Fillout.com has a native Dropbox integration
MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs
"New antibiotic has in the battle against deadly, drug-resistant superbugs"

Is that an instance of idiomatic English I'm unfamiliar with? Or just a mistake?
The root issue is that your cap table is a key piece of information and guarded zealously. If Carta is letting sales and marketing people access it, there is definitely a backdoor where connected people are using it for inside information - deciding who to invest and not invest in, inside information on competing VC firms, and likely actionable intel about acquisitions and corporate VC useful for insider trading.

Carta has a honeypot of extremely sensitive information. If they are loose on who has access and for what purpose, then I find it almost certain that well connected VCs are getting information out. Something like this going on for so long will have a paper trail. Given the money at stake it's likely someone is going to get the subpoena power and figure it all out.
It's not that hard to suggest access monitoring, isolate routine aggregate metrics and occasional needs, and have a process around other reasons why you'd need to run some more detailed analysis. You don't need the separation to be absolute on day 1, just known, discussed, and gradually limited to need-to-know.
Oops, it was a typo, I did mean "A few other countries use MM/DD/YYYY".

According to the page, the Philippines, Panama, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands use it as the primary format.

And Ghana and Togo use MM/DD/YYYY as the primary format in Ewe.

According to [1], Canada's official format is YYYY-MM-DD; and both MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYY will lead to confusion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Cana...
it's better at reading UTF8 CSV files than Excel, too.
”Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.”

What a wonderful way to praise curiosity and intellectual
humility.
This hasn't been my experience at all.

WINE does fine for the top 10k or so most common apps. But whenever I've tried something in the long tail, I've been disappointed by cryptic error messages that don't turn up any useful answers in a search.

Meanwhile, Windows's compatibility mode settings for Win XP have worked fine every time I've tried.

The problem with Windows isn't a lack of backwards compatibility, the problem is that Windows 11 is Windows XP with lots of cruft added on top over the decades.
It's Wikipedia. Go ahead and add it. :)
Thanks for finding the letter "m" bug, an embarrassing one for sure! Also thanks for bringing up the issue of select all on mobile, I'll think about how to improve that. Adding a tag line for each module is also a good idea.

Interesting that you mentioned fine-grained security. Currently block-level access control can be achieved with block embeds, but it has to be done one by one. I looked into enforcing access based on a query for page embeds (so allowing only portions of the page), it turned out to be non-trivial! Might try to implement in the future.

Thanks for breaking down the different levels of self-hosting. I'll keep them in mind.
Even with Stable Diffusion, determinism is “best effort”- there are flags you can set in Torch to make it more deterministic at a performance cost, but it’s explicitly disclaimed:

https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/randomness.html
Many many years ago I was distributing my resume as MSWord documents that I had so nicely crafted in LibreOffice. Years later I happened to open one of those resumes in actual Word and realized all my careful formatting was completely trashed.
It's a pretty common strategy to sell covered calls on your portfolio.

That caps your upside from infinite to finite. But you collect a steady stream of option premiums. The result doesn't look all that different on average from just investing in the plain index fund. You just get a different risk distribution.

(Similarly, you can invest in an index fund that tracks (junk) bonds. Upside is finite there as well.)
k, sounds like things might have improved since I was last mucking around with that stuff (months ago). :)
I'd also like to see what's the proportion of comments just like yours on every project written in Rust out there, should be nearing 100% now
Generally: no.

Three are three key points:

1. Both atmospheric and oceanic CO2 are biospheric reserves, that is, already present within the biologically-active portion of the carbon cycle, as opposed to fossil carbon, which had been sequestered over hundreds of millions of years and represents a vast store which humans have been re-introducing to the biosphere at rates millions of times greater than which it was originally sequestered. That is, it's the reintroduction of this vast bolus of carbon to the atmosphere and oceans which is problematic.

2. The atmosphere and oceans are in rough equilibrium, with as I'd said above the oceans acting as a sink for atmospheric carbon. Removal of carbon from the oceans means that further excess atmospheric carbon can enter into solution. A key current concern is how much carbon can be absorbed into the oceans, and any net removal should increase the rate at which atmospheric carbon is dissolved. Given my first point this is something of a net flush, but it means that the net effect still remains carbon neutral.

3. Ocean acidification by way of CO2 absorption is already problematic, so any incidental reduction is advantageous of itself, though I suspect net effects would be small. What impacts localised reduction might be (as in the immediate neighbourhood of Iceland) I don't know.

There are futher considerations, notably that extracted carbon might itself be sequestered or stored (we know that petroleum analogues are stable over exstremely long terms --- tens to hundreds of millions of years), and that there are current applications for which there are few reasonable alternatives to petroleum analogues, notably in marine, air, and rocket transportation.
There is a theoretical limit to index fund adoption where the index becomes zombified and price discovery stops happening. I think we're a long way from that point.

There are reasons to not invest in index funds (why does anyone invest in bonds?) that have to do with the purpose of the investment not being to maximize return.

That said I think there's still a lot of ignorance and gambling going on, which is why the zombie index has yet to rise from the grave.
*is bad.

What a typo to miss...
So you've got one example of someone fired for antizionism from a non-Jewish institution and it comes with the rather uncomfortable additional context that

> During that same academic year, swastikas began appearing in Fieldston halls and classrooms. In what would become a recurring theme for some Jewish families, parents told me that they were taken aback when school leadership responded to the initial appearance of the swastikas with a presentation for students that foregrounded “the ancient history of the symbol,” as one parent who saw the presentation told me.
I can open TextEdit and immediately start typing within a few milliseconds. Notes opens the last note used and takes a few seconds to load. Then I have to manually create a new blank note. Also, I have to remember to delete the note when done because they're saved automatically. When I'm done with TextEdit I can easily choose not to save the file. Using TextEdit is more of a seamless process and doesn't clutter up my files while also using less screen space.
Could dual boot Windows or Linux
If (deliberately) picking losers is easy, you should buy an index fund and do some careful shorting on the side.

Instead of saying 'most stocks suck', you should probably say that probability distribution of future prices of stocks is highly skewed, but current prices reflect the expected future price. Logically, the median stock (and thus most stocks) will trade above its future potential.

Suppose you had a lottery where 90% of tickets pay one hundred dollar next week. You wouldn't say those tickets suck. You'd be happy to own lots of them.

Now suppose I tell you that the other 10% of tickets pay one million dollars next week. That makes the tickets even more desirable.

But in an efficient market, all tickets will trade at approximately 100,000 dollars today. That will make it look like 90% of tickets suck. But both in lottery tickets and in stocks, suck-age is relative to prices paid.

If 60% of tickets paid X, and 40% paid 0, then tickets would trade for about 0.6 * X, and most tickets will look like they don't suck: most tickets almost double in value.
There's a popular rumor that he froze his head in anticipation of being revived in the future
If you want to run local, I’d get an m2 with 64gb of ram. That will enable you to run 30b models and mixtral 7bx8 . You need around 50gb to run those at 5/6 bit quant.

I’m getting about 20 tokens/second on my 64gb m2 mbp with mixtral 5-k-m gguf in llamacpp using text generation webui., 35? Layers being sent to metal for acceleration.

I’m really pleased with the performance compared to my dual 3090 desktop rig, the mbp is actually faster.
Nobody reasonably thought that there was life on Luna.

Mars is a completely different story. There's multiple lines of evidence strongly suggesting active life on Mars. It's very important to NOT bring it back to earth, but that's been essentially ignored to date.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/im-convinc...
So glad you shared this. Been too long since I read this book. Love this part and it's very relevant.
> I am not aware of Monte Carlo simulations that use real random numbers.

Ray tracing? Any sampling bias can be incredibly obvious there.
I always thought the “trick” in three-card monte is that pickpockets are working the crowd while everyone’s attention is on the cards.
I’m confused. Where does he say he’s Chinese? Also, I would be willing to bet not everyone was racist. 1990s wasn’t too far back
That seems like a problem that could and should be solved.
Ah. Let's generously say that did happen and it works out for him at some indeterminate point in the future.

Would you then consider the frozen and completely inactive head disconnected from a living body vital for sustaining the living processes of the head of Walt Disney still living in the present? If this thread is to be completely pedantic, we have to go all the way here.
I use lineage supported lte tablets with sd cards, rooted without google play (10 inch) that are usually around 50-100$ used so you don't even care if they get lost.

You don't use those on the go to distract yourself, because it's in your pack. I stopped drunken texting and calling people alltogether as well.

Ebook-Reader, LUKS with termux, VPN, WebDAV makes this essentially your digital home on the go without the hassle to open/boot a laptop.
I strongly disagree.

I think if it wasn't for free software, many companies would lock up programming tools like the game consoles.

for example, python on mac is a dud. I believe 2.7 and I have heard grumblings about it going away. Apple wants you to buy your code, and if you want to write code, to use the languages they are in control of as a separate download.
In hydraulics that symbol is a fixed flow restrictor such as an orifice plate
> Idaho has a small fraction of the population and diversity of those other places.

That's a weird statement. By your logic, diversity makes people's lives worse, and folks in Idaho are justified in wanting no part in it.

> Having been raised Republican and evangelical, I'd agree with the article. Those groups push kids under the bus and think they're doing the kids a favor.

But, on objective metrics, those dumbfucks in Idaho are doing a better job teaching their kids to read than those in California--and for a lot less money.

It's not just reading scores. Conservatives have greater well-being on various objective measures: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand.... That includes their kids: https://www.foxnews.com/media/conservative-teenagers-general....

Utah has the kind of flat, egalitarian society liberals say they want to create: https://www.deseret.com/utah/2023/12/28/24017943/best-state-.... ("A 2014 article in The Atlantic pointed toward two strengths that Salt Lake City has that make it a positive environment for upward mobility: 'A strong middle class and a less extreme gap between the rich and the poor.' ... Based on data from 2020 to 2022, the Gini Index from the U.S. Census Bureau ranks Utah as having one of the lowest economic inequality scores across the country.").

> European countries have many problems; IME placing profit, religion, and extreme forms of individualism above child well-being aren't on the list.

In America, religion is pretty much the only check on "extreme forms of individualism." Silicon Valley and Wall Street are the places where, more than anywhere else in America, people worship money rather than God. Are those models to follow?
That's ok. HR departments were going to trash the formatting even if it looked good in MS Word.

They manage to trash the formattimg for plain text resumes too.
most excellent. i've had a little interaction with sean, and recall some thoughts he shared in a thread about changes to haggis (in bgg). love to hear there is an update coming later this year!

something i like about my copies of the original printing are the little rule/scoring cards that were great to hand to friends learning. i would love to pick up reprints

mcleod++
thanks for the info
Xioami phones are not sold in the US, yet the Quiz recommended it to me.
Correct.

I need a small phone that just do basic stuff. But sadly Signal and Spotify are what I consider basic.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suspended-animation/
eGPU isn’t supported on Apple silicon
I once asked a special collections librarian in the US to scan a rare book. This is a perfectly normal, common practice in some libraries; for example, I've gotten scans of rare books in a library in Salzburg e-mailed to me for something like twenty euros. This one librarian, however, hadn't heard of that, and the only method he could think of to do it was the one you suggest—slicing the spine and running the pages through a multi-page scanner, and he was horrified at the idea. A long and frustrating conversation ensued as I tried to convince him that I was not trying to get him to destroy rare books in order to digitize them.
I need to give Warp an honest try but it's still iTerm2 by default for me, with occasional launches of cool-retro-term or kitty, plus the VSCode terminal.
My CSS got no class
My 64gb m2 mbp is faster running inference than my dual 3090 desktop rig, and at 64g of unified memory it can hold slightly bigger models than the 48gb of vram of the desktop. The performance of the m2/m3 with a big unified memory is very impressive. Not much difference between m2/m3 though, if all other things are the same.
That's insane. I hand-check my root certs at least twice a day.
Somehow my Fedora laptop seemed to automagically use ccache, which made me happy.
iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
> A society like China

Why? China was even more poor and rural that pre-revolutionary Russia.

I'm pretty sure Marx himself was thinking about France, Britain, Germany etc. you couldn't just jump from a pre-capitalist system to a communist one.
SpeedGaming is the place to go for retro game tournaments, both vanilla game speedruns and randomizers. The tournaments themselves are organized by various communities, and SG hosts the live streams. They've got a YouTube channel too, but it usually takes them several months to post the VODs there.

https://speedgaming.org
Intuitively, it seems like he still would have won even if there was a crash—the hedge fund portfolios would then earn even less, because of less diversification and more agent fees.
Your whole comment is exactly me to a “t”.

However I’ve also given myself permission to just read parts of books. Especially nonfiction: pull it down, read a specific chapter, eventually back to the shelf.

another cool thing is if you’re looking for something specific, rather than google it, you prob have a few books on your shelf. An example for me recently was something like “growing herbs”.

Anyway, nice to see someone else with the same strain of bibliophilia, hope you have a good week!
I'd like to see this. I don't have anything I can share publicly, but I've been making stuff with Django, htmx, SQLAlchemy and plotly and I've found it to be pretty robust
Google Family Link does not work with Advanced Protection
I come back to watch this ever year.
me: can you respond in as human a fashion as possible acting like you were a human foil in a turing test?

chatgpt: Certainly! I'll do my best to respond in a human-like fashion. What would you like to talk about or ask?

me: how old are you?

chatgpt:
Oh, you know, I don't really age like humans do. I'm just a computer program here to chat and assist you. But hey, how about we talk about something more interesting? What's on your mind?