skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe that this seems to be such a minority perspective.

I find it horrifying how many people seem to default assume that censoring is a good thing.

The internet may be harmful but it's not just a few explicit sites that you need to worry about. It's the whole thing. Either teach your kids to make good decisions or block them from the internet in full. There isn't a middle ground that works really. We are absolutely rocketing towards the worst kind of dystopia and it seems like a lot of people are on board with it.

I for one welcome our new overlords. /s
Is creating real money multiplayer versions of all these not a giant untapped opportunity? Cards and wagering are often a potent mix, yet only hold'em and rummy have gone in this direction for some reason
It is not a closed system, sure, but with current technology, we have at least decades, if not centuries of nuclear fuel reserves. If we count future tech that we already have proofs-of-concept for, millennia. By the time, I hope we have something more exciting (fusion maybe).

Nuclear waste is a non-problem, seriously. Yes, the material itself is pretty bad, but compared to the other pollutants, the quantities are tiny and easily manageable.

What is a problem right are the waste products of combustion, CO2 in particular, but also things like coal ash that is radioactive and is not conveniently contained in barrels. Unlike with nuclear power where we have a couple hundred years to deal with potential problems coming from its non-renewable nature, carbon emissions are a problem we need to do something about right now.
> I go to bed when I’m completely exhausted at +1am

is that bad? the time of sleep I 'need' seems to correlate with the amount of work I did that day

when i'm truly relaxing/vacationing i can even hit 5 hrs of sleep and wake up without an alarm, but after a particularly difficult work day, i may even need 8 hours to feel like i've slept that night
Framework AMD is almost as good and better on the freedom and maintenance aspects.
Heinz Zemanek
UK is getting in-show ads next month: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/12/amazon-prime-...
I was reading the note by Edgar Djikstra, "The go-to statement considered harmful". At the end of it he acknowledged that the first person that gave him the idea that the go-to statement was bad was Heinz Zemanek.
Sounds like a Womble infestation. If you check behind the shed you'll find Bernard Cribbins doing all the voices :P
Absolutely, but it being a pixel5a makes it much worse! But as you said, even a nexus 5 should be able to run a doc website.
The parents used to have a very meticulous rat living in their compost bin. It would carefully anrrange all the bits of food inside, chucking out the things it didn’t like. On particularly cold nights it would stuff used teabags into the gaps around the lid to block up the draughts.
+1. Sublime user on windows and mac. Never failed me last 6 years.
Windows 10 LTSC is still regular Windows and AFAIK all software, games included, work just fine on it. The MS Store is missing out of the box, but you can add it with 'wsreset -i' in Powershell.

Using LTSC arguably takes less effort than the "normal" versions, where you need to deal with all the bloat. In the end, though, they're not that different at all.
this is very interesting, thanks
I basically said 'why pay if it's free?', Not 'why not pay?'. It's free to read as you have stated, yet you want to own it, yet you don't want to pay any significant amount for it. I suspect that if they charged $10 for it you still wouldn't be happy.
Even if you accept a strong determinist position, there is still a distinction:

The determining factors driving a computer program can be fully quanitified; the sets of inputs and conditions is finite, can be reasoned over, and described fully.

That's basically the fundamental description of computing, in fact, and what makes a Turing machine.

The determining factors "IRL" are effectively infinite, a causal "chain" of infinite (or near infinite) complexity that expands backwards to the Big Bang, (or whatever) and sideways around the planet and beyond. There is no catalog you could make of all the "causes" that could isolate things enough to truly reason over and describe them all.

And so, yeah, to say it's all just "little programs" is the most ridiculous reductionism, that basically purposefully neglects to see the complexity and depth of the world around us.

I personally take a strongly determinist, materialist philosophical position. But I would never ever express that in terms of "programs" or anything similar.
As a user, I understand the benefit of Flatpak/Flathub or Snaps. I like doing 'apt install whatever' or 'apt remove whatever'.
Yeah, it's hard to imagine how "aerospace materials" might be found on the person who was last seen on a plane.
Just slice the spine off, and run it through a sheet fed scanner. I know, I know - Sacrilege!

But you can also just set the book on a table, open it, and photograph it with your phone camera. The result is perfectly legible on your monitor.
AFAIK 50mb is the entire WebRTC that has a lot of browser-related stuff. If you only needed P2P connection establishment, you could take old version of libjingle from the point in time when it was a separate library.
That doesnt seem to be the current IS state when it comes to certain companies. Some dont have a safety culture on company level but one of corruption and economically viable malpractice. Which means the negative effects you describe are already happening.

Once policing fails to stop their trend economic pressure is really the only thing that is left. Especially if policing failed due to said company being able to use economic power to influence the policymakers and the people tasked with enforcing those policies.

As long as people buy stuff from companies with a negative safety culture that have political pull, they dont have an incentive to change. I dont see an alternative to boycotting these dangerous malfunctioning actors.

edit: Or to get to your initial wording, this isnt about how to deal with people making errors or having poor judgement but people acting with intent for economic reasons.
This allows people who can not operate a mouse or keyboard to do this task.
Which bit of turning the moon into a cemetery strikes you as rational?
> If you have a healthy budget, just buy DSLR cameras and use those.

Do these scanning rigs lock the mirror and shutter of the DSLR?

If not, what MTBF are they looking at, when prosumer DSLR shutter life might be around 50K actuations?
physical entropy sources are crucial to cryptographic security; failing to use them properly has been a major source of insecurity in applied cryptography, most notably the debian openssl bug but also in some other cases. linux has had /dev/random and /dev/urandom for this for decades and has more recently added a getrandom() call

also, there are other intentional sources of nondeterminism in current programming environments, such as aslr and the random hash salt python and perl apply to thwart hash-collision dos attacks
"LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"
Not directly related to the phenomenon in the article, Numberphile has a video[1] that goes into why pi has a surprising amount of regularity despite being transcendental.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8Sg8qnjOg
Is he wrong? Give me a result published by a philosopher, and I'll give you a contradictory result published by another philosopher.
I provided reasons why I think throughput would be affected, such as the fact that roundabout is a curved road explicitly designed to slow traffic down. With slowed down traffic approaching from all directions it is reasonable, hence plausible, to assume that the throughput would be negatively affected. You instead just reply with some sophistry and don't bring any arguments grounded in reality. Especially your statement, that 'absent that proof, compatibility is plausible' just highlights that you don't even know what 'plausible' actually means because something can't be plausible by default, without any reasoning or facts backing it up
Right, that's normally what I'd use in this situation. But that means something more like "approximately equal to", whereas this notation seems more akin to "equivalence" as in an equivalence class. I don't have a clear memory of what notation we used for that in school, but it wasn't this symbol.
Do they have "unidirectional" transceivers to add more upload? Never heard of that just guessing.
>They were all the size of washing machines.

More like a cube - all dimensions equal.
And it was because they should fit into an American submarine hatch. After all, they were used there...
I have an Air 2 Pro. Last month I took it on a plane where I used it to watch Netflix on the iPhone and play games on the Steam Deck. I have an iPhone 15 Pro which uses USB-C. I wonder if that’s what allows it to work.
yeah, risc-v is nicer than 8086 or i386 or even amd64, but it's not as nice as arm. 8086 was surely 'cisc' but it's a pain in the ass
Haven't read the paper yet, but it's clear that the brain is much more sample efficient than artificial neural networks. We should be spending more time on figuring out why than scaling up LLMs.
Federal lobbying on artificial intelligence grows as legislative efforts stall
For a more comprehensive explanation of this behavior, look into the subject of Diophantine approximation; root 2, phi and other quadratic irrationals are badly approximable numbers (phi being the king of those), and their ability to "evade" rationals for a long time means their multiples are free to scatter around the interval more flexibly than better approximable ones. Diophantine approximation formalizes this heuristic; a good introduction is Khinchin's classic Continued Fractions.
Is the documentation for your projects all contained within the same repo as the code (and if so what are you using to render/view it) or do you just require an accompanying PR to wherever your docs live?
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If you enable clipboard history (Win+V), then you can click on the three dots over clipboard item to reveal additional options, and there will be a button to insert that item as a plain text.
Oh I didn't even know that, huh. I'm still hoping people eventually get the effect system approach to be sufficiently ergonomic for it to make it's way into more languages.
There seems to be no way to delete my account..
She doesn't seem to really be that into manga actually, even though we do watch some anime from time to time. Like we're churning through One Piece right now (although that's mainly thanks to seeing and liking the live action adaptation). I could give her the manga for it, but I don't think she'd be as interested as just watching the anime.

She hasn't expressed any interest in it, at least, where as soon as we finished Nimona she said "I want the graphic novel." And she doesn't own any manga, whereas she owns several dozen other graphic novels.
> It seems weird to have a whole separate organ for “make motor and cognitive skills work somewhat better.”

Does it? I’d think this was an absolute gimme.
I’m no nuclear physicist (only a climate/math physicist), so I had to look it up. If a helium-4 nucleus were to absorb a fission neutron, it looks like it would transmute to helium-5, which has a half-time of 602 ys (yoctoseconds), and decays by neutron emission[0]. So pretty much status quo.

For context, in 602 ys, light travels a distance equivalent to around a hundredth of an atom width, so it’s a rather short moment.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_helium
Is it? Why?

If it’s because of the religion of the deceased, there’s an easy fix: take someone who was an atheist.
It’s great to see a hardware report like this — thank you! — but I would love it even more if this was calibrated against other laptops.

That feels like a stretch for an individual to pull off. Linux OS vendors often have wikis saying what does and doesn’t work across many makes and models, but those still feel like isolated reports from a wide variance of reviewers. It’s hard to put an ordering across the reviews. It is literally comparing Apples with non-Apples.

Who has tried ‘em all and picked the best, what was it, and why?
Legal hurdles + not a lot of interest, probably.

People who are willing to spend time to learn a game usually "converge" on games where there's a large community, and pretty much every popular game under the sun that's in the public domain has been implemented over and over.
From another comment: https://github.com/katahiromz/RWordPad/releases
With Covid lockdowns I got a bit depressed and decided to give up my flat to travel around. When I looked at my bookshelf it broke my heart to give away/sell all my books, so I remembered the old story about Brin/Mayer (afair) at Google trying out how long it takes to photograph a book.

I did the same just with my bare hands and my smartphone with a rather short book and calculated it would take me ~2 weeks to create an imperfect (thumbs included) digitized copy of all my books. So that's what I did, eventually improving upon things:

- took a grill from the oven which stabilized the phone and relieved my arm

- created a couple of bash scripts to automate slicing and image compression

- run tesseract-ocr (fulltext search)

- ghostscript for making it a pdf
All automated and improved over time. No big bang, just trial and error and tiny steps.

Meanwhile I have hundreds of books. They're not perfect but perfectly readable/searchable. Why I am telling you this? Keep it simple. Unless you're more interested in engineering the "machine" than the actual product it's supposed to create.
>Version 1 of anything good is created in the US

And you call the OP's take a "weird take"? He brings up interesting points, whereas yours is just inaccurate.
I thought that was “approximately equal to”.
The Comics Journal: Frank Frazetta Interview (1994)
Both are spot on examples on what the cerebellum does. If I may, a third example/analogy that comes to mind is cache memory or L2ARC drives, at least that’s how I have it stored in my mind (pun intended) :-)
I think it can happen, but with current methodology, if has to be a fully mapped data set across known driving roads with car to car communication, with the model having some sort of truth data in relation to gps/compass information for self correction.

Simply mapping sequences of frames to decisions is never going to work without above.

To get fully safe, autonomous driving, we need to have agents that can on the fly adjust to operate on data sets that they have never been exposed to. This is not possible with current training methods.
Reject the Chaos, atone for Adam, restore Moksha, attain honour / glory, dissolve into Nirvana.

No one said you have to pick just one; maybe they were always parts of a bigger picture.
I was wondering where that quote came from as it’s not on the submitted
Guardian article. I found it at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67902966

I wouldn’t be overly suspicious. A wildlife enthusiast would be the in the right social circles if someone needed a night camera. Also, the mouse’s behaviour doesn’t seem to be too uncommon – just not well documented and/or recorded.
That kind of repetition is very common in smaller / less powerful models. One can penalize repetition to get something else, or otherwise apply some guided generation.

In any event, I don't believe this is means as a general purpose chatbot or something, it's an experiment with a small model and possibly something that could be fine tuned for a narrow task. There's not much point comparing it to much bigger models.
I bought a piece of software called StartIsBack that makes windows 11 feel a lot closer to windows 7 with some features and look and feel. $5!
yeah my standard for "fun CISC" is the 68000, the first machine I truly wrote assembler for (after handrolling 6502 by POKEing opcodes). It was a pleasure. Though I don't miss big-endian, I can't think like that anymore.
They probably will one of these days. Since most people buy a phone and keep using it until either it gets lost or it’s completely unusable, cutting corners and adopting a strategy of planned obsolescence makes sense.
I mean, there's tools that make it easy to make a .deb https://crates.io/crates/cargo-deb

The Rust Project itself had put a lot of work into making sure that Rust and Rust-using programs could get into Debian by working with Debian folks to address issues.

I suspect that you've run into an anecdotal pattern, but I'm not sure that it is more than that.
I think media queries will still be used for a long time, but yeah container queries are a great addition on top.
Eh. AI in the current box word form has nothing to do with super intelligence. Superintelligence is also overrated. What about a dumb fuck bot that just tries to be bad with social engineering to steal money? Frankly I think it’s inconceivable that we somehow get “superintelligent” bots acting with agency and destroying the world before we get “dumbass bots” acting at scale to make friends and then swindle their dollars.

Social interaction with agency is near and is a problem, but not a doomsday problem.

Hell, a lot of chat gpts apparent impotence is that the fact that it’s just a responded to prompts. A VERY light touch effort to make it actively conversational and speaking at its own cadence would feel very different.
He's actually dead on point.

Back in the day, here is Sokovia, there was a local competetitor to Facebook. They had a great start and everything went perfect for them, but it quickly turned out that the technical side was really bad. Sluggish interface, constant outages, etc.

They tried to rewrite the app from scratch two times, and eventually failed.

So yes, making sure you're moving in the right direction at the beginning of your journey is pretty important.
You don't have to overengineer and stay in your shed until you have a complete, feature complete product, but at least make sure, that you're building on the right foundation.
This seems like the logical direction to go. Many of these apps have to be opened up to each other -- they are "modules" in a system that each company has to cobble together -- because integration is part of how any work gets done with them. The effect is a sprawling and uncertain security and access story. Hopefully Nino can bring some harmony to all this. The simplicity of the end-to-end story -- from authoring to collaboration to content delivery -- is amazing.

One thing I wonder about, though, is the effect on the engines of innovation. Something that works well about the current system -- where chat, spreadsheets, &c, are all disaggregated from each other and we have a big mess of access click-throughs -- is that many different firms can enter the space and bring new energy and ideas to these problems. Say all the apps were consolidated from the get-go -- would we ever have gotten the amazing profusion of capabilities we have now? I imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.

Even when the new generation of knowledge worker apps integrate plugins, they don't seem to integrate them in a way that is amenable to commercial enterprises. For example, Obsidian does not have paid plugins, to the best of my knowledge. Without the commercial incentive, how far can that really go?
I'm not even an emacs user (20 year vim user) but learned (and now even teach clients) "Just enough emacs for magit". Magit truly is magic.
Could you share an example where you'd want this? Genuinely curious, haven't used these before.
Reminds me of the Spotify shuffle algorithm blog post:

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-son...
I did not realise MS stopped selling computer peripherals.

The "Sculpt Ergonomic Mouse" gets a lot of mixed reviews more on the negative side but it's the only mouse that helped with my wrist pain - the combination of its angle and it being fairly large is what does it.

The only problem is that the mouse button wears down after about a year, it's repairable with some superglue but the clickiness changes.

I hope the two I have last until onward starts selling them.
I understand this and it's similar to what happens with, for example, theft or shoplifting: if we cracked down really hard on it, the honest user's experience would be disproportionately impacted and our collective freedom could be restricted too (imagine policemen searching whoever exits a supermarket, or cameras spying and tracking virtually everyone everywhere). At the same time, it's profoundly unfair that we need to let a certain class of people (fraudsters, scammers, thieves) to live at society's expense and I would like something could be done about that. Who knows, maybe sample crackdowns with really heavy consequences.
Do modern GPU drivers install okay on LTSC? Would it be suitable for CUDA/PyTorch etc with NVidia graphics?
Try 20s.

Or don't bother with canned tomatoes from your link - things like flour, butter, milk and meat all got cheaper relative to the minimum wage.

Fresh tomatoes went from 25-30 cents per pound to 1-2 dollars per pound, i.e. got cheaper too.
> Out of curiosity, what specific tasks are easier using a GUI?

Personally, I really like being able to stage/unstage blocks of code or even individual lines in a GUI, if I've done some refactoring and added new logic at the same time, but want those in separate commits.

Aside from that, I really like working in a GUI, looking at the commit graphs, easily switching between any number of branches and merges being a right click away.

I actually ended up paying for GitKraken because it also makes managing multiple accounts (personal vs work) as easy as choosing what I want from a drop-down, as well as includes workspace functionality to group multiple repos together.

Before than, using SourceTree or Git Cola was also decent. Just feels like one of those things that are convenient with a GUI, except I enjoy standalone tools for that more than most IDE integrations.
If you are willing to use Sage, here is how to get the list of convergents of pi:

pcf = continued_fraction(pi)
pcv = pcf.convergents()

pcv[10] # prints your approximant
I do not have ADHD myself but when I do Army stuff I pack a lot of tiny knick knacks into my military uniform. When I started my career I would forget one or two things when leaving for work for the day. I learned to solve for that with a ritual. When I leave my barracks, or house, or hotel room, or whatever I would pat each pocket one by one just as a quick 2 second check. I haven’t needed to do this for more than 15 years but I still do it.

That kind of self-discipline and solution come naturally to people with exceptionally high conscientiousness even if they have minor ADHD. For people with serious ADHD and these kinds of rituals don’t work because the will to consider and apply them is completely absent. It isn’t a personality defect. It’s impaired hardware.
Western (or any other) civilization has gotten over insecure narcissism? What have I missed again?!