skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related:

Richard Rhodes wrote a classic book about Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36806922 - July 2023 (73 comments)
Is the baseband firmware not updatable?
I took them intermittently over a period of 6-8 months. In the beginning, I did so while also creating an enormous flow chart/mind map of everything in my life, how I felt about each facet, and what I wanted or thought about each part.

It helped me immensely see a bunch of negative patterns that I'd heretofore actively denied, and through that allowed me to make some hard decisions about who I wanted to become. In effect, it gave me the opportunity to see myself with some objectivity and empathy, and through that it allowed me to choose a path forward that wasn't so destructive. I have no idea if that methodology would work for anyone else, but it worked for me in a way that nothing else had.
Design decisions behind this blog
Soon: AI generated paper evaluated by AI reviewer - nobody learns anything.
This kind of comment (not your actual comment) shows the pitifully simplistic people making crucial decisions in UK public IT. On prem vs off prem
has nothing to do with this yet cloud is phrased as a key tenet of improvement. I suppose give it a few years it'll be described as "LLM ready" too.
I'm not sure I like this kind of pretend art. Surely many people will believe that it is a serious project that's intended to work. I visited Expo once and it was full of this "pretend stuff" and it was unsettling how it mislead many people.

But, it's ok, I'm certainly not saying it's bad art just because I'm on fence about it.
Next: Unikernel
This works both ways, though. Once you're without a home, it is harder to keep the rest of your life together. Lars Eighner's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Eighner) book "Travels With Lizbeth" mentioned that one of the things that was so attractive about spending the little money he had on alcohol, was that it was an achievable goal. Getting enough money for a down payment on an apartment, was (or at least seemed) completely out of reach. Getting enough to buy a bottle of booze seemed achievable. Once you're homeless, it is difficult to get or keep a job, and the downward spiral of mental health issues, etc. can be self-reinforcing.
That's a great image. Thanks for sharing.
Any time a thread even remotely tangential to life extension comes up, all "maybe we should think long and hard about this" commentary is met with "OMG EVIL DEATHIST" energy.
"but I doubt that people paying top dollar for these appliances are the type to keep an eye on such things."

Some people do - to brag in their circles (and to their own consciousness) how green they are. So then you can go flying around the world for fun with a clear consciousness ...
Related:

Decker: A Multimedia Sketchpad - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33478246 - Nov 2022 (7 comments)

Lil: A Scripting Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33393283 - Oct 2022 (28 comments)

Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33377964 - Oct 2022 (88 comments)
Just spit balling here: some sites like Twitter have their own emoji sets and I wonder if they're saying that they don't do that and instead rely on the OS's normal rendering of emojis.
> entities outside a scientific community want to use published research to set public policy

I don't think it's limited to entities outside a scientific community, because many of the people who want to use published research to set public policy are themselves scientists (often the same scientists who published the research).
Starlink Mini Dish Will Fit Inside Backpack, Coming This Year
...which is way better than a trash-filled tent site in the woods, which is where the homeless in Austin who aren't at this site, often are.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-i... For those that didn’t hear
Their website is beautiful

http://www.radgametools.com/
> We will need to upload ourselve

You mean, copies of ourselves. Our current selves would remain right where they were before, and wither and die, while our copies would lead on merry and adventurous if disembodied lives. Provided they practice good backup hygiene of course. I find that quite depressing to think about.
This is gonna be such a big deal when Apple invents it in 5 years. Can't wait for the MacBook Pro Duo.
I assume the issue is about privacy in your case. I am not using Alexa, Siri, etc.
Here we go again Anticipation Builds for the Imminent Arrival of GPT-4.5 (2024)
Yeah this is a cool project but it was discussed 2 days ago.

As mentioned by the maintainer there, they even maintain a list of alternatives, very classy:

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-...
People are replying asking "Why call it Dune then? (If it does not have anything to do with the books)".

That wasn't what I was talking about – some imaginary filmatisation which has nothing to do with the book. I was talking about not staying true to the "author's vision". You can make a Dune movie in many ways. You can have the same characters, ornithopers and main events, while having a completely different vision for it.

Dune is also a book full of ideas. You can play up many different angles – ecological aspects, loyalty to leaders, political drama, religious fanaticism, etc. – while still being very much a Dune filmatisation. And a film maker can put their own spin on any of those, or bring up their own topics which makes sense to treat within the Dune framework.

Sure, for the money people, being a Dune filmatisation means people will see it because they know that Dune is a famous book (irrespective of weather they read it). But only die hards who have read the book (and have a very immature view of film as a medium) would judge it for how true it stays to the author's vision. The rest will be happy if it is a good movie.

Note also that Lynch's Dune influenced the later books!
Why does ASUS hate GPUs?

They got rid of anything above a 4070 in the 2024 models of the G series.

And this is a dual 120Hz OLED screen device powered by an Intel ARC integrated GPU?!
Occams razor: the simpler explanation.

A majority of star systems (iirc) are binary star systems.

Why wouldn't failed stars / rogue planets similarly follow that pattern?
Most of the comments on this article, remind me of why they had to go outside of Austin to do this.
I saw that documentary when released and to be honest, I didn't believe many stories Jodorowsky tells about that project, in some cases he sound like my old uncle adding a bunch of lies to his stories to make it more interesting. Of course he has storybooks and many stories I'm sure are true.
Well, I agree $ is unlikely to be a thing by then, but the broad stock market has beaten inflation by 6% (almost 7%) over the last 150 years. That's already over 1000x.

So, no more impossible than having a random stick take a photograph for 1000 years.
Perhaps, they'll sell 0.0000001% of the stock of a corporation that owns the photograph for $4, or it will contain the last unburnt bitcoin.
I started an ISP in 1997 with a friend I met on a BBS. I told my mom about the business plan and started with used equipment and 10 telephone lines. I paid myself $4.50 an hour. Total startup was 10k. Half of which I borrowed from my mom and my partner did the other half. It changed my life. She explained to me (I was 18) about how much the money meant to her. How she had to dip into her retirement fund to do it and how she would pay penalties on the money. She gave it to me without hesitation though. Best decision of my life. Grew the ISP for 3 years and sold it for a hefty profit to a telephone company. I am and was truly blessed with a parent that believed in me. I hope you can find something similar.

Edit: when we sold we were up to over 400 telephone lines.
that is correct, however I am already using all of my VRAM. it would mean I have to degrade my model quality. I instead decided that I would rather have one solid model, and have all my use cases tied to that one model. using RAM instead proved to be problematic for the reasons I mentioned above.

if I had any free VRAM at all, I would fit faster-whisper before I touch any other LLM lol
That's really cool how much control you can have over the output of the LLM. It would make writing really precise prompts much easier.
> You do not receive a full chemical makeup, structure, and formulation of the medicine you are ingesting.

Individual humans and their medical advisors choose what to ingest, from a marketplace of substances on a spectrum of transparency in content and consequences.
Also, Decker: Responding to Responses: https://beyondloom.com/blog/responses.html
>inability to re-shape the property, the lack of permanence (you can be kicked out) ... that's a good starter. Some of those are inherent to the housing like the inability to re-shape the interior much.

Those are not density problems; they're renting problems. You can rent a single family home or purchase an apartment.
My feed reader just tries a variety of URLs if the page doesn't have autodiscovery. It works surprisingly well:

https://github.com/fazalmajid/temboz/blob/master/tembozapp/a...
> Earlier this year, he resigned his three-decade membership in the American Mathematical Society in a letter citing the group’s failure to oppose the growing number of job openings for mathematics faculty that require applicants to draft and submit a statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI.

It was a common theme in Soviet Union that to advance academically you had to produce work that somehow endorsed communism and communists, but especially Marx and Lenin. Despite the fact that Lenin was a mass murdering terrorist, he was idealized by the regime as a near god in Soviet Union. It was also clear to many thinking people that the communist regime is oppressive and absurd. Yet you had to comply if you wanted to have a meaningful career.
The language doesn't suck for people who use it. They learn the symbols just fine and are able to understand what's going on. Same thing for math, which can also be very terse.

Which is better, compact or verbose code? That's a style issue and it all depends on who you ask. Verbose code requires you to read more. And more code to maintain.
Does someone really find this practical?
Ehhh I will never see a scenario where it is right for a cop to shoot or kill someone. There is a reason the courts exist. Did robocop teach you nothing? It is messed up to give some street bully the authority of judge jury and executioner.
that is correct! I would much rather run everything in-house, where I know the quality won't be degraded over time (see the Google Assistant announcement from yesterday) and I am in full control of my data.

using a cloud service is much easier and cheaper, but I was not comfortable with that trade-off.
Right, I posted yesterday about using an iPad as a 2nd monitor for nomads [1]. I understand a cheaper alternative is using a USB-C external display.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38957035
I always find it hilarious that the US commands its allies to apply sanctions which hurt themselves economically to Russia, while US continues to disregard its own sanctions and continues to buy from Russia the commodities the US wants.

That's the result of the Wolfowitz Doctrine that applies to keep US allies as well as US adversaries down, so the US remains 'top dog'.
For two excellent books on the topic of how the woke ideology corrodes societies (academia in particular) check out "What's Our Problem?" by Tim Urban and "The Coddling of the American Mind" by by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
I just saw this in the wild, and talked with the user, who programs 3D AR/VR content.

I saw the dual screen in use with the top screen for a VR scene and the bottom screen for code. The user's interactions among the two screens and keyboard were seamless. The screen colors were vibrant and rich, even in bright light.

Based on what I saw, I would definitely try it for typical office use or even for typical website programming.

However, I saw a lot of graphics lag and chop in the VR scene rotations, and the user said the battery didn't last long enough to get through the day, so YMMV if you're considering developing 3D, AR, VR, etc.
I'm not optimistic at all.

I feel that my company will increase their outsourcing and selling off parts of the company. The working environment at my company will continue to change in ways that make it more difficult for someone with my disability to be successful. My skills will atrophy further.

My home life will continue to be rough due to family medical issues, small children, and financial/ideological disagreements.

Overall I think there will be interesting breakthroughs in many areas of technology, medicine, etc. However, I think most of the technical enhancements will end up being misapplied or implemented in ways that are not to my liking. Life will continue to get more complicated and expensive. I'm sure that there will be more bad laws passed than good ones, however well intentioned they started out.
Celestia is good but if you're willing to leave the free software space you might enjoy "Space Engine" more.
Many array languages do have this issue. To be precise, the issue is that the simple straightforward approach tends to compute a lot more than necessary.

It's of course possible to do it in a different way to deal with that issues but those solutions can be a bit longer and less pretty.

The APL dialect I'm working on (Kap) solves this problem in many cases by delaying the computation until the result is needed, which means that you can write the code using the straightforward approach but still avoid computing results that will be thrown away.
I only listened a bit of the link, skipping around to get the gist, but I got this feeling. Carlin had a talent pointing out the darker sides of human existence in a way that left me feeling a bit more hopeful, and able to cope with them. I'm not sure what feels off, but the AI generated bits lack that magic. It's Carlin-style content thats missing the punchlines.
Just to plug my own project here, or maybe for comparison: HyperCard Simulator at https://hcsimulator.com will import and run your classic HyperCard stacks as faithfully as possible.
> > Building a fully local LLM voice assistant

> I did the same thing, but I went the easy way and used OpenAI's API.

This is a cool project, but it's not really the same thing. The #1 requirement that OP had was to not talk to any cloud services ("no exceptions"), and that's the primary reason why I clicked on this thread. I'd love to replace my Google Home, but not if OpenAI just gets to hoover up the data instead.
A common pattern for state autonomous zones seems to be devolved local governance, but no foreign policy or inter-state security, which seems to describe Gaza pretty well.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

Everyone has a preference in terms of counseling methods and duration. The shortage of counseling professionals is a nationwide issue, so you are not alone in having a hard time finding a counselor. While you are still in the process of searching, you can try to use some self-help apps (some of them are good and free as well) or public helplines. During the pandemic, each state launched additional free public help services for mental health. So, it does not hurt to give it a try. Sometimes the specialist on the line can point you in the right direction.

Good luck with your software projects and stay positive :)
I have a label printer that works like that and I hate it.

I'm not sure what the better answer is now that I am trying to think of one. Maybe all I really hate is how shitty and lack of control the app is. It requires me to turn on location, and does who the f knows what on the network between the app and brother. I do not want to have to turn on location to use a label printer. No matter the tech excuse about detecting proximity, something has simply gone off the rails at that point.

But using Bluetooth as a local connection, I guess that's OK if the protocol were just open and I could choose the app to use with it.

Devices with web servers have that one big plus, which is that you use your browser, not someone else's browser.

Make the same sort of genericization on bluetooth and that would probably satisfy a good number of use cases.
Good luck convincing anyone outside of the fringe that non-citizens should have voting rights.

I agree with you on the other two, though I certainly see a legitimate purpose in green cards having a renewal process. But you can get a re-entry permit and be outside of the US for up to 2 years and retain your green card status, it doesn't seem particularly onerous.
When I've heard that before I always just thought they meant they had no particular talent for it and weren't interested enough to learn. More a case of choosing to focus on things you feel more naturally inclined to, as opposed to thinking something is unlearnable for you.
Looks sort of like a shantytown to me and it may be a great short term solution but it doesn’t fix the long term problem of affordability.
Have you seen the thickness and power bugdet of this laptop? How do you expect a 4070 to work inside that?

It's for productivity, not for gaming, and for that the latest Intel iGPUs are more than enough.
IMO, the majority of people are stumped by the opposite realization of yours: That you can be faced with a problem outside your sphere of knowledge, decide to teach yourself how to solve it, and then solve it.

I'd say most people think learning is a passive activity -- happens when someone is teaching you, or forcing you to learn.
Plenty of people have survived only to be left behind.
While my credentials are in no way a match to yours, I can relate to this a lot. The only two work arounds I could come up with have already been described by you:

1. Self-censor to align with the opening you're interviewing for: works fine until it doesn't. Even if you manage to get in, you'd likely be a miserable guy who happens to have a good bank balance. Been there, done that.

2. Start your own thing: As you said, hard evidence is going to be the best argument to back your claims up. I'm struggling with this a bit, but bootstrapping a small software business doesn't sound financially daunting to me. Worst case, a huge time sink with zero returns. Moving to parents' basement helps.
PLBs are not cheap, used ones cost at least $100, 100x more than most people are willing to spend on safety (How many people have no emergency water at home?).

I don't understand how anyone could regularly go hiking out of cell range without one though. Some commenters seem to actively like being that disconnected I suppose.
> OpenSSL, for example, was hit with quite a few serious bugs over the years, and I'd still choose using it than my own SSL implementation. Especially in assembly.

That's the difference between a programmer and a real engineer: an engineer doesn't need any help from dependencies to make his code totally insecure.
> Plus the act of career suicide by publishing company meeting recordings on social media.

I'm very much older than the TikTok generation and I APPLAUD this kind of thing.

Companies have been getting away with too much garbage for way too long by hiding it. Forcing every dumbass minion to realize that they may be on blast at any moment means that both the company and individuals have to start thinking about not being complete shits.

Either this is a layoff and they're doing something legally shady or this is a stack-ranking termination and we all know how to regard companies doing that.

No matter what the reason is: Cloudflare comes out of this looking completely terrible.
Compared to say townhouses or low rise apartments, which is the level of density I believe is needed for suburban living without a car to not be miserable.

I don’t want to let perfect be the enemy of good, so if a town can be convinced to replace larger lots with smaller lots of tiny homes, I guess that’s an improvement but calling it a solution is a bridge too far.
Texting 911 via satellite usually involves a relay through a private monitoring company (like GEOS), who then places a voice call to local emergency departments on your behalf to activate SAR.

With satellite based SOS, there's no guarantee that the local 911 can support texts, or even that there's an equivalent to 911 (think calling from Antarctica or the middle of the ocean).

It's complicated and relatively expensive to coordinate - which means it's unlikely they can open this up for phones without a plan. (Compare with traditional cellular 911, which is all government funded.) The US Air Force RCC does this as a taxpayer-funded service for PLBs, but they don't support any private satellite services.

Long-winded way of saying there's a lot that would need to change on the backend and funding model to make that work without being tied to a paid cellular plan.
That is just standard compulsory defect remediation. Like the hardware components they should be required to monitor and remediate any and all newly discovered defects in any components and the product. Again, this is something they already have to do for the physical components and which is done in literally every other industry to great effect. It is just not done for the software for some bone-headed reason.

Note that failure to remediate known defects in components or covering it up is a very serious offense in basically every regulatory regime. That is basically “the thing” that gets you in trouble. Those standards should probably be made stricter, but that is for another time. Just getting software to “industry standard” is a major win.
This sicks, Tachiyomi is one of the few applications that make me value having a smartphone over a normal cellphone.

Fortunately it's OSS and there are various forks already, so it's a bit of a youtube-dl situation.
Haha ~~~ See, that is option 1, maybe one session is enough in some life situations.
These arguments could use a little more precision/evidence and some concrete examples.

>1. Array languages aren't well suited to every problem.

No language is suited to every problem?

>2. They are ridiculously capable for many types of problem.

Irrelevant? It only matters if it is more capable than other languages.

>3. The people using array languages are generally insanely smart.

Folklore. Impossible to quantify. Most of all, there are really smart people using all languages.

>4. Learning how array languages work is a steep challenge.

This is not persuasive.

>5. It’s awesomely mind expanding.

Like philosophy and psychedelics? People care about GTD.

Seriously, I’m listening. What’s the real competitive, objective, case for k?
but then your runtime VM calls C :)
I guess it might be quite fun to graph that and overlay the graph of the current cycle over an original benchmark - it might indicate when, for example, the heating element was no longer working as efficiently.
I would suspect they measure everything and use almost none of it. Like most web services. This was a common complaint and low hanging fruit optimization, that people were storing metrics that never got read. Just in case.
Tesla and Volvo to pause (EV) production in Europe after Red Sea attacks
True. Worthwhile contemplating how to navigate this sort of thing.
Makes sense, they likely would have performed all of those mitigations. But would they have listed 63 in a public document? That resulted in some pretty bad headlines.
Congrats to Asus. I would love to have a laptop as a laptop when I need the portability but also a screen on a stand + wireless keyboard and touchpad when I want the ergonomics.

Are there other products on the market right now that lets us detach the screen off the laptop and still use the keyboard and the touchpad wirelessly?
I remember being shocked that a nice restaurant meal in Paris was so much cheaper than it would have been in the U.S.
Well, it makes a nice stout, so there's that...
13km diameter.. which is about 133km².