skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is fine to look at the details of what actually was achieved, see if it had an impact. In that particular case, the achievement seems to be contributing to operations to development of a new candidate COVID vaccine and putting it via a Phase-1 trial in South Africa, with the following result:

DNA SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (Alveavax-V1.2) - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4645890
While safe, well tolerated, and shelf stable for >6 months at room temperature, a naked DNA SARS-CoV-2 booster candidate in doses up to 8 mg administered intradermally or subcutaneously, as well as Janssen Ad26.COV2.S comparator, did not significantly increase BA.2 antibody titers in a preimmunized, largely pre-infected population.

Not a breakthrough, but it is productive. Likely worth the resources that were spent on this. So it is just good job, keep on going. There's really no point of being negative or annoyed.

What is not clear to me, is if the author is applying herself in the place where she has an edge and could be most impactful. A world class poker player and Yale Law School grad potentially can do well in politics. Upholding democracy seems like a kind of annoying job that Yale grads should be on.
Even before GPT it has become less useful over time because you end up with 8 different answers you have to assess if it matches your question/problem. Now just type that in a GPT and get your answer. As long as its not cutting edge stuff just released you're much better off with a GPT query and clarification prompts to narrow down the answers.

I don't know that you can correlate a single tool as being the reason SO is declining. There are also more widespread LSP tools out there over this timeframe. I feel like we may have also seen a plateau of new languages/frameworks in this timeframe. Usually those drive lots of new questions.
Ok, was viewing more from waveform point of view aka attack, decay,sustain, release (ADSR). Where each component of ADSR is a "voice" track. Put each ADSR in one of of 4 ecludian quadrants for 'time reference'

Would suggest Lewis Carrol's 'Through the looking glass' per quadroons. Unfortuantely, Lewis Carrol didn't recognize time as an aspect of quadroons. (where time is big part of music). From wave form aspect, changing scale (mapping scale) would produce richer form of information vs. non-fractal would result in just zooming in to specific proportion of interest.

Ignoring fact human voice can't generate 'pure tones'; four voice parts impart additional harmonics not noted on page. just the 'instrument' variatioin: beetles songs pre-stratocast vs. post-stratocast.

Another way to look at it, is single voice part, progression left to right.
non-fractal note is stricktly a single tone, no sub-harmonics. fractal note is everything associate with single tone within given tone range (harmonic resonance). L-system branchs equivalent to sub-harmonics, where each sub-branch is addtional harmonic.

Simple graph combo of ADSR/4 voices gives smooth flow/progression vs. adding spin offs to any of the ADSR/4 voices either directly or because combining produces addtional harmonics beyond original ADSR/4 voices would give 'fractal results'.

ASDR quadrant -- simple non-fractal "pure" tone would have simple circle in each of 4 ecludian quadrants. Additional subtones would be addtional circle(s) in relevant quadrant, where circle size related to reference tone (smaller for sub harmonics, larger for over-tones). no decay -> no circle in corresponding decay quadrant. aka wider harmonics range looking at, more detail & more addative harmonics, Less harmonics range, less detail / less addative harmonics to plot. More voice vocal parts, more potential for additional harmonics combinations.

simple instrument example -- beetles before stratocaster guitar vs. post stratocaster guitar songs. Later much fuller tones & less distinct harmonics.

from complete composition view: mozart's heros metalica : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBfsS1EGyWc
> absolutely not be a more efficient

The listing you linked looks like a much more efficient a use of land and resource than the tiny homes from the article: about the same amount of land per unit but able to hold substantially more people per unit, plus all the economies of scale that go with shared utilities, heat conservation from shared walls, and so on.
Exactly. In CA, "townhome" just means "condo with no upstairs or downstairs neighbors, and shared walls."
“In addition it supports Unicode Emoji characters in really native way.”

I wish it would go into greater detail here. I’m unclear what “really native” implies, as opposed to some sort of “kind of native” way?
The archived page claims they started in 2013. Time travel debugging was commercially available (by other vendors [1]) for over a decade by that point.

[1] https://jakob.engbloms.se/archives/1564
China is as free as the US. You can leave the country and emigrate to the US, and that's why there are so many Chinese everywhere. No, it's not Orwellian any more and people do not carry a "little red book" with them. Chinese people can choose their jobs, start a company, pursue hobbies like rock climbing and guitar and gardening and live basically like most westerners.
So after a millenium, how do you remove the film to look at it without it being ruined when it's exposed to light?

Does it need to be developed or something?

Or does the material stop being photosensitive after a few centuries?

(I mean I know this is an art project rather than something genuinely meant to last a thousand years in practice, but it seems like they're trying to make it work at least in theory.)
You really think they're going to measure all that, upload it, send it to some expensive engineer, have them try to physically model the error, and then... what?

That might make sense during development, but there's no way they do that in a consumer product. If a part breaks they're just going to send out a replacement or the repair guy is gonna get some third party part. Recording that much detail would just be noise.

Even if they had specific parts sensors (doubt it, for costs), they could just process that locally and send up an error code, not the whole log.

I find that all pretty hard to believe, but if anyone has evidence to the contrary, I'd be glad to be proven wrong. I had a LG washing machine bought new a few years ago promising all sorts of bells and whistles and app integrations. But it was super janky and cheaply made, the app integration was terrible, the on board memory would lose its configured settings, the entire LCD broke after a few weeks... it was not what I would consider well-engineered at all. If it was sending a megabyte a day I'd just assume it was yet another bug, not some forward thinking QA.
We are debating whether Israel can count as a liberal democracy. And I am using the occupied territories to dispute that, because modern democracies have equal rights for its subjects, and imposing an apartheid system discredits any argument in favor of calling Israel a modern liberal democracy.

Palestinians in the occupied territories may not be Israeli citizens, but neither were the South African residents of the bantustans, so which passports the subjects of Israel holds doesn’t matter. What matters is that Israel controls most aspect of their lives and imposes different rules and condition depending on whether you are Israeli or Palestinian. However you separate the population doesn’t matter either, the fact that Israel does is all that counts.

There is a different legal system on the West Bank, true, however the Israeli settlers living there get charged in Israeli courts, and so do Palestinians, except that Palestinians get charged in a different court system, namely military court. This is a double justice system, and there is no other way of describing it. Modern liberal democracies don’t have those, only apartheid states do.
Xkcd: Free Speech (2014)
It's been nearly 10 years since this famous perspective on free speech was published and circulated.

How do you think it has aged?
It was originaly developed by the NSA, so it's even worse than corpos wearing suit and tie, it came from spooks.
This is pretty cool. I’m glad humans care about other humans sometimes
it's because she has a degree in comparative literature so she's fun at parties
The backlash against ai is already strong, with companies getting rid of it. This will only accelerate it.
Here's a very good in depth article https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/91235.

"They essentially put the Russian economy into an artificial coma by raising the key rate to 20 percent. Additionally, they imposed temporary capital controls, compelled exporters to sell export revenues, and prohibited non-residents from leaving Russian markets....This combination of factors allowed the Russian economy to sustain itself in 2023 and gave time to Putin, the government, and Russian businesses to adjust their strategies, turning to new markets, mostly China and India."

However, it does look like Russia's strategy of supporting economy on strong oil sales will falter in 2024 and 2025.

"Indian purchases of Russian crude have fallen to an 11-month low as the price tag on the discounted oil rises...Sources at the Indian refineries told Reuters that the country is looking to Saudi oil partly because of problems with payments for Russian light sweet crude Sokol."
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-oil-india-war-saudi-1860480
i'd like to get back into treatment but it seems futile at the moment. i've been trying to find treatment for many months to no avail. one receptionist laughed at me even - that was fun. i'm dealing with untreated bipolar2 and various anxiety disorders at the moment. it makes reaching out difficult, but i've been trying my best.

i prefer a long-term plan with the same care provider. i need some time to warm up to a provider. on-demand and remote doesn't mesh with me at all. i have the means; the problem is availability. since the pandemic things seem to be slammed...

in the mean time i've been trying to stay busy with my personal software projects. i'm planning to hike and exercise more, improve my diet, and cut back on my drinking. white-knuckling bp2 ain't no fun, i cycle quickly. hence the drink. but i know that is but a band-aid; a sometimes destructive band-aid at that. religion, stoicism, friends/family, etc alone ain't going "fix" me. unfortunately i need medication for life or my life falls apart.

i wish anyone else struggling nothing but peace. much love. ya ain't alone.
When that happens to me, my solution is to pause the cycle, clear the lint screen, and resume. Lint screen is always cleaned before a cycle, but sometimes a single load produces enough lint to be a problem.

And having written that out, now I want a notification from my dryer when it’s not making progress as fast as it expects…
Philadelphia is another of the rare counterexamples, as the zoning there allows new row houses and townhouses almost everywhere.
Sounds good to me, but that's the issue with relying on corporate autocracies for societal need. Wal-Mart's goals aren't necessarily aligned with society, so unless some government contract is made there's no incentive for a Walmart-Lite
> to shower, to eat, to crash ... to play games

I'm failing to see how those items in your list are supposed to be a bad thing for society.
McD apps for both Germany and Switzerland feature coupons. In Switzerland, physical coupons show up in my postbox.

For whatever reason the coupons very seldom work for my meal preferences so I don't bother with them.

In Spain the main reason I've gone to McDs is for the cheap affogato in summer.

I often end up in an McD off the Autobahn due to a long road trip I take regularly. Reviews matter. McDs are not consistently run. Many stockpile and serve stale fries, and the attention to detail on burger assembly varies wildly.
Scale is hard to judge, but my gut sense is that land per unit is at least double in that listing—these units go back pretty far to make up for minimal street frontage.

Housing units is what matters for solving homelessness, not number of people housed. These tiny homes aren't intended to house whole families. Yes, you could fit 8 to 10 unrelated homeless people in a single family home or townhome, but there's a reason why that's not pushed forward as a solution—people don't generally want 9 strangers as roommates.

I definitely agree that the economies of scale that come with the shared walls make a huge difference for general practicality, but I was only speaking of land use per housing unit.

Edit: Here's a link to the satellite image [0] so you can see the depth of the property. The unit alone is about twice as deep as it is wide, and then it has a backyard per unit in addition to that. My very rough estimate with the Google maps ruler suggests about 1000 sqft footprint per unit.

[0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/cqLLmbU3Rtufkfx78
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So an end to the illegal occupation, settlement, blockade would be a lesson to Palestinians that terrorism works? Is the end of terrorist attacks against Israel a lesson that blockades, settlements, and occupations work?
Mid-century Whirlpool top-loader. Electric but not electronic.
> why sanctions were so effective at harming the economies of countries like Venezuela & North Korea but so much weaker against Russia.

Not any in depth analysis, but I'm guessing:

1. Size of the economy (Russian economy is 3x Venezuela)

2. Diversity of the economy (Venezuela is primarily oil, Russia has a diverse industrial base, defence, agriculture etc)

3. Ties and trade with countries not participating in the sanctions (Russia trades with China, India and ME countries).
I advise microdosing to people struggling with depressive or nihilistic mindsets. Microdosing gives me the boost I need to actually work on improving things. It's also virtually free and has no dangerous side effects.
We need to stop blaming victims and instead stand up for them. If the person who published the video suffers in any way shape of form as a result then cloudflare needs to be held accountable. That company is already on my shitlist. Potentially as low as microsoft, or openai. And that’s quite an achievement.
Jodorowsky is a fairly acclaimed film maker. Putting it the way you did is only telling on yourself.
I watched the original Dune at the cinema at around eleven years old, was a fan of Star Wars, and I didn't understand anything coherent about the movie. Probably because I was a young child (or have comprehension issues, though). I remember it was boring, Sting there was weird. That is my memory. The new Dune enlightened me. Have not read the books myself.
Here in Florida they're not "seen in large numbers", they're dwarfed by the ordinary suburban single-family dwellings, both already built, and new developments going up like wildfire. Every other form of housing combined is dwarfed by them.
I don’t think townhouses are anywhere near as rare as you’re letting on. I’ve can’t recall the last time I haven’t seen them in any decent-sized (50k+) city.
FYI: GPT = Game Porting Toolkit, I was very confused.
Good luck. Resisting the impulse to open Reddit or Twitter every five seconds is hard. Then having a phone with stuff on but you can’t reflex-open those apps also takes a while.
Mini Books
In a sense what is an LLM but an upload. Something that listened to every word you ever said might be able to sound like you.

If it could record your emotional state and other inputs over years and make a model - it might even seem like you.

Such a system might be good enough to take care of the first generation.
Thanks for elaborating. I think I realize now that we are talking about different things. I wasn't distinguishing between learning styles (e.g., guided or self taught), but more thinking of the ability to step into a new field and learn about it using whatever method works best for each individual. I think I understand now!
Document Chunking for RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
I also came here to put in a word for Resilio. It's the fastest and most hassle-free thing I've found that doesn't require a server. SyncThing was always very slow to reconnect and update for me.
I was about to reply "That depends where you live."

Well, DUH! Obviously if you live in the 'Land of the Midnight Sun', you have to be also living in 'The Land of the Midday Darkness'. I suppose it would pay me to engage my brain before putting my mouth(keyboard) in motion.
They have these, they are Dollar General and they are gutting rural and low income area mom and pops. They are not a better solution.
> It's not a construction drawing, it's a cartoon showing the door in the open position and you are assuming (incorrectly) the operation of the door.

Fair enough.

> This will be my last comment on this topic because this argument is fruitless and you seem unable to see it any other way.

That's a wrong assumption on your end, it's just that I prefer to go by actual evidence rather than a bunch of unsourced claims no matter who makes them.

> This is a high res photo of an installed door plug:

So, finally something useful: the stops apparently hook over the brackets bolted to the airframe, that wasn't obvious from the drawing but I suspected it might be the case (see other comment). So pressurizing the aircraft will provide some holding force (the friction on the stops) even if all of the bolts would be missing or had come loose at any point after assembly.

Thank you for providing the picture.
What's it all for? Is it literal paper for writing and printing actually still a significant use? Or is it all Amazon boxes?
Memory Safe C++
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the level of peer review of physics journals in the early 20th century. Note that Annalen der Physik was publishing 90-95% of submissions, so there was still some review process. I also wonder how much of that had to do with the average quality of a researcher working in physics back then, since physics was still a specialized pursuit of a very small number of people. We have orders of magnitude more people working in science today, so it might not be feasible for journals to publish 90-95% of submissions without a significant drop in quality. I think the solution is for more fields to adopt the model that most of math/CS/physics already follows. Put everything up on preprint servers and allow people to cite preprints. That way the community can accept ideas and build on them regardless of whether a specific paper makes it into published journals.
https://newsadvance.com/opinion/cartoons/the-free-speech-umb...
> putting these far outside of the city takes people away from resources like other people said

Thanks for sharing your experience. What are some examples of these resources?
Careful about switching large inductive loads on a smart switch, the ones I’d looked at weren’t rated for big inductive loads (like the motor inside a washing machine or a dryer).
One of the few software I miss from Windows. I was surprised when I tried last year and I didn't work, and as far I know, only a specific version works, I think it's 3.12 (or 3.X, in general).
The hardware looks amazing. But I imagine from my experience with Asus that the software is subpar.
Some things provably never change: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymo...
Hopefully it’s performance is better than it’s marketing page…
It has been for the last 75 years, and there has been pretty much no progress for the last 50.
Oddly though, there are recently a lot of people making jetpacks and hover boards and so on - as the technology to do so suddenly got good enough.
> What is the third Dune? Are you referring to films or the two films plus the book(s)?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0142032/
This had a refreshing degree of realism. Naturally, any perfection-minded person will be offended by that.

A decent journal will stop using reviewers who do a lousy job, and complaints by authors about their paper's reviewers ought to be listened to and not dismissed as sour grapes.
The analogy is fair. See, when it comes to your home, you expect people to leave and not come to occupy your home, most likely because it will limit your own autonomy.

There are borders you are not willing to cross.

It is not different with countries. I think that immigration is perfectly fine until a country can absorb new people but too many people too fast is going to create troubles.

I think that you can imagine very well a situation when you are kind and let somebody into your home but they now start to make their own rules - in your home. If it gets unbearable for you in your home then perhaps you can call police, but if you make such a mistake on the country level then there is less remedies - so you have to be considerably more careful.

Let's imagine that four hundred million Chinese would move into US in the world without borders and now they vote into power a new political party that will prohibit all the other political parties. Why? Perhaps only because this is the only way they know about and they didn't have the time to gradually learn other political possibilities or worse they are instructed to do so by their leaders.

Destruction of democratic system using democratic means is not rare. Perhaps the most known one is rise of Nazis in Germany. Most obvious recent example is rise of Putin in Russia but it also happened for example in Egypt, where Muslim Brotherhood won elections and then attempted to destroy the democratic system of Egypt to enforce sharia, and this was preempted by the events in Gaza where Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas did exactly the same, but successfully.

The world without borders will also mean that a malicious and well organized political force can move around the globe and take over local power using seemingly benign methods instead of military power.

So while your idea sounds something to root for, it is also incredibly naive and dangerous in the real world we live in.
Thats really cool! Nice build :)
Reverse engineering Coin Hunt binary protocol (2023)
that 5% growth is just a fantasy number made up by the Chinese government, and parroted by other institutions like world trade bank. No way the 5% growth is real when FDI has fallen all the way from 344B in 2021 to 15B!! in 2023. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-chinese-fdi-inflows.... Global investors like Blackrock and Vanguard obviously know the real financial truths. When Chinese youth suffers from 46.5% unofficial unemployment rate https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-real-youth-unemploymen.... When a large shadow bank with $65B in debt just declared bankruptcy https://fortune.com/asia/2024/01/08/zhongzhi-china-shadow-ba....
>I haven't heard of any issues with Helsinki being "filled by expats and tourists"

Because unlike NL, Finalnd is not a tax heven, the place where most global multinational F500 corporations choose to incorporate their EU HQ and employing thounds of well paid immigrants from around the world, causing gentrification in an already small and dense country.

Maybe if they raised corporate taxes and bureocracy, their overcrowding and immigration issues would fix themselves as big corporations and international workers relocate to Switzerland, Ireland or Luxembourg.

You can't have your cake and eat it too, as in keep being an attractive tax heaven and still expect housing to stay affordable for very long. Something has to give.
The same page links to another Banana device at roughly same price but vastly superior specs?

https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/11/23/banana-pi-bpi-r4-wif...
As intended, I read the headline and the beginning of article picturing tiny houses.

Which sounds like treating the unhoused like I would want to be treated. Then:

most of its homes lack bathrooms and kitchens

And it all made sense, it’s a campground.

But written so I imagined tiny houses.