skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going continuous is also fun:

Lenia:

https://chakazul.github.io/lenia.html

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/playing-with-lenia-a-contin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-97RhAZhXI

A nice demo: https://chakazul.github.io/Lenia/JavaScript/Lenia.html

Smoothlife:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1567

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I
The traffic stats my UDM shows are complete fiction. The data it presents makes no sense.
Right, depression and other mental health conditions, various addictions, heath problems, lack of basic numeracy and literacy. These need to be dealt with as well.
I occasionally do creative work that involves color. I've previously tried to understand color science concepts, starting with gamma, but I just haven't been able to develop an internal understanding of how this all works. Is there any content about the subject that you would recommend for someone like me?
Have you tried turning off syncing of contacts with Gmail accounts/Outlook/Exchange servers, just as an experiment?

Perhaps there's some protocol mismatch between contactsd and external ldap or whatever they use servers.

I thought of this not because of a cpu core craziness, but a strange symptom i had for many months.

On one of my macs i could see known people only as their phone numbers, and on another mac i saw their names: i had contact syncing settings toggled on/off differently between the two macs, wrt Gmail and Outlook servers (and i didn't realize i'd put any contacts on those servers...thought they were all in MacOS contacts).
Based on/part of a forthcoming book by the author:

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/695902/filterworld-...
Hi gwern. The other issue at hand is that inherently information is not always two-way between distributions, so having an implicit bias towards reversal actually can cause quite a few issues as well (though I'm unfortunately still in the 'development stage' of potentially-to-be-published work on this one, so I don't have a ton of details to provide there yet).

I don't think what a lot of people call the reversal curse is as much of an inherently problem as it is an issue of data coverage and assumptions, reversability is certainly more "general" in some contexts but also will reduce performance in other contexts, at least w.r.t. the source data it's trained on (if that makes sense).

Sorta similar to how grokking is a bit of a fad topic, it is technically unique enough to be identifiable but also at the same time it's just a straightforward 'failure mode' of a relatively general process with a somewhat soft definitional barrier to it.
This is really cool. Thanks for doing it. I will download and read in detail.

Collector of HP calculators here. I have way too many (11 last count!) :)
We have 1000 years old buildings around. You can study parts which were in the sun versus shadow.
I disagree; dependencies are more of a liability than anything else.
If I recall correctly, his washer was mining Bitcoin.
I don't know, but many cities do not have reliable transit. Hourly busses that stop after 9pm doesn't help at all. And thars the case for a lot of the western part of the US.

Also, thst grocery store may not exactly be profitable and be worth keeping up. Especially if Walmart or something use to station there and then left.
i dont understand how you launch a graphical debugger and not add a screenshot to the readme.md
Arch + cosmic is something I am looking forward to trying out.
Been running a selfhosted PairDrop instance for about a year now and it's amazingly useful. No apps to install, just web based "AirDrop" that works across macOS, Windows, iOS, Linux...

https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop
> It is a nightmare trying to run Docker and KVM virtual machines with bridges at the same time.

I'm doing it right now, no nightmares, just works, odd.
This isn't a problem in practice because C++ developers are expected to know the rules of their language and respect them.
> To spark discussions like this about its feasibility in the face of the uncertainty of the future is as much a part of the project as the camera itself.

Nobody's talking about the future of the world as a result of this project, they're mostly talking about the future of the project itself, and how it'll end up a wet fart because of poor planning. If the goal is to get people slapping their foreheads then it's a smashing success. Beyond that, I'm not sure what the effect will be. All press may be good press, but not all press amounts to art.
It certainly makes things easier, actually. You can be homeless because you were priced out of the market. Homelessness can be both the cause and the effect of other issues. My partner works in mental health / AOD, and repeatedly exclaimed how much pressure was ‘accidentally’ taken off so many people when lockdown-era economic incentives gave people in my area a better shot at just getting back on their feet. Housing matters an awful lot.
There is, for example like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982971
I like the list you made for yourself!!! Everyone needs that list.

Thank you for sharing the ACT and I will check out that book.
> What's so hard about having a grocery store and reliable transit to downtown?

Are you asking what's difficult about living far away from people's support networks and abilities to provide for themselves?
The US had that option as well, we just chose not to use it as the default standard like some other counties.

For me, I had iMessage which is end-to-end encrypted, and I can count on one hand the number of texts I send to non-iPhone users in a year. There was no value to changing, and no need to try and convince everyone I know to switch to a different messaging service.

And with Facebook owning WhatsApp, even with end-to-end encryption, there are trust issues there. I had WhatsApp on my phone from a trip to India. About a dozen of my friends in the US showed up in there, but we never used it to talk. Once Facebook bought it, I deleted the app, and nothing of value was lost.

If I really wanted secure messaging with someone I talk to often on Android, I’d opt for Signal over WhatsApp.
This. If what you take away from Heinlein's book was that it was militaristic and propaganda you didn't read the book properly.
Formal Methods of Software Design – Bunches and Sets [video]
> Q4 is always the busiest time for sales.

Yes, but not if you're still ramping. The sales cycle for Cloudflare is probably 6-24 months. Unless you've stepped in on a deal that's basically about to close, you're not going to be closing just because it's Q4.
Assuming I'd be stupid enough to have a "smart" washing machine, in this case I would've immediately started capturing packets to determine what's going on. Apparently it was a misreporting(!) in the router's firmware, but the opaqueness of modern technology (and the ignorance it tends to perpetuate) can be very infuriating.

Meanwhile my washing machine has zero electronics and is completely predictable and obvious in operation.
Ultimately unfortunately you go pretty far beyond the concepts of the English language pretty quickly here, I recommend the original Shannon paper followed by Varley's 2023 topic survey to get up to speed on it. Having English majors might yield some interesting insights in some ways but also would slow down the raw mathematical process by a great deal, it's already been framed in a very scalable way, thankfully.
My (Citizen) watch is solar powered which achieves the same effect without the nuclear complexities.

Not as cool obviously!
> x32 was more pleasant by far, since it only used the stack

Maybe I misunderstand you, but this is completely dependent on compiler, operating system etc, there are multiple calling conventions for x86-32, eg. cdecl, fastcall ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions
Here's an archive of that one: https://archive.is/sKbLX
They all make a sound when done, you could set up a SoC with a microphone to listen to it. Or monitor power draw. Many ways to do it externally.
Why do you need an entire megabyte for that? Even if you did laundry five times a day, it shouldn't take more than a few bytes to store a few metrics.

Even if you're lazy and uploaded an uncompressed JSON array of objects, that shouldn't be more than a few kB. Way less if you compress it.

A megabyte is a LOT of data.
Where do you reside ?
"you can only make it affordable by making it a miserable experience." This hurts because it's so true. We need to get over car-centric cities, but that's only happening slowly and those areas are the most expensive areas. That housing won't be going to those who need it the most.
Tiny homes reduce housing density and effectively necessitate car usage to connect people to services which is already unaffordable and will only become more unaffordable. Electric golf carts and public transit do not solve this problem.

Sounds like an awful plan to me. Increasing energy costs mean we need to densify instead of sprawl. I’d be thinking apartments, townhouses, vertical mixed use developments. Things which generally make commuting on foot or light transit more viable.
Less divergent code does not make better code. Rc<RefCell<>> is a prime example of "Do as we say, not as we do" in Rust that has made its way in from C++. I thought the borrow-checker was gospel and yet, here we are on the cusp of circumventing that with dynamic memory allocation checking (or lack thereof, just that it's the same size).
Physics is pretty harsh, and it really likes two-state circuits. One reason is well described in [0]: power consumption P=I*V.. With binary logic, one state means V=0 so power is zero; other state means I=0 so power is zero again; any sort of intermediate values means non-zero power consumption, which, when multiplied by a huge number of elements per IC means extreme heat and power wasting.

And "existing software" never stopped innovations: we get all-new computation models all the time.. there are FPGAs and IRAMs and transputers and memristors and analog AI, and perhaps even GPU and DSP. None of them can use existing binary software and some of them have non-binary hardware. They don't all work well all the time, and yet people keep innovating and trying to find ways to make them work.

And yet no one (outside of hobbyists) works on ternary computers. Physics is harsh.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38984009
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
Awareness is the last thing the companies who create these things want users to have.
Ask HN: How do you step by step raise money from family and friends?
Also, do you have any resources on best practices?
I experiment with lots of search engines on the side but MetaGer has been my dedault since 2003 (when I learned about it). Very happy customer, will recommend their standard websearch to anyone who is not asking...
Right, language quickly moves beyond grammar within a certain point in the compressive regime of a model I.M.P.E., at leasts. <3 :'))))
Hmm... wouldn't you agree that a formal (relatively accurate language) such as math is easier to get right than an non-accurate human language?
You can certainly have a housing crisis of the form that incomes are too low relative to the construction materials and labor involved in normal amounts of built square footage using normal methods. Most urban housing crises, though, are about increasingly stiff competition for land. Only the vertical axis can save you there.
The moment until they lose their homes they are not homeless.
I'm doing boring stuff. Forms with 5 to 20 fields that people put data into. Nothing AI, not a startup, regulated industry, kind of slow, low stress. I can focus on delivering on quality, I close laptop at 5pm and do other stuff. I feel that it's valuable to society to have this basic stuff not in a half-broken state, I enjoy the people around -- no tech bros with inflated egos or anything.
> The police went to apprehend the female suspects at a private house in Yalta but were surprised to find them "well armed" and "well prepared," the post said.

Why would you suspect people like that to be anything else but prepared and armed? smh
Apple hasn't disclosed the bitrate of their Emergency SOS feature but from FCC filings I believe it uses Globalstar's L-Band at 1610 Mhz for uplink, and I believe the bitrate Globalstar supports in that channel is 9.6 kbps. So almost three orders of magnitude less than the SpaceX system, not one. In addition I believe that the typical achieved bitrate is even less than that in Apple's case due to the lack of a large dedicated antenna. In demos it typically takes many seconds up to several minutes to send a single message, during which time you are directed to continuously point the phone at the satellite for best reception.
Amazon has already been flooded with machine generated product descriptions for a decade or more. Whether or not someone uses OpenAI, Python script, Excel or something else to generate the descriptions is irrelevant.
The reason you don't see those is that middle-density housing is indirectly or directly illegal in almost every major US metro area. Developers would love to build that kind of thing because it gets snapped up immediately wherever it's available, but they're not allowed to do so.
Stellarium can also interface to hardware, so you can use it as a front end for go-to mounts and telescopes.

It's my software of choice for setting up my DIY astrophotography rig.

https://doug.lon.dev/2023/09/19/astro-camera-mount.html
A math professor who objects to diversity statements
VSCode and all its plugins didn’t replace you as an engineer, did it? AI is just another tool for achieving business outcomes.
Of course it's not the default assumption.
And yet X has launched major new features even after eliminating the majority of engineers. So, at least in that one case it's pretty clear that most employees were just goofing around (regardless of work location).
And by NeXT, which created it originally.
In the context of underperformers, better early and explicit than let it fester & ambush with a PIP when it’s basically too late to fix, no?
That’s only relevant if you’re trying to prevent homelessness. The article is about people who are already homeless. They may not have had these problems when the became homeless, but being homeless ain’t easy.

That’s not to say housing costs aren’t a problem, they are but they have to be prepared for other problems as well.
I read your post, and this is part of the phrasing that I am urging caution against, you are expecting a certain kind of connectivity of information within a non-linear model and attributing a deception hypothesis to it.

Confabulation happens all the time, you might find the split brain experiments downright fascinating. Opens a whole other world of thought on the topic, if you haven't explored it before (and if so, take a look again! It's fantastic).
If you look at the examples live, you'll see before it 'successfully' answered the way users wanted, the literal "Adolf Hitler" AI called out a user's antisemitism. It was only after they pushed more with a follow-up prompt saying it was breaking character that it agreed.

And it's a much more rudimentary model than Grok or certainly GPT-4.

You're simply not going to get a competitively smart AI that's also spouting racist talking points. Racism is stupid. It correlates with stupid. And that's never not going to be the case.
> C is generally first compiled into assembly anyways.

I don't think that's right. C is compiled into an intermediate representation first. It's true that you can ask GCC etc. to generate assembly output, but it's not the default.
I agree that the web has gone downhill, but I don't think it's just the web. It's software in general.

When we were new to computers, every application was new.

Now, every application is a rehash of a previous application, except with missing features and a more "modern" look that completely disregards decades of what we know about UI/UX.

One example that I think about a lot is how we have copy and paste and drag and drop, but that's it. That's been it for decades. Nobody has invented a new way of getting data from program A to program B in ages.

By the way, Neocities is a website that tried to capture the Geocities feel by letting anybody just upload a static website hosted in a subdomain. They do seem to have some Lain fansites there.
For example, Hamas claimed that an Israeli bomb struck a Gazan hospital and killed 500. Later the consensus viewpoint is that (1) it was a failed Gazan rocket launched at Israel that malfunctioned, and (2) it struck in a parking lot and the death toll is likely much, much lower. Hamas, a terrorist organization that repeatedly launches rockets at Israeli civilians, does not have a ton of credibility.
Yes, it's not a first class language, but the parent explained why it can't be. If you tried to implement a dynamic library with a C++ interface, you can't add virtual functions to later versions of the library without breaking any clients that derive from those classes. You'd have to recompile all apps any time you made a change to the OS.
Some Ikea stuff does it halfway. Local-only Zigbee, so it's not exactly dumb, but if you want to go online you can buy a gateway.
Lol it's not that at all.
Yes the default is insane.
Orgs that took away root from devs two decades ago let some of this stuff slip through..
Well the big flaw here is that he just outright throws away the idea of FTL travel. A lot of that friction will be reduced if we ever figure out how to break that (which yes, is extremely tricky. Even IF we figure it out we'd need to also counter time dilation to properly verify).

Now sure, the politics on who and what gets to go to thr next world will doom many. But physics can alleviate the whole "we'll tear each other apart over 200 years of space travel" part
Cosmic: Breakthrough Technology for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
I believe this is an unique US situation where you are unable to scale down Walmart. Just make a Walmart Lite with no jeans or TVs but only food. Then these can be built practically everywhere, offering the same competitive prices. There are half dozen of chains like this in Russia and they often open on the other sides of same street.
you do not recall correctly
It satirizes things that aren't even in Heinlein's vision and by that misses the point entirely.
Townhomes are present all over the city of Austin and surrounding areas. At least in this case it's not an obstacle.
I can see this maybe being true in a high level language (depending on the dependency), though it's definitely not the case with assembly.

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.
“Housing First” is such a bit like communism - perfect in theory. The problem is you need “second” and “third” things too, and the political will often just doesn’t exist.

I lived near a “housing first” facility that was no better than a homeless encampment.
The only times I had issues with SELinux and podman, it was because I forgot to add the z flag to the volume:

podman run -v .:/app:z image

This only happens locally as files in your home have strict security rules, never had any issue on a CentOS server.
Random aside for this, I believe this functionality existed for many years but actually hasn’t worked until recently. (Take this with a grain of salt)
79.7 kB transferred. It's nice to see minimal pages being generated. Have to disable the notifications to see this result though.
My worry would be that you'd have to do some diagnostics on the audio to determine the actual sound. The loudest noise my washer makes is the spin/rinse cycle, which is right before the sound it makes when it's done. You can't just key off of "loud noise" and I don't know how hard setting up to listen to specific frequencies for alerting is.
I'm at a mid sized SaaS company in the Nordics (European). No layoffs, but hiring has slowed down and we no longer actively try to recruit junior devs. We used to have lots of active job ads, now they're reduced to only the most in-demand roles. The company is profitable and we have big important projects going on so not too worried.
The TRA provides for recognition of Taiwan, but explicitly not for diplomatic relations at the full Ambassador/Embassy level. Instead of an Embassy for example, there is a liaison office. You and I might think of it as identical to an Embassy, but its a bit of legal sleight of hand from the 1970s to keep China feel respected and make the Taiwanese feel happy. If you look at official photos of visits you never see the TW or US flags together for example like you would do if, say, a diplomat from the US visited France.

Taiwan feels like one of those cases where a little ambiguity is actually safer for all concerned than a clear position. You ideally want a situation where the mainland can saber rattle occasionally to keep their domestic audience happy and where Taiwan can sometimes make it sound like an independent state, but neither moves down the track any further.

An invasion attempt by China or a unilateral independence motion by Taiwan would be a disaster for all three parties, the Taiwanese, mainland China and the US.
I never understood why even though homelessness is concentrated in the U.S. cities where car ownership is difficult (NYC, SF, some parts of Boston), when said areas only account even collectively for a fairly small portion of the country's overall population. Wouldn't it make more sense to help these people get a vehicle, and hwlp them resettle in areas that already have much cheaper housing and are desperate for workers? Such places might even have local government incentives if these new arrivals could commit to staying for a certain period.

Surely a large number of them are working low barrier to entry jobs that exist widely across the U.S.
does not look like counter-example to me:

> Due to the low reliability of the computer elements on vacuum tubes and inaccessibility of transistors the fast elements on miniature ferrite cores and semiconductor diodes were designed.

Perhaps trinary is a good idea if you don't have access to transistors or to reliable vacuum tubes, but do have access to diodes and miniature ferrite cores.

I don't see however how this is relevant today - we certainly have access to great transistors now, and as the paper shows with transistors, binary rules.
A tiny home installed adjacent to other tiny homes is just called an “apartment” and there are millions of them across the U.S.
Meh, my experience returning in person is that we’ve returned to a culture where the inputs of decision makers are bound by conference room size. The winning decision has returned to the one of the loudest voice, or most conventionally attractive.

Meeting from time to time is great, but the RTO push has been problematic across multiple dimensions.
Step 1: Have family and friends that have money
You then look at something like Spotify who, from the outside, has too much staff, so the platform gets reworked regularly.
I am curious now, without revealing too much, can you give the phonetics ?
Scroll scroll scroll scroll. Ah. That is what this does.
> A funny story from academia is about the cohort of peer reviewers whose primary standard for acceptance is that their own work is cited in the bibliography of the submitted paper.

In some circles, the two first pieces of feedback on a paper draft, from a nominal co-author:

1. Cite [my people's various loosely related work].

2. Cite [particular researcher in this niche], who'll probably be a reviewer.