skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My setup is a little complex, but I'm very happy syncing plain-text notes between my Mac, several Linux machines, and my iPhone.

I'm still using (and loving) Notational Velocity on my Mac. Thankfully it's open source, so I was able to hack together arm64 support even though I don't know C/ObjC/C++ [0].

On my iPhone, I've been very happy with 1Writer, which has a similar interface, and is scriptable with JavaScript for power users.

I have NV configured to store plain-text notes that are stored in 1Writer's iCloud folder, so syncing happens seamlessly between them.

Finally, I sync that same directory with Syncthing to my Linux machines, where I mostly use neovim for editing.

The only feature that I'm often wishing I had is shared editing with my wife. At some point I whipped up some launchd scripts to automatically move notes tagged with `#shared` to a shared subfolder, but it never worked very well. Thankfully my wife is not really all that interested in sharing notes, so we just use Apple Notes when needed.

Tried Obsidian but was miffed at the inability to recognize / store as .txt files instead of .md (or perhaps it was vice versa) without a community plugin, and I prefer FOSS, so uninstalled after a couple days.

Have LogSeq installed but can't convince myself to use it, what I have fits my needs well enough. I'm also concerned about their funding model and the longevity of the project, the other side of the coin of FOSS I suppose.

[0]: https://github.com/n8henrie/nv
[1]: https://apps.apple.com/app/id680469088
Another term for it is "knowledge p*rn", basically getting off to the idea that you're learning by watching another power user video, or reading another blog post, instead of simply doing the work.
I don't love Notion for some things, but I haven't found anything better for mixing structured data and notes in a flexible-but-consistent way.

If I wanted to do something like their databases (large sets of notes with enforced fields of different types including relational links, tags, attached files, with dead easy data entry, autocompletion, search and extraction, all presented in an acceptably pleasing way) in Excel, it would take me hours of tweaking. In Notion, it's 10 minutes before I'm starting to enter data (not to mention the price).
> Honestly, I don't know how Nintendo survives as an independent console maker in the years to come.

I've been reading variations of this line for 25 years.

First Sega was gonna kill them.

Then Sony was gonna eat them alive.

Then Microsoft was gonna make them look like cavemen.

Then Apple was gonna eat their whole blue ocean lunch.

Survival bias doesn't mean Nintendo won't inevitably collapse -- I fear them getting hostily taken over by a foreign company (Microsoft admitted they considered it as recently as 2017 but decided not to pursue it, mostly for PR reasons[1]).

From every outside indication (interviews, Iwata Asks, etc.) it seems Nintendo's corporate culture is rock solid and they're handling the generational changeovers extremely gracefully compared to most companies (especially gaming companies).

As long as Nintendo's insides don't change too much, they'll likely keep creating first-party entertainment that is compelling enough to support millions of hardware sales.

And they have Pokemon, man.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23880146/phil-spencer-mic...
A university isn't a place that trains a person. That's what colleges and vocational schools are for. Rather, a university is a place where resources are made available so that a person can learn for themselves.

Hardly. Youtube already served that function, but it doesn't teach or train, which is the university's job. A student's responsibility should be to set them up their success, not to unload a university's burden onto them.

It would be ideal for students to be self supporting and self teaching to the point of not needing teachers, but the ideal is for universities to offer the greatest resources, teachers, and tutors to overcome any difficulties students may have.
I tend to agree with you in general, that people feel they need to rationalize every single decision they make way too often and they should go touch grass, but in the case of marriage or other major life decisions I don't think this applies.

So you want to? Good! But maybe go into that a bit. Figure out the "why". This is going to be super important within a marriage when you and your spouse disagree on something. Because then "I want to" isn't going to cut it. You need to explain more and figure out what inferences led to that "wanting to".
Can you summarize? I'm reading https://deepdive.opensource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/D... but it seems to tackle too many questions when I'm really only interested on what criteria to use when deciding whether (for example) Stable Diffusion is open source or not.

Anyway, to go on a tangent, some day maybe with zero knowledge proofs we will be able to prove that a given pretrained model was indeed the result of training using a given dataset, in a way that can be verified vastly cheaper than training the model itself from scratch. (This same technique could also be applied to other things like verifying if a binary was compiled from a given source with a given compiler, hopefully verified in a cheaper way than compiling and applying all optimizations from scratch).

If this ever materialize, then we can just demand proofs.

Here's a study on that

https://montrealethics.ai/experimenting-with-zero-knowledge-...

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3576915.3623202

And here is another

https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1174
Seems like a great early adopter candidate for something like Peachtree Corner's system - https://cities-today.com/peachtree-corners-launches-first-un...
They said on Twitter that they’re still conferring with Microsoft internally on the extent and nature of the open-source release:

https://nitter.net/TeamCodeLLM_AI/status/1747652471714144702
Any time I drag media around, it bogs my system down like crazy (I'm on Linux).

Nothing seems to snap to the "right" places.

My brain also isn't mapping to the Notion way of doing things (which is orthogonal to the other issues).
I thought I was. I don't think it has much to do with the way the world works. I think it might have more to do with how one works the world. There are plenty of people that don't want to try the impossible but the impossible should be explored.
I've been using Joplin for over a year after spending too much time testing all of the options out there. Joplin's syncing sealed the deal for me, free and it works well. Obsidian was something like $100 USD a year just to get things synced to my phone.
That's rather generous of you and also a great example of why some knowledge is ethically and practically unknowable.

Rather than being ok with a rather uninformative conclusion though, we often see folks who cannot resist the part of their brain that desires clarity. For many different reasons, the discomfort of not being able to know, justifies reaching conclusions at the expense of them being accurate. So much so, even, that their accuracy is assumed rather than concluded.
Maybe mysqlfs https://mysqlfs.sourceforge.net/ ?
TBH, its only been 20 years that Nintendo has focused on cheap hardware.

SNES was more powerful than Genesis, N64 arguably more powerful than PS1/Saturn but lacking CDs (and thus unable to rely on prerendered FMVs that defined that generation), and Gamecube more powerful than Dreamcast/PS2 (Xbox wins, but was unexpected new entrant)

Nintendo definelty pushed graphics advancements as key selling points back then.

The Wii is when they stopped competing on graphics, and switched to innovating in other areas (motion controls, 3D, connected tablet, hybrid gaming, etc).
It's neat yes. But prevents it being used on a headless server without graphics installed. That's primarily where I'd use a text browser... need to download a package/archive but also need to search for it first.

If I have firefox installed, I'd just use it!
But the war you referred to first is in Europe, is many orders of magnitude smaller than pre-1945 wars, and it was (for simplicity's sake) the 'West' being attacked?
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/K6w3K
That's bad, but the problem there isn't the AI.
"Solar Roadways[tm]" is a specific startup, and is all but certainly what was referenced upstream.

The proposal and technology were obviously nonviable to anyone with the least technical knowledge from the beginning.

Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Roadways>

Phil "Thunderf00t" Mason on YouTube had a particularly brutal critique. Repetitively repetitious and occasionally repeating itself (as is his wont), but on point:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=H901KdXgHs4>

(Several follow-ups, including an on-site visit.)
Yeah, I mean Time Machine backs up the entire OS as well.

I would have no problem if Time Machine separated out OS and known signed application packages and basically just stored pointers to standard versions of them, as long as all that detection is done client-side.

There's no reason the backup would need to store anything but the list of those files (that list being encrypted), and then everything unique to me -- my configurations, my files, etc.
Do you have a… less visceral metaphor? Or some information I can read about? I’m curious.
They're still operating in Tallinn, Estonia. I used one to get ice cream a few months ago, and although there weren't too many places I could order from in the app, it was a nice experience, much better than DoorDash or another gig delivery service.
is synthetic data a really big deal right now and LLM? if so, are there any take-home ideas that might apply to other areas, say analysis of MRI?
As a software person that feels great.
I think people move on from the early/mid 20's vibe, aren't as interested in the glamour of going out, etc... and then all of a sudden they think "I'm old!"

It's definitely a different distinct stage, like a true young adulthood. Can last like 26-40 or so for some.
For the scenarios you describe a 220 outlet will work fine. Still no charger needed. I won’t go into cable locking solutions for the same reason we don’t need to go into gas station muggings. They distract from the key point, which is that a “charging station” is not needed.
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Some of the improvement in BBC BASIC over Microsoft's BASIC is attributable to the larger ROM(the first Altair BASIC was just 4k), but it's also that the BBC Micro's 6502 and DRAM was clocked higher than contemporaries. It's just a faster, more refined 8-bit machine all around.
SABRE was specifically disk drives, though given the capacity of drives in those days I'm sure tapes were very important (and you see a lot of them in the photos from the link I included)
I see basically zero chance of consumer delivery robots being economical. Self-driving cars also have a low chance of panning out IMO -- it will not take many more incidents to kill the industry -- but if self-driving cars did pan out it would at least be a service I would use.

In contrast to SDCs, the delivery robots I have seen are bulky and take up a lot of sidewalk space. In contrast to delivery people, they don't climb stairs. If they did climb stairs, I don't want to be stuck behind one. As with SDCs, most people hate these things.

I think if they were humanoid-shaped it would help with some issues (take less space, climb stairs) but introduce other issues (less carrying capacity, far more complex/expensive). The only consumer-facing robot I've seen so far that solves a problem in my life, is the Roomba+competitors. I'm pretty skeptical that consumer robotics will be a big part of the future.
UEFI allows you to programmatically change the boot device from inside the OS. This is important for failed or degraded SSDs, as they can fail in weird ways (read only, all reads hang, etc) such that trying to boot from them can hang the system. That allows you to detect a failing boot driver, and gracefully fall back to booting from another mirror/raid member and avoid having to have somebody touch a server by hand.

There are plenty of other firmware systems that allow for the same thing, and I dislike UEFI as much as the next guy, but this is a feature that's been important at work.
Left side sun exposure < 50%, at a guess.
Have you actually used Smalltalk?

> Would she have to reset the environment and lose all of her work?

Why would she lose her work?

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/The-Change-Log....
"Everything is free now

That's what they say

Everything I ever done

Gonna give it away

Someone hit the big score

They figured it out

That we're gonna do it anyway

Even if it doesn't pay"

- 'Everything is Free', Gillian Welch, 2001
woah, there was a Canadian company called Tiny Mile (who have better cuter looking robots) that do the same thing, the city banned them and then they moved to Miami and are having success apparently?

https://www.blogto.com/tech/2023/02/tech-startup-success-us-...

Looks like they also operate in NC like Starship, is it because of The Triangle? is the demand really that high there?

I'm not surprised that universities push for these robots as they will also benefit.

Curious if these robots can last through snow storms
I suggest you create your code in GitHub or GitLab and separate that long pastebin in three files: README.md (explain Why and What this is, add your gofundme and other comments), LICENCE file and actual code file.
Is that from the perspective of a reader of novels or a writer of novels? Readers love free stuff.
I doubt that adding less expensive automation is going to somehow reduce the price for the end customer. The savings will go entirely into shareholders' pockets and the cost to the customer will remain the same and/or rise.
I just want to check: you are reading Ackman's tweets, right?
>> For example, it may be that having lots of different sex partners before marriage doesn't "lead to" a worse marriage, rather perhaps those who tend to have lots of different partners may just be less happy with an exclusive arrangement.

Either way, if you're looking for a long term relationship you should avoid those with high body counts. In some cases causality doesn't matter but you get an indicator either way.
I think the biggest issue is with publishing the datasets.
Then people and companies would discover that it's full of their copyrighted content and sue.
I wouldn't be surprised if they slurped in the whole Z-Library et Al into their models. Or Google their entire Google Books Dataset
It was interesting. One of the reviewers noted that one of the generated proofs didn’t seem that elegant in his opinion.

Given enough compute, I wonder how much this would be improved by having it find as many solutions as possible within the allotted time and proposing the simplest one.
Launch cost scales with orbital distance.
Automatic sliding doors and sidewalk ramps are also nice to have. It seems robot-friendly infrastructure is pedestrian-friendly infrastructure.
> Copyright is not a real thing. It's a fiction.

Now, I don't have a college degree, but with my 60+ years life experience I can say, yes, copyright is a real thing, it protects people who create, from assholes and AI.
It's also research done by an institution with the stated principles of faith and patriotism so take everything with a grain of salt. I bet if their data pointed to lawless polygamy they wouldn't be advertising this. Anyone can lie with statistics, even to themselves.
I don't know if we are disagreeing.

I interpret the comment I was replying to as basically saying "We let humans do it, so therefore we should let machines do it." And my response is basically, "we let humans do it because it provides benefits to an actual living being that deserves them".

When Midjourney serves up an image, it does not collect a paycheck that enables it to feed its family. It doesn't go home and sleep well at night with the satisfaction that it has created a piece of art that meant something to others.

It may be the case that the executives and engineers who own Midjourney feel some of that, but I think the experience of making a machine to make X is fundamentally different from making an X.

It may also be the cast that the person who wrote a prompt to ask Midjourney to produce an image generates some value from that and feels good about it. I get that. But I think the amount of creative effort they put into doing that and the amount of value in the result that is derived from uncompensated other artists is profoundly different from sitting down and actually drawing a picture.

A large enough difference in degree is a difference in kind.
See https://archive.ph/99HcL
This is a great idea! I see others have mentioned ferries, however when I put my route in (Bainbridge Island to Seattle, WA) it chose roads not the ferry. Any way to force it to use my ferry route rather than the 3 hour road trip it chose?
I'm not sold on IPFS but the idea of using a file system as a top level global index is attractive to me. I find the 2 best references for human information is global location and time. I think an operating system structured around those constants could be a winner.

I'm not sold on IPFS and will look at Willow and IROH.
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The thing with SQL databases is that the API they offer is designed for low-latency operation. This is not a big deal (ideal, even!) when the application and database share the same memory space where latency is imperceptible. And when it was originally designed, that was the norm, but at some point someone got the idea that they could expose the same API over the network. The network where latency is higher. That is where things start to fall apart.

It is nothing you cannot overcome with the right hacks (what can't be overcome with the right hacks?), but it is frustrating that the network-based API wasn't designed for high latency use from the start. It didn't need to use the exact same API that was designed for a low-latency environment, but that's what we got. As SQL and web apps typically means MySQL or Postgres, that means you are apt to encounter the API design problems.

Granted, it seems there is renewed interest in SQLite to move the SQL database back to the way it was designed to be used. Which isn't surprising as all things in computing come and go in cycles. Once we round out that cycle and get back to "database on the network", maybe we can get a more well designed API meant for high latency to remove those frustrations.
The sad fact is that the law in most countries is so toothless (and the law enforcement agencies so far behind) that the legal penalties are mostly just academic.

Bug bounties (and proper education + screening processes for developers) are the most effective way for businesses to prevent security breaches - relying on legal recourse is more of a “shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted” sort of approach.
I'm sure Apple is getting excellent rates unavailable to you or me.

If anybody can decide to start building out massive datacenters of their own, it's Apple, and AWS/Azure know that.

And Apple just passes its rates along to the consumer. It costs what it costs.
The usual argument is:

We test developer skill by giving them leetcode problems, but leetcode while requiring programming skill is nothing like a real programmer's job.
Wow, really? That's amazing. I wonder if Foglio was ever actually a BSD user.

I have a soft spot in my heart for Foglio's early work, like "What's New with Phil & Dixie" from Dragon magazine and his adaptation of Myth Adventures. I'm particularly fond of The Winslow[1]. Sadly, nobody I know has ever read more than a few Phil & Dixie cartoons and I just get weird looks if I talk about The Winslow.

[1] https://comicvine.gamespot.com/winslow/4005-31428/
They're still trundling along pavements in Cambridge UK, doing small deliveries in a very local area for the Co-op supermarket. My assumption is this is burning VC cash. They do get around without human minders, at least, though AIUI there is some kind of "remote human pilot intervenes in case of difficulty" system.

I saw one once that managed to run itself up a ramp into the building work being done on a house :-)
It doesn’t though
When I was in college, I think you could have pretty easily hired college students to do food delivery on campus at minimum hourly wage. They would have been happy for the cash.
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I think the critical thing is you need some ground truth way of evaluating the synthetic data. You can generate 100 programs with your LLM and filter to the 1-2 that solve the problem, but there's not an equivalent option for things like MRI.
I'm a happy Obsidian user too, it's probably the application I use the most.
The amount of plugins available is incredible (my favs: Excalidraw and Calendar, Obsidian Git)

I also wrote an article about why I switched from Notion to Obsidian a few years ago.

https://domenicoluciani.com/2021/12/17/why-did-i-switch-from...
Starship was big at Purdue, this article says they launched 30 robots on campus in 2019: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q3/purdue-univ...

When I visited the campus last April they were everywhere.
I was thinking more along the lines of produce stickers.
That’s a rather bold claim. I’d like to see some reasoning behind it.

The oft-quoted 50% number is also questionable at best, see NYTimes [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/the-divorce-surge-...
> because it can just be more opportunities for change/growth/discovery

That was basically going to be my comment, I'm fulfilled by beating the game. Resource acquisition is a Massive Multiplayer game.

I'm fulfilled by the industries I enter to make revenue or sell a company, I'm never doing something grueling and dead end, I feel good about successfully avoiding being in that kind of situation.

I'm fulfilled by enjoying the spoils of success. I'm fulfilled by extending the length of time I can enjoy them. I'm fulfilled by parlaying that into passive income or a nice portfolio, or investing in other high growth assets at my risk or peril.

But making a forever company? Its never appealed to me, and when I look at other's it doesn't make sense to me. There's always something unobjective about it, burdening their family with a reputation to always defend. I dated a woman that grew up on a decently industrial farm, she was interested in Fortune 500 corporate work and excelled at that but having to prove she wasn't an unsophisticated farmer was a common point for her. I asked the father why farming, he said "feeding the people is so fulfilling", it wasn't until I found the grandfather that I got an objective answer. The grandfather was the one with the portfolio of companies and he set one child into the farming one, and another child into the entertainment ones - golf courses specifically. The grandfather was the person I could relate to. Just an example of things I see a lot. Don't get married to a position, don't burden your family with your obsessions.

I am my own lifestyle company.
Police officers should be case workers first and thugs with guns second. If they aren't willing to be that then the whole force should be replaced.
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Stop signs are made up too. See how far you get driving through all of them without stopping.
I do. I know a number of people who have been mugged (and I have been accosted myself though escaped without injury or theft). I have never heard a story where a police officer intervened to stop the event. Now of course I'm sure that police presence has stopped many muggings, but it's nearly impossible to blanket any city with enough police to actually stop violent crime from occurring.
Interesting!

I always had the impression that derivations being content addressable was one of Nix' main selling points. For reproducibility etc.