skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure he had better connectivity than all the people on dialup using WebTV.

It's surprising that they never shipped V.92 support for most of these devices, you would think that saving tens of seconds would be a boon for an appliance product like this.

Has there been any work done to put old WebTV clients to use?
While I have two Mac (A mac mini as a workstation and a MBA for portability), I think next time I have to work on a contract, I’ll just setup a VM for the client. NPM always made me uneasy.
One could argue that the iPad is the reinvention we don't need.

Here's my loadout: iPad Air 5 (big box sale), Pencil 2 (post xmas open-box sale, you bet), Zagg Rugged Book (eBay). M2 MBP (refurbished), 2020 MacBook Air Intel (big box open box with dents in it, runs Windows 10 on the metal). I also have an iPhone.

The iPad is for daily driving human citizen stuff: bank stuff, buying stuff, selling stuff, talking to people, paying bills, reading the news. I'm typing on it now. It is so easy taking screen shots of bills, using the pencil to mark them up, and then showing these insights to people via email. If you hacked into it, you could take over my life! iPadOS is generally considered secure, so I generally consider this device a luxury.

The MBP is for development and if you hacked into it, you could just see what I'm working on. I guess you could make a mess of my GitHub, oh no. Nothing personal on there though. You could probably guess the root password, but it's still iCloud locked. This thing is the money maker and is not a luxury.

What about my third windows laptop I lug around? You are correct, they make you need to have various hardwares to run all their different softwares. Again it's a luxury: I have it for the "need" to use "real" office.

I also have a fourth: a Chromebook with several paid Android apps on it, other Google Play movies I bought, and I do not own any other Android devices. This thing sits on the shelf most of the time, but I felt the need to have it so I could use the Google software. Maybe if I felt the need to install Linux on bare metal, it would go on this thing, it has an i5. Luxury.

There's probably a way to compress all my software activities down into the singleton MBP, without losing much security. But, I've already been burned by having all aspects of my daily life in one place. This is how I could live without luxury.

If we want to bark up the "they're screwing us over" tree, then, it's nonsense that we need to buy all these different hardwares to run all these different softwares: because that is the REAL LUXURY. If we care about minimizing the number of devices I'll buy per (5) year(s), then we need to "make them" allow us to run any software on any hardware.

TL;DR: I like my iPad, but if we lived in the EU, then they'd sue Apple to let me run Windows on it. Otherwise I'm forced to live a luxurious lifestyle of many devices.
The problem is that you lack end-user control of your personal data [0]. You don't control whether it's preserved or deleted; you don't control access. It's a fundamental requirement of all data.

[0] Unless you live in the EU?
This just tells me they don't understand why any of those things were created and how to actually use them. It won't get traction and it'll wallow and get stale since it'll be an unmaintainable project. Also, VSCode is built on Electron while Photopea and OnlyOffice are straight up painful to use.
A couple fun facts. Founder Steve Perlman sold WebTV to Microsoft for half a billion. Steve later saved a struggling pre-Google Android from being evicted by bringing his friend Andy Rubin $10k in cash[0], refusing a stake in the company.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#His...
> I live in a place where it ranges from 50-85 F throughout the year, rarely below 60 though.

Combined with what you said about it being wet, I'm guessing you live in the subtropics.

Building in a climate/ecology conscious way in tropical/subtropical places is very different than in colder places, and most of the knowledge out there is for colder-than-tropical climates, and frankly I don't know much about it.

But one thing that translates well between the climates is shade - shade structures and roof overhangs - especially on the sides that take the most solar load.
Interesting - I'd have thought that the increase in tyre dust would be offset by less brake dust due to regenerative breaking.

Of course, having that much low-end torque can shred tyres much more easily. It would be cool to see whether the results hold for EVs taking off at the same (generally lower) acceleration as a gasoline vehicle
Dammit how did I miss her!? She got handed the poisoned chalice by Cameron...
I own a fully maxed-out MacBook Air M2. I suppose, there's no point in upgrading, from the point of view of a developer?

I'm not quite sure why the comparisons on the marketing page are against the M1 Air.

For a desktop (which does the Docker things) I use a maxed out Mac Mini M2 Pro. Still, it's painful to see an upgraded Air which I do not own, but also a little bit warming that they don't seem to pushing a comparison with the M2 equivalent. Crazy times.
> Apollo missions used two launches of the Saturn V - one for the crew capsule and one for the lunar lander, which rendezvoused in orbit.

That was a concept called "Earth Orbit Rendezvous" which was discarded early on during the Apollo program in favor of "Lunar Orbit Rendezvous" where the Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) was launched on a single Saturn V. You can see this in the movie Apollo 13.
for sure. saw vijay iyer trio there 6 years ago and it was very memorable.
No such prudent measures are taken with my flight simulator. But I'm somewhat proud of being able to manage as captain, first officer, radio man, navigator and flight engineer simultaneously. Crash rate is down to one in tens of flights as well ;)
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> Government contracts always attempt to maximize economic utility while meeting objectives

Lets not go overboard with the claims we make about government contracting.

> instability caused by a high center of mass

The center of mass is low as the engines are by far the heavies part of the rocket.
There is also a sunk cost element to things, esp if the comp is in stock with a vesting schedule. "If I stay here just a little bit longer, $xx stock vests". And before you know it, you are five years in, burned out, but can't bring yourself to leave.
One trick is to always save bonuses. Live on salary and save anything extra.
> They are marginally more expensive, but they also very easy to sell second-hand. I'm speculating that the monthly cost is on par with a PC.

They aren't marginally more expensive. I'm writing this on a Chromebook I bought for $300 before the pandemic. Including electricity, cables, etc., I figure it has cost me about $6.50/month.
Remind me of Teletext https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext
I love this post. there's a lot of potential for a personal monitoring platform like this. great work and keep staying alive
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What is the most beautiful piece of mathematics that has practical applications that you have come across while working in software (including ML/modelling)?
Tldr; the lawyers argued that knowing that the terms of service would change made the subsequent change in the terms of service foreseeable; the judge argued that this amounted to an argument that because change is forseeable, any specific change is forseeable, which indeed seems to be a ridiculous argument.

That said, I couldn't quite make heads or tails of exactly what the precise argument was beyond that, the article doesn't actually do a very good job, or else I didn't do a very good job of reading it.

If someone can explain to me, please do.
The benefit of Talos isn't low binary count but that _can_ reduce the amount of maintenance required.

The benefit is declarative API driven management. You spend less time automating a system to a desired state in a similar vein Kubernetes provides a declarative API.
This case is a real Rorschach test of people's thoughts on Apple. I don't understand the people that think this was a nefarious scheme to do, something, but I do accept that they believe it strongly. I have never met an Apple user that agreed that it was an intentional scheme to cause more iPhone purchases.
Chrome OS has a developer mode which runs debian in a virtual machine, FWIW.
That's quite a bit more than a senior engineer at a FAANG makes. For most people senior is the terminal level. So, most engineers would be better off as HVAC guys?

Interestingly, I once met a plumber who used to be an engineer. He said he is much happier. So the HVAC thing could be true, but the Bay Area doesn't need this many HVAC guys...
About that...

Many years ago family member asked me how to transfer photos from their Symbian phone onto PC. Over the years they have been conditioned to absolutely never plug or unplug anything from the computer while it is turned on. It took quite some time to convince them that USB is designed for hotplugging. But the moment we connect it, computer totally freezes. With egg on my face I think, oh, probably just Windows XP crashed. Power-cycling doesn't help at all though, no POST, no beeps, absolutely nothing. Out of ideas I open the computer case, only to see there's a huge bulge on the chipset...

I have no idea what happened there. Perhaps unlucky short when inserting connector, causing latch-up in the chip? Phone was totally fine after this, I connected it to different PC without issues.
Quite a pithy phrase that has been popular lately but piracy advocates have always claimed that piracy isn't stealing, regardless of whether or not "buying is owning" so I don't think the two are related.
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That looks amazing! Especially so that it uses the real ADS-B data, rather than relying on an internet-based relay.
Certain vintages of Apple laptops have proven more durable than others in my experience.

My 2007 MBP went through a battery every 11 months for about 3 cycles before I finally missed the boat on getting that 4th battery replaced under warranty.

My 2013 MBA still has a perfectly healthy battery today, though it doesn't see much use and its disk just died yesterday.

My 2017 MBP's battery degraded significantly after about 300 or 400 cycles (within spec, I think). A few keys on the keyboard partially failed due to dust or whatever (common in this vintage). The screen had some sort of damage that gave a subtle color cast to parts of the image. The USB-C ports wear out after like 20 insertions and won't hold a cable in place anymore. A year or two ago I replaced the screen and bottom case (keyboard, battery) and it's still doing fine.
Great! Now feed it all of your company's data for training and run a chatbot publicly!
Other manufacturers cannot use MacOS, and have little power to improve Windows performance.
What about blade servers. The server is just a card that slides into the larger chassis/frame. So, is the server the whole chassis, but wouldn't that mean you a multiplier for how many are being thrown? Or is it just the card?
Its called birthing if you use the Canadarm. And there is a reason every modern ship doesn't use that approach.
> Luckily, we figured out how to write programs to mimic that part of the brain in the 70s

What’s this in reference to?
I too think it's very impressive but wouldn't it be even more impressive if it was made using canvas? It would mean that you would need to implement your own rendering loop and layout engine. You'd need to reimplement a lot of elements such as input fields or buttons. You get all of this for free when building on top of HTML/CSS.
So many tools in this space! This one looks a little bit like go-task, but it seems maybe better for production workflows because if timeout support, while go-task seems more aimed to command line work/makefile replacement.

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https://github.com/go-task/task
Oh! This brings back memories. WebTV was my first "computer". I learned "hacking" (re: HTML) on this thing! WebTV started my entire future as a Linux SysAdmin.
Sorry 1/2 into the article all that kept popping into my head is someone tell this man about a cgm like a dexcom . It all of this out of the box . My wife has been a t1d for 30 years the dexcom cgm makes all of this a lot better
Super slick demo, I'm on mobile and it's impressively fast nevermind functional.

But it is 'just' a DE webapp right? From 'internet OS' here (which actually I don't think you use at TFA repo) I expected to be able to boot to it. I guess there is some other solution that would allow that, but not a package deal?

I suppose I'm just saying be careful/manage expectations with 'OS', but for what it actually is it's really cool.
We have 2.5 gig Ethernet, and even 5 gig - that’s probably close enough
AI Explained on YouTube had a video some time ago about how the tests used for evaluating LLMs are close to useless due to being full of wrong answers.
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The RWVK modal was mention which is not based on transformers but on NN. [1]

The context window is particularly interesting, i have interacted with the people over discord some time ago and the model seems good but not widely used yet.

People are noticing the limitations will not shift to pure hardware -> energy now.

the transformers allows heavy parallelization but it's too computationally-intensive even with quantitization.

people are simply trying to run from the transformer is seem.

[1] https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM
I don’t think all of those tools have become obsolete. NER, for example, can be performed way more efficiently with spaCy than prompting a GPT-style model, and without hallucination.
Some algorithms do better at this than others, but "make a good diagram of a graph" is an intelligence-complete problem in the general case. Two people might render structurally-identical graphs in very different ways, to emphasize different aspects of the data. This is in fact a similar problem to the "generic graph algorithm" and "generic graph data structure" problems.

Graphs straddle the line between code and data. For instance, any given program has a call graph, so in a real sense, the "generic graph algorithm" is just computation.
Wow. This is really impressive. thanks for sharing.
You missed the 'arbitrary platform' part of 5he original comment.

We all know steam exists that wasnt what OP meant.
I didn't know about worktrees, sounds a lot like bazaar used to do branches which I always considered much more convenient than gits way. I think I start using it straight away.

Cheers
Jochen
It’s not clear to me, but can usernames be reused?

Let’s say I create a username and then later delete it as they suggest.

Can someone else then create the username and continue the conversation?

Is there a means to know if I’m talking to the same “Bob.smith.123” I was a few weeks back?
A lot of the expensive stuff for kids to “have a chance” is BS, not very relevant to their life outcomes, basically parents being grifted and engaging in status competitions you could choose to opt out of.
What about all of the projects where your assumptions are false?
I don't think so. Iranian proxies and others have killed US soldiers recently without starting a war.
I'm pretty pro-market, but Standard Oil used a lot of techniques to fix prices. Having a lot of refinery control and the ability to undercut anyone who didn't play ball with them (and thus kill the small independent) did happen. They didn't need a true monopoly, just enough power to tank any smaller company that tried to undercut them.

If you're interested in the subject, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin is a fascinating read.
Would it still be under the default warranty? 1 year or so?
Climate Change and 'Last-Chance Tourism'
i'm missing how this is relevant like, at all? what with the context of the entire rest of the conversation, i struggle to see how you reached that interpretation
Paper on this subject:

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.academia.edu/491578...

Evidence for "vuestra merced":

http://elies.rediris.es/elies22/cap7.htm

Much more in-depth treatment of "vuestra merced" etymology:

www.academia.edu/39806097/_Fue_vulgar_y_plebeyo_el_origen_de_usted_La_diacron%25C3%25ADa_del_pronombre_de_respeto_desde_la_interfaz_oral_escrito&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjc_-qd9tuEAxXFOjQIHWgZDMsQFnoECAYQAg&usg=AOvVaw1A_5QRn5k5EbDqDOzJ-DUy

Spanish Corpus:

https://www.corpusdelespanol.org/hist-gen/

Interesting review of dialects of Judeo-Spanish from 1894 where "su merced", "su osted", and "usted" all appear:

https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/la-lengua-y-la-l...
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...
You can. But landing isn't the only issue. You have lots of things you need to take into account.

For example, at some point you need to be in the right position for your communication and power needs. The payloads need to handle rolling around. Lots of reasons.

Its a very invasive solution for one particular problem but doesn't help and makes other things harder. If you don't slow down, being round want help you when splatting on the ground.

At the end of the day, we can make landing of the moon reliable with other methods that are less invasive and thus less costly. The solution you suggest is one that you use if you don't have any good options left.
Pretty trivially wrong, since unmarried people can have babies.
Morally, these multinational corporations deserve piracy or any bad thing that happens to them.
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In terms of personal costs I was thinking more car/petrol/public transport costs to get to work, the personal time (which could be counted as a cost) it takes to get to and from work, having to get up earlier etc)
After an intelligence agency has knocked on your door to tell you just how interesting your online comments are and serve you legal paperwork, arguments like this suddenly become hollow.

While this advice suggests I should just give up, that's not a practical option.
Cut the ends off some rails, mount them at a 45 degree angle to the ground, and leg press it into low orbit
I could be mistaken but I believe both types of diabetes has no cure; however type 2 is MUCH MORE manageable with a proper diet?
The growing industry of green burials
Make it easy to change your mind later, run some PVC conduit and make sure you include a pull tape for your networking stuff. A pre terminated fiber cable and some fiber to ethernet media converters should do the trick for isolation.
These were pretty decent, not too terrible, and could be set up to dial normal ISPs. They filled a niche with older customers and/those who had zero computer experience but wanted to check email and browse web pages back in the 90s. They didn't last long enough to bridge the gap to the tablet era, so I'm guessing a lot of people finally had to learn a computer.

I do remember playing some MIDI files on it and realizing how good it sounded compared to my basic SoundBlaster 16, which made me go out and get a SB AWE32.
Not sure how flying a plane while it's essentially doing nothing is helpful to anyone.

If anything airline pilots should be taught to troubleshoot a plane more and fly it less. Maybe if the First Officer understood the correct way to exit a high altitude stall and that applying inputs to his control cancelled out the other pilot's inputs the plane likely would not have crashed.

A big plane in a normal condition doesn't require much attention and can fly itself. Humans are best at exceptional circumstances (in theory) and computers best at doing the boring and tedious work.

Flight hours in this context are pretty meaningless, they should be judged by percentage of abnormal incidents survived in a simulator instead.
It's a show stopper when size matters and you can't fit the binaries into flash.

I'm sure "sorry for getting everyone to switch to this unestablished language" will go over very well with your boss and upper management. At least in C and C++ you can blame your tools.

If you've stupidly convinced management the existing tooling is shit, then you've got a problem. And I don't mean a technical one, I mean a problem with paying rent, because you're not going to be employed much longer.
> If people wanted what you described, then Surfaces would be skyrocketing.

But isn't Apple in somewhat of a unique position given that they're the only company that develops a popular tablet OS and a popular desktop OS? Microsoft has Windows Subsystem for Android, but it looks like it only runs apps from the Amazon Appstore [1].

If there was an Apple device similar to the discontinued Surface Book that ran iPadOS and MacOS, I would be intrigued. Using an iPad as a display for a Mac is cool, but it would be nice to run MacOS locally.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/
So don't live in a top tier city, or if you do, have roommates like a college student.

I'm sorry, that's ridiculously naive.
I've seen evidence of other games too.
I have a 14 MBP M1 16/512. It’s… not great. The other day photoshop was running super slow so I opened up process manager and discovered that not only had it eaten all 16gb of ram, it was also using up ~30gb of swap space. Even just general day to day safari use will give me random lags and slowdowns that I don’t get on my desktop which is running an i5.
Certainly the trick is to choose not to make these expensive commitments to spend money before you earn it. It’s much harder to claw back once you and your family get used to luxuries.
In Haskell though I think Alga has an even nicer API. Don't know about performance as I haven't had a need to use Haskell to process enormous graphs. https://github.com/snowleopard/alga
"yes i turned my life upside down, opened myself up to discrimination, and took a cocktail of drugs that will actively make me dysphoric and also cause my muscles to atrophy, just so i can beat women in sport, despite the fact that the hormones i have been on for the last year have actually normalised my performance with women"

do people seriously think people transition to win at sports?
He has that. The problem is not the CGM, it's everything around that (and the fact that both Freestyle Libre, and Dexcom, don't readily expose the data for the DIY types to do anything with).

While the Dexcom is "better" (than Freestyle Libre) in my opinion because the recent revision can talk directly to your phone continuously (the Libre only sends alerts, getting data requires you tapping phone to arm)... your insurance may cover only one or other. Either is way way better than nothing, but both are still a long way from automation.
Celestial navigation only gives you attitude information while in space. The video is talking about aligning the guidance systems with the celestial coordinate frame. The stars are far enough away that it is not possible to get absolute position/velocity information using the stars (unless you use some near-future tech like XNAV, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar-based_navigation). Of course, the position of the planets can give you general idea about what "side" of the solar system you are on. A star like Polaris can give you a rough idea of latitude, but that is not nearly enough precision to perform a planetary landing.

The Surveyor probes used radar ranging to get relative altitude/velocity measurements. They were not very precise in where exactly they landed. The Apollo landers were semi-manually flown visually in the terminal guidance phase which probably helped with their accuracy.

The vision-based systems used today are much more capable of doing precision landings autonomously once you are close to the surface.