skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At that point it might make more sense to go back to a more traditional approach. Place each "dot" on a little magnet, and use a PCB with coils in it to actuate them.
Looking at the pcase structure with some basic emacs-lisp experience (OK, slightly better than basic, but I'm still sloppy), I find it really easy to grock having never seen it before.

They mention repurposing the comma and backtick to serve functions that they don't elsewhere, which I agree is probably worth changing, but otherwise I can't understand at all what the issue is. And reading about the problems with cond*, it seems worse to me in every way. Not terrible, but certainly worse.

I don't really understand why Stallman considers cond* better even by the standards of his own arguments. Very odd, I feel I must be missing something.

Maybe if I tried to use it the issues would become evident.
Filters to discourage use? Do you have a source for this? Surely they are just low-res, infrared cameras.
Great movie, based on one of Ted Chaing's short stories -- highly recommended.
And unfortunately, there’s not a lot that can be done. Congress is not going to go against the plastic, packaging and bottling industry, or the petroleum industry. The best we could hope for is a tariff on plastic products, or large state taxes on plastic bottles, packaging, and fill material.
At this point COVID mRNA vaccine fear mongering is just shameful. So many excess deaths in America in unvaccinated populations. I haven't looked at the data recently, but vividly recall mortality rates hovering around 10:1 during peak times.
Pfah, showoff. My 2005 Thinkpad T42p crawls circles around that thing - slowly. Maxed out to 2GB, Intel 120GB SSD with a PATA->SATA adapter (just fits if you remove some useless bits from the lid) and - what keeps this machine around - a glorious keyboard and 1600x1200 display. It even gets several hours on the battery so what more could you want?
I went with the other techie solution: resizing my browser window.
Well I'm just a rando, and you didn't ask me, but I agree with the sentiment, so: Fedora. Or openSUSE. I'd be more comfortable giving a newbie Fedora.

I was a Debian devotee for nearly 25 years, but I've found it to be less foolproof and fault-free lately, and it has always lagged behind current package versions in Stable, forcing you to run Testing (or -backports) or even Unstable to get newer versions-- with corresponding potential for breakage.
This is bad from a global warming perspective.
Relating to the aside about opportunities in different countries: the comparison between potential programming career prospects between a poor American and middle class Pole feels reasonable for someone born around the same time as the OP (early ’80s I guess) but I suspect it’s since shifted in Poland’s failure.

I think the relative disadvantages of a poor American compared to their wealthier peers have increased as there’s more competition (as the degree is seen as more desirable by motivated wealthy parents) and the poor student likely won’t even have a non-phone computer at home where all their wealthier peers probably will. Possibly they could work around the competitiveness of computer science by going via some less well-trodden path (eg mathematics or physics) except that university admission isn’t by major. They may also be disadvantaged by later classism in hiring. Meanwhile a middle class Pole will have access to a computer and, provided they live sufficiently near one of the big cities, access to technical schools which can give them a head start on programming skills (and on competitive programming which is a useful skill for passing the current kind of programming interview questions). To get the kind of good outcome described in the OP, they then need to get hired somewhere like Google in Zurich (somewhat similar difficulty to in the US except the earlier stages were easier (in the sense of being more probable) for the hypothetical Pole) and progress from there (maybe impeded by initially not being at the headquarters / fewer other employment opportunities to get career advancement by changing jobs). Class will be less of a problem as the hypothetical middle class pole isn’t so different in wealth from other middle class Europeans and you get much less strong class-selection than when (e.g.) Americans are hiring Americans.
i did a full apt dist-upgrade to try and get the h264ify plugin to install and if i remember correctly i never was able to get it to install. I upgraded from "chromium" to "chromium-browser" and set all the compositing and other settings recommended for the RPI.

and to reply to another sibling, "yt-dlp" isn't workable, this is for a senior citizen that does small motor repairs.

I got an HP elitedesk that's a few years old coming in monday to replace the RPI; hopefully that will last another 3 years before google et al decide to "optimize" again.
This is a valid point all over EU as well.
What would a version of YC that doesn't exploit naive founders look like?
New Reddit, per the appendix. I think that Old Reddit is likely to be fairly competitive (I would guess placing near Wordpress), and yeah I agree it would be interesting to have in the table to see how far it's fallen.
I never understood why they changed that detail about the daughter in the movie. It really diminishes the meaning for no benefit at all.
> Building your first machine is fun, building your 10th is less so.

Building a Linux box led me back to Apple.

I had been using UNIX at home, school and work for several years, and decided it was time to build my 3rd Linux box. Went to CompUSA out of idle curiosity to see what equipment they had, and the only computer in the store with Internet access was a Mac.

I hadn't used a Mac since the SE/30 days, and I suddenly realized that the NeXT acquisition which I'd mostly ignored had changed everything. Why build a Linux box and be locked out of tools like Photoshop when I could have UNIX workstation that ran commercial software (for, admittedly, significantly more money).

Never looked back.
I am always fascinated by the diseases that us Boomers have either had as children or have been vaccinated against way back in the past. Those diseases that have almost been forgotten until there is a sudden outbreak.

Measles: had it at around age 6, ditto whooping cough.
Rubella: had it around age 12.
Chicken Pox: Had it around 6 months old.
Small Pox: Vaccinated against it around 22 when going overseas.
Tuberculosis: Vaccinated against it around 21 while working in a hospital.

I have had other vaccinations of course, but those later ones were for the more common diseases of today, not diseases which have been more or less wiped out in the last 60 or so years.

When I was at primary school, measles was pretty much always around somewhere in the town.
Anxiety drug pregabalin linked to rising number of deaths
i wanted to add both a pun and an anecdote to an old(er) post. I will, however, buy plugs and grow my own at some point soon!
OpenAI Refutes Musk's Nonprofit Founding Claim
> an alternate "lite/basic" mode.

In another world this mode dominated UI/UX design and development and the result was beautiful and efficient. Where design more resembles a haiku than an unedited novel.

We don't get to live in that world, but it's not hard to imagine.
And the tobacco industry.

And the oil and gas industry (especially later with fraccing, and the earthquakes that followed).

Our children will be caught up in the usual capitalism cycle that we are in, only occasionally stopping to realize how our collective choices have added more and more problems to our lives.
My air isnt that old, and I'm eyeing a new one...

I find that a lot of my work is "remote" at this point. Im doing most things on Servers, VM's, and containers on other boxes. The few apps that I do run locally are suffering (browser being the big offender).

Is most of what you're doing remote? Do you have a decent amount of ram in that air?
Don't be "silly": that is just the standard bullshit argument.

It is a poor argument because it is entirely possible to come up with terms that could be written into the contracts to prevent that obvious scenario.

I wouldn't be surprised if tag-along or preferential rights or other clauses don't already prevent that scenario. Anybody know?

Founders often invest $100000's of their time - yet they are not given equivalent value in preferential shares.

The game is rigged!
Also posted yesterday (35 points, 10 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39719850
Or you don't hear about the methods they are using for deanonymizing because they would get the cases thrown out of a court. Warrantless wiretapping and the like... And the private firm is just lying for them so law enforcement can do parallel construction.
That's not the cool part. Some fraction of the existing Starlink constellation are military satellites and nobody knows which ones. They're hiding in plain sight.
This is a really interesting point and plenty of products have died on the hill of not realising that "content is king".

What makes it particularly interesting is that the VisionOS app store so far seems to have had quite an anemic reception from developers. Barely any novel non-toy apps have been released for it, with 8 months since devs got access last year and 2 months in the open dev ecosystem. It's possible the tsunami is just around the corner but it would have to be said that this seems to be diverging heavily at this point from the launch of the original iPhone app store. It was always going to be a question since the user base is miniscule compared to every other headset and iOS devs mostly have negligible experience in developing full scale VR / AR applications which is actually a very steep learning curve. So the barriers are high and the incentive relatively small.

If Apple fails to attract devs to its store it will create a huge problem for them that they are pretty unused to having. I wonder how they will approach a situation like that, since their culture is not used to dealing with that as a problem these days.
> Frankly there is no value in learning user-hostile proprietary technologies in a way that the owner of said technologies actively wants to discourage and prevent.

Security research. And, uh, applied security research.
I said it before probably in here, it was always about power dynamics and never about productivity, those are the same managers who would have no issue to hire remote consultants and outsourcing the work any day, but if you are an employee, then you should go through the same humiliation rituals they went through before, they find it hard to comprehend that someone will be promoted and praised without those rituals first, like useless meetings, stand ups, arse kissing, you name it.
Does anyone actually understand this?
Sounds like an exercise in futility -- why would the young "doers" listen to the elder "advisors"? History shows they'll roll their eyes at the (supposed) outdated advice from the advisors and ignore their wisdom.
not the COBOL language, but the IBM mainframes have five nines of availability, duplication of every component, how swappable everything from power supplies to CPU and RAM.

Can get to more than five nines if used parallel sysplex, but the big iron is incredibly reliable. This is the reason why all banks, airlines, and other old-school businesses have been running mainframes and cannot ever migrate off of them.

this stuff was engineered like it was an airplane full of people
The idea the individual consumer is responsible for policing industry is farcical on the face of it.
I don't think NVDA fits in with those, their rise makes typical business sense, and has made sense most of their existence, unlike the others.
> reducing the number of requests required to load a page

In practice this pretty much requires pure SSR and "multiple page" design, given the amount of network roundtrips on typical SPA sites. (Some lightweight SPA updates may nonetheless be feasible, by using an efficient HTML-swapping approach as seen in HTMX as opposed to the conventional chatty-API requests and heavy DOM manipulation.)
I learned this running them on Windows in a VM. I would have expected it to fall back to software rendering like the old days, but no. I ended up installing some build of Mesa for Windows.
This, although I often feel near modern web frameworks (React, similar) do not provide better developer experience.
You don't know if Apple sees them as failures. We weren't building to v1. We were building a long lived product. We knew that. We understood our vision and that it might take years to see that through. I don't think anyone would be ashamed to have Apple Watch or HomePod on their resume.
> Soldered drives are awful. If your motherboard dies you can kiss goodbye to your data.

You have backups though, so who cares? Your motherboard died, you need a new computer anyway. Do a restore. And it’s not like external drives can’t fail; they’re just tiny computers.

> It’s win/win/win, the only downside is that they’re inconvenient if you want to use the laptop on a non-flat surface (such as a lap)

Hard disagree, friend. Example: my editing software has a ‘cache’ folder. If I set it on the external drive and that drive isn’t mounted for whatever reason, the software defaults back to ~/Movies. The first you know of this is the system notifying you that you have 20MB of hard drive space left.

There’s no substitute for an always-there-no-matter-what internal drive.
Removal of unexploded ordnance from patients (1999)
> They would take absolutely _everything_ that could be shared, and calmly and with complete conviction

How do you call this ? this kind of shameless self interested bullshit ?

I work with someone who has an uncanny ability to talk like this and say vaporous stuff with a strange blend of belief and weight.

I don't know how this is called .. but it stumps me every time he does it. He can fail at the most basic thing or refuse to actually share the workload and at the next meeting come up explaining to everybody how things should go because of <buzzword> and <more buzzword>. And he manages to tap deep into your brain on ideas that you will never go against (team spirit, dignity, mission, whatever) so it disengages any critical thinking reflex you might have.
We're in the field, but with auditory stimulation, not rTMS.

Glymphatic System activity is linked to the synchronous firing of neurons that define slow-wave sleep.

If you interrupt the brain near the peak of a slow wave, the brain response is to increase this synchronous firing, increasing delta power, and the flushing of the glymphatic system.

Monash University here in Australia is looking into the impact this may have on Alzheimer's prevention.

There isn't a drug that I'm aware of that is as effective.

You can do what we do with rTMS, light stimulation, haptics, etc. it's more about interrupting the brain than it is creating a slow-wave, as far as everything I am aware of in the current literature.

We link to a few studies on our website https://affectablesleep.com - I'll be posting more links soon (we just launched our re-brand 2 days ago).
I remember when I got my second dose of gardasil I blacked out in the waiting room after and woke up on the ground with rugburn on my face. I later learned I had fallen over and had what appeared to be a seizure.
I didn’t even know what it was I was being vaccinated for at the time, I was pretty young. I was a little peeved when I found out that, as a male, I didn’t even need the vaccine. Needless to say I’ve been skeptical of vaccines and the pharmaceutical industry as a whole ever since.
>So one app that is totally unknown to another app can introduce reflections into the objects it displays

Reflections of the real environment on virtual objects do not imply a global scene graph, or the ability of apps to reflect one another. It just means that each app gets fed the environment map that mostly had to be generated anyway because of SLAM. Neat but not some kind of radical form of IPC.
> Tokenization counts: the impact of tokenization on arithmetic in frontier LLMs - https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14903

Very interesting paper. It does make sense to me the R2L chunking would be better than L2R chunking. It doesn't actually study single digit tokenization.

I am mostly interested in a direct comparison between an LLM wide tokenization vs single digit tokenization. It would be nice to see a direct comparison between similarly trained models. Otherwise it is very hard to get a definitive answer by comparing models with varying sizes, training time, and general strength.

> xVal: A Continuous Number Encoding for Large Language Models - https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02989

I have seen this paper before, but hadn't payed attention to the p10 vs p100 analysis. Its not clear that the findings would be relevant to an LLM like gtp4 though.
Yep. It's all show and little substance.

Neighboring Uganda was also a wreak in the 1990s like Rwanda due to it's civil war from 1979-1986, but it has (re)built a relatively robust ICT and Financial Industry, while Rwanda's projects are mostly show or PR driven.

Uganda has a massive financial sector (for a country as poor as it is) with Citigroup, Barclay's, Standard Chartered, and just about every major Indian bank operating there, along with a surprisingly professional stock exchange for a market it's size, and IMO has the same potential that Kenya had in the 2000s, which itself feels like India in the 1990s when Bangalore and Gurgaon were getting on their feet.

Rwanda doesn't have similar champions.
yes, it was fully vetted and open design that had a strong acceptance for the vision impaired. The following Design criteria were considered:
1. durability
2. reuse, repairs and maintenance
3. manufacturability
4. adoption and adherence
5. skill level of the target population to use the device
6. price
I used AI to add features to GCC. Would've taken me way too much time to learn the absolutely gigantic repository without it. Talking to the AI was like having an experienced maintainer guiding me towards the proper path to make the changes I wanted to make.
I'd prefer to see the grey text trend die honestly. I think my number one style-rewrite is just setting `font-color: black` on things.
> If .tk was such a clear signal for abuse, isn't it a bad thing that signal no longer exists?

No, this is (obviously) contrarianism for contrarianisms sake.

It's good when entities facilitating crime stop facilitating it. No debate necessary.

Additionally, it's completely unclear what you mean by your proposal.
That may be sensible if you want or need stronger security and isolation.

However, many companies do support BYOD, especially on mobile where it's a pain to carry two phones around.

There is some support for this. For example, Apple supports dual Apple IDs and separate encrypted volumes for personal and corporate data. Microsoft apps (Outlook) also have some support for separating personal and corporate data.

The benefits of BYOD can include lower equipment costs, lower friction, and potentially higher employee happiness and productivity.
I agree that the colonoscopy itself is not that bad. Endoscopies are not bad, either. What's bad is the prep and that's where work is needed.

Though this year I did find that using zinc oxide makes all the difference. Spread it on, drink, use more cream/ointment after each visit to the bathroom.
Do you have earth return on your power?
It is not dreaming.

The "waves" don't exist in the brain - which is why I'm surprised this title survived publication.

The wave is the electrical activity we measure as a result of the synchronous firing of neurons which is the hallmark of deep sleep.

The slow-wave is linked to the glymphatic flush.

We can't create slow-waves, however, we can increase their power (more synchronous firing).

This is known science, and we've been working to commercialize it for the last 4 years. Getting close. https://affectablesleep.com
>who insist on using their local language for IT terms out of national pride or something

We'are a nation with a IT sector, not an IT sector that happens to hve a nation attached to it. Using English is fine, but education and business in Germany must be available to everyone in German and that's why it needs to be taught. We can speak more than one language, so making sure that our culture and language is preserved and speaking English aren't mutually exlusive.

There are many European countries, smaller ones especially, seriously at risk of losing their language and culture.
So work on local locals first.

You don't need the federal government to solve this problem for you.

Everyone from your city to your state can be pressured to add to the cost of plastic.
> but while the HPV is best known for causing cervical cancer, it also causes cancers of the penis, anus, mouth, and throat.

or

> but while the HPV vaccine is best known for preventing cervical cancer, it also prevents cancers of the penis, anus, mouth, and throat.

FTFY
And thank you for writing it.
Cloudflare's market play has consistently reminded me of Facebook to Google's from the perspective of Googlers I know who moved to Facebook in early 2010s.

Let's do Akamai, but cheaper. Trying to stop everything bad is impossible anyway.
> That's good enough to use Discourse at all, but the experience will probably be on the unpleasantly slow side. ... an alternate "lite/basic" mode

Why does this need to be the "alternate" choice though? What does current Discourse provide that e.g. PhpBB or the DLang forum do not? (Other than mobile friendly design, which in a sane world shouldn't involve more than a few tweaks to a "responsive" CSS stylesheet).
We should revisit this comment 10 years later :)
The COVID vaccine showed a positive impact in terms of disease severity and long term impacts.

Patients who experience long-term COVID impacts often demonstrate a range of major problems including lowered IQ, brain fog, increased risk of ischemic events, etc.

In my opinion you were absolutely correct to vaccinate your children, just as parents of boys should vaccinate them against HPV; not only for their safety, but for the safety of their partners.
pretty sure he was being sarcastic. which he should be.
Honestly to hell with the WHATWG's weird pseudo-standard. Backslashes? Five forward slashes? No one is sending those URLs around, and if they are, they should fix it. The only thing that needs to deal with that kind of malformed URL is the browser's address bar. If browsers want to do fixups on broken URLs at that point, they should feel free to, but it shouldn't pollute an entire spec.

(It's not even a real standard -- it's a "living standard", which means it just changes randomly and there's no way to actually say "yes, you're compliant with that".)
I mean this in the nicest possible way: 5 years is likely not long enough for the “just work, stupid” desire to really, really, really set in. Nor is a couple of months enough time for the potential rough edges of desktop Linux to set in.
Amazing that Apple introduced a breaking change in a .4 release. Probably a mistake?

Also amazing it wasn't caught during the beta period.