skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Destroying all copies of a work (aside from the masters) benefits the owner, because now people have to pay the owner for more copies. This is why the publishers at the top of the creative class hierarchy regularly cycle things in and out of print.

Note that this may screw over individual authors, but the copyright system was not built to benefit them. Otherwise we wouldn't allow copyright assignment, we'd have "inalienable" copyright instead.
Johnny von Neumann was another likely candidate for having HSAM, based on all those stories of him being able to repeat almost everything he ever read verbatim. I wonder if it had anything to do with his mathematical prowess, given that autobiographical memory is usually considered a separate thing from wherever math goes.
If you imagine trade unions are innately destructive to their host, then that's perfectly consistent.

Of course, I imagine even Reagan saw a bit more nuance to things.
He was too early to the crypto party…
We found the flag that toggled tail production, but the tail production code is no longer in the codebase so turning on the flag again wouldn't do anything anymore.
> How in the world is anyone defending this?

Suppose you're an ordinary trader who likes high risk bets. You find a stock you like, you buy some. Now you go on message boards telling everyone you think the stock is going to the moon straight away. This is your sincere belief. Soon the stock goes up 300%. You thought it was going to go up 1000%, that's what you said before, but hey, it still went up 300%, that's still a tidy profit, so you sell.

Whether this is fraud or not basically hinges on whether you were being intentionally dishonest, right? But now how do you distinguish between malice and stupidity?
we're talking aviation here :-)
Some apps rely upon ongoing LLM API calls for their core functionality. Some require a lot of human editorial work up front. i.e. either high variable cost or high fixed cost economics.

This app lies in a sweet spot where no ongoing API calls are required, everything is pre-calculated (at moderate expense!), but LLMs can scale some of the more 'human' work like explaining translations or checking accuracy. Albeit with the quirks and inconsistencies inherent with the current generation of models.
Many successes are unintended outcomes while trying to do something else. Without awareness of the opportunity and pivoting, there would be no success to write about (or possibly a different one if lightning struck twice).
I'd take a more diverse UI experience on Android any day over a more polished yet heavily opinionated experience at iOS.

That being said, I feel like the main complaint about Android apps design is the fact that a lot of apps are just horrible half-assed implementations of old Material UI slapped together on a drag and drop editor like the Android Studio widget system. Offering an incentive for people to build anything and make money off data collection and ads without the corporate tyranny of Apple results in just that. So apps that are on FOSS repositories such as F-Droid are usually much cleaner to use, despite their UI/UX being just as diverse.
Property tax is often indexed to property value.
Unreal Engine 5 running in WebGL 2.0 and WebGPU with asset streaming
I burned out hard during COVID. Prior to the isolation, I hadn't realized how much my coworkers helped me keep my sanity, and shortly after lockdown, I started to see my interest, my performance and my self care start to crash. At the same time, my first child was born, my MIL passed away, my mother had a brain tumor and my father had a heart attack. All in the course of around 3 years. I finally cracked.

It's been a rough road back, but after grieving and learning to be a decent parent and taking some space for myself, I'm finally starting to love code again.

Your mileage may vary, of course. Some folks I know burned out and stayed burnt. It's awful because you don't know it until it's staring you in the face, at least it didn't for me.
lots of them

mine is: https://snafuhall.com/

I sit on the banks of the Ganges that is the news; and pick a few interesting chunks out to pile up.

I try to capture a daily snapshot of the flavor of the news, not "most important".

Defining "important" is the meta question that leads to all the other news sites existing, too.

https://spidr.today does a interesting job of gathering and batching stories from RSS feeds, if you want a more statistical approach.
After 16 years of work, mostly as a freelance developer for multiple companies, I have a burnout. Fortunately, it's not an "I don't want to work anymore" - last week I had the first day that I just didn't want to work. But it never happened before. So it's like 7/10 on burnoutmetter.

But what is the hardest thing for me is that I'm not able to mobilize myself to work on my projects. I have two good ideas. It's possible that I would be able to monetize these ideas. But I'm not able to move forward. Over the years I tried to work on more than 10 own projects and none of these projects were successful. Should I start work on the 11'th and fail again? I burned out on failings ;)
> That is certainly what Microsoft wanted people to think[0]:

Maybe I’m reading between the lines in your post too hard, but are you saying they wanted people to think this because it is somehow less embarrassing or makes them look better? Including this “repeat after me” functionality seems like an extremely stupid move, like I must assume they found the 3 programmers who’ve never encountered the internet or something.

In 2016, I can see thinking they got the filtering right and that users wouldn’t be able to re-train the bot as a sort of reasonable mistake to make, on the other hand. It doesn’t look so bad, haha.
Shout out for an app called Language Transfer that I just came across via Reddit (https://www.languagetransfer.org/). It teaches languages speaking first through a simple audio course. Developed by one guy, completely free and without ads.

From what I’ve seen so far has a very clear focus on quickly getting up to speed with a different angle than other courses. It talks about how to build vocabulary by looking at general patterns for shared vocabulary between languages.
Using Parser Expression Grammers in Janet
Even if academics could review all the papers on a preprint server (which the article argues -- rightly -- that they can't), it wouldn't solve the perceived problems (or the actual problems) with scientific peer review.

The vast majority of irreproducible papers aren't detectible as irreproducible at time of publication. They look fine, and many actually are fine. They just don't reproduce. That's an expected outcome in science. The system will self-correct over time.

IMO, the main actual problem with peer review is that non-practitioners put too much faith in it. Nobody in science actually takes a paper on faith because it's been published, and you shouldn't either. Peer review is little more than a lightweight safeguard against complete nonsense being published. It barely works for that. Just because you found a paper doesn't mean you should believe it. You have to understand it.

A secondary actual problem is that it's impossible to reproduce a lot of papers, or they're methodologically broken from the start (e.g. RCTs that are not pre-registered, or observational studies without control groups). These are problems we could actually solve. For example, just requiring that any paper publish the raw study data would help to self-control the system. There are high-profile researchers out there, right now, who do little more than statistically mine the same secret data set -- these people are likely publishing crap, but we have no way to prove it, because the data is secret.
Microsoft is attracting growing criticism for censoring Bing in China
@dang Editorialized title; original title for the CNN article is "Why don’t humans have tails? Scientists find answers in an unlikely place"
You’ll convert, it’s only a matter of time.
> Figured it was online and safe.

That’s a contradiction in terms.
Wow, that's so nice to hear! Thank you so much!

I'm going to implement some sort of tracking streaks as soon as possible.

Since you have many data points, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the level difficulty and on the clues that require external knowledge (such as "the universal donor is sitting at..."). Thanks again!
The IERS reference median is “the weighted average (in the least squares sense) of the reference meridians of the hundreds of ground stations contributing to the IERS network” [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IERS_Reference_Meridian
Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to six toilets
Justice Department Risks Picking the Wrong Fight with Apple
Wouldn't that mean that you can have a friend do the pump, and you do the dump? Sounds like the guy in the original article did both and therefore wouldn't be saved by that Texas ruling.
Russians are brutal, no doubt about it. But- even knowing Ukraine is a vast country with big differences between the western and eastern regions- are there cultural, ethnic and linguistic differences so deep between Russia and Ukraine that Russia's purpose would be extermination, rather than annexation of the easternmost regions and cultural assimilation?

Honest question, obviously you know and understand this much better than I do, so feel free to bash my ignorance.
https://archive.ph/fY7Z6
People have lost the meaning of incremental compilation, sad day for modern computing
There have been sporadic rolling brownouts in the last couple of years, that said, CALISO has also had regional power outages due to high winds - Santa Cruz Mountains, above Oroville/northern CA, etc. Let's also not forget the significant number of outages that happen regularly due to lack of maintenance on infrastructure in mountainous and rural areas.

I happen to have a coop that has been more stable the last 8 years mainly because when there is a PG&E outage, there is back up power from Nevada Energy (or whatever it's called).

Also on the line maintenance front - Dixie Fire. Granted there are tree maintenance, property owner problems, etc.

For an all electric infrastructure, more generation and better maintained infrastructure is needed. I think microgrids for areas that have the open land would be something to consider.
Neat! I had a very similar idea recently: https://seamlang.app/ (the sign up button doesn't work yet)

The main difference seems to be that I start with text in the foreign language, and then translate the difficult vocabulary back to the known language (English). That way you always ensure you have the correct grammar of your goal language even if you don't know most of the vocabulary yet. This can be a bit confusing at first because you have mostly English text with Spanish word order, but just trying it a bit it works pretty well. It also makes the difficulty an easier problem because the grammer stays the same.

I haven't gotten around to finishing it yet, especially judging which vocabulary to translate and ensuring each translated word still makes sense in context isn't easy.
Definitely an idea on the roadmap. I know most people do most of their reading in a browser and not eBooks.

I'll see how easy it is. I get palpitations thinking about developing on another new platform. Java and Swift were a challenge enough to learn!
Because I don't want to spend two years fighting the second referee when she's fundamentally misunderstood the point of my paper.

I'm no longer in academia. Either take what I put up on arxiv or leave it. I _really_ don't care.
They're minor elements in English – and even then, you can construct sentences where the meaning changes based on aspiration.
Right, but that was Nintendo's business decision, and it's really up to society to decide if that's acceptable or not.

A hypothetical book publisher could adopt a similar models for books - if you're an author, you have to use the publisher's app to write your novel, and anyone who wants to read it has to access it from the publisher's servers via the publisher's app. For whatever reason, said publisher could corner the market on some niche, culturally-important genre of book. Would be a bummer if they decided server maintenance was no longer worthwhile and just deleted all the books as per the license terms.
Desalination – can it help us survive water scarcity?
Maybe if they were rich, but computers were bordering on new-car expensive in the 80s, and were indeed a hard sell for most working-class American families. Even something as basic as a Commodore 64 could cost you a few hundred dollars, and that was before the accessories got involved in it -- some of which you needed if you wanted to save programs or run commercial software. Some parents could be swayed by the computer's educational value in teaching things like math, reading, grammar, and geography, hence the glut of edutainment titles available for the early 8-bit machines. But even in the affluent town where I grew up, very few of us kids actually had computers.

The real winners of the home-computer revolution were the ones who knew how to cut costs effectively, companies like Commodore and Sinclair, in order to grow the market -- and the market only really grew once component prices started falling once the 80s were underway.

My family was... a little different. My father, a mechanical engineer, actually had a use for computers in the home: when the force and mechanical advantage calculations on your novel engine design became too complex for programmable calculators, a more powerful desktop computer was just the tool needed. He got me a VIC-20, and later a TI-99/4A, so I would keep my grubby mitts off his expensive Tandy business machine.
> The fact that it's a community project is also a nice bonus.

It is more than a bonus. This is the only kind of project you know that tomorrow, the day after or a year from now there wouldn't have profit incentives or a pending IPO to completely abuse your experience as a user and extract as much profit as possible.
This is really cool. I'm going to give this a try!
I asked my friends and family to download Signal.

They were resistant. It took a long time. But there are ample new opportunities appearing on a daily basis to show them why a cross platform privacy-focused messenger is a better idea than being trapped in a walled garden.

But eventually they understood. And because they care about me, they use Signal to communicate with me. For some of them I'm their only Signal contact. With others, they now have other friends from other circles who have similar concerns.

The more other people they hear mention Signal, the more likely they are to use it. Be the change you want to see.
Makes sense. Probably more work to go off the beaten path then to maintain two configs
When I've gotten burned out it is generally from one of a few reasons:

- I'm learning less at work. I feel like for me the fun part of work is learning new skills by learning a new technology, working in a product/business space that I haven't before, or a project of larger scope. If I feel like I'm not learning it can feel like groundhogs day.

- There is a mismatch between what I value and the company values. For example you could value shipping velocity and iteration speed and if you are working at a big company they might have very long dev cycles with internal politics. This can end up being a boil the frog situation as you or the company slowly change over time.

As others said reducing workplace stress can be mitigated by enriching your life outside of work. Hang out with friends, exercise, pick up hobbies. Have something to look forward to at the end of everyday that isn't work.
I would worry that preprint review would turn into another front of the culture wars for certain fields and science by consensus.
If I record both Intel and AMD have CPU ME-free or PSP-free made for specific clients. China have their own version of x86 CPU although not as advanced. AMD also has a JV with Zen 2 IP.

All while they are matching ahead with RISC-V. Alibaba and Huawei have been pouring resources into making sure RISC-V is competitive, both on hardware and software.
burnout for me was not because I was "over worked" but rather the work I was doing was very boring. It was the exact work that didn't get me motivated. This particular company was known to hire the shittiest of consulting groups, and farm out "talent" to low bid offshore contracting companies.

Onboarding these people every quarter knowing they will likely get shit canned the next quarter was a tiring position. The level of incompetency of some of these people was similar to doing support type work for boomers (ie, instead of "did you turn your computer off and on" type deal. It's literally having to point these people to existing documentation and having to read it out to them like they are in elementary school. Basic reading comprehension is not a skill these people are required to have apparently).

I also remember a consulting firm trying to migrate system to some proprietary shite. Asking basic questions about the system, I always get the "we will get back to you on that" and never get it. Follow up, is basically hand waving magic, throw some generic bullshit buzz words ("ItS iN tHe ClOuD, mIcRoSeRvicEd OrIeNteD, DiStRibUtEd"). I remember management eating that shit up.

When push comes to shove, I finally black box test the system and its fails on even the most basic performance tests. Too many scam artists in this industry tbh, and too many incompetent idiots that somehow got into the C-level suite. I think in the end they were able to get the vendor to throw in an extra product or reduce cost to close the deal. Fortunately, I left that shit hole before it was implemented.
ZMachine in PS:

gs -dNOSAFER zmachine.ps -- game.z3

http://zzo38computer.org/zmachine/interp/zmachine.ps
When would one want to use this, compared to, say, Celery?
You can see them throughout Southern California. They are strikingly beautiful when in bloom. Not mentioned in the article is that the blossoms exude a sticky nectar that makes an absolute mess of the area under the tree.
Similarly a lot of not as popular old music has never been remastered properly for new formats and this is one of the reasons collectors of old vinyl are often on to something. A lot of it was created from vinyl masters and sounds sub-optimal in digital form.

Interesting fact regarding Zep ][, thanks!
Aegis is good and I enjoy using it.

I hope others don't follow Microsoft Authenticators footsteps in creating their own Authenticator, saying others are insecure, and not allowing Authenticators like Aegis.
So did Dean Koontz. I don't remember if they agreed upon one year or five years for him to make a living at it before he would give up and get a regular job if he didn't succeed. What ever the time period they agreed upon it worked out for him.
All those conflicts you mention with the exception of Israel are guerilla warfare wars, which this is not. The Russians couldn't just sit there and shell/bomb the towns of Afghanistan because they hardly had any actual towns. Same thing for Vietnam

Here Russia can just sit back and obliterate the Ukraine's cities. The point about people is that Ukraine isn't going to be able to push Russia back, which for the most part they haven't.

So I don't know how you can 'win' anything.
This is mostly me but the case that's the most common is that a disk can't be wiped because its dead. Gotta do that before hand.
>feel properly rewarded for what you do

For me, this is what made me dislike my (unstressful) FAANG. I could do the job well but when there are 2,000 other engineers fighting for "limited" opportunities for promotions and I'm told a few times that "it's not my turn yet", I'm outta there, goodbye.
The review process is broken.

Reviewing pre print papers isnt any more effective than reviewing printed papers. Review, and publication is a meaningless bar.

Publish -> people find insight and try to pick it apart -> You either have flaws or you get reproduced... Only then should your paper be of any worth to be quoted or sighted from.

The current system is glad-handing, intellectual protectionism and mastrubation.

Academia has only itself to blame for this, and they are apparently unwilling to fix it.
Comments are always wrong...but some of them are useful.
Abstractions should be deep not wide
I recommend the book of hard knocks.

Selling is hard. Selling is painful because rejection is painful and rejection is most of selling. Everything is easier than selling.

Looking for shortcuts, tips, and tricks is easier than selling. It feels like work, but it is not. It is just pretending and avoiding pain.

In business, selling is all that matters. Technical competence without sales equals a failing business. Selling without technical competence is a road to riches.

You can hire technical talent better than you. Build the cost into your price and mark it up for overhead and profit.

You can’t hire sales who care as much as you.

Just grinding away at sales is the simplest thing that might work. The only thing better is luck.

Good luck.
Got the same. Was about to sign up for a month to check it out
Sure, but the extent differs greatly. Imagine someone doing this to enter an additional genre unburdened by their well-known works - so not "quit the band, band reformed under new name" stuff. In how many genres can a very prolific and competent artist deliver quality works concurrently? 10? 20?

How many profitable genres are there even on Spotify? 100? 200? Where is the line between "revenue-generating label" and "relegated-to-obscurity-by-your-own-choice label"?

I believe an artist can believably perform decently in several genres, but not in hundreds of genres. Moreover, I can understand being cautious when entering a radically new main genre from your usual fare, but I think there are plenty of adjacent genres where there is no significant taint (eg, sword&sorcery / high fantasy / urban fantasy).

As such, to me, there's a crossover point/zone somewhere beyond "several" and before "hundreds" where you're no longer doing it for separating your output along clearly distinct categories where such separation is expected/needed/warranted, but faking an abundance of choice to increase profit.

To me, 650 pseudonyms falls into the latter category - as another comment put it: SEO'ing Spotify to maximise profits. I dislike that, because it has nothing to do with competing on artistic merit.