skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> None of it affects me or my day-to-day life.

I think it affects you, and everybody.

Just after Russia started to attack Ukraine more intensely again in 2022, there was a chance that Hungary goes into a full blown dictatorship (without voting and such) on the side of Russia. Now, that would have affected me greatly since I’m travelling a ton, and I’m Hungarian, and I was there that time.

Also related to this, I need to pay attention to Hungary some level to tell my parents when to leave. Unfortunately, I started to fail with this, but it’ll be more important again, because the status quo which allowed to pretend democracy is under attack, and we could already see what happens then.

After COVID, it’s even more interesting your statement, because you were affected, and to be effective you had to know what are the “news”. In other words, how people fucked up things. Also, I should have been quite offended why my doctor didn’t want to see me, when I arrived sick from New York two days before the first lockdown there.

Also from the “news” it seems that the general trust between each others plummeted (shrinking number of real life connections, and increasing internet toxicity). That indicates the possibility that democracies are not the optimal strategy on individual level anymore. We need to prepare for that.

Because of the “news” I, my brother and his whole family, and about at least a quarter of my high school class left Hungary (whom I know about). None of these would have happened with the news of the 90s or early 2000s. So it definitely affects larger parts of population.

Since I’ve also started to not read daily news that much, I’m also quite sure that the lack of news is definitely good for my mental health. And I’m definitely more chill. But there is a possibility that I won’t predict something because of this, and I’ll loose money, time, health, or even friendships (I suck with remote connections with my friends).
Looks like this is another application of the ninety-ninety rule: getting to the stage where you can make incredible demos has required 90% of the effort, and the last 10% to make it actually reliable will require the other 90% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule).
That seems to be what all the meditation people say. I've done it many times, and it goes like this:

Ok, lie down. Relax muscles, sinking down, good breathe...

Bored.

Bored bored bored OMG this is so boring!

Breathe, breathe, try not to think of how boring this is!

Bored bored bored oh a bird is chirping. Chirp chirp chirp and gone.

Bored bored bored bored bored holy shit when does this end?

My fingers are flicking now. Bored bored bored bored fuck it I'm done. Waste of an hour.

My friend: wasn't that awesome?

Uhh.. let's just go build something.
I agree that for remote workers being near enough to a major airport (not exactly sure how near near enough is) should open up cheaper housing that's not regular commute convenient, but if you have another household member who needs to work somewhere in person you're kind of stuck.
Yes, I am working on a project which requires the creation of a large number of custom images, each following specific style requirements. If I did this 5 years ago, it would have cost me tens of thousands of dollars to hire illustrators. Now with a Midjourney subscription, it costs $30/month.

While you might say that this has eliminated work for illustrators (and in many cases it absolutely has), I'm just a regular guy on a budget – meaning that I wouldn't have hired those illustrators in the first place because I couldn't afford to spend $10k creating 500 images. So this project only exists because of image-generating generative AI tools.
The Vision Pro is not doing well. Apple has cancelled the next version.[1]
As Carmack says, AR/VR will be a small niche until the headgear gets down to swim goggle size, and will not go mainstream until it gets down to eyeglass size.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/apple-shelves-n...
80/20, 90/10 etc. are all just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
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That's part of what makes it greed. People regularly lose money in the pursuit of more money. I have seen houses go unrented for ages because owners refuse to accept that their worthless shack in the middle of nowhere is not worth what it used to be.
I've considered your shopping behavior points and feel like people may actually buy even more since it would be easier to browse the entire selection of SKUs so they would more likely do so each visit. Or, at least, see more of them than they would otherwise as I think most people don't traverse every aisle on each visit in the status quo setup. Stores know this now already and do things like put milk in the back since it's a frequent purchase and you'll buy more if you have to walk by more to get to it. A customer that just runs in for milk still is only seeing an aisle or two of product when they could walk by the majority of store's items on that same aisle if it was a condensed selection.

On the Home delivery point. You're right free home delivery and narrow margins don't mesh. Yet, I have FREE home delivery options at dozens of stores/grocers in my area. I've never seen what I'd call hefty fees for this service. It's usually in the $1-10 range. They really compete for customers with this option; in my area anyway. Also, they push curbside pickup really hard now and it's always free. I've never seen that have a fee, yet someone in the store is being paid to walk around and pick your order off the shelves. We're paying for it somehow and this trend really took off during the same time as inflation ratcheted up, so my guess is it's being baked into prices and every customer is sharing the cost. In any case, I don't see why the in store shopping process couldn't be improved while home delivery coexisted. They each have their place and each customer has their preferences. Using myself as an example again, I do like pickup when it helps the logistics of my day or if I know exactly what I need and maybe I know it's heavy and want to be lazy.
Actually, macOS Sequoia only has halves, maximize and quarters as resize options, and has very limited keyboard shortcuts. Some people will be happy with it, and some will need more. Loop is very flexible in terms of making custom window sizes, keybinds, cycles etc., and is perfect for those who need more!
As opposed to an out of season tomato?
HF has raised more than $400m. If that doesn't qualify them as "big", I don't know what does.
In the 90's that balkanization was problematic because everyone was reinventing UNIX but with "our one useful feature" (graphics rendering, networked machines, etc)

Eventually it boiled down to today where we have the BSD's and Linux. Other than helping force compatibility with the BSD's, who else stands to benefit from breaking away from "GNU-isms"? MacOS?
That "tweet" loses a veneer if you see that we value what has Worth as a collective treasure, and the more Value is produced the better - while that one engages in producing something of value is (hopefully but not necessarily) a good exercise in intelligent (literal sense) cultivation.

So, yes, if algorithms strict or loose could one day produce Art, and Thought, and Judgement, of Superior quality: very welcome.

Do not miss that the current world is increasingly complex to manage, and our lives, and Aids would be welcome. The situation is much more complex than that wish for leisure or even "sport" (literal sense).
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A similar mouse/trackpad-based window manager: https://deniz.co/penc/
But in the long run freedom could be impacted. Imagine this becoming popular. Then some proprietary fork happens, by some tech giant, which adds some feature that is great. Then lots of people, who did not care for GPL in the first place switch to that proprietary version, because ir is oh so much more convenient. Suddenly distros get pressure to use the new thing. Or people switch to whatever has the proprietary replacement. At some point the majority of the people could be using that, instead of libre software. Perhaps your next employer obligates you to use the proprietary thing, because it is popular and they don't want to deal with people using less common OS.

Whatever the masses do can always have impact on what you can do, or are forced to do. For example quitting your job, because you want to use the libre tool, when your employer tries to force you to use the proprietary tool. "Why can't you be a good employee like eeeeveryone else?"
There's so many different statements everywhere, that it's hard to understand what someone is specifically referring to. Are we thinking of Elon Musk who is saying that AGI is coming next year? Are we thinking of people who believe that LLM like architecture could reach AGI in 5 to 10 years given tweaks, scale and optimisations? Are we considering people who believe that some other arch breakthrough could lead to AGI in 10 years?
Some see meditation as a means of contemplation, in that you focus on a single topic to focus on while sitting. Please consult you local Buddhist/Zen temple for a Dharma talk or Koan as an example.

But others feel that can be restrictive in that it doesn't go into a deeper state. But that goes to the whole truth of zen and the misleading of the student and the one thinking they need to be there - it gets complicated.
I don't know why so many people think compelling code to be shared is practical, desirable, or better than leaving it up to choice, but GPL is definitely not more free than BSD license.
it turns out Lucidity has written about this precise phenomenon too - the relentless positivity of toxic environments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39702323
I want them with gopros livestreaming
run_cmd uses macros so you can just type shell commands directly, but it does make empty strings disappear ("").

I'd rather not split up arguments, but to each their own.

Either way, it's great to do some shell things to speed up coding, and Rust things to speed up the program safely.
I'm curious why these kind of questions are allowed on Hackernews. It's very low effort and IMO requires a 7-day ban
A few companies have commercialized the concept of physical audio modeling. Audio modeling allows for complex control surfaces (e.g.: https://roli.com/products/seaboard/rise2) that use MPE (Multi polyphonic expression).

https://audiomodeling.com/. Creates the SWAM technology and provides a whole bunch of physically modeled instruments, like horns, winds, and strings.

For more fundamental sounds check out Ableton Suite

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/compare-editions/#software-i...

Ableton provides a number of physically modeled instruments. Tension = string, collision = mallet/percussion, and a few more.

Both are quite expensive and require a somewhat powerful machine.

While these sound cool, a sampler, that is a synth that plays recorded versions of the real instrument, sounds much more "real" than a modeled version. That's thanks to the Fourier transform.
https://www.andreinc.net/2024/04/24/from-the-circle-to-epicy...

A good place to start on sound in general is at Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog on sound: https://ciechanow.ski/sound/
As stated in the comment on GitHub, Luminare will only be accessible by sponsors. If you have financial restrictions or are not able to sponsor me, I am open to giving the you the source code. However, this is all in order to make Loop more profitable, as I have put all my free time into making it. I hope you understand :)
Yes, it's a language model, not a reasoning model. But people got confused at the start.
But does what Apple has shown in its demos of the Vision Pro actually meet reality? Does it provide any value at all?

In my eyes, it's exactly the same as AI. The demos work. You can play around with it, and its impressive for an hour. But there's just very little value.
I am a big fan of Divvy (https://mizage.com/divvy/)—while both dated and paid, it has a wonderful feature of a visual tile map you can use. In all other cases I know, there are a bunch of shortcuts to make a window upper-top or something. But in many cases, it is not enough, as I need fine-grain control.
> Think since their CPU is LE then payload should be LE as well for performance. This is false because even on ancient hardware this would not take more than 3 cycles (in a context of network communication shaving off 3 cycles is a hilarious endeavor)

Having to do BE/LE conversions means that you can't just reinterpret cast your network buffers into whatever is the native application message type. Yes, there are ways around that (by wrapping every integer field with an endian converting accessor), but it is a significant amount of yak shaving.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Internet
I really like Divvy for window management which takes a different approach from most of the others

https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/divvy-window-manager/id4138575...
Two things worth adding: it's not exactly the same ~15% for each drug, and it's a net +15% over placebo or even over doing nothing.
I am in Hong Kong and get the German page
In servers or clients (such as mobile apps?). The difference is huge
> If I replace ‘(a b c) in my example with (list ‘a ‘b ‘c) I got the same results.

Yeah, your core point was right, just thought to let you know about that bit of undefined behavior.
For sure. I think gig apps are good for meeting clients but it’s good business to have them contact you/your business directly in the future
I'm happy to have a discussion about this, but I don't buy that end-to-end encryption will, overall, increase children's safety. I'm happy to see strong evidence one way of the other, but this article is very one-sided.

Child grooming on the internet is a huge problem, and I suspect (again, happy to see evidence against it) it's better to allow scanning of children's communications, rather than ensuring their communication with whoever they are talking to is end-to-end encrypted.

I don't think it's reasonable to make this the parent's responsibility, when basically the whole world is internet connected, and those parents are fighting against multi-billion dollar international corporations, who dedicate huge teams of highly paid people to ensuring children get addicted to their platforms. Looking at the children in my life, it's very hard to keep them off social media, even if you don't give them devices they will just use their friend's, or devices at school.
I think that if this had been available in France, people would have used it to copy games big time.
exactly that. after 4 hrs of walking I put the gymnastic ball on the treadmill to sit. Getting used to it may take a while but I think its the optimal solution, as you will never be in a very static position. Regarding limited space, maybe you can bring the ball somewhere else while walking, I mean you switch once a day.
I was eager to see the data, but exporting from the first source only gives the same data shown in the article, although in a spreadsheet.

The explanations in your second link are more like definitions than justifications for why this and those boiled down quantities are worth talking about.
Yes, case in point: https://twitter.com/liron/status/1659618568282185728
Not OP but while I aced my class that used Sipser's book, nevertheless I still lacked the mathematical comfort/maturity to do Arora and Barak. The first class started talking about "random functions" and I had no background for that at the time. I don't know if some kind of advanced discrete math class would have helped fill in the gaps at the time, at least for myself. Or maybe a remedial discrete math class, I was mainly an engineer not originally intending to be a CS major.
Even with fire and forget, your send queue might become full. So you either drop the message of you have to wait for it to empty. Similarly on the receiving end you have to block waiting for the queue to become non empty.

In fact that's exactly the reason that async exists for networking.
> just can't get the hang

pun intended?
Local, small-scale food production used to be the only way food was produced - people didn't eat better then, and there were many, many fewer people to feed.

There's huge variability in what can be grown where, especially if you want to reduce the amount and number of inputs that are imported from further afield. There are places that can support all the crops and livestock that provide a healthy, balanced, and sustainable human diet, but not everywhere can. What if you want to eat flour in a place where grain crops aren't tenable, or butter where cows, sheep and goats don't do well?

Producing food this way also means that we need to build houses on fertile land that's good for growing things. That happens a _lot_ where I live, and I hate the site of previously productive soil disappearing under concrete house-slabs.
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Loop can actually be strictly keyboard centric if you want too. It's all fully customisable. I too only use the keyboard
So one never specifies the tables/data sources, but refers to columns directly and that triggers the data source to be pulled-in somewhere?

Is this somewhere well defined? Are there docs explaining how it works?

This part of the language seems the most magic to me, and I've found a few times now that things that feel like magic work great, but only 80% of the time.
Silicon Valley is not "Americans." Otherwise, I agree.
Could you explain your point a bit more? You say you’re worried about them having a monopoly, but then say that’s why you don’t support open source models? Open models mean that no one has a monopoly, what am I not getting here?
Coding assistants are useful. Gpt4 is great for asking legal questions to a heuristic level. (E.g. understand a contract better than a layman but no substitute for a lawyer). Since a lawyer adds time and cost and delays, this might be useful for some situations.

AI to assist writing is useful. AI to summarize long paragraphs is useful.
I've got an annoying bug that made Contexts unusable to me. After 10-15 minutes it steals focus from the active window and then the OS will try to bring up the previous app, which means it might even switch desktops to do so.

If I quit contexts bug goes away for some time, but it returns after a while :(

Sent an email to the creator, but given the update cadence I am not holding my breath for a fix this decade.
It was driven by the desire to ensure everyone in the world has access to free software. I've been fortunate enough to live my entire life in a world with free software, but I don't take it for granted. People who would replace the GPL with permissive licences do. All you have to do is observe the behaviour of corporations. Just a little bit. Just enough to see that at every step a corporation will take as much as they can and give back as little as they can. Free software would not last long with permissive licences.
Maybe they added this recently, my meet-up has been on hiatus and just started up again. This definitely wasn't a thing up until a year or so ago, though.
Why would you expect a pass in the pyrenees to be 30m in height? I don't think there's a single point that's that low
You cannot say flat-out say that E2E alone must be maintained, you must make it harder for others to reach you, thru something done in-person/screen-only QR-code, Bluetooth'd contact vCard, ..., something that prevents drive-by spammers/perps/malicious actors from randomly attaching to an account.

The key thing is to make distribution of account name harder:

1. Send 256-char hash of your account
2. They tag your hash with a name of their own choice

Disassociative of name to account gets maintained when used with a Signal protocol, which is what Signal app can do.

Again, weak sauce on claiming E2E is alone essential for child's privacy.
The autoscaling 99% of businesses don't need, and won't need even when they hit their 1 million DAU
While self taught can work for some people, for most it does not work out. A big thing on self meditation is that it means you do not have a mediator/moderator.

Possibility of ending up on the path to 'Zen-sickness'

https://tricycle.org/magazine/meditation-sickness/
That's probably what the actual criminals will do. And the rest of us will get 5€ fines for using inappropriate language in our chats.
Looks like we are screwed
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The Famicom Disk System was an awesome concept to bad it never made its way outside of Japan.
In between being laid off and recently finding a new job recently, I worked my way through this book and built a website using htmx.

It was such a pleasant experience compared to the frontend work I'd been doing in react. I never felt like htmx got in the way, it just worked and I almost never needed to think about it. I spent all my time solving problems and learning CSS.

Thanks for writing the book and making it free!
> If someone is repeatedly threatening physical violence, as the author of this post is

Really? I think most people will agree that it's a writing style (not that I enjoy it) rather than the author really threatening actual violence.
>I guess you never saw a proper tape library?

Does the robot armature in the enclosure swapping tapes around in Schwarzenegger's Eraser count?

Thanks for the example, that is a lot of tape and a lot of throughput.
It's arguable that macOS going Unix had a halo effect that did more for Linux and open source than if they stayed on a completely propietary stack. There is a ton of cross pollination between mac and Linux software, at least on the command line.
>DOPE

It's spelt DOpE[0].

0. https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~nf2/dope.html
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Here's a rough primer: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...

Caveat that it will probably make your life worse, with no ability to change the course of events, so I wouldn't blame you or others for maintaining ignorance or denial. Grappling with the gravity of the problem is essentially a terminal cancer diagnosis with no good medical interventions in the horizon.
This is a common problem across all fields. A classic example is that you don't change SAP to suit your particular business, but instead you change your business to suit SAP.
This isn't magic. Precisely. Calling it manipulating high dimension concepts muddles the waters. It's not. It's merely using a whole lot of numbers to manipulate word tokens.

And it's quite limited at that despite the impressive ability to store up language corner cases and put them back out.

"an LLM can output whatever you want" -> this right here is approaching magical thinking. I am really clear headed about it's capabilities and limitations, breathlessly describing it's internals as if it implies it's anything more then a first decent NLP interface is the problem and you seem to be indulging in it.
There is at least one German comedian who made an entire career solely out of being angry...
Most of the abuse already happens on "responsible" platforms that provide zero expectation of privacy, like Discord.

Scanners are just not good at finding anyone but second-degree consumers, and that seems to happen more on web forums (and also, focusing attention here doesn't get rid of producers).
> The GNU effort was driven by dissatisfaction with the license on the prior implementations, and was probably considered disrespectful by the copyright holders of those too...

A bit of a distinction, there.

The goal of the GNU effort was to empower users, hence the pro-user license.

The goal of the Rust coreutils cloning is to spread fast, hence the pro-corporate license.

Whether you prefer GPL or not, attempting to displace a pro-user tool with a pro-corporate tool is more than simply "disrespectful".