skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason I still love the Psion logo with the deconstructed letters and the industrial gray-yellow color scheme.

Anyway, it’s sad that there was such a massive opportunity for European corporate players to invent mobile computing, but together they managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the form of Symbian (the evolution of Psion’s operating system, co-developed with Nokia and Ericsson).

The other day I was rummaging around papers in the attic, and found a black and white printout of an internal Nokia presentation from 2001 outlining their smartphone and mobile data strategy. It was striking how well they anticipated what users might want in the smartphone, but completely failed to project the technological milestones that might make those dreams realizable. The 2001 outlook was entirely obsessed with the limits of bandwidth and what mobile operators would allow on their network (i.e. how Nokia could enable operators to get a cut on all the content viewed by users).

Post-iPhone, it seems silly that they spent so much energy and engineering effort on shaving off a few kilobytes of 3G data here, squeezing apps into 1 MB RAM there, and so on. Apple was able to project the point where their desktop operating system (itself formerly a late-1980s workstation OS) could fit into mobile, and they also had the design capability to ruthlessly cut features to make that work. Nokia dabbled in all directions: bottom-up with Symbian, top-down with Maemo/Meego, but no commitment and no guiding vision except the managerial focus on cutting costs by putting the same old components a bit more cheaply into a growing range of colorful plastics.
If you think too hard about it it becomes pretty clear AI just breaks the already tenuous justifications for copyright.
Cool, I'm sold, added Ruby to my to learn list! I use Python a lot but I don't think it's as good for writing scripts as bash or Perl. Ruby looks like it fits that "better but not much harder" category much better.
>we spend out time having fun and learning about the world is a side effect

I think the part of this that resonates as most true to me is how this reframes learning in a way that tracks truth more closely. It's not all the time, 100% of the time, it's in fits and starts, its opportunistic, and there are long intervals that are not active learning.

But the big part where I would phrase things differently is in the insistence that play in and of itself is not a form of learning. It certainly is, or certainly can be, and while you're right that it's something other than Borg-like accumulation I think there's still learning happening there.
The real hair-raising thing is that HH70 is out of the blue. Three years is a very short period of time to put together a company, supply chain, and working HTS tokamak of any scale. The plasma performance metrics are nearly irrelevant. They've knocked down a lot of difficult questions and paved the way for bigger machines on short timescales. I'm not sure what the next out-of-the-blue headline will be in 3 years, but there's a good chance it will be "burning plasma". The West runs a real risk of being left way behind here.
> If your PR is big enough that you're relying on a git bisect to find a bug, that's a problem in its own right.

Who said anything about bisecting?

But yes, sometimes changes are big and I'd rather land them as one cohesive unit that demonstrates how it actually solves the root issue than get stuck down a wrong path because "this is what we already landed the infra for".

> A workflow like what OP is describing (code doesn't exist until it's merged)

That's not a workflow, it's a misunderstanding of reality.
Yep, each one of those should be isolated to their own subdomain rather than being in the top level SPF record. Should have 8 total SPF records including the top level.

Easiest thing to do is to start by moving just 1 include to its own subdomain.
You're seeing blackness because you closed your eyes. Seeing stuff in the mind's eye usually has to do with seeing stuff in open eye everyday life but not hallucinatory it's like on another plane of your normal vision and it's not a constant image it has to be invoked and concentrated upon almost like a flickering image that you could feel and see in your skull that's like behind your eyes and up a little bit. It's really hard to explain but closing your eyes isn't the way to see in your mind's eye.
Do not use Ubuntu. It is becoming nearly unusable due to this stuff. Fedora or Debian or whatever else.
Intelligence first has to exist in the phase space of universal experiences possible.
This is fantastic! These days, we have learned that no product can be taken seriously if it doesn't use LLMs somehow, so also based on Harfbuzz-Wasm, here's a font which is also an LLM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766791
I’m not saying we don’t have limitations, we clearly do. There are limits to our intellectual capacity and creativity.

ChatGPT can exceed humans in its knowledge store. It is excellent at doing research. But it’s not thinking it is merely selecting the most likely nest words based on some algorithm.
The first gravitational wave detected (GW150914 in 2015) was from a collision 1.3 billion years away. IIRC ~5 Solar masses was converted into energy in a matter of seconds. This is a mind-bogglingly large energy event.

Yet to detect is LIGO has to be unbelievably sensitive. I've heard it described as measuring the distance to Alpha Centauri with the variation of the width of a human hair.

I still don't believe warp drives (in this case Alcubierre drive [1] isn't viable. It's an exercise in hopium. People want to live in Star Trek or Star Wars so want it to be true. It's an object lesson in not understanding the domain of a function. Warp drive concepts rely on concepts like negative mass and/or energy. I can plug negative (or even complex) numbers into quantities like velocity or acceleration but again I've just violated the function domain even though various formulas will spit out (nonsencial) values. Garbage in, garbage out.

But let's just say this is possible (which, again, IMHO it isn't), then we get to the energy budget required for any of these FTL concepts. The amount of energy to reach even our nearest stellar neighbour is mind-bogglingly large. Some estimates I've seen for various warp drive concepts involve things like 1 Solar mass of energy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
Photos can be uploaded up to 16MP resolution in Google Photos "High Quality" option and will not be counted towards storage space, but that was before June 2021. After that date, Photos, emails and even Google Docs files are counted.

The count made me shift my storage provider to OneDrive, which I opted not to have my storage reduced (from 30GB) at the time they changed policy and reduced free storage to 5GB. I still retain backup in my own drive, though.
We also know of the Great Oxidation Event [1], and that life on earth is older than that.

Animals are recent-ish (~500mya) but single cell organisms that do not require oxygen must exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
Hard to blame politicians for wanting to get elected again, though. This is a systemic issue with democracy. And even an approach with more direct democracy (in contrast to the indirect, parliamentarian democracy) shows that there are issues with denial of reality on the voters side (see for example the recent Swiss vote for the 13th month pension).
WebSocket?
All of reality following governing laws with arbitrary precision is certainly a type of intelligence plane that came before the universe’s big bang.
Am I missing something or is this a lot of words to describe the equivalent of the JVMs instanceof / type casting operator?
The profesional publishing revolution was on the Macintosh. I worked in that industry and I experienced it. The Apple LaserWriter was a proofer the size of a washing machine and cost more than a diamond engagement ring and it probably hung off a Mac II running A/UX and acting as a (Appletalk) network spooler. That's not the stuff of a desktop revolution.

The desktop publishing revolution came when average Joe Schmoe could whip off a (almost) professional-looking typeset zine on his home desktop computer. That was An Atari ST, and Atari SLM, and Calamus.
It's a movie.
I'm using Ameliorated Windows (https://ameliorated.io/) for the Windows that I have (just keeping it on there for if I sell the laptop), but I use Garuda Linux KDE 99% of the time. It's gotten quite good. The AME version of Windows just runs a bunch of power shell scripts and guts Windows of all the bloat, similar to what Atlas OS does. Cool thing is they're open source too. Revi OS is another good one. Revi OS does less removal, AME is the middle ground, and Atlas OS removes the most. Have tried all three and the AME one works best for me. Haven't seen an ad in the OS since.
I think feature branches typically should be "mostly" private - but sometimes a few quick fixer are better to push, rather than just describe as a review comment.
I wrote a lot of code for Symbian devices once.

The system was extremely efficient on low-powered machines (by which I mean both a slow CPU and a weak battery). As far as wringing maximum performance from hardware-that-be, I have never worked with a better system.

The learning curve of the API was insane, though (and the system dragged a lot of ancient pre-32-bit PSION/EPOC remnants within itself). So was the heterogenity of the devices. Every new device required some rewrite of existing apps, and Nokia pushed out dozens of them. On-device debugging mostly didn't work. Emulators were clumsy and bloated, but still lacked important APIs, such as sound.

At the end of the day, the system was so developer-unfriendly that everyone migrated happily to better pastures.
Surely this is a very serious crime and people need to go to jail.

but sadly, crickets.
These anthropomorphizations are increasingly absurd. There's a difference between a human making a mistake, and an AI arbitrarily and completely confidently creating entirely new code APIs, legal cases, or whatever that have absolutely no basis in reality whatsoever, beyond being what it thinks would be an appropriate next token based on what you're searching for. These error modes are simply in no way, whatsoever, comparable.

And then you tell it such an API/case/etc doesn't exist. And it'll immediately acknowledge its mistake, and ensure it will work to avoid such in the future. And then literally the next sentence in the conversation it's back to inventing the same nonsense again. This is not like a human because even with the most idiotic human there's an at least general trend to move forward - LLMs are just coasting back on forth based on their preexisting training with absolutely zero ability to move forward until somebody gives them a training set to coast back and forth on, and repeat.
Sorry, I was too fast to answer to see that.
Indeed!

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury."

-Elmer T. Peterson misquoting Alexander Tytler.
That kid sure learned the meaning of "nothing new under the sun".
So when I look at a sunset and enjoy that, I think it's fun to chase sunsets, my "brain" is telling me it's fun because I'm learning a new skill and receiving a dopamine reward for looking at the sunset and feeling good about it?
Just to add some context: The largest budget positions of social security (by far) are supplements to the public retirement system.

As of now about 25% of the federal budget go towards retired people [1] (in addition to all mandatory "taxes" paid by working people).

The vast majority of the money is not spent on charity but is part of the societal deal that younger people support the elders. So the payments retirees get are the result of them paying into the system for 30 - 40 years.

The shrinking numbers of younger working people and the beginning retirement of baby boomers make this system unsustainable and politically very hard to change.

Something will give sooner or later but god knows what that will be.

[1] https://www.bundeshaushalt.de/DE/Bundeshaushalt-digital/bund...
The big advantage is if setuid and setgid support can be entirely removed. There are a bunch of special cases that have been added over the years to try to deal but increasing priviledges of a process is fundamentally more challenging in the unix security model than only ever lowering priviledges. Of course these days Linux has priviledge escalation via user namespaces as well.
Hmm... I use python-lsp-server and it just works almost every time. The main thing is your editor being aware of your venv. Which editor do you use? I use direnv and the direnv support in Emacs so each project has its own venv, then install the project plus all dev dependencies (like type stubs) in that venv. The LSP server itself is installed globally, though.
Vast lakes, smaller rivers, puddles, you know?
I think that one can be forgiven for pure lack of processing power... We forget just how under powered even host machines were and how resource hungry encryption is...
Yes, the aperture grille (hundreds of wires and a metal frame holding them in tension) is itself heavier than a traditional shadow mask.

However, aperture grilles also use differently-shaped glass from shadow masks. The screens are only curved horizontally like a cylinder rather than on both axes like a sphere. This requires thicker, heavier glass to hold the vacuum.

Later flat-glass shadow-mask tubes were much closer in weight to flat Trinitrons.
Another thing that can work: peer work, showing someone who's blocked your strategies for understanding a system and imagining tests to check your hypotheses. If they come back to you with evidence that moves the team forward towards a win, that's a high five moment.

But the struggle is real.
Jokes on you. Every time you played ball you were secretly learning about ballistic trajectories and estimating velocities using visual cues such as apparent angular size and parallax.
>Social security is infrastructure.

No? Even on the budget they are distinct items.

>And Germany still has an appalling amount of childhood poverty nevertheless.

Don't forget the homelessness, which is far worse than in the US. Not only is the social security expensive, it also quite ineffective.

>It would indeed be trivial to "find the money" but the neo-liberal FDP is acting as an internal opposition

Exactly. Even they are refusing to cut social spending.
Its negativity like this that holds us back.
I wish someone could explain me Bing. If you search on Bing, the first result appears BELOW the ChatGPT auto-generated message, and this message takes 10 seconds to be "typed" out.

I can click the first result 1 billion times faster.

At this point it's just wasting people's times.
A potpourri of cool-looking scripts
Looking at a sunset isn't a game you play, kids don't go and play "look at the sunset", I feel like you are grasping at straws.

Why would you feel calm and comfortable from a sunset? Probably to get you sleepy so you go find a place to sleep since there isn't much useful to do at night. That would be unrelated to play.

Anyway, most of our feelings comes from nature, we didn't evolve to be faulty, we evolved to do things efficiently, play is a part of efficiency. If it isn't for learning you would have to explain what it is more likely to be for. When kittens play and chase things or play fight with each other, do you think they are just wasting energy for no reason? No, they sharpen their senses and learn to hunt and fight.
First Look Inside SpaceX's Starfactory with Elon Musk
Rich kid with family in the industry? There could be many possibilities.
Beware of the Constitutional Court (Karlsruhe). Unless the Constitution is amended explicitly, any attempts to bypass the Debt Brake by creative accounting etc. will likely be slapped down by the judges.
There is plenty of money for bridges in this country if would stop taking it away from productive citizens that create value and giving it to unproductive citizens that just further reduces willingness to pick up a job. Working full-time vs living on benefits roughly evens out here in Germany, so I fully understand fellow citizens who stop working. Not only that, it justifies giant government departments that deal with determining each citizens needs and generally administering this redistribution that adds absolutely zero value. We need to fix these incentives.
It's probably not something you secretly wish when playing, and perhaps for the best (that you don't have fun and enjoy things always with an ulterior motive, except enjoying the experiences). I guess he's saying in the sense of the natural function of play, and we playing is mostly a consequence of the natural function. It's also very much true that we learn a lot, perhaps a significant chunk of what we learn is through play[1], so it's also undeniable that we do learn from play, even if humans have this great gift -- we are able to understand the nature of things (such as play) and choose to do them just for the sake of experiences, fun, joy, happiness, etc..

Which we should (finally :) ) recognize to be the source of all meaning.

We still should learn (and do practical stuff in general) because it supports our inner lives, including building technology, producing things (buildings, infrastructure) that support us and indeed enables our (inner) lives.

[1] Also of note humans, unlike LLMs, can learn all the time, we don't have a hard "training phase". It's true brain plasticity decays, and it becomes harder to learn as we age, but we can still learn more or less quickly at any age. This is why dedicating childhood to learning (as well as play) is natural.
Viscerally and deliberately unsettling product design
I (italian) have had domino's a few times, and I'm not surprised it failed.

Domino's pizza was that weird super-fat visibly-unhealthy (almost visibly-toxic) meal.

I had a few times and it killed me every time, i felt dirty inside later and took me like a day and a half to digest.

It's basically trash/junk food. You have junk food every once in a while but it's not reasonable to expect people to regularly buy junk food.

EDIT: after reading some other comments I feel compelled to add that the domino's pizza i bought had no pineapple on them.
While these are all valid points, I would urge you to test drive FSD for yourself. FSD v12 has finally kicked automous city driving out of the uncanny valley.
"In fact, the City of London is so independent that it has its own flag, crest, police force, ceremonial armed forces, and a mayor who has a special title, the Right Honorable, the Lord Mayor of London. Oddly enough, if the monarch wants to enter the City of London, she first must ask the Lord Mayor for permission"

Are there some books that comprehensively cover several aspects around the City of London?

The City of London appeared quite often in Lee Kwan Yu's memoirs
> Working full-time vs living on benefits roughly evens out here in Germany, so I fully understand fellow citizens who stop working.

Source?
If it makes you happy it can't be that bad sheryl
Well, you often have some dependency between messages. Some re-orderings don't matter, but some do.

If you just keep everything in the same order, then you never have to worry about any re-ordering.

I can see why people picked streams as the one-size-fits-all-(but-badly) abstraction.
The inscriptions you refer to aren't Sanskrit, but Hurrian. The inscriptions in question contain Indo-European loan words and seemingly reference Vedic gods, but that does not make them Sanskrit inscriptions. If you're looking for the earliest Sanskrit inscriptions, you're looking to the first century BCE, over a millennium and a half later than this plaque. We have Sanskrit texts that are older than this, but the physical artifacts are newer copies of older copies that don't survive.
Thanks for providing examples of combinations of things already seen.
> SoupBinTCP guarantees that the client receives each
sequenced message generated by the server in the correct order, [...]

This protocol guarantees too much. It's still a stream.
Is this still a thing?

I remember doing this c.1974 when the affordable Sinclair Scientific calculator came out, since it was such a novelty to have a calculator.
I have never gotten an endorphin rush from exercise of any sort. I've never gotten an endorphin rush from solving a programming problem or any problem. Helping people feels good. Making sure people are organized feels good.

Edit: I always find it incredibly strange when people describe exactly like in this article "feeling like a fucking god" after doing something. Like, you ok? Having a manic episode? That seems like an overstatement and maybe you shouldn't be making any life decisions after doing something because feeling that good shouldn't be a reasonable frame of mind for decision making.
Also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584534 ("What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp drive collapse (arxiv.org)"; 17 days ago, 112 comments)
I still don't know whether there was an actual increase in comments that start with "You're correct". Maybe it's just me noticing it more after Chatgpt came to prominence with its subservient ways.
Exactly right - we are obviously not persistently in all-out training mode over the course of our lifetimes.

I suppose they intended that as a back-of-the-envelope starting point rather than a strict claim however. But even so, gotta be accountable to your starting assumptions, and I think a lot changes when this one is reconsidered.
As I wrote, I appreciate that the author wrote it out as they did. It might be reasonable in the context of the article. But fixing it as an axiom just makes the discussion boring (for me).

> If you believe LLM have qualia, you also believe a ...

You use the word believe twice here. I am actively not talking about beliefs.

I just realise, that the author indeed gave themselves an out:

> ... currently computers do not really understand words.

The author might believe that future computers can understand words. This is interesting. Questions being _what_ needs to be in order for them to understand? Could that be an emergent feature of current architectures? That would also contradict large parts of the article.
Old machines? Type "print(chr(7))" into the latest Python REPL and see what happens :)
According to [0], about 1.2 kg (2.6 lbs). Surprisingly this is mostly in the neck and funnel of the tube - the screen itself uses different metals because lead would affect its optical performance.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187802961...
You can capitalize a string in Python using functional style

' '.join(map(str.capitalize, string.split(' ')))

which is similar to the example in Ruby, except the operations are written in reverse order.
It's almost like...nothing exists in a vacuum.
Years ago I found that my Windows installation wouldn't let me create a directory at a certain path and I think it was to stop a certain malware.
The high speed is way more likely to kill you than the off chance of it collapsing while you're on it
I wanted to keep it as short as possible, so I simply write "Have a great day", but it throws me error that I have to write more than 20 characters. Perhaps I need to be more creative!